# Renewed media area... and some more!

[date: 2019-12-06T00:00:00.000+01:00]

We have just released the biggest single update ever done to DatoCMS!

Here's a succinct list of all the changes that we have released.

Most importantly a big set of features strictly linked with the media area that you can read in the [blog post](https://www.datocms.com/blog/discover-the-all-new-datocms-asset-management.md).

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Very briefly:

-   **video support** via integration with [Mux](https://mux.com/)
-   **HSL video streaming**
    
-   thumbnail and meta data extraction
-   **extraction of meta data and Blurhash from images**
    
-   **redesign of the UI** to support different image layouts and dimensions
-   advanced sorting and filtering
    
-   shared/personal filters to **group and organize content**
-   **video previews**
    
-   show where the image is used
-   the APIs have changed in a backward compatible manner to support all these changes and also our clients are supporting all the new features already
    

While doing that we also worked on a set of related feature requests:

-   [Filter now persists while editing items](https://community.datocms.com/t/editor-filter-should-persist-while-editing-items/432)
-   [Audio previews](https://community.datocms.com/t/audio-previews/436)
    
-   [Remember active content item](https://community.datocms.com/t/remember-active-content-item/519)
-   [Remove infinite scroll in favour of pagination](https://community.datocms.com/t/remove-infinite-scroll-in-favour-of-pagination/366)
    
-   [Allow the user to group uploads in the media area](https://community.datocms.com/t/allow-the-user-to-group-uploads-in-the-media-area/342) we are supporting this via a mixture of tags and filters, with the possiblity of saving and sharing them across the team
-   \[Make default “settings” menu item optional\](Make default “settings” menu item optional) when removing the permission to edit the global SEO settings the menu icon will also disappear
    
-   [Link from model settings to content](https://community.datocms.com/t/link-from-model-settings-to-record-collection-instance/469) a little but useful feature :)
-   [Keep scope when editing nested objects / use record back button to go back to parent record](https://community.datocms.com/t/keep-scope-when-editing-nested-objects-use-record-back-button-to-go-back-to-parent-record/547) by opening modals when editing nested content
    
-   [Require image alt text](https://community.datocms.com/t/require-image-alt-text/94)
    

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