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Release 8 – August 30, 2026

New Features and Enhancements

Cross-Portal Enhancements

Liaison's suite of portals work together to help you collect and manage applications. The CAS application, also referred to as the CAS Applicant Portal, is the system where applicants find and apply to your programs. You receive these applications in WebAdMIT or Liaison Outcomes, where you perform your review processes. The appearance of your program and your requirements are customized in the CAS Configuration Portal, where you establish the program-specific elements that your applicants will interact with. Additionally, your program may use one or more of the following tools and platforms:

  • API: a data integration tool.
  • CAS Applicant Gateway: a platform for applicants who have already submitted their CAS application to complete and upload additional materials requested by their programs.
  • CAS Liaison Analytics and Othot: advanced analytics solutions and data reporting tools.
  • CAS Liaison Letters: a platform for evaluators to submit their letters of recommendation.
  • Enrollment Marketing and TargetX: customer relationship management (CRM) systems for student lifecycle management.
  • Living Profile: a platform where students can connect their academic pursuits with their career aspirations.
  • SlideRoom: a platform for collecting digital portfolios.
  • Time2Track: a platform for tracking, verifying, and managing experiences.

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

Annual Fall Lookup Updates

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.

Many fields in the CAS Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables." Periodically, we update these tables to include additional response options.

The new lookup table values include updates to AP exams, colleges, counties, degrees, and majors. Review the Shared Lookup Table Updates page (linked below) for a full list of updates.

These lookup table updates impact the following portals, some of which you may use. If you created a "crosswalk" from our portals to your local data in your SIS/CRM, you may need to update this crosswalk for the newly-added options. For guidance on the optimal implementation of the new values, review the Shared Lookup Table Updates page.

CAS API Enhancements

The following enhancements are automatically available for the CAS API, and no action is required on the part of any school or program. If you have any questions about these features, contact support.

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

New Applicant Information Section Added to CAS API

The CAS API Application data model (v1 and v2) now includes a new top-level JSON node, applicantInfo, which groups Applicant Information question blocks separately from Biographic Information. Previously, these questions appeared under the biographicInfo node.

This release adds support for the Extended Profile section within applicantInfo, including its own completionStatus property, giving you visibility into whether an applicant has completed this section.

For full field-level details, refer to the CAS API Swagger documentation.

Expose Redirect Eligibility flag in the CAS API

The CAS API Application data model (v1 and v2) now includes a new redirectionEligibility object, nested within the existing supportingInfo section.

This object surfaces whether an applicant is eligible for redirection, along with related metadata:

  • redirectionEligible: indicates whether the applicant is eligible for redirection
  • id, createdDate, and updatedDate: supporting identifiers and timestamps for the flag

For full field-level details, refer to the CAS API Swagger documentation.

Update Organization Contacts Through CAS API

A new CAS API endpoint is now available for updating existing organization contacts: PUT /v1/applicationForms/{formId}/organizations/{orgId}/contacts/{orgContactId}

This endpoint provides an alternative to using the Configuration Portal to update organization contact information. Organization and Institution level users cannot update organization contacts through this endpoint, as it is available only to Association-level CAS API users.

Use the organization contact ID in the endpoint to identify the contact you want to update. You can update the contact's first name, last name, email address, phone extension, phone number, role, and notes. The API returns the updated contact record, including its updatedDate timestamp.

For complete request, response, and validation details, refer to the CAS API Swagger documentation.

Coming Soon!

Please review the list of upcoming events, including product updates and regional training opportunities.

Event

Date

Details

CAS 3+ Upgrade

2026

Liaison is excited to announce that in the 2026-2027 application cycle, all of our Centralized Application Services (CAS) will be upgraded to a new, mobile-first, and modern applicant portal that we call CAS 3+. Visit the CAS 3+ Upgrade page to learn more about its key benefits and a preview of the upgraded application.

Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2026

August 2026

Many fields in the CAS Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file.

Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in August 2026 (subject to change).

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.

Shared Lookup Table Updates for Spring 2027

March 2027

Many fields in the CAS Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file.

Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in March 2027 (subject to change).

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.

 

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