# 8.29 Release Notes

**URL:** <https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291>\
**Category:** Release Notes\
**Tags:** release-notes, release-notes-english\
**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291 "2021-08-24T12:24:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291/1 "2021-08-24T12:24:00Z")

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Release date: August 31, 2021

## We released the following updates since 8.28:

### Improvements

- Added the ability for administrators to reset a user’s legacy password from the People page on a migrated site. [SG-23528]
- Enabled field creation on AMIs (Action Menu Items) [SG-11464]
- Possible to pre-fill the Autodesk Identity email field in the login process by passing a `?email=` `user@example.com` parameter in the URL allowing it to be bookmarked. [SG-23751]
- Autodesk Identity user invite status is now visible. [SG-23390]  
 ![Screen Shot 2021-09-03 at 8.53.15 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/original/2X/1/157b1f7882655d80135a6ffc17940bc8913929d1.png)

### Fixed bugs

- Solved an issue where email notifications were sometimes missing attachments when creating Notes. [SG-23149]
- Added back missing Version Name field in the quick search filter on Versions displayed in the Media App. [SG-23503]
- Made optimizations to the process when re-applying task templates. [SG-21580]
- Relaxed constraints on `sg_status_list` changes in the API, as they were only needed when setting the value to `act`. [SG-23426]
- Added the missing `Cut Name` field in the Quick Search filter within the Media App [SG-23373]
- Fixed an issue which could occur when a page from the `Other` menu was not rendered properly when narrowing the browser window. [SG-23697]
- Fixes an overly restrictive permissions issue with creation or activation of a user under Autodesk Identity. [SG-23694]

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**Author:** ![lampronf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/lampronf/32/280_2.png) [@lampronf](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/lampronf)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291/2 "2021-09-01T13:57:44Z")

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# 8.29.0.8547 (Wednesday September 1, 2021)

**Bug Fix:**

- Solved an issue when reapplying a task template with added tasks in the middle of a dependency chain. [SG-23720]

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**Author:** ![lampronf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/lampronf/32/280_2.png) [@lampronf](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/lampronf)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291/3 "2021-09-07T15:57:48Z")

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# 8.29.0.8568 (Tuesday September 7, 2021)

**Improvement:**

- Added an option to the user settings menu that lets users sign out of Autodesk Identity [SG-23754]

**Bug Fix:**

- Fixed an issue with the display of available seat counts on the new Person dialog under Autodesk Identity when using Token Flex entitlements. [SG-22561]

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**Author:** ![lampronf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/lampronf/32/280_2.png) [@lampronf](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/lampronf)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291/4 "2021-09-10T13:04:14Z")

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# 8.29.0.8586 (Thursday September 9, 2021)

**Improvements:**

- Added a contextual banner notifying an Admin user about a ShotGrid’s current state of migration to Autodesk Identity. [SG-23786]
- An “Invitation to create Autodesk account expiry date” column is visible now on the People page. [SG-23784]
- Removed support for ES5 browsers. Users with older browsers that don’t support ES6 will be redirected to an “unsupported browser” page. [SG-19338]

**Bug Fix:**

- Added a scroll to menus and sub-menus of the quick search filter. [SG-23606]
- Fixed the grids refresh button which was not working for summary cells. [SG-22730]

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**Author:** ![lampronf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/lampronf/32/280_2.png) [@lampronf](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/lampronf)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291/5 "2021-09-20T18:42:53Z")

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# 8.29.0.8645 (Monday September 20, 2021)

**Improvements:**

- Under Advanced in Site Preferences, added a new control to “Skip invite emails when only sent as notification”. When set to “yes”, we will never send invite emails to newly created and re-enabled users when they already have an Autodesk Identity account. For all other users, the standard invite email will be sent. [SG-23648]
- Fixed an issue that prevented users from importing people when they exceeded the licenses available. Instead, users will receive a message with instructions on how people will be created but not activated upon importing. [SG-21802]

**Bug Fix:**

- Added validation when creating or editing formatting rules. Moving forward, a description and a valid value must be provided upon creating or editing formatting rules. [SG-23795]

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**Author:** ![lampronf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/lampronf/32/280_2.png) [@lampronf](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/lampronf)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291/6 "2021-09-21T17:22:22Z")

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# 8.29.0.8662 (Tuesday September 21, 2021)

**Improvement:**

- Added tooltip messaging on how to purchase ShotGrid and link a site to a subscription, and how to control seats to match subscriptions from the People page. [SG-23532]

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**Author:** ![lampronf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/lampronf/32/280_2.png) [@lampronf](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/lampronf)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291/7 "2021-09-22T13:12:41Z")

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# 8.29.0.8677 (Wednesday September 22, 2021)

**Improvement:**

- Added new dialog to help ensure that only designated administrators perform the migration to Autodesk Identity. [SG-23956]

**Bug Fixes:**

- Fixed an issue where a malformed email can prevent access to the Identity Migration tool. [SG-23947]
- Fixed an issue where the Personal Access Token (PAT) creation date was displayed as “Invalid date” in non-chrome browsers. [SG-23944]
- Fixed the Page History and Stats page hit focus windows that were missing graph source data. [SG-23828]

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**Author:** ![lampronf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/lampronf/32/280_2.png) [@lampronf](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/lampronf)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291/8 "2021-09-23T14:34:05Z")

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# 8.29.0.8692 (Thursday September 23, 2021)

**Bug fix:**

- Fixed an issue when event logs were not added after a project was created / cloned. [SG-23879]

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**Author:** ![lampronf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/lampronf/32/280_2.png) [@lampronf](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/lampronf)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/8-29-release-notes/13291/9 "2021-09-27T13:35:57Z")

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# 8.29.0.8700 (Monday September 27, 2021)

**Bug fixes:**

- Fixed an issue when a project field could not be saved on a Note entity global form. [SG-23499]
- Fixed an issue when a field was created as visible to only one project in some cases could be visible to other projects as well. [SG-23003]
