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6 October 2026

# Release 2.0 - 7 October 2026

## Release 2.0 introduces Development Plans in open beta and launches Skills, the AI Capability Coach and automated user provisioning (SCIM), along with a faster Compliance Report and smoother forms.

### What's New 🎊

**Development Plans (Open Beta)** - Development Plans gives learners a simple way to turn a goal into a plan: pick what they want to get better at, set a target date, and add the steps that will get them there. Supervisors see their team's plans in one place, can step in when someone flags they need a hand, and endorse plans as they come together. If your organisation uses Acorn Capability, a goal can link to a capability and the level someone is aiming for, but Development Plans works fully without it. It's included with both Acorn Capability and the Acorn LMS, and it's available now as an open beta while we keep building, including reporting.

**Skills** - Skills adds a detailed skills library to Acorn Capability, so you can spell out exactly what each capability involves. Administrators can build a library by hand or import an existing framework from a CSV file, then map skills to capabilities, with every mapping change recorded. Learners see the skills behind each capability in the same place they already review their capability details.

**AI Capability Coach** - The AI Capability Coach is an assistant built into Acorn Capability assessments, so nobody has to start from memory or a blank page. It reminds team members how they've progressed since their last review and gives supervisors specific, practical suggestions as they write feedback, without ever changing answers or ratings. Administrators can tailor it with your organisation's values, goals and assessment criteria, and conversations are saved so people can pick up where they left off. It switches on automatically for any organisation with Acorn AI enabled, so there's nothing to set up.

**Automated user provisioning (SCIM)** - Connect Acorn to Microsoft Entra ID or Okta and new starters, profile changes and departures flow into Acorn automatically, instead of being managed by hand. You set SCIM up from the Integrations Hub on top of your existing single sign-on connection, so SSO needs to be in place first. Once a user is synced, your identity provider owns their account details: Acorn stops anyone changing their username or email or deleting them, shows a notice on synced users, and other manual edits can be overwritten by the next sync. Enrolments, roles and cohorts stay fully manageable in Acorn. SCIM syncs user accounts only, not groups.

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### Improvements ✨

**Faster Compliance Report** - The Compliance Report now loads much faster, especially for organisations with lots of learners and content. Results are calculated ahead of time and refreshed several times a day, so a recent completion can take a few hours to show up. The report tells you when its data was last updated, and you can tick "Use live data" whenever you need up-to-the-minute figures. Existing scheduled reports move to the faster cached version automatically, except reports set to a specific as-of date, which always run on live data.

**Smoother forms** - Long forms are now more responsive to fill in, including Momentum forms, feedback forms, session registration, Quiz Plus and Capability assessments. Large forms keep up as you type, and autosave works more efficiently in the background so it stays out of your way.

**Faster cohort assignment for large organisations** - The cohort assignment window now opens quickly, even for organisations with many users and user fields.

**Multiple workflows of the same type on a course or live learning** - Administrators can now add more than one due-date, refresher or enrolment workflow of the same type to a course or live learning, such as separate refresher rules for different cohorts. Acorn works out which one applies to each learner, using the earliest due date or the strictest refresher cutoff.

**Archived submissions in the Forms Submission API** - The Forms Submission API can now optionally return archived (deleted) submissions, so integrations can retrieve a form's full submission history.

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### Bug Fixes 🐞

Fixed an issue where a locked Momentum workflow stopped users from viewing their own past submitted applications, despite the confirmation message saying they could. (CORE-183)

Fixed an issue where printing a whole Momentum application to PDF produced cramped, clumped-together text. (CORE-295)

Fixed an issue where the print preview for an individual Momentum form showed "Not found" when a supervisor or administrator printed another user's submission. (CORE-313)

Fixed an issue where Training History showed a raw ID instead of the integration name, and dropped the certificate icon, for completions from an integration that had since been deleted. (CORE-270)

Fixed an issue where Momentum workflows set to start "On first login" didn't trigger for users who signed in with single sign-on. (CORE-276)

Fixed an issue where the Calendar page breadcrumb showed a system label instead of "Calendar". (CORE-297)

Fixed an issue where the Generate Export button covered part of the table in the SCORM logs attempt view. (LEARN-238)

Fixed an issue where turning a feature on or off in your organisation's settings only took effect after a full browser refresh. (VI-131)

Fixed an issue where CSV exports from the Gap Analysis, Capability Assessment, Capability Assessment History and Face-to-Face attendance reports were saved with the wrong file name. (VI-401)

Fixed an issue where uploaded CSV files showed a generic file icon instead of a CSV icon. (VI-491)

Fixed an issue where manually added members could disappear from an all-supervisors cohort after routine actions such as CSV imports, and members removed this way have been restored. (MPL-26)

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