Release Date: January 8, 2025

Major Features:

    New Silo Start Page

  • The new Silo Start Page delivers an improved experience for accessing the tools and resources you and your team depend on

    • Modern, intuitive design: the new Start Page is the first showcase of Silo’s new design language which will be gradually rolling out across Silo in the coming months.

    • Better navigation: Web Applications and Silo for Research (SfR) Shortcuts (Toolboxes) are now grouped separately to make it easier to find what you are looking for. Links to important resources such as training, support, and Admin Console are now displayed on the top navigation bar, making them more discoverable and easier to access.

    • More sorting options: while the current Start Page sorts all items by when they were last used, the new Start Page offers new options for sorting both SfR Shortcuts and Web Applications.

    • Adapts to you: the content and layout of the new Start Page are flexible and reflect the resources available to the user. For example, a Silo for Research user with no assigned Web Applications will not see the Web Applications section.

  • To maintain Admin oversight of Silo/SfR deployments, only quality-of-life improvements are made available to users by default — no additional access or new functionality

  • The previous Silo Start Page will remain accessible through February 2025.

    Silo for Research Launcher

  • The new Silo for Research Launcher offers users deeper access to the Silo Managed Attribution (MA) Network while keeping admins in control (and even reducing their workload!)

    • More flexibility: The SfR Launcher allows users to configure their own launch from a list of available egress regions, optionally filtered by parameters such as egress node type

    • Admin control: As the SfR Launcher is opt-in, admins decide whether to enable it. If enabled, admins are able to restrict what regions are available to users in the launcher on a per-organization basis. 

    • Improved network access: Since the Launcher allows access control by region, users immediately benefit from improvements to the Silo MA Network as long as they fall within admin-provisioned regions. This means admins stay in control, without needing to spend time creating individual shortcuts.

  • The setting to enable the SfR Launcher and set allowed regions can be found in the Admin Console under Policies > Managed Attribution Network > Launcher

    Browsing Data Persistence

  • Silo for Research now supports Browsing Data Persistence: the option to keep browsing data such as cookies and web history within an SfR shortcut between browsing sessions.

    • Improved site access: Certain websites may vet user access based on their past internet activity as a way of identifying bots or other unwanted guests. Browsing data persistence allows users to organically create and maintain a credible internet presence.

    • Streamlined log-ins: As cookies and other session data are preserved per-user, per-shortcut, users are kept logged in to sites between browsing sessions — a great time saver.

    • Another tool in the toolbox: While browsing data persistence is valuable for some use-cases, others benefit from clearing all browsing data on exit — and both admins and users have full control over whether to enable persistence, all the way from organization-level down to shortcut-level

  • Browsing data may now be cleared from within Silo for Research, regardless of whether persistence is enabled

  • The setting to enable Browsing Data Persistence can be found in the Admin Console under Policies > Browser Settings > Browsing Data



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