Version 2025.4

The latest software update from DF Studio is now being deployed to all accounts. This version improves the performance and usability of People Recognition, and includes an updated Asset Inspector along with enhancements and fixes to improve uploading and other asset workflows. As always, please reach out to DF Studio’s support team with any feedback or questions about this update.

Enhancements

Messengers

• Download Messengers including large numbers of assets no longer list all of the assets individually, in order to prevent delays or failures displaying the entire list.

Metadata

• When navigating directly to person view from the person editor, the active asset will be selected in the person view grid.
• Circles indicating recognized people now display a stronger highlight when moving the mouse pointer over the face.
• The metadata editing tools have been standardized to improve clarity and provide more intuitive workflow guidance.

Account Management

• The interface for adding a new contact group has been updated for greater clarity.

Asset Workflows & Organization

• To improve the usability of the workspace area, the Asset Inspector no longer resizes automatically depending on the tab that is selected. A wider version of the Inspector can still be accessed by clicking the width icon when needed.
• Animated progress indicators have been refreshed throughout, for clarity and consistency.
• Column View has been updated to behave more intuitively when scrolling the view horizontally to reveal folders or contents selected by the user.

Bug Fixes

Messengers

• Restored the Messenger Inspector to the right-hand sidebar when viewing a Messenger’s assets.
• Addressed an issue which caused the selected Messenger to become deselected when reviewing or editing Messenger details.

Metadata

• Resolved a problem which could affect the detection of names and roles in the Person(s) Shown field when invisible non-alphanumeric characters were included in the input.
• Addressed a fault which could fail to display the selected person when navigating directly to person view from the person editor.
• Fixed a bug which failed to display the expiration date picker when re-sending a Messenger.
• Mitigated an anomaly which affected the display of the person editor in some web browsers.

Uploads & Assignments

• Corrected an issue which could cause the Upload Monitor to appear active after an upload had failed, implying that file transfers were still occurring.

Account Management

• Resolved a misconfiguration which caused the “New Contact” button to be disabled immediately after creating or editing a contact.
• Updated the display of contacts with only an email address and a company name, so that
  they are identified by the email address instead of the company name in recipient lists.
• Mitigated an error which could appear when account administrators made modifications to contact records created by other users.

Asset Workflows & Organization

• Resolved errors in the permission checking related to the select levels interface, which caused non-functional select level buttons to appear for some users who did not have access to adjust select levels due to Project/Collection permissions or the ownership of the Edit containing the Selects.
• Corrected a bug which omitted the button for toggling the display of the select levels interface when viewing Edits created by Messenger recipients.
• Fixed a misconfiguration which caused more than one asset to move when using the “Move to top” icon in the Arrange mode of a Collection.
• Mitigated an anomaly which caused extra information to be displayed in Files View related to assets that were not included in the view.
• Resolved a bug which caused assets’ file storage buttons to be omitted from Collection views.
• Fixed a problem which caused the asset count to appear empty when switching tabs in the Asset Inspector with multiple assets selected.
• Addressed an issue which could cause some entries in the Activity Monitor to show more completed items than the total items involved.
• Mitigated a fault which caused the link for displaying errors in the Activity Monitor to become unresponsive when viewing the Activity Monitor in a dedicated browser window.
• Replaced an unwanted message which could appear when the folder picker had no matching results to display.
• Corrected an issue which could cause loading failures when opening Projects containing a very large number of assets.
• Restored the functionality of the keyboard shortcuts for Quick Look and metadata editing when viewing the results of an asset search.

Managing Users & Teams

• Corrected an anomaly which allowed invisible non-alphanumeric characters to be included inadvertently in usernames.

Security & Protection

• Addressed a bug which caused the “Remember Me” feature of the login page to become unreliable.
• Clarified the descriptions of the Browser Verification options in the Security section of the DF Studio account settings screen.
• Patched a misconfiguration which could allow a sophisticated attacker to access Quick Look view for an asset despite a lack of permissions to view the asset.
• Fixed a layout issue which could cause wider logos to wrap awkwardly in the login page header.