Release notes
Updated June 4th, 2025
The following is a list of all new features and improvements that have been developed and put into production.
June 2025
Web application:
- Account page: option to enable only the sound for discussion notifications
- Events: option to replace the event seat reservation system with a customised link
May 2025
Web application:
- Discussions: Do not display Whaller club members in user suggestions when creating a discussion
- Sphere administration: new sphere label administration page
- Sphere administration: Improved navigation between sphere administration pages
- Events: Addition of the Event Location field in ICS sent by email
- Miscellaneous: WYSIWYG comment editing
Mobile application:
- Ability to access sphere widgets from the application
April 2025
Web application:
- File templates: ability to define a library of file templates and create files in boxes from these templates
- File templates: creation of a ârole rightâ to manage document templates
- Classified ads: addition of a title field to classified ads
- Classified ads: improvement of the geolocation field for a classified ad (âaddressâ)
- Classified ads: ability to edit a classified ad after it has been posted
- Classified ads: editing of the description in WYSIWYG
- Small ads: creation of a centralised page for small ads from a federation (or a single organisation) (BUSINESS and ENTERPRISE options)
- Miscellaneous: editing of a welcome pop-up on white labels
- Miscellaneous: improvement of the message card editing mode (tasks and events)
Mobile application:
- Ability to access sphere widgets from the app
March 2025
Web app:
- File boxes: Permissions on files and folders (read, write, delete)
February 2025
Web application:
- Analytics: add statistics on the number of clicks and downloads per file in the file boxes.
- Activity logs: track changes to files and folders in file boxes
- Ability to search for files by tags
Mobile application:
- Possibility of accessing sphere widgets from the application
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
January 2025
Web application:
- IAssistant: ability to generate images when creating a message (available only with OpenAi).
- Event: Integration of recurrence in the calendar
- File box: possibility of allowing âpublishersâ to upload a file even if they are neither owners nor admins.
Mobile application:
- Possibility of setting a message and/or comment to âunreadâ.
December 2024
Web application:
- Whaller ARENA (new offer): The bespoke social network for large organisations that includes:
- Public spheres and conversations
- Private discussions
- Member and company directory
- Personalised suggestions
- Geolocation map
- Event:
- Improved map design
- Appearance of âguestsâ (people who have booked a place at an event without having a Whaller account) in the list of participants
- Possibility of creating events without generating a notification in the feed
- Sphere type DR ( Restricted Diffusion): when the option is activated (at organisation level), it is possible to create or change the type of sphere.
- Improvements to Discussions :
- Performance
November 2024
Web application:
- encrypted spheres: ability to create end-to-end encrypted spheres
- Search engine (sphere): ability to filter by message author
- Discussions: ability to leave a discussion
Mobile application:
- Discussions: ability to leave a discussion
- Ability to leave a sphere
- Notifications: you can change the settings
October 2024
Web application:
- Sphere option:
- Improved display of âSurveyâ card responses
- Enhanced âTaskâ card
- Possibility of deactivating task status update notifications
- CMS: ability to open a link in a new tab
- Matching: Whaller can be configured as a âWide Social Networkâ with :
- People Matching ( People suggestions based on criteria defined by managers ),
- Company and profiles matching,
- Company filtering by geolocation.
- Enhanced File Box:
- Upload a new version of a file directly from the web interface.
- Recorded videoconferences:
- Publication of the replay file in the sphere
- Publication of full transcript in the sphere (if Whaller (IA)ssistant is enabled)
Mobile application:
- Unified search engine
- Autonomous account deletion (users can delete their own accounts)
- Graphic redesign of home page
September 2024
Web application:
- Whaller (IA)ssistant : ability to summarize a file from the File Box (Word, pdf or text)
- Company directory: filter by label
- Possibility of obtaining an âRSVPâ for meeting guests with an external link
Jully 2024
Web application:
- SSO: possibility to connect to Whaller using AgentConnect
- New functionality: an organization can open a directory of entries.
- RTE: integration of RTE in comments
- Ads : âAdsâ messages now close automatically.
- Possibility for managers to enable or disable the use of restricted spheres in their organization
- Managers can choose whether or not to allow visitors to join their organization.
Mobile application:
- Implementation of new chat (Discussions)
June 2024
Web application:
- Implementation of âDiscussionsâ: your new instant messaging service (https://whaller.com/en/features/discussions)
- Organization portal:
- Creation of a new dedicated âSpheres directoryâ page accessible from the subheader
- Articles displayed in the subheader
- Add member directory to subheader
- Subheader customization: manager can choose which links to display
- Possibility of hiding the managers' insert and banner
- Ability to add âMy Favoritesâ, âMy Tasksâ and âMy Badgesâ links to the subheader (this feature is disabled by default).
- Widget: possibility of adding a personal widget (visible only to the user)
- RTE: âView sourceâ added to the 3-point menu, allowing the message to be viewed in Markdown format.
- CMS :
- Change from tinyMCE to CKeditor for article editing
- Possibility of previewing a draft article
- Possibility of deleting one's own account
- Improved comment field.
- Widget: improved calendar events modal
- White label option: possibility of being redirected to a sub-organization's portal on login
- OnlyOffice update integration (https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2024/06/onlyoffice-docs-8-1-released)
May 2024
Web application:
- RTE: integration of RTE in the description of a file, in the writing of the biography in the profile page, etc.
- Creation of a page dedicated to the directory of members of an organization or federation.
- Possibility of providing information on a collection of company files, accessible in the form of a directory (paying option).
April 2024
Web application:
- Implementation of waiting rooms for external videoconferences on Big Blue Boutton
- Creation of a new path to help you fill in your profile (when you register)
- Ability to switch navigation from âmy accountâ pages to your sidebar
March 2024
Web application:
- Beta Features: Creation of an account/features page listing the features available to a user.
- Possibility of editing a pdf file in Whaller365
- Possibility of displaying âfederation public spheresâ (spheres visible and accessible to all members of a federation only) on the organization map.
- Addition of new consents in cookies: Pipedrive, Daily, GPT, Deepl
- Implementation of a rich text editor (RTE) in the creation of new messages.
- In a federation, possibility of having sub-organization spheres that are âpublicâ for all federation members.
Mobile application:
- Poll integration
February 2024
Web application:
- Search engine: Ability to search for users based on elements of their profile
- Federation: Option to export the number of members per organisation
- Analytics: data can be exported in Excel format
Mobile application:
- "Event" widget added
- Support for "Video" widget
January 2024
Web application:
- Implementation of video and audio players in comments
- Evolution of the "Carousel" widget: Increase the number of images to a maximum of 6 and the possibility of opening each of them in a new tab.
December 2023
Web application:
- Free task creation: users other than the author of the message and administrators can now create a new task (as long as it is possible to comment).
- Possibility of making a profile field mandatory
November 2023
Web application:
- Possibility of attaching several tasks to a message
- CMS: Add the ability to add bullets in the article editor.
- Forms: Improved presentation of form responses
- Forms: Add the possibility of having an "Other" free field in "multiple choice" type questions.
- White marks: creation of a public/contact page
October 2023
Web application:
- Forms: offer two types of list display: drop-down list or checkboxes
- Forms: various ergonomic improvements (automatic interface refresh)
- CMS thumbnails: if no banner is defined for an article, the first image of the article will appear in the thumbnail.
- Ability to select a box file when creating a new sphere message
- Ability to attach organization tags to profiles
- Indexing of box file contents (subject to option subscription): the search engine searches inside bubreautic files (documents, pdf, spreadsheets, etc.)
- Complete task creation from Kanban (assignments, message)
- File box: addition of a file metadata panel, with the option of filling in a description and labels.
September 2023
Web application:
- Search for files and folders in file boxes using the unified search engine,
- File boxes: Secure external sharing of sphere box files,
- File boxes: Possibility of attaching conversations to files (visible from file preview mode and in the conversation stream of the associated sphere),
- Federation management page: displays the total number of spheres in a federation,
- Federation management page: Possibility of exporting the list of all sub-organization managers.
Mobile application:
Total overhaul of the mobile application (V4):
- Ergonomic and graphic redesign, interactivity,
- Redesigned gestures,
- Access to profile editing and account information.
July 2023
Web application:
- Creation of an organization label management page,
- Graphic redesign of the sphere management page,
- Creation of an organization option: "Only managers can delete a sphere",
- Add a summary view of a user's rights in the manager's area of the mini-profile,
- Addition of a "thumbnail" mode to the "Useful links" widget.
June 2023
Web application:
- Redesign and unification of all upload components,
- New widgets: Image carousel and weather forecast,
- Polish language added,
- Ability to call another person by videoconference,
- Attach a videoconference to a conversation.
May 2023
Web application:
- Redesign of the CMS management page with drag-and-drop sorting,
- Possibility of customizing task kanban columns,
- Possibility of inviting people via cell phone number,
- New CMS article option: display child articles as thumbnails at the bottom of the article,
- Add editing and management rights to widgets
- Possibility to define a color and an icon to a CMS article
- Creation of a new federation widget area at the top of the sidebar
- Addition of a "by period" and "by label" filter in the article search engine
- Possibility to search an article in the unified search engine
- Possibility to customize the columns of the task kanban
Mobile application:
- Possibility of replying directly to a comment.
April 2023
Web application:
- Add a "last connection date" column from the export of the members of an organization
- Application of the multilingual system to the organization and sphere charters
- Redesign of the navigation of the management pages
- Invite a person via SMS
Mobile application:
- Profile editing
February 2023
- Release of Whaller DONJON : DONJON offers all public institutions and private companies concerned about protecting their sensitive data a truly sovereign and cyber-enhanced communication and collaboration platform.
Web application:
- Possibility to define a "Legal Notice" page in the CMS
- Allow SMS to all countries to secure your account via MFA
- Ability to define labels on articles (CMS)
- New "open" organisation option allowing members of a parent organisation to join a daughter organisation without validation
January 2023
Web Application:
- Replacement of online support on the shared web application: Intercomđșđž is replaced by Crispđ«đ·
- Widgets : ability to create replicable widget templates within an organization
- Widgets : ability to choose which widgets to activate or not within an organization
- Possibility to duplicate a sphere with all its settings (management > spheres)
- File box: creation of a folder "explorer" displayed when moving or duplicating an item
- Redesign of the management of a federation: create and move sub-organizations
- In beta test: Launch of a new tool to create and use Forms
December 2022
Web application:
- New widget: "My Recent Spheres."
- Widgets : creation of a second personal widget area in the sidebar (White label only)
- Widgets : be able to activate or not one or the other of the personal widget areas (White mark only)
- Sidebar customization: display or not the "favorites", "organization", "tools" zones
- Visio: Allow access to a guest video no matter if the event is over
- News : Creation of a sphere option "Allows to create priority news".
- File box : Offer to choose the location of a duplicated item
- Ergonomic redesign of the task kanban
Mobile application:
- Added translation tool DeepL,
- Addition of the German language,
- Multilingual management in reading,
- Improvement of Markdown management in messages,
- Display of images in full screen,
- Adding the sphere information banner,
- Possibility to upload files from a file box,
- Addition of a means of multifactor authentication (MFA),
- Possibility to block a user or a message,
- Possibility to delete an account,
- Improved management of internal links (box, spheres, portal, messages, calendar and home page).
November 2022
Web application:
- Added a "Tools" section accessible from the navigation bar, which includes the map, forms, store, resources
- Customization of the navigation bar (managers can choose to hide some sections of the sidebar for their members)
October 2022
Web application:
- Redesign of the navigation bar
- Creation of widget categories
- When receiving an invitation, a modal opens to highlight it
- Added support for .svg / .lst / .ttf / .otf formats on Whaller
- Ability to share a file to groups of spheres
- Analytics can be exported as a presentation PDF file
- New ambassador program
- Integration of the "Cyber Assistance Online" module
September 2022
Web application:
- Implementation of an avatar gallery
- New notification center
July 2022
Web application:
- From the "Useful Links" widget, ability to customize logos set on links, using the illustration library offered by Whaller,
- Added a new multi-factor authentication (MFA) feature to strengthen account security,
- Ability to add multiple authentication factors,
- New cybersecurity option: possibility to force the use of a multi-factor authentication method for all members and visitors of an organization,
- Ability to invite external people to join a video conference,
- Ability to reply to a comment,
- When the status of a task is updated, a comment is automatically added to inform the collaborators,
- New white label feature: a manager can block an account.
June 2022
Web application:
- Graphical improvement: Redesign of the "survey" message card.
- Extension of rights: From a restricted sphere, the publication of files in the file box is also restricted
- Avatars are now composed of the person's initials by default, if the person has not configured an avatar
- New password policy reinforced by default (12 characters, one number, one uppercase character), in accordance with ANSSI recommendations
- Simplification of the events: removal of the price and the payment by paypal
- Display of a video player for the URLs of videos from Smartrezo
- New option in the widget "image": Possibility to choose to display an image in full width or centered
- Simplification of widget areas on an organization's portal
May 2022
Web application:
- Created a new pending invitation management page from an organization
- From the role management page:
- Redesigned the role management interface,
- Managers of daughter organizations have the ability to assign roles,
- In the framework of a federation, a new column "organization" has been added to show where the role has been created.
- From the file box, it is now possible to retrieve the source URL of an image
- Redesign of the message card including a task
- Redesign of the page for managing pending invitations from a sphere:
- Addition of a search engine,
- Addition of the role carried by an invitation,
- Addition of the date of first sending of an invitation.
April 2022
Web application:
- New "homepage article" widget on organization portals
- Redesign of organization members insert
- Improvement to white label management interfaces
- New "platform manager" rights: delete, merge, unblock accounts
- Option to mark a previously read message as "unread"
Mobile application:
- Possibility to access a video conference from an event or a calendar
March 2022
Web application:
- New calendar widget
- Creation of a logo chooser for spheres (image, icon, emoji)
- New analytics indicators for invitations (number of invitations sent, number of invitations accepted, conversion rate)
- Addition of a filter on the member management page: select sub-organizations and spheres linked to sub-organizations
- Addition of a filter on the member management page of mother organizations: list of "blocked" members
February 2022
Web application:
- Redesign of the "My tasks" page
- Updates to article layout (edit icons, full page)
- Personalization of CMS articles (option to add a banner)
- Unified search engine
- Profile completion indicator
- Personal "My activity" widget (available with white label)
- Events displayed in the News carrousel
January 2022
Web application:
- Redesign of the members insert in spheres
- Links to messages open in a modal (My Favorites, Kanban, file box, Widgets, etc.)
- Tags in spheres listed in alphabetical order
- New options available from users' personal account menus: My favorites, My tasks, My badges
- New personalization for organization portals and internal articles
- Option to prohibit the downloading of videos in a sphere
- From an organization calendar, possibility to highlight events in the color of the style or of the sphere
Mobile application:
- Possibility to create a network
December 2021
Web application:
- Possibility to select a personal Webex link to add to an event
- Addition of an "Edit widgets" entry from sphere and organization menus
- New "Sphere directory" page that lists all spheres in a federation (available with white label)
- Possibility to download the list of participants from a BigBlueButton session
- Possibility to select a style when creating an event
- Addition of a "FAQ" layout in the CMS
- New calendar
- Display an event in the color of its style or its sphere
- Possibility to add a sphere to favorites
- Organization option: personal video conference link
November 2021
Web application:
- New "Event" widget: highlight a specific event
- New restricted sphere option: possibility to hide the message writing field from members
- New sphere option: possibility to hide the members insert
- Redesign of the styling system (CSS) of interfaces (spheres and organizations) in light colors
- New audio conferencing feature in spheres ("Audio spheres")
- In the Kanban, when clicking on a task, the message linked to it opens in a modal
- New widget center
October 2021
Web application:
- Possibility to add a "Lucca" widget that displays the list of the day's absentees from a Lucca account
- Added an upload button from the "video" widget
- Favorites: messages, files, articles
September 2021
Web application:
- Creation of a personal dashboard to replace an organization's homepage
- Possibility to enable or disable the video conferencing feature in a sphere
- Clicking on the name of a sphere in an open chat redirects to the message in the sphere
- Generic root page navigation
- Sphere families visible on the root page (web) and in the "My spheres" menu
- Possibility to differentiate between members and visitors in a sphere
- Addition of a download icon next to files in comments
- Possibility to start a free 14-day trial of Whaller Pro
- Possibility to duplicate a folder in a sphere box
- New "Subscription" pages, possiblity to track the number of licenses available
- Possibility to preview videos posted in comments
- New organization option: make choosing a role mandatory with invitations
August 2021
Web application:
- Redesign of message ergonomics (menu, layout)
July 2021
Web application:
- New navigation in spheres and organizations (including administration pages)
- Application of webinar options in webinar breakout rooms
- Possibility to select and move multiple files at the same time in the file box
- Possibility to use "News" carousels on an organization portal
- Creation of a widget area that is displayed throughout an entire federation
- Possibility to export stats on presence in video conferences
- Addition of an "edit online" shortcut next to editable files
June 2021
Web application:
- New analytics
- Possibility to record webinars on BigBlueButton
- Possibility to disable private messages in a sphere
- Possibility to add one's own general terms and conditions (white label)
- New "panel" display to navigate within portals and articles
- Possibility to display a menu with the choice of languages in the header (white label)
- Integration of new languages (Portuguese, German, Italian, Swedish, Hungarian, Romanian)
May 2021
Web application:
- Redesign of header
- Addition of favicons for the file box, file editing and BigBlueButton
- Redesign of connection modalities on public portals
- Possibility to request entry into sub-organizations (white label)
- New sphere option: Disable the option for members to share classified ads
Mobile application:
- Access to organization portals
- Possibility to request entry into a sphere
- Possibility to leave an organization
- Possibility to mention groups or roles
- Visualization of links in the file box
April 2021
Web application:
- Multilingual management of CMS articles
- Possibility to accept or reject several requests to join an organization at the same time
- Possibility to assign one or more roles to requests to join an organization
- Two layouts now available for white label login pages ("basic" and "two columns")
- Possibility to add a "request entry" button on white label ("Gate") login pages
- Update of icons
- New "News" widget
- Modification of the width of organization management pages (1130 px)
- Possibility to put the "Latest messages" widget at the top of organizatin portals
- New design for "Sphere summary" and "Latest messages" widgets
- Possibility to edit and co-edit all files compatible with OnlyOffice
- Integration of new message styles
March 2021
Web application:
- Redesign of chat
- Removal of the option to connect a Whaller box to OneDrive or GoogleDrive
- Image gallery feature available from the Pro offer
February 2021
Web application:
- New integration of messages waiting to be published
- Possibility to change the order of images when editing a message
- Redesign of message editing (text, Markdown, files, images, priority, publication date)
- Redesign of link display (New: the author can delete them one by one)
- Insert a link to an article in a message via Markdown tools
- Possibility to share a CMS article from within a sphere
- Possibility to share a CMS article in a sphere from the article
- Multilingual content: possibility to translate messages into the languages available on Whaller
January 2021
Web application:
- Additional Markdown options
- Export an organization's list of spheres and their details
- Autocompletion when adding sphere administrators
Mobile application:
- Suggestions of usernames in comments
- Apple SSO connection
December 2020
Web application:
- All users can schedule messages in spheres
- Possibility to download the contents of a folder or an entire sphere box
November 2020
Web application:
- Display a larger version of a single emoji when left as a comment
- Extend the rights attributed to "Publishers"
- Possibility to use Zoom for video conferencing
- Possibility to host large files (up to 3GB)
- Cybersecurity option: prevent the reuse of a password when it is renewed
- (Re)launch of the Full Remote offer
- Suggestion platform (Feature Upvote)
- Links displayed below messages are updated after a message is edited
Mobile application:
- Addition of connection via Google
October 2020
Web application:
- Deployment of a new WYSIWYG editor for CMS articles
- Possibility to associate a video conference room to an event (only if the sphere has BigBlueButton selected as its video conferencing tool)
- Redesign of the "sphere settings" window
- Viewing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents shared in messages on Whaller
- Launch of Whaller 365: co-editing of documents, spreadsheets and presentations
- Securing of accounts with a strong U2F authentication factor
September 2020
Web application:
- "My tasks": all current tasks assigned to a user appear on their root page
- Cybersecurity option: organization managers can define different levels of classification for information and assign consultation rights according to these levels to members
August 2020
Web application:
- Improved performance of conversation feeds
- Interpret an event's "location" field with a URL
- Possibility to configure an Ausha widget
July 2020
Web application:
- Ability to view a PDF, an image or a video directly from the sphere Box (and update of file icons)
- Ephemeral spheres available with the Enterprise offer (spheres that are archived on a pre-determined date)
- Cybersecurity option: possibility to temporarily disable the uploading of documents in an organization
Mobile application:
- Possibility to invite phone contacts to a sphere
- Display of badges in profiles
June 2020
Web application:
- Possibility to set video conferencing in webinar mode (listen-only mode for participants, more than 100 participants)
- White label: a user who logs in can be redirected to either the "root" page or the portal page
- The "Reply" buttons in notification emails refer directly to the reply field of the concerned message
- Translation of messages in foreign languages (with DeepL)
- Creation of top-down options (within federations) in the settings of a "mother" organization, so that thay can be applied to all "daughter" organizations
- Improved upload for large files (according to organisation settings)
- Possibility to paste a file directly in the "new message" or "new comment" fields
Mobile application:
- Integration of video conference feature
- Display custom profile fields in profiles
May 2020
Web application:
- Possibility to disable online support via Intercom for an organization
- Notifications: "new member" and "new sphere" emails sent to sphere administrators and organization managers now take into account the settings defined in the general notification frequency - invitation or entry request emails are not affected
- Possibility to have a specific profile field appear next to the username in conversations. (Example: company name of members in an inter-professional network)
- Replacement of the term "sphere open to visitors" by "sphere accessible to visitors"
April 2020
Web application:
- Automation of the "pass a member as a visitor" process by automatically removing them from members-only spheres
- Deletion of quizzes feature
- Addition of a "visitors" icon on spheres accessible to visitors
- Improvement of the UI of registration and login forms
- Modification of the rules for spheres accessible to visitors (impossible to make them global, open, etc.)
- Temporary blocking for 30 minutes (instead of permanent blocking) of users who have tried to log in with the wrong password 5 times
- In a federation: inheritance of offers, and a number of "top-down" options
- Creation of a federation management page
- Correction of the bug that turned some images đ
- Video player update (with the possibility to detach the video in the foreground)
- Agglomeration of analytics in a federation
March 2020
Web application:
- Add BigBlueButton (BBB) as a video conferencing option, these instances are stored on the Whaller infrastructure
- BBB as a default in school organizations
- Launch of FULL REMOTE offer
Mobile application:
- Do not display active spheres if the user has access to only one organization
February 2020
Web application:
- Release of new Pro, Business and Enterprise offers
- POC of connection with Atlassian (JIRA and Confluence). Those who would like to test can write to us!
- POC of integration of SAP Cloud
- Review of all transactional email texts
January 2020
- Infrastructure: all Whaller servers (data and service) migrated to OVHcloud in Roubaix (France).
Web application:
- Reinforcement of security options: password policy, automatic signout after inactivity, etc.
- Integration of meet.jit.si as a choice for video conferencing
Mobile application:
- Sphere and organization calendar feature available
- Ability to start a private conversation directly from a user's profile
December 2019
(Work on client platforms)
November 2019
Web application:
- Display of organizations in the same federation in an arborescent manner on the "root" page and in the "My Spheres" menu
- When a temporary message is commented on, it becomes permanent
- Temporary password renewal URL
October 2019
Web application:
- Management of cookie preferences for users (GDPR)
- GDPR & Privacy by Design: By default, fields in a user's enhanced profile should be set to "Unpublished"
- Make the blurring of private messages optional
- Launch of the new Whaller Help Center: https://help.whaller.com/
- Add the names of authors to articles
September 2019
Web application:
- Connection of the sphere box to OneDrive
- The user now has the choice to delete documents they deposited in a sphere Box when they leave (GPDR)
August 2019
Web application:
- Restructuring of organization settings
- Premium Option that allows managers to validate the creation of new spheres (Sphere creation workflow)
July 2019
Web application:
- Change in provider for transaction emails. From Mandrill (US) to Sendinblue (France) (GPDR)
- Blurred private messages
Mobile application:
- Correction of duplicate messages sent
June 2019
- White Label site (GATE)
- Creation of the possibility to have a white label site for an organization or federation network (code name: GATE)
- Personalization of the header
- Personalization of the footer
- Design of a white label "root" page of a site, with the side navigation bar
- Ability to play shared videos automatically
- Creation of a stronger confidentiality option in order to not show one's full name to the entire network
Web application:
- Addition of a premium option: "Use badges"
Mobile application:
- Creation of the possibility to have a white label mobile application (realized first for France Télévisions)
May 2019
Web application:
- Possibility to share GIFs in spheres and comments
- Add a publication end date for programmed messages
- Premium organization option to hide Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365 shares
- Addition of Markdown shortcuts for level 2 and 3 titles
- Addition of a Premium option to disable scratch-off messages
- Addition of the ability to choose a native emoji from a selector đ
- Ability to export participants to an event
- Sphere creation workflow (validated by an organization manager), available for Premium
- Ability to cancel an entry request from the "root" page
April 2019
Web application:
- Drag & drop tasks in sphere Kanban
- Display the Kanban in a new tab
- Remove the integration of Facebook videos in spheres to not have Facebook cookies on Whaller
- Authorize the creation of public isolated spheres
- Highlight the visio-sphere (under sphere members)
Mobile application:
- Possibility to share videos from the app
- Display ads in messages
- Possibility to copy text from a message or comment
- Possibility to copy a URL open in Whaller
March 2019
Web application:
- Ambassador program improvements (Podium, possibility to earn Illicado gift cards)
- Improvement of message display performance, especially when data is outsourced to a proprietary server (see Data outsourcing offer)
- GPDR: Logging all Whaller ADMIN actions
- Organization Federations: When adding an organization as a "child", its members are added automatically to "parent" organizations
- Establishment of an IdP server allowing the installation of a "Whaller Connect" button on third-party sites (via SSO). Realized example: configuration of a Whaller login button on a Wordpress site
- Extension of shared file size limit to 1Go for organizations (Premium)
February 2019
Web application:
- Improvements to SSO mechanisms for organizations that use them
- When a sphere exceeds 50 members, automatic welcome messages are disabled
- In the organization members management section, possibility to use the action "Remove from the organization" for several people at a time
- Change the font used for messages in order to display all languages on all OS
- Messages and comments can be edited at any time
January 2019
Web application:
- Simplification of the "My account" menu
- Remove "lemonades" and "bouquets of roses" from gifts
- Remove the 3,000 character limit for messages
- Integration of a Markdown editor in the message writing field
Mobile application:
- Possibility to connect via LDAP
- Display documents in messages
- Access to sphere boxes (new "tools" icon in spheres)
- Display tasks in messages
- Display gifts in messages
- Display message styles
December 2018
Web application:
- We wanted to improve the "serenity" or "focus" aspect of Whaller, which sometimes gave the impression to send too many notifications. Our logic: give ALL the control back to users, don't overwhelm them with information, and only send what's
- necessary:
- Removal of transaction emails (new messages, etc.) if the user has installed the Whaller mobile app (focus)
- Possibility to select time slots to receive email/mobile pushes (not during the night, weekend, etc.) (focus)
November 2018
Web application:
- Launch of a new chat
- No longer sending emails for a like or dislike (focus)
- Possibility to block sending pushes for comments in a sphere (backend option)
- Change the default sending frequency for emails: no more than 2 emails per day (focus)
- Simplification of the notification settings page: fusion of the "new comments" and "new messages" setting, add an insert concerning "educational" emails
Mobile application:
- Improved message display performance (x2)
- Events in spheres
- Better offline management
- Design of private messages
- Possibility to connect in LDAP
- Password recovery link
October 2018
- Possibility to download a list of participants for an event
- Redesign of the "real time" system for sending pushes, and synchronized display of new messages, comments, likes
- Opening to all public spheres
- Possibility to block the creation of public spheres in an organization
- Display public spheres on organization portals
- Add Capterra and G2Crowd missions to the Ambassador program
August / September 2018
- Redesign of the mobile application in ReactNative
- Public spheres: the first public spheres are opened upon request. For the time being, you can visit: l https://whaller.com/sphere/jaimemaboite
- Redesign of the chat (still a feature)
- Image galleries (Premium)
- Official release of zap' Whaller : https://zapier.com/apps/whaller/integrations
- Addition of an activity table to Whaller Analytics
July 2018
- Beta release of new chat. Ask to test it on https://whaller.com/sphere/tcjwx6
- Beta release of the new mobile application. Ask to test it on https://whaller.com/sphere/b799m1
- Creation of an interface that lists a person's spheres for an organization (only for the manager)
- Analytics: addition of a frame and an asset counter for the selected period (Premium)
- Addition of emojis :bzh:, :corsica: and :euskadi:
- Integration of "stripe elements" for card entry
June 2018
- Creation of a Premium organization option: "do not notify by email/push for anonymous messages"
- Security fixes following feedback from Bug Bounty
- Creation of the Whaller Sports page
- "Scratch-off" messages
- Ability to move a sphere from one organization to another
- Create a "verified" certificate for organizations and people
May 2018
- Create an event from Google calendar via Zapier
- Redesign of the ergonomics message types
- Add a task to a message that has already been posted (Premium)
- Program messages in advance (Premium)
- Restricted spheres: addition of a "block comments" option (Premium+)
April 2018
- "Alpha" release of the new chat (not visible to all users)
March 2018
- Improvements to the entry path in a network from its public portal
- "Enter a sphere" tutorial + customization of this tutorial
- Improvement of the UI of the signup modal on organization portals
- Make public portal pages responsive
February 2018
- Possibility to mention a group of people with the same role in a sphere using "@@nameofrole" (Premium)
- Creation of a CSS field allowing the graphic modification of organization interfaces (Premium)
- Points earned in "incentive" organizations are displayed in the navigation sidebar (Premium)
- Customization of the entry route in an organization: personalization of the redirect page after registration
January 2018
- Add percentages to csv survey extracts
- Possibility to merge two user accounts
- Creation of the Associations landing page with Halo Asso: https://whaller.com/fr/usage/association
December 2017
- Zapier application accessible on https://zapier.com/apps/whaller/
- Can archive spheres in an organization (Premium)
- Restriction of the organization standard offer: self-accepting emails, badges personalization of emails, charters
- Creation of the Universities landing page: https://whaller.com/fr/usage/college
November 2017
- Respond to a comment in private (triggers an alert)
- Can upload videos in a custom profile field
- Display a LinkedIn profile in a Whaller profile
- Creation of a "no role" filter in the members management section (Premium)
- Compatibility with native emojis!
- Export analytics in an Excel file
October 2017
- Connection of a "wedoogift" boutique to Whaller for one of our clients (will be generalizable) (Premium)
- Synchronization and generic authentication in LDAP (Premium)
- Addition of an option to hide the "website" link on an organization portal
- Increase the sphere description to 500 characters
- Addition of Dutch in the languages đłđ±
- Addition of a premium option to remove the notion of price in events + PayPal
- Allow the upload of InDesign files
September 2017
- Possibility to create a hierarchy between several organizations (Premium+) : with link between profiles, role, etc. (Premium)
- Create events from calendars (Premium)
- Block a person
- Creation of assignable rights according to roles (Premium): right to create a sphere, right to accept new members in the organization
- "Serendipity" widget (suggestions of people in an organization): specific to a single network at the moment. A generic version may be planned someday depending on requests (Premium)
- Implementation of the "Analytics" page in spheres, for sphere administrators (Premium)
- Creation of a new type of customizable profile field: free lists with suggestions (Premium)
- Removal of "product" icons (prices, premium,...) from organization portal pages (Premium)
- Sphere administrators can now create and edit widgets linked to their sphere (This was reserved exclusively for organization managers before) (Premium)
- Strengthen the invitation "quota" security policy
August 2017
- Can personalize the list of types of events (Premium)
- Possibility to block "I dislike" (Premium)
- Possibility to define a list of "blacklisted" words that automatically report messages to administrators and managers (Premium)
- Mobile application: can connect with Microsoft Office 365
- Showing roles in the form of medallions on avatars (Premium)
- Creation of the Premium + "Maps" page /product/premium-plus/map
- Generalization of the use of "Glowbl visio-spheres"
- Strengthening of the password security policy
July 2017
- Possibility to sign up/ connect with LinkedIn
- Possibility to share a message in several spheres at the same time (Premium)
- Addition of invitation quotas
- Improvement of the navigation in the right hand column of spheres: always visible, always scrollable
- "Forum" spheres for Premium+ (organization spheres in which you van validate or refuse the responses to a message)
- Ability to search all of a person's profile fields, including specific fields in an organization Premium
- Addition of a "role" filter in member directories Premium
- Message legacy (possibility to leave the messages you've written when you leave a sphere) Premium
- Can disable automatic messages for new documents in a sphere box Premium
- Possibility to structure organizations among themselves by defining "sub-organizations" to an organization; legacy profiles: avatars, bio, roles and specific fields (Premium)
June 2017
- SSO SAML (Premium+ option)
- Public page /contact
- Member management: can filter non-activated members
- Can disable the Kanban in spheres
- External hosting of message content and attached files
- "Whaller Ambassador" program: https://whaller.com/account/refer
- Addition of a navigation sidebar for isolated spheres
- Addition of attachment to automatic message in the sphere's box
- Mini profile: when clicking on the photo, it is displayed in full resolution
- Publication of Whaller's 3 core values on the homepage
- Publication of Whaller's Manifesto on the homepage
May 2017
- Automatic online payment (integration of the last elements)
- Integration of Google Drive in the sphere Box: possibility to manage a Google Drive folder directly from a Whaller sphere (beta)
- Deletion of the old mobile version and passage of spheres and root page in full responsive
- Integration of Glowbl as a replacement for visio-spheres
- Member management: Display the list of spheres for each person
- Ability to disable welcome messages in a sphere
- Public page /integrations
- Public page /mobile
- SEO improvements
- Creation of a "Start a trial" workflow
April 2017
- Create a task directly from a Kanban in a sphere
- Ability to share a GoToMeeting in a message (in an event)
- Automatic publication of a welcome message when a new member joins a sphere
- Redesign of the "sphere summary" widget
- Permanent deletion of old personal spheres
- Redesign of badge management
March 2017
- New network creation path
- New Premium+ offer "data hosted on the third party server"
- Tasks: fusion with ideations, possibility to assign a task to several people
- Integration of Office 365: registration and authentication with an Office 365 account, possibility to share OneDrive files
- Integration of Google Suite: registration and authentication with a Google account, possibility to share Google Drive files
- New discussion thread UX
February 2017
- Ability to create temporary, self-destructing messages ("burning messages")
- Notifications when a document is added in the Box
- PDF document viewer in the spheres
- Mobile application: new network creation path
- Mobile application: display of entry requests
January 2017
- Annual debug campaign. More than 150 bugs found and corrected.
December 2016
- Statistics tool: "Whaller Analytics"
- Possibility to activate "Premium" for a single sphere
- Card editor (points, quiz, info...)
- Interfacing Plussh & Whaller
- Twitter widget
- Entry course: (Join/ Create a network)
- Creation of a sponsorship/ referrals page
- Depreciation Internet Explorer < 10
November 2016
- New entry course: "What would you like to do?" and "Join a network"
- Redesign of the sphere management page: all settings accessible from this page
- Performance of web interfaces
- Creation of the page status.whaller.com
October 2016
- Switch to PHP7
- Update of ElasticSearch search engine
- Suggestions of organizations
- Creation of the "connected apps" account page
September 2016
- Ability to remove or add several sphere members at a time
- Enrichment of events: types (carpool,...), spots available, price, PayPal.Me
- Redesign of directory ergonomics and people search
- Synchronization of tabs
August 2016
- Improvement of real time, possibility to interact with a message while it's being updated (likes, etc.)
- Creation of the "publisher" right
July 2016
- Integration of IFTTT
- Multiple surveys
June 2016
- Redesign of the notification management page
- Pin a message
May 2016
- Side navigation bar
Updated on: 04/06/2025
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