USPS 2026.7.0 Release Notes

Summary

This release of USPS contains bug fixes, improvements and new features. See highlights below.

Important highlights from this release

• Bug Fixes

  • Handle daily compensation conversion for qualified overtime calculations.

  • Blended Overtime calculator - changing employees not clearing the form.

  • Handle error in Employee Controller related to missing custom field definitions.

  • Handle divide by zero error in Employee Earnings Register CSV report.

• Improvements

  • Add new property qualifiedOvertime to the Historical Pay Amount.

    • Over the next few releases of USPS Qualified Overtime calculations will receive an overhaul.

    • The calculations will be moved to Current Payroll then each pay amount’s qualified overtime will be stored in the payroll history.

    • There are a list of Jira issues that you can follow to track the progress.

      • https://mcoecn.atlassian.net/browse/USPSR-7548

        • This issue will add a new total to the Current Pay detail view for qualified overtime by position.

        • When payroll is posted, the qualified overtime will be written to the historical pay amount.

      • https://mcoecn.atlassian.net/browse/USPSR-7553

        • This issue will create a patch that will find all history for CY 2026 and apply the same calculations into the history for qualified overtime.

      • https://mcoecn.atlassian.net/browse/USPSR-7550

        • This issue tracks the updating of W2 Report processing to calculate the QOT totals from payroll history and adjustments.

      • https://mcoecn.atlassian.net/browse/USPSR-7549

        • A new current payroll report or an addition to the pay amount summary will be added to show the QOT amounts.

      • https://mcoecn.atlassian.net/browse/USPSR-7551

        • YTD report will include the QOT amounts.

      • https://mcoecn.atlassian.net/browse/USPSR-7552

        • A new report will be created to allow totaling of QOT by date range, employee, or pay group.

  • Include system users as options when running Audit Report.

  • Update Mass Load and Attendance Import to handle UTF-8 and UTF-8-BOM files.

  • Add address properties to Building Code.

  • Payroll Account Mass Change - update any New Contracts that reference the accounts being changed.

  • Change permissions on document store search feature to allow anyone with read access the ability to search.

  • Prevent saving Payroll Item form if max amount is selected with no value entered.

  • Add state records to the W2C submission file.

  • Allow Digital W2 properties to be changed on the Employee form.

  • Print 0 instead of blank if no federal exemptions exist for an employee on the DD notices.

  • Internal

    • Handle database version checks in the service layer.

    • Add a patch to gather data on grid preferences.

    • Add SubHub integration.

• New Features

  • Add public API for Compensations.

  • Add internal API for Timesheet Posting.