2026 Release Four (4) Expere Engine and Tools Changelog

Expere Engine Release: 2026 Release Four (4)External release date is X 2026. Expere Engine build number is: 2026.4.X.XXXX.

Note: Users may notice that the 2026.4 Expere Engine release contains updates that reference the eOriginal SmartSign^®+ solution. The Expere Engine is used to support both our Hosted and Self-Hosted ("On-Prem") customers, however, the updates made to support SmartSign^®+ were implemented solely for our Hosted customers at this time but have Engine changes that Self-Hosted users will notice. See Changelog entries below for more information.

Expere: internal caching service updates
Type: Enhancement Reference: PBI 965139
Summary: We implemented improvements to our internal caching service to support better performance, scalability, and operational resiliency across the platform.

Expere: Logging Enhancements for Initials Fields
Type: Enhancement Reference: PBI 968250
Summary: System logging was added to capture and report documents that use certain initials field naming conventions. This enhancement aids troubleshooting efforts and helps identify document configurations that may require review or update.

Expere: Improved Accessibility Tagging for Tagged PDF Output
Type: Enhancement Reference: PBI 895419
Summary: Tagged PDF generation was enhanced to ensure checkbox images and related figure elements are tagged correctly for accessibility compliance.
Impact: Generated Tagged PDF documents now pass Adobe accessibility verification checks more reliably, helping organizations meet WCAG accessibility requirements and improving the usability of assistive technologies.

Expere Engine: Improved Support for CompliEditor Custom Content
Type: Enhancement Reference: PBI 968956
Summary: Transaction processing was enhanced for CompliEditor workflows to better preserve content requirements, ensuring custom content is generated correctly while maintaining existing behavior for other processing methods.

Expere: document generation with embedded PDFs behavior enhanced
Type: Enhancement Reference: PBI 972824
Summary: The Expere Engine was enhanced to address an issue that caused certain documents containing embedded PDFs to generate incorrectly when using the standard PDF output format. This update restores expected document generation behavior and ensures hyperlinks within embedded PDF content function correctly. Validation was also performed to confirm that TaggedPDF and other supported output formats continue to work as expected.

Expere: document generation with embedded PDFs behavior enhanced

Type: Enhancement
Reference: PBI 972824

Summary: The Expere Engine was enhanced to address an issue that caused certain documents containing embedded PDFs to generate incorrectly when using the standard PDF output format. This update restores expected document generation behavior and ensures hyperlinks within embedded PDF content function correctly. Validation was also performed to confirm that TaggedPDF and other supported output formats continue to work as expected.

Expere: improved deployment packaging by removing unused installation components
Type: Enhancement Reference: PBI 962405
Summary: As part of ongoing maintenance and codebase optimization, unused modules that were not actively deployed or used by the Expere Engine have been removed from the application package (EAR). This change streamlines the installation package and reduces maintenance overhead without affecting existing Expere Engine functionality, configuration, or deployment processes. Note: No user action required. Existing deployment, configuration, and upgrade processes remain unchanged.

Expere: improved deployment packaging by removing unused installation components

Type: Enhancement
Reference: PBI 962405

Summary: As part of ongoing maintenance and codebase optimization, unused modules that were not actively deployed or used by the Expere Engine have been removed from the application package (EAR). This change streamlines the installation package and reduces maintenance overhead without affecting existing Expere Engine functionality, configuration, or deployment processes.

Note: No user action required. Existing deployment, configuration, and upgrade processes remain unchanged.

Expere: Improved Caching Component Maintenance and Security
Type: Enhancement Reference: PBI 976858
Summary: The application's caching infrastructure was updated and validated to address identified dependency and security concerns while maintaining compatibility with existing deployment configurations. This update helps ensure continued platform stability, reliability, and supportability across supported environments. No functional changes are required from users, and existing caching behavior continues to operate as expected.

Expere: Improved Caching Component Maintenance and Security

Type: Enhancement
Reference: PBI 976858

Summary: The application's caching infrastructure was updated and validated to address identified dependency and security concerns while maintaining compatibility with existing deployment configurations. This update helps ensure continued platform stability, reliability, and supportability across supported environments. No functional changes are required from users, and existing caching behavior continues to operate as expected.

Monthly component updates
Type: Maintenance Reference: PBI 973224, 969362, 970351, 969524, 969360, 967257, 967082, 916370, 966157, 964088, 962467, 962474
Summary: As part of a regular cadence to review and upgrade any items used with the Expere Engine for security issue and monthly component upgrades, we have upgraded the following: Security Issue Upgrades: Bouncy Castle System.Security.Cryptography.Xml jackson-core Maintenance Upgrades: WildFly Additional upgrades based on scans: source code was scanned to locate and resolve additional security vulnerabilities and quality defects for the following: DGS Document Service EZTransform2 Note: No user action is required.

Monthly component updates

Type: Maintenance
Reference: PBI 973224, 969362, 970351, 969524, 969360, 967257, 967082, 916370, 966157, 964088, 962467, 962474

Summary: As part of a regular cadence to review and upgrade any items used with the Expere Engine for security issue and monthly component upgrades, we have upgraded the following:

Security Issue Upgrades:
- Bouncy Castle
- System.Security.Cryptography.Xml
- jackson-core
Maintenance Upgrades:
- WildFly
Additional upgrades based on scans: source code was scanned to locate and resolve additional security vulnerabilities and quality defects for the following:
- DGS
- Document Service
- EZTransform2

Note: No user action is required.

EZTransform: Monthly component updates
Type: Enhancement Reference: PBI 968056, 966741, 966648, 970353, 971131
Summary: As part of a regular cadence to review and upgrade any items used by EZ Transform for security issues and component upgrades, we have made the following security and maintenance updates: Security Issue Upgrades: Netty Project Netty/Codec/Http3 jackson-databind jackson-core Maintenance Upgrades: NA

EZTransform: Monthly component updates

Type: Enhancement
Reference: PBI 968056, 966741, 966648, 970353, 971131

Summary: As part of a regular cadence to review and upgrade any items used by EZ Transform for security issues and component upgrades, we have made the following security and maintenance updates:

Security Issue Upgrades:
- Netty Project
- Netty/Codec/Http3
- jackson-databind
- jackson-core

Maintenance Upgrades: NA

EZTransform: .NET 10 upgrade
Type: Maintenance Reference: PBI 965569
Summary: As part of a regular cadence to review and upgrade any items used by EZTransform for security issues and component upgrades, EZTransform has been updated to use .NET 10.