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# New Functionality and Changes Introduced with Decision Optimizer 9.6

This release requires Xpress 9.9.0 or later and Xpress Insight 5.17.1 or later.

## New Features and Changes

This release delivers enhancements in Tree Aware Optimization:

- New step constraints extend the consistency constraints to enforce a configurable minimum ranking-step difference in the assigned treatments or, alternatively, to relax the constraint up to a configured difference.
- For tree templates, base tree variable names no longer need to exactly match project entities; they can now be mapped arbitrarily, providing greater flexibility.
- Multiple tree metrics are collected for every generated tree, including exploration scenarios, and are avilable in reporting.

## Defect Remediation

This release resolves the following issues:

- Fixed an issue that caused a build failure when processing entities with an unspecified type.
- The width of table cells containing very long text is now limited.
- The internally generated AccountId entity is no longer listed as a candidate for processing rules.

Parent Topic Updates from Previous Versions and Known Issues

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