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title: 16 October 2026
description: "Covers changes merged from 12 October 2026 at 12:00 am to 16 October 2026 at 7:57 am (Australia/Sydney)."
area: changelog
version: "2026-10-16"
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Covers changes merged from 12 October 2026 at 12:00 am to 16 October 2026 at 7:57 am (Australia/Sydney).

Part of the [week of 12 October 2026](https://support.pynhq.com/changelog/week-of-2026-10-12/): Escalations, and HR business partners from HiBob.

## New

- You can set up to three escalation notices on an email or Slack step to notify others when an individual recipient has not completed an action after a chosen number of days.
- You can choose an employee's HR business partner as the recipient of workflow messages and actions.
- You can export the Activity Actions table to CSV with your current filters and sort order, including unsaved changes.
- You can filter the Actions view by completion status.
- Employee profiles now show a probation end date when one is supplied by HiBob.
- You can create employee groups by type of contract when that field is available.
- You can create employee groups by work office when that HiBob custom field is configured.

## Improvements

- Employee group panels and Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 integration panels now have consistent spacing around their contents.

## Fixes

- The Slack recipient dropdown now opens and shows “No results” when the sender has no available channels.
- Long webhook URLs and secrets now fit within the sidebar while still copying in full, and the Done button stays visible.
- Date fields in Firefox now show a single calendar icon.
- Calendar navigation arrows now fit neatly inside their buttons.
- Download buttons in Notices now fit within their rows.
- Download expiry values in Notices now use the same text size as the label beside them.
- Escalation notices now correctly label HR business partner recipients.