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Cvent

MARKETING
Velocity5.0

Event management software for planning, marketing, and executing in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.

Cvent ships on a calendar, and this cycle's only concrete item is a LinkedIn sync.

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Current state
Cvent publishes a release calendar rather than a changelog: the August 19 cycle arrived on August 4 as six parallel family notices (Attendee Engagement, Plan & Promote, Exchange Solutions, Actionable Insights, Spend & Workflow, Trade Show Solutions), followed by an umbrella index post on August 6. Most notices open by listing which products the family covers before saying what changed, and several explicitly report no releases at all this cycle. The one item stated in full is Event Sync and Registrant Capture for LinkedIn going live in beta.
Where it's heading
The visible work sits at the integration perimeter rather than in the core registration and event-management stack. Cvent is wiring its attendee data outward into demand-gen systems, which is where an events suite competes with marketing automation rather than with other event tools. The calendar format itself signals an enterprise release discipline: dated windows announced two weeks ahead, with product families moving independently.
Prediction
Expect the next cycle notice around mid-September in the same six-family split, with continued integration work rather than a core platform change. What the entries do not reveal is how deep any individual family release goes, since the published bodies stop before the detail.

Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    Product Updates Releasing August 19, 2026

    An umbrella index post pointing at the August 19 launch window rather than describing anything that shipped. It restates the cycle already detailed by the six family notices published two days earlier.

  2. 7d ago

    In Case You Missed It ~ July 2026

    The monthly customer digest, covering Spotlights, workshops and training rather than product changes. It is account-marketing content that sits alongside the release calendar, not part of it.

  3. 7d ago

    Exchange Solutions Releases for August 19, 2026

    A duplicate record of the Exchange Solutions notice for the same August 19 cycle, differing only in how the date is written in the title. The feed republished the identical notice; the substance is covered by its twin.

  4. 7d ago

    Attendee Engagement Releases for August 19, 2026

    The Attendee Engagement slice of the August 19 cycle, spanning Attendee Hub, Events+, Appointments, OnArrival, LeadCapture, Webinar and Essentials. Consistent with the calendar pattern, the notice names the covered products before the changes, so the scope is visible but the substance is not.

  5. 7d ago

    Exchange Solutions Releases for 19th August 2026

    The Exchange Solutions slice, spanning Cvent Supplier Network, Event Diagramming, Passkey, Travel, Instant Book and Vendor Marketplace. This is the supplier-side half of the platform moving on the same August 19 date as the planner-side products.

  6. 7d ago

    Plan & Promote Releases for August 19, 2026

    The Plan & Promote slice of the same cycle, covering Registration, Abstract Management, Speaker Resource Center, Exhibitor Management and Payments. Registration work continues to move on the same dated train as the rest of the suite.