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8.74 Release Notes (May 2025)

Release date: May 5, 2025 ET

We released the following updates since 8.73:

Improvements

Conditional formatting tooltips

The description of a conditional formatting rule now also appears as a tooltip.

To learn more about the conditional formatting, check out our documentation here.

Widget Sorting

Quickly sort the widgets of the Filter with the new Sort menu. To learn more about the widgets, check out our documentation here.

Currency Fields

You can now display a currency symbol in Currency fields. To learn more about the Currency field, check out our documentation here.

Bulk data importer

Added a separate Bulk Data Import permissions checkbox. [SG-36455]

Task Status Field

Improved performance when enabling a Task Status for all projects, especially when a site has a lot of statuses and permissions groups. [SG-38468]

asterisk 8.74 Release Note Contents

8.74.0.6451 (May 12, 2025)

Improvements

It’s now easier to find the fields you need.

Simply start typing after opening the Fields menu, and the list will be filtered to show results matching your input. To learn more about the improved field search, check out our documentation here.

Countdown widget improvements

The countdown widgets can now displays weeks and can use a Date Field from a project as the target date.

To learn more about the Countdown widget improvements, check out our documentation here.

Bug fixes

Project Configurations

Fixed an issue that occurred when changing a project configuration, where changing the project navigation would not be applied in some cases if the project template had also been changed. [SG-38415]

Python API

Fixed a Python API issue where querying data would return incorrect results if the entity operator included ‘name’ or ‘name_is’ containing special characters. [SG-38510]

8.74.0.6497 (May 26, 2025)

Bug fix

Tasks

Improved multiple row selection (holding the left mouse button) on the Grid and on the Gantt panel. Selection now happens instantaneously without any delays. [SG-38701]

Miscellaneous

Fixed an issue where editing long text caused the page to scroll and get stuck at the bottom, sometimes cropping the view and preventing users from navigating back. [SG-38275]

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