# February 4, 2025

### Agents Platform

- **Agent monitoring**: Added a new dashboard for monitoring ElevenLabs agents' activity. Check out your's [here](https://elevenlabs.io/app/agents).
- **Proactive conversations**: Enhanced capabilities with improved timeout retry logic. [Learn more](/guides/elevenagents-customization-conversation-flow)
- **Tool calls**: Fixed timeout issues occurring during tool calls
- **Allowlist**: Fixed implementation of allowlist functionality.
- **Content summarization**: Added Gemini as a fallback model to ensure service reliability
- **Widget stability**: Fixed issue with dynamic variables causing the Agents Platform widget to fail

### Reader

- **Trending content**: Added carousel showcasing popular articles and trending content
- **New publications**: Introduced dedicated section for recent ElevenReader Publishing releases

### ElevenCreative Studio (formerly Projects)

- **Projects is now ElevenCreative Studio** and is now generally available to everyone
- **Chapter content editing**: Added support for editing chapter content through the public API, enabling programmatic updates to chapter text and metadata
- **GenFM public API**: Added public API support for podcast creation through GenFM. Key features include:
  - Conversation mode with configurable host and guest voices
  - URL-based content sourcing
  - Customizable duration and highlights
  - Webhook callbacks for status updates
  - Project snapshot IDs for audio downloads

### SDKs

- **Swift**: fixed an issue where resources were not being released after the end of a session
- **Python**: added uv support
- **Python**: fixed an issue where calls were not ending correctly

### API

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- Added POST `v1/workspace/invites/add-bulk` [endpoint](/guides/changelog-api-reference-workspace-invites-create-batch) to enable inviting multiple users simultaneously
- Added POST `v1/projects/podcast/create` [endpoint](/guides/api-reference-studio-create-podcast) for programmatic podcast generation through GenFM
- Added 'v1/convai/knowledge-base/:documentation_id' [endpoints](/guides/elevenagents-customization-knowledge-base) with CRUD operations for Agents Platform
- Added PATCH `v1/projects/:project_id/chapters/:chapter_id` [endpoint](/guides/api-reference-studio-update-chapter) for updating project chapter content and metadata
- Added `group_ids` parameter to [Workspace Invite endpoint](/guides/changelog-api-reference-workspace-invites-create) for group-based access control
- Added structured `content` property to [Chapter response objects](/guides/api-reference-studio-get-chapter)
- Added `retention_days` and `delete_transcript_and_pii` data retention parameters to [Agent creation](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/agents/create)
- Added structured response to [AudioNative content](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/audio-native/create#response.body.project_id)
- Added `convai_chars_per_minute` usage metric to [User endpoint](/guides/changelog-api-reference-user-get)
- Added `media_metadata` field to [Dubbing response objects](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/dubbing/get)
- Added GDPR-compliant `deletion_settings` to [Conversation responses](/guides/changelog-api-reference-conversations-get#response.body.metadata.deletion_settings)
- Deprecated Knowledge Base legacy endpoints:
  - POST `/v1/convai/agents/{agent_id}/add-to-knowledge-base`
  - GET `/v1/convai/agents/{agent_id}/knowledge-base/{documentation_id}`
- Updated Agent endpoints with consolidated [privacy control parameters](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/agents/create)
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## Related pages

- [Administration](./administration-index.md)
- [API reference](./api-reference-index.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog-index.md)
- [ElevenAgents](./elevenagents-index.md)
- [ElevenAPI](./elevenapi-index.md)
- [ElevenCreative](./elevencreative-index.md)
- [ElevenLabs Documentation Docs](../index.md)
- [General Troubleshooting FAQ](./troubleshooting-index.md)
- [General Website FAQ](./website-index.md)
- [Help Center](./help-center-2-index.md)

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