What's New

Team Management Key Features

• Account Owner Role:
  • Has complete control over the Filestack environment.
  • Can manage Sub-users, API Keys, billing, and global settings.
• Sub-user Roles:
  • Developer: Access to development tools, file management, and analytics. This role cannot manage APIs or Sub-accounts.
  • Billing: Access is limited to billing and subscription management.
    
• Hierarchical Account Structure:
  • One Account Owner oversees multiple Sub-users.
  • Sub-users have restricted permissions to ensure security.
    
• Enhanced API Key Management:
  • Share API Keys among users based on roles.
  • Role-based permissions for scalable access control.
    
• User Interface Updates:
  • Renamed the “My Apps” option to “Team Apps”.
  • Added the “User Management” link.
  • User roles are displayed in the profile menu.

Notes for Users

• All Transitions will occur automatically, and all existing users will become Account Owner users.
• If a user is a part of multiple teams, a team selection window will be shown upon sign-in, where they can select which team they want to enter.

Platinum Support

• Platinum Support Plan - Filestack version 3.32.0 introduces a new premium support tier, available as an add-on to Scale and Grow plans, offering priority support, dedicated account teams, and additional resources.
• Pricing Page Updates - Our Pricing page now includes the Platinum Support options, which offer detailed comparisons to standard support plans.
• Developer Portal Enhancements - The Dev Portal dashboard now displays a new green banner with direct access to subscribe to a Platinum Support plan.
  
• Billing Page Integration - Filestack version 3.32.0 adds a new Get Platinum Support button to the Billing Information page. This feature simplifies the upgrade process, ensuring a seamless transition for our valued users.
  
• Interactive Pop-ups - Filestack version 3.32.0 implements on-click pop-ups with detailed information on the benefits and features of the Platinum Support plan.

Improvements and Enhancements

• Enhanced User Flow - Streamlined the process for new and existing users to inquire about and subscribe to the Platinum Support plan.
• Auto-Fill Functionality - This functionality auto-fills email addresses, making the subscription process more straightforward for users.
• Validation Checks - Implemented email validation to ensure correct user input and a smooth user experience.
• Submission Limits - Added measures to prevent multiple submissions from the same IP address within 24 hours, maintaining the request process’s integrity.

Facebook Video and GIF Browsing

Starting Filestack V3.31.0, users can now effortlessly browse, select, and upload multiple video formats and GIFs directly from their Facebook accounts using the Filestack API and Picker. This innovative feature enhances the media management experience, making the content-sharing process more efficient.

Improvements and Enhancements

• Real-time Progress Indicators - Filestack V3.31.0 enhances user experience with real-time progress indicators for video uploads, including percentage completed, time elapsed, and estimated time remaining.
• Error Handling Enhancements - Version 3.31.0 improved error messaging for issues encountered during video browsing and upload processes. Users will receive clear and informative error messages to resolve potential issues.
• Integration and Compatibility - Focusing on integration and compatibility, Filestack V3.31.0 offers full compatibility with existing Filestack API. Ensuring a seamless integration and a unified solution for media handling without disruptions.

SDK WCAG Update

This update significantly enhances the accessibility of Filestack SDK in line with WCAG 2.0 Level AA standards. The following are key improvements:

• Alt Text for Unsplash Images - Ensures alt text from Unsplash images is passed on and displayed, enhancing accessibility for visually impaired users.
• Keyboard navigation for Unsplash Search List - Enhances the Unsplash search feature within Filestack, allowing users to navigate and select images using keyboard commands.
• Accessible Naming for the Search Image Button - The Search Image button now has an accessible name, making it clearer for screen reader users.
• Distinct Button Announcements for Screen Readers - The Upload More and Upload buttons in the file upload dialog are now distinctly announced by screen readers, preventing confusion.
• Technical Improvements:
  • Javascript and CSS code enhancements for keyboard accessibility based on W3C ARIA practices.
  • Added aria-label attributes to buttons for improved screen reader interpretation.
  • Modified span elements with role="button" to ensure correct screen reader announcements.

iOS SDK Updates

• Support iOS 16 - The updated SDK is compatible with iOS 16, which includes important privacy and security features, redesigned notifications, and Focus mode. Learn how to update your iOS SDK here.
• *Support Swift 5.8.0 - Filestack Swift SDK now supports Swift 5.8.0. The Swift SDK allows programmatic file uploading, transformations, and other operations with Filestack URLs directly from your iOS application.
• Enhanced Video Uploads from iOS Safari - This update optimizes video uploads from iOS Safari. It reduces compression requirements while maintaining high-quality media delivery, allowing users to enjoy faster upload times and improved performance.
• Support HEIC File Conversion - The latest iOS SDK update converts HEIC (High-Efficiency Image Container) files to various formats, resulting in smoother user experiences.

Android SDK Updates

• Support Android 13 (Tiramisu) - The Filestack Android SDK now supports Android 13. Resulting in better security, performance, and overall user experience for their applications. Learn how to update your Android SDK here.
• Enhanced File Picker UI for Mobile and Tablet Devices - The File Picker UI has undergone significant improvements in this update, resulting in a more stable and responsive user experience across all devices, including tablets.
• Enhanced File Upload Experience with Real-time Progress Feedback - Filestack improved the file uploading experience by adding new progress bar updates. Users can now receive accurate and real-time feedback on file uploads.

Ruby on Rails and Ruby SDKs Updates

• Support Ruby 3.0 - The Ruby on Rails SDK now supports Ruby 3.0, allowing users to take advantage of Ruby 3.2 and 3.3 improvements. These improvements include more efficient thread management, improved garbage collection, and variable width allocation. Learn how to update your Ruby on Rails SDK here.
• Improved Error Handling - The SDK update improves error response handling for max size limitations and provides clearer, more user-friendly feedback.
• Introducing New Callbacks - The Rails SDK update introduces additional callbacks for the file picker. This release includes the following callbacks:
  • onCancel - called when all uploads in a pick are canceled.
  • onFileUploadStarted - called when a file begins uploading.
  • onFileUploadProgress - called during multipart upload progress events.
  • onUploadDone - called when all files are completed uploading.
  • onFileUploadFailed - called when uploading a file fails.

Improvements and Bug Fixes

• New Parameter for audio_codec in Filestack JS SDK: This parameter allows you to choose the best codec for your specific needs, providing more flexibility and control over the conversion process and making it easier and more convenient to customize and optimize media content for a better end-user experience in your JavaScript applications.
• File Upload Capabilities Enhancements: Increased the default maximum file size allowed to be uploaded using the Filestack intelligent ingestion (FII) option from 80 to 160GB. This advanced file upload mechanism enables efficient and reliable uploading of large files without worrying about interruptions, network constraints, or server resource limitations.
• Better French Translation: Filestack changed the validation error message displayed when a user uploads more media than what is allowed to be ”Notre limite de téléchargement est de fichiers”.
• Fixing SRT Files Visibility Issue: Filestack fixed the issue where the SRT files stored on Google Drive and Dropbox did not appear in the file picker under certain conditions.
• Improved Transformation UI Configuration File Functionality: Filestack fixed the lockRatio option and added the new “isShow“ key to control the crop options.

Filestack 3.28.0 Release

New Features

• Support for React 18: Filestack React SDK now supports React 18. This update allows for seamless file uploads, transformation, delivery, and management, which can be integrated into your React application.
• Support for Angular 14: The Filestack Angular SDK now supports Angular 14, making it easier for Angular developers to integrate Filestack into their applications.
• Support for Webpack 4 and 5: The new Filestack release is fully compatible with both Webpack 4 and 5. This update helps to eliminate compatibility issues and streamline your development process. This enhancement ensures smoother workflow and better performance for developers using these popular module bundlers.
• New Parameter for audio_codec in Filestack JS SDK: This parameter allows you to choose the best audio_codec for your specific needs, providing more flexibility and control over the conversion process and making it easier and more convenient to customize and optimize media content for a better end-user experience in your JavaScript applications.

Sign in with Microsoft Azure

Filestack version 3.2.0 adds support for Microsoft Azure sign-in functionality. Users can now quickly sign in to Filestack using their Microsoft IDs. Simply click the Sign in with Microsoft button and enter your credentials to start using Filestack with your Microsoft account.

To learn how to enable the functionality, please read more in our Microsoft Sign in tutorial.

Filestack WordPress Plugin 2.0 Release

New Features

• New File Picker Improvements: Additional image transformation options such as Crop, Circle, and Rotate have been implemented. Added support for key-value pair tags. Introduced Minimum Files setting and Display Mode setting. A new ‘Container’ field has been added for defining container names for the uploader.
• Additional upload control settings: Added settings such as Retry limit, Concurrency, Timeout, Disable Integrity Check, Intelligent Ingestion, Intelligent Chunk Size, Part Size, Progress Interval, Retry Factor, Retry Max Time, Allow Manual Retry, Disable Transformer, Support Email for enhanced control over the file upload process.
• New Callbacks: Added filestackOnCancel(file), filestackOnUploadDone(file), and acceptFn(file, options) callbacks.
• Shortcode Improvements: Introduced additional parameters to the [filestack] shortcode such as lang, image_transform, api_key, policy, signature, media_owner, upload_source, file_types.
• File Convert Widget Enhancements: Added configuration options for the File Convert Widget such as Title, File Type, Allowed File Types, Instructions, Success Message, Failure Message, Display Mode, Quality, pageformat, pageorientation, background, Compress, page.
• Video to Audio Convert Widget: Added a new Video to Audio Convert Widget with configuration options including Title, File Type, Allowed File Types, Instructions, Success Message, Failure Message, Display Mode, Audio Bitrate.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

File Picker Version 3.0

Introducing a powerful uploading API that creates a very smooth uploading experience for your applications. This file picker version has a new minimalistic design, an in-app image transformation, and a faster file-uploading API.

New Features

Below is a summary of the new features:

• Accelerated Uploads: Streamline any size uploads and publish content quicker.
• Direct Uploading to S3: Send sensitive data directly to your S3 buckets without passing through any Filestack infrastructure.
• Minimalistic Design: Easily blends into any website or mobile app.
• Transformation UI: Tool that allows to easily crop, rotate, border, and filter images within the dialog window.
• Image Tagging: Categorize, search, and manage your images.