Release notes

To see what new features we are planning to release, click here. For a list of the all the released MetaShare features, see the list below, where the releases are displayed in descending date-order (the latest release on the top).

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22 September 2025

Improvements to email sending functionality, minimizing delays which users were sometimes experiencing.

17 September 2025

MetaShare Orbit is updated with:

  • an advanced option to write query conditions using Keyword Query Language
  • the possibility to test rules before activating them
  • the possibility to filter your defined rules in the rules page based on action (delete and move) and state (draft, published and inactive)

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4 August 2025

Until now, users with the “Content administrator” role could set a primary administrator account in MetaShare settings. For improved security, we’ve added a new app role called “Security administrator”. Only users with this role are able to access the new Security settings page and manage “Site Collection Administrator” and “Secondary Site Collection Administrator group” settings.

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31 October 2024

Updated look and feel, improved usability and accessibility, new home page including your favorite workspaces and favorite and recent documents, and other improvements.

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8 January 2024

MetaShare Orbit: The app has now been extended with two new pages, a “Runs” page and a “System log” page and in the “Document log” page you are now able to filter the log on applied action and result.

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30 October 2023

MetaShare Orbit: After having identified a problem with the copy-job provided by Microsoft, which Orbit uses when moving documents, we have now applied a more secure method of checking if a document actually has been moved.

13 September 2023

MetaShare Orbit: In some situations, when Orbit did not receive a successful response from SharePoint regarding a move operation, a file could be moved twice, resulting in duplicate documents in the archive destination. This has now been resolved.

29 August 2023

Resolved issues:

  1. Loading less than 50 documents at a time in large workspaces when filtering on non-indexed columns
  2. Hidden workspace content type columns incorrectly visible in workspace properties.
  3. Folders not shown in alphabetical order

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22 June 2023

MetaShare Orbit: To gain traceability of when and by whom a rule was created/modified, this information is now shown on the bottom of a rule’s property form:
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In the rules page, as the right-most column, we now also show “a column with “Modified by”.