EthosGov Release Notes
What EthosGov has shipped, is shipping, and is planning. Updated with every release cycle. The net-logins test still applies: every release has to reduce friction measurably or it does not ship.
Release notes are organised by verb. When a release spans verbs, it appears in the primary verb with cross-links.
April 2026 - Public Product Surface Live
EthosGov's public product surface ships at www.ethosgov.io.
Lead. Council-ready report pack generator, auto-built from site evidence. Strategic priority held across site, Director and Departmental views. Policy direction framework wired into the Principal and Deputy workflow.
Improve. Action register pre-populated from leadership meetings. Site Improvement Plan as live surface. Post-incident review template with write-back to risk register and training plan. Director coaching portal.
Assure. SA DfE and ESB compliance calendars live. ISO 31000-aligned risk register. Coroner-ready incident archive. Parent-facing trust portal (beta).
Oversee. Director portfolio view across up to 30 schools with heat-map, drill-down, alert routing and audit trail. Department roll-up composition layer (alpha).
Infrastructure. Docker deployment via ethosone.io migration model, now operating on ethosgov.io. Single sign-on with EthosOne for organisations on both platforms.
Shipping Next
Assure. VIC and NSW compliance calendar expansion. Federal obligation mapping completeness.
Oversee. Department roll-up composition layer promoted to live. Cross-Director pattern detection. System-level compliance dashboard for Departmental sponsors.
Improve. AI-assisted meeting minute capture (opt-in, per-site toggle). Automatic write-back from minutes into the action register.
Lead. Council pack configurability: templates per school type. Parent-facing trust portal moves from beta to live.
Principles Behind Every Release
Every release has to pass the net-logins test. Adopting EthosGov reduces the number of systems the leadership team logs into, or does not. Adding a tab without taking one away fails the test.
Every feature is measured against friction reduction. Time saved per cycle. Systems replaced. Hours returned to leadership work. If a feature does not reduce friction measurably, it is revisited.
Read Lead With Less Friction: The Design Principle for the full design discipline.
Version Policy
EthosGov runs a continuous release model, not a versioned release model. Sites get new features as they ship. Release notes summarise what landed in the last month.
Organisations on platform licence terms (Departmental tier) can schedule release cycles to align with term or semester cadence if preferred. Contact your account lead.
Coming from EthosOne
If your organisation operates on both EthosOne and EthosGov, shared release content appears in both product's release notes. The architectural and data-model continuity is deliberate. Read EthosGov vs EthosOne for the divergence points.
For questions about a specific release, contact your account lead, or book a review if you do not have one yet.