Here’s your November release roundup!
​This month’s updates focus on simplifying how you organize, find, and manage brand content, from applying default metadata at upload to smarter image search and new ways to bring your brand into print. Here’s what landed in November.

Feature spotlight

Default metadata on upload: Consistency from the start
You can now apply default metadata automatically to every upload. Set fields like tags, categories, usage rights, and availability dates to ensure every asset enters your library already organized and searchable as soon as they’ve been uploaded.
→ Help article

Enhancements

• Enhanced image search (Beta):
  Enhanced image search uses AI to analyze and understand what an image shows and matches it to natural-language queries like “people collaborating in an office,” no tagging required.
  Speed up discovery, reduce manual work, and make every image searchable, even untagged ones.
  → Learn more

• Export your asset audit trail:
  You can now export an asset’s full audit trail as a CSV, including approvals, revisions, downloads, workflow updates, and more. Share data easily, meet audit requirements, and keep complete records without screenshots.
  → Learn more

• Multi-delegation updates:
  Access requests now include a view of who submitted each request, a simplified Resource column, and clearer permission and duration details in the Role column. Review faster with the right context at a glance.
  → Learn more

• Essentials Colors:
  Colors are now available in Essentials, giving you a consistent way to manage and use brand palettes across Guidelines. Add, edit, remove, and permission colors from one place to keep your brand elements aligned.
  ​Note: Color updates aren’t global yet, and support for Templates, linking, and import/export (e.g., Figma, Adobe) is coming next.
  → Learn more

• Muse theme improvements:
  Small tweaks, big impact. Accordions now auto-collapse and the sidebar is collapsible, giving you a cleaner layout and fewer clicks as you move through Muse.
  → Learn more

Ecosystem: Apps and integrations

Your brand, now in print: Meet the new Ciloo app
You can now connect Frontify with Ciloo to order branded print materials such as business cards, brochures, swag, and more, right from your Libraries, Projects, or Templates. Ciloo routes orders to local production partners for faster delivery and lower environmental impact. Empower teams to order what they need, stay fully on-brand, and eliminate manual file handoffs.
→ Learn more

That’s everything for this month. We hope these updates give you more clarity and control as you manage your brand across teams and channels. Thanks for following along, we’ll be back next month with more to share.

Welcome back to our monthly release round-up!
​Each month, we’ll keep you in the loop on the latest Frontify updates, from new features to product enhancements that make brand management easier. It’s your quick guide to what’s new, why it matters, and how to make the most of it.

Feature spotlight

Frontify x Microsoft Copilot Studio: Your brand companion, built in
Bring your brand into Microsoft Copilot Studio with two new integrations that make Copilot your brand companion. The DAM integration lets you search and access assets from your Frontify libraries by asking natural-language questions like “Find me our campaign logo” and instantly get previews and download links. The Guidelines integration turns Copilot into your brand coach, retrieving live brand guidance such as official colors or logo usage straight from your guidelines. Work smarter and stay consistent with trusted Frontify content available right inside Microsoft tools.
→ Help article
→ Developer portal - DAM
→ Developer portal - Guidelines

Enhancements

1. Manage and discover assets more efficiently:

• License visibility:
  Control which user groups see specific licenses. Protect sensitive information and maintain compliance directly from each library’s General settings.
  → Learn more

• Tag management:
  Add or copy multiple tags at once, and easily see which assets already share tags when editing in bulk.
  → Learn more

• See asset descriptions on hover:
  View an asset’s description just by hovering in the grid, no need to open sidebars. Perfect for quick navigation in document-heavy libraries.
  → Learn more

• Customize cross-library search:
  Decide when cross-library search triggers, automatically, manually, or off entirely, to tailor discovery to your team’s structure.
  → Learn more

• Library settings:
  Enjoy a refreshed modal design for General settings: Simpler, smoother, and distraction-free.

• Media delivery digest:
  Stay informed with a weekly email digest of asset performance, top traffic sources, and optimization tips, all in one glance.
  → Learn more

2. Create and collaborate with confidence:

• Restore content:
  Bring back accidentally deleted content instantly or recover blocks, sections, and tabs for up to 90 days. Undo mistakes in seconds and save time without Support tickets.
  → Learn more

• Action tool bar:
  Copy page links, share files, or use integrated apps without leaving the page. Starting this month, the toolbar includes “Copy page link” and “File transfer,” with commenting and ticket creation coming soon.
  → Learn more

• Spotlight search:
  Enjoy faster search results with aligned previews across Guidelines and Workspace, larger previews on hover, and an easy copy-link button for instant sharing.

3. Streamline processes and save time

• Automation execution history:
  Get detailed trigger and action breakdowns for every automation to troubleshoot instantly and with confidence.
  → Learn more

• Duplicate automations:
  Clone automations directly within a library or project, no need to rebuild from scratch.
  → Learn more

• Re-run automations:
  Retry or re-run automation executions right from the history, fix failed runs or re-trigger successful ones anytime.
  → Learn more

• Multi-delegation:
  Assign access requests to multiple reviewers, collect feedback, and approve faster, without manual chases.
  → Learn more

Ecosystem: Apps and integrations

Bulk metadata manager:
Edit and update asset metadata via CSV, no coding required. Perfect for DAM librarians managing large libraries.
→ Learn more

Frontify + Monotype:
Connect your Monotype account and manage fonts and licenses in one place for consistent typography across every touchpoint.
→ Learn more

Codetribe FLUX Kontext AI Apps:
Generate or refine on-brand visuals using AI, from text prompts to edited images, all within Frontify.
→ Learn more

Frontify plug-in for Figma Buzz:
Access approved Frontify assets, colors, and typography directly from Figma Buzz, keeping your designs synced and consistent.
→ Learn more

Bug fix corner

• Download-protected assets can no longer be used in Templates, unless the user has the correct access rights. They will appear as greyed out.

That’s a wrap for this month. We hope these updates make your brand work a little smoother and inspire new ways to create together.

Welcome to our monthly release round-up. Each month, we’ll bring you a summary of the latest features and enhancements in Frontify. Think of it as your shortcut to what’s new, and how to start using it right away.

Feature spotlight

AI translation: Instantly multilingual guidelines

Make brand guidelines available in every enabled language. Translate pages directly from the action toolbar while preserving formatting, style, and tone. Fine-tune with custom prompts, reset at block level, and manage availability at account or guideline level.

→ Help article

Paper theme: Modern full-width layouts

Paper introduces a fresh full-width theme with a top header and customizable mega menu. It helps you create guidelines that feel more like engaging brand experiences, with flexible, no-code design controls and fast navigation for every user.

→ Help article

Automation execution history: Confidence in every run

Gain full visibility into how your automations perform. Track execution status, see successful and failed runs at a glance, and review performance times — all in one dashboard. Monitor automated object activity without manual checks, so you can fine-tune workflows with clarity and ease.

→ Help article

Enhancements

Self record block: Add a personal touch to guidelines
Record video or audio messages directly in your content to make guidelines more interactive and approachable. Perfect for explaining complex topics, giving instructions, or simply adding a human element.
→ Learn more

Navigation upgrade: Sort and reorder categories & pages
Position pages above or between categories for greater flexibility in structuring your documents. Works across all guidelines and themes, helping teams organize content in the way audiences need.

Ecosystem: Apps and integrations

Webhooks expansion: More ways to automate with precision
Subscribe to 23 granular asset events, bundle bulk updates, and stay informed with proactive notifications, keeping your external systems perfectly in sync with Frontify.

→ Getting started

Desktop app: Regular updates for security and compatibility
Version 2.90 is now available, bringing the latest security updates and adjustments to supported operating systems.

→ Latest release notes: Here

Bug fix corner

• Protected assets in Finder are now grayed out, making it immediately clear which assets have an approved download request and which don’t.

Welcome to our monthly release round-up. Each month, we’ll bring you a summary of the latest features and enhancements in Frontify. Think of it as your shortcut to what’s new, and how to start using it right away.

Feature spotlight

Workspace Spotlight Search: Find what you need, instantly

Search across your workspace is now faster and more accurate. With improved indexing and speed, you can quickly access the right asset, folder, or guideline content directly from the backend.

→ Help article

Essentials: Centralized brand element management

Manage your brand’s core elements from one place. Start with fonts — upload once and use across guidelines, and Figma templates — with more elements like colors coming soon.

→ Help article

New asset upload experience: Bigger, faster, smarter

Upload up to 25,000 assets per batch, add multiple batches at once, and track progress in real time with the brand new upload bar. Scale confidently and stay in control.

Enhancements

• Image block upgrade: More control over image presentation
  Choose custom or predefined ratios, set smart focal points, and style images with borders, padding, and backgrounds — for polished, consistent visuals.
  → Learn more

• Video block update: Cleaner, more secure playback
  Autoplay is now muted by default, controls can be hidden for distraction-free playback, and security settings align with the Image Block.

• Access request: Activity log and Group adjustments
  Track request history with a full log, and let Admins adjust groups before approval — adding transparency and reducing errors.
  → Learn more

• Custom hyperlink colors on login pages
  Admins can now define link colors on login pages, keeping every detail on brand stays on brand from the very first interaction.

• Date Added filter update in Libraries
  Filtering now uses UTC time for global consistency, while the asset sidebar still shows local time for context.
  → Learn more

Ecosystem: Apps and integrations

WordPress integration: Approved assets, right where you need them

Bring your Frontify assets into WordPress instantly. Search, insert, and reuse approved visuals without downloads, while CDN delivery keeps them up to date.

→ Getting started

Latest version of our Desktop app

Version 2.8.18. is available through github.

New features

• Library Overview
  A new, dedicated page for Media Libraries that gives you a clean, structured view of your library. It features a cover image, key library info, as well as relevant asset updates — all in one beautifully designed place. This makes it easier than ever to understand what a library is for and what’s in it, without needing to dig through filters or folders.

Improvements 🛠️

• Libraries: The option to add sample images after creating a new library has been removed. Libraries now start empty so you can focus on uploading your own content.

New features

The following new feature was released to enhance your experience:

• Content Block: Lottie block
  You can now embed Lottie animations in your guidelines with the new Lottie block. Just upload a .json file or paste a Lottie URL to bring your brand elements to life. It's a lightweight, scalable way to add motion and make your portals more dynamic and expressive.

• Libraries: Bulk edit background colors for icons and logos
  You can now update the background color of multiple icons or logo assets at once. No more setting them one by one, just select your assets and apply the color in bulk. This makes asset preparation and visual consistency much faster.

Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

• Newsletter: We fixed an issue where opening the newsletter or refreshing the page triggered a “Contact Support” error. The newsletter now loads and refreshes normally.

New features

The following new feature was released to enhance your experience:

• Libraries: OCR for image formats
  The supported formats for OCR asset content search have been extended to JPG, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG in addition to the existing PDF, DOCX, and PPTX support.

Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

• Platform: We fixed an issue where switching a domain path from internal to public caused an error due to creating a new entry instead of updating the existing one. It now correctly updates the entry as expected.

New features

The following new feature was released to enhance your experience:

• Integrations: Jira Cloud
  The Jira Cloud integration connects your project and brand workflows to improve collaboration between content, design, and marketing teams. It allows teams to link Frontify assets directly to Jira issues, so they avoid switching tools or searching for files. Teams can search and attach assets from Frontify libraries to Jira issues or upload final Jira attachments back into Frontify projects and libraries. It keeps assets organized and teams aligned.

• Frontify for Desktop: Security update.
  Version 2.8.9 has been released. This new release includes security updates.

Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

• Libraries: Users are now able to comment on videos.

New features

The following new feature was released to enhance your experience:

• Libraries: Collections and Asset tabs.
  Collections now have their own dedicated tab, right next to Assets, making them easier to find and manage.

• Libraries: Performance updates.
  We've rebuilt the library’s technical foundation to deliver significantly faster asset loading, especially in large-scale libraries.

• Integrations: CI HUB.
  CI HUB connects your Frontify Libraries with the tools you use every day.
  CI HUB integrates Frontify with Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Figma, and more, giving you direct access to approved assets. You can also upload revisions back into Frontify, keeping everything consistent and centralized. With one interface across all platforms, it’s simple to learn and use.
  Want to see it in action? Watch the quick walkthrough below to see CI HUB at work in Adobe Express.

Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

• Libraries: Improved performance on duplicate detection, checked for libraries with tens of thousands of duplicates

• Libraries: We fixed an issue where collection tiles showed the wrong number of asset thumbnails.

• Libraries: We resolved the flickering issue on the Annotations layer and other layers in the curated asset view.

• Guidelines: We fixed a bug that prevented non-logged-in users from seeing linked libraries in public guidelines.

Improvements 🛠️

This week, we crushed these bugs to give you a better experience:

• Libraries: We fixed a flickering issue with the color picker in the backend library sidebar.

• Libraries: We fixed a bug where shared videos with custom preview images wouldn’t play in the video player.

• Libraries: We resolved an issue where downloading shared assets sometimes failed if the page had been open for a long time.

• Libraries: We fixed a problem where assets opened via Spotlight search didn’t display correctly.

• Libraries: We added accessibility support for the missing metadata icon in the library view.