QBench April 28, 2026 Product Release Notes

From a completely reimagined Epic experience to expanded Batch filtering, smarter Field Screens, and a wave of reliability improvements across worksheets, file parsers, and integrations, v2.105 is packed with updates that make your lab workflows faster, more accurate, and more flexible.

Are you a QBench customer with ideas for new features? We’d love to hear them. Use the "Submit Feedback" link in your user dropdown menu to submit your ideas and vote on feature requests. The requests with the most votes get considered first in our roadmap planning.

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The New Epic Experience Is Here

The Epic Creation and Epic Detail pages have been rebuilt from the ground up on QBench's new design system — delivering a faster, cleaner, and more intuitive experience. The new UI is on by default, so you'll see it the next time you open an epic. Pages load quicker, common actions take fewer clicks, and a new side-by-side layout lets you see details, comments, history, and attachments without losing your place. Prefer the old experience? Click the "What's new in QBench" button in the bottom right to switch back — and while you're there, you'll find a feedback form to share your thoughts and ideas directly with the QBench product team. Note: the legacy UI will be deprecated on August 3, so we encourage you to start using the new experience now and get familiar with it. And this is just the beginning — the Order Detail page is getting the same transformation next, with more of QBench to follow.

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Customer Requests (You asked, we delivered!)

• Filter Batches by Any Protocol Step: The Batch List filter now lets you search for Batches that have passed through any protocol step, not just the current one. See details below.
• Auto-Attach Parsed Files to Tests: Files uploaded via the navigation bar file parser are now automatically saved as attachments on the associated Tests. See details below.
• Assay-Level Field Screens for Tests: Field Screens can now be assigned at the Assay level, giving you finer control over which fields appear on the Test detail page. See details below.

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Batches

• Filter Batches by Any Protocol Step: The Protocol Step filter now includes "Any Protocol Step IDs" — find Batches that passed through a step at any point in their history, not just their current step. The existing "Current Protocol Step IDs" filter is unchanged.

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File Parsers

• Auto-Attach Parsed Files to Tests: The nav bar file parser uploads now automatically attach to any Tests they update — across all four trigger types. For Sample-based triggers, files attach to the Tests, not the Sample. Attachments trigger automations but won't cascade into other parsers. Note: "Standard" parsers are now called "No code" throughout the UI.

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Field Screens

• Field Screen Type Selector for Test Screens: When creating or editing a Test field screen, a new required "Field Screen Type" field lets you choose between Customer or Assay assignment. Selecting "Assay" enables a new multi-select dropdown for Assays, while "Customer" retains the existing customer assignment. Each Assay can only be assigned to one Test field screen at a time, and unsupported options for Customer Portal and Order Request are disabled.
• Assay-Level Field Screens for Test Detail page: The Test detail page now resolves field screens using a priority hierarchy: Assay-level first, then Customer-level, then the global default configuration. This allows labs to tailor the Test detail view based on the specific Assay, providing more relevant information and a customized experience for different testing workflows.

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A special treat for those who read all the way here:‍

What kind of fish is made of two sodium atoms?
2Na

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v2.105