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title: Product Release Notes
description: The latest product release notes and updates. (You asked, we made it!)
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# Product release notes
##### New stuff every month, cooked up by our product team
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#### Sept 21, 2026
#### š£ 26.12 Release
The 26.12 release includes major Helix enhancements, along with admin improvements to how you manage users and reporting in the Hub. The full release includes:
**Helix**
- **Smarter, more contextual Helix feedback** - meeting and weekly feedback now use historical context to provide more relevant insights
- **Skills order** - choose the order in which skills appear in your dashboard
- **Helix agents** - now available in trial and Helix-only Hubs
**Hub**
- Admins can now remove users from suppression lists when needed
- Filter asset and playlist progress by date to make reporting easier to manage
#### August 31, 2026
#### š£ 26.10 and 26.11Ā Release
Covering the latest updates and improvements delivered across releases **26.10 and 26.11:**
Helix
- Helix trial experience update: More flexible onboarding plans for different teams and greater control over which skills are included in initial analysis
- Faster processing of manually uploaded transcripts
- Improved handling of cancelled meetings
- Better access to additional email addresses
- More context-aware agent conversations based on whatās visible on screen
VeeCoach
- Improved handling of empty team contexts
- Improved content ingestion reliability
Platform
- Database upgrade for continued performance and reliability
- Fixed an issue where nudges werenāt always triggered at the end of shorter months
#### August 21, 2026
#### š£ 26.9Ā Release
Soft release with improvements to the Helix trial experience, support for additional Helix use cases, plus minor enhancements and bug fixes.
#### August 10, 2026
#### š£ 26.7Ā Release
Our latest release is primarily focused on Helix. Here's what's included:
Helix:Ā
- Multiple email addresses: Add extra email addresses to your account so Helix can analyse meetings across all of them. Additional addresses can be added in Settings or through the AI agent and must be verified before use. If you connect a calendar using a different email address, Helix will automatically add and verify it.
- Join ongoing meetings: Invite Helix into a meeting that's already in progress.
- Instant AI insights: If you already have meeting analysis, Helix now highlights key insights as soon as you open the app.
- Smarter AI assistant: The AI agent can now draw on more of your Helix data, including historical meeting analysis and information from across the platform, giving more relevant answers.
- Improved speaker matching: More accurate matching between meeting participants and transcript speakers.
- Better transcript uploads: If yourĀ name isn't recognised in an uploaded transcript, Helix will now let you identify which speaker you are before analysis begins.
And for the Hub:
- Small improvements and fixes in the My Teams area.
- Security enhancements through an update to our Single Sign-On (SSO) integration.
#### June 23, 2026
#### š£ 26.6Ā Release
Our June release brings some all-new features across our core HubĀ and AI products, including:
- Admin events management - create events, schedule sessions, book learners, and mark attendance
- New SDK for VeeCoach - improved UI and speed
- Upcoming on homepage - new tile to show users due dates and events on their homepage
- Homepage customisation - organise homepage tiles (order, delete and edit)
- Profile changes - upcoming replaces "To do" in profile area
#### May 22, 2026
#### š£ 26.5Ā Release
Our May release contains some big changes to how you can audience content within VeeCoach. Below is what's included in our 26.5 release:
- Tailor visibility of AI agent content (VeeCoach) based on Teams within your organisation
- Helix calendar integration with Microsoft and Google
- Connect VeeCreate (authoring) to additional AI tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot
#### Apr 17, 2026
#### š£ 26.4Ā Release
Our April release contains backend improvements, including:
- Automated content ingestion between Hub and VeeCoach
- VeeCreate content and courses indexed in The Hub (if VeeCoach enabled)
#### Mar 16, 2026
#### š£ 26.3Ā Release
The 26.3 contains the following new features:
- Ability to amend Playlist ownership in The Hub
- New agent capabilities in VeeCreate for faster content creation and editing
#### Feb 11, 2026
#### š£ 26.2Ā Release
The 26.2 release brings the following updates across the 5app product suite:
- Smarter SCIM sync in the Hub ā more granular team and credential data now flows automatically, reducing manual user management.
- Nudges pre-release report ā see all upcoming Nudges in advance so you can plan, coordinate, and control learner communications.
- Faster course updates in VeeCreate ā a built-in AI agent helps you amend content quickly, right where you're working.
- Improved editing and collaboration ā rich-text formatting and user tagging in comments make content clearer and collaboration smoother.
#### Jan 8, 2026
#### š£ 26.1 Release
The 26.1Ā release brings the following updates to the 5app product suite:
- Updated asset report to see which assets are included/excluded from VeeCoach (AI agent)
- New VeeCreate features, including a custom code tile
- Auto integration of Helix calendar (technical groundwork)
- New release naming convention in line with year of release (26)
#### Dec 16, 2025
#### š£ 11.14Ā Release
The 11.14 release brings enhanced privacy controls in Helix, including:
- Tailored feedback views ā show scores and feedback, scores only, or feedback only
- Quote visibility controls ā choose whether transcript quotes appear in feedback.
- Flexible summary emails ā turn post-meeting emails on or off.
- Anonymous heatmaps ā spot trends by team or department, without naming individuals
In The Hub we've also added greater control over comment subscriptionsĀ
#### Nov 22, 2025
#### š£ 11.13Ā Release
The 11.13 release has a tonneĀ of new [Helix](https://5app.com/helix?hsLang=en) features, along with some enhancements in The Hub.
Helix updates:
- Upgraded soft-skills library - increasing from the initial Core-9 leadership skills to over 90
- Group skills into sets and assign to individuals and teams for personalised skills measurement
- Rename skills in line with your organisation's skills and competency framework
- Add recommended content to each skill to help learners skills development
The Hub updates:
- New content sharing toggle to turn on/off sharing to all employees
Ā
#### Oct 29, 2025
#### š£ 11.12Ā Release
Ā The 11.12 release focuses on [Helix](https://5app.com/helix?hsLang=en), our AI-powered skills intelligence product. This includes:
- For Helix customers, we have additional permissions for controlling who has access to Helix data
#### Oct 17, 2025
#### š£ 11.11Ā Release
Ā For more granular reporting relating to compliance-based learning, we've added some more options to the following reports:
- Asset status report - add an option to include a due date column
- Playlist status report - add an option to include a due date column
- Added the last completion date column
- Due dates are shown if the learner hasn't completed the content and if the Nudge contains the option "show as due date"
#### Oct 16, 2025
#### š£ 11.10Ā Release
Our latest release brings some all-new features to the 5app product suite:
- Compliance Nudges - manage the delivery of compliance training through more personalised notificationsĀ and reminders on when to complete training
- Voice to text in VeeCoach - more accessible ways to access knowledge and coaching
- VeeCoach theme - pulls through your Hub theme
- Helix coach me on this - direct link to personalised coaching from your Helix feedback
- Helix skills descriptions - hover text to display the definition of each skill measured
#### Sep 4, 2025
#### š£ 11.9Ā Release
Our latest product release delivers speed enhancements throughout the platform
#### Aug 14, 2025
#### š£ 11.8 Release
Our latest product release delivers:
- VeeCoach updates in beta, with enhancements through Mindset.ai SDK 2.0
- Additional content authoring features through VeeCreate
- Minor bug fixes
#### Jul 18, 2025
Ā
#### š§¬ Helix Early Access is Here
#### Jul 14, 2025
Ā
#### āØ Vee updates
Updates to our AI portfolio: our tutor agent, VeeCoach and authoring tool, VeeCreate:
**VeeCreate updates**
- Import Easy Generator and Articulate files can be imported directly into VeeCreate for editing
- New settings icon to control the design, styling and AI model defaults
- Export content built in VeeCreate as links, PDF and SCORM files
- New interactive tiles to add images to multiple-choice questions & answers
- New ranking tool to rearrange the order of answers
- New generation tool for infographics and diagrams with just a few prompts
**VeeCoach updates**
- Capabilities within VeeCoach can now be triggered through a search term such as "role-play" and "reflection session
#### Jun 10, 2025
Ā
#### āØ VeeCoach Updates
In our most recent updates, we have made enhancements to our tutor agent, VeeCoach. This includes a new capabilities feature that allows admins to:
- Structured and dynamic workflows for any scenario
- Proactive coaching via automated triggers
- Workflows linked to your organisation's content and external sources
Ā
#### May 12, 2025
Ā
#### āØ VeeCreateĀ Updates
We've integrated more enhancements to our AI content creation tool, VeeCreate, including:
- Text to generativeĀ AI video through prompting
- Translation to 30+ languages
- Articulate Rise file importer to edit and manage Articulate courses
- Branched scenario mapping for interactive video projects
#### Apr 25, 2025
Ā
#### š£ 11.5 Release
Our latest release (11.5) is now here, featuring some all-new Nudge and reporting functionality that you've been after. Let's dive into the details:Ā
- Automatic content resets - schedule content resets for your audiences with Nudges
- Announcements reporting - ability to see engagement with platform announcements
- Russian language added
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
#### Mar 26, 2025
Ā
#### š£ 11.4 Release
Our 11.4 release brings with it some exciting new features to elevate the admin and user experience, including:
- Content status editor - update the completion status of content in your Hub
- All new tools menu (admins) - quick access to helpful admin tools
- Duplication of Nudges
- Previous feature releases are now available as standard, including sections, playlist editing and updated navigation bar
Ā
#### Mar 17, 2025
Ā
#### š£ Introducing our 2025 line-up
Our latest line-up of [5app propositions](https://5app.com/pricing?hsLang=en) has now been unveiled to the world and features:
- **Core** - our elegantly simple learning management system (Hub) - designed for rapid knowledge transfer
- **Core Pus** - the Hub, plus our AI-powered tutor agent VeeCoach
- **Core Max** - the Hub, VeeCoach, and our AI-powered content authoring tool, VeeCreate
#### Feb 6, 2025
Ā
#### š£ 11.3 Release
11.3 brings in-app Announcements to all Hub admins, and some enhanced Vee integrations:
- Platform admins have in-product banners to highlight important news from the 5app team including new product updates, enhancements and Hub status
- Vee integrates in to quick search to quickly call upon the AI-agent
- Vee also available from the search results page to continue your learning journey
Ā
#### Jan 8, 2025
Ā
#### š£ 11.0 Release
Our first release of the year brings:
- Improvements to the asset editor UI
- Edit distributed assets within the viewer and elements of a distributed Playlist
#### Dec 10, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.13 Release
Our latest release is a big one and features all new features within the Hub, including:
- All-new Playlist Page editor for managing Playlists and Assets in your platform
- New pinning feature to manage Playlist ordering on both Browse and Topics pages
- New navigation bar layout
- New homepage customisation options
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#### Nov 13, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.10 Release
Our 10.10 release brings a whole heap of speed enhancements and bug fixes, along with some exciting beta features on AI search, auto content suggestions, and brand new Playlist pagesāready for forthcoming releases.Ā
#### Oct 21, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.9 Release
Our 10.9 maintenance release upgraded our MySQL database to 8.0 - providing greater stability, speed, and security to all Hubs.
#### Sept 26, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.8 Release
Introducing our new, streamlined reporting tools along with some user & admin enhancements to Playlists and thumbnails.
Ā
š£Ā Remastered Reporting
We're overhauling our reporting suites to provide you with more consistency when extracting data from the Hub - this begins with member reporting, which gives admins:
- Combined view of member list & activity reports
- Flexible audience management of data extract
- Standardised column naming and layout
Ā
š£ **Playlist UI enhancements**
Ā
Refined Playlist experience for both the learner and the admin, including:
- Clearer navigation for opening & closing sections
- New icons to indicate locked sections
- Single button to edit Playlist
- Single page to edit Playlist content and structure
Ā
š£ Quality of life enhancements
- Increasing the resolution of thumbnails - we'll automatically pull through a higher-quality version of your thumbnail from our servers to improve the visuals within your Hub
- Edit email addresses - remove conflicts with in-active learners
#### Sept 3, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.7 Release
Introducing section locking as an all new way to control the learner's journey through a Playlist:
Ā
š£ **Sections unlocked**
Content creators can now control how and when content is accessible to the learner through the Playlist. Sections can be unlocked through content completion, Ā a specific date, or manually controlled by the admin.
Ā
š£ Quality of life enhancements
- New markdown options when creating or editing a Nudge
- Improved UX when updating Playlist thumbnail - including our drag & drop content module
#### July 26, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.6 Release
š£ **Search. Upgraded**
To ensure you find the most relevant content quicker than ever, we've upgraded our native search to include tags in quick search and an updated search results page.
Ā
š£ Thumbnail preview tool
When updating your Playlist thumbnails, we now surface a preview to ensure you know how it will look across the platform.
Ā
š£ Asset editor
Edit the asset directly through the asset viewing page without having to switch between multiple tabs & windows.
Ā
š£ Multi-SSO
For clients with multiple single sign-on points, we automatically locate your SSO entry point through your email address.
#### June 24, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.5 Release
Introducing our new Playlist Manager (BETA), along with enhancements to the admin experience.
Ā
š£ **Playlist Manager (BETA)**
This is an all-new way to manage and curate your content. Including the introduction of subsections, the ability to preview your Playlist before publishing, and enhancements to content management and ordering.
Ā
š£ Quality of life improvements
- Images embedded in notification emails
- Add complex URLs that contain commas
- Personalisation of admin shares
#### May 24, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.4 Release
Optional content, enhancements to asset management, and an increased file size limit are now available to all customers.
Ā
š£ **Optional content**Ā
[Optional Content](https://youtu.be/J7IKIakr0do?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9n9_z6M4VLPCKpIXR9OF8gYeUYL3_xUXwEWN7X6hLj7zSsn_CAX4LpsvN8DpN-3dPtuzQn) allows you to mark any content (Asset or Playlist link) as optional or required. Optional Content does not count towards Playlist completionĀ statistics.
Ā
š£ File size limit increased to 3GB
The file size limit of individual assets and SCORM packages has been raised from 1.5GB to 3 GB to support larger content packages in the Hub.
Ā
š£ Restoring deleted Assets
if you have mistakenly deleted an Asset, you can now view the file before restoring it to your Hub.
Ā
š£ New Asset fields
To improve asset management in your Hub, when uploading newĀ contentĀ on the front end, you'llĀ nowĀ see two new fields: owning team (Team Playlists) and custom data (third-party integration).
#### May 1, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.3 Release
Visual enhancements for Playlists, deeper admin permissions for managing content and users, and deeper integration with Mircosoft Teams
Ā
š£ **Visual enhancements to Playlists**
Weāve updated how progress against Playlists and Content Assets are displayed in your Hub.Ā
Ā
š£ **Target folder setting**
When adding new content assets to a Playlist in the Hub (front-end), admins and Playlist owners can now determine the folder in which the asset is housed and set a default folder location for future uploads.
Ā
š£ Removing users from Teams
When deleting a team en masse, we now allow it to be deleted even if users are assigned, allowing you to rapidly remove unwanted Teams from your Hub.Ā
Ā
š£ Deeper integration with [Microsoft Teams](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software)
For customers with MS Teams integration, we now deliver all Nudges and platform invitations from 5app to Teams. More info is available in our user guides [here](https://docs.5app.com/guides/microsoft-teams).
#### April 15, 2024
Ā
#### š£ SCIM support
We've added SCIM as another method of syncing user data and access with an identity provider.
Ā
Ā š£Ā **SCIM is now available to all customers**
SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is the best system for managing members' identities and subscriptions.Ā It is a standard supported by many identity providers, such as Microsoft and Okta. It provides a similar function to the 5app User Importer while being easier to set up with existing cloud services (no code), more automated, and operating closer to real-time.
Read our full guide [here](https://docs.5app.com/guides/scim)
#### April 8, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.2 Release
Speeding up admin tasks with the following enhancements:
Ā
Ā š£Ā **Introducing change logs**
Admins can now see contextual links when viewing user or asset data in the analytics tab of the Admin Dashboard. Clicking through will surface changes made within the Hub, which can be exported as CSV files.
Ā
š£Ā Content change logs
The Content changelog will also display a list of amendments made within your Hub, with the option to restore any accidental deletions.
Ā
š£ Content sharing updates
When a content asset is shared with a team member, it will now open within the specific Playlist from which it was shared instead of being a standalone content asset.
Ā
š£ **SSO user enhancement**
Weāve improved and simplified the messaging employees receive if they try to use single sign-on to access a Hub they donāt have access to.
#### March 15, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.1 Release
Providing more customisation when designing and building your Playlists.
Ā
Ā š£Ā **Optional content in Playlists**
Content assets or Playlinks links can now be marked as optional within a Playlist and will not count towards a user's completion statistics.Ā
Ā
š£Ā Playlist permissions
Enhanced UI when adding Playlist Links to a Playlist and how it will affect user access.
Ā
š£ UI enhancements
- Clearing your search text when clicking on the āxā next to the search bar
- Playlist links that an employee does not have access to will no longer be displayed in Playlists
- Admins can search for employees by name, as well as email, on the user's page
#### January 10, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 10.0 Release
Speeding up the management of your content assets
To allow for faster content management within your Hub, you can now batch-update thumbnails of assets, playlists, and topics by selecting multiple objects within the Admin Dashboard.
---
#### December 15, 2024
Ā
#### š£ 9.13 Release
Ensuring your content always looks the part of your platform.
Ā
š£ **Playlist curation checker**
Within the Admin Dashboard, you can now see a new menu option that, at a glance, shows you what's missing from your Playlist: thumbnail, description, tags and topics.
Ā
š£ **Customise site footer**
The footer is your Ā Hub now has the customer/partner name first. Site owners can still adjust the text and link within the Admin Dashboard.
#### November 23, 2023
Ā
#### š£ 9.12 Release
Playlist numbering and greater customisation of Content sharing.
Ā
š£ **Customisable sharing**
For a more personalised learner experience, we've enhanced how a user or an admin shares content with other members within the platform through both Nudges and Content sharing.
Ā
š£ **Playlist numbering**
As part of our continued drive to enhance Playlists, we've added the ability to determine whether numbering appears within a Playlist.
#### October 31, 2023
### š£ 9.11 Release
New functionality within the user's Profile page
Ā
š£ **Profile page enhancements**
Your profile provides you with an individualised view of your activity and assigned learning materials. We've made it even easier for employees to manage their activity, access useful information, and monitor any assigned learning programmes.
Ā
š£ **NudgesĀ switchover**
Our new Nudges functionality is now available to all customer and partners
#### September 22, 2023
#### š£ 9.10 Release
Playlist links, time zones in Nudges and new language support
Ā
š£ **Timezones in Nudges**
Weāve added the ability to set a time zone when building Nudges. Time zones will automatically adjust for any daylight savings, and everyone will see the Nudge at the same local time.
Ā
š£ Playlist Links
Playlist Links now appear as full-width cards in a Playlist - improving both the visuals and administration of thumbnails
Ā
š£ **NudgesĀ switchover**
Weāre adding Taiwanese and Korean to our languages suite - admins will see these appear within the General tab of the Admin Dashboard.
#### August 25, 2023
#### š£ 9.9 Release
Automate your comms and learning pathways with our enhanced Nudges
Ā
š£ **Introducing Nudges 2.0**
We've redesigned the UI to provide you with greater flexibility when building and implementing pathways for your users.
#### August 1, 2023
#### š£ Microsoft Teams integration
We now integrate the [5app platform](https://5app.com/platform?hsLang=en) and [Microsoft Teams app](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software) for organisations using the Microsoft Office suite. On integration allows for the following to appear as notifications within the Teams app:
\- 5app user notifications (Nudges) - linking to content in your Hub
\- Platform invitations - linking to account set-up
FullĀ documentation of this integration is availableĀ [here.](https://docs.5app.com/guides/microsoft-teams)
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