Product notice - Blue 9.6 is coming soon, delivering Intelligent Administration, Enhanced Accessibility, and Accelerated Performance

Explorance is pleased to announce that Blue 9.6 will be available to you as of December 16, 2025. This release delivers key enhancements in accessibility readiness, usability, and performance—helping your organization prepare confidently for 2026 and beyond.

Release Highlights

Enhanced Project & Report Administration Experience

Blue 9.6 introduces improvements inspired directly by feedback from the Explorance Community and Explorance World 2025 that make project management faster, clearer, and more intuitive.

Improved grid usability: Drag and drop for filters, trigger conditions and more, and better visibility for large lists.
Apply-button optimization: Blue makes it clear when you are applying a change in a panel before saving projects and reports.
New Overview page: A centralized view of project status and settings to confirm readiness before publishing.
Report copy with preserved filters: Filters and conditions now carry over automatically when duplicating reports, even across projects.

Improved PDF Report Generation Performance

Blue 9.6 introduces a major improvement in PDF report generation performance.

Faster PDF generation
Improved scalability for large PDF report volumes
Early Influence on future enhancements.

Before we roll this out to everyone, we're opening exclusive early access to select customers as part of our Report Generation Early Access Program in Blue 9.6.

Reserve your spot in our Report Generation Early Access Program here
Spaces are limited; sign-up closes January 31, 2026.

MLY in Blue Reports Integration Updates

Blue 9.6 delivers key integration updates to enhance alignment, context, and privacy across the MLY and Blue platforms:

Comment Blocks with Alert Categories: Ensures compatibility with MLY 3.1’s new alert classification system.
Comment Contextualization: Displays question context for each comment to enhance understanding.
Manual Redaction Data Flow: Integrates with MLY 3.1’s Redaction API for stronger privacy management across products.

DIG 3.1 Enhancements

DIG 3.1 introduces several major updates that make data management more flexible, efficient, and accessible:

Multilingual UI support: Includes RTL, language picker, calendar, and notifications.
Improved UX: Bulk edit for merged/split subjects, and clipboard copy support.
Advanced filters and search: Inline search in dropdowns, clear search box shortcut, and filter by split/merged.
Rules enhancement: Supports UserID validation via RegEx patterns.
Modal and tooltip improvements: Enhanced behavior and contextual guidance for user actions.

Security and Infrastructure Improvements

Blue 9.6 strengthens platform security and stability through key authentication, validation, and infrastructure updates:

XSS Prevention: Stronger safeguards against JavaScript-based vulnerabilities such as phishing and cross-site scripting.

Additional Enhancements

Filename Hash/GUID Removal: Exported reports now use cleaner, more readable filenames without technical suffixes.
Addressing Canvas's announcement Enforcing User-Agent Header for Canvas API Requests within Blue Connector: Blue 9.6 addresses the recent changes made by Canvas to their API in Blue Connector.
- Note - Explorance has implemented solution for all hosted clients (regardless of version) that ensures Canvas integrations continue to operate as normal, though upgrading to Blue 9.6 is the recommended permanent solution for this Canvas change. On-premise clients may need to contact Explorance for details on possible solutions.

Looking Ahead

Accessibility certification: Blue 9.6.1 (early 2026) will complete VPAT WCAG 2.2 AA compliance and deliver fully accessible PDF reports.

Blue 9.6 Release Q&A Webinar

Join us for the upcoming release webinar "Blue 9.6: Elevating Analytics and Data Management" on Wednesday, December 17, offered multiple times for our community members in different time zones worldwide.

If you have any questions about the Blue 9.6 release, please contact the Explorance Product Team.