v2.6.4
Major
23 Oct, 2026
Introducing Improved Storage Regime Management
This release introduces significant enhancements to storage regime management in Culteva™, making it easier to schedule, organise and track evaluations throughout the storage process.
Highlights include automatic evaluation scheduling, custom storage protocols, printable worklists and offline scheduling capabilities on mobile. These improvements are designed to reduce manual administration, improve traceability and help ensure evaluations and storage activities take place as scheduled.
- Storage Regimes – Automatic Scheduling: Storage protocols can now be assigned directly to individual samples, automatically generating a schedule of evaluations and storage activities with the appropriate dates
- Storage Regimes – Custom Protocols: Users can now create custom storage protocols to accommodate specific trials or client requirements without requiring assistance from the development team
- Storage Regimes – Evaluation Checklist: Added a printable, filterable checklist displaying scheduled evaluations and storage activities, organised by cultivar, harvest week and site, with colour coding for easier identification
- Storage Regimes – Rescheduled Evaluations: Added a summary of recently rescheduled activities, allowing users to review changes before printing their evaluation checklists
- Mobile – Offline Storage Scheduling: Users can now assign storage protocols when capturing samples in the field, with evaluation schedules generated automatically on the device, even without an internet connection
- Evaluations – Colour Coding: Added a colour field to evaluations, allowing users to apply colour coding for easier identification and organisation
- Dashboard – Projects: Renamed
- Storage Regimes – Sample Management: Integrated storage protocol selection directly into the sample capture workflow, simplifying scheduling while retaining access to existing standard protocols
v2.6.3
Minor
12 Aug, 2026
Report Builder Enhancements and Mobile Updates
This release introduces new functionality and improvements across Culteva™, with a particular focus on reporting, image management and mobile data capture.
Highlights include expanded size classification calculations, greater control over report layouts and components, improved image handling in Report Builder 2 (Beta) and enhanced mobile camera functionality.
These updates are designed to make data collection, management and reporting more efficient and flexible.
- Report Builder 2 (Beta): Site Grouping – Organise information by site throughout a report, allowing evaluation results to be presented within their relevant site context
- Report Builder: Expanded Size Classifications – Added size classification calculations for peaches, plums and nectarines (US/EU) and cherries (Asia) for use in custom tables
- Report Builder 2 (Beta): Page Margin Guides – Added an option to display page margins during report creation, making it easier to position and align report components
- Report Builder 2 (Beta): Organisation-Wide Images – Added support for organisation-wide images, such as logos and letterheads, for use in reports
- Protocol Development: Kiwi Storage Regime – Added storage regime as an evaluation characteristic for the kiwi crop type
- Mobile: Active Evaluation Filter – Added a filter that allows users to identify plant samples with active evaluations recorded within the previous ten months
- Mobile: Additional Characteristic Images – Enabled image capture for over colour, ground colour and flesh colour characteristics. This also lays the groundwork for potential future image analysis functionality
- Report Builder: Measurement Display Controls – Users can now independently enable or disable statistics tables and measurement graphs within the measurement section, providing greater control over how results are presented
- Report Builder: Custom Table Selection – Improved the evaluation selection list in custom tables with search and filtering functionality, making it easier to locate and select relevant evaluations
- Report Builder 2 (Beta): Image Component – Improved image uploading, filtering and positioning. Users can now reposition images within their allocated space for greater layout flexibility
- Report Builder 2 (Beta): Table Component – Improved table presentation and space utilisation to create more consistent, visually balanced report layouts
- Mobile: Camera Functionality – Enhanced the built-in camera with zoom functionality, touch-to-focus controls and increased image resolution for improved image capture during evaluations
v2.6.2
Major
22 Jun, 2026
Kiwi Fruit Protocol and Report Builder Updates
This release introduces the new Kiwi Fruit evaluation protocol alongside several enhancements to Culteva™’s reporting functionality.
Updates include new characteristics for the Pome and Stone Fruit Adaptability Indexes, improvements to the existing Report Builder and additional functionality in Report Builder 2 (Closed Beta).
- Kiwi Fruit Evaluation Protocol: Added a new Kiwi Fruit evaluation protocol to support structured data collection and cultivar evaluation
- Report Builder – Adaptability Indexes: Added Space Filling Potential to the Pome Fruit Adaptability Index and Fruit Cracking to the Stone Fruit Adaptability Index
- Report Builder 2 (Closed Beta) – Gantt Chart: Added a Gantt chart component to expand report visualisation options
- Report Builder – Text Display: Increased the display size of Markdown text to improve readability within reports
- Report Builder – Yield Calculation: Updated the tonnes-per-hectare calculation display to show results to two decimal places
- Report Builder 2 (Closed Beta) – Component Visibility: Added visual overlays and hover indicators to make components easier to identify and interact with during report creation
- Report Builder 2 (Closed Beta) – Default Settings: Introduced default component settings when no options have been selected, simplifying report creation
- Report Builder – Information Tooltips: Fixed an issue where information sheet tooltips were being cut off
- Tastings – Crop Type Compatibility: Fixed a bug affecting the Tastings module following the addition of new crop types
v2.6.1
Minor
25 Mar, 2026
Dashboard, Report Builder and Mobile Updates
This release introduces improvements to the Culteva™ Dashboard, new functionality in Report Builder 2 (Open Alpha) and enhancements to the mobile application.
Highlights include improved image organisation, more flexible report components, better chart rendering and optimised mobile synchronisation.
- Report Builder 2 (Open Alpha) – Component Deletion: Added the ability to delete individual components from report layouts
- Report Builder 2 (Open Alpha) – Static Tables: Added a static table component to provide additional report layout options
- Dashboard – Sample Images: Sample images are now displayed in chronological order by default
- Dashboard – Search Functionality: Cultivars and sites created during data imports are now searchable
- Report Builder 2 (Open Alpha) – Template Selection: Improved the selection and application of report templates
- Report Builder 2 (Open Alpha) – Chart Rendering: Improved chart rendering to make more effective use of available vertical space
- Report Builder 2 (Open Alpha) – Chart Labels: Chart labels are now optional, providing greater flexibility in report presentation
- Mobile – Data Synchronisation: Optimised filtering and the order of synchronisation operations to improve the mobile data synchronisation process
- Mobile – Guest User Sample Visibility: Fixed an issue where Guest users would sometimes be unable to see samples assigned to them
v2.5.2
Minor
27 Nov, 2025
Report Builder and Evaluation Protocol Updates
This release introduces new reporting features, expanded storage regimes and updates to stone fruit evaluation protocols.
Highlights include support for rootstock reporting, new bar chart visualisations, improved report sharing transparency and additional measurements for assessing fruit quality and disease severity.
- Report Builder – Rootstock Reports: Rootstock varieties can now be selected as the primary cultivar in reports, allowing information sheets to be generated using rootstock data
- Report Builder – Bar Charts: Added a new bar chart component for visualising measurement data within reports
- Storage Regimes – Stone Fruit: Added a 42-day stone fruit storage regime with evaluation stages at Day 1 (Pre-Storage), Day 35 (Late Storage), Day 42 (Post-Storage) and Day 49 (Post-Shelf Life)
- Storage Regimes – Pome Fruit (100 Days): Added a 100-day pome fruit storage regime with evaluation stages at Day 1 (Pre-Storage), Day 40 (Mid Storage), Day 73 (Post-Storage) and Day 107 (Post-Shelf Life)
- Storage Regimes – Pome Fruit (120 Days): Added a 120-day pome fruit storage regime with evaluation stages at Day 1 (Pre-Storage), Day 47 (Mid Storage), Day 87 (Post-Storage) and Day 127 (Post-Shelf Life)
- Advanced Cherry Harvest Evaluation – Disease Characteristics: Added severity and prevalence assessments for Orange Peel and Pitting characteristics to support more detailed evaluation of fruit disorders
- Advanced Stone Fruit Harvest Evaluation – Inking: Added severity and prevalence assessments for Inking to support the quantification of fruit disorders
- Advanced Stone Fruit Harvest Evaluation – Additional Measurements: Added measurements for Shrivel, Bruising, Gel Breakdown, Internal Browning, Inking, Sugar Spots and Stem Freshness to support more detailed fruit quality assessments
- Report Builder – Sample Selection: Samples can now be added directly to existing reports from the Sample Indexes, simplifying the report creation process
- Report Builder – Sharing History: Users can now view the recipients with whom a report has been shared, improving transparency and report management
- Report Builder – Edit History: The Report Index now displays who last edited each report, improving accountability and traceability
- Stone Fruit – Disease Severity Assessment: Expanded the collection of individual fruit disease severity measurements, supporting more detailed analysis and future development of pack-out percentage calculations
v2.5.1
Minor
4 Sep, 2025
Improved Mobile Synchronisation and Evaluation Management
This release introduces significant improvements to Culteva™ Mobile, making data synchronisation more reliable and reducing the need for manual intervention.
Highlights include background and automatic synchronisation, the ability to transfer evaluations between samples, expanded macadamia evaluation protocols and fixes to improve platform stability.
- Dashboard – Evaluation Data Transfer: Added the ability to transfer evaluations between samples directly from the Sample Detail page, making it easier to correct evaluations recorded against the wrong sample
- Evaluation Protocols – Macadamia Phenology: Added new phenological events for macadamias under both warm and cool growing conditions
- Mobile – Background Synchronisation: Improved synchronisation to continue even when the Culteva™ Mobile application is minimised, closed or the device is locked, reducing the need to keep the application open while data uploads
- Mobile – Automatic Synchronisation: Added an option in the Mobile settings to automatically synchronise data every few minutes, helping to keep evaluation records and images up to date without manual intervention
- Dashboard – Bulk Actions: Fixed an issue that caused the index page to flicker and display error notifications when performing bulk actions
- Tastings – Sample Registration: Fixed an issue where the tasting sample registration form could generate errors without providing feedback to the user