Release notes

What we shipped.

FINDER® is cloud hosted, so every agency runs the current version without doing anything. The current release is 8.2.0.4, live since September 15, 2026. Found a bug or have an idea? Send it through the support form and our engineering team will review it.

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History

Every release, newest first.

FINDER Investigate 8.2.0.4, September 15, 2026
  • Updated user registration flow
  • Bulletins and Watchlist updates
  • Link analysis updates, including timeline ordering
  • Alert when an agency has no administrator assigned
  • Interface styling updates
  • Additional agency-reported fixes
FINDER Investigate 8.2.0.0, August 27, 2026
  • Intelligent Search: layers, filters, and grouping in the visual view
  • Redesigned results grid with expanded detail
  • Most common locations and most relevant results
  • Heat map clusters with result counts
  • Trace now runs on demand, so first results return faster
  • LPR analysis, top offenders by plate and state, and LPR on the agency tree
  • Watchlist, link analysis, and search links on idiCORE results, with PDF export
  • Field definitions replace the colored letter icons on Public Records
  • Link analysis: activity dates, address descriptions, and drop-down actions on addresses
  • Send selected addresses to Sigilite, with justification and purpose code captured between search types
  • System Admin removed from assignable roles
  • Property hold and Sigilite assignment fixes
  • Additional agency-reported fixes
FINDER Investigate 8.1.4.3, July 29, 2026
  • Updated security profile
  • New registration and profile process, with a rebuilt registration page
  • Link analysis updates
  • Single sign-on and authentication token enhancements
  • Sigilite AdTech search improvements
  • Security, performance, and system enhancements
FINDER Investigate 8.1.2.8
  • Intelligent Search replaces Keyword Search
  • LPR search
  • Favorites, with customization
  • Public Records search, requires an additional subscription
  • Sigilite AdTech, requires an additional subscription
  • Performance and system updates
FINDER Investigate 8.1.0.3
  • License allocation by module, with improved user setup and configuration
  • Sigilite module integrated with FINDER
  • Watchlist supports multi-renewal and bulk deletion
  • Improved logging, including plan and license tracking
  • Agency plan fixes
FINDER Investigate 8.0.9.1
  • Data Map to FINDER Outline, the agency contribution report
  • Audit log pre-filter for internal and agency audits
  • LPR hotlist upload now creates a watchlist
  • FINDER Frontload Data Factory and ALPR module
  • Agency Analytics and FINDER Statistics fixes
FINDER Investigate 8.0.6.3
  • Watchlists can be created from the Watchlist page without running a search first, with adjustments to expiration and renewal
  • Bulletins moved to agency data rather than an individual agency on the tree, with archiving and search across current and archived bulletins
  • NIBRS code updates in Crime Analytics, falling back to local codes from RMS records where NIBRS is unavailable
  • Platform stability and search performance
FINDER Pawn 4.0.0.8
  • Watchlist consistency improvements and editable expiration dates
  • Platform stability and search performance
FINDER Investigate 8.0.5.4
  • Result grid customization, so users choose what displays on search results
  • Updated audit log filters
  • Platform stability
FINDER Pawn 4.0.0.5
  • Users can edit their own profile and contact information
  • Automated reminders and deactivation for inactive accounts
  • NCIC and FCIC match logic now ranks hits by serial number and article type
  • French and Spanish platform translation
  • Minor fixes
FINDER Investigate 8.0.4.5
  • Multi-factor authentication enhancements
  • Link analysis improvements for finding connections faster
  • Bulletin permissions and the ability to delete outdated bulletins
  • Speed, stability, and reliability
FINDER Investigate 8.0.4.1
  • eBay search for FINDER Investigate and FINDER Pawn
  • NCIC as a searchable data source, with alert improvements
  • Watchlist create and expiration dates
  • Calls for service refinements
  • API and audit log enhancements
  • Performance and system improvements
FINDER Investigate 8
  • New interface for faster navigation and easier access to tools
  • Agency statistics dashboards covering search activity and usage trends
  • Expanded audit reporting for visibility and compliance
  • Crime analytics upgrades, with improved visualizations and filters
  • System-wide speed and stability
  • Minor fixes and updated server image handling
FINDER Pawn 4.0.0.4
  • Shop notes, viewed and added directly from the Shop Profile
  • Ticket notes on individual tickets
  • Watchlist layout improvements and shared watchlists across users
  • Interface updates for cleaner navigation
  • Minor fixes and updated server image handling
FINDER Investigate 7.3
  • User statistics and audit enhancements
  • Crime stats improvements
  • Contact fixes
  • Watchlist on person
  • FINDER Pawn data integrations
  • Minor changes and server images
FINDER Pawn 4.0.0.2
  • FINDER Pawn to FINDER Investigate data integrations
  • Data structure optimization, completing the move to AWS GovCloud
  • Minor changes and server images
FINDER Investigate 7.2
  • Analytics module enhancements, including new reports
  • User registration updates
  • Minor changes and server images
FINDER Investigate 7.1
  • Architecture enhancements to support full customer migration
  • Bulk bulletin upload tool
  • N-DEx search enhancements and single line search justification
  • Integrations for Evidence IQ, IRIS, Lucidus Tech, Recipero, and Thomson Reuters
  • Knowledge article answer bot
  • User registration and disclaimer language updates
  • Minor changes and server images
FINDER Investigate 7.0
  • Launch of the FINDER Investigate web architecture for all agencies
  • Support and maintenance for legacy on-premises installations concluded, with all agencies moving to the web environment
FINDER Investigate 6.5
  • Evidence IQ integration
  • IRIS integration
  • FINDER cloud architecture
  • Routine performance and security updates
FINDER Investigate 6.4
  • Agency single sign-on
  • Enhanced bulletins, watchlist, and mapping
  • FINDER Academy knowledge portal
  • Routine performance and security updates
FINDER Investigate 6.3
  • FINDER Analytics, letting agencies see their crime data without building charts or tables, so trends surface without dedicating analyst time to assembling them
AWS GovCloud migration
  • Data from other FINDER agencies became viewable across state lines
  • Migration to AWS GovCloud for information sharing access and security
FINDER Investigate 6.2
  • Updated user interface
  • Enhanced watchlist and mapping
  • Geofence search area on the map
  • Link analysis generates a lead sheet with photos and an incident timeline
  • Report export detail updates, including agency information
  • National Integrated Ballistics Information Network with mapping
  • Electronic License and Vehicle Information System search, for Florida agencies
  • Clearview AI facial recognition search API activated
  • Microsoft Azure conversion
  • Routine performance updates
FINDER Investigate 6.1
  • Report hyperlinks to search names, addresses, phone numbers, and licenses
  • Lead sheet summarizing an individual, with download
  • Improved map resolution and performance in single line search
  • Report types displayed as unique icons on the results map
  • Watchlist and Crime Map introduced
  • Agency tree multi-selection and hide option
  • Copy and paste from spreadsheets and documents into search fields
  • Agency bulletins uploaded, shared, and searched in FINDER
  • FINDER Pawn reporting updates
  • Routine performance updates

Notes above are summarized to the most significant items in each cycle. An individual release may include additional sub-releases. Some capabilities listed in older releases have since been retired or replaced.

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