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# What's New

## Streamline Your Daily Work with Helmut4 – v4.13

Helmut4 v4.13 introduces new platform views, improved Cosmo navigation, and a light theme for the Helmut4 panel. It also expands workflow automation and improves project processing, metadata handling, and client reliability.

### Highlights

* New views for projects, dashboards, assets, and panels
* Deep links for Cosmo bins with user and group access presets
* Light theme for the Helmut4 panel
* Tray icon for identifying Helmut4 client startup issues
* Faster project processing and improved prevention of parallel job execution
* Reworked Helmut4 client reconnect logic
* Updated MediaInfo binary across all clients

### New Nodes

* Bash Execute With Progress Action
* Cosmo Create Folder
* Generic JSON Iteration
* Media Encoder Invisible Panel Status
* Premiere Project Index Sequence Action
* Premiere Project Sequence to Vidispine XML Action
* Project Exists Condition
* Set Firefly/PrMobile Download Location

### Improvements

* FFmpeg node support for multiple inputs
* Non-2xx response handling in the HTTP Request Action node
* Retry logic for the Job Status Update Action node
* Improved multiple-value extraction in the JSON Extract Action node
* Multitenancy support for several VidiCore and VidiFlow nodes
* Subclip processing in the Get Project Assets Action node
* New integer filter comparators and improved MIME-type filtering
* Improved handling of hidden system files when choosing metadata folders

### Fixes

* Corrected metadata loss during job restarts, priority changes, and unsynced asset indexing
* Fixed dashboard filters, pagination, and typeahead multiselect behavior
* Improved AME offline detection and XML source status updates
* Corrected project modification dates and personal-project visibility
* Resolved RabbitMQ errors affecting multiselect actions
* Improved backup reliability in cluster environments

Helmut4 v4.13 focuses on a more consistent user experience, greater workflow flexibility, and more reliable day-to-day project automation.

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Please pay close attention and read the [Upgrade Guide](/helmut4-releases/v4.13.0/getting-started/upgrade-guide.md) for both the [Helmut4 Client](https://docs.helmut.de/helmut4-releases/v4.13.0/release-notes/pages/AIyPmu34ooYSMnVmW5zD#update-procedure-from-version-4.7-and-earlier-to-version-4.8-and-newer) and [Helmut4 Server](/helmut4-releases/v4.13.0/getting-started/installation-guide/helmut4-server.md) in advance.
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For more detailed information, please refer to our [Changelog](/helmut4-releases/v4.13.0/release-notes/changelog.md).\
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If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our [Helmut Support](/helmut4-releases/v4.13.0/support/requesting-support.md) Team!