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Release Notes

These release notes are regularly updated to share the latest improvements, new features, and fixes released onto the platform.

January 2026

New Features:

  • Showcase Page: Supressing Content via API. Administrators can use the API endpoints to hide reports from the Showcase page.  This option offers flexibility when choosing which content is visible on the Showcase page. See Showcase: Supressing Content via API. 
  • Showcase Page: ‘Show covers’. A new metadata option is now available that allows administrators to decide whether to display the contents Showcase covers or not. 
  • Showcase Page: List Content. New list content section added. List all content with a selected category. See Showcase: List Content 

Beta:

  • Primary & Secondary logos API’s. Administrators can configure the primary and secondary logos via the provided API endpoints. See Primary & Secondary Logo APIs. 
  • PCN: Post Notifications API. Administrators can create PCN notifications for content created via API endpoints. See PCN: Post Notifications API. 

Improvements:

  • The previously optional "Download Only Experience" General Preference is now always available as a preference. 
  • The previously optional ‘bulk import of reports’ page is now always available. 
  • The previously optional ‘analyst’ column in the bulk metadata import is now always available. 
  • The previously optional ‘category’ columns in the bulk metadata import are now always available. 
  • The previously optional ‘PCN topic groups’ are now always available. 
  • The previously optional ‘PCN notification pausing’ is now always available. 
  • The previously optional preview of ‘matching PCN topics’ on the report metadata page is now always on. 
  • Account managers' instant marketing page access notification has been moved to a user preference and applies to all managed accounts. 

Fixed Issues:

  • Fixed an issue with hidden categories showing as empty strings on the My Accounts Hub sales lead page. 
  • Fixed an issue with duplicate entries in the analytics > general dropdown, preventing Excel file export. 
  • Fixed an issue with the  double header on edit saved search screen in the active theme. 

Deprecations:

  • GET authenticate method has been removed. API authentication now only available via the PUT method only. 
  • Legacy MarketSight integration has been removed. 
  • Legacy Account Manager management page has been removed. Account Managers must now be added via the admin rights page. See Create an Account Manager. 
  • Legacy Account Manager instant marketing page access notification component has been removed. 
  • Legacy "custom" account manager route has been removed; only users who exist in the platform can be account managers. 
  • The legacy "custom" account manager form has been removed from the POST /account-managers API endpoint. 
  • The PUT /account-managers/{id} for updating custom account manager details has been removed. Account Managers are users and can be managed via the PUT /accounts/{accountName}/subscribers/{username} endpoint. 

December 2025

New Features:

  •  Contour BI is now available as a plugin type.

Improvements:

  • Improvements to the Showcase page's performance on sites with larger category trees and content.

Fixed Issues:

  • Fixed an issue with external links not opening in an external window when set as such.
  • Fixed an issue where the register button was displayed on sites even if no accounts were set as 'Allow anyone to Register' or 'Allow Registration with access code'.
  • Fixed an issue with the sort icon on the MyAccounts Hub page table.

  • Fixed an issue with instant access links not working on the Showcase page. 
  • Fixed an issue with font loading behaviour on the Showcase page.
  • Fixed an issue where the "open link in new tab" configuration was not being recorded when set. 


November 2025

New Features:

  • DocuViewer: Available for sites with the Showcase page enabled. The DocuViewer allows users to easily engage with PDF & PowerPoint reports.

Improvements:

  • Increased the file size limits for bulk importing users.

Fixed Issues:

  • Fixed an issue where the Showcase licensed and unlicensed sections were not filtering correctly to the selected categories.
  • Fixed an issue where weekly numbers were not showing on the Account Manager Hub Charts.
  • Fixed an issue with MyCatalyst that was preventing the indexing stage of PowerPoint reports.  

October 2025

New Features:

Account Growth Suite:

  • Account managers now receive a summary of sales activity for their managed accounts.

  • The Account Hub & Leads area has been created to encourage the use of account managers. These pages display account and marketing activity for each account.
  • Account managers can now be created via the admin rights tab. Please take a look at the updated article: Create an Account Manager.

Fixed Issues:

  • Fixed an issue with lost redirect URL context with expired JSON Web Tokens.


September 2025

New Features:

  • A chatbot is now available in the site's admin areas, allowing users to access guide articles more quickly. 
  • A Power BI License filter has been added to the list of queries that can be run via the Analysis > General section.  

Improvements: 

  • The User Management page is now optimised for better performance. 

Fixed Issues:

  • Fixed an issue where search result groupings were not ordered by title. 

August 2025

New Features:

  • The Promoted Content section allows administrators to showcase content lists directly to individual subscribers or accounts or globally to all users. This section has been released in BETA, so the API's are subject to change. See Showcase: Promoted Content.
  • New API Endpoints can now be used to manage showcase categories and content cover images. See Showcase: Category and Content Images API. 

Improvements: 

  • Improved UX when adding or editing custom header links. 
  • When adding new showcase sections, descriptions have now been added to the "add" menu.
  • The PDF/slide viewer now offers an option to hide the "downloads page" button from portrait pages. 

Fixed Issues:

  • Fixed an issue with the chevron alignment in the Showcase sidebar for categories wrapping into 2 lines. 
  • Filtering of the showcase sidebar is now more consistent.
  • Fixed an issue where the Showcase Hero section image would be stuck in a "pending delete" state when deleting the image. 

July 2025

New Features: 

  • The Showcase page helps you highlight valuable content, drive subscriber engagement, and personalise access based on user licensing. For more information, see Showcase: Getting Started.
  • Easily add internal and external links to the headers and top navigation area of the site. This can be customised, and branding can be matched similar to the primary and secondary colours configuration.  For more information, see Showcase: Header & Navbar Links. 
  • Added option to include all site-wide searches and filters in the RabbitMQ queue. 

Improvements: 

  • When selecting a single report in the admin area, such as single title licenses or linked reports, previous selections are remembered within the filters.
  • Performance improvements were made on the all users' admin page. 

Fixed Issues:

  • Fixed an issue where pending PCN notifications could block users from being deleted. 
  • Fixed an issue where race condition returned stale report cache in a small number of cases. 

June 2025

Improvements: 

  • Various improvements to the site deployment pipeline.
  • Improved usage of the Content Catalyst RAG by external LLMs for MyCatalyst AI
  • Our OIDC SSO implementation has been extended to allow 2 concurrent site-wide configurations for easier client a/b testing, zero downtime client testing, and zero downtime migration from one configuration to another.
  • Our OIDC SSO implementation has been extended to allow account level configurations alongside site-wide configuration.
  • Now allows account and user creation if the account/user doesn't exist in-platform.
  • Our OIDC SSO implementation has been extended to allow site-wide configurations to specify the OIDC claim to be used for the in-platform account name/company name.
  • Our OIDC SSO implementation has been extended to allow site-wide configurations to hash the OIDC account name claim to use for the in-platform account name.

Fixed Issues: 

  • Fixed an issue where newly deployed site weren't creating the list of reports other users viewed.
  • Fixed issue where trying to delete large numbers of users would fail.
  • Fixed an issue where the Prevent Whole Report Download Preference wasn't being correctly applied for some users.
  • Fixed an incorrect guide article link from the account and user admin management pages.
  • The OIDC authentication module now looks at both the User Info and the Token Claims for certain user information.
  • Fixed issue with MyCatalyst content indexing getting stuck.

May 2025

  • Fixed Issues: Fixed issue with captcha verification when contacting the account manager. 

March 2025

New Features: 

  • Our OIDC SSO implementation, which previously allowed per-customer OIDC SSO, has been extended to allow a single site-wide configuration, allowing for easier SSO implementation.
  • All sites have API rate limits set on API requests. See API: Application Programming Interfaces
  • A new endpoint has been added, allowing API users to return all ‘Category’ license information for an account and all users in that account.
  • A new endpoint has been added, allowing API users to return all ‘Report’ license information for an account and all users in that account.
  • Sites can now enable 2FA. Once support has enabled this setting, users who want to authenticate via the API without 2FA requirements must be added to an API allow list. 
    Contact support@contentcatalyst.com if you would like this enabled.
  • An Optional feature is now available that will disallow users from setting passwords that commonly appear in data breaches. Contact support@contentcatalyst.com if you would like this to be enabled.

Improvements: 

  • OIDC SSO now uses the "sub" claim as the username instead of the "email address" claim.
  • The maximum username length has been increased to 255 characters to support the maximum possible OIDC "sub" value.
  • Content Catalyst sites have been optimised to offer only essential cookies.
  • The performance optimised report library cache has been rolled out to all clients.
  • The Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot handling logic has been enhanced to minimise bots' impact on sites.
  • Hardened authentication further against brute force user password attacks.

Fixed Issues: 

  • Better job queue multithreading: fixed an issue where site job queues could become locked.
  • ReturnUrl parameter: Added support for the return URL parameter to SSO to /auth/{provider_name} and /auth/{provider_name}/callback entry points.

February 2025

New Features: 

  • A new app setting has been introduced that allows us to help customers define session expiration time site by site. The default session expiration time is 12 hours. If customers would like to have expiration times in line with OWASP guidelines of 5 - 10 minutes, please contact support@contentcatalyst.com. 

Improvements: 

  • When a user password is changed, all user sessions from any location or browser will end immediately. This is to help improve security across all sites.
  • Work has been done to ensure better handling of symbols such as (!"#£$%'()^&*-+_+=`¬|\/>,<.|\@¡¢¤¥¦§¨©️«®️°±µ»¿ etc) in report titles. 
  • If MFA is enabled on a site, a site API user can now be added to a bypass list, allowing them to authenticate without using MFA.
    Please contact support@contentcatlyst.com for more details.

Fixed Issues: 

  • Fixed an issue where the latest report metadata was not immediately displayed in admin areas.

December 2024

New Features: 

  • Bulk user management tools in your platform help you identify and manage users who have not recently accessed their reports, re-engage them, or adjust access as needed. See User Management.

November 2024

Fixed Issues: 

  • Fixed an issue where the return URL was not retained when a non-SSO user logs into an enterprise-enabled site.

October 2024

New Features: 

  • Gain tighter, more secure control over your platform with the new Site Administration role. This role enforces stricter control over site-wide configurations and assignment of administrative responsibilities, ensuring only the right people have access to critical settings.
  • Keep your admin team’s permissions transparent and secure with our new dedicated Admin Audit page. View user permissions and easily export audit trails to understand who holds specific admin rights and when assignments were made, for greater clarity across your team.
  • Manage the MyCatalyst AI chat service through a new dedicated area in the site admin menu. This allows admins to customise settings for MyCatalyst, including the priority given to more recent content and the creativity allowed in responses, giving you more control over the AI-driven responses given on your platform.

Improvements: 

  • Improved performance for the login tracking feature, helping administrators monitor user engagement through accurate login counts and timestamps.
  • Improvements to the accuracy of indexing published content, allowing MyCatalyst to deliver more accurate AI-driven responses, ensuring the tool surfaces the most relevant insights and data.

August 2024  

Improvements: 

  • ChatGPT 4.0 was added as a model option to MyCatalyst.ai. 
  • Improvements to MyCalayst's handling of large report libraries. 

July 2024 

New Features: 

MyCatalyst is an AI-powered discovery chat tool that is now available as an additional feature for subscribers.  Contact the client success team for more information. 

Improvements: 

  • Performance improvements around report cache processing after report updates.
  • Further WAF improvements.

June 2024 

Improvements: 

Personalised Content Notifications:

  • Increase pause duration to allow up to 15 days' worth of pausing.
  • Show 'paused until' notification in both UTC and local time.

Fixed Issues: 

  • Optimised creation of 'Also looked At' report lists.
  • Fixed issue where Personalised Content Notifications subscribers may receive multiple notifications for the same report.

May 2024 

Improvements: 
  • Personalised Content Notifications can now have a dedicated from address. 
  • Increased account name length limit.

March 2024

Improvements:

  • Security improvement where authentication API endpoint now uses the POST method.

Fixed Issues: 

  • Fixed issue with users accessing a report containing Vimeo plugin content when the Vimeo plugin had been disabled.

February 2024

Improvements:

Personalised Content Notifications:

  • Notification emails can now be paused.
  • Instant access link lifetime is now configurable.
  • Reports now show which topics match their categorisation.

Fixed Issues: 

  • Fixed issue where users with chargebacks couldn’t be deleted.

January 2024

Improvements:

  • Guest user configuration for open sites now has a dedicated admin page.


Archived Release Notes

Archived release notes are available here.