April 9, 2026

Sofon 2025 1.1 Minor Release

Sofon 2025 1.1 Brings Faster Operations, Tighter Controls, and a More Reliable Quoting Experience

The 2025 1.1 release focuses on what manufacturers and sales operations teams depend on every day: a quoting environment that behaves consistently, product data that loads and exports without delays, and administrative tools that give teams the control they need. Across Web Proposal Organizer, EPAL, QIS, Web Studio, and the Master Data Importer, this release delivers targeted improvements that reduce friction and increase confidence in daily workflows.

Performance You Can Depend on at Scale

EPAL has received significant performance investment in this release. Market product pages, product tree loading, and export jobs — areas previously measured in minutes or hours for large catalogs — now complete in a fraction of the time. For teams managing complex, multi-market product data, this release represents a meaningful reduction in wait time and IT overhead.

Faster market product pages: Restructured data retrieval eliminates thousands of redundant database queries per page load, dramatically reducing load times for large product catalogs.
Faster product tree loading: Product tree construction now executes once per node selection instead of on every row binding, resolving load times previously reported at over five minutes for certain markets.
Faster export jobs: Performance bottlenecks in constraint loading have been resolved, cutting export jobs that previously ran for over an hour down to a fraction of the time.
Improved user administration: The EPAL user management page now processes pagination, sorting, and filtering server-side, reducing load for organizations with large user directories.

Quoting Workflows That Work the Way Users Expect

Several fixes in this release address gaps between expected and actual system behavior in day-to-day quoting.

Accurate pricing across channel changes: Pricelist values now update correctly when a site is switched in Web Proposal Organizer, ensuring accurate price selection without manual intervention.
Consistent auto-save: Auto-save now triggers when navigating away from a quote via the top bar — not just via the ribbon — so no work is lost regardless of how a user exits.
Approval comments always visible: Comments added in the Approval Portal are now displayed in WPO regardless of approval state, giving sales teams a complete picture of where a quote stands.
Large currency value support: A white screen issue that prevented quotes with very large price values from opening has been resolved.
Correct version locking: New versions created by copying a locked quote now open as read-only, as intended.

More Control for Administrators and Integration Teams

This release extends administrative and integration capabilities across several areas.

Admin visibility into personal draft quotes: A new role permission allows admins to view and open personal draft quotes from any user, resolving scenarios where drafts were previously inaccessible without direct database access.
Configurable calendar week start day: A new configuration key gives organizations control over the week start day across all date pickers — useful for teams operating under regional calendar conventions.
Independent reminder schedules for alternate approvers: Approval Portal reminders now support separate, configurable schedules for alternate approvers, preventing premature notifications before the alternate approver has received their initial request.
Expanded EPAL API for group management: The EPAL API now supports setting minimum and maximum quantities and mandatory or single-option flags on article and object groups, giving integration teams finer-grained control without requiring manual UI configuration.
New QIS API endpoint: A new endpoint enables retrieving quotes for a sales organization with flexible filter criteria, extending automation options for dealer and reseller workflows.

A Stronger Platform Foundation

Web Studio upgraded to .NET Core 10 LTS: Ensures continued platform support beyond the .NET Core 8 end-of-life date, with all packages updated to their latest compatible versions.
Package updates across Web Edition and EPAL: All Sofon Web Edition and EPAL packages have been updated to resolve compatibility issues and maintain security alignment.
Reliable batch mode for Master Data Importer: SMDI no longer crashes when running unattended via Windows Task Scheduler, restoring dependable automated import scheduling for operations teams.
Integration reliability improvements: Configuration output parameters are now correctly saved during quote verification via integration, and report document language selection follows a clear priority order across multilingual environments.

The Bottom Line

Sofon 2025 1.1 is a focused release that strengthens the reliability and performance of the tools manufacturers use every day. Faster EPAL processing reduces time spent waiting on product data. Quoting workflows behave more consistently across navigation paths and approval states. Administrators have better visibility and control. And the platform foundation continues to advance with current framework support and updated dependencies. Taken together, these improvements make Sofon more dependable for the teams and integrations that rely on it.

Ready to update? Access “Product Downloads” > “Sofon” folder to download the release. If you need assistance with the update process, simply submit a request through the Customer Support Portal, and our team will help you get started.