# Updates

What's new in Rally. Release notes for features and product improvements.

## [Comments and reactions](/content/updates/comments-and-reactions/index.html)

Jun 2, 2025

### **🚀 New Features**
- **Timestamped Comments or Reactions**: You can now add timestamped comments or reactions to team videos.
- **Instant Video Uploading**: Video uploading is now pretty much instant — we upload video in segments as you record (Web and Mac app).
- **Tabs for Notifications and "Shared with Me"**: Added tabs to make navigation easier.

### **🐛 Bug Fixes**
- **Card Duplication**: Fixed a critical issue where duplicating cards with multiple text overlays could cause all overlays to disappear when deleting individual layers.
- **Timeline Performance**: Resolved lag when adjusting in/out points on the timeline.
- **Filmstrip Display**: Fixed visual clipping issues in vertical filmstrip view.
- **Text Editing**: Improved reliability of text layer interactions.

### **⚡ Performance Improvements**
- **Timeline Responsiveness**: Improved performance when working with timeline in/out points.
- **Editor Efficiency**: Optimized internal systems for faster UI updates.

### **✨ Quality of Life**
- **Visual Consistency**: More stable layout behavior across different devices and input methods.
- **Developer Experience**: Cleaner console output for better debugging and development.

## [Team playlists and text overlays](/content/updates/playlists-and-text-overlays/index.html)

Apr 25, 2025

### Combine stories into Playlists
Our team has been using Playlists to do [weekly show and tell](https://x.com/sdunn/status/1910384239511830944). Playlists are helpful for customer onboarding and product releases.

### Annotate with text overlays
Add labels to your screenshots or screen recordings. Pick from Google Fonts and color themes.

### Board summaries
Extract highlights from all the stories on a Board, with auto-updating summaries.

### **Improved**
- Publishing is now instant.
- Better story summaries.
- Animated preview images.
- Pause and resume recordings.
- Cursor tracking and zoom animations.
- Video and microphone controls added to the PiP video controller.

## [Brand kit and floating narrator bubbles](/content/updates/brand-kit-and-cutout-narrator-bubbles/index.html)

Feb 26, 2025

### Floating narrator bubbles
Floating narrator bubbles use AI vision to remove the background from webcam recordings for better presentation and customization options.

### Brand Kit
Manage brand colors and images in one place, making it easier to maintain consistency across stories.

### **Improved**
- Recordings with cursor tracking.
- Story view counts are now visible.
- Redesigned editor filmstrip and timeline controls for clearer context.

## [Embed customization](/content/updates/embed-customization/index.html)

Jan 31, 2025

### New embed customizations
New button and display controls have been added to embeds.

### Change title card details
Finer controls over which details appear during playback of story embeds.

### Embed a call to action
Stories with a call to action (CTA) can now include a button on embeds.

### Customize the play button
Change the play button to display custom text instead of the default, video duration.

Find these options via **Share → Embed** when viewing a story.