When creating a new event within the context of a resource attribute, a resource picker filtered to the filters will open to picker from.

When grouping by or filtering a resource attribute like “Location: London” or “Department: Lighting”, creating new events will show you all resources that are London based you can quickly pick who you want on the event.

❤️ Improvements

• Add created by/at and updated by/at details to the event

🛠️ Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where adding the time to an existing event wouldn’t work.

• Scenarios: Hide scenario controls for users as they cannot update scenarios

• Scenarios: Add a written confirmation for deleting scenarios to make it hard to delete one by accident.

• Scenarios: Add confirmation for setting a scenario to live.

Inbox Filtering

The inbox is a place to get work done, not just a notification center. We’ve added filtering to help cut through the noise and focus on the changes that matter. You can now filter by:

• Project

• Update type

• Comment Category

• Review Approvals

• Plus many more

Table Columns Redesign

It’s now much easier to add and manage columns in the table. Simply click the new “Add” button, then select the column you need or drag it directly onto the table. Columns are now better organised into groups, with a new search making it easier to find exactly what you need.

🎉 New Features

• Inbox Filtering #2217

❤️ Improvements

• Overview: Allow creating folders and task in any mode #2256

• Summaries: Name breakdown of folder and task types #2268

• Table: Redesign column management #2241

🛠️ Bugfixes

• Slicer: Fix selection of redundant children being sent to server #2257

• Products: product type should not enum dropdown and string type #2269

📚 Resources

• Backend Changelog: 1.16.4

• Frontend Changelog: 20260825

Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server.

🏎️ Speed Optimisations

As projects scale and production data grows, we are continually optimizing AYON to remain fast and responsive. We've delivered major performance improvements to version loading times on the Products page, achieving up to a 10x speed increase in large-scale environments.

🔎 More Products Page Filters

Versions are inherently tied to their folder structure. To give you clearer context and faster navigation directly from the Products page, we've expanded your filtering and management options:

• Parent Folder Filtering: Filter versions dynamically using the attributes of their folders.

• Folder & Task Navigation: Jump directly to a versions folder or linked task in a single click.

• Parent Folder Status: See the parent folder status right alongside the version entry.

• Latest per Folder: Isolate your view to show only the latest version per folder.

• Streamlined Filtering UX: Enjoy a cleaner, re-designed search filter interface that makes building queries faster and easier.

✅ Activity Feed Attribute Tracking

The Activity Feed now captures all attribute and entity changes across folders, tasks, and versions, giving you a complete, transparent timeline of your project history.

🎉 New Features

• Entity changes show as activities in feed #2197

• Products: Filter versions by folders and get the latest in a folder #2226

❤️ Improvements

• Slicer: Hierarchy right click options on folders #2189

• Filters: Text fields empty and not empty #2205

• Delete: Deleting entities requires typed confirmation #2206

• Lists: Search filter now supports fuzzy text strings #2201

• Table: Double click folder and task cells to open them #2237

• Table: Word wrapping for column content #2239

🛠️ Fixes

• Fix sorting by Folder Name in tasks #1047

• Tasks: Changed allowed length of task type to 2 not 3 #1053

• Projects: Fix new project code generation for regexes #2209

• Actions: Dialogs closing on table changes and real time updates #2219

• Slicer: Lists sorting now matches lists page #2220

• Realtime Updates: Optimise folder updates and standardize batching and delays #2218

• Overview: Fix sorting tasks by folder #2236

• Overview: Fix folder count stats when searching for tasks #2251

• Lists: Move list should use add to list dialog #2245

• Summaries: Show column summaries for multi-select attributes #2261

📚 Resources

• Backend Changelog: 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3

• Frontend Changelog: 20260813, 20260813A, 20260817

Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server.

📐 Geometric Shapes

Quickly highlight details, point out specific pixels, and frame areas of interest using brand-new dedicated shape tools: Arrow, Circle, Square, Line

🖌️ Pencil, Opacity, and Tablet Improvements

We’ve upgraded the drawing experience to give you greater precision and a more natural feel when annotating:

• Opacity Slider: Adjust stroke transparency to overlay notes without completely obscuring the underlying media.

• Pencil Hardness Slider: Fine-tune the pencil tool’s edge hardness for crisp callouts or softer, subtle marks.

• Improved Tablet Performance: Enjoy a smoother, more responsive drawing feel with optimized tablet and stylus input.

🎨 Studio Logo Branding

You can now display your custom studio logo directly in the top-left corner during review sessions for cleaner, consistent studio branding.

🛠️ Bugfixes

Continued fixes to improve playback and sync stability.

❤️ Improvements

• Update server to use Python 3.13 #1029

• Slicer value counts #2179

🛠️ Fixes

• Details panel: clicking close sometimes does not close #2195

• Overview: Table rendering unstable causing links picker to close on streaming updates #2200

📚 Resources

• Backend Changelog: 1.16.0

• Frontend Changelog: 20260724

Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server.

🛠️ Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where updating the review session list could drop newly added versions.

• Improved loading for very long clips, preventing them from getting stuck.

• Fixed an issue where selecting the first clip would not jump to its position.

• Improved support for images with transparency.

• Fixed an issue where deleting a comment failed to work.

Add To List Redesign

Adding Folders, Tasks, and Versions to lists and reviews is now faster, more familiar, and optimized for large-scale projects:

• Faster Discovery: Easily find the exact list you need by navigating organized folders or using the search bar.

• Multi-List Support: Add selected items to multiple lists simultaneously with a single action.

❤️ Improvements

• Feed: Show status on version activity #2167

• Reload data button #2182

• Details Panel: More menu delete option #2177

• Lists: Add to lists redesign #2183

🛠️ Bugfixes

• Lists: Copying table cells now copies correct list data #2184

• Products: Ensure table cells are focused properly #2190

📚 Resources

• Backend Changelog: 1.15.17

• Frontend Changelog: 20260722

Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server.

Releases 1.15.12 through 1.15.16 focus on overall stability, bug fixes, and performance enhancements, alongside a few handy quality-of-life additions.

Replace List Items

Managing lists just got much faster. Instead of manually deleting an item from a list and then hunting down its replacement, you can now swap items instantly in place.

Group Counts ⚡

When grouping by a field, the number of items in the group and overall percentage is shown.

Summaries Selection Count⚡

The summaries bar now shows your current selection count.

🎉 New Features

• Lists: Replace items #2141

• Copy Representation File Path via context menu #2162

• Inbox: Select and clear multiple messages at once #2168

❤️ Improvements

• Overview: Drastically improve the speed of hierarchy browsing #2156

• Summaries: Show selected count in name summary column #2171

• Groups: show filter-aware count and percentage on group rows #2095

• Expose product/task/folder type in version column stats by #1022

🛠️ Fixes

• Table: Folder column copying does not work #2122

• Optimise Review list updates #2123

• Summary: Relative date filter breaks column-stats footer on Lists #2145

• Filters: When a corrupt filter causes, tasks, products, entityListItems not to load show reset button #2138

• Developer actions #2150

• Enhance task filtering to include inherited attributes #1016

• Summaries: Do not collect stats for disabled columns and by default they should be off #2146

• Summaries: fix column-summary grouping and skip disabled fetches #2154

• Entity lists: Sort items by product name #1000

• Lists: Copying cells from the lists table skips values #2152

• Filter: Ensure filter bar does not overflow and push items off the page #2169

• Entity Picker: Use the keyboard can affect other shortcuts #2178

📚 Resources

• Backend Changelog: 1.15.12, 1.15.13, 1.15.14, 1.15.15, 1.15.16

• Frontend Changelog: 2026070, 20260710, 20260715, 20260716, 20260717

Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server.