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Release notes · 3 August 2026
A redesigned Role Scalar in Shadow, with better PowerPoint presenter notes and image search in Sift
This release redesigns the Role Scalar experience in Shadow, improves PowerPoint presenter notes, layout selection and Organisational Styles in Sphere, and makes images and document reprocessing easier to follow in Sift.
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Highlights
Shadow
Improvement
Review and quality-assure roles in a redesigned Role Scalar
The Role Scalar area has been refreshed to provide a clearer, more modern experience when reviewing and quality-assuring role information.
Three distinct view options make it easier to explore role data in different ways. The updated presentation provides a clearer overview of the role structure. A new mind-map view supports more visual exploration and quality review. Improvement
Citation cards are easier to read
Citation cards have been refined with improved line breaks and spacing, making supporting evidence easier to read and review.
Sphere
Improvement
More useful, slide-specific PowerPoint presenter notes
Generated PowerPoint presentations now provide more useful, slide-specific presenter notes while retaining clear traceability to the relevant Objective and Key Learning Point.
Notes are tailored to the instructional purpose of each slide. Supporting information can include explanations, questions, expected responses, misconceptions and transitions. Repetitive amplification content is reduced. Presenter notes remain editable in the downloaded PowerPoint. Improvement
Preview PowerPoint layouts more accurately
The PowerPoint layout-selection experience has been refined to provide a more accurate preview of the downloaded presentation.
Layout icons now correspond more closely with the resulting slide. Image and text positioning is represented more accurately. Preview spacing and placement have been improved. Improvement
Manage your organisation's presentation design more easily
The Organisational Styles area has been updated to make it easier to understand and manage an organisation's presentation design.
Font, colour and logo options are now presented more clearly, helping users create a consistent visual identity across generated resources. Fix
HTML presentation spacing and space warnings now behave correctly
Spacing and space-warning behaviour within HTML presentations have been corrected, providing a more reliable editing experience.
Sift
Improvement
Find diagrams and images in your documents
Sift has been improved to make diagrams and other embedded images easier to find and identify.
Searches can now return relevant images from image-bearing PDF documents as standalone results. Image citations are identified more clearly in the Sources panel. The originating document name and page number remain available for provenance. Existing image previews and lightbox controls remain available. Improvement
See clearer progress when reprocessing documents
The document-reprocessing experience now provides clearer progress information.
Users can more easily see whether a document has been queued, claimed by a processing worker or is actively progressing. This reduces uncertainty when reprocessing larger documents. ← Older · 26 July 2026
Interactive HTML presentations arrive in Sphere, with faster document processing in Sift Newer · 10 August 2026 →
A refreshed Sphere experience and new Find and Ask modes in Sift