Longview v23.3 Software Release Notes
This document describes enhancements and changes to Longview version 23.3.
This document contains information on these main topics:
- Announcements in Longview 23.3
- Enhancements in Longview 23.3
- Issues Resolved in Longview 23.3
- Hardware and Software Requirements
- Longview Support Schedule
Announcements in Longview 23.3
- In this release we have continued to add further BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two functionality to meet the new Global Minimum Tax reporting requirements.
- Longview 23.3 also introduces an alternative, enterprise deployment method to ClickOnce. This new feature allows organisations to use an .msi installer to deploy the Longview Client components independently from within their own infrastructure rather than relying on ClickOnce.
- In response to customer feedback, we have made enhancements to the Data Query and Data Extract features of our Longview Add-In for Office. These enhancements include:
- The option to clear the previous results when rerunning a data extract.
- The option to show string and numeric data separately in different columns for a data extract.
- The option to suppress rows and/or columns of data where all the values are “zero” for a data query.
- Longview now supports SQL Server 2022 and has replaced using the SQL Server Native Client with ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server.
- And finally, from this release onwards, the separation of customer-specific code from out-of-box code on the Longview Data Server is mandatory. This will support more streamlined upgrades going forward and future architectural changes.
insightsoftware continues to focus our efforts on providing the greatest value in our product investment. As part of this effort, we began an initiative in 2020 to deprecate certain features that were legacy in nature and could be replaced with newer components that offered greater functionality and improved user experience.
A recap of the recent decisions, the following features have been de-supported over the past few releases:
- Longview Desktop – Version 10.7 (Fall 2020)
- Longview Input – Version 21.1 (Spring 2021)
- Longview Component Manager – Version 22.1 (Spring 2022)
- Legacy Longview for Excel component – Version 22.1 (Spring 2022)
No additional components are deprecated as part of the current release.
Enhancements Added in Longview 23.3
Longview 23.3 contains enhancements in the following areas:
- Installation and Supported Platforms
- Longview Add-In for Office
- Longview Analysis and Reporting
- Longview Data Servers
- Longview Smart Client
- Longview Solutions Framework
- Longview Tax – Multi-Regional Provision
- Longview Tax – Pillar Two
- Longview Tax – Tax Provision
Installation and Supported Platforms
Enhancement | Description |
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LV-7928 | Longview now provides an alternative deployment option to ClickOnce using the Enterprise Deployment package. This allows customers to install and upgrade Longview Components using an .msi installer. For more information, see the Longview Enterprise Deployment Guide. |
LV-8044 | Longview now supports SQL Server 2022. |
LV-8046 | Longview has been updated to use ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server instead of SQL Server Native Client. For more information, see the Longview Installation Guide. |
Longview Add-In for Office
Issue | Description |
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LV-8041 | Users can now choose to clear previous results when rerunning a Data Extract query. |
LV-8042 | A new option has been added to the Data Extract query to separate string and numeric data into separate columns. This option was also added to the API. For more information, see the Longview Add-In for Office Guide. |
LV-8043 | A new option has been added to the Data query to specify whether data will be suppressed. The following options are available in the drop-list:
The default value is None. This option is also available in the API. For more information, see the Longview Add-In for Office Guide. |
Longview Analysis and Reporting
Enhancement | Description |
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LV-8037 | An option to Bold headings for expanded parents has been added to the Global Column format for Reports. For more information, see the Longview Analysis and Reporting Guide. |
Longview Data Servers
Enhancement | Description |
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LV-6446 LV-6520 LV-6428 | The separation of custom code from out-of-box code via the FILES_CUSTOM_ROOT_PATH configuration parameter is now required and has been expanded to include the following:
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Longview Smart Client
Issue | Component | Description |
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LV-7959 | Forms | A new function, ScheduleSymbolSelector, has been added to Longview Forms. You can use this function to add a Schedule Symbol Selector for a specified schedule dimension to your form. Example: ScheduleSymbolSelector “Select the employee’s currency”, sCurrency, “UserInfoSchedule” EmployeeCurrency, IncludeTotal:FALSE, AllowMultiple:FALSE, “OnChange:SetSymbols.lvpro”, Required:TRUE For more information, see the Longview Developers Guide. |
Longview Solutions Framework
Enhancement | Description |
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LV-7864 | The user security has been updated to include the status of a user that is not currently active (Deleted, Locked, Deactivated). In addition, all user and group reports have been updated to include the row count as part of the left title text. |
Longview Tax – Multi-Regional Provision
Enhancement | Description |
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LV-7810 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (IAS/IFRS), multi-regional combined calculations have been updated to support netting and improved performance. |
Longview Tax – Pillar Two
Enhancement | Description |
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LV-8085 | Longview Pillar Two now includes a rollover process to copy automation settings, entity settings and global minimum rate during a period end and year end rollover. In addition, Longview Pillar Two has its own current period that is independent of the Tax Provision current period. The Longview Tax Provision rollover has been updated so that it can be run before or after a Longview Pillar Two rollover. |
Longview Tax – Tax Provision
Enhancement | Description |
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LV-8038 | The Tax Account Roll Forward Data Transfer Mapping will now default to TFMSPACTUAL for Multi-Regional Provision systems. |
Issues Resolved in Longview 23.3
Longview 23.3 contains issues resolved for the following components:
- Installation and Supported Platforms
- Longview Add-In for Office
- Longview Analysis and Reporting
- Longview Application Framework
- Longview Data Servers
- Longview Designer
- Longview Server Manger
- Longview Smart Client
- Longview Solutions Framework
- Longview Task Management
- Longview Tax – Multi-Regional Provision
- Longview Tax – Pillar Two
- Longview Tax – Tax Provision
- Longview Transfer Pricing
Installation and Supported Platforms
Issue | Description |
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LV-8073 | In some cases, when installing Longview on the platform, the installer would encounter a “VCRUNTIME140.dll was not found” error. |
LV-8078 | When installing Longview on the platform, not all files were properly cleaned up after the install completed. |
LV-8080 | When installing Longview on the platform, the installer did not check to ensure the user installing was already in the local group specified, which would result in the install not running the solutions code. |
LV-8081 | The Back button on the Ready to Install step of the Longview Installer did not work. |
LV-8216 | The Longview Solutions Start Menu folder has been renamed to Longview. |
Longview Add-In for Office
Issue | Description |
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LV-1637 | When connecting to Tidemark in Longview Add-In for Office, the user’s member access was not automatically updated after being modified in Tidemark Data Security Profile. |
LV-8056 | The “Levels” label in the SymbolSelector and SymbolSpecSelector function builder were not displaying correctly in French. |
LV-8324 | Users using SSO authentication to connect through Longview Add-In for Office were unable to select a group that contained a ‘&’ in the group description. |
Longview Analysis and Reporting
Issue | Description |
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LV-1479 | In some cases, changing the selected symbol without saving caused unexpected results when exporting to Excel. |
Longview Application Framework
Issue | Description |
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LV-8166 | Using Longview Application Framework to delete a rule that did not exist would cause the server process to crash. |
LV-8373 | The Application Framework command, REST SETREQUESTHEADER, trimmed the header to 1023 characters. |
Longview Data Servers
Issue | Description |
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LV-7139 | In some cases, a template lvsrvr.cfg file was created when running the start.bat. |
LV-7673 | Temporary files created during the server import process were not deleted after a successful import. |
LV-8031 | Event rules with delays were being calculated from the moment the event was triggered, not when the event was previously run. |
LV-8057 | In some cases, users that belonged to multiple platform organizations were unable to connect to Longview for Longview systems on the platform. |
LV-8086 | The Longview server process would crash if a “recalc audit reset” was issued while the servers were not started. |
LV-8135 | In some cases, the database reconnect for SQL Server would crash lvagent.exe. |
LV-8183 | In non-partitioned systems, the restatement would fail if no journal entries existed when USE_DATA_CACHE was set to FALSE. |
LV-8484 | Process maps would not render properly through the dashboard. |
Longview Designer
Issue | Description |
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LV-8107 | The Activate Sign Reversal checkbox was incorrectly labeled in the Data Import Apps – Designer Template. |
Longview Server Manger
Issue | Description |
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LV-1593 | When the recalc folder was in a different location other than the default, Longview Server Manager would error when launching. |
LV-8277 | In some cases, Longview Server Manager would display error messages with an exception report. |
LV-8288 | The Longview Sever Manager was creating a local copy of the lvsrvr.cfg file. |
LV-8414 | Longview Server Manager would crash when clearing the console using the context menu. |
Longview Smart Client
Issue | Component | Description |
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LV-6662 | Data Tables | When a sort order was entered that was greater than the valid maximum value, the row would no longer be displayed in the data table. |
LV-8058 | Data Grids | In some cases, the Ellipse button did not appear on the toolbar to be able to get to the additional buttons that were not displayed on the toolbar. |
LV-8061 | Data Grids | When the wrapping for the row header was enabled in a data grid, the minimum row height was less than the default height. |
LV-8262 | Data Grids | In some cases, a data grid would not render correctly when a parent symbol was disabled. |
LV-8935 | Forms | In some cases, the first symbol selector on a form was automatically opened when the form was shown. |
Longview Solutions Framework
Issue | Description |
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LV-7674 | When starting the servers using an Oracle database an "Unable to determine table structure for SLNS_JE_DETAIL" warning would be reported. This warning had no impact on functionality. |
LV-7795 | When selecting a specific user that was using windows authentication in the User Access or Effective User Access reports no results were displayed. |
LV-7857 | In a system with no currency dimension specified via system attribute SGPCurerncyDimension, a data view input app would fail with a "VARIABLEEXISTS: Requires additional parameters" error when executed. |
LV-7981 | Pre-configured calculations (events) now correctly locate overrides in the custom file path. |
Longview Task Management
Issue | Description |
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LV-8075 | For certain regional settings, an error would occur when setting a due date for a task. |
Longview Tax – Multi-Regional Provision
Issue | Description |
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LV-5408 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (IAS/IFRS), cases in which the opening balance of a temporary difference was zero, and/or the closing balance of a temporary difference was zero, would treat all activity in the account as unrecognised. In this case the activity of the temporary difference is now fully recognised. |
LV-7747 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (ASC/US GAAP), inputs XSC0501S - Deferred Tax Beginning Balance and XSC0501G - Deferred Tax Beginning Balance did not take into account the regional scheduling setting. |
LV-7765 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (ASC/US GAAP), the initial expansion level for input apps XSC0501S - Deferred Tax Beginning Balance, and XSC0501G - Deferred Tax Beginning Balance has been updated to compensate for the hierarchy updates supporting deferred tax netting for regions. |
LV-7798 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (ASC/US GAAP), the query rules for Regional Interim Current ETR - Manual Adjustment (RegIPETRCURA) have been updated to correctly function across all symbols in the DETAILS dimension. |
LV-7941 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (ASC/US GAAP), the interim current and deferred was incorrectly filtering accounts under Regional Additional Provision Items - Not Currently Deductible (MSP_RegAddPrvNCD_ASC) at National Level and Regional Additional Provision Items - Not Deductible at National Level (MSP_RegAddPrvND_ASC) from the lock, causing the results of the calculations for these accounts to not be submitted to the database. |
LV-8053 | Installing or upgrading Longview Tax would deploy files to the templates folder in the data server working directory, even if custom files path was being used. |
LV-8063 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (ASC/US GAAP), improved performance of Combined Deferred Tax Calculation - NBR and Combined Deferred Tax Calculation - Regional NBR events when triggered across a large number of details, segments, and currencies. |
LV-8074 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (ASC/US GAAP), values entered in temporary differences for RAR - Deferred Only Impact (GrsRARDfd_ASC) and Other Adjustments - Deferred Only (GrsDfd_ASC) were not correctly flowing to the multi- regional Forecast Tax Expense (802) report and subsequently being omitted from the multi-regional ETR and Discrete Items Interim (803) report. |
LV-8110 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (IAS/IFRS), the Regional Deferred Tax Impact - Change in Tax Rates ACQ PRIOR and Regional Deferred Tax Impact - Change in Tax Rates ACQ CUR elements were not being calculated for recognised deferred tax. |
LV-8129 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (IAS/IFRS), recognised amounts related to regional acquisitions were not being calculated. |
LV-8138 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (ASC/US GAAP), Regional Current Tax Expense/(Benefit) Before Discrete Items (RegIPCB4D) and Regional Deferred Tax Expense/(Benefit) Before Discrete Items (RegIPDB4D) were being calculated using apportioned net income before tax, causing the results to be understated. |
LV-8145 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (IAS/IFRS), several combined tax elements were not configured correctly for the calculation of CTA. This is corrected in new installs only. |
LV-8164 | In a new install of release 23.2 of Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (IAS/IFRS), rule merge and dependency files were not deployed correctly. |
LV-8372 | In an installation of Longview Tax if the number of periods was set to a value other than 12 the system settings were not updated correctly requiring it to be manually updated afterwards. |
LV-8404 | In Longview Tax Multi-Regional Provision (IAS/IFRS), regional accounts were not being classified correctly for NBR Only (MSP_NBR) and NBR Rate Change (MSP_NBRRateChg) in the supplemental deferred tax reports. |
Longview Tax – Pillar Two
Issue | Description |
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LV-7373 | When importing constituent entities via manage constituent entities an error would be reported if a constituent entity was changed from a Permanent Establishment to another type. |
LV-7727 | When the following input apps were opened in a period that did not contain election settings for jurisdictions, a "Cannot resolve variable" error would occur:
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LV-7749 | A database related error would occur when updating constituent entity settings in a time period if settings already existed in another time period, either manually or via import. |
LV-7986 | When importing jurisdictions via manage constituent entities an error would be reported if a jurisdiction's currency was not enclosed in square brackets. |
LV-8165 | Entity selections for Pillar Two process maps were using tax provision hierarchies rather than the Pillar Two total jurisdictions hierarchy. |
LV-8214 | In Longview Pillar Two, when triggering calculations on entities that only existed in the pillar two entity hierarchy, a lock conflict error would be reported (as an Administrator), or the trigger space would not be set correctly (as a non- Administrator). The latter case only affected the by-entity event status. |
Longview Tax – Tax Provision
Issue | Description |
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LV-5408 | In Longview Tax Provision (IAS/IFRS), cases in which the opening balance of a temporary difference was zero, and/or the closing balance of a temporary difference was zero, would treat all activity in the account as unrecognised. In this case the activity of the temporary difference is now fully recognised. |
LV-7817 | In Longview Tax Provision (IAS/IFRS), the following reports would report a "Not in GZIP format Report template was not published" error when attempting to publish them to additional groups:
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LV-8053 | Installing or upgrading Longview Tax would deploy files to the templates folder in the data server working directory, even if custom files path was being used. |
LV-8372 | In an installation of Longview Tax if the number of periods was set to a value other than 12 the system settings was not updated correctly requiring it to be manually updated afterwards. |
Longview Transfer Pricing
Issue | Description |
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LV-8053 | Installing or upgrading Longview Transfer Pricing would deploy files to the templates folder in the data server working directory, even if custom files path was being used. |
Hardware and Software Requirements
This chapter contains information on these main topics:
Note: Third party components and versions, such as operating systems, browsers, etc., no longer in mainstream support by the third-party provider are not supported by Longview as well.
Supported Server Platforms
Supported platforms are defined as the Operating System and RDBMS “families”, and minimum patch/point level on which the application is supported under the terms of the Customer’s maintenance Services Agreement. Assistance with issue investigation and resolution is available through Support Services. Any platform related software issues identified will be addressed based on Longview’s standard issue prioritization criteria.
Longview reserves the right to end support for supported platforms with subsequent releases of the application.
Should a customer choose to use current versions of Longview software on non-supported platforms, Longview will continue to provide the application support under the terms of the Maintenance Services Agreement with the following exceptions:
- Issues encountered which cannot be replicated on a currently supported platform will not be addressed.
- For issues that exist on both supported and non-supported platforms, fixes will be verified only on supported platforms and may or may not address the issue on the non-supported platform.
- No support is available for platforms (OS or RDBMS) that are no longer supported by their respective vendors.
This section contains information on supported platforms for the following items:
- Updating Windows Universal CRT
- Data Server OS and RDBMS
- Web Server
- Data Server Web Services
- Longview Grid Server
- HTTP Proxy Server
Updating Windows Universal CRT
Improved security and compatibility of Longview means that older server machines must install Windows Universal C Runtime (CRT) update 2999226. You can determine whether your server requires this update and download this update, if needed, from the following link:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226
Data Server OS and RDBMS
The following combinations are supported for all servers in the application. For details on the term Supported, see Supported server platforms.
Server operating system (x64 architecture) | Server RDBMS (64-bit) |
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Windows Server 2022 | SQL Server 2022 SQL Server 2019 Oracle 19c |
Windows Server 2019 | SQL Server 2022 SQL Server 2019 Oracle 19c |
Note: If you are using a separate Database server, any platform and Operating System supporting the database versions can be used.
Web Server
The following combinations are supported for the Web Server. For details on the term Supported, seeSupported server platforms.
Note: The Web Server supports only x64 Server hardware architecture.
Server operating system (64-bit) | Web Server (64-bit) |
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Windows Server 2022 | Microsoft IIS 10.0 |
Windows Server 2019 | Microsoft IIS 10.0 |
Data Server Web Services
The following combinations are supported for Data Server Web Services. For details on the term Supported, see Supported server platforms.
Note: Data Server Web Services supports only x64 Server hardware architecture.
Server operating system (64-bit) | Java |
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Windows Server 2022 | Oracle JDK 17 (LTS), Oracle JDK 20 or OpenJDK 20 |
Windows Server 2019 | Oracle JDK 17 (LTS), Oracle JDK 20 or OpenJDK 20 |
Note: Apache Tomcat is deployed as part of the Data Server Web Services install process. If you have already installed Apache Tomcat, you must have version 9.0.68 installed.
Longview Grid Server
The following combinations are supported for the Longview Grid Server when Grid Processing Type is selected in Longview Server Manager. For details on the term Supported, see Supported server platforms.
Note: Longview Grid Server supports only x64 Server hardware architecture.
Operating system (64-bit) | ODBC |
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Windows Server 2022 | ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server |
Windows Server 2019 | ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server |
Note: You must install the ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server on the grid node that corresponds to the RDBMS that the Longview application server is configured for.
HTTP Proxy Server
The following combinations are supported for the HTTP Proxy Server. For details on the term Supported, see Supported Server Platforms.
Server hardware | Server operating system (64-bit) |
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x64 Architecture | Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 |
Note: You must have .NET 4.8 installed to run HTTP Proxy Server.
Supported Client Platforms
This section contains information on Supported platforms for the following items:
Longview Client Components
The following platforms are supported for client computers. For details on the term Supported, seeSupported Server Platforms.
Client operating system (64-bit) | Web browser | .NET version |
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Windows 11 | Microsoft Edge Google Chrome1 | .NET 4.8 |
Windows 10 | Microsoft Edge Google Chrome1 | .NET 4.8 |
Note: 1 Chrome browsers require a Chrome extension to launch ClickOnce components. For example, the Windows Remix ClickOnce Helper to launch Longview ClickOnce components.
Caution: Longview recommends a DPI display setting of 100%. Using a DPI mode other than 100% can cause display issues ranging from incorrect and inconsistent font sizes to interface elements not being visible on the screen.
Microsoft Excel
The following Microsoft Excel versions are supported.
Both Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office 365 are supported; however, you must use the fully deployed version of Microsoft Excel to work with Longview Add-In for Office.
Longview Add-In for Office |
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Office 365 – 32-bit and 64-bit |
Excel 2021 – 32-bit and 64-bit |
Excel 2019 – 32-bit and 64-bit |
Supported Languages
Longview client components are language consistent. For example, for a French client system, this update supports the French version of the Longview client, with the default regional settings, running with the French version of the respective operating system, and the French version of Microsoft Office.
However, for the servers, this update supports English versions of the respective RDBMS, server operating system, or Web server, regardless of the client language.
The following table outlines the language requirements for your Longview system.
English | French | |
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Windows requirements | English Windows English Microsoft Office | French Windows French Microsoft Office |
Java | Oracle JDK 17 (LTS) Oracle JDK 20 or OpenJDK 20 | Oracle JDK 17 (LTS) Oracle JDK 20 or OpenJDK 20 |
Web browser | English | French |
Server operating system | English | English |
RDBMS | English | English |
Web server | English | English |
Longview Support Schedule
Release Version | Calendar Release | Oldest Support Version | Version No Longer Supported |
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10.7 | Nov-20 | 3.5.7 |
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21.1 | May-21 | 3.5.7 |
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21.2 | Nov-21 | 3.5.7 |
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22.1 | May-22 | 7.3 | All versions < 7.3 |
23.1 | May-23 | 10.6 | Versions 7.3 – 10.5 |
23.3 | Aug-23 | 10.7 | 10.6 |
24.1 | Feb-24 | 21.1 | 10.7 |
24.3 | Jul-24 | 21.2 | 21.1 |
25.1 | Feb-25 | 22.1 | 21.2 |
25.3 | Jul-25 | 22.2 | 22.1 |
26.1 | Feb-26 | 23.1 | 22.2 |
26.2 | Apr-26 | 23.2 | 23.1 |
26.3 | Jul-26 | 23.3 | 23.2 |
26.4 | Oct-26 | 23.4 | 23.3 |
27.1 | Feb-27 | 24.1 | 23.4 |
For more information on any of the above updates, please contact your Customer Success Manager, Account Executive, or Longview Support.