Reserve this section for the next round of policy/FAQ refreshes so maintainers have a visible place to record changes before publishing a tagged update.
v1.2 (Mar 2026)
Updated policy/timeline language across the site to reflect NIH’s current leniency period through May 2026, with warning-level validations and a later Guide Notice expected for submission-blocking errors.
Clarified ORCID requirements: link to eRA Commons is the documented NIH requirement; additional MyNCBI/SciENcv linked-account steps are framed as workflow support unless NIH/eRA states otherwise.
Clarified CPOS timing and scope: CPOS is not assumed at initial application in all cases, added the mentored career-development mentor/co-mentor exception, and expanded consulting/in-kind/foreign-appointment guidance.
Expanded certification guidance: named individual must certify; downloaded SciENcv PDFs may be renamed but must not be altered; re-certification is needed when content changes or signatures are older than 12 months at submission.
Strengthened biosketch supplement/product guidance (Contributions to Science edge cases, product metadata expectations, and practical no-formal-citation reference patterns).
Updated XML upload docs and examples to reinforce valid status values (current/pending), required post-upload QC in SciENcv, and date-format handling.
Refreshed the Appendix long-form guide against official NIH and eRA Commons sources (review date: 2026-03-02) and re-framed it as a current reference companion.
Added maintainer operations support: new short quarterly checklist page, maintenance-page checklist links, and appendix-reference wording updates for consistency.
v1.1 (Jan 2026)
Added CPOS XML Upload & Automation section (includes AI prompt, QC checklist, and workflow patterns)
Added lightweight XML validator script (tools/validate_cpos_xml.py)
v1.0 (Jan 2026)
Initial GitHub Pages structure using Just the Docs
Role-based quickstarts, templates, and troubleshooting