SpecLive Collaborate Release Notes Version 2025.1.0 - 2025.3.17

Overview

The latest SpecLive Collaborate v2025.1.0 release reinforces your role as a trusted advisor to design professionals by enhancing digital guide spec management and collaboration.

With new seamless sharing capabilities, dynamic access controls, and intelligent project visibility enhancements, your spec reps can more efficiently support architects, engineers, and specifiers, ensuring that your products are specified accurately and effortlessly integrated into project documentation.

Key Highlights:

• Short URLs for effortless sharing – Share project versions effortlessly across platforms like email, chat, or social media and extend your reach by simplifying how design professionals access and engage with your specs.
• Dynamic Access Management – Modify, revoke, or restore collaborator access on the fly, giving your team full control over engagement. Whether an architect needs editing privileges, or an engineer requires view-only access, you can now adjust permissions instantly.
• Expanded Email Notification Controls – Project owners and editors now receive copies of all Share Invite notifications for better tracking and transparency, ensuring users never miss important updates.
• Enhanced Security & User Experience – A more seamless login experience and UI optimizations ensure frictionless collaboration.
• Technical Upgrades – Faster system performance with Angular 19, Unicode text file conversion, and backend optimizations.

SpecLive Collaborate Version 2025.1.0 provides the following new feature, enhancements, and fixes to the system.

• New Features
• Enhancements
• Fixes

New Feature

The new feature of SpecLive Collaborate 2025.1.0 is the creation of Short Links.

Short Links

The Short Links feature provides users with the ability to generate a secure, shortened URL for sharing project versions, ensuring ease of distribution, default access control, and seamless user experience.

Independent Link Generation:

• The Short Link or URL can be generated independently, without requiring specific recipients.
• This allows users to share the link freely across platforms like email, chat, or social media.

Default View-Only Access Rights:

• The Short URL grants View-Only Access by default.
• If named recipients are added, the system applies the access rights assigned to those recipients (e.g., Edit, Comment).

Configurable Expiration Policy:

• Customers can set a default expiration policy for Short Links (e.g., 7 days, 30 days, or custom durations) with the default set to never expire.

Enhancements

Enhancements included in this latest release are:

• Shared Links
• Cybersecurity

Shared Links

Sharing projects and corresponding access management has been made even more powerful with the following updates:

Dynamic Access Management

• Modify, remove, or restore access dynamically—giving you total control over who can edit or view projects.

Access Inheritance for Named Recipients

• Collaborators added to a project now retain their assigned access levels (View, Edit, Co-Owner) even when accessing it via the Short URL. Unnamed users continue to have View-Only access.

Email Notification Enhancements

• Project owners & editors now receive copies of all Share Invite notifications for better tracking and transparency.

Security & Authentication Improvements

• Unauthorized users are now automatically redirected to the login page within 10 seconds, ensuring better security handling.

Cybersecurity

The tech stack and backend infrastructure were modernized for better stability, performance, and cybersecurity posture.

Fixes

Various code and data fixes that are project or customer specific have been applied since the previous SpecLink Cloud release.