DemoRiff
Changelog

Everything we shipped

Monthly releases, written by the people who built them. Fixes included, because a changelog that only lists features is marketing.

2026.9MajorSeptember 16, 2026

Riff Agent, generally available

Autonomous demo generation leaves beta. Describe the demo, or connect it to your release process, and the agent scripts it, records it against your staging environment and returns a finished cut for review.

  • NewRiff Agent generally available on Scale and Enterprise, with Linear and GitHub release triggers.
  • NewEnvironment allowlists and scoped, rotatable credentials for agent sessions.
  • NewAgent run audit log: brief, every action taken, output, approver and timestamp.
  • ImprovedAgent outline approval now supports inline editing before recording starts.
  • ImprovedSelf-correcting navigation handles slow-loading interfaces roughly 3× more reliably.
  • FixedAgent sessions no longer stall when a target element is behind a lazy-loaded boundary.
2026.8FeatureAugust 28, 2026

Branching interactive demos and mobile reconstruction

Interactive tours can now fork by persona, capture leads mid-flow, and reconstruct responsively down to 360px.

  • NewBranching forks with per-path analytics and a visual path editor.
  • NewInline lead capture with CRM field mapping to HubSpot and Salesforce.
  • NewResponsive DOM reconstruction for viewports down to 360px wide.
  • ImprovedTour runtime reduced from 34 KB to 6 KB and moved fully async.
  • ImprovedServer-rendered tour text is now indexed by search engines within 48 hours.
  • FixedSpotlight positions no longer drift on pages with sticky headers.
2026.7FeatureJuly 30, 2026

Localization pinning and staleness tracking

Manual corrections in a language are now preserved across regeneration, and every locale shows its staleness against the source.

  • NewSegment-level pinning preserves human corrections when the source changes.
  • NewPer-locale staleness dashboard with a diff of what changed upstream.
  • NewBulk regeneration with one approval across an entire collection.
  • ImprovedLip-sync quality on Japanese, Korean and Arabic materially improved.
  • ImprovedLocalization throughput up 40%; 34 languages now complete in about 70 minutes.
  • FixedRight-to-left caption alignment corrected for mixed-script sentences.
2026.6MajorJune 25, 2026

Private rendering in your own cloud

Enterprise customers can now deploy render workers into their own AWS, GCP or Azure account. Media never leaves your perimeter.

  • NewBring-your-own-cloud rendering for AWS, GCP and Azure with Terraform modules.
  • NewAudit log streaming to Splunk, Datadog, S3 and generic webhook sinks.
  • NewSCIM 2.0 provisioning, deprovisioning and group sync.
  • ImprovedRegional pinning now covers transcription and synthesis, not just storage.
  • ImprovedEnforced masking policies can no longer be bypassed by the desktop app.
2026.5ImprovementMay 21, 2026

Studio rebuild: faster timeline, bound keyframes

The Studio timeline was rewritten on a new renderer. Scrubbing a two-hour project is now smooth on a four-year-old laptop.

  • ImprovedTimeline renderer rewritten; scrub latency reduced by 82% on long projects.
  • NewKeyframes can be bound to a transcript span so they re-time with every language.
  • NewCommand palette (⌘K) across the whole Studio.
  • ImprovedUndo now restores frames exactly rather than re-deriving them.
  • FixedCaption timing drift on projects longer than 40 minutes.
  • FixedVoice preview occasionally played the previous selection.
2026.4FeatureApril 16, 2026

Voice cloning in every language

Your cloned voice now speaks all thirty-four supported languages while keeping your timbre.

  • NewCross-lingual voice cloning — your voice, any supported language.
  • NewWorkspace pronunciation dictionary shared across every project and voice.
  • NewPer-span delivery direction: pace, emphasis, pitch and pause.
  • ImprovedClone quality from a 30-second sample now matches the previous 4-minute tier.
  • ImprovedConsent records are now surfaced in workspace settings for every clone.
2026.3FeatureMarch 19, 2026

Guides get a real editor

Generated step-by-step articles now open in a block editor with callouts, tables, tabs and per-step re-capture.

  • NewBlock editor for guides with callouts, tables, code blocks and tabs.
  • NewRe-capture a single step without re-recording the whole article.
  • NewTwo-way sync with Zendesk, Intercom, HelpScout, Notion and Confluence.
  • NewHosted help center on your own custom domain.
  • ImprovedAnimated GIF generation for motion-dependent steps, under 2 MB each.
2026.2MajorFebruary 12, 2026

Automatic sensitive-data masking

Emails, names, card numbers, API keys and JWTs are now detected in-frame and masked before encoding.

  • NewBuilt-in detectors for email, phone, card, IBAN, API key and JWT patterns.
  • NewSelector, region and regex masking rules.
  • NewWorkspace-enforced policies that creators cannot disable.
  • ImprovedMasking now applies to transcripts, guides, screenshots and the search index.
  • FixedRedaction no longer missed values that appeared for fewer than four frames.