Assets release notes: July 7, 2025

Last updated: Jul-7-2025

We publish Cloudinary Assets (DAM) release notes periodically, providing you a quick overview of all the new features, enhancements, and fixes that have been recently released for Admins and Media Library Users. When relevant, they may also give sneak previews of upcoming features and/or other important announcements.

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Features described in these release notes may be available in the Assets Free plan as well.

New features

Require rejection reason

Promote consistency and accountability in your moderation process by requiring users to select a reason when rejecting assets manually.

  • Capture rejection reasons using a structured metadata field.

  • Automatically prompt users for a reason each time they reject an asset from the Moderation page.

Rejection reason

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Enhancements

Filters in the asset selector

It's now easier to find exactly what you need when using the asset picker, whether you're adding assets to a collection, editing them in Studio, relating assets, and more.

You can now apply filters directly in the picker to narrow your results and speed up your workflow.

Asset picker with filters

Quick Favorites access in the left navigation

Now folders, collections, and saved searches starred as favorites are even more easily accessible from the left navigation menu.

Favorites in left menu

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Streamlined login for the Figma Plugin

Logging in to Cloudinary’s Figma Plugin is now quicker and easier. You can select your cloud name from a dropdown list. No need to switch back to the Cloudinary Console to look it up.

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Improved breadcrumbs in the Media Library

Breadcrumbs now clearly show your location when browsing folders and collections so you always know where you are.

Media Library breadcrumbs

Account management

Enhanced backup settings UI

There's now a new and improved Backup Console Settings page for backing up new uploads and existing assets.

Backup

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Assigning users to product environments

From the User Management > Users page in Console Settings, you can now assign users to product environments directly by clicking the Product Environments column. Assign up to 30 environments, or select All with a single click.

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Installed add-ons in the new Add-on Marketplace

Most accounts now have access to the Add-on Marketplace, accessible from the left sidebar. From the Marketplace, you can register for new add-ons and manage the ones you already have.

Add-ons icon in left sidebar

Previously, this page only showed available add-ons. Now, a new Installed Add-ons tab lets you view and manage the add-ons you already have, all in one place.

Installed add-ons in the new Add-on Marketplace

Note
Some accounts may still see the legacy add-ons page under Settings > Add-ons instead. Those accounts will be gradually upgraded to the new Add-on Marketplace over time.

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View video usage by resolution in the Dashboard

You can now drill down into video usage by resolution directly in the Seconds of Delivered Video by Resolution graph on the developer Dashboard.

This update lets you see how viewers engage with your content at different resolutions by showing video seconds broken down accordingly.

Accounts with video billing plans: The graph also shows billable seconds by resolution. These are calculated by multiplying viewed seconds by a resolution-specific ratio, giving you insight into how resolution impacts billing.

Billable seconds

Other accounts: Accounts without video billing plans still benefit from the enhanced view, with video seconds segmented by resolution for greater visibility into viewing behavior.

Video seconds by resolution

Note
Video resolution data is only available for usage starting in mid-March 2025. Earlier usage won't include resolution information.

Announcements

Base44 Integration

Cloudinary now offers a Base44 integration as part of our new AI-powered tools that let agents apply Cloudinary operations in your product environment and generate integration-ready code.

Base44 is a no-code automation agent that has a Cloudinary integration with preloaded knowledge of Cloudinary's features and direct access to Cloudinary's MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. Use it to quickly create full apps with natural language prompts.

Base44 Integration

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Coming soon

Improved Focus Area Refiner

In the Analysis tab of an asset's Manage page, you can use Define Area of Interest to manually select the part of the image that Cloudinary uses for automatic cropping.

You can also define named regions by setting coordinates, which you can later reference in transformations (for example, using g_region_necklace or g_region_shoes) to crop to specific areas you've selected and named.

A new, more intuitive UI is coming soon to make it easier to define and manage these focus areas.

Manage derived assets from the Manage page

You can currently view a list of derived assets on the Derived Assets tab of the Manage page. Soon, you’ll also be able to manage derived assets directly from that page, including downloading, and opening the derived asset in a new tab, and editing the transformation.

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