We’ve released an important update to our roles and permissions model, giving you more granular control over who can access and manage different parts of your organization.

This update introduces four distinct roles—Contributor, Manager, Director, and Admin—each with a clear scope of permissions across features and settings. Contributors are limited to read-only access, Managers can edit groups and manage their teams, Directors can create comparisons and view cost data, and Admins retain full access across the platform.

As part of this change, existing users with the Member role will automatically become Contributors, while existing Admins will remain Admins. Members who previously had access to Comparisons and cost data will be transitioned to the Director role. Going forward, all new users will default to the Contributor role.

If you’re an Admin, we recommend reviewing your team’s role assignments. Members who previously managed groups and repositories will now need to be promoted to Manager to retain those permissions.

We’ve also added group-based access controls. By default, users can access all groups, but Admins can now assign specific groups to Contributors and Managers to limit what data they can view and manage.

These changes provide better alignment with how organizations structure their teams and ensure sensitive data is only accessible to the right roles.

You can learn more about the updated roles and permissions in our documentation. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at support@software.com.