This topic is under construction for the 25.7 (July 2025) release. For the current release notes, click here.
Here's what we're working on for the release of LabKey Server version 25.7 (July 2025).
LabKey Server SDMS
Premium Edition Feature Updates
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Premium Editions of LabKey Server here.
Community Edition Updates
- The "Site Administrators" and "Site Developers" groups are no longer created by default or used for assigning permissions. (docs)
- Permissions for users may need to be adjusted if they previously relied on these groups. In particular, report permissions that were previously automatically granted to site administrators must now be assigned directly.
- By default, the "assigned-to" list for an issue tracker is now the "Site Users" group, where it was previously the "Site Administrators" group. (docs)
Distribution Changes and Upgrade Notes
- A strong Content Security Policy (CSP) is highly recommended for all servers. (docs)
- Our recommended strong CSP blocks all inline script and prevents browsers from accessing unvetted external resources. This means the browser blocks all cross-site script (XSS) injection and cross-origin resource sharing attacks.
- All LabKey Cloud deployments and on-premise distributions are configured with a strong CSP in enforce mode as of version 25.7.
- Important: Administrators should be carefully reviewing CSP reports and addressing any issues as soon as possible. Once you are satisfied with the report results, you'll be able to move to enforce mode.
- If any customizations you require are not supported by the new ability to substitute allowed external hosts, please contact us so that we can best support you.
Deprecated Features
- The "Advanced import options" of choosing objects during import of folder archives, as well as having those imports applied to multiple folders simultaneously, have both been deprecated.
- Support for additional date, time, and datetime parsing patterns has been removed.
- "Assay Progress Reports" in studies have been removed.
- Support for object-level discussions has been removed.
- Support for Ancillary Studies has been removed.
- The Publish Study feature provides a more extensive mechanism for creating child studies. (docs)
- Support for study protocol design tools has been removed.
- Support for SQL Server 2016 has been removed. (supported versions)
Client APIs and Development Notes
Sample Manager
The
Sample Manager Release Notes list features by monthly version and product edition.
LabKey LIMS
The
LabKey LIMS Release Notes list features in addition to those in the Professional Edition of LabKey Sample Manager.
Biologics LIMS
The
Biologics LIMS Release Notes list features in addition to those in LabKey LIMS.
Previous Release Notes:
Version 25.3 
