Release notes

Get an overview of the changes and fixes in each version of Umbraco Workflow.

In this section, we have summarized the changes to Umbraco Workflow that were released in each version. Each version is presented with a link to the Workflow issue tracker showing a list of issues resolved in the release. We also link to the individual issues themselves from the detail.

If there are any breaking changes or other issues to be aware of when upgrading they are also noted here.

Check the Version Specific Upgrade Notes article for breaking changes when upgrading to a new major version.

Release History

This section contains the release notes for Umbraco Workflow 15 including all changes for this version.

15.1.7 (July 30 2025)

• Ensures inherited group members are always populated #111

• Adds an option to disable the remote version check #99

• Corrects user attribution when completing a workflow. Previously the resulting publish was attributed to the user who actioned the last task in the workflow. The correct attribution is the user who started the workflow.

• Register the French localizations.

15.1.6 (July 17 2025)

• Adds French localization (hat-tip Copilot/Claude)

• Improves display of inherited approval group members

• Ensure users without Workflow section access have read-only document configuration access

• Ensures history cleanup element is only rendered when the feature is enabled

• Fixes approval threshold changes not applying to Document Type workflow configuration

• Prefer observing over getting values in property editors in settings workspace

• Additional formatting and content improvements in email task summaries #94

• Ensures state is recalculated after actioning a workflow task #105

• Ensure users without document update permission do not see request-approval action #105

• Fixes a bug where rejected content was not editable by the user who made the change #105

• Fixes setting enabled/disabled state on workflow action buttons #107

• Fixes previewing content changes from a pending workflow #108

• Fixes a bug where documents without workflow configuration did not always display default workspace actions #109

15.1.5 (June 11 2025)

• Fixes pagination offset in editor dashboards #105

15.1.4 (May 29 2025)

• Improves task summary display in notification emails #94

• Fixes error when attempting to open the workflow detail dialog from the editor dashboard

• Improves variant handling when creating workflow processes in code

• Aligns date handling with CMS

15.1.3 (May 2 2025)

• Fixes display of new-node workflow configuration, and improves workflow scaffolding for new documents.

15.1.2 (April 2 2025)

• Improves culture variant handling in Advanced Search

• Ensure case-insensitive culture comparison when fetching tasks

15.1.1 (March 20 2025)

• Fixes an intermittent issue where fetching approval groups in a mapper resulted in a scoping error

15.1.0 (March 7 2025 )

• Dependency update for Umbraco.Licenses (making this release a minor)

• Fixes pagination in assigned-to task table #96

• Fixes off-by-one bug when calculating approval thresholds with implicit approval #97

• Allow searching for empty fields in advanced search. For example, search for all Product documents with no SKU

15.0.4 (March 3, 2025)

• Fixes an issue where Workflow's content lock was always applied on documents where Workflow was not configured.

• Fixes a related issue where the content lock was never applied on invariant documents with no Workflow configuration.

15.0.3 (February 14, 2025)

• Fixes SQLite migration bug where async methods were causing a race condition.

15.0.2 (January 16 2025 )

• Fixes workflow task summary generation in email body #91

• Fixes localization in email body

• Updates Umbraco.Licenses dependency

• Refactors migration plan naming to align with the broader DXP product suite.

15.0.1 (December 16th 2024)

• Fixes column type mismatch in migration

• Correctly implements delay time in History Cleanup hosted service

15.0.0 (November 14th, 2024)

• Compatibility with Umbraco 15

• Replaces entity action wrappers with umbExtensionRegistry.appendCondition()

• Adds abstraction over UmbContentWorkspaceContext.readOnlyState to consistently implement readonly document workspaces.

• Fixes invariant culture handling when unlocking a scheduled document.

15.0.0-rc3 (November 8th, 2024)

• Compatibility with Umbraco 15-rc3

15.0.0-rc2 (October 23rd, 2024)

• Compatibility with Umbraco 15-rc2

15.0.0-rc1 (October 9th, 2024)

• Compatibility with Umbraco 15-rc1

Legacy release notes

You can find the release notes for versions out of support in the Legacy documentation on GitHub