The ASKAP Update for July highlights progress on the new ASKAPsoft bright source subtraction feature, and describes plans for an ASKAP symposium in November 2024. One of the highest priority features requested by the Survey Science Teams is the ability to remove artefacts from bright sources outside the imaging region. Earlier this year ASKAPsoft was modified to allow simultaneous imaging of additional offset regions and we have now updated the processing pipeline to include this feature in the science workflow if requested. The development team is busy testing and debugging the new pipeline mode using previously observed EMU fields which were rejected due to artefacts from bright sources outside the field. The figure above shows the typical improvement that can be achieved, roughly a factor of 3 in dynamic range within the region of interest. The focus now is to ensure that the bright source subtraction process can run automatically and robustly on any observed field. The feature is being developed for continuum imaging initially but should also improve the quality of continuum subtraction for spectral line data. The figure shows part of an EMU field used to test the new bright source subtraction mode, with the original image shown on the left, and the post-subtraction version on the right. Dynamic range has improved by a factor of three and the visible artefacts, arising from the bright source PMN J0627-0553, are significantly reduced. (Image credit: Wasim Raja)