Skip to main content

What's New

Release history for Biometric Platform for ID Issuance. The most recent release is listed first.

Biometric Platform for ID Issuance 9.9​

9.9.2.0​

New features​

Administration

  • Configurable deduplication parameters — New settings allow administrators to fine-tune deduplication behaviour per installation.
  • Persistent column configuration — Column selection, order, and width in overview tables are saved per user and restored on next login.

Applicants

  • Notification displayed in applicant detail when the associated biometric individual changes.
  • Deduplication result shown in the performed applicant actions table.
  • Table column settings in the applicants overview can be restricted with an individual right.
  • Partial date filter support.
  • Frontal image always shown in thumbnails.

Integration

  • Verification responses now include reference IDs, enabling mapping back to request references.

Bug fixes​

  • Deduplication — Comparison pairs no longer incorrectly generated during deduplication.
  • Applicants — Hits column is now resizable.

9.9.1.0​

New features​

Administration — Roles & Rights

  • Roles & Rights screen reworked into a new design.
  • Grantable roles — Administrators can now limit which roles a given role is permitted to grant to others.
  • ABIS Setup — Deduplication settings extended with identification and hit thresholds per modality. New Custom Details sub-page for configuring custom applicant fields.

Administration — Resolve queues

  • New screens for managing resolve queues and resolve queue actions.

9.9.0.0​

Breaking changes
  • Biometric templates must be re-extracted — The face processing engine was upgraded. Existing biometric templates must be re-extracted after upgrading before the system can operate normally.
  • REST API — Several deprecated fields, parameters, and templates were removed. Review the upgrade guide before updating.
  • Roles and rights administration — Access is now restricted to users with the appropriate administrative permissions.

New features​

Administration

  • ABIS Setup screen reworked into a new design.
  • Product version and component version information accessible in the UI.
  • Login and menu logos can be uploaded in settings.

Bug fixes​

  • Enrollment — Slap images now correctly displayed on the summary screen.

Biometric Platform for ID Issuance 9.8​

9.8.2.0​

New features​

Applicants

  • Identification settings used in the current search are stored and reused for the next search in the same session.

Workflows

  • Notifications produced on hitlist resolution.

Bug fixes​

  • Enrollment — Writer's palm image from Mannix scanner no longer cropped. Fingerprint position assignment for left slaps corrected.
  • Applicants — Applicant hard-delete is now significantly faster.
  • Security — CVE-2025-24813 patched.

9.8.1.0​

New features​

Administration

  • New screens for managing resolve queues and resolve queue actions.

Bug fixes​

  • Applicants — Fixed export of more than 2,100 applicants as CSV; applicant action flickering resolved; partial date of birth can now be cleared during editing.
  • Enrollment — Fixed enrollment failure when autofill was used.

9.8.0.0​

Breaking changes
  • Nomad deployment removed — Kubernetes is now the only supported deployment method.

New features​

Export/Import

  • When a person is created from an imported file, the original filename is used for the attachment.
  • Mobile devices can request preconfigured datasets directly from the platform.

Biometric Platform for ID Issuance 9.7​

9.7.3.0​

New features​

Applicants

  • Custom document types — Document type is now configurable via a code list.
  • Applicant relations — Users can assign relations between applicants (kinship, etc.); configurable by administrators.
  • Change history view — Chronological record of changes made to the applicant record.

Deduplication

  • New enroll action type: the system can decide whether to create a new record or renew an existing one based on a reference ID in the imported file.
  • Each gallery now has separate settings for deduplication and biometric update.

Enrollment

  • Mobile enrollment with configurable code values per field.

9.7.2.0​

New features​

Enrollment kit management

  • Reports with totals per column.
  • Map shows last known kit position.

Enrollment

  • Force capture button for slaps and solo finger mode.
  • Personal data section configurable to display in multiple columns.
  • Multiple signatures per applicant supported.

Applicants

  • Warnings list displayed in applicant detail header for applicants with status Under review.

Bug fixes​

  • Enrollment — Iris capture infinite loading fixed. Empty face enrollment prevented.

9.7.1.0​

New features​

Enrollment kit management

  • Aggregated statistics by region, prefecture, and common area.
  • TIFF format support for image uploads.

Applicants

  • Support for specifying principal–dependent applicant relations.

9.7.0.0​

Breaking changes
  • Fingerprint templates — ICS templates no longer supported. Only embedding and ICL templates are accepted. Existing ICS templates must be re-extracted before upgrading.

New features​

General

  • Fingerprint login — Officers can log in using their enrolled fingerprints. The system prevents enrollment officers from enrolling their own fingerprints for a different person record.
  • Initial page after login is configurable based on user rights.

Enrollment

  • Offline enrollment — Enrollment stations can operate in standalone mode without a network connection. Data synchronises when reconnected, or via export/import.
  • Enrollment kit management — Full kit lifecycle management:
    • Kit registration on the central server via encrypted communication
    • Admin/supervisor/operator initialization per kit
    • Kit lock capability
    • User activation and deactivation
    • Certificate revocation
    • GPS position tracking
    • Independent device management within a kit
  • Operator fingerprint verification before each session, preventing self-enrollment.
  • New device integrations: EyeCool and Mantra MatisX iris scanners; Mantra MORPHS slap scanner; Eloam S500 document scanner; GPS; HPRT HM-A300E receipt printer; PM8001 printer.

Biometric Platform for ID Issuance 9.6​

9.6.1.0​

New features​

Applicants

  • Applicants can now be searched by external ID.
  • When a record is hard-deleted, all associated attachments are also deleted.

Enrollment

  • Built-in vs custom card templates clearly labelled in the enrollment dashboard.
  • Identify workflow mirrors Match-by-Similarity for a consistent experience.

Administration

  • Code-tables section redesigned.
  • Notifications are now disabled by default; an administrator can enable them if required.

9.6.0.0​

Breaking changes
  • Integration Service — Multiple deprecated endpoints and attributes have been removed. Review the upgrade guide before upgrading.
  • Full body image storage — Full body images are now stored as a face modality record. In NIST exchange format, they map to Type 10.

New features​

Deployment

  • All new installations use Kubernetes by default.
  • In high-availability deployments, messages are persisted across node restarts.

Biometric Platform for ID Issuance 9.5​

9.5.0.0​

Breaking changes
  • RHEL 8 support dropped.
  • Old file convert endpoint removed — use the new convert API.

New features​

Export/Import

  • Multi-standard export/import: CJIS EBTS 11.0, DoD 4.1, Interpol 6.0, and NIST ITL 2015.
  • Both traditional (byte array / EFT) and XML encodings supported.

Enrollment

  • Enrollment actions and target statuses are configurable.
  • DNA form auto-fills when a fixed kit is used; date pickers added.
  • Local two-way sync between portable enrollment station and server.

ABIS 9.4​

New features​

Export/Import

  • Export and import of records directly from the UI in ABIS JSON and NIST formats.
  • Large attachments including video files up to 1 GB stored in MinIO, removing database size limits.

Enrollment

  • Card enrollment support for MHA, SPF, and FBI FD-249 card layouts; Epson V850 scanner support.
  • New DNA, Documents, and Attachments enrollment steps.
  • Applicant edit accessible directly from the enrollment module.

Applicants & integration

  • Master Profile View shows best consolidated data across merged records.
  • Notification service: applicant create/update/delete events published to RabbitMQ for external integration.
  • Code-list REST API.

Removed​

  • Old DNA structure removed from API.
  • Full-body step removed from enrollment (images now stored as face with unknown pose).

ABIS 9.3​

New features​

Security & authorization

  • Open Policy Agent (OPA) for fine-grained access control and column-level visibility rules.
  • OAuth improvements: PKCE flow, client-secret rotation.

Administration

  • New Users page and vertical settings menu.

Applicants & enrollment

  • Applicant record model extended: multi-DOB, aliases, document list, code-list categories.
  • Export/Import in ABIS JSON and NIST/EBTS formats.
  • New enrollment steps: SMT/Body/Face annotations, full-body capture, custom card templates.
  • Applicant edit unified with enrollment module.

Workflows & deduplication

  • REST-based hitlist navigation.
  • Applicant state machine with Merge and Reject resolve actions.
  • Multimodal deduplication thresholds configurable per modality.

Removed​

  • Deprecated API endpoints retired.

ABIS 9.2​

New features​

Workflows & queues

  • Queue dashboard redesigned with filterable columns; auto-resolved hitlist actions visible.
  • Direct match / Find by Similarity in hitlists; temporary merge hitlist creation and resolution.
  • Next/previous navigation for resolvable hitlists.

Enrollment

  • Face images can be uploaded for FD-258 card enrollment (without live camera capture).
  • 4-4-2 slap finger capture stored directly.

ABIS 8.4​

New features​

  • Updated face and iris detection and extraction algorithms providing improved accuracy across both modalities.

ABIS 8.1​

New features​

  • New REST API
  • Migration to microservice architecture
  • New components: Data service, Integration service, Deduplication service

ABIS 8.0​

New features​

  • Reworked Matcher based on entirely new matching technology
  • Reworked multimodal score consolidation
  • PostgreSQL 13 support
  • New database migrator supporting migration from older versions

ABIS 7.7​

New features​

  • New, more accurate face extraction algorithms
  • Face size can be defined relative to image size
  • New renewal operation fallbacks
  • Text deduplication

ABIS 7.6​

New features​

  • New IFace integration

ABIS 7.5​

New features​

  • Edit applicant feature
  • Applicant actions with reason
  • New deduplication option — optional face deduplication
  • New licence option — store only
  • Single source configuration

ABIS 7.2​

New features​

  • DOT investigation station integration

ABIS 7.1​

New features​

  • Palmprint support
  • False Match elimination
  • ANSI/ISO standard support

ABIS 7.0​

New features​

  • Monitoring microservice
  • Active-active topology support
  • New process management

ABIS 6.1​

New features​

  • Smartface integration
  • Password encryption

ABIS 6.0​

New features​

  • In-house iris identification
  • In-house iris verification
  • Customization flow improvements

ABIS 5.2​

New features​

  • Pre-extractor fast service
  • Enrollment & identification module
  • Improved packaging and dependency management

ABIS 5.1​

New features​

  • Faceless identification strategies
  • Face force detection
  • New face verification with higher accuracy

ABIS 5.0​

New features​

  • Multimodal verification
  • Multimodal identification
  • Multimodal deduplication
  • User management API

ABIS 4.2​

New features​

  • XSD schema generator
  • Locales management
  • RabbitMQ integration
  • MSSQL integration improvements

ABIS 4.0​

New features​

  • Single interface replacing ExpressID AFIS 3.x and WebAFIS 1.x
  • Open XML-based message queue or web-service interfaces with Java and .NET client SDKs for quick integration
  • Web-based interface for operators, adjudication, administration, supervision, and system monitoring
  • User records customizable to your needs (demographic data, documents, signature)
  • Configurable workflows adaptable to your business processes