Timefold becomes SOC2 certified and other updates (v0.55.2)

Today, we’re announcing version v0.55.2 of the Timefold Platform and v1.13.0 of the Timefold models.

With this release we’re happy to announce Timefold has achieved SOC 2 certification - demonstrating our commitment to keeping your data safe. Visit trust.timefold.ai to learn about all of our security & compliance measures and request the certificate & report.

This new version of the Timefold Platform comes with these platform improvements:

Filter datasets by status
: You can now filter datasets based on their status (e.g. “Solving”, “Dataset invalid”, “Failed”, etc.). This makes it easier to monitor ongoing solves or quickly find datasets that need attention. Learn more about dataset statuses.
Faster UI performance
: General performance optimizations make the interface feel more responsive.
Improved maps stability & fixed border-region routing bug
: There is now better error handling and reporting when invalid coordinates are provided, and we resolved an issue where route distances were calculated incorrectly for locations near map or country borders.

Field Service Routing (v1 | Stable)

Performance improvements
: We have improved the performance of the model by optimizing the use of constraints, resulting in approximately 20% increase in the move evaluation speed. This means you get higher quality solutions in much less time, enabling faster decision-making and improved productivity.
Travel penalty for inactive shifts
: The “Minimize travel time” and “Minimize travel distance” constraints did not take inactive shifts into account, disregarding the travel from an inactive shift’s start location to the end location (and to any breaks with location, if defined). As a result, the model could produce solutions where a visit was not assigned to an inactive shift, even though it would have been more optimal to do so. See Route optimization guide for more details.

Employee Shift Scheduling (v1 | Stable)

Support for overlapKind in "Consecutive days worked" rules
: We have added support for
overlapKind
in Consecutive days worked rules to control how shifts that span multiple days are counted towards the consecutive days worked limit.
Contract validation
: We have added some validation that provides a warning when a high contract to employee ratio is detected. This can be an indicator of duplicate contracts. Decreasing duplicate contracts can improve the model’s performance.
Travel output metric
: We now don’t output the "Total travel distance to/from home location" output metric when no travel configurations are provided.
Bug fix
: We have fixed a bug that caused the output metrics calculation not to be calculated correctly when no employees were provided.

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