🎉Changelog v26.2
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v26.2 - April 13, 2026
A new chapter: from Eliona to ABB Ability™ BuildingPro Suites
With v26.2, Eliona enters a new chapter as ABB Ability™ BuildingPro Suites. This release is more than a rename: it marks the beginning of a broader platform direction with a refreshed interface, a stronger platform architecture, and the foundation for a new suite- and module-based product structure.e
Everything that made Eliona valuable remains at the core, but the platform now presents itself in a clearer, more scalable, and more enterprise-ready form. The release combines visible frontend improvements with deep structural changes in the backend and database, especially in the areas of tenancy, permissions, analytics, and operational robustness.
What defines v26.2
This version is shaped by four major themes: a new product identity, multi-tenant readiness across the full stack, a redesigned navigation and user experience, and the technical groundwork for upcoming suites and modules. At the same time, the release includes a large number of focused improvements in analytics, dashboards, maps, SSO, BIM, and rule-based automation.
For users, this means a platform that is easier to navigate and better aligned with growing organizations. For administrators and operators, it means clearer separation of organizations, more flexible provisioning, improved performance, and a stronger foundation for cloud-based use in the web.
Multi-tenant capability across the platform
One of the most important changes in v26.2 is the introduction of a true multi-tenant architecture. BuildingPro Suites can now host multiple tenants within a single installation while keeping data, permissions, and configuration reliably separated.
This is not a surface-level UI feature. The tenant model now reaches through the database, the API, and the frontend. Tenant-aware schemas, partitioning, row-level security, updated user management, tenant switching, and tenant-scoped permissions create the basis for operating several customers, portfolios, or organizations on the same platform without mixing operational contexts.
This also changes how organizational scope is modeled in the platform. The concept previously handled through a Project now aligns more closely with a Tenant. At the same time, Projects evolve into Sites, which makes the platform multi-site within each tenant.
New navigation and a more modern interface
The user interface has been substantially reworked in order to better support the growing scope of the platform. Menus are now grouped more clearly and arranged in a structure that reflects how users actually work across the system. Areas such as Platform Core, Connect Hub, Asset Core, Workspace & Identity, and Governance & Monitoring are easier to discover and easier to explain.
This reorganization is accompanied by several naming updates that make the product language more explicit:
Dashboards are now presented as Live Cockpit.
Digital Twin is now called Photoreal Twin.
The release also includes many visual refinements, such as updates to branding, logos, login experience, landing pages, widgets, list views, and toolbar layouts. The result is a UI that feels more coherent across modules and more ready for future expansion.
Insight Analytics: faster workflows, fewer clicks
Insight Analytics receives a practical workflow update in this release.
Users can move through data faster. They can switch attributes more quickly. They can change views with less friction while exploring.
The release includes workflow improvements, widget switching, list and design updates, redirection fixes, and fixes in detailed analytics steps. Together, these changes make daily analysis smoother and reduce unnecessary setup work.
Saved analytics still work as before. They can still be reused in dashboards and smart views through the Analytic widget.
Suites, modules, and the next platform layer
This release also lays the foundation for Suites and Modules, which will organize capabilities into clearer solution bundles. The underlying work for licensing, module metadata, icons, descriptions, and feature management is already in place in v26.2.
That makes this release strategically important even where changes are not immediately visible. It establishes the technical basis for future offerings that can be packaged, enabled, and presented more clearly to different customer groups and use cases.
Templates, automation, and operational usability
Beyond the structural platform changes, v26.2 also improves day-to-day productivity. Dashboard templates can now be cloned, imported, and exported, which makes it easier to roll out standardized cockpit configurations across tenants or environments. Widget behavior and dashboard configuration have been refined in multiple places, including trend widgets, tickets overview widgets, image widgets, iframe widgets, and ranking widgets.
On the automation side, Rule Chains have been expanded with new nodes and AI workflow capabilities, while the surrounding Smart Logic experience has been refactored and redesigned. These changes strengthen the platform's ability to support guided workflows, condition-based processing, and operational automation.
Stability, performance, and platform hardening
Under the surface, v26.2 includes a broad hardening pass across the system. The release improves SSO and SAML routing, Microsoft SSO auto-redirect, cookie handling, map loading, BIM embedding, tenant-aware access control, trend processing, and event delivery.
Database and service changes also bring stronger support for unit conversion, trend aggregation, histogram and CUSUM functions, tenant-aware imports and exports, and a more consistent ACL model. Many bug fixes target exactly the kinds of issues that matter in production: crashes, navigation edge cases, permission mismatches, stale links, overflow problems, broken embeds, and query planner issues.
Taken together, these changes make v26.2 not just a branding milestone, but a release that significantly improves the platform's readiness for larger, more complex, and more operationally demanding environments.
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