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CCH Central 2026.201 Hotfix

CCH Central
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    CCH Central 2026.2 Release Notes (incl Hotfix)

    Prerequisites

    Installing CCH Central 2026.201 Hotfix

    This release is installed using the Central Suite Installer. This ensures that all prerequisites are in place and that all the products for which you are licenced are installed in the correct sequence.

    Click here to find out more about the Central Suite Installer.

    Software Enhancements

    CCH iFirm Integration

    .NET 10.0 upgrade

    Support for .NET 8 is expected to cease around October–November 2026. This upgrade ensures the continued compatibility, security, and supportability of the iFirm integration.

    The CCH Central.WS.Connector has been upgraded to require:

    • .NET 10.0 Runtime
    • ASP.NET Core 10.0 Runtime

    Within this release, iFirm integration components in CCH Central now depend on .NET 10.0, and older runtime versions (including .NET 8) are no longer supported.  Firms must complete this upgrade to continue accessing CCH iFirm functionality from CCH Central.

    If the runtime has not been installed, users attempting to access CCH iFirm (via the iFirm Console or product icons in CCH Central) will encounter a system message:

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    Installing .NET 10.0 via CSI

    Upgrade to .NET 10.0 is available for installation from the Tools section when running the CSI. This must be run on every workstation that uses CCH iFirm.

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    Once completed, the following success message appears:

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    Installing .NET via System Message

    When attempting to access CCH iFirm (via the iFirm Console or product icons in CCH Central) and the .NET install has not been performed via the CSI, the following message appears:

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    Click the 

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     link, and you will be redirected to the dotnet.microsoft.com download page.  Click the Open file to run the windowsDesktop-runtime-10.0.9-win-x64.exe. 

    Note:  This installs the .NET 10.0 Runtime, so please ensure that the user has the appropriate permissions before proceeding.

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    Click the close button after the Installation Successfully Completed message.

    Navigate back to CCH Central to perform the second part of the upgrade.  When attempting to re-access CCH iFirm (via the iFirm Console or product icons in CCH Central) and the second part of the .NET install has not been performed, the following message appears:

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    Click the 

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     link, and you will be redirected to the dotnet.microsoft.com download page.  Click the Open file to run the aspnetcore-runtime-10.0.9-win-x64.exe. 

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    Click the close button after the Installation Successfully Completed message.

    Access to CCH iFirm is not available directly from within CCH Central.

    CCH iFirm Console

    Following customer feedback, the following changes have been implemented within the CCH iFirm console:

    • Token expiry date
    • Tooltips
    • Filtering on Sync Message and Audit Trail tab
    • New Data Health tab
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    Token expiry date

    A new field has been introduced to display when the current authentication token expires.  The signed-in employee can use the Signed in button to re-authenticate before the expiry date, helping avoid interruptions in access.

    Tooltips 

    Additional guidance has been added via tooltips.  Clicking the information icon
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    		will display a pop-up with further details for each group.

    Filtering on the Sync Message and Audit Trail tab

    Users can now apply filter options on both the Sync Message and Audit Trail tabs.  This provides greater flexibility when searching for a specific entry.  Click the 'Click here to filter columns'. Apply the filter and the result is displayed.  To remove the filter click the 

    New Data Health tab

    A new tab has been introduced to allow users to trigger a manual push where an automatic migration has failed.  The manual push functionality is currently available for Address Types and their associated Address Type flags, and is expected to be expanded in future releases to support additional migration and synchronisation processes.

    When opened, the Check Type drop-down is blank, and the run box is disabled.

    Click the drop-down and select 'Address Types with flags not migrated' and click Run.  A list of address types from CCH Central is displayed with the corresponding flag:

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    Either tick the top check box to select all, or manually select the applicable address types.  Right-click and select 'Resolve issue'

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    A confirmation message appears:

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    Yes - performs the manual migration
    No - returns the user to the Data Health grid

    A further confirmation pop-up box appears.  Click OK to continue

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    URL Change

    Shortly, the CCH iFirm URL will be updated to ukie.cchifirm.com – users must select “Allow” on the browser prompt to access the system.

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    Contact/Client migration 

    Previously, when migrating contacts or clients to CCH iFirm, the Contact Type of the record needed to match the exact ContactType description.  Some firms use customised ContactType descriptions that differ from the standard values.  This caused issues where records could not be matched correctly during migration.  The process has now been updated to use the ContactTypeId instead of the description.  

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    Note:  Any additional ContactTypeId values will not be migrated to CCH iFirm. 

    Quality Improvements 

    CCH iFirm - Editing of Address types

    Previously, when an address type was renamed in CCH Central, the updated name was not reflected in CCH iFirm.
     

    Association linkage - mismatch

    It was identified that certain association relationships were incorrectly mapped during migration to CCH iFirm.

    • The "is partner of" / "has partner of" associations were incorrectly mapped to "Partner/Spouse" / "Partner/Spouse of".
    • The "is spouse of" / "has spouse of" associations were not mapped during migration.

    The relationship mappings have been corrected to ensure that partner and spouse associations are migrated to their corresponding relationship types in CCH iFirm.

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