Release notes

Selamnew 2.0.1 continues our focus on operational reliability, administrative flexibility, and day-to-day usability across the platform. This release introduces a powerful Attendance Rule Module, deeper integration between surveys and performance evaluations, enhanced attendance controls, improved OKR management capabilities, and several workflow improvements across leave management, onboarding, payroll, and administration.

Alongside these enhancements, we addressed multiple issues reported by customers and improved overall system stability, helping teams work more efficiently while giving administrators greater control over configuration, compliance, and employee experience.

What is included in this release

Attendance Rule Module

One of the biggest additions in this release is the new Attendance Rule Module. Organizations can now create and manage attendance rules using predefined rule types and configurable actions. Attendance violations are automatically tracked and logged, warning statements can be generated and integrated into disciplinary workflows, and administrators can manage effective dates and reset cycles through a centralized configuration experience.

Smarter Time & Attendance

Attendance management has received significant upgrades to improve accuracy, compliance, and visibility.

Users can now filter attendance records by check-in and check-out methods, making reporting and attendance reviews easier. Attendance records synced from ZKT devices now generate warning notifications when necessary, while backend improvements ensure integration credentials are stored securely.

Work-from-home management has also been enhanced with configurable approval workflows, visibility into all requests, and improved handling for employees assigned to multiple attendance locations.

Remote Check-In has been upgraded with location validation, configurable radius restrictions, real-time photo capture for identity verification, and detailed audit logging to strengthen compliance and accountability.

Additional improvements include:

• Remote check-in indicators in attendance records.
• Better attendance filtering and pagination.
• Improved loading states across attendance pages.
• Completion of the Leave Balance page.
• Protection against accidental overwriting of attendance records during imports.
• VP Deduction support as an attendance rule action with warning letter export and deduction processing capabilities.

Survey Integration with Performance & VP Evaluation

Survey results can now directly contribute to employee performance evaluations.

Organizations can assign rating-based surveys to departments, and completed survey results automatically synchronize with VP Evaluation calculations. This creates a stronger connection between employee feedback and performance assessment while reducing manual evaluation work.

More Flexible OKR Management

The OKR module now provides greater flexibility and stronger validation.

Users can edit Key Result metric types after creation, create and update milestones while editing Key Results, and benefit from improved calculation performance and accuracy.

Additional enhancements include:

• Improved handling of the 80/20 Rule.
• Better progress visibility across Planning and Reporting pages.
• Stronger validation to ensure Target Values remain greater than Current or Initial Values.
• Continued UI refinements across the redesigned OKR experience.

Enhanced Leave Management

Leave workflows have become more flexible for employees and administrators.

Employees can now attach documents to leave requests while approvals are still pending and can delete requests before approval is completed. Leave balance exports have also been enhanced to support organization-wide downloads in addition to filtered exports.

Talent Acquisition Improvements

Public Talent Acquisition pages have been redesigned with updated layouts, improved interactions, and a cleaner experience for candidates engaging with the recruitment process.

Payroll Enhancements

Payroll exports now correctly display all deduction types, helping payroll teams produce more accurate reports. Mobile payroll usability has also improved through horizontal scrolling support on smaller screens.

Onboarding and Administration

Several administrative capabilities have been added and refined.

Onboarding verification emails have been updated to improve account activation and user onboarding experiences. Administrators can now manage Module Subscriptions at the tenant level, giving organizations more control over feature access and platform configuration.

AI Reporting Improvements

To improve usability on mobile devices, AI reporting controls now support show and hide functionality, helping users better manage screen space while accessing reports.

Recognition and Feedback Improvements

The Recognition module received multiple UI and usability refinements to improve the overall user experience.

Feedback Management now automatically assigns the selected employee’s department during feedback creation and updates, reducing manual work and preventing department mismatches.

General Platform Improvements

Several platform-wide improvements were introduced to improve consistency, responsiveness, and stability.

These include:

• Improved backend stability across multiple modules.
• UI and workflow refinements throughout the platform.
• Better notification panel behavior and responsiveness.
• Enhanced user experience across Employee Management, Talent Questions, Organizational Structure, and TNA modules.

Issues Fixed

This release also includes important fixes across multiple modules.

Time & Attendance

• Fixed inconsistencies affecting work-from-home attendance handling.
• Resolved attendance-related issues impacting approval and tracking workflows.

Payroll

• Fixed payroll reconciliation export issues.
• Corrected deduction visibility problems in payroll exports.

Performance & OKR

• Fixed Key Results with zero progress that could not be updated.
• Corrected Target Value display issues for binary Key Result metric types.
• Improved VP refresh reliability across evaluation criteria.

Onboarding & Administration

• Fixed onboarding email verification inconsistencies.
• Resolved issues where authorized users were incorrectly redirected to the Unauthorized page.
• Fixed problems affecting audit log visibility.
• Corrected employee account information update behavior.

Workflow & Approval Management

• Fixed pending approval requests not displaying correctly for approvers.
• Fixed issues preventing updates to approval workflow names, descriptions, and departments.
• Resolved active job and salary update inconsistencies.

Recognition

• Fixed multiple UI behavior issues affecting recognition workflows.

Closing Note

Selamnew 2.0.1 is available now.

This release focuses on improving reliability, strengthening attendance and performance management capabilities, and giving administrators more control over configuration and compliance processes. If any of the features included in this release support a critical workflow within your organization, we recommend validating them in your test environment before rolling them out broadly.

Thank you for continuing to share feedback and feature requests with us. Your input directly influences our roadmap and helps shape every sprint.

We are happy to share Selamnew 1.9.5, part of our Quarter 2 work and labeled internally as Sprint 5. This announcement covers a mix of new capabilities you can try right away, quality improvements you will feel in daily work, and fixes that remove blockers our customers reported during real payroll, OKR, and hiring cycles.

We focused especially on Talent Acquisition with responsible AI support, payroll reliability and clarity, OKR accuracy on dashboards and in pay-linked calculations, and overall responsiveness when managers and admins move through approvals and high-traffic screens.

Highlights in this release

New

• AI-powered candidate screening and job matching (Talent Acquisition): We are rolling out an AI job matching experience that helps evaluate how well a candidate fits a role, together with AI-based CV parsing and normalization powered by Microsoft Azure AI. The release includes semantic job–candidate matching with clear relevance scores, automated candidate scoring and shortlisting, and integration into the Talent Acquisition experience you already use, with role-based access and logging on a secure Azure-native setup so your team can adopt it with confidence.
• Payroll bulk sending and selective export: Payroll communications now support bulk email sending with controlled batch timing to protect mail delivery. You can also export only the documents you choose instead of exporting everything by default, which saves time when you only need a subset of files.
• Payroll sheet enhancements: Payroll sheets now show employee TIN where relevant, use clearer benefit labels (repayable vs non-repayable), present deductions and allowances in a more logical order, and make gross salary and variable pay easier to read at a glance.
• OKR over-achievement support: OKR progress can now go above 100% when teams truly exceed plan, and that reality is reflected on dashboards, reports, and progress bars. For variable pay linked to OKR, calculations remain capped at 100% so compensation rules stay predictable for finance.
• Time & Attendance and leave: The leave approval flow now fetches and uses leave balance before approval decisions. Leave approvers gain better visibility into approved leave records, and we continue to expand audit logs in selected modules so important changes remain traceable.
• Organization structure: Organization structure views now support zoom for easier navigation on large charts, along with clearer export options when you need to share structure outside the product.

Improved

• Pay slip visibility: After payroll processing, pay slip sending is more prominent in the workflow so busy administrators are less likely to miss the step.
• OKR progress and dashboard: OKR progress updates immediately after daily or weekly reporting. Filters include a reset-all option, and dashboard cards are easier to notice when you are scanning a full OKR overview.
• “Approve All” leave actions: Approve-all style actions for leave are significantly faster for large batches, so approvers spend less time waiting on the browser.
• Attendance imports: During attendance imports, we temporarily reduced duplicate-style email notifications so inboxes are not flooded while data is being processed.
• Login and sidebar: The login screen has improved contrast and layout. The sidebar navigation now keeps only one open menu group at a time, which reduces visual noise and makes deep navigation easier to follow.
• UI consistency: We refined tooltips, button contrast, typography, and scrollbar behavior so the product feels more polished and consistent screen to screen.

Fixed

• Approval logs now load more quickly for the signed-in user instead of slowing the page down.
• OKR dashboard issues on staging and test environments are addressed for more reliable pre-production checks.
• Staging and lint-related deployment issues are cleaned up to keep release pipelines smoother.
• System check-in no longer occurs for users who are on approved leave, so attendance signals stay truthful.
• When approvers are missing from a chain, users now see clearer guidance on how to resolve the configuration.
• Created by and updated by fields no longer reference the wrong user in affected records.
• Excel downloads in Talent Acquisition job details work again as expected.
• Download status indicators help prevent repeated clicks while a file is already generating.
• Sidebar state now persists correctly after a page refresh.
• Calendar selections, status badges, and font sizing are corrected for clearer reading.

Closing note

1.9.5 is available now. If something in this list maps to a workflow your organization relies on, we encourage you to try it in a test environment first where you use one today. Thank you for continuing to share what you need from Selamnew—we read it, and it shapes the next sprint.

Today we are announcing Selamnew 1.9.4. While this version includes important new planning capabilities, it is first and foremost a quality and reliability release: we listened to what teams were hitting in OKR, Employee records, Payroll, Admin, Incentives, Compensation, and shared system flows, and we shipped fixes that restore correct data, predictable calculations, and workflows that finish end to end.

We also invested in performance where it was hurting real schedules—especially incentive generation—and in testability improvements that help us keep quality high as the product grows.

What is included in this release

New

• Intelligent AI-powered planning system: We are introducing a fully upgraded planning experience for weekly and daily work. For weekly planning, you will see smarter Key Result filtering (tasks focused on in-progress Key Results), milestone-aware flows, more precise task placement, and helpful historical context. For daily planning, you will get context-aware suggestions, a unified modal flow, Key Result dropdowns scoped to the right work, and a clean reset when a Key Result or parent task changes, so you are never stuck with outdated choices from earlier in the day.

Improved

• Incentive generation performance: For large employee sets, incentive generation used to take a long time—for example, about eight and a half minutes for roughly two hundred employees in some cases. With this release, similar runs complete in about two minutes thanks to backend improvements. The change is meant to keep finance and HR teams moving during tight windows at month-end.
• Testability and traceability: We added structured id and data-cy attributes across OKR, Employee, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Compensation & Benefits, Learning & Growth, Admin, and CFR so automated tests and manual QA can target the same elements reliably. That stability supports faster, safer fixes for you over time.

Fixed

• Reports: Reports now show the correct user consistently instead of occasionally surfacing the wrong person.
• OKR objectives: Users can edit and save Objectives and Key Results again without running into empty-name flags and validation failures that blocked saves.
• Subordinate planning: Reporting managers can load subordinate plans again after a backend issue prevented the data from returning.
• Employee job information: Job information updates now apply to the selected employee only, not the logged-in user by mistake.
• Milestone task planning: Task names for milestone planning now save reliably instead of dropping on save.
• Allowed area distance: Kilometer vs meter handling for allowed area distance is corrected; the radius field shows kilometers with a clear label, and maps and forms stay aligned.
• Login: Login behavior is more consistent for users who previously hit intermittent authentication issues.
• Subscription pricing: Subscription price calculation is corrected when adding user quota or switching tiers, so totals and adjustments match expectations.
• OKR milestone fields: Milestone names no longer auto-fill unrelated Key Result task fields (numeric, currency, percentage); fields start empty as intended.
• Custom fields: The custom field modal closes after a successful add, includes a Cancel path, and treats newly created custom fields as optional rather than incorrectly required.
• Payroll email timing: Email notifications are not sent during payroll generation or regeneration; notifications are sent after final approval, when the information is final.
• Invoice numbering: Invoice numbers now increment separately per tenant, so numbering stays independent for each customer environment.
• Chapa payments (Admin): Chapa payment flows in Admin are working again after an integration issue blocked transactions.
• Admin dashboard: The Admin dashboard loads correctly on first login without requiring a manual refresh.
• Payment plans: Payment plans are sorted by price in the expected order.
• Invoice PDF email: Invoice PDFs email correctly to the billing email and contact person on file.
• Download invoice: The Download Invoice action works again instead of failing for users.

Availability

Selamnew 1.9.4 is released and ready for rollout in line with your organization’s change process. Thank you for the issue reports and examples that made many of these fixes possible.

We are announcing Selamnew 1.9.3, a release focused on stability, data you can trust, and smoother everyday flows across Attendance, HR, Organizational Structure, and Talent Acquisition. Many items below respond directly to customer reports about confusing validation, incorrect displays, email noise, and first-day setup issues in new tenants.

Alongside fixes, we are also delivering a new audit log foundation in selected modules and testing improvements that support long-term quality for everyone.

What is included in this release

New

• Audit log for key modules: We are introducing a unified audit log framework for Payroll, VP Refresh, Employee, Compensation, and Benefit. It records create, update, delete, and other critical operations with clear contextual detail, so administrators and auditors can answer “what changed, and when?” with less guesswork.

Improved

• Testability across Talent Acquisition and Organizational Structure: Elements across Talent Acquisition and Organizational Structure now include both data-cy and id attributes. This gives QA teams and automation pipelines stable selectors, which reduces flaky tests and helps us catch regressions before they reach your users.

Fixed

• OKR cards: Key Result values no longer overflow the card layout, and a double decimal formatting issue is resolved so numbers display correctly.
• Attendance import: Attendance import no longer sends multiple individual emails per row for Absent or Late notifications; the behavior now matches a sensible notification policy.
• Employee creation: Employee creation no longer requires filling the Allowance field when it is not needed, so you can onboard people without placeholder allowance values.
• Fixed-type allowances: Allowance amounts now display correctly when creating a fixed-type allowance and assigning users, instead of showing zero incorrectly in the amount table.
• Leave approval workflow: Leave approvals are processed and reflected reliably through the workflow again.
• Work schedules: Newly created work schedules appear immediately under Organization → Settings → Work Schedule for the correct tenant.
• Job information schedules: Valid work schedules in Job Information no longer display Invalid Date; the UI reflects the configured schedule accurately.
• First user in a new tenant: Creating the first user in a new tenant no longer triggers Failed to Fetch Approved Date; onboarding can proceed without that interruption.
• Leave approval process: The leave approval process behavior is corrected end to end.
• Staging builds: A staging build error that blocked releases is resolved.
• Deduction flow: The deduction flow is updated to resolve User not found inconsistencies that confused administrators.

Thank you

1.9.3 is available now. If you rely on any of the flows above, we recommend validating them in your usual test path after upgrade. We appreciate the detailed tickets that helped us reproduce these issues quickly.

We are pleased to announce Selamnew 1.9.2. This is a wide-ranging release: it adds targeted new capabilities where teams asked for them, improves core experiences like sign-in and schedules, and closes a large set of defects that affected payroll, HR records, OKR, recruitment, approvals, and multi-tenant administration.

We know many of you run monthly payroll, active hiring pipelines, and goal cycles at the same time. 1.9.2 is intended to make those weeks feel less fragile, with fewer surprises from data crossing tenants, fewer broken downloads, and fewer “why did the screen do that?” moments.

Below is the full statement of what shipped, grouped the same way we track it internally so nothing is left out.

What is included in this release

New

• Employee creation — phone number: When you create an employee, you can now capture a phone number in the form. This field was previously missing and often forced teams to maintain contact details outside the record in ways that did not scale.
• OKR — API integration: We added API integration for the OKR module to support AI-related capabilities in a clean, supported way instead of relying on one-off workarounds.
• Planning & reporting — Year and Session filters: Planning & Reporting pages and the OKR View page now include Year and Session filters. Defaults are set to Active Year and Active Session, so most users land on the work that matters first and can still broaden the view when needed.
• Recruitment — searchable dropdowns: In Add New Candidate, dropdowns are now searchable, which makes long lists faster to use during high-volume hiring periods.
• Recruitment — job application loading state: The Job Application button now shows a loading indicator after it is clicked, so applicants get clear feedback and are less likely to submit twice by accident.
• Feedback — export: You can export feedback from All Employees, which supports review cycles, calibration discussions, and leadership reporting outside the product.
• Leave — carryover expiry indicator: Carried-over leave now includes an expiry indicator so employees and managers can see what will eventually lapse and plan time off with fewer surprises.
• Payroll — allowance entitlement in base salary: When you generate base salary, allowance entitlement is included so the generated baseline aligns with your entitlement rules.

Improved

• Authentication — login clarity and email handling: Login response messages are clearer, and login and forgot-password email inputs are normalized to lowercase for case-insensitive authentication, reducing “I know my password” confusion caused only by capitalization.
• Time & Attendance — lunch break: Lunch break logic is improved and can be used as a VP criterion where your policy expects it to count.
• Work schedule refresh: When you update or switch work schedules, the UI refreshes correctly so you are not looking at outdated schedule data after a change.
• OKR — reported task validation: Reported task validation is limited to the current session, which prevents older sessions from creating confusing validation states.
• Target assignment: Targets can be assigned once instead of repeating the assignment per session when that repetition did not add value for your process.

Fixed

The following corrections are part of 1.9.2 and are available as soon as your environment is updated.

Authentication & login

• Forgot Password now sends email reliably and no longer returns a false success when delivery did not happen.
• OAuth login conflict is resolved: users can sign in with a password even after they have previously used Google or Microsoft login, without being blocked by conflicting state.

Employee & user management

• Bank account number validation is corrected so valid account numbers are accepted instead of being rejected incorrectly.
• Profile picture upload behavior is fixed so images do not overlap other fields, and profile picture delete is available when you need to remove an image.
• The system prevents negative basic salary from being saved, protecting payroll downstream from impossible inputs.
• Benefit and deduction forms clear attached files when a user cancels, instead of retaining files that should have been discarded.
• The deduction form no longer shows Update Deduction incorrectly after canceling an edit; labels match the true mode of the form.
• Client-side exceptions when editing benefits or deductions are resolved for normal editing paths.
• Deductions can no longer be marked paid when they would exceed net salary, preventing payroll states that should never be allowed.
• A mistaken $200 deduction affecting all employees in a bad configuration has been removed.
• The missing phone number issue on employee creation is fully addressed by the new field listed above.

Payroll & compensation

• Payroll no longer crashes when editing deductions.
• The User not found error path in deductions is corrected so administrators are not sent on dead-end troubleshooting.
• Non-taxable amounts are handled correctly during allowance create and edit.
• Hard-coded transport allowance columns are removed to restore multi-tenant integrity across customer data.
• Pension and tax rules no longer leak across tenants in the way some environments experienced before.
• Payslip download works correctly on mobile devices again.
• Payslips send to all intended employees instead of skipping recipients silently.
• Tax rule edit no longer shows a maximum income validation error when the field already contains valid data.

Time & attendance

• The approval workflow screen under Time & Attendance → Settings no longer throws an application error during normal configuration work.
• Leave balance behavior on test environments is aligned with expectations more reliably.
• The system no longer reloads randomly during attendance-related work.

OKR & planning

• OKR page client errors on common navigation paths are resolved.
• Users cannot edit other people’s OKRs inappropriately; permissions are enforced more strictly.
• Team OKR now displays team members’ OKRs as intended, instead of only reflecting the logged-in user in some cases.
• Incorrect milestone percentages and deleted milestones reappearing are corrected so progress reflects the true state of work.

Recruitment & talent management

• Editing jobs is fully reliable again after issues blocked some teams from completing edits.
• Applicants can apply without encountering the prior application error.
• Applicants can no longer edit job information through the public application link beyond what should be editable on an application form.
• Compensation and quantity fields are visible again on job edit and application forms where they are required.
• Validation triggers properly when clicking Next during job creation, so missing data is caught early.
• The List Job link works again after selecting a job from the list.
• The Move to Talent Pool button is hidden for single-candidate actions where it should not appear.
• Status and internal vs external labels display correctly on job and candidate screens.
• Job post performance export works instead of failing silently.
• The initial applicant stage can no longer be deleted in a way that breaks downstream hiring steps.

Feedback & reporting

• Client errors on some planning and reporting pages during normal navigation are resolved.

Multi-tenant & onboarding

• Unwanted data seeding configurations during tenant onboarding are removed so new tenants start cleaner.
• After creating a new tenant, administrators can create a pay period without hitting the prior blocker.
• Server information is hidden where it should not be exposed, supporting a safer posture.
• Encryption behavior in development environments no longer auto-removes in a way that could confuse environment-specific expectations.

System & UI/UX stability

• Multiple modals (including in Org Chart and Settings) no longer close before the server responds, which previously caused lost actions and confusion.
• Category editing no longer leaves previously selected users stuck in state when you move on to edit a different category.
• Country code availability in Create Branch is restored.
• Chapa initialization errors that blocked payments are resolved.

Leave management

• Leave balance display and approval sequences are corrected across the multiple related issues we identified in this area.

Rollout note

Selamnew 1.9.2 is released for general availability. We recommend validating payroll, recruitment, and multi-tenant admin flows in your test tenant first if those are critical same-day paths for your organization. Thank you for the reports, screenshots, and patience that made this breadth of fixes possible—we will keep shipping in the same transparent way in upcoming announcements.