Software Updates

Find all of the latest software release notes and brand new features!

HQ v3.28.5 / Compass v2.30.0

🖥️Deployment: May 28, 2026

One major new feature was deployed yesterday - while the rest of our team has been working on optimizing our predicted end-time calculation within Compass for use in Live Production. Here's what we've been working on the past 4 weeks!

Restricting Compass Access by Work Area

We have added an additional layer of access control for your Operators (or anyone using Compass) by way of Work Area specificity if you choose to apply it. When editing a user's profile within.

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Author: Mark Estep

HQ v3.28.4

🖥️Deployment: April 28, 2026

Saving Without Leaving the Editor

We had a request sent to us asking for the ability to SAVE the work being done to edit a step within our Designer application, but without requiring the closure of the editor. Our team threw around the idea of adjusting our SAVE & NEW and our SAVE buttons to read differently, or maybe a drop down with options for different kinds of saving, or perhaps trying to add a third button in the upper right corner - but none of those fit.

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Author: Mark Estep

HQ v3.28.3 / Compass v2.29.1

🖥️Deployment: March 5, 2026

Hopefully the new year's first couple months have treated you well. Here at Scout Systems we've used the past 10 weeks to develop and now release updates to both HQ and Compass. Some new elements and some bug fixes - our favorite combination!

Editing Your Batch Quantity Mid-Job

One of our customers will be very happy to know this feature has been released - you can now edit the quantity/size of each batch job after it's been loaded and the operator has begun work.

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Author: Mark Estep

API's Updated

🖥️Deployment: December 19, 2025

For many of you, API's are a term you hear thrown around and rarely understand their true power. That's not your fault. Many times they are never used, barely touched or tapped into, so it's no surprise that when they are updated it may not seem like it matters. But for those that know their capabilities, this update is for you! We have added new API calls (accessible through your account at https://dev.scout.systems), as well as made minor updates to some of the existing calls.

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Author: Mark Estep

HQ v3.28.2

🖥️Deployment: December 4, 2025

PIP (Picture-in-Picture) - Always Available

One of the best features of our Step Designer is the ability to add multiple images/videos over the main background step instruction image. We call these PIPs. You could always load a picture-in-picture anywhere over the background image.

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Author: Mark Estep

HQ v3.28.1

🖥️Deployment: December 1, 2025

ANDON Dashboard Bug Fixes

Our customers who use the Dashboard application will know our ANDON system displays colored tiles based on your station's current status. However, there was a refresh issue related to the use of 'custom pause reason colors', particularly for sub-reasons. If you used a unique color for a pause reason, when your operator returned to Build from Pause, that color failed to clear (unless you refreshed the page entirely). This has been fixed.

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Author: Mark Estep

AUTOPLAY has arrived!

🖥️Deployment: November 25, 2025 -- HQ v3.28.0 & Compass v2.29.0

What exactly is Autoplay?

Many of you know just how long we've been talking about this pending feature! Some of you have no idea what we're talking about. All of you need to know just how powerful Compass has become for your Operators. After 6+ months of conceptualizing, coding, testing, and adjusting, we're proud to say that Autoplay is here!

"Autoplay" is the automated sequencing of steps within Compass based on either your...

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Author: Mark Estep

HQ v3.27.2

🖥️Deployment: July 23, 2025

Uploading .SVG Files into Designer

Per customer request (from multiple of you over the years!) we have expanded the file type list in Designer to include .SVG files. Scalable vector files are fantastic for any image that needs to scale without losing its crisp edges - schematics, line drawings, etc.

You can even add these SVG files into the PIP windows. They will maintain their crisp vector edges no matter what size you expand them to.

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Author: Mark Estep

HQ v3.27.1

🖥️Deployment: June 18, 2025

Additional Capabilities for Adding Materials

When we launched the new Material Library earlier this week we knew that additional capabilities were going to be needed. But one of the largest changes came from a new-found necessity to adjust material names from the Designer step editor rather than from the Material Library.

Thus, we have introduced 'material aliases' in the background of each step that stores a material used. This means the Material Name can be edited during the step design process.

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Author: Mark Estep