• Watermarking for video is now available as an option for public links on collections. Enabling watermarking will also disable downloading. Watermarking will also only run for video but not images or other media formats.

https://www.loom.com/share/f45a73056d2d425d8d492e3001171915

• Version rollback // snapshots // drive history. This allows the ability to mount a read only version of your drive at any arbitrary historical timestamp and access the files from that timestamp. This means files from a deletion or a prior version can be recovered.

https://www.loom.com/share/edf9d913111c4a6b9e96efba9195c74e

• Collections and collection settings can now be duplicated into a copy of the original collection

https://www.loom.com/share/cc27be11dafa4e6185568e9e28b88de7

When the drive is mounted, files can now be opened in their “default application” on desktop

https://www.loom.com/share/7b9e77ebdc6e48d69198284f1a3d2a69

• Fix renaming folder in list view on mobile

• Files re-included from an excluded folder will now be indexed

ShadeFS

• Fixed an issue that in rare cases could cause some uploads not to complete

• More aggressive sync

• Other improvements to syncing connection

• Fixed an issue that could cause a freeze with lots of simultaneously open files

• Fixed an issue where in some cases the drive could fail to mount

• New facial recognition experience built to be selective for lots of faces in large drives

https://www.loom.com/share/78ddd7a3c5d24bd5b010182b0bee3566

• Metadata columns can now be fully deleted, freeing that name

https://www.loom.com/share/73242592e5164dd19eea7f768755dc8d

New uploader experience

• The new uploader is substantially faster for lots of smaller files and vastly more stable on slow internets. It maintains the ability to saturate high bandwidth connections.

• The background color for videos can now be changed to white

• Fixed an issue that made the desktop app occasionally require the deletion of an empty mounted drive folder when mounting

• Platform storage calculations should no longer lag behind actual storage

• Fixed an issue causing some searches to return poor results

• Fixed an issue that could cause the “Join shared cache” modal to stay open after hitting join

• Can now airplay when a device to airplay to is on your network

ShadeFS

• Much faster syncing and removal of freezing when lots of people are working concurrently on the mount

• Fixes for contractor role // subdrives

  • Depending on some user’s sharing setups, contractors could see unexpectedly few items due to a least inheritance policy which has now been changed

• Bugfix: In some cases, adding files to a subdrive wouldn't get synced

• The windows app will now throw an error on mount if there are files in mount’s C:\\Volumes\\<mount name> directory

• If the cache location is set to a non APFS drive on macos or a non NTFS drive on windows, a warning dialogue will now appear

Platform

• Duplicate detection! When two assets are uploaded with matching contents, the assets with matching contents will be displayed in the new duplicates tab. Assets can then be managed and deleted from there. Detection will only be run for assets on a going-forward basis. Existing assets will not be checked for duplicates.

https://www.loom.com/share/1106d885efc74395a6f20a03344ef1e4

• You can now create comment annotations for PDFs

https://www.loom.com/share/dbe5f443c15e472eb7e077cb43b381f6

• Audit logging is now available to be enabled for teams that require it

• Assets now show how many comments have been added in the asset card. On grid view

https://www.loom.com/share/ca7376810120481c84055ef6951ad7b9

• Tile view. This view tessellates your videos and images hiding names and metadata

https://www.loom.com/share/567f8b3c934940c7b650a904d684de44

• Proxies will now skip unsupported audio codecs rather than fail when multistream

• Fixes around single asset in stack if a user corrupts the stack by moving assets in the mount

• Much lower latencies for some API endpoints and actions in the app

• Bulk metadata updates are much faster

ShadeFS

• Fixed crash when reading files from the mount that were being streamed in

• Fixed crash during unmounting

• Fixed crash in TransfersManager (uploader) happening when uploading a blob that’s not fully cached

• Fixed crash in mount

• Fixed crash during token refresh

• Fixed crash in on startup due to mismatching DB/cache data

• Performance improvements

Feature Friday 09/01/26 (v2.3.4)

Platform

• General UI overhaul. More streamlined left sidebar and new location for mounting drives

• Folder templates. Folders can now be recursively saved in the UI on the workspace or drive level and then recreated on command

• Can now enable/disable the ability for people to see old versions of a stack when shared out

• Contractor role. This is useful for people mounting subdrives. This is someone added to your workspace that takes up a billing seat but has no permission except to drives they’re explicitly added to.

• Column view. In addition to list/grid, folders can now be shown in a column format and navigated via arrow keys

• Can now disable the auto updater in case you want to stay on a particular version

• Small fixes for linux build

• Drives are now loaded on workspace load. In most cases this will allow much faster times to start using your drive

ShadeFS

• Fixed a case where in some concurrent usage it could cause syncing to stop

• Pinning on slow WiFi should no longer be a network bully

Feature Friday 12/19/25 (v2.3.2)

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

https://www.loom.com/embed/256b669351c94c4f9dd642fbd41f5f36

Command Palette: Folder search 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.

https://www.loom.com/embed/ce5cbff7d2f544959a7a68846a312707

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

https://www.loom.com/embed/b52ed8f6484f4ae69be46828e476be69

• 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.

https://www.loom.com/embed/d6fc74aa135546afae6b788ea1393254

We are now fully ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified

Platform

• Column view and tile view

• Search queries for large drives are ~10x faster

• Folder templates! Create a template from a set of folders in your drive. That template can then then be created anywhere within the drive

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

  • Timestamps

  • Annotations

  • Reactions

  • Public

  • Resolved

  • Unresolved

• New sidebar item Duplicates, displays the duplicate files

  
  

  

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

  • 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 now handles write through cache. As files are added locally, when the file is fully uploaded to the server, it will also immediately become available on the shared cache, skipping the extra download step

Feature Friday 12/05/25 (v2.3.0)

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

  
  

  

  
  

  https://www.loom.com/embed/35c387a71fc844469f4bec24f1567e9f

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

  
  

  

  
  

  https://www.loom.com/embed/bced454bb6074432b83f99d8f3cb14c1

  
  

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

  
  

  

  
  https://www.loom.com/share/17a6bcb4b5af4d358fdbe87319829ec3
  
  

• 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”

  
  

  

  
  https://www.loom.com/share/a98a9f4f5c1f49288e06517c09df9bc7
  
  

• 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

Feature Monday 11/11/25 (v2.2.41)

Breaking changes

Macfuse / kernel extension installs are officially deprecated on MacOS. We will be adding a bypassable popup soon. If you are on a v2.2.3* release or used an installer that ends with .dmg please re-download from the website

In the next windows release, the default mount point will be moved to C:\\Volumes\\<your drive>. Optionally this can be remapped permanently to its original location in drive settings -> general -> custom mount path.

Platform

• Premiere pro panel! This is auto installed in the most recent version of the pkg installer

• Vastly faster time to index speeds for new files ingested

  • Including previews and proxies

• Refreshed web uploader for distributed teams. Provides consistently fast uploads to drives in distant regions

• General much faster performance across the app

• Contributor role! (disallows drive creations)

• Comment attachments. Attach any file to your comments (up to 15mb)

• Chat with / query your transcriptions

• New facial recognition! The refreshed version allows much better control over how individuals are created from faces

• Speed slider for video player

• Lots and lots of small fixes, including

  • Long file path uploads on windows

  • Sometimes file moves would fail in the app when drive was mounted

  • Issues with indexing some codecs/file combos

  • Passwords links that used passwords with whitespace at the beginning or end are now accepted

• A storage limit can now be set per drive

• Comments can now be exported

• Custom metadata attributes can be locked preventing the editing of the description

• Webhooks for public shares

• Zapier integration! Speak to Jacob about this if you’re interested in hooking Shade into other apps

• Re-queue transcriptions

• UI updates (ongoing)

• New drive directory view on the sidebar

• Custom ordering for collections (drag to reorder)

ShadeFS

• Macfuse / kernel extension installs are officially deprecated on MacOS. We will be adding a bypassable popup soon. If you are on a v2.2.3* release or used an installer that ends with .dmg please re-download from the website

• Custom mount paths! On mac, windows and linux, the default location of the mount paths can be configured

• New merging algorithm!

  • Conflicting changes now result in -conflicted-<number> extension

  • Clients are now forcefully kept in sync much more aggressively

• Scalability improvements for large drives

• Lots of improvements to finder badges

• View which files you have pinned in the desktop app

• Lots of small stability and bug fixes

Feature Friday 09/19/25 (v2.2.29)

Another huge update—this one focused on speed speed speed and a few new features.

Our desktop app now uploads and downloads between 2x and 3x faster than our competitors from our office here in New York (5gbps+).

Platform

• Version stacking! Drag two files on top of each other to create a stack

• Vastly faster desktop app download capable of >4gbps download speeds

• Vastly faster desktop app uploader capable of >5gpbs upload speeds

• Webhooks! Go to workspace settings and click “Open Dashboard” to configure your own event listeners

• New active/mountable drives now are placed on a vastly faster globally distributed storage backend

• PDF previews! First page of a pdf <15mb is rendered into a thumbnail

• Much faster time to start indexing large files (40-100gb) (~10x) and generally lower queuing times before assets begin indexing

• Notifications! Notifications for assets that you comment on as well as workspaces that you’re added to will be propagated to the “notifications” button under workspaces

• listdir latencies on the platform have been lowered dramatically

• much much lower time spent in the “processing” step when uploading on the platform

• Large tree operations in the web now reflect much more quickly (i.e moving tens of thousands of files to trash)

• Lots of other small fixes and improvements

ShadeFS

• Multipart pinning! Downloading from pins are now >3gbps

• Vastly faster merging in of changes from other users

• Lots of small bug fixes and improvements

Feature Friday 08/22/25 (v2.2.25)

Massive update these last few weeks primarily focused on speed and scale.

We’re hiring as well! If you know software engineers who have experience with postgres, python and typescript that have scaled systems from 1-100 who would be excited about joining a fast-growing company like Shade, send them our way!

Platform

• Annotations & markup-draw on video and images in a comment

• Directories can now be added to collections

• Added ranged based commenting

• Uploads and downloads (including in the mount) from us-east-1 regions should be much faster!

• Scrubbing a video and loading in previews should be much more responsive! (removed a round trip to our servers)

• When logged in you can now open a shared link in the app from the web or into a new tab

• Overall much lower latencies across the entire application

• Listdirs on the web/app are now much much faster and with more consistent latencies

• Big improvements for facial recognition

  • Improved merging individuals experience

  • Moving faces between individuals

  • Deleting faces

  • Creating new individuals from a set of selected faces

• Videos in a web-playable format will play back instantly no waiting for proxy as we can now use the source video (beta/testing this feature)

• Admins can now delete any comments even if they didn’t create them

• R2 drives should now not application error on mount

• The timestamps on comments can now be edited after creation

• Clicking out of a view that has been edited will now prompt you to save before discarding changes

• Videos that can be placed in our fast proxy queue are are now always placed in the fast proxy queue (more consistent and lower proxy times)

• Pinning a file in the app on windows now shows the status/progress

• Fixes for the “download entire folder button”

• Lots of other fixes, improvements and speedups, primarily focused on our next 10x in scale

ShadeFS

• Finder now shows uploading, downloading pinning and is pinned status of files!

• ShadeFS is now fully case insensitive

• Lots of small fixes and improvements for uploading