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.