generated: '2026-09-10'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://forstasurveys.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles.json - the anonymous Zendesk
  Help Center API for the Forsta Surveys (Decipher) help center, 936 articles, sorted by
  created_at descending
docs: https://forstasurveys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
access_note: >-
  The HTML help center is behind a Cloudflare bot challenge and returns HTTP 403 to any
  non-browser client, including the specific release-note article URLs. The Zendesk Help Center
  REST API on the same host answers anonymously with HTTP 200 and full article bodies, which is
  where every entry below was read. A human in a browser reaches the same content; only automated
  clients are turned away, so this is a crawler obstacle and not an absence.
scheme: dual-track
scheme_detail: >-
  Two interleaved series. A numbered platform train - 153.x, then 154.x, now 155.x - carries the
  versioned product releases, and a separate date-titled series ("August 11, 2026 Release Notes")
  covers everything shipped between two continuous-delivery dates. Both are published on the same
  fortnightly cadence.
current_version: '155.5'
current_release_date: '2026-09-08'
cadence: fortnightly
scope_note: >-
  These are PLATFORM release notes, not an API changelog. There is no dedicated changelog for the
  REST contract, and docs.developer.focusvision.com publishes no versioned diff - the specs are
  served unversioned (info.version is '1.0' on Decipher and an empty string on both Panel
  Management APIs). API-affecting items appear inside the platform notes, mixed with survey-taker
  and authoring changes; the entries below flag which is which.
entries:
  - version: '155.5'
    date: '2026-09-08'
    breaking: false
    api_affecting: false
    highlights:
      - New versions of the Rating Scale (v7), Rank Sort (v10) and Card Sort (v11) dynamic questions.
      - Page Timer countdown fix in the participant view.
    url: https://forstasurveys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/55560483387035-155-5-Release-Notes
  - version: '155.4'
    date: '2026-08-25'
    breaking: false
    api_affecting: false
    highlights:
      - Portal fix for image filepaths in duplicated surveys and updates to live surveys.
    url: https://forstasurveys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/54912667670299-155-4-Release-Notes
  - version: 'August 11, 2026'
    date: '2026-08-11'
    breaking: false
    api_affecting: true
    highlights:
      - >-
        Added OpenID Connect sign-in support for Decipher's Kinesis Panel integration - the change
        behind the oidcName parameter visible on the Panel Management Integration contract.
      - Data edits from View/Edit Responses are faster on large surveys.
      - AI Compute translation batches no longer misalign on hundreds of very short inputs.
    url: https://forstasurveys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/54275233016091-August-11-2026-Release-Notes
  - version: 'July 28, 2026'
    date: '2026-07-28'
    breaking: false
    api_affecting: false
    highlights:
      - Crosstabs question table editor now validates net values and stops coercing floats to integers.
      - Whitelabelled emails from the fieldreport logic node no longer raise DMARC errors.
    url: https://forstasurveys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/53659238370331-July-28-2026-Release-Notes
  - version: '155.3'
    date: '2026-07-14'
    breaking: false
    api_affecting: false
    highlights:
      - Cint Secure Sample participants with an invalid status now report status to Cint correctly.
    url: https://forstasurveys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/53460989665307-155-3-Release-Notes
  - version: 'June 30, 2026'
    date: '2026-06-30'
    breaking: true
    api_affecting: true
    highlights:
      - >-
        Behaviour change - delphi surveys with child surveys can no longer be archived directly.
        Children must be archived first. This changes the outcome of createSurveyArchive for that
        survey shape.
      - AI Compute logic nodes now drain their queue after a survey closes.
    url: https://forstasurveys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/52377960215195-June-30-2026-Release-Notes
  - version: '155.2'
    date: '2026-06-16'
    breaking: false
    api_affecting: false
    highlights:
      - Autosum question postText display fix in the participant view.
    url: https://forstasurveys.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/53659244805019-155-2-Release-Notes
window: 2026-06-16 to 2026-09-08 (the seven most recent releases of 936 published articles)