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title: "Product Updates - November 17, 2025"
slug: "product-updates-november-17-2025"
updated: 2025-11-17T22:12:43Z
published: 2025-11-17T22:12:43Z
canonical: "docs.sightmachine.com/product-updates-november-17-2025"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Product Updates - November 17, 2025

## Overview of Changes

### Factory APP BUILDER

**Bug Fixes**

- **Autosave Improvements**
  - Optimized automatic saving to preserve complete revision history
  - Ensures all changes are properly tracked without performance impact

### Factory BUILD

**New Features & Improvements**

- **Simplified Workspace and Pipeline Menus**
  - Streamlined menu navigation by removing confusing category groupings
  - Faster access to workspace and pipeline options with a cleaner, single-level menu layout
  - Improved usability based on user feedback about menu clarity

**Bug Fixes**

- **Pipeline Save Reliability**
  - Resolved an issue where save errors would repeatedly interrupt work
  - Improved stability when editing pipelines to ensure changes are saved consistently
- **Unpack JSON Configuration**
  - Resolved an issue where JSON unpacking functionality was not working correctly in certain deployed pipelines
  - Ensures consistent data processing across all pipeline deployments
- **Autodraft Validation**
  - Autodraft now activates correctly when upstream configuration is valid, even if the currently selected operator has validation errors
  - Ensures you can use Autodraft whenever possible, without being blocked by unrelated configuration issues
- **Preview Connection Filter Validation**
  - Resolved issues where connection filters were incorrectly flagged as invalid
  - Improved accuracy of filter validation to prevent false error messages
- **RTF Activation Button**
  - The Activate button for RTFs now correctly reflects when it can be used, matching the behavior of KPI activation
  - Prevents confusion by clearly indicating when activation is available
- **Data Dictionary Change Highlighting**
  - Modified data dictionaries now display with yellow highlighting in the list view
  - Quickly identify which dictionaries have pending changes without guessing
  - Visual indicators now consistent across both card and detail views

### Factory ANALYZE

**Bug Fixes**

- **Data Tab and Query Consistency**
  - Resolved an issue where null values displayed differently when viewing data through different access methods
  - Data now displays consistently across all viewing options, ensuring accurate reporting and analysis
- **Dashboard Interface Improvements**
  - Cleaner, more intuitive dashboard navigation with breadcrumbs to help you track your location
  - Improved visual design with refined background colors for better readability
  - Streamlined controls for managing dashboard privacy settings

### Factory OPERATE

**New Features & Improvements**

- **3D View Animation Support**
  - View and interact with animated 3D models directly in your factory digital twin
  - Visualize equipment motion, process flows, and dynamic operations in real-time
  - Enhanced understanding of machine behavior and production sequences
- **Recommendation Timestamps**
  - Each recommendation now displays when it was generated
  - Easily track the freshness and relevance of insights
  - Better understand the timeline of system suggestions

**Bug Fixes**

- **Timezone Display Corrections**
  - All times now display in the correct timezone configured for your facility
  - Consistent timezone handling across landing pages, line details, and recommendations
  - Eliminates confusion from mixed timezone displays