REDCap 15.0 LTS New Features
Version | Release Date | Version Type | Log type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
15.0.8 | 2025-01-30 | Standard | Change | Change: Support has been dropped for PHP 7 - The minimum required PHP version is now PHP 8.0.2. All major versions of PHP 8 (i.e., 8.0 through 8.4) are supported. |
15.0.9 | 2025-01-30 | Long Term Support (LTS) | Change | New LTS branch based off of REDCap 15.0.8 (Standard) Note: Please see the Standard Release ChangeLog for the full list of new features and changes released between the previous LTS and this new LTS branch. |
15.0.6 | 2025-01-26 | Standard | Change | Change: If Easy Upgrade is enabled/available in REDCap, the top of the main Control Center page will now always display a "Check again" link to check for new REDCap versions. This will allow REDCap admins to always be able to check for new REDCap versions that have recently become available. |
15.0.6 | 2025-01-26 | Standard | Change | Change: The "Choose action for record" menu on the Record Home Page now always displays the "Survey Queue" option for a given record, even if the record's queue currently contains no items. In previous versions, the option would only be displayed if the record's queue contained one or more items. Additionally, the "Survey Queue" option in the drop-down now has a sub-option to allow the user to copy the survey queue link to their clipboard. |
15.0.3 | 2025-01-23 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: In a MyCap-enabled project, the "Messages" tab on the "MyCap Participant Management" page now allows users to use a rich text editor when composing messages and announcements sent to MyCap participants. This allows limited text formatting/styling and clickable links to be used in the messages/announcements. |
15.0.3 | 2025-01-23 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: The "Choose action for record" drop-down list on the Record Home Page now lists links to the Logging page, Notification Log, and Survey Invitation Log (if the user has privileges to those pages), in which the current record will already be preselected when navigating to those pages. This improvement serves as the integration of Luke Stevens' "Record Logging Links" External Module. (Ticket #247752b) |
15.0.3 | 2025-01-23 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: When AI Services are enabled, specifically the Writing Tools feature, the magic wand icon for the AI Writing Tools now appears in the rich text editor for Notes fields with the RICHTEXT action tag when on data entry forms. Note: This does not appear for the same fields on survey pages but only for authenticated users on data entry forms. |
15.0.3 | 2025-01-23 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: When the Survey Queue is enabled in a project and a record contains one or more uncompleted items in its queue, an option to open the Survey Queue page for the record will now appear in the "Choose action for record" drop-down list on the Record Home Page. (Ticket #247752) |
15.0.3 | 2025-01-23 | Standard | Improvement | Improvements to the Codebook page: |
15.0.3 | 2025-01-23 | Standard | Change | Change/improvement: In a MyCap-enabled project, the Online Designer now displays the version (i.e., "English" or "Spanish") in the instrument label of MTB Active Tasks on the instrument-level view. |
15.0.1 | 2025-01-16 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: REDCap now supports the "blockquote" HTML tag so that it may be utilized in user input (e.g., field labels, survey instructions). (Ticket #247361) |
15.0.1 | 2025-01-16 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: The MLM setup page now shows hints that choice labels are fixed for true/false and yes/no fields and thus cannot be translated on a per-field basis. (Ticket #246312) |
15.0.1 | 2025-01-16 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: The user interface of the "Data Dictionary" page in a project has been simplified and improved to help users better understand the general process of editing and uploading a data dictionary. Additionally, buttons have replaced the links for downloading the data dictionary for improved web accessibility and for a better user experience. (Ticket #246206) |
15.0.1 | 2025-01-16 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: When using Multi-Language Management, it is now possible to preset the language for a participant's Survey Queue by supplying the URL parameter "__lang", which must be set to a valid (active) language id (and is case-sensitive). Example: [survey-queue-url]&__lang=es or https://redcap.vanderbilt.edu/surveys/?sq=ABC123&__lang=es. (Ticket #247173) |
15.0.1 | 2025-01-16 | Standard | Change | Change/improvement: When a user is opening a data query in the Data Resolution Workflow and is assigning the query to a user, if the project contains Data Access Groups and is also using the DAG Switcher, users that can access the current record due to DAG Switching (but are not currently assigned to the record's DAG) will be displayed in the user assignment drop-down for assigning the data query. In previous versions, the user assignment drop-down would only display the users that were currently in the record's DAG and did not respect possible DAG Switcher assignments. (Ticket #246453) |
15.0.1 | 2025-01-16 | Standard | Change | Change: Slightly modified the styling of the buttons on the randomization model setup page to make the individual steps more distinct. |
15.0.0 | 2025-01-09 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: Custom text option for Create New Project page - Admins may now provide custom text to display at the top of the Create New Project page, if desired. This allows for the opportunity to display important information to users before they create (or request creation of) a new project. This custom text can be set in a rich text editor near the bottom of the General Configuration page in the Control Center. |
15.0.0 | 2025-01-09 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: To boost performance, Rapid Retrieval caching was added to the Participant List page, Participant List CSV export, and the API Export Participant List method. |
15.0.0 | 2025-01-09 | Standard | Change | Change/improvement: The logging mechanism for Break the Glass actions in CDIS projects has been improved. Logs now include detailed information not only for successful operations but also for scenarios where the action cannot be performed, such as when Break the Glass is deemed unnecessary or when an error occurs. |
15.0.0 | 2025-01-09 | Standard | Change | Change: Added more description to the MyCap Configuration Check page in the Control Center if the "Communication to MyCap Central" test fails. |
15.0.0 | 2025-01-09 | Standard | Change | Change: In the MyCap settings in the Online Designer, the "Modify Project Title" button was moved down to the "About" section. |
14.9.5 | 2025-01-02 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement/change: The user list table on the Project Home page now displays "EHR Access" in its own column in CDIS projects, separate from the user information. The table style was also slightly tweaked to enhance responsiveness, making the interface cleaner and more user-friendly across devices. |
14.9.5 | 2025-01-02 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: The "Help & FAQ" page has been updated with new content (thanks to the FAQ Committee). |
14.9.5 | 2025-01-02 | Standard | Change | Change/improvement: All rich text editors now utilize the browser's native spell check functionality by putting a red underline under a misspelled word. (Ticket #246649) |
14.9.5 | 2025-01-02 | Standard | Change | Change: Text and phrases on certain MyCap-related pages were abstracted to allow for translation. |
14.9.3 | 2024-12-19 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: A new FHIR Statistics page has been added to the Control Center to allow admins to view counts and visualize the EHR data being imported into REDCap via CDIS. There are date-range controls to filter the data by a min/max date, and an export option also exists on the page for exporting the counts. Note: Due to issues with the stats collection not being accurate in previous versions, REDCap will unfortunately be starting with a blank slate stats-wise with this version. For more details, see the FHIR stats-related bug listed below. |
14.9.3 | 2024-12-19 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: When a REDCap administrator is in a project uploading a data dictionary that contains Dynamic SQL fields, the page now displays the following warning to provide more info and transparency when a SQL field is being added or modified: "Allowable warnings found in your Data Dictionary: An 'sql' field is being modified or added in this project. Please confirm that this is acceptable." (Ticket #246357) |
14.9.3 | 2024-12-19 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: When using MyCap together with MLM, the MyCap language codes are now more flexible when adding a language on the MLM setup page. For example, if the language code is "en", "en-US", or "en-UK" on the MLM page, the MyCap mobile app will recognize any of those generally as "English". |
14.9.2 | 2024-12-12 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: Allow for multiple IdPs for Shibboleth authentication - This allows multiple Shibboleth Login Options to be configured on the Security & Authentication page in the Control Center when using Shibboleth authentication. Previously, this was only possible when using Shibboleth+Table-based authentication. If no Login Option is defined, then authentication functions as normal for Shibboleth. However, if at least one Login Option is defined, then authentication functions much more like Shibboleth+Table-based authentication. Specifically, users will be presented with a login screen identical with the Shibboleth+Table screen except that there is no option for local REDCap login. |
14.9.2 | 2024-12-12 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: Public project dashboard links can now be turned into QR codes. If a public link is created for a project dashboard (including custom/short links), a button next to the public URL on the Edit Project Dashboard view will appear that (when clicked) will display the QR code representing the dashboard link. The QR code image can also be downloaded in SVG format or copied to the user's clipboard. |
14.9.2 | 2024-12-12 | Standard | Change | Change/improvement: The "View modules available in the REDCap Repo" button in the External Modules Module Manager in the Control Center now opens the REDCap Repo website in a new tab, whereas in previous versions it opened in the same tab. (Ticket #245904) |
14.9.2 | 2024-12-12 | Standard | Change | Change/improvement: When using MyCap in a project, a new UI improvement has been made for making the 'enable/disable for event' buttons more noticeable on the MyCap Task setup page for longitudinal projects. |
14.9.0 | 2024-12-05 | Standard | New Feature | New feature: Organize stored files into subfolders by project (for "Local" storage only) |
14.9.0 | 2024-12-05 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement/change: Added 8 new MTB measures for use in MyCap-enabled projects: Spanish versions of Arranging Pictures, Arrows, FNAME Learning, FNAME Test, Number Match, Sequences, Shape-Color Sorting, Word Meaning Form 1. |
14.9.0 | 2024-12-05 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: The PDF Snapshot Archive page in the File Repository now contains a new button to allow users to download the PDF Archive's file list as a CSV file. (Ticket #245337) |
14.9.0 | 2024-12-05 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: When a project is created from a Project XML file, additional info about the file (source system REDCap version and the XML file's creation date) is displayed on the page, or a warning message is displayed if the XML file appears not to be a proper REDCap Project XML file. (Ticket #245469) |
14.9.0 | 2024-12-05 | Standard | Improvement | Minor security improvement: The SameSite attribute for cookies utilized by REDCap now defaults to the value "Strict", which provides more security by preventing cookie information leakage to first-party or same-site context. In previous versions, the default value for the SameSite attribute was "Lax". |
14.9.0 | 2024-12-05 | Standard | Change | Change: A cookie policy was added that specifies the details of how cookies are utilized by a person's web browser when using REDCap. A link to the policy exists at the bottom of every webpage in REDCap. |
14.9.0 | 2024-12-05 | Standard | Change | Change: When an admin clicks the "Compose confirmation email" button to send an email to the user via the Project Modifications Review page for Draft Mode, the logged event description (i.e., "Send email to user from admin") now includes the recipient's email address so that their email appears in the project logging to provide more context. |
14.9.0 | 2024-12-05 | Standard | Change | Various changes for the External Module Framework, including 1) Relaxed tag vs. release zip comparison during security scans, 2) EM Logs table within the project context will now properly maintain PID context (this prevents it from navigating away to the Control Center when trying to use search parameters), 3) Added 'Record' and 'UserName' columns to the report table of EM logs, 4) Included the framework's twig dependency when checking for composer conflicts, and 5) Misc. minor changes. |
14.8.3 | 2024-11-26 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: When creating an alert in a longitudinal project, users can now select an email field from the current event where the alert is triggered to be used as the "Email To" setting for the alert. This allows for flexibility when using different email addresses on each event in the project. In previous versions, email fields in specific events only could be selected. |
14.8.3 | 2024-11-26 | Standard | Improvement | Minor security improvement: The HTTP header "Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin" was added to prevent the leakage of referrer information when navigating to external websites from REDCap. |
14.8.3 | 2024-11-26 | Standard | Change | Change/improvement: Allow multiple PHP errors to be logged in the "redcap_error_log" database table for a single request (i.e., single log_view_id). |
14.8.3 | 2024-11-26 | Standard | Change | Change: REDCap is now officially compatible with PHP 8.4. Note: It was noted in a previous release that REDCap 14.7.4 and higher was compatible with PHP 8.4, but that was incorrect. Only REDCap 14.8.3 and higher are compatible with PHP 8.4. Additionally, the current recommended PHP versions for REDCap are PHP 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4. Note: REDCap is currently compatible with PHP version 7.3.0 and all later versions (including PHP 8.4.X). |
14.8.1 | 2024-11-20 | Standard | Improvement | Minor security improvement: A couple different project pages might mistakenly allow knowledgeable malicious users to email any recipient as many times as they wish (i.e., spam any email address), although the email itself would still have to come "From" one of the user's email addresses as listed in their REDCap user profile. Exploiting this feature is no longer possible. |
14.8.1 | 2024-11-20 | Standard | Change | Change/improvement: When using the Data Resolution Workflow, the "assign user" drop-down list in the DRW dialog is now displayed as an auto-complete drop-down to help users more easily select a user from the list in projects that have a large number of users. |
14.8.1 | 2024-11-20 | Standard | Change | Change: Performance improvements on the MLM setup page, which should load faster than in previous versions. |
14.8.0 | 2024-11-14 | Standard | New Feature | New feature: Descriptive Popups |
14.8.0 | 2024-11-14 | Standard | New Feature | New feature: Draft Preview Mode |
14.8.0 | 2024-11-14 | Standard | Improvement | Improvement: REDCap now supports the "address" HTML tag so that it may be utilized in user input (e.g., field labels, survey instructions). (Ticket #244390) |
14.8.0 | 2024-11-14 | Standard | Change | Change: In a MyCap-enabled project, REDCap now prevents the user from accessing the "View participant QR code" and "Invite Template" popups until the first MyCap app version has been published for the project. |
14.8.0 | 2024-11-14 | Standard | Change | Change: In a MyCap-enabled project, the "Messages" feature is now disabled in the MyCap participants list for participants that have not yet joined the project using the MyCap mobile app (i.e., their install date is blank). |
14.8.0 | 2024-11-14 | Standard | Change | Change: The "Learn Advanced Design Features" link on the left-hand project menu is now only displayed to users with Project Setup & Design privileges. (Ticket #244150) |
14.7.4 | 2024-11-07 | Standard | Improvement | Security improvement: When using REDCap's Two-Factor Authentication, the OTP (One Time Password) encryption secret, which is stored for a user in the back-end database and is used to generate their QR code for 2FA, has been increased to 160 bits to meet certain security standards. Note: This change will not affect existing users' ability to continue using their already-established Microsoft/Google Authenticator mobile app for 2FA in REDCap. |
14.7.4 | 2024-11-07 | Standard | Change | Change: Updated REDCap's session handler functions to be compatible with the upcoming PHP 8.4 release. Thus, the only REDCap versions that are compatible with PHP 8.4 are REDCap 14.7.4 and higher. |
14.7.4 | 2024-11-07 | Standard | Change | Change/improvement: The dates displayed in the "Other useful info" box on the main Control Center page are now listed in the date format dictated by the user's profile date format preference. |
14.7.4 | 2024-11-07 | Standard | Change | Change: On the Survey Invitation Log and Notification Log, a new warning has been added to the page when a project is in Analysis/Cleanup project status to denote that any already-scheduled survey invitations or alerts will not be sent while in Analysis/Cleanup status, despite the fact that the user may see scheduled invitations/alerts on those pages. |
14.7.4 | 2024-11-07 | Standard | Change | Change: The "Online Designer" video on the Training Videos page was updated, and a new video "Randomization" was added. |
14.7.4 | 2024-11-07 | Standard | Change | Change: When using Multi-Language Management in a MyCap-enabled project, the MLM setup page will now display a warning to users when adding an MLM language when the country code isn't supported in the MyCap mobile app. |