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title: Data Quality Helper Release Notes v2.8
description: January 2025 release notes, version 2.8, for free Admin App, Data Quality Helper, for smart data validation, duplicate data resolution, and record deletion
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# Data Quality Helper Release Notes v2.8

2025/01/02

## New Functionality

- Added Data Cleanup Rule functionality. This feature allows users to create settings to manage data storage and deletion inside of Salesforce.
- Added a modal that warns users when some child records may not be re-parentable for some parent records when merging.

## Bug Fixes

- Fixed an issue where some of the charts on the Usage Metrics page would improperly display a ‘null’ month.
- Fixed an issue where some charts would not display on the Usage Metrics page.
- Fixed an issue where a health check issue would improperly display when Backup Mode is set to ‘Off’ for a Data Cleanup Rule.
- Fixed an issue where the editing of criteria using Similarity percentage did not work correctly.
- Fixed multiple issues where clicking the Add Criteria button while editing a criteria did not work correctly.
- Fixed a display issue with the Validation Rule modal where some page elements were not aligned properly.
- Fixed an issue where Duplicate Rules on objects with a non-standard name field did not work correctly.
- Fixed an issue where incorrect Boolean logic was able to be set while creating a setting, resulting in settings silently failing.
- Fixed an issue where search functionality sometimes did not work correctly.
- Fixed a display issue related to ‘Save and New’ buttons.
- Fixed display issues related to drop-down menus on the Setting Configuration Pages.
- Fixed an issue where settings were not able to be deleted from the Setting Configuration Pages.
- Fixed an issue where setting criteria did not work correctly if the criteria included a Date field.
- Fixed an issue where the Merge process did not run correctly when two records contained the same field values.
- Fixed an issue where users without Delete access to a record were improperly able to Merge records.

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