2026-06-24
New Features
- Comments panel (iconik): The NRE comments panel now replaces the previous iconik comments panel, unifying the UI across both surfaces. Includes filter by annotation color, filter by mentions, and autosubmit behavior.
- Download specific formats in NRE shares: Users can now select and download a specific format (beyond Original and Proxy) when viewing an asset in a share.
- Copy text and images in PDFs: Text and images in PDF files are now selectable and copyable from within iconik.
- Search filter modifiers: Include/exclude modifiers are now supported on single-select dropdowns, tag cloud fields, and custom text and number fields.
Bug Fixes
- Face recognition indexing: Resolved an issue where incomplete asset-level indexing during extraction caused confirmed persons to appear as having unconfirmed instances in the person overview. Fix includes retry logic, improved error handling, and the ability to reindex a person's asset version instances.
- Person jobs UI: Person jobs now display the person's thumbnail image and a link to the person record, consistent with asset job display.
- Volume slider: Fixed the volume control opening unintentionally when clicking near the Play button.
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2026-06-10
New Features
- Publish Panel: Select destination, thumbnail, and metadata from a single panel inside Iconik and publish directly to social platforms, CMS, and OTT destinations — no downloads, re-uploads, or manual metadata re-entry required. Supported destinations include Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, and more.
- DRM and Forensic Watermarking: Pro and Enterprise customers can now enable two-layer content protection via the Enterprise Security package. DRM restricts shared content to playback-only inside the secure Iconik player and Forensic Watermarking embeds a unique invisible frame-level identifier per recipient to trace the source of any leak.
- ISG Pro: A clustered, high-availability deployment of the Iconik Storage Gateway that distributes scanning, checksumming, transcoding, and transfers across multiple nodes, with automatic failover, horizontal throughput scaling, and maintenance windows that don't interrupt ingest.
- Reorder Playlist assets in player view: Users can now drag asset keyframes into a custom order in the Playlist player view.
Other Changes
- Anchor column headers: Column headers in Search results and My Shares remain fixed at the top of the list view when scrolling — making it easier to track data in libraries with many columns.
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2026-05-27
New Features
- Comments on older versions: Users can now interact with comments on older asset versions in the same way as the latest version, both in Iconik and in Review shares. The comments panel greys out when the version in the player and the version selected in the comments panel don't match.
- Filter modifiers for drop-down fields: Custom metadata fields using a drop-down type with multi-select enabled now support include/exclude filter modifier logic in the search filter panel.
- Un-match in person admin view: Users can now mark a face detection as "not this person" from the person admin overview, returning it to unverified without requiring immediate reassignment.
- Person sorting in admin page: The persons admin page now supports sorting by name, date created, and date modified, in ascending or descending order.
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2026-05-12
New Features
- Comment filtering in Review shares: Comments in Review shares can now be filtered by annotation, color, commenter, completion status, mentions, replies, and visibility. Available in the New Review Experience only; asset player support is coming in a future release.
- Compare mode in Playlists: Users can now compare any two versions of any asset in a playlist side by side, with grouped versions selected by default when available.
- Transcription Text filter modifiers: Multi-select operators now work with Transcription Text filters, making it possible to search by what's said in your content.
- Sync toggle for shares: When creating a playlist or asset share, a new toggle lets share creators enable or disable sync for recipients. Administrators can also disable sync globally from Share Management settings.
Other Changes
- Face recognition: Stability and matching improvements, including a fix for crashes on longer video assets and improvements to face matching logic. General UI clean-up.
- ACL propagation control: Administrators can now disable the "Propagate ACL" checkbox in collection ACL views via a system domain setting.
- UI alignment: Icons, icon sizing, fonts, colors, and margins aligned between Review and Iconik web
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2026-05-01
New Features
- Billing and consumption dashboard: Domain owners and permitted power users can now see real-time usage across users, storage, transfers, AI analysis, automations, and more, measured against plan limits, with yellow/red indicators for approaching or exceeded thresholds.
- Watermark display settings: A new "Show in assets" setting in Admin > Settings > Watermark Settings lets admins control whether watermarks appear on assets inside iconik, on shares only, or both.
- Internal comments in Review: Logged-in users accessing a share can now create and view internal comments in Review, with clear labeling to distinguish internal notes from external collaborator feedback.
Other Changes
- Face recognition panel: The panel header is now sticky and stays visible while scrolling; status toggle buttons are clearer and better positioned; confirming or adding a person keeps you at the same position in the list rather than auto-scrolling; and the scrollbar is wider on hover for easier navigation in large person lists.
Bug Fixes
- Uploads of large file batches via shares complete reliably across all supported file counts and sizes.
- Status chips indicating assets with comments are consistently displayed within collections, giving teams a clearer at-a-glance view of review activity.
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2026-04-15
New Features
- Multi-select filters with modifiers: Users can now set Include or Exclude modifiers on multi-select filter fields in the filter panel, with multi-select expanding to include all of / include any of / exclude all of / exclude any of.
- More control over visual watermarks: Admins can now configure which groups receive visual watermarks on proxy playback — all groups, specific groups, or all groups except certain ones.
- Show existing comments in playlist shares: A new "Show existing comments" toggle in the playlist share dialog lets users include pre-existing asset comments in playlist shares. Off by default; configurable system-wide under Share Management > System Share Settings.
Other Changes
- Face recognition: Backend improvements to memory handling for longer video processing, matching logic, and overall processing optimizations.
- Choose legacy review when sharing removed: The toggle allowing users to choose between the new Iconik Review experience and the legacy sharing workflow when creating a share has been removed. All external shares now default to the new review experience. The legacy experience can be re-enabled system-wide via Admin > Share Management > Share Settings > General Settings. The legacy review experience is scheduled for sunset on June 30, 2026.
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2026-03-31
New Features
- Custom Actions on Shared Playlists: Custom Actions can now be created with a Shared Playlist context, allowing actions to be triggered directly from a shared playlist view.
Other Changes
- Toggle switch visibility: Toggle switches across the Iconik interface now use a distinct color for the "On" state, making it immediately clear whether a toggle is active or inactive.
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2026-03-19
New Features
- POST custom actions: POST custom actions are now available in the new review experience, alongside existing Open-type custom actions.
- Require Approval From All Reviewers: The toggle to require all assigned reviewers to approve before an asset is marked approved is now available in the Approval panel when requesting approval on a new share in the new review experience.
Other Changes
- Disabled transcription messaging: Users now see an explanation when transcription is unavailable on their account, rather than a silent failure.
- Admin system domains list: The domains list in admin is now paginated.
Bug Fixes
- AWS transcription language mapping: Correct languages are applied when selecting AWS as the transcription provider in the transcription panel.
- "Shared with/by me" filter: Returns results consistently across all valid query conditions.
- Review modals in full-screen: Modals appear correctly when the review interface is in full-screen mode.
- Comment edit and delete buttons: Correctly hidden when the authenticated user's email matches a guest commenter's email.
- Face recognition: Browse-only users can no longer perform person-management actions that their role does not permit.
- Playlist review — approval option: The approval option is now available for all assets in a playlist review, not only the first.
- Annotation deletion: Deleting an annotation now propagates correctly across all active sessions.
- Email share — Approval on added assets: Approval is now correctly initiated for assets added to an email share after the share has been created.
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2026-03-05
New Features
- My Shares filtering: Filter the My Shares page by All, Shared with Me, or Shared by Me to quickly find the shares that matter to you.
- Favorite saved searches: Mark saved searches as favorites to pin them to the top of the Saved Searches panel for faster access.
Other Changes
- Redesigned navigation bar: My Shares and Favorites now appear directly in the top navigation; admin functions are consolidated into a single Admin dropdown; the Upload button has been removed from the top nav; and the user profile dropdown includes expanded access to resources, including Admin Training.
- Grey color scheme: The interface now uses a grey background throughout, replacing the previous blue, providing a neutral backdrop for media review and reducing visual fatigue during long sessions.
- Updated typography: Fonts and font sizes have been updated across the platform, aligning Iconik's core interface with the design language and standards introduced in the Iconik Review experience.
Bug Fixes
- Shares panel: Displays share recipients for both email and link shares in the shares panel, and counts views for shares authenticated via magic links.
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2026-02-18
New Features
- Multi-channel audio: Iconik web now supports multi-channel audio playback with individual control over each channel; mute, solo, pan, and adjust volume directly in the player.
- Magic links allow listing: In the Iconik Shield settings, administrators can now specify which email addresses or domains are permitted to authenticate via magic links.
Other Changes
- Playlist thumbnails: Playlist shares in My Shares now display thumbnails in the items column, giving users a visual preview of the content before opening.
Bug Fixes
- Mobile view: vertical assets take up a bigger portion of the screen while the comments panel is closed by default.
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2026-02-04
New Features
- Sorting in Gallery view: Users will be able to sort on title, approval, media type, file size or date created. Note that this is only added for collections, not in playlist gallery views.
- Support for Playlist versions: Users will be able to switch between versions on the player view using the dropdown, and playback any version selected. sync is also supported. whenever a user starts a sync session with another share recipient, both will see the same version.
Bug Fixes
- Mobile view: vertical assets appear very small
2026-01-21
New Features
- When collapsing the upload dialog, a new status indicator will now display upload progress so users can continue reviewing or organizing content without losing visibility into the uploads
Bug Fixes
- If a sub-clip has transcriptions when viewing an asset in Iconik, those transcriptions now appear when viewing the same asset in a share
- A number of smaller bug fixes
Other Changes
- Email entry for share recipients are now only required when share recipients take an action in the new Iconik review experience