-  Resolved: NVivo crashing when opening or importing a converted NVivo 15 for Mac project.

-  Resolved: "Unable to upload project" error when uploading a project to Collaboration Cloud.

-  Resolved: Annotations not displayed in the Project Summary Report when selected in the filter options.

-  Resolved: Importing or merging a project created in NVivo for Mac prior to version 15.3 freezing at the "Creating report" stage.

-  Resolved: Some antivirus security rules blocking NVivo from installing or starting.

-  Resolved: Repeated error dialogs for collaborators working in a local copy of a cloud project that the owner has deleted.

-  Resolved: NVivo crashing when working with PDF files.

-  Resolved: Code content failing to load when coded source documents have different page layouts.

-  Resolved: Concept map fill color not applying to a shape when the same color is already selected.

-  Resolved: Collaboration Cloud pop-up appearing repeatedly when running NVivo in Parallels on Mac.

-  Resolved: Collaboration Cloud project failing to upload or sync because of a data inconsistency.

Feature

Description

Benefit

AI Assistant: Paper Search

Describe a research topic to find relevant academic papers, preview them, and import them directly into your project as files.

Speeds up literature discovery and brings relevant sources into your project without leaving NVivo.

-  Resolved: "Machine fingerprint has changed" error when launching NVivo on a machine cloned from an activated image.

-  Resolved: Unexpected error when system time backdating was detected. You are now prompted to correct your system time or deactivate your license.

-  Resolved: Learn & Connect content not displaying on the Welcome screen.

-  Resolved: Matrix Coding Query chart not updating when the cell content is changed to Row Percentage.

-  Resolved: Silent command line installation launching the standard install dialog instead of running silently.

-  Resolved: Quick coding toolbar shortcut and uncoding via coding stripes not working when opened from a code.

-  Resolved: Unexpected errors in cloud projects when a background sync occurred while closing or switching projects.

-  Resolved: An issue with hosted-floating license not reactivating after initial command-line activation.

-  Resolved NVivo crash on launch.

-  Resolved NVivo crash when opening a second instance.

Feature

Description

Benefit

Coding Stripes

Improved support for coding stripes functionality in large surveys.

Improves scalability and performance.

Matrix coding query

Performance enhancements to deliver significantly faster query processing.

Supports quicker analysis and improved productivity.

Project creation

This enhancement streamlines project creation with a simplified user interface.

Enables faster setup with fewer steps and clicks.

-  Resolved freezing issues while editing queries.

-  Autocode sentiment now works in Japanese.

-  Autocoded sentiment references are now correctly associated with the 'AI' user profile.

Feature

Description

Benefit

Autocoding

Starting with NVivo 15.4.0, Mac users can now use the new Analyze Sentiment option to analyze and automatically code content to a predefined set of sentiment codes ranging from very positive to very negative.

Learn more: Automatically detect and code sentiment

Enables fast and accurate sentiment analysis.

-  Resolved problems with accessing context menu while a word cloud is zoomed in.

-  Fixed an issue where highlights were being reset when hovering over coding stripes.

-  Fixed a bug with Edit mode in mind maps.

-  Resolved an issue with visibility of the editing tools for memos in Edit mode.

-  Localization inconsistencies in icons and menus for Japanese have been fixed.

-  Improved handling of Excel tables with a large number of columns.

-  Fixed a bug affecting the coding bar shortcut.

Feature

Description

Benefit

Collaboration Cloud

Improved collaboration cloud reliability by detecting issues with system folders.

Collaborate with your colleagues more efficiently than ever with these improvements.

Feature

Description

Benefit

AI Assistant: Summarize Coded Content

In the Framework Matrix, you can now generate summaries of coded content automatically with the help of the AI Assistant.

Learn more: AI Assistant: Summarize Coded Content

Saves time and creates efficiency on the tedious task of manual summarization.

Disable AI Features

You can disable AI Assistant features via Registry Key or My Lumivero.

Learn more: Disable AI Features

Supports researchers and institutions with strict data governance or ethical requirements.

Mixed Methods Research

Crosstab query now displays descriptive statistics such as mean, median, and quartiles in the table as well as a new box plot visualization.

Additionally, a principal components analysis (PCA) biplot visualization is available in the crosstab query.

Learn more: Mixed Methods Research

Allows you to do some basic stats without needing to leave the app.

XLSTAT Export

XLSTAT Export allows you to export coding frequencies across cases or different case types within your project. The exported file can be used in applications like Excel or XLSTAT for statistical analysis.

Learn more: XLSTAT Export

Eases interoperability between platforms, and makes reporting, collaboration, and workflow integration easier.

Audio and Video

A redesigned waveform with intuitive playback controls has been added for audio/video documents.

Learn more: Play audio and video

Improves consistency across platforms (Windows and Mac) and more modern look.

New Coding stripes Mode

A new mode is added so that you can view coding stripes for all codes and cases that code the content which is currently in view.

Better, more intuitive user experience when reviewing your codes in context.

Detail View

The context ribbon is replaced with a more accessible and intuitive toolbar that is available in the Detail View for the items such as Documents, PDFs, audio, video, picture, survey, code, etc.

Improves consistency across platforms (Windows and Mac).