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title: "Product Updates - December 01, 2025"
slug: "product-updates-december-1-2025"
updated: 2025-12-03T20:39:31Z
published: 2025-12-03T20:39:31Z
canonical: "docs.sightmachine.com/product-updates-december-1-2025"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sightmachine.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Product Updates - December 01, 2025

## Overview of Changes

### Factory APP BUILDER

**Bug Fixes**

- **Picker Icon Hallucination**
  - Resolved an issue where pickers were hallucinating icons that were not in the list of allowed icons.
  - Icons are now correctly displayed in the picker.

### Factory BUILD

**New Features & Improvements**

- **Templates in Workspace Manager**
  - View all templates across your workspace
  - See which pipelines are using each template and their current configurations
  - Quickly identify where templates are actively used
- **Pipeline Deployment Stability**
  - Resolved issues that prevented pipelines from being successfully deployed to production
  - Improved system reliability when transitioning pipelines between draft and deployed states by adding validation checks.
- **Homepage KPI Display Control**
  - Administrators can now toggle KPI visibility on the homepage
  - Provides flexible control over dashboard content without system updates by adding a feature flag.
- **Lock Production Workspace**
  - Protect production workspaces from accidental modifications
  - Prevents unintended changes to critical production configurations
  - Ensures stability and reduces risk in live environments

**Bug Fixes**

- **Topic Deletion**
  - Fixed an issue where deleting topics would fail to complete
  - Topics can now be reliably removed when no longer needed

### Factory ANALYZE

**New Features & Improvements**

- **Stream Type Column in Field Explorer**
  - Field Explorer now displays stream type information in a dedicated column
  - Stream type appears between data type and raw field name for easier field identification

**Bug Fixes**

- **Data Tab and Query Consistency**
  - Fixed an issue where null values appeared differently when viewing data through queries versus the Data Table
  - Ensures consistent data display across all viewing methods for accurate analysis

### Factory OPERATE

**New Features & Improvements**

- **Configurable Machine Baseball Cards**
  - Adjust the size of Machine Baseball Cards in Factory OPERATE to fit your preferred view
  - Customize your workspace layout for better visibility and workflow efficiency
- **Downtime Reason Code Management**
  - Enhanced infrastructure for tracking and categorizing production downtime events
  - Improved reliability when recording manual downtime reasons in Factory OPERATE
  - Streamlined downtime classification workflow for operators
- **Links in Recommendation Messages**
  - Recommendation messages can now include clickable links to relevant resources
  - Quickly access documentation, procedures, or related information directly from recommendations
  - Streamlines response to system suggestions and alerts
- **Search for Configuration Items**
  - Quickly find specific machines, data sources, and production lines in Factory OPERATE
  - Search functionality added to configuration pages for faster navigation as your factory network grows
- **Data Source Validation**
  - Ensures all data sources are properly configured before use in Factory OPERATE
  - Prevents errors from missing or incorrectly configured data connections
  - Provides clear feedback when data source setup needs attention
- **Improved Session Management**
  - Sessions now reconnect more reliably when network interruptions occur
  - Resolves issues where users were incorrectly notified that their own session was in use
  - Faster detection and recovery when session connections are lost

**Bug Fixes**

- **Time Zone Query Handling**
  - Resolved an issue where invalid time zone settings caused data queries to fail
  - Landing and line details pages now display accurate information regardless of time zone configuration
- **Timezone Configuration Validation**
  - Fixed an issue where entering invalid timezone values would prevent the landing page from loading
  - The system now handles configuration errors gracefully, ensuring uninterrupted access to your operations dashboard
- **Downtimes Table Navigation**
  - Fixed an issue where navigating away from and back to the Downtimes table section would cause the page to crash
  - Downtimes configuration now remains stable when switching between different sections
- **Recommendations Display**
  - Recommendations now appear immediately when data is available
  - Resolved timing issue that previously delayed recommendation visibility
- **Line Status Indicator Data Sources**
  - Line status indicators now support all available data sources, not just machine data
  - Connect status displays to any configured data source for more flexible monitoring