Overview
With you, our clients, in mind, Compusense is dedicated to continuous improvements in our software functionality and performance. Your success is our success!
On this page you will find highlights of the new features implemented in the software during our
Maintenance Windows . In addition to the highlighted features, we always work on security- and performance-related enhancements, and bug fixes.
All
Maintenance Windows start at 10 pm Eastern Time (ET) on dates outlined below (always a Friday ET), ending approximately 5 hours later (on Saturday ET).
All of our users get monthly email notifications about upcoming Maintenance Windows outlining the exact start and anticipated end time in their local time zone. Please be sure to check your Spam/Junk folder if you have not seen these emails yet!
The Latest Release
October 17/18, 2025 - Version TBD
PowerPoint Report Builder
Our PowerPoint report builder helps you design personalized Microsoft PowerPoint reports tailored to your specific needs. Select the data you want to include, arrange it in the
order that suits your workflow, and save templates for consistent
reporting across your team or organization.
Other Changes:
Past Releases
September 12/13, 2025 - Version 25.0.34
Rescheduled Sittings Notifications
We are implementing automated email notifications for analysts to inform them when panelists reschedule their sittings.
Other Changes:
- Refined capabilities in the panelist search.
- Functionality added to graphs in the AI Comment Insights for non-sample related comments.
August 15/16, 2025 - Version 25.0.30
July 11/12, 2025 - Version 25.0.26
Panelist Daily Attendance Report Update
Other Changes:
- Improvements made to the existing sheets in the Panelist Daily Attendance Report.
- Results overview tab now reflects the change made by using the Increase sample sets feature in running tests.
- PowerPoint Report generated across tests when the Only include in the report if the p-value is significant option was selected, will not include the post-hoc letters if the p-value does not indicate significant difference.
June 13/14, 2025 - Version 25.0.23
Additional API calls added to the common API bundle. If you are interested in learning more about our API bundle, please
contact the Support Team.
May 23/24, 2025 - Version 25.0.21
Other Changes:
- The following fields made available in the panelist export: Date created, Last login date, Last survey test, and Last product test.
- Pivot table alignment improvements.
- The date picker tool updated to the latest version.
- Tukey's HSD test made available in the Summary report and Descriptive Analysis Workbook report for the 2way mixed model ANOVA with samples fixed and panelists random.
April 11/12, 2025 - Version 25.0.16
- New slides.
- Data from every Category scale question type will be combined in one graph. E.g. All Category Liking questions in a test will have a new slide with their data graphed together. The same is true for all Category Intensity question types and all other Category question types in the test.

- All Line Scale questions in a test will have a slide with their data graphed together.
- Each JAR question will have an additional slide displaying frequency percentages for each JAR point per sample.

- Existing JAR legend update. In addition to the current Bottom/Middle/Top indication in the legend, you will be able to see the actual descriptors added to each JAR scale.
Other Changes:
- Data split options for Consumer report updated in multi-section tests for better clarity on questions included in the selected section.
- Display improvements made in the Tags library for longer tag names.
March 14/15, 2025 - Version 25.0.11
Additional Data Splits in the Consumer Report
In addition to the existing data splits in the
Consumer report, the new data split options will enable you to:
- Split sample related data by selected demographic fields to look for significant differences between population segments within a sample.
- Look for significant differences within your non-sample related questions (even in survey tests) by splitting the data on selected demographic questions.
The new data splits will have their own sheets in the report.
Permissions for Analysts at the Group Level to Access the Tags Library
If you want to designate specific analyst(s) to manage all of your test tags, you can now request from our
Support Team who should and should not have access to the
Tags library.
Other Improvements:
- Fix to a scenario where date and decimal format were updating in custom sample fields when number of samples was reduced.
- Improvements made in the Advanced search & analysis across tests when multiple criteria is applied in the search.
- The Rewards feature will now be available in the Libraries drop-down list, however only those with sufficient permissions will be able to access.
- French and Spanish analyst software translations updates in the software.
- Security updates applied to the text editor tool.
- Improvements in the Discrimination analysis reports for Tetrad, Triangle, and Duo-trio when the Alpha values for UCL and LCL are the same.
- Email validation applied to the file updates to panelist records.
- Improvements made in the email logs to capture additional information on unsuccessful email attempts.
- Previewing a test as a panelist no longer updates the last product and last survey test dates for that panelist.
- Improvements made in the email validation to allow emails containing only images (no text) to send successfully.
- Hits and misses report updated with headings that used to be blank in two columns.
- Updates applied to the scripting language and other packages used in the software.
February 21/22, 2025 - Version 25.0.4
New Analyses for Tetrad, Triangle, and Duo-trio Data
In addition to the existing analyses for
Tetrad,
Triangle, and
Duo-trio test types, new analyses are implemented to reflect the changes in this area established by ASTM International.
Additional Graphing Image Export Format - .png

January 17/18, 2025 - Version 24.0.59
New Modules
Two new modules are available to add-on to your subscription at a cost:
- SMS Module: Enables you to communicate with panelists via SMS in addition to email.
- Panelist Single Sign-On: Similar to our SSO option for analyst access to Compusense, you can simplify employee panelist testing with a special SSO panelist website.
Permissions for Analysts at the Group Level to Access Schedules Module
If you want to designate specific analyst(s) to manage all of your panelist scheduling, you can now request from our
Support Team who should and should not have access to the Schedules module. By default, all analysts have access to the module if the module is included in your subscription.
- In the screen for emailing panelists who have not completed the test, we made wording updates to clarify the functionality.
- Improvements made in user experience when Category Wheel and standard Category questions are displayed on the same page.
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