What’s new
User facing changes to the Mercury admin, newest first. The admin shows the latest of these in the What’s new dialog (user menu → What’s new) the first time you sign in after a release.
August 2026
- Pitches: the new share link dialog opens on top of the pitch panel. See Pitches.
July 2026
- Labels: a Published switch on the label panel controls the label page. See Labels.
- Pitches: share codes. Create links with optional expiry, download access and group bypass; copy or delete existing links.
- Transactions: download, generate or regenerate the licence PDF for each licence on a transaction. See Transactions and licences.
- Track search shows the version title next to the track title so versions can be told apart.
June 2026
- Brand settings: upload a logo and favicon on Settings → General.
- Download dialog redesigned for single and multi track exports. See Download audio from the admin.
- Subpublishing pages show release codes instead of slugs, and ingestion badges distinguish original from subpublished content.
- Tag browsing in the tracks, albums and playlists filters. See Tags.
- Counts and links: album counts on labels; track and album counts on composers, artists and publishers; collections tables show where each item appears, with links back from the tracks page.
- Album Published state is saved when creating an album; searching within one album shows an album preview above the results.
- Consistent delete confirmations everywhere, and lists refresh after a delete.
- Improved batch edit layout and faster tag list refresh.
April 2026
- Unblock users who are locked out after too many failed sign ins. See Reset a password or unblock a user.
- Tag category reordering on its own page. See Tag order.
- Long tag names truncate cleanly; chapter buttons show whether a chapter exists.
March 2026
- Pre-approved email domains skip approval when the pending users flow is on. See Access settings.
- Notification settings reorganised into clearer event groups. See Notification settings.
February 2026
- Notification preferences: choose which events send email alerts.
- Multiselect actions on albums and pending users.
- Delete publishers and tags from their panels.
- Improved audio upload on the track panel; redesigned user panel.
- “Releases” renamed to albums throughout the admin. See Releases and recordings.
January 2026
- Multiselect actions on subpublishing incoming and outgoing tables.
- Ingestion errors show release code and track number. See Fix import errors.
- Click an album name or code on a track to open the album.
- Option to include artwork in downloads.
December 2025
- Client analytics: usage stats with charts and date filters. See Stats.
- Tracks with failed or missing audio, and unpublished playlists and pitches, appear dimmed.
November 2025
- Hide or show tags based on visibility state; filters for artwork state and published status.
- Pending users count badge in the navigation; locked out users clearly indicated.
October 2025
- Deliveries: monitor sync status to external music services. See Deliveries overview.
- CSV export for table data.
- Subpublishing overhaul: incoming, outgoing and agreements with group by views and urgency coloured badges. See How subpublishing works.
September 2025
- Navigation badges for items needing attention.
- Ingestigator shown in settings when it is your ingestion source. See Ingestigator.
- Label panel supports groups and additional fields; composer picker on the artist panel.
July to August 2025
- Ingest progress bars for several imports at once, with detailed error summaries for failed audio and artwork. See Import metadata.
- Improved panel footers, playlist track picker and subpublishing empty states.
May to June 2025
- Content: pages, posts and categories with a rich text editor and SEO preview. See Pages.
- Playlists show their tags in the list; extra user fields (company, tax number, usage).
- Upload audio when creating a track; larger artwork thumbnails.
January to April 2025
- Labels, translatable fields, pagination and advanced recording and release fields.
- Inline audio player and upload on track forms; multilingual chapter names.
- Recordings management; subpublishing inbox and outbox; plugin and template management.
- Chapters on tracks and playlists; editable navigation items in organisation settings.
November to December 2024
- First release of the Mercury admin: tracks, authentication and organisation switching, then albums with date pickers.