Release notes (NVivo 15 Windows)

NVivo 15 Windows

For more information about new features and enhancements in recent versions of NVivo 15 Windows, refer to What's New in the NVivo Help.

July 2025 (NVivo 15.2.1)

  • Added: New application option for NVivo to automatically check for software updates every day.

  • Improved: Error messaging in collaboration cloud.

  • Improved: Scrolling while viewing coding stripes.

  • Resolved: Crashing when docking and undocking media player.

  • Resolved: Command line activation and software upgrade issues.

  • Resolved: Issue with exporting transposed framework matrix.

  • Resolved: Issue related to assigning multiple codes to a coded content.

  • Resolved: Crash that could occur during startup.

  • Resolved: Crash that could occur when opening a project

June 2025 (NVivo 15.2.0)

Please note the Windows auto update will only be available for users on 15.1.2.

  • Added: New intuitive playback controls for audio/video documents.

  • Added: Highlighting in documents when hovering over coding stripes, making it quicker and easier to identify what is coded to which code. Improved usability for selecting and deselecting coding stripes.

  • Added: Sidebar indicators for See-Also links are made interactive in the Detail View. Clicking the icons selects the corresponding link text, and right-clicking them opens a context menu. The See-Also link sidebar icons and text highlights are made more intuitive to easily differentiate between linked from item and linked to item.

  • Added: Sidebar icons for Annotations are made interactive in the Detail View. Clicking the icons selects the corresponding annotated text, and right-clicking them opens a context menu.

  • Added: For specific file types, NVivo can now display multiple indicators for the same line where necessary.

  • Added: An indicator to notify users when a new memo is created or updated by AI Assistant.

  • Added: Support to enable the organization account login for OneNote authentication.

  • Added: User friendly indicator while opening an NVivo project.

  • Added: You can now transpose the columns and rows in Framework matrix.

  • Improved: Enabled the use of special characters in the email address when inviting collaborators to a project.

  • Improved: Optimized Word Cloud view by significantly improving the loading speed.

  • Improved: Reduced the loading time for opening NVivo projects from welcome screen and code references in Detail View.

  • Improved: Survey wizard now also works on small screens.

  • Improved: Minor user interface enhancements to coding stripes.

  • Improved: User interface when cloning or uploading a cloud project.

  • Improved: Table header dividers are now properly visible, which makes it much easier to resize table columns.

  • Improved: Renamed 'Dataset' files to 'Survey' to better reflect their actual use in practice.

  • Improved: Reduced flickering of coding stripes when scrolling.

  • Resolved: Error when exporting framework matrices with certain locales.

  • Resolved: Issue with “Add shapes” panel, it is now correctly hidden when opening concept maps.

  • Resolved: Rendering issue on tab close buttons in Windows 11.

  • Resolved: Disabled “insert sibling” on root node of mind maps, which cannot have siblings.

  • Resolved: Display issue with Annotation, See-Also link indicators, and audio waveform on HiDPI screens.

  • Resolved: Crash issues on welcome screen and when editing mind map, concept map, or project map.

  • Resolved: Issue where code stripes did not align properly with the text.

  • Resolved: Issue where auto coding and survey import was not working.

  • Resolved: Crash when trying to download a corrupted project from collaboration cloud.

  • Resolved: Added missing tooltips.

April 2025 (NVivo 15.1.2)

  • Improved: Workflows for on-premise organization license provisioning and activation.

  • Improved: Users can now perform offline activation seamlessly.

January 2025 (NVivo 15.1.1)

  • Improved: Users can now seamlessly uninstall and reinstall NVivo with trial license.

  • Resolved: Error occurred during user sign-up and activation.

January 2025 (NVivo 15.1.0)

  • Added: Support for AI Assistant to generate child code in different languages.

  • Added: NCapture support for Chrome manifest v3.

  • Added: AI Assistant to support code and case summarization.

  • Improved: Workflows for license provisioning and activation.

  • Improved: AI Assistant user interface localization.

  • Improved: Upgraded NCapture to support Twitter API version 2.

  • Resolved: Issues with capturing Twitter data.

  • Resolved: Twitter user timeline capturing issues.

August 2024 (NVivo 15)

  • Added: AI Assistant is a generative artificial intelligent tool that is embedded within NVivo to enhance your data analysis. Using AI assistant, you can leverage coding suggestions and summarize texts or documents.