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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Improved breadcrumbs in the Media Library
Breadcrumbs now clearly show your location when browsing folders and collections so you always know where you are.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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