---
title: "[AM2.0] - What’s Changed for Users"
description: Changes in Contentstack Assets (AM2.0) that affect everyday users, including asset discovery, details, and stack listing updates.
url: https://www.contentstack.com/docs/assets/whats-changed-for-users
product: Contentstack Assets
doc_type: article
audience:
  - users
  - admins
  - developers
  - asset-managers
version: AM2.0
last_updated: 2026-03-25
---

# [AM2.0] - What’s Changed for Users

This page explains what’s changed in Contentstack Assets (AM2.0) for users who find, manage, and reuse assets across Contentstack. Read this if you work with asset discovery, metadata, image understanding, or need to understand how the shift from stack-coupled assets to spaces impacts day-to-day workflows.

## What’s Changed for Users

Contentstack Assets rethinks how assets are organized, governed, and reused across Contentstack. Instead of being tightly coupled to individual stacks, assets are now managed in a dedicated system designed for scale, reuse, and intelligent discovery.

This shift benefits everyday users, admins, developers, and asset managers in different but meaningful ways.

Finding assets is faster and more intuitive:
- The asset listing page now includes powerful filters such as asset type, size, dimensions, color, language, creator, and user-defined metadata.
- Custom size and dimension ranges make it easier to narrow down large image libraries.
- Filters appear as chips, so refining or clearing searches is simple.

Clearer asset details:
- Editable metadata (title, description, tags, custom fields) is separated from system metadata (file size, URLs, UID).
- AI-powered suggestions help generate tags and descriptions automatically.
- Visual markups and bounding boxes improve how images can be understood and reused.

Stack listing changes:
- Asset counts are no longer shown on stack cards, since assets now live in spaces and may be shared across multiple stacks.

Contentstack Assets treats digital properties as a first-class system, not a side feature of CMS, making assets easier to find, reuse, and govern, while supporting real-world use cases like multi-site reuse, campaigns, and localization; this scales cleanly for growing teams and complex organizations, making it not just an upgrade, but a foundation for managing digital assets at scale.

## Common questions

**What is the main change in AM2.0 for assets?**  
Assets are no longer tightly coupled to individual stacks and are now managed in a dedicated system designed for scale, reuse, and intelligent discovery.

**What new ways can users filter and find assets?**  
Users can use filters such as asset type, size, dimensions, color, language, creator, and user-defined metadata, including custom size and dimension ranges, with filters displayed as chips.

**What’s different about asset details and metadata?**  
Editable metadata (title, description, tags, custom fields) is separated from system metadata (file size, URLs, UID), and AI-powered suggestions can help generate tags and descriptions automatically.

**Why don’t stack cards show asset counts anymore?**  
Asset counts are no longer shown on stack cards because assets now live in spaces and may be shared across multiple stacks.