What’s New in this Release?
Release Date for the Commercial Environment: February 8, 2026
Release Date for the U.S. Government Environment: March 1, 2026
General Updates
- The standalone tool now supports Teams & Groups as a content source, enabling export of archived Team and Group content.
- You can now set priorities when creating restore jobs. Additionally, the job queue now implements a unified priority model across all job types, ensuring faster, more predictable job processing.
- Opus now offers dedicated API to optimize SharePoint files for tyGraph. It provides two options: archive and then delete files or delete files directly, helping you enforce data policies and free up storage space efficiently.
- Site collections that are subject to a retention policy or eDiscovery hold are now automatically excluded from storage optimization jobs when the job involves archiving and deleting content, deleting content only, or moving content, preventing operations that are not permitted under compliance constraints.
- Enforce rule actions for Exchange Online now display full job details, including the number of mailboxes and items currently in progress, as well as the total number of mailboxes and items that have been processed.
- The following rule criteria are now available for SharePoint Online, enabling you to target documents based on properties of their parent library or site collection:
- Parent library property (Yes/No)
- Parent library property (Date and Time)
- Parent library property (Number)
- Parent library property (Text)
- Parent site collection property (Yes/No)
- Parent site collection property (Date and Time)
- Parent site collection property (Number)
- Parent site collection property (Text)
- The following rule criteria are now available for OneDrive, enabling you to target documents based on properties of their parent library or site collection:
- Parent library property (Yes/No)
- Parent library property (Date and Time)
- Parent library property (Number)
- Parent library property (Text)
What’s New in Manual Approval Process
- A **Reclassify** button is now available on the **Records for review** > **Under review** page, allowing you to reclassify a record with a new term. The record will be immediately removed from the page upon successful reclassification.
- All configuration settings for manual approval have been consolidated onto a single, dedicated page, eliminating the need to manage settings across both the **Approval processes** and the **Records for review** > **Under review** pages.
What’s New in the ReCenter Portal?
- ReCenter is now available in the following data centers:
- GCP for West Europe (Eemshaven, Netherlands)
- GCP for Australia Southeast (Sydney)
- GCP for Japan (Tokyo)
- GCP for South Korea (Seoul)
What’s New in Permission Requirements?
Microsoft has announced that Basic Authentication for Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online will be permanently deprecated on October 1, 2026. In response to this change and to ensure ongoing service reliability and enhanced security, AvePoint Opus is proactively transitioning from the legacy EWS API to the modern Microsoft Graph API.
If you are utilizing the classic or modern mode app, please re-authorize the existing app to ensure continued functionality. For those using the custom mode app, please update your custom Azure app with delegated permissions by adding the permissions listed below and re-authorizing access ahead of time.
| API | Type | Permission | Purpose |
|---|
| Microsoft Graph | Application | User.Read.All(Read all users' full profiles) | Retrieve information of user profiles. |
| Microsoft Graph | Application | MailboxItem.ImportExport.All(Allows the app to perform backup and restore for all mailbox items) | Import and export mailbox items. |
| Microsoft Graph | Application | MailboxFolder.Read.All(Read all the users’ mailbox folders.) | Retrieve users’ mailbox folders. |
| Microsoft Graph | Application | MailboxItem.Read.All(Read all the users’ mailbox items) | Retrieve users’ mailbox items. |
| Microsoft Graph | Application | MailboxSettings.Read(Read all user mailbox settings) | Retrieve users’ mailbox settings. |
| Microsoft Graph | Application | Mail.ReadWrite(Read and write access to user mail) | Access and modify items within users’ mailboxes. |
| Microsoft Graph | Delegated | RecordsManagement.Read.All(Read Records Management configuration, labels, and policies) | Retrieve the Records Management configuration in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center. |
Updates to the User Guide
- Updated [Required Permissions](#missing-link).
- Updated [Start Analysis](#missing-link) for Microsoft 365.
- Updated [Manage Approval Processes](#missing-link).
- Updated [Review Records Awaiting Approval](#missing-link).
- Updated [Restore Center](#missing-link).
- Updated [Job Monitor](#missing-link).
- Updated [Rule Criteria](#missing-link).
- Updated [Configure Stub Templates](#missing-link).
For additional technical information on the new functionality and known issues in this release, see the Release Notes.
