Summary as of Wednesday 19th November 2025

Future research and recruitment

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Sprint: 163(red kite)

Attribution:

Interesting facts about red kites: They have relatively weak talons, therefore, they mainly feed on carrion and can often be seen soaring over roads looking for roadkill

This Sprint,

we: 1) Added 13 new functionalities, including a bug fix to the CAT-E Pils, all behind a feature flag, therefore not yet available to users. 2) We continue to work on the Named Persons role nomination improvements as requested by inspectors, these are also behind a feature flag

Bugs done or closed this Sprint

New Sprint 164 (snow leopard)

Attribution:

Interesting facts about snow leopards:The first captive bred snow leopard cubs were born in the 1990s in the Beijing Zoo.

Planned for this Sprint 163(red kite)

We will;

1) Research and resolve recently reported Change Highlighting issues. 2) Address issues related to comments’ change highlighting and visibility in project license applications. 3) Finish all HBA document replacement tickets on the board. 4) Get agreement on the approach to the named person form questions based on inspectors’ assessment needs, then get the agreed solution ready for developers. 5) Resolve Data download time out issues on ASPeL, two tech debt tickets on the current Sprint board. 6) Continue overdue upgrades to AWS components within ASPeL to improve performance. 7) Update ROPs content to reflect new Non Human Primate policy. 8) Complete at least 4 of the standard protocols tickets on the board.

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