April - June 2026

This quarter was about giving app builders more control and less friction. Administrators can now protect the most important parts of their forms, Advanced Case Actions became a standard part of Advanced plans alongside a redesigned case management experience, and the Case API now has the ability to send you only the data you ask for.

Read all about these exciting new updates below!

Product Updates ✨

Below is a list of our newest product releases in CommCare from this past quarter.

Locked Admin Questions

Available to users on the Advanced Plan and above

App builders can now lock specific questions and groups in the Form Builder so they cannot be edited, moved, or deleted by users who do not hold the new locked questions permission. This protects critical form logic, structure, and case mappings while still allowing the rest of your team to make everyday edits. Read more on the Locked Admin Questions wiki page.

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Key features of this update include:

• Lock any question or group: Users with the permission see a Locked setting on every question and group. Locked items can only be edited, moved, or deleted by users with the permission, and for multiple choice questions the choices are locked too.

• A dedicated permission: A new role permission, “Allow locking and unlocking questions in forms,” controls who can lock and unlock. It is available on any role that already has Edit Applications, so you can reserve it for your most trusted builders.

• Protection that holds everywhere: Case property mappings that reference a locked question cannot be changed, bulk translation uploads skip locked questions, and Edit Source XML and Upload XForm are unavailable to users without the permission on forms that contain locked questions.

• Group-aware locking: Locking a group applies to everything inside it, and a group containing locked questions cannot be moved, deleted, or have its Question ID changed.

Advanced Case Actions Now Included in Advanced and Enterprise Plans

Available to users on the Advanced Plan and above

Advanced Case Actions now enables a single form to create, update, index, or close related cases. The capability previously required a feature flag that had to be requested along with a dedicated training session. Alongside this release, we redesigned how case management is configured in the Form Builder. Read more on the Advanced Case Actions wiki page.

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Key features of this update include:

• Act on cases your form never loaded: Create, update, close, or link cases of any case type, not just the one tied to the module's case list. A Visit form can register a new Visit case, link it to the Patient, and update the Patient, all in one submission.

• Case management where it was never possible before: Use cases in Survey forms that have no case list, register one new case per row of a repeat group, or update a case whose ID is computed during form entry, for example from a lookup table.

• Manage case relationships directly: Link a case to a parent or host case as a child or extension, unlink existing relationships, or even change a case's type, all from inside the form.

Case API v2: Request Only the Fields You Need

Available to all users with API access

Case API v2 now supports “fields” and “exclude” query parameters, so API consumers can trim responses down to exactly the data they care about. This makes integrations faster and payloads smaller, especially for cases with many properties. The full API reference lives in the CommCare API documentation.

Key features of this update include:

• Pick your fields: Pass a “fields” parameter to receive only the fields you list.

• Or exclude them: Pass “exclude” to drop fields you do not need from the response.

• Nested field support: Dot notation reaches inside case properties, for example fields.properties=edd,age.

• Works across the API: Filtering applies on all GET endpoints and on create and update responses, including paginated requests.

CommCare Mobile 2.63

Available to all users

A new version of CommCare Mobile (2.63) is on the Google Play Store, followed by a 2.63.1 patch release. This release focuses on form entry reliability and stability during case loading. See the 2.63 release notes for the full list.

Highlights of this release:

• Steadier form entry: Fixed small UI issues during form entry to make a smoother experience for frontline workers.

• Case loading stability: Increased the stability of loading many cases on a phone.

• Attachment limit for reliability: Forms are now capped at 50 attachments. Once a form reaches the limit, existing files must be removed before new ones can be added.

Smaller updates worth knowing about

Availability varies

A handful of smaller, quality-of-life improvements also arrived this quarter:

• Edit form details without leaving the Form Builder: The Edit Form Details modal now lives inside the Form Builder, and changes to a form’s name and comment save together with the rest of the form.

• SSO API access tightened: Web users who sign in through SSO now always need an API key for API access.

• Simpler API rate limiting: The API rate limiter no longer applies a weekly window.

• Add-Ons page polish: The “Enable All Add-Ons” button in App Settings is now disabled when every add-on is already enabled.

• Continued HQ modernization: The form settings page in App Manager moved to our current UI framework, with cleaner layout and more consistent styling.

And more….

To view all other bugs, performance enhancements, and updates made to CommCare, please visit our Github repository here.

📫 Tell us what you think!

We’re excited to be putting out these product release notes as a way to keep CommCare users better informed.

• If you’re interested in receiving a demo on any of the product updates, please feel free to email info@dimagi.com

• If you have any feedback on the above features, please feel free to leave it on the CommCare Forum

• Have a new feature idea? Send it to support@dimagi.com, and visit feedback.dimagi.com to see our roadmap.

January - March 2026

A new year, a new set of updates. Our focus this quarter has been on giving administrators more control over their users and roles, expanding what our geospatial projects can do on the map, and continuing to modernize the CommCare HQ interface underneath the pages you use every day.

We are excited to showcase a variety of product updates from this past quarter, ranging from a redesigned roles page and new geospatial display options to a faster Data Export Tool and a cleaner, more modern HQ.

Read more about all these exciting new updates below.

Product Updates ✨

Below is a list of our newest product releases in CommCare from this past quarter.

Edit Role Now Has Its Own Page

Available to all users

Configuring roles in CommCare used to happen in a cramped modal that made managing permissions for larger projects tedious. We have now rebuilt the role editor as a full standalone page, giving admins the space to see every permission at once and the breathing room to configure more complex roles without scrolling inside a tiny window. Read more about roles and permissions here.

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Key features of this update include:

• More room to work: Every permission is visible on a single scrollable page, rather than a modal that forces you to scroll inside a smaller window.

• Cleaner navigation: Editing a role now opens a dedicated page with its own URL, so you can share a link to a specific role or keep it open in a separate tab while you compare roles.

• Easier to manage complex setups: Projects with many granular permissions benefit most, since all the toggles and profile restrictions are laid out with clear visual hierarchy.

Geospatial: Boundary Overlays on the Map and New Case List Formats

Available to users on the Advanced Plan and above

Geospatial projects got a meaningful upgrade this quarter on both mobile and HQ. On CommCare Mobile 2.62, mobile workers can now see administrative boundary overlays directly on case list maps, making it easier to understand where cases sit relative to the geographic areas your program cares about. In HQ, we added four new geo formats to the Case List configuration so projects can display geo boundaries, geo points, and their associated colors directly in the case list. See more here.

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Key features of this update include:

• Boundary overlays on case list maps: Mobile workers see administrative boundaries rendered on the map alongside their cases, adding geographic context to every case list view.

• New Geo Boundary and Geo Points display formats: The Case List configuration now supports Geo Boundary, Geo Boundary Color, Geo Points, and Geo Points Color as display properties, with built-in validation to keep the setup consistent.

• Better GPS accuracy in forms: CommCare Mobile 2.62 also improves the reliability and accuracy of GPS capture inside forms, so the geo data you collect is cleaner to begin with.

CommCare Data Export Tool 1.14.0

Available to all users

A new version of the CommCare Data Export Tool is out. Version 1.14.0 focuses on performance and observability: CSV exports now use significantly less RAM, which means they run faster on large projects and are far less likely to hit memory limits. We also improved logging so it is easier to diagnose what happened if an export does not behave as expected. Release notes for all versions live on the commcare-export GitHub releases page.

Key features of this update include:

• Faster CSV exports: Reduced RAM usage means exports run faster and scale better to large data sets.

• Improved logging: Clearer diagnostic information when exports need troubleshooting.

• Updated API documentation: The DET Exports API docs were updated alongside this release to make it easier for new users to get set up.

A More Modern CommCare HQ

Available to all users

We are continuing a long-running effort to modernize the HQ interface under the hood. This quarter, several of the most-used pages in App Manager were migrated to our current UI framework: the Releases page, App Settings, App Summary and a number of smaller screens. You do not need to change anything to benefit, you will just notice cleaner layouts, better spacing, and more consistent styling as you move through HQ.

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Key features of this update include:

• Refreshed App Manager screens: Releases, App Settings, and App Summary all received a visual refresh while keeping every workflow you already know.

• More consistent styling: Modals, tables, and form controls now line up with the rest of the product, so moving between pages feels less jarring.

CommCare Mobile 2.62

Available to all users

A new version of CommCare Mobile (2.62) is on the Google Play Store. Beyond the geospatial improvements called out above, this release focuses on stability and reliability on newer Android versions, alongside a handful of meaningful bug fixes. See the 2.62 release notes for the full list.

Highlights of this release:

• Enhanced GPS accuracy: More accurate and reliable GPS capture inside CommCare forms.

• Boundary overlays on case list maps: Administrative boundaries now render on case list maps (see the geospatial section above).

• Improved app install reliability on Android 15+: Fixes issues that some users were seeing when installing or updating on the latest Android versions.

• Wi-Fi Direct fix for forms with media: Resolves a bug when sharing forms that contain media over Wi-Fi Direct.

• SD card export fix on Android 15+: Exporting forms to the SD card now works reliably on Android 15 and above.

Smaller updates worth knowing about

Availability varies

A handful of smaller, quality-of-life improvements also landed this quarter:

• Longer mobile worker invite window: Email confirmation invites for mobile workers now expire after 72 hours instead of 24, giving field teams more time to confirm their accounts without needing an admin to resend.

• View-only users can download user lists: Web users and mobile workers with view permission on the user lists can now download the lists, a permission that previously required edit access.

• Form attachments layout polish: The form attachments area has a cleaner layout that is easier to scan when a form has many attachments.

• API key display fix: A trailing space in the API key display has been removed so keys copy cleanly.

And more….

To view all other bugs, performance enhancements, and updates made to CommCare, please visit our Github repository here.

Tell us what you think! 📫

We're excited to be putting out these product release notes as a way to keep CommCare users better informed.

• If you're interested in receiving a demo on any of the product updates, please feel free to email info@dimagi.com

• If you have any feedback on the above features, please feel free to leave it on the CommCare Forum

• Want to submit new feature ideas and vote on existing ones? Add your voice and votes to the feedback board.