🗓 October 17, 2025

Product: Previews (Vertical Conversion)

Version: pp-spec-jitpreview-vertical-v22
Owner: David Lidberg

• Added vertical conversion support for previews.
• Based on scene retrieval model v22, optimized for shorter clips.
• Replaces earlier vertical-compatible v20.
• No anime variant yet – planned for v23.

🗓 October 21, 2025

Product: Thumbnails

Version: pp-spec-jitthumbnail-v15
Owner: David Lidberg

• Unified anime and live-action handling in one version.
• Improved character tracking – better detection of previously missed faces.
• Added preparations for celebrity recognition (enable per catalog in dev).
• Equivalent preview update planned as jitpreviews-v23.

🗓 November 5, 2025

Product: Vionlabs Platform
Owner: Mushtaq

Creative Assets

• On-demand creative asset generation available in production.
• Refactored creative asset pages with unified carousel view.
• Added sidebar for navigation between related assets.

Performance

• Improved thumbnail and preview clip generation.

UI/UX

• Unified cards/lists across the app (sorting, hover states, views).
• Deployed UserGuide widget to production.

AI SmartLists

• Added ability to edit AI SmartLists with excluded assets only.

Bug Fixes

• Various stability and performance improvements.

🗓 November 7, 2025

Product: Thumbnails

Version: v16
Owner: Jakub Kukul

• Optimization release, no new features.
• Customers on this version benefit from ~30% faster API response times.

🗓 November 7, 2025

Product: Previews

Version: pp-spec-jitpreview-v23
Owner: David Lidberg

• First preview version to handle anime and live-action internally.
• Slightly improved character tracking.
• Faster API responses.
• Complements the Thumbnails v16 update.

🗓 November 11, 2025

Product: Binge Markers

Version: op-bm-v29
Owner: Rithika Chordia

• Added anime classifier for improved credit/intro/recap prediction.
• Introduced new Credit and Intro models.
• Model adapts dynamically to content type.

🗓 November 12, 2025

Product: Vionlabs Platform
Owner: Mushtaq

Performance

• Parallelized backend and frontend processing of creative assets.
• Prioritized client-side frame extraction for visible assets.

Creative Assets

• Added global download list (“shopping cart”) for collecting assets.
• Added thumbnail download functionality across the app.
• Sidebar retains scroll position in long lists.
• Added animated JSON tooltip for debugging.
• Made Recipe Header clickable in Creative Lab.

UI/UX

• Moved support chat to main menu.
• Improved toast layering (processing toasts prioritized).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed search crash, sticky query issues, reverted unstable query integration.
• Stability improvements and minor fixes.

🗓 November 19, 2025

Product: Editorial Lab / Preview Clips
Owner: Mushtaq

• Added download functionality for preview clips.
• Refactored recipe design, added mood-matching improvements.
• Displayed character faces in single-asset test runs.
• Added poster zoom (in/out) in Editorial Lab.
• Fixed crashes and asset loading issues.
• Multiple UI/UX refinements.

🗓 November 26, 2025

Product: Editorial Lab / Platform
Owner: Mushtaq

• Added editable synopsis for assets.
• Implemented automatic presigned-URL refresh.
• Fixed recipe validation and submission issues.
• Improved mood-matching and query parameter handling.
• Standardized AI button styling and form layout.
• General UI polish and stability fixes.

🗓 November 26, 2025

Product: Edge Processing & Catalog API
Owner: Sebastian Hoop

Catalog API

• Added dedicated playback URIs for proxy video files in portal playback.
• Edge Processing (AWS)
• Added autoscaling — compute instances now start and stop dynamically based on load.
• Greatly reduces idle costs and optimizes performance.
• GCP support coming soon.

🗓 December 1, 2025

Product: Fingerprint Plus

Version: v11.8
Owner: Jakub Kukul

• Added Synopsis v5 with translations into Dutch, Japanese, and Portuguese.
• Improves multilingual coverage for customer catalogs.

🗓 December 1, 2025

Product: Previews

Version: op-spec-jitpreview-v24
Owner: Moein

• Integrated new scene retrieval model combining audio + visual embeddings.
• Improved visual encoder for higher-quality features.
• Delivers more accurate retrieval results, especially for sound-dependent scenes.

🗓 December 4, 2025

Product: JIT Thumbnails

Version: v17
Owner: Paula

Feature Codes:
pp-spec-jitthumbnail-v17, pp-spec-jitthumbnail-vertical-v17,
pp-spec-jitthumbnail-logo-v17, pp-spec-jitthumbnail-vertical-logo-v17

• Added logo insertion for thumbnails across all aspect ratios.
• Included black bar metadata for letterbox removal in UI.
• Supports original, 9:16, 2:3, and 1:1 formats.

🗓 December 4, 2025

Product: Vionlabs Platform
Owner: Mushtaq

• Added clip-nudging controls for video trimming.
• Added vertical thumbnail support (entitlement required).
• Combined thumbnail extraction progress into a single notification.
• Added video playback permission control for limited users.
• Improved brightness of character faces and general UI clarity.
• Form validation and stability improvements.

🗓 December 9, 2025

Product: Vionlabs Platform
Owner: Mushtaq

• Added asset tagging functionality.
• Added Public API Scopes management in Admin Panel.
• Introduced video nudging for preview clips.
• Added logo insertion for horizontal & vertical thumbnails.
• Fixed clip default length and form bugs.
• General performance and stability improvements.

🗓 December 11, 2025

Product: Platform / Creative Lab
Owner: Mushtaq

• Added download-list sidebar on published recipe pages.
• Improved performance and stability.
• Minor visual and functional enhancements.