Admins can see how many users will be affected during enablement.

Admins have the option to keep previous SME assignments if SME Auto-Assign is disabled.

Users will see SME promotion notifications on Q&A and Articles pages (previously visible on homepage only).

Admins can demote inactive SMEs.

Once enabled, admins can control what OverflowAI features they want to use.

Admins can limit OverflowAI access to specific users or groups.

Users can save AI-generated Enhanced Search summaries back to the SOE site as new Q&A content.

The report dashboard now includes data from MS Teams interactions.

The last seen date field is now updating correctly for users after self-reactivation.

User profiles now show tags the user is an SME for.

When a moderator or admin designates a user as an SME, that user will see a pop-up notification.

The home page tag preferences modal now shows tags a user is an SME for.

The new home page tag widget shows tags a user is an SME for.

Summarize Microsoft Teams thread Users can now initiate an AI-generated MS Teams thread summary, saving it to their SOE site as a question and answer.

Auto-Answer tag filters Site administrators can now configure Auto-Answer apps for Slack and MS Teams to filter responses by tags for increased relevance.

Summarize Slack thread Users can initiate an AI-generated Slack thread summary, saving it to their SOE site as a question and answer. (An admin will need to update your Slack app to enable this feature.)

New users/manage endpoint with additional data fields

Get user by ExternalID

Add user(s) to Community

Improved ARIA landmarks across all pages provide clear navigation structures for users relying on assistive technologies.

We fixed the following accessibility issues:

We increased the max supported MS Teams channel name length.

SOE shows correct API key details when creating a new service key.

We updated jQuery from version 1.12.4 to the latest stable version (3.7.1).

Auto-Answer App for MS Teams Streamlines access to the knowledge your teams need to onboard and solve problems by automatically searching your internal Stack Overflow for Teams community and returning trusted answers to Slack—without requiring user actions like “/” or “@” commands. It also cites the original source and author for validation and context.

Enhanced Search Now Includes Public Stack Overflow Results: We now supplement Enhanced Search results with relevant Stackoverflow.com content to provide comprehensive results.

The Jira integration functionality has been fully restored, now utilizing the latest Jira API updates (see above).

The MS Teams Bot Certificate option now accepts certificates generated by OpenSSL.

Bookmarked Collections should no longer result in a 404 when accessed through the MS Teams integration.

Enhanced Search: Adds the power of GenAI to provide the most relevant and comprehensive answers instantly. It quickly aggregates and summarizes the most relevant search results from your internal Stack Overflow for Teams community into helpful answers that attribute subject matter experts across your organization.

Auto Answer App for Slack: Streamlines access to the knowledge your teams need to onboard and solve problems by automatically searching your internal Stack Overflow for Teams community and returning trusted answers to Slack—without requiring user actions like “/” or “@” commands. It also cites the original source and author for validation and context.

Stack Overflow IDE: Access your Stack Overflow data from within Visual Studio Code while leveraging the power of GenAI. Help you understand small code snippets—or even entire blocks of code, fix errors in your code, and search your private Stack Overflow for Teams site.

Reputation widget Shows reputation gains in a graph format.

Trending and unanswered questions An improved algorithm makes these sections more relevant to the user.

Your Contributions tab Allows users to view their contributions within the homepage.

Tag recommendations Based on their activity, recommends tags to users who are not yet watching any tags.

Welcome state Improved for new users.

Editor controls are now supported in forced colors modes (for example: Windows high-contrast mode).

Checkboxes checked status is now accessible in forced colors modes.

Improved keyboard navigation for Create new article element when in high-contrast mode.

Save notification and Cancel buttons on questions are now accessible via the keyboard.

Appropriate role given to Add People and Create a Custom filter.

We have redesigned our button groups to make them more accessible.

For You overview

New trending content

New top unanswered questions

"Your Impact" and badge progress

Recent activity

Fetch a list of communities and their properties (e.g. tags, member count) for reporting.

Users may join communities via the API.

Fetch community data for the /questions, /answers, and /users endpoints.

Fetch a list of collections and their properties (e.g. tags, content count) for reporting.

Manage collections at scale by bulk adding questions and articles to a new collection.

Fetch collection data for the /questions,/answers,and /articles endpoints.

Search response shows questions and top answer

Upvote

See more results

See more answers

Suggest a person to answer

Upvoting from the Slack bot no longer returns a 500 error.

Searching for users in dialogue boxes and @ing users in comments should be faster for sites with a significant amount of users.

"Last seen between" filters on the Users and permissions page is now working.

The MS Teams integration will no longer post duplicate notifications.

APIv3 - The Article endpoint now supports Title, Body, Type, and Tags using a PUT command.

.NET was updated to 6.0.27

The integration for Slack now verifies all incoming Slack requests.

Increased visibility of key features.

Improved accessibility.

More prominent customer brand color.

Article timeline (edit history).

Expanded edit permissions.

Slack & MS Teams notifications of new Articles.

Subject Matter Expert (SME) author labels.

Median time to answer.

Answer ratio.

Interaction rate.

A new table view allows filtering and sorting for quick discovery of popular tags, as well as tags that have no SMEs assigned.

Admins and moderators can easily assign SMEs and edit tag info, right from the table view.

Users can quickly see your site’s most popular topics and subscribe to get notified of new posts.

Tags New watcherCount tag attribute shows how many users are watching a specific tag.

SME Status Returned answer objects now include the isSubjectMatterExpert attribute. With better visibility into SME contributions, your API integration can mark answers as “by a subject matter expert.”

Email address User objects now include the email attribute as a unique identifier to map Stack Overflow for Teams data across external systems. A new endpoint also adds the ability to search for users by email address.

Articles New API v3 endpoints allow for the creation and management of Articles.

Markdown-switching icons in the text editor are now white on the selected state in high contrast mode.

The following items now meet WCAG 2 AA contrast ratio thresholds:

Report on and visualize Connection metrics to establish benchmarks and track progress on how knowledge is shared across your organization.

Visualize how cross-functional teams engage and how often answers come from other departments and roles.

Identify opportunities to engage less active departments and roles.

Community invitations: scale your Community more quickly with new invitation options - User Groups and Departments.

Community details: the purpose and content metrics now display below the Community’s name.

Community Actions For You: the Overview page now includes an “Unanswered questions” section, and Activity timeline can toggle between “your activity” and “all activity” feeds.

Filter Dashboard by Community or multiple tags: users can now filter the Enhanced Dashboard by multiple tags (up to 10) or by a Community (based on the Community’s pre-defined set of tags) to get more data around a big picture topic. Note, the option to filter by Community will show only if Communities is enabled.

Better discoverability: now users can easily access Bookmarks wherever they are on their SOE site by clicking on “Bookmarks” in the left-hand menu to access saved content.

More content: in addition to Questions, users can now bookmark Articles and Collections, with all of their favorite content stored in one central space.

Improved searchability: users can search and filter saved content on their Bookmarks page.

Fixed an issue preventing the merge of two tags when User Groups are assigned as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

Resolved an issue where Weekly Digest Email Notifications were sent to deleted users (as of post-GA update).

Microsoft Teams integration: fixed a bug so that tag filer selection is retained when editing new notifications (as of post-GA update).

Updated to Microsoft .NET 6.0.21 (as of GA Release).

Addressed an open direct vulnerability with the logout button as reported from a security audit (as of post-GA update).

Any user can create, join, or leave a Community.

Any user can browse and contribute to questions, answers, Articles and Collections, see tags, Subject Matter Experts, Community members and activity.

Administrators, Moderators, and the Community creator can manage the name, purpose and tags of a Community.

All users will see Community activity in the existing weekly digest email, which highlights newest Communities in the past month and largest Communities (by member count) on your site.

Get or update SMEs for a tag, add or remove users or User Groups as SMEs.

Create and edit User Groups, add or remove members.

Perform actions via API in Private Teams in addition to the Main Site.

Windows Server 2016: Mainstream Ended Jan 11, 2022

SQL Server 2016: Mainstream Ended Jul 13, 2021

Fixed an issue where saving a Custom Filter excluded Articles from the results page.

Clarified Enhanced Dashboard "Compared to" date range options text (such as from “Previous 3 months” to “Three months ago”).

Fixed a bug where user profile images were not rendered in the “Manage subject matter experts” popup.

Resolved an issue where tag-related For You notifications remained for ex-SMEs when the tag was deleted, causing “Unable to render UserFeedItem” exceptions as shown on /admin/errors page.

For SOE instances with Private Teams feature enabled: resolved a bug where total counts in “Activated” and “All” filter labels did not match search results under Admin Settings -> Users and permissions.

Addressed an issue in SOE user account creation messaging to clarify the information comes from the Identify Provider (IdP).

Fixed an issue where quarterly or yearly sorts by reputation in Users tab may be outdated on larger SOE instances with >10k users.

Fixed a field description typo on the Custom Award creation page.

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Addressed a low-risk Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability impacting tag deletion as part of a regular proactive security audit.

Addressed a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability impacting several /developer routes as part of a regular proactive security audit (as of GA release).

With new "View posts" quick links in the "Answers Ratio" widget, you can now choose to view questions with an accepted answer, questions with unaccepted answers, or questions with no answers. These specific question sets help you prioritize and surface posts to ultimately improve the answer ratio on your site.

We’re bringing back the Total Users and Reputation Earned metrics in the Dashboard subheading based on the selected timeframe. You can see at a glance the number of activated users on your site, and how users are demonstrating expertise and building trust with your team during the selected time period.

Fixed a Subject Matter Expert refresh issue where a stale SME list is shown when a question’s tags change.

Fixed Enhanced Dashboard widget "Daily unique visitors" legend by removing percentage sign for raw totals.

Addressed an issue where the end date on Dashboard metric widgets does not appear to match the selected range.

Fixed an issue where large Article edits are not condensed in For You notifications.

Addressed a User Management menu rendering issue for deactivated users.

Fixed a bug where a user’s reactions on posts are not shown under User profile -> Activity -> "Votes and reactions" page when filtering by reactions.

Resolved an issue where "About me" placeholder text configured via Custom Messages is not displayed in the User Profile text editor.

Fixed markdown issues within the Stacks Editor such as with underscores and bolding.

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Deprecated the Auth.SAMLAllowMultipleAssertionsOn Site Setting introduced in the 2022.1 release, in order to further tighten security.

Addressed a user interface issue to ensure jQuery and CSS are loaded from the local file system to reduce supply chain vulnerability risks.

For SOE instances with Private Teams feature enabled: discovered and remediated a script injection vulnerability by sanitizing the names of Private Teams, as part of a regular proactive security audit (as of GA release).

Updated to System.Data.SqlClient 4.8.5 which addresses Microsoft Security Vulnerability CVE 2022-41064 (as of GA release).

Addressed a low-risk Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability impacting tag deletion as part of a regular proactive security audit (as of Build version 2022.3.39.29).