Changelog

Follow new updates and improvements to Shade.

Platform

Version stacking comparison UI. Added two new modes, one for “Onion Skinning” which allows for stacking up to 6 layers at once with opacity sliders, and other for doing a stacked comparison with a “Swipe” to show portions of 2 images stacked on top of each other at once.

Quick Search: new global search modal opens from the sidebar (/ shortcut) with persisted multi-drive filters

Comments: search bar in the asset viewer comments panel — filters comments and replies by text or author

Windows Explorer Sync extension — right-click Open/Share in File Explorer for synced drives
RAW support: Hasselblad .fff and Leica .rwl now will show previews
Enterprise settings: Audit Logs link to the WorkOS admin portal, plus widget styling polish
Fixed “Open in Shade” for files when using a custom mount location
Drive download button now respects the current selection instead of always downloading the whole folder
Download progress no longer gets stuck at "1s remaining"
PDF viewer renders again — fixed missing MIME types
Markup annotations stay on screen while you type the comment
Column view delete: failures now show an error and refresh instead of silently reappearing
Version Stack operations: polling stops on failure with a clear error notification
Desktop notification settings are hidden when in the browser
Photo annotation/timestamp modes reset predictably when switching comments
Linux RPM build: fixed Chrome sandbox permission so the renderer launches

Can now chose between session based and static watermarking where static watermarking is just always text
Listing directories on the platform is now consistently much faster
App bundle size is 4x smaller

Lots of stability fixes around exporting, cache and syncing
Windows explorer extension for parity with finder sync extension
Vastly improved support for dragging in large quantities of files, will now throttle to match upload speed
Resolved a syncing bug causing changes in clients to not be reflected on the platform
Resolved an upload issue where in rare cases an upload may not complete

Recent releases are focused on stability and speed. This has lead to significant improvements in the platform and ShadeFS mount.

The lag for large mount/platform operations from performing an action to the action reflecting in the platform has been significantly reduced. This includes operations like renames and deletes
Latencies have been reduced across the app, including navigating folders
Folders can now be copied and pasted, including between drives in the same region
Lots of UI fixes in column view, drives views and asset views
True folder searching. Now on most drives, all folders will show up when searching rather than just folders with contents

Fixed SMB connectivity issue. SMB should no longer be inaccessible whilst using a shade mount on some macOS versions
Finder tags and MacOS metadata are now persisted across all clients (seemingly a shade mount exclusive feature)
New version of our syncing engine leading more reliable syncing
When mounts conflict they will resolve their conflicting changes much more quickly
Fixes for sudden crashes happening in rare cases / specific operations