Releases Since Our Last Meeting

• USPS-R 6.42.0 Release Notes
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed a bug in payroll initialization due to a timing issue
    • Fixed a bug in payroll posting that show job failed, even when posting completed correctly
    • Fix exception causing W2 Report View navigation to fail
    • Correct the tooltip on Payroll Initialization Component to description the pay group selection
    • Fix null pointer exception in queryDeductions SOAP bridge service call
  • Improvements
    • Improve the performance of STRS Monthly Report
      • 85% improvement to runtime
    • Implement caching of reportable properties for template reports
    • Add last pay in contract warning
    • Remove recently added STRS Advance warning that stated calculations included archived compensations
      • This warning was causing more confusion than it was helping
  •  New Features 
    • Convert personal leave to sick leave - Add employee and pay group selections
    • Prevent users from saving a retirement payroll item with a rate type of Tax Tables
  • Internal
    • Service layer improvements
• USPS-R 6.42.1 Release Notes
  • Bug Fixes
    • Payroll Initialization fails when unexpected exception occurs
      • Exceptions will now be caught and reported on the error report
    • Employee Master report fails when no payroll accounts are found for a historical payroll
      • Update report to check for this condition and continue to process
    • STRS Advance
      • Add messages to the FY report and Position Report
        • INFO - No active position level or employee level STRS item found for position #: #
        • ERROR - Job Calendar is not assigned for compensation with code ######. Please assign a job calendar to get corrected values on the report.
• USPS-R 6.42.2 Release Notes
  • Correct bug in the SERS Surcharge Report that was preventing the report from completing when no payroll accounts were found in history for fixed payroll accounts.
• USPS-R 6.43.0 Release Notes
  • Bug Fixes
    • Employee Distributions - Pro-rating is not correctly excluding pay items withheld at the position level.
      • The pro-rating function has been corrected to filter position level amounts with calculating employee level amounts.
    • Position Code, Status, and other position properties have been added back to the EMIS Position Entry view.
    • Fix casting exception in the Monitor / App Log view.
    • STRS Report - Amount Withheld adjustments are now included in the STRS Member Deposits field.
    • Pay Report - Updated current totals to include items from current payroll, not just contract amounts.
    • Payroll Item Refund - exclude Social Security withholding when it do not apply.
  • New Features
    • Warn the user when they save a Position with no retirement code, or a retirement code of None. 
  • Internal
    • Service layer improvements.
• USPS-R 6.43.1 Release Notes
  • Bug Fixes
    • Correct a bug in the Auditor of State extracts where missing data in Refunded payments could cause the report to fail
    • Correct a bug in the Employee Master Report that would cause report failure if an employee was missing the Marital Status or Number of Exemptions on a federal payroll item.
• USPS-R 6.44.0 Release Notes
  • Bug Fixes
    • SERS Reporting
      • SERS Surcharge updated to account for rehired date when an employee is a rehired retiree
      • SERS Surcharge date range for reporting has been updated to include the pay group date ranges from payroll
      • SERS Per Pay validated user entered values to prevent too many characters in the submission file
    • Benefit Personal to Pay fails when not including partial days and posting to current, process will no longer attempt to create future pay amounts for $0
    • W2 Report View showing all options before first user selection
  • Improvement
    • Payroll Initialization
      • New changes all pay group date ranges to all be included when initializing payroll
      • Please see the documentation for more information
      • Payroll Processing
    • Pay Amount History Import - Update to import description field from extract
      • This requires a change to the UDMS extract. This UDMS change will need to be installed before extracting from classic to import into this version of USPS-R.
  • Internal
    • Service layer improvements.

Upcoming Releases

• USPS-R 6.45.0
  • Bug Fixes
    • SERS Per Pay
      • Better error handling added when incorrect begin / ending dates are entered
      • Correct the sorting of SERS Per Pay when sorting by name
    • SERS New Hire
      • Add validations to the SERS New Hire report for birth date and gender when creating the submission file
  • Internal
    • Add report to generate api keys for the workflows configuration
    • Add a menu item for the new API Key view
    • Update security filters on api
    • Service layer improvements

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