We are now fully ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified

The Shade rclone integration has been officially merged to mainline.

Platform

• Proxies are about 2x faster during peak traffic

• Search queries for large drives are ~10x faster

• Filtering comments, comments can be filtered by the existence of

  • Timestamps

  • Annotations

  • Reactions

  • Public

  • Resolved

  • Unresolved

Command Palette: Advanced command palette capabilities is now available. Navigate your workspace faster with unified search and actions in one interface. Search across folders and files, use AI search for descriptive queries, and execute quick actions like switching drives, workspaces, or themes.

ShadeFS

• Fixed an issue where in very very rare cases particular rename patterns with unicode characters could cause the drive to unmount

• Fixed a significant issue where when files were pinned or downloading at scale, it could cause sudden unmounts

• Fixed an issue where in specific timings mounting two drives simultaneously could cause both to unmount

• Fixed modified times in the mount. Premiere/other softwares should no longer pop up with “this project has been modified”

• Mounting for subdrives! Teams can now share out subfolders and those subfolders can be mounted individually. This is good for working with contractors or someone external to your org that just need narrow access to your larger drive

• Made conflict folder creation less aggressive

• Set the drives in your workspace to have default no access to the drive

• Add the user who you would like to mount a subfolder as a (billable) member in workspace members

• Share the subfolder of the drive with the user you would like to have access to mount it with at least Can edit or Has full access

• The end user should now be able to mount just that subfolder of the drive

Shared Cache

Shared Cache: Speed up file access across your team. Files already downloaded by teammates on your network are served instantly from the Shared Cache instead of re-downloading, with secure access controls ensuring you only access files you have permission to view.

Changes

• New folders on the web no longer start with a hyphen (now are untitled folder instead of - untitled folder)

• All proxies and previews have been migrated to Cloudflare. Previews and scrubbing through videos should be much more responsive especially for international teams!

Platform

• Download speed is now shown on downloads in the app

• Share links can now be embedded as iframes into other applications (using </> on the share page)

• Pins can now be added after selecting multiple assets in the view

• Added the ability to bulk rename files in the UI

  • Add/replace/format text by selecting multiple assets and right clicking and hitting “Bulk Rename”

• Uploads can now be paused. After a short wait, uploads will stop running and can be resumed later. Refreshing or closing the app will still clear the upload state but it’s great for moving between WiFi networks or on the go!

• Fixed escape key not closing asset pop-up

• Fixed some issues around spaces inside collection password links

• Fixed issue where in some cases the video timeline wouldn’t react to clicking

• Fixed some layout issues in Premiere panel when resizing the window

• Added interactions with the enter/right arrow key for filter UI

• Fixed issue where in some cases the volume slider wasn’t modifying video volume

• Adobe Premiere panel can now be downloaded via the Adobe Exchange

• Current selected video quality is now shown in the video player

• The app can now be downloaded from the website using Safari

• Improvements to the auto updater UI

ShadeFS

• Fixed bug that would cause pinning to fail if network requests needed to be retried

• Fixed two bugs that in some short windows of time would cause a dismount when mounting drives

• Fixed other unmount caused by timings in particular read orders

• Team Site Cache (beta)! This enables teams who work together in person to share the same ShadeFS cache. When anyone connected downloads data, this data is also saved to the cache, if anyone else access it then it will be served from the site cache

Hey Shade Users - our team has been hard at work in improving the app experience around our app. Here are some of the items that we’ve worked on that enhance everything from sharing, to uploading, and more.

Announcements

Shade in Under 2 Minutes

We just launched our Shade in <2 Minutes video - check that out here. This highlights how to use Shade’s AI feature for search, along with ShadeFS for editing and more.

Big Features

We just introduced public folders → this enables you to quickly share folders with view-only access via a link, speeding up sharing workflows and more.

Stability

Major Features

- Windows (beta) desktop release can be found here

- Created & added everyone to a demo workspace! Try visiting https://demo.shade.inc

- Improve preview support for hvec

- Now onboard for personal workspaces

- Huge improvement to facial recognition, you should see

- Improve AI search when given a bad query

- Add more workspace roles

- Separated AI tags from user tags

- AI tags are now addable under the tag menu

UI Features

- Added native drag drop for mounted drives to the desktop app

- Added feature to modify ShadeFS cache size

- Added feature to publish folders so users can read-only view folders and files

- Upgraded the sharing dropdown to show all users that have access to the current folder/file

- Ability to move up and down the preview list using keyboard arrows

- Use description from EXIF data

UI Fixes

- Fixed checkout bug for monthly billed seats

- More robust retrying/error handling for uploads

- Fix 3d asset viewer

- Fix error where RAW images wouldn’t generate previews

- Support TONS more RAW image formats/extensions

- Support TONS more video formats/extensions

- Fix safari video player

- Exclude trash from search and facial recognition

AI & Metadata Fixes

- Use Description from EXIF Data

Auth Fixes

- Fixed a bug where permissions were shown with a lower-than-expected value

Infrastructure Upgrades

- We’ve increased stability and made huge upgrades to offer better performance when more users are uploading files at peak times. This avoids downtime across our entire stack.

Chat with us!

We’re also starting product review calls if you want to hop on a call to go over how you’ve been using the app, what features you think are missing or really good, and how we can improve it for the next set of users that start using Shade.