26.06 Release notes
Release 26.06 focuses on workflow automation, platform auditability, inventory updates, platform AI, and platform authentication. This draft highlights workflow field setting, artifact-driven workflows, organization-wide activity views, refreshed inventory and artifact pages, inventory batch editing, Starlark formula guidance, PDF translation progress, OAuth/OIDC access for the ValidMind Library and Public API, Bedrock Guardrails, and presigned S3 URLs.
Frontend
Workflow highlights
Enhanced artifact workflows
We've enhanced artifact workflows with the following features:
- Insert artifact URLs to broadcast step subjects and messages alongside existing record URL variables.
- Support for artifact-type workflow configuration scoped to specific record types.
Automatically set fields values with workflows
Automate field updates as part of workflow execution:
- Assign record or artifact field values from rules-based workflow configuration.
- Update fields at a specific workflow step without requiring user action.
Agentic assistance highlights
ValidMind MCP support for workflows and activity history
You can now query the ValidMind Model Context Protocol (MCP) for information about workflow executions and activity history.
For example:
- Query running, scheduled, and recently finished workflow executions scoped to a specific record or artifact, or across your entire organization to receive information on workflow status, completion progress, overdue workflows, and more.
- Ask about record activity history and receive summaries grouped by activity type.
Support for GPT-5.4 models
ValidMind now supports GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 mini through LiteLLM, allowing you to route agentic tasks to these newer models when they are enabled for your environment.
Document automation highlights
Track PDF conversion progress and status
Track PDF-to-document conversion status from the document list:
- See in-progress status while PDF translation runs.
- Identify failed conversions without opening each document.
Include tables and figures in document export appendices
If your organization uses numbered table and figure captions for documents, you can include a tables and figures appendix in Word or PDF exports of Development-type documents.
Add metrics from Amazon Bedrock to monitoring documents
You can now add metrics from external integrations such as Amazon Bedrock directly to your monitoring documents, enabling you to track evaluation results from Bedrock agents alongside your other metrics.
Reporting and analytics highlights
Monitor organization-wide activity views
Monitor activity across your organization for stronger auditability:
- Review record and associated artifact activity from organization-wide views.
- Track organization settings activity for configuration audits.
Export analytics to Azure Blob Storage
You can now export analytics data to Azure Blob Storage alongside existing export destinations.
Inventory highlights
Redesigned inventory and artifact detail pages
We've redesigned inventory record and artifact detail pages to improve the user experience:
- Pin record or artifact fields for quick access.
- Review Workflows, Interdependencies, and Integrations linked to the record or artifact.
- Organize, show, or hide record fields in multi-column layouts of your choice.
Batch edit inventory records
Update multiple inventory records at once:
- Select multiple records and apply field updates from the list of records.
- Reduce repetitive edits across many inventory records.
Configure calculated fields with Starlark formula guidance
Set up calculated fields for inventory records and artifacts with Starlark formula guidance:
- Use bracket access syntax and built-in helper functions in the formula editor.
- See real-time guidance when Python-only syntax is detected.
Platform capabilities highlights
Authenticate the ValidMind Library with OAuth 2.0
Authenticate ValidMind Library and Public API access with OAuth 2.0/OIDC in addition to API keys:
- Authenticate library sessions with OIDC bearer tokens where configured.
- Show OIDC device-flow setup in Getting Started when enabled for your organization.
- Use OAuth-based access for Public API deployments.
- Apply the authenticated user's permissions to library and Public API access.
Deployment-specific updates
Disabled ValidMind Platform UI — Invite New Users
Invite New Users under Settings > Users & Access has been removed for deployments where user invitations are managed outside of the ValidMind Platform.
Transfer files with presigned S3 URLs
Transfer S3-backed files through presigned URLs:
- Upload and download custom field attachments without routing large files through the API pod.
- View and download PDFs on the Documents page through presigned URLs.
- Upload regulations and download CKEditor images with the same pattern.
- Reduce backend load for large upload and download paths.
Documentation
Improved ValidMind test sandbox
Use the improved ValidMind test sandbox to explore tests, parameters, and descriptions right from our product documentation.