Release 8 – August 30, 2026

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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 Applicant Portal Enhancements

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

Identify Lab and Lecture Courses During Professional Transcript Entry (PTE) Approval Process

For CASs on the CAS 3+ platform that use Professional Transcript Entry (PTE), this enhancement is automatically available for use. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.

Some CASs allow applicants to identify if their science coursework is considered lab only or lecture with lab. For these CASs that also use the Professional Transcript Entry (PTE) feature (where Liaison's PTE team enters an applicant's coursework on their behalf), applicants can now identify their lab and lecture coursework during the PTE approval process. Previously, applicants could not do this without contacting customer service. This enhancement ensures that applicants can fully review and edit their coursework within the application.

WebAdMIT Enhancements

The following enhancements are now available in WebAdMIT. If you have any questions about these features, contact a member of your account team or support.

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

Internships & Clinical Experiences One-to-Many Fields in Export Manager

Certain fields in the application allow applicants to enter more than one answer; for example, an applicant can have one experience, five experiences, or more. These are called "one-to-many" fields in WebAdMIT, and when you export these one-to-many fields, the data will appear in repeated columns with numeric suffixes (e.g., experience_name_0, experience_name_1, etc.).

Currently, if an applicant has more than one response for the following fields, the data does not populate in repeated columns as normal one-to-many fields do; instead, only one column of data is populated:

Internships & Clinical Experiences field grouping > Country ISO 3 Code field

Starting in late August 2026, these fields will export correctly as one-to-many fields. If your CAS uses these fields in exports and you previously downloaded this data, you should plan to re-download it to ensure that you are capturing all of the applicant's data.

Note that this data has always appeared correctly when viewing the Applicant Details page or running lists in the List Manager.

New Documentation for WebAdMIT

Please review the list of new and updated documentation, all accessible in the WebAdMIT Help Center.


Document	Details
Prelaunch Environment Reference Guide	Liaison's products, including the CAS Applicant Portal, CAS Configuration Portal, and WebAdMIT, have several environments available to you, depending on your needs. This reference guide focuses on the prelaunch environment, where you'll configure your programs in the CAS Configuration Portal for launch in the CAS Applicant Portal. Note that this guide is also available in the CAS Configuration Portal Help Center.

Ongoing Maintenance

Please review the list of scheduled downtime/maintenance and product updates.

Event	Date	Details
Sandbox Environment Refresh	August 27, 2026	The WebAdMIT Sandbox environment (uat.webadmit.org) was refreshed with current (cleansed) production data and program configurations. Any test exports, custom fields, etc., in the current sandbox were overwritten. The next sandbox environment refresh is scheduled for October 1, 2026.

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Sandbox Environment Refresh

August 27, 2026

The WebAdMIT Sandbox environment (uat.webadmit.org) was refreshed with current (cleansed) production data and program configurations. Any test exports, custom fields, etc., in the current sandbox were overwritten.

The next sandbox environment refresh is scheduled for October 1, 2026.

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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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

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.