Release Notes 12.1.355
20 Apr 2026
This release focuses on hardening our core infrastructure and refining internal logic. It’s a low-noise, high-stability update designed to keep your workflows predictable and performant.
What's New
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Unified VIDIZMO Indexer: Say goodbye to juggling two separate apps. The Vision Indexer and Speech & Text Analyzer have been merged into a single, unified VIDIZMO Indexer. Portal managers now configure all AI content processing -- transcription, translation, summarization, object detection, OCR, PII detection -- from one place. Per-content-type toggles (video, audio, document, image) give you fine-grained control over what gets processed automatically versus on-demand.
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Multimodal AI Chatbot: The AI Chatbot can now see, hear, and read your files. Attach audio, video, images, or documents directly in the chat, and the AI transcribes audio, extracts key video frames, reads PDFs and spreadsheets, then answers your questions about them. Any files you upload directly in the chat are automatically saved as drafts in your portal, so you can review, manage, and publish them as content later.
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AI Conversation Memory: Long conversations no longer lose context. The chatbot now indexes every message and can search through past exchanges to recall exactly what was discussed. No more repeating yourself -- the AI remembers.
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Conversation History Sidebar: Finding old chats just got effortless. A new sidebar in the chatbot lists your recent conversations with search, sort, rename, and delete actions, plus a quick "New Chat" button to start fresh.
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Agentic AI Content Processing: AI indexing tasks like chaptering, audio summarization, and video summarization are now driven by configurable graph-based workflows in the Intelligence Hub. Admins can select which Agentic graph an indexer app uses, so you can build custom AI processing pipelines that fit your workflow.
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Save as Draft in Digital Evidence Management: DEM users can now save evidence as a draft during upload and access all drafted items from the Drafts section in the Evidence Library sidebar. Review and publish when you're ready.
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AI Tools for Timed Data Generation: Ask the chatbot to generate summaries, chapters, translations, or video descriptions in plain English -- or kick them off from the Process Modal. Preview and edit the results before they go live. Want to fine-tune how the AI works? Open the Workflow Designer and adjust prompts, models, and thresholds to match your standards.
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Embedding Generation for Semantic Search: Search just got smarter. With the Embedding App enabled, new uploads are automatically embedded for semantic search -- and you can trigger it on-demand for existing content from the Process Modal. The difference? Searching "data storage guidelines" now finds content titled "Company Data Retention Policy." Meaning over keywords.
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Azure Blob Storage Ingestion: Azure joins the party. A new ingestion app lets you connect your Blob Storage containers, browse files, and pull them into VIDIZMO -- flat or with folder structure intact. Want to clean up after import? Set it to delete or move source blobs automatically. Set it up under Control Panel > Apps. Learn more: Understanding Ingestion of Content from Azure Blob Storage
Enhancements
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Simpler Billing Dashboards: Your consumption reports just got a declutter. Instead of dozens of granular per-media-type line items, content processing now rolls up into clean, consolidated categories with unified Processing Units. Much easier to explain when someone asks "what are we spending on?" Your existing data carries over automatically.
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Faster Uploads and Instant Permissions: Bulk uploads and ingestion just got a speed boost. No more waiting on background jobs to finish before your content is ready. And when you update permissions on a folder or case, every item inside picks up the change right away.
Bug Fixes
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The Excluded Words field in PII redaction was being a bit too literal. "John" wouldn't catch "john" or "JOHN", forcing you to add every case variation by hand. It's now case-insensitive, so one entry covers all variations.
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We found the "Embed" options playing hide-and-seek on our Digital Evidence Management portals, so we gave it a firm nudge back into the spotlight. It’s now back on duty and ready to share, just the way it should be!
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Timed data in Studio Space had a vanishing act going on. Annotations and subtitles would disappear when content loaded. They’re now anchored in place, no more surprises.
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Workflows stopped triggering after mashup uploads. The gears are back in motion, and your content kicks off processing automatically again.
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The Automatic Redaction Settings section was hiding from the Indexer app when vision and PII detection classes were enabled. It’s now showing up exactly where you’d expect.
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A "duplicate key" error was crashing summarization jobs mid-flight. AI content summaries now process cleanly from start to finish.
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Document and image translation decided to take an unscheduled vacation -- even with the Indexer app fully configured, translated renditions just weren't showing up. Turns out the indexing activity was quietly skipping its shift. We've had a word with it, and translations are back on the job.
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Sharing locks on the DEM evidence library were letting things slip through the cracks. Users could share evidence that should've been locked. The locks are re-bolted.
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Android users couldn't scroll up in the AI chatbot to revisit earlier messages. Scrolling works correctly on mobile now.
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PII highlights in Studio Space were pointing at the wrong spots, making it look like detection had a bad sense of direction. The mapping is fixed, and the right PII shows up in the right place.
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Switching default detection classes from the on-demand processing modal was quietly breaking Custom PII detection. Change your defaults now without losing your custom rules.
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Category names with a hyphen were having a layout meltdown in Media Manager. The text after the dash would jump to the side and overlap the file count. Hyphens behave themselves now.