Release Notes

Below you can find information regarding Enhancements and Bug Fixes contained within each Paya Connect release.  The Paya Connect development and product teams operate in two-week Sprints with a set cadence of releases after each Sprint completes.  Sandbox releases occur after every Sprint and are conducted every other Monday between the hours of 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm ET.  Production releases occur after every two Sprints and are conducted on Tuesdays between the hours of 12:00 am and 4:00 am ET.  

2025 Release Notes

Version 23.30.165

Sandbox Release Date:  january 14th 2025
Production Release Date: March 5th 2025 (includes release Items from Prior November 2024 and April 2024 Sandbox Releases)
  • Updates to the code to ensure the “product_code”:”999999” is used correctly in the transaction to avoid the reject by TSYS.
  • As part of the PCI 4.0 requirements, passwords must confirm to the following requirements:
    1. A password must have a minimum of 12 characters.
    2. Passwords must be alphanumeric in nature and be stored or transmitted with encryption.
    3. Passwords must be changed every 90 days and must not be a repetition of the previous four passwords.
    4. In scenarios where a password is generated for the user because the user is new or sometimes during a password reset, the generated password must be unique for every user and it must be changed after the first use.
  • Alignment on all refunds to provide the original amount value for the total refund amount. This was not aligning consistently when selecting Refund form the Transaction Receipt
  • Surcharge amount will zero out when processing a Debit Card from Paya Connect Virtual Terminal. This is a restoration of functionality.
  • Surcharge amount will zero out when processing a Debit Card from PayForm. This is a restoration of functionality.
  • As part of the authOnly, authComplete with Surcharge functionality that has been released to sandbox the exact 422 error is now displayed in the UI advising of an issue.  If a user attempts to submit an invalid amount to refund such as 0, the expectation is to receive an error message of ‘ Transaction amount must be greater than zero for the following actions: [sale, authonly, authcomplete, authincrement, debit, credit, refund, tipadjust]