Release 13.7 – October 2026
No tricks, just treats in our newest release! In 13.7, we have released our Announcements feature, which let you share timely, targeted messages with your users as soon as they log in. Text Extraction, our LLM-powered tool from is now available for beta testing. It will offically be ready for use in production instances in the next release, 14.0.
Read on for all of the details of this coming release!
Major Features
- Announcing Announcements! LearningBuilder can now display targeted messages to users upon login. Announcements are great for sharing urgent updates like deadlines, maintenance windows, or new features and rules that can improve the experience for your users. Administrators can create and manage announcements from a new page, adding a title, a rich-text body, a optional icon, and they can be previewed before going live. We can target Announcements according to user role and status, or specific time windows. When users log in, any unread announcements show up in a callout at the top right of the UI. Users can read and dismiss multiple announcements, but any announcements not dismissed will show up again at next login, so that nothing important is missed.
- Text Extraction available for beta testing. We first introduced this AI-powered tool at LearningBuilder Academy and continue to make improvements on our road to a full launch in production environments in our next release, 14.0. Text Extraction helps reduce manual data entry: Practitioners often upload documents like completion certificates and then have to type the same details from those documents into online forms. Text Extraction uses an LLM to read these files and suggest field values automatically, saving time and effort. Since AI can of course make mistakes, users will always review and approve the extracted values. Text Extraction includes built-in usage limits to manage AI usage. Each client site receives a monthly allowance of Text Extraction requests, and the allowance resets automatically at the start of each month.
When the allowance is exceeded, Text Extraction automatically “shuts off” and is no longer offered to users.
Configuration Improvements
- Prometric Integration Enhancements. Our integration with the exam vendor, Prometric, has been expanded with new capabilities to make managing your examination process even smoother. LearningBuilder configuration tools now support expanded options for managing the Eligibility process, now either at the Activity or Learning Plan levels. Most of all, in this release, we have introduced a new Integrations area under the Admin menu where Administrators with technical expertise can view and manage their configuration settings giving them more ownership over their integration.
Usability Improvements
- An improved Scriban email template previewer. In LearningBuilder 13.3, we introduced a new templating engine, Scriban, in the Email Template area. With this release, we have improved the preview tool for the Scriban email templates that supports additional template types, including Learning Plan Instance templates that use Learning Plan Definition attributes, Activity Offering attendee and seat assignment templates, and template attributes that use model properties. Scriban email templates are now the preferred type for configuring your notifications as we move toward eventually deprecating the Razor template type.
- Improved display on mobile and narrow screens. The three-step navigation in the Workflow Import Queue and Text Extraction features now stacks properly on mobile devices and narrow browser windows. Whereas before, this content could get crowded on the right edge of smaller screens, it now adjusts smoothly to fit the available space.
Infrastructure and Security Enhancements
- Upgraded icon library (Font Awesome 7). We have upgraded LearningBuilder’s icon library from Font Awesome 5 to Font Awesome 7 across the platform, bringing the site to the latest version with a larger, more consistent icon set. The upgrade automatically converts existing icon references and keeps backwards compatibility in place. If your program uses custom icons in areas such as Content Blocks, Quick Actions, or custom templates, we recommend a quick spot-check after the upgrade, and the Validate Font Awesome Icons utility under Sys Admin can help you confirm that everything renders as expected.
- Faster Activity Search and Learning Plan activity lists. We resolved a database issue that caused intermittent slow load times on Activity Search and the Learning Plan activity list in some environments. With the fix in place, they now load in roughly 1 to 2 seconds during typical use.
- More reliable overnight automation processing. We addressed a database issue that could cause the automation phase of the nightly Maintenance Job to time out on programs with large volumes of data, so that now all scheduled automations complete reliably overnight without stalling.
