---
title: "v2026.10.42"
summary: "An invoice rule can now say \"Pending, with a note\": a draft that matches goes to the Pending tab, and its invoice page shows what to fix."
description: "Flow v2026.10.42 release notes: what changed, and who contributed."
keywords:
  - Flow
  - v2026.10.42
  - release notes
---

# v2026.10.42

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This release covers **2 pull requests.**

## Highlights

- An invoice rule can now say "Pending, with a note": a draft that matches goes to the Pending tab, and its invoice page shows what to fix. ([#216](https://github.com/arcforgelabs/flow/pull/216))
- A rule can read the invoice Reference, so a Reference with a stray number or a placeholder name is held for a person. ([#216](https://github.com/arcforgelabs/flow/pull/216))
- Practitioner rules can check a list (is one of, is not one of), picked from the practitioners already on jobs. ([#216](https://github.com/arcforgelabs/flow/pull/216))
- New text tests: contains, starts with, has a number and is one word, for a bare first name or a trailing case number. ([#216](https://github.com/arcforgelabs/flow/pull/216))
- Send works as a gate: each press runs every check again, a draft that fails stays on Pending, and the rest go. ([#216](https://github.com/arcforgelabs/flow/pull/216))

## Changes

- Invoice rules: new Then "Pending, with a note", a Reference field, and list and text tests for Practitioner and Reference. ([#216](https://github.com/arcforgelabs/flow/pull/216))
- Send on ticked invoices sends the ones that pass and counts the ones held; Approve refuses a draft that fails a pending rule. ([#216](https://github.com/arcforgelabs/flow/pull/216))

## Fixes

- An invoice edited just before Send can no longer go out while it fails a check. ([#216](https://github.com/arcforgelabs/flow/pull/216))

## Contribution record

[CHANGELOG/records/2026.10.42.md](https://github.com/arcforgelabs/flow/blob/main/CHANGELOG/records/2026.10.42.md) lists every pull request in this release once, with its related issues and thanks.