This release is centered on the FOIA reporting subsystem, with the majority of changes strengthening
DOJ/OIP compliance reporting. New fiscal-year snapshot infrastructure preserves the state of
Requests, Appeals, and Consultations at the fiscal year boundary so that historical reports remain accurate even
as source records change, and pending-day and backlog calculations now follow consistent business-day and hold
exclusion logic across the system. Several NIEM export and DOJ report alignment issues were resolved to bring
interactive reports in line with their corresponding DOJ reports, and a number of fixes address document
handling, email ingestion, and scheduled report delivery in both FOIA and Core.
35
Total Issues
18
Bug Fixes
9
New Features
8
Improvements
New Features
9 issues
| Issue Key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AKS-4360 | New Feature | Added support for quarterly DOJ/OIP FOIA reporting, allowing agencies to track and report the ten oldest pending Requests, Appeals, and Consultations closed during the fiscal year directly within ArkCase. |
| AKS-4309 | New Feature | The Fiscal Year Configuration API is now accessible to authorized non-admin users and services, so DOJ reports can retrieve fiscal year boundary settings without requiring administrator privileges. |
| AKS-4298 | New Feature | Fiscal Year Snapshot tables now store additional historical fields and a precomputed backlog status at the time of the snapshot, keeping DOJ fiscal year reports accurate even if the underlying request or consultation records are edited later. |
| AKS-4284 | New Feature | Added tracking of business days spent on Tolling Hold or Fee Assessment Hold within the fiscal year, keeping pending-days calculations and historical fiscal year reporting aligned with hold history. |
| AKS-4258 | New Feature | The fiscal year snapshot job now calculates pending days for Requests and Appeals using the same business-day and hold-exclusion logic used elsewhere in the system, ensuring consistent results for current and historical fiscal year reports. |
| AKS-4223 | New Feature | Consultation Fiscal Year Snapshot records now reference the unique consultation ID rather than the consultation number, improving the accuracy of report joins and updates across agencies with differing number formats. |
| AKS-4221 | New Feature | Requests and Appeals Fiscal Year Snapshot records now reference the unique case ID and include case disposition, improving the accuracy of the joins and updates used in DOJ reporting. |
| AKS-4074 | New Feature | Identified and resolved multiple issues affecting NIEM export functionality, restoring reliable NIEM report generation. |
| AKS-3238 | New Feature | Relabeled "Time minused from the DOJ throughput metrics" to "Days subtracted from the DOJ throughput metrics" on the Hold History Tallys section for clarity. |
Improvements
8 issues
| Issue Key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AKS-4323 | Improvement | NIEM report generation now includes Bureau breakdown data for sections VI.C.4, VII.A, VII.D, VII.B, VIII.A, and VIII.B, in addition to agency-overall totals. |
| AKS-4313 | Improvement | Updated NIEM report generation to reflect new and changed DOJ report columns across several sections, and standardized how empty values are handled per DOJ Annual FOIA Report guidance. |
| AKS-4195 | Improvement | The XII.C report now draws on fiscal year snapshot data for past fiscal years, so consultations closed in a later fiscal year no longer disappear from historical reports and the days-pending count correctly freezes at fiscal year end. |
| AKS-4187 | Improvement | The VII.D report now uses fiscal year snapshot data for pending, perfected requests rather than computing values at runtime, improving the accuracy of historical reporting. |
| AKS-4125 | Improvement | The Ten Oldest Requests, Appeals, and Consultations section of the NIEM report now displays agency-overall data instead of per-component data, matching the corresponding DOJ report. |
| AKS-4117 | Improvement | Fixed an issue causing empty component references to appear in NIEM report XML output. |
| AKS-4084 | Improvement | Withdrawn Appeals now automatically update to a Disposition Category of "Closed for other reasons," so appeal counts in the VI.A and VI.B DOJ reports match. |
| AKS-3847 | Improvement | Restored the Report Scheduling functionality under the Admin module, allowing custom and out-of-the-box reports to be automatically generated and emailed to specified recipients or groups on a recurring schedule. |
Bug Fixes
18 issues
| Issue Key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AKS-4404 | Bug Fix | Fixed a display issue where VII.C.(3) appeared twice in the Adhoc Reports module. |
| AKS-4402 | Bug Fix | Corrected historical FOIA request records where the Request Track was displayed as "Simple" in the interface but stored as blank in the backend, ensuring the two are consistent. |
| AKS-4388 | Bug Fix | Fixed NIEM report generation so that component rows with all N/A values are omitted rather than included with zero totals, resolving import failures for affected reports. |
| AKS-4384 | Bug Fix | Fixed a timezone comparison issue that caused consultations closed on the first day of a new fiscal year to be incorrectly marked as closed in the prior fiscal year's snapshot, which had excluded them from required reports. |
| AKS-4364 | Bug Fix | NIEM reports now correctly include agencies that have been deleted from lookup configuration, matching behavior already present in Pentaho reports. |
| AKS-4353 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where releasing documents larger than 5 GB to the FOIA Portal failed for AWS S3-backed document repositories, preventing requests from being released and documents from being downloaded. |
| AKS-4350 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where incoming email replies were saved as unreadable .txt files instead of .eml files in the Incoming Email folder. |
| AKS-4348 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where copying a document within a FOIA request produced a file version missing size and hash metadata, which caused the entire response folder to fail when compressed and released to the Portal. |
| AKS-4347 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where scheduled reports with multiple recipient email addresses were only delivered to the first recipient; all specified recipients now receive the report. |
| AKS-4344 | Bug Fix | Aligned the XII.C Interactive Report with the XII.C DOJ Report so both reflect the same set of ten oldest pending items. |
| AKS-4321 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where description document attachments submitted through the FOIA Portal were not added to the request's documents or listed on the auto-generated Request Form. |
| AKS-4317 | Bug Fix | Updated the VII.E and VI.C.(5) Interactive Reports to use the same filtering and calculation logic as their corresponding DOJ reports, resolving data mismatches between them. |
| AKS-4271 | Bug Fix | Resolved an issue preventing certain email (.eml) attachments from being uploaded to a request, which had been blocking investigation of a reported case of missing email content in PDF conversions. |
| AKS-4276 | Bug Fix | Fixed the Annual Snapshot Job so Requests, Appeals, and Consultations carried over from a prior fiscal year — whether still open or closed during the current one — are correctly captured, ensuring accurate pending, processed, and backlog metrics across all DOJ reports. |
| AKS-4252 | Bug Fix | Fixed issues preventing Cases and Complaints from being created via email when large attachments were included, and corrected attachment display so all files appear with the case document rather than only in the Incoming Email folder. |
| AKS-4075 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where the Fiscal Year dropdown in Reports Configuration had no available options, preventing annual reports from being run. |
| AKS-4042 | Bug Fix | Corrected the report order in exported PDF files so report titles now display in proper Roman numeral sequence. |
| AKS-4015 | Bug Fix | Resolved several data-related issues in the PDF and XML report export functionality. |