Tl;dr

We verified ten vendor release notes or “what’s new” pages published or updated in September 2025. Themes: incremental improvements to CLM workflows, richer search and review in knowledge and discovery tools, and more admin-visible audit and deployment details. Concord’s public changelog remains active, with versioned entries through July that many teams missed over the summer. The full, reusable dataset is available as downloads: CSV and JSON.

Background and context

This roundup is meant for in-house operations teams that need a concise picture of platform changes without scanning multiple portals. We favored primary “release notes” or “what’s new” pages that are publicly accessible and versioned. For broader context on how legal departments adapt to new tooling, the ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center maintains neutral primers and survey materials, and ILTA’s ILTACON 2025 recap hub highlights the shift from announcements to implementation details.

Ten release notes you can act on

1. DocuSign CLM. September release notes introduce a new Smart Rules event that records when post-signature obligations are extracted, plus additional fixes. See DocuSign CLM release notes for September 2025.
2. DocuSign CLM Essentials. For teams on Essentials, DocuSign posted separate September notes with release windows and a link path to the latest features. See DocuSign CLM Essentials announcements.
3. Ironclad. Ironclad’s October release page was published in late September and details features scheduled to go live October 9, including an expanded Audit Log overview. Start with What’s New in Ironclad: October 2025 to plan enablement.
4. Concord. Concord’s public product changelog includes versioned entries through July, such as v25.14 with AI-assisted analysis enhancements and user management updates, along with earlier items like self-service account deletion and Slack notifications. If you missed summer updates, this is a quick way to catch up.
5. Juro. September’s product update highlights agentic AI to review and redline in Word, Word-based approvers, and bulk reminders. See Juro’s September 2025 product updates.
6. Contractbook. A new “Download as Word” option is available from both the draft and template editors, with clear notes about which native components are flattened on export. See the Contractbook changelog.
7. NetDocuments. The M365 Outlook add-in 2.6.6 became available on September 16, with links to the underlying notes and deployment guidance. See NetDocuments’ 2.6.6 add-in announcement and the detailed 2.6.6 release notes.
8. iManage Work (cloud web). September notes improve the Copy action and allow opening the new copy immediately after creation. See What’s new in iManage Work.
9. iManage Insight+. Enhanced search now indexes extra-large files and adds a “contains exactly” option in advanced search. See What’s new in iManage Insight+.
10. RelativityOne. aiR for Review introduces project sets so managers can run multiple saved searches within a single project. See What’s new in RelativityOne. For public sector readers, there is also a RelativityOne Government tracker.
11. DISCO. September’s rolling notes consolidate weekly feature and fix updates, with guidance to check mid-week for incremental changes. See DISCO releases for September 2025.

Findings

Three patterns stand out. First, vendors continue to ship small, targeted changes that remove daily friction. Examples include the iManage Work copy flow and NetDocuments’ Outlook add-in versioning. Second, CLM platforms are extending post-signature intelligence and audit surface. DocuSign’s obligations event enables downstream smart rules and Ironclad’s expanded audit visibility simplifies troubleshooting. Third, discovery and knowledge tools are prioritizing flexible retrieval. RelativityOne’s project sets and Insight+ indexing support multi-path review and very large files. For general context on where buyers are prioritizing resources and skills, ILTA’s ILTACON 2025 recap hub and the ABA’s Law Technology Today provide vendor-neutral perspectives.

Implications for in-house teams

Legal operations should log these updates in playbooks and admin runbooks. If you are a Salesforce-heavy shop using CLM, a new obligations event in DocuSign can trigger operational workflows. If your knowledge workflows rely on iManage, test the copy and search changes with paralegals who create and move large volumes of documents. If your discovery program uses RelativityOne, project sets can reduce configuration sprawl. For change management, use a single internal page that aggregates links to each vendor’s notes and your enablement steps. As a north star on adoption and governance, the ABA LTRC’s tech survey overview and ongoing commentary from Legal Tech Monitor are useful to calibrate expectations with finance and IT stakeholders.

Methods and limitations

We limited inclusion to sources that are public and resolvable without login. We verified dates and confirmed that pages refer to features relevant to enterprise legal buyers. Vendor preview pages were included when the documentation landed in late September and affects October enablement. The dataset is small and geared to systems most common in mid-to-large in-house teams. If your stack includes additional platforms with public RSS or release pages, send them and we will expand next month.

Downloadable data

For reuse in internal tracking or dashboards, download the structured dataset. CSV. JSON.