Many of the IEEE conference templates contain the copyright string placeholder  XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/$XX.00 ©20XX,  to be replaced by the actual ISBN and year information. However, authors don't typically fill this in, as this is better done automatically by the paper stamping function in EDAS. Unfortunately, authors can't know this, so they leave the placeholder. This then requires authors to resubmit their final papers. We added a check, enabled by default for final manuscripts, that rejects the manuscript if the placeholder is found.

Conferences can now upload PDF backgrounds and generate presenter and author certificates. Each author or presenter can download their certificate from the paper page, by clicking on the icon next to the (bio) label. The certificate can include the author or presenter name and the paper title. Certificates for attendees and reviewers will be added on request.

 To better support posters, tracks can allow additional paper sizes: A0, A1, A2 and A3.

EDAS now tracks the number of times a file, such as a video or manuscript, has been viewed or downloaded. The view counts are shown in the Papers:List and Export form as "Times viewed".

A summary of the key features for supporting virtual conferences is now available  on  the EDAS documentation page.

In addition to per-paper discussions, each session is now associated with a discussion group. Discussion messages can be directed to everybody who can view the program, just the conference chairs, just the session chairs or the session authors. As for paper messages, the discussion counts are updated on the program page in real time. The discussion page is also kept current as long as the page is in a browser tab.