August 2026
Release schedule
The Axon August 2026 release is scheduled by region on the listed dates. These dates indicate when updates are deployed, not when features become available.
Feature availability varies by product and region and is subject to change. For timing and availability details, refer to each feature’s release note. For Records and Standards, see the Productivity page for release dates.
Regional deployment dates
August 24, 2026
- Enterprise region (.ent.evidence.com)
- Canada (.ca.evidence.com)
- Europe (.eur.evidence.com)
- The Netherlands (edca.eur.evidence.com)
August 25, 2026
- U.S. Federal (.evidence.com)
- U.S. Law Enforcement (.evidence.com)
- U.S. Enterprise AWS region (.ent2.evidence.com)
- Germany (.de.evidence.com)
September 1, 2026
- United Kingdom (edca-azure.uk.evidence.com)
- Australia (.au.evidence.com)
- South America (.la.evidence.com)
We do not expect any downtime during these updates.
Learn more about the Axon Cloud Services Maintenance Schedule.
Additional help documentation for the products included in these release notes is located at axon.com/help.
Download this month's release notes
Axon Justice
Filter by owner in agency case reviews
Users can now filter by owner when reviewing all cases within an agency, making it easier to find cases you are looking for.
Availability: All regions
Mark Evidence as un-viewed
Users can now mark evidence as un-viewed from the evidence actions menu, making it easy to flag items for further review. For more information, see the [Case Details page](https://www.axon.com/help/justice/software/justice/cases/manage-cases/case-details-page.htm).
Availability: All regions
People Detection in Justice Reviewer
People Detection is now available in Justice Reviewer to help you identify people in evidence. For more information, see [People Detection in Justice Reviewer](https://www.axon.com/help/justice/software/justice/evidence/review-evidence/people-detection.htm).
Availability: All regions
Search and filter cases by custom metadata
Case metadata search and filters are now expanded to include Accused, Court Number, and other custom case metadata. Available on the cases page through the single search box, or narrow results in the filter panel.
Availability: All regions
Improvement
Search the folder tree
The folder tree now has a search box, so you can find folders by name. For more information, see [Work with folders](https://www.axon.com/help/justice/software/justice/cases/manage-cases/work-with-folders.htm).
Availability: All regions
Clarifications
You can now stabilize shaky video directly in Axon Evidence, without downloading the file or using a separate application. Stabilization is the first filter available in Clarifications.
When you'd use it
Body-worn camera footage of an officer running down an alley bounces so much it's hard to tell what's in front of them. Stabilization smooths that motion so you can follow the action, identify what's in frame, and present the footage clearly to a reviewer, a jury, or a courtroom.
Before you start
Clarifications requires Axon Investigate with Third-Party Video Support (SKU 11642) on your agency's contract, with the feature enabled. Your agency administrator must also allow the Clarification permission under Admin > Roles and Permissions > Investigate Cloud.
Create a clarification
- Open a video in Axon Evidence and select the Investigate icon in the side panel.
- Select Create Clarification.
- Edit the title if you'd like. - Clarification is appended automatically.
- Under Stabilization, select Enable stabilization and choose a strength: Light — smooths small camera shake while keeping the original framing as close to intact as possible. Medium (default) — balanced smoothing for most body-worn and handheld footage. Strong — smooths heavy movement, with more shifting and cropping of the frame.
- Optionally expand Advanced to adjust: Crop edges — on by default. Cropping removes the black borders and warping that appear at the frame edges during stabilization, but reduces the visible area. Turn it off to keep the full frame if detail near the edges matters to your review. Interpolation — Bilinear (default) produces the smoothest result and is appropriate for review, narrative, and presentation. Nearest Neighbor preserves original pixel values without blending, which examiners may prefer when the output will feed downstream analysis such as object or subject identification.
- Select Create.
What you get
The clarification runs and creates a new piece of derivative evidence, with the original title plus - Clarification. It appears in the Related tab and on the evidence display page. Your original evidence is unchanged.
Every stabilization setting you select is recorded in the evidence audit trail, so the result can be documented and reproduced.
Coming soon
This section provides advanced notice about upcoming features.
Axon Justice
Flag evidence to find it faster
Soon, you will be able to flag evidence to mark files you want to return to later. Open a file's evidence details page and select Flag to flag it, or Unflag to remove the flag. Once evidence is flagged, use the advanced search filters on the evidence search page to quickly find everything you've flagged.
Availability: All regions
Redesigned search
Axon Justice will include a redesigned search experience for all customers. A new filter panel and updated filter list make it faster to narrow your results, and an enhanced search box adds AI semantic search to find evidence by meaning and transcript keyword search to locate spoken words in audio and video.
Availability: US4, CA1, AU1, NL1, US3, LA1, EU1, US1
Video stitching moves to a side panel
Stitching is moving out Review mode and into its own side panel, where you select multiple pieces of evidence and build the stitch in one place. The panel lets you order the clips, add a title screen and a disclaimer, insert frames between clips, and rename the stitched output. Stitching will be disabled by default, so administrators should plan to grant the Stitching permission before the release planned for September.
