Premiere Pro Integration & Desktop Performance Overhaul

The new Premiere Pro panel is now auto-installed with the pkg installer, enabling seamless integration with your existing video editing workflows. This release brings a comprehensive desktop performance overhaul with dramatically faster indexing speeds for new files, including previews and proxies.

Performance highlights:

• General app performance substantially improved across all operations

• Dramatic speed improvements to indexing for new files

• Long file path uploads on Windows now supported

• Improved codec and file combination indexing

Media Intelligence: The refreshed facial recognition system provides superior control over individual creation from faces, with improved accuracy and flexibility.

Playback & Media: Speed slider now available in the video player for variable playback speeds.

Collaboration & Sharing

We've expanded collaboration capabilities with a new contributor role that prevents drive creation while maintaining editing capabilities. Comments now support file attachments up to 15MB per file, and you can query and chat with your transcriptions directly.

What's new:

• Comments can now be exported

• Webhooks for public shares

• Zapier integration for connecting Shade to other applications

• Password links now accept whitespace at beginning or end

• Re-queue transcription capability added

Storage & Access Control

Storage limits can now be set per drive, and custom metadata attributes can be locked to prevent description editing for better governance. The refreshed web uploader delivers consistently fast uploads to drives in distant regions, ideal for distributed teams.

Improvements across storage management:

• Per-drive storage limits

• Lockable custom metadata attributes

• Fixed file move failures when drive was mounted

• Numerous stability and performance fixes

ShadeFS Desktop Updates

The desktop file system layer now supports custom mount paths that are fully configurable on Mac, Windows, and Linux, replacing the default location entirely. A new merging algorithm brings smarter conflict resolution—conflicting changes now create -conflicted-<number> extensions, with clients forcefully kept in sync.

Enhanced desktop experience:

• View pinned files directly in the desktop app

• Finder badges greatly improved for status visibility

• Scalability improvements for large drives

• Multiple stability and reliability enhancements

On macOS, Macfuse/kernel extension installs are officially deprecated, with a bypassable popup coming soon. If using v2.2.3* or older .dmg installers, please re-download from the website. Windows users should note that the default mount point will move to C:\\Volumes\\<your drive>, though this can be optionally remapped in drive settings.