Here’s an overview of the most exciting updates from the Sanity Spring Release 2025.
We’ve just kicked off a new proof of concept, and several of the new features look very promising – both in solving real needs and in streamlining how we work with content.
Sanity Dashboard
The Sanity Dashboard acts as the homepage of the Sanity Content OS – a centralized space for quick access to key content, custom apps, and navigation across datasets.
In one of our earlier Sanity projects, we structured the platform using separate datasets for each market. While this setup worked, we lacked a unified view of core functionality. With Sanity Dashboard, we now see a great opportunity to bring those markets together in a shared overview – without sacrificing the separation between them.
Combined with the possibilities of the App SDK and the serverless automation power of Sanity Functions, we can build an even more flexible and editor-friendly platform that truly supports content operations – both strategically and day to day.
Sanity Media Library
Media Library is a new application within the Sanity Content OS that brings structure to media management – across teams, datasets, and channels. It allows you to set permissions, manage licenses, define metadata, and version assets, fully integrated with your content architecture.
In our first Sanity project, each market worked in its own dataset, relatively isolated. Media Library changes that. Now, assets can be shared and referenced across markets – without losing control or context. And the best part? It’s backwards compatible.
With Media Library+, you get even more control: role-based access, versioning, and automation – ideal for teams with high demands on collaboration and scale.
The only question is… is it time to call it a DAM? 🤔
Sanity Canvas
Canvas is, quite literally, a blank page – free from distractions and fully focused on content creation.
Paired with tightly integrated AI support, it becomes more than just a space for ideas. It’s a powerful tool for structuring content at the source – ready for seamless distribution across any channel. A natural starting point for everything from campaigns to complex content workflows.
Sanity Content Releases
Sanity Content Releases is a great fit for more complex publishing scenarios – or whenever you want to launch multiple content updates in a coordinated and fully controlled way.
Whether you're releasing campaign assets, an annual report, or a large batch of updates, this feature offers clarity, precision, and peace of mind. We're guessing Sanity used it for their own Spring Release – and we’re excited to start testing it in our upcoming projects.
App SDK
Sanity takes a big leap forward with App SDK – a toolkit that makes it easy to build custom content apps and workflows, both inside and outside of Studio. You can create interfaces tailored to your team’s exact needs – and get started quickly thanks to well-documented APIs and AI-assisted development.
The apps are also fully portable, meaning they can live independently of Sanity Studio – unlocking entirely new use cases.
We see massive potential here, especially for clients operating across multiple markets, with different roles or unique content processes. It’s also ideal when you want to surface content in a specific way – in other apps or through custom visualizations, for both editors and end users.
In short: this is how a modern CMS should work.
Sanity Functions
In the past, we’ve built a range of integrations and event-driven logic triggered by content interactions – using everything from Netlify and Azure Functions to no-code platforms like Zapier and n8n.
With Sanity Functions, we can now bring that logic closer to the content itself – running event handlers directly within Sanity’s infrastructure. This not only simplifies the architecture, but also increases security and reduces the need to pass data between multiple systems.
It opens up exciting possibilities for more powerful, long-running content workflows – right where the content lives. We're definitely looking forward to putting it to work in upcoming projects.
Agent Actions
Being able to build automations with agents that have direct access to both the content structure and the Sanity API unlocks a whole new level of possibility.
Tagging, translating, summarizing, or enriching content becomes faster and easier – right where the content lives. We’re confident this will lead to a wave of powerful extensions, integrations, and AI-powered workflows built on top of this foundation.
Insights
We now get access to a new Dashboard widget focused on how content moves, performs, and is being consumed.
This makes it easier to identify what’s working – and what needs updating. The result? More relevant, up-to-date content that continues to deliver value over time.
A great tool for working more proactively with content.
👉 Watch the full release demonstration and more: sanity.io/spring-release-2025
