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AIMS Spring 2026 Release

This article summarizes the new features and notable improvements delivered in the Spring 2026 Release of AIMS.

Data Explorer — major expansion

Data Explorer received the largest investment this release, turning it into a far more capable self-service reporting and data-view tool:

• Scheduled email delivery — set up data views to be generated and emailed automatically on a schedule.
• User-defined fields — your custom fields are now available within Data Explorer.
• Default filters on data sources — pre-configure the filters a data source opens with.
• Publishing & sharing controls — choose whether a data view is private to you or visible to other users, with permissions now assignable by user group rather than individual user.
• View / audit history — see the change history for any data view, opened in its own browser tab.
• Favorite reports — mark the reports you use most for quick access.

Reporting

• Accessible heatmap reports — heatmaps now use a new rendering API with several brand-new, accessibility-friendly color palettes.
• Accessible PDF exports (PDF/UA) — Report Designer PDF exports now support PDF/UA compatibility for improved accessibility compliance.GL Code Management

A new set of tools for managing General Ledger codes:

• A dedicated GL Codes screen in AIMS Settings.
• At-a-glance GL associations — Permit Type, Account Fee, and Violation Code editors now show whether each item has an associated GL Code.
• Cloning a Permit Type now carries over its GL Code information.

Theming & Branding

• Slate Theme — a new color theme available across the application.
• Custom accent color — set an accent color in the AIMS Web Admin color scheme.
• Logo alt text — add custom alternative text to your branding logo for better accessibility.

Other New Options

• Hide permit pack alerts by account type — suppress permit pack alerts for specific account types in AIMS Web Admin.
• Search in "Run System Processes" — quickly find a process in the System Processes popup.

Important Changes & Improvements

• Longer Contact ID fields — Contact ID field limits increased to 100 characters in both AIMS 8 and AIMS 9.
• Performance improvements — faster permit detail loading (eliminated repeated per-row queries) and significantly faster Ticket Adjustment, Ticket Plate Change, and Ticket Status Change reports.
• LPR billing order — LPR billing now charges/decrements the oldest permits first for more predictable results.
• Edit-page timeout fix — sitting idle on an Edit page for more than 24 minutes no longer causes a timeout when you submit your changes.
• Moneris autopay reliability — added safeguards against scheduling deadlocks during autopay, and updating a credit card type now re-verifies the processor.
• AIMS Events App real-time data refresh — AIMS Events now refreshes its data files in real time as part of the login process.

AIMSWeb Spring 2026 Release

This article summarizes the new features and notable improvements delivered to AIMSWeb in the Spring 2026 Release.

Accessibility — A Major Focus This Release

AIMSWeb received a comprehensive accessibility overhaul to better meet ADA and WCAG guidelines:

• Screen reader support — dynamic messages and the "Please Wait" indicator now announce themselves, and form fields, buttons, selections, and tables are properly labeled so assistive technology can describe them accurately.
• Keyboard navigation & focus — clear, high-contrast focus indicators on fields, navigation links, and text areas; the page now scrolls to bring a focused element into view; a more logical tab order through tables and forms; and modals return focus to the control that opened them.
• High-contrast & forced-color modes — supported throughout, with focus highlights meeting a 3:1 contrast ratio based on your branding colors.
• Zoom support — tables and forms no longer hide content when zoomed in, including above 200%.
• WCAG-compliant tooltips — tooltips work with dynamic content, can be dismissed with the Escape key, and meet WCAG guidelines.
• Improved autofill — credit card name fields now use standard given-name / family-name autocomplete values.

New Features

• Permit pack usage alerts — a new Attention alert shows how many uses remain on both Permit Packs and LPR Permit Packs.
• AIMSWeb accent color — apply a branding accent color across AIMSWeb, including the header and additional elements.
• Second External Authentication server — configure a second external authentication server in AIMSWeb Admin for added redundancy.
• Change request conflict prevention — AIMSWeb now blocks conflicting permanent-vs-temporary permit change requests.

Important Changes & Improvements

Payments & Checkout

• Fixed a double-click on the Continue button that could load external payment iframes (such as Authorize.Net) twice.
• The Wallet menu now populates the correct payment type when saving Moneris tokenized cards.
• Corrected a possible error on zero-dollar Moneris charges.
• Improved handling of First Data PayEezy responses.
• Adding a ticket to the cart while a payment plan is present now shows the correct message.
• Cart details no longer disappear from the page header on the cart page.

Tickets, Appeals & Events

• Ticket issue date now uses server time instead of the user's local time.
• Corrected display of the Appeal Ticket button.
• Added more phone number validation on adjudication requests.
• Fixed input formatting on the Billing Contact section of the New Event Request form.

Permits, Guest Invites & Vehicles

• Guest Invite billing — the JV Code field now appears only when Journal is selected as the payment type, keeping the form cleaner, and switching payment types is more reliable.
• The "Send Guest Invite cc" checkbox is no longer incorrectly required (it is an opt-in field).
• Datepicker validation no longer shows premature end-date error messages.
• Joining the waitlist now correctly saves the permit type and location section.
• The Bulk Permit page lays out more smoothly when adding or removing vehicles.
• The Cancellations page now displays Permit Information and Cancellation Information side by side.
• Vehicle changes now submit only the vehicles you edited or added during the purchase/claim process.
• Re-prevented overlapping vehicle change requests, and vehicle information now refreshes after edits made in AIMS.
• The Permit Change Request "Print This Request" button is now hidden when that feature is disabled.

Validation

• License plates consisting of just "0" are now correctly recognized as valid.

General

• Contact ID fields increased to 100 characters.
• Performance: removed an unnecessary data call on the vehicles page.

Security & Data Protection

This release includes broad security and data-integrity hardening across AIMSWeb, including stronger input validation, request rate limiting on searches, and tightened access controls across account, payment, and ticket flows.