Product name change to Perforce ALM
Perforce Helix ALM is now simply "Perforce ALM." You'll see the new logo in the product, as well as refreshed colors in the web client and a more modern look and feel in the product documentation, all reflecting ALM's place within broader DevOps workflows. To learn more, see our blog: Helix ALM is now Perforce ALM.
What's New in Perforce ALM 2026.1
Perforce ALM 2026.1 includes the following key features and enhancements. For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.
Duplicate dashboard widgets
Administrators can now duplicate dashboard widgets in the desktop client. You can also duplicate widgets when duplicating a dashboard.
Other enhancements
- The Microsoft Visual Studio integration now supports Visual Studio 2026.
- Improved server performance when running trend reports.
What's New in Perforce ALM 2025.2
Perforce ALM 2025.2 includes the following key features and enhancements. For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.
Organize filters and reports using tags
Administrators can now create tags for grouping related filters or reports, such as those for a specific product or release. If your team has a large number of filters or reports, use tags to organize them and help team members find them more easily in various areas of ALM.
Tags have a unique name, optional description, text color, background color, and icon to help users identify them at a glance.
To easily add or remove tags to a group of selected filters or reports, you can bulk change tags to apply the changes at once.
Add filters or reports as favorites for quick access
Add specific filters or reports as favorites to find them more easily. If you no longer want a filter or report to be a favorite, you can remove it from your favorites.
Use new filtering options to find relevant items in the Filters and Reports lists
New filtering options in the Display Options pane make it easier for users to find relevant items in the Filters and Reports lists. Limit the displayed filters or reports based on the allowed access, whether they are favorites, or by selected tags.
View and manage filters using the Filters list in the web client
You can now view all filters in a project in the Filters list in the web client. To access filters, click Filters in the navigation bar.
From the Filters list, you can perform the following actions on filters: view, add, edit, duplicate, add favorites, remove favorites, bulk change tags, export to Microsoft Excel, and export to text.
Learn more about these features in our blog: The Latest ALM Solutions: Filtering and Tagging.
What's New in Perforce ALM 2025.1
Perforce ALM 2025.1 includes the following key features and enhancements. For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.
Improved requirement document Specification Document window (desktop client)
The requirement document Specification Document window has many usability and performance improvements, and is now more consistent with the web client experience:
- View and edit requirement review workflow events in a document without switching to Review Mode, which no longer exists. You can hide review events in the Show notes list.
- Select requirement text without editing the requirement.
- Click an inline image to open a preview.
- Press and hold CTRL and rotate the mouse wheel button to zoom in and out on the requirement details pane.
- Multi-line text field width is no longer fixed and spans the width of the single-line columns or page, depending on which is larger.
- Inline images that are too wide are scaled down instead of cut off.
Add test cases to folders from the Automation Suites list (web client)
You can now add test cases to folders when editing and viewing automation suites and automation builds.
Include file attachment names in matrix reports (desktop and web clients)
You can now include item file attachment names in matrix reports. Use the %ATTACHMENT_FILENAMES% field code.
Other enhancements (desktop client)
- Scaling in the View Image dialog box is now more accurate and does not resize when navigating between multiple images.
- Inline images are now cached so they do not require downloading when viewing again.
- The Qt framework that the Perforce ALM desktop client uses no longer uses WebKit and adopted WebEngine, which is Chromium browser technology. The new rendering engine is better tuned for multi-processing, uses a smaller memory footprint, and has a larger development community, providing improved support for HTML5 and security-related updates.
What's New in Perforce ALM 2024.3
Perforce ALM 2024.3 includes the following key features and enhancements. For a list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes, review the release notes.
Addressed security vulnerabilities
Perforce consistently upgrades frameworks and modules used to build our software to address security
What's New in Perforce ALM 2024.2
Perforce ALM 2024.2 includes the following key features and enhancements. For a list of all new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and other details, review the release notes.
Configure Field Layouts to Organize Fields in Groups
Perforce ALM administrators and other high-level users can now configure field layouts to organize fields in groups to improve the user experience in Add, Edit, and View Item windows/pages.
Watch this brief demo to see how easy it is to configure field layouts to help teams quickly access the information most important to them:
Each item type has a default layout you can use, or you can configure different layouts for specific security groups and requirement types.
To help users understand the purpose of a group of fields, you can provide a description of a group in a tooltip. To identify any problems with a field layout, such as missing required fields or fields included in the layout that are hidden by field security, you can evaluate the layout to generate a report to help with troubleshooting.
When upgrading the Perforce ALM desktop client from an earlier version, fields that were previously displayed in the main area are now in the General group and custom fields are now in the Custom Fields group.
To learn more, see Configuring field layouts.
Enhancements for Users with Requirement Management Reviewer Licenses
In the Perforce ALM web client, users logged in with a Requirements Management Reviewer license and a Test Case Management license can now generate test cases while reviewing a requirement.
Users logged in with a Requirements Management Reviewer license and an Issue Management license can now create an issue while reviewing a requirement.
What's New in Perforce ALM 2024.1
Perforce ALM 2024.1 includes the following key features and enhancements. For a list of all new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and other details, review the release notes.
Document Test Coverage Panel
You can now see the current state of testing using the new document test coverage panel available in requirement documents and requirement document custom reports.
Other Enhancements
- To support the new document text coverage panel, you can exclude specific requirement types from document test coverage statistics.
- Added a new command security to allow users to configure document test coverage.
