What’s New with Daminion DAM?

This update introduces major improvements to face recognition and application speed together with new tools for audio and video. Here are the key highlights.

• Better Face Recognition
• Improved Web Interface and File Management
• New Audio and Video Transcription
• Improved AI Capabilities – Better, Faster and Cheaper

Sometimes the most important updates aren’t the ones you see — but the ones that quietly improve everything behind the scenes. With Daminion 10.3, we’ve made your everyday work a little easier, a little faster, and a lot more stable. This update isn’t about new buttons or bold redesigns; it’s about quiet, meaningful improvements that help you stay focused on what matters.

And it’s just the beginning. These upgrades are laying the foundation for something much bigger: our upcoming shift to a fully unified Daminion platform across Windows, Linux, and the Cloud.

Major Improvements

• Database library updated with added support for PostgreSQL 17
  • For new customers: PostgreSQL 17 is now installed by default.
  • For existing customers: Manual update required (support will assist with migration).
• Minor Improvements
• Bug Fixes

Major Improvements

Full-Text Tags Indexing

• A brand-new data tag indexing method that boosts search speed several times! (Manual activation is required.)

AI capabilities

• Added the GPT Mini model that made AI tagging costs multiple times lower
• Improved performance of AI tagging by optimizing ChatGPT requests
• Added support for the new Daminion key proxy: you can now request a key with a budget limit from us instead of creating one yourself.
• Auto tagging of media files now are limited to Camera RAW , Raster and Vector images

New Web Interface

• Completely rewritten web-client’s interface design.
  Improved web-client’s performance…

Major Improvements

• New Web Assistant: open files directly from your browser on macOS and Windows platforms.
• AI GPT Tagging. Utilize ChatGPT for image tagging, automatically generating AI titles, descriptions, labels, and objects. Users can add their own tags for untagged images, and ChatGPT will attempt to match them.
• Batch Tag Deletion in Web: it’s now possible to select multiple tag values and delete them simultaneously, eliminating the need to remove tags one at a time.
• Microsoft Entra Security for WEB: enhanced security features for web applications through Microsoft Entra to improve authentication and authorization…

Daminion 9.0 brings major enhancements for marketing and design teams, including:

• Advanced search capabilities
• Support for new 3D formats (STP, C4D, USD)
• New 2D formats (Affinity)
• Improved 3D model preview and management system.
• More robust video player for web clients
• Better metadata handling

and numerous minor improvements and bug fixes, all contributing to a more efficient and streamlined digital asset management experience.

Here’s a concise overview of what has changed:

• Performance: Enhanced loading times and transitions.
• Search: Revamped algorithm for more accurate results.
• User Interface: Adjustments for improved navigation and user-friendliness.
• Bug Fixes: Addressed and resolved known issues.

We encourage all users to update at their earliest convenience to make the most of these improvements.

Introducing a brand-new AI object tagging system, automatic localization of AI tags with multi-language support, file linking in the web interface, and support for *.iges, *.stp, and Keyshot *.bip file formats.

Our latest update brings major improvements, including Daminion Connector for Microsoft Office, customizable thumbnail captions in the web client, Face Recognition 2.0, and more.

Restrict access to tags for different user groups, Hide sensitive information in shared collections, Assign tag presets when importing files in the web client, and more than 30 new features, updates, and bug fixes.

Besides a range of improvements, the Daminion team started to offer a free migration service for all Canto Cumulus users.