2026-02

UAT release	Production release
February 23, 2026	March 9, 2026

New month, new release. This edition covers the latest Coherent Assistant, Spark Shell, and Neuron updates, plus a step forward in Spark API documentation.

Notable enhancements

🖱️ Documentation

• We now have OpenAPI specifications for many of the Spark APIs available in our documentation site. OpenAPI is a standard method of documenting APIs to make them more easily consumable through external integrations.

• The Spark documentation site also renders the specifications in a user-friendly interface with the ability to test endpoints online.

👥 Coherent Assistant

• Spark Shell: Fix an error relating to login session timeout.

• Spark Shell: Import inputs of source data where fields are not present in the target file.

• Spark Shell: Improved handling for Shell 2.0 Xcall formulas that failed to execute.

• Spark Shell: New configuration to block submissions that fail Excel formula-based validation.

• Spark Shell: Publish service folder list will show favorite folders first.

• Spark Shell: Operators and Creators have logout and refresh Xcall buttons.

💡 Neuron compiler enhancements

• Implementation of the LONGTEXT() and SCAN() functions.

• Fixes for LAMBDA() functions.

• Fixes for Excel Data Table calculations.

• Fixes for Xrichoutput being inconsistent with prior versions.

• Function enhancements and fixes: IFS(), ISREF(), MAP(INDEX()), MMULT(), SEQUENCE(), SUM(IF()), TEXT().

• Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

🖥️ System improvements

• Security patch updates to address vulnerabilities, ensuring enhanced protection and stability.

Version number

v8.47.0