May 4th, 2026
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This release is packed with a massive amount of new features and an equally impressive list of bug fixes to make your production tracking smoother than ever.
📥 CSV Import
Skip the manual setup with our flexible new importer. Whether you’re building project hierarchies, populating lists, or onboarding your entire team, getting data into AYON has never been easier.
Smart Mapping: Effortlessly match spreadsheet columns to AYON fields.
Paste from Clipboard: No file needed—simply copy rows from Excel or Google Sheets and paste them directly into the browser.
Presets: Save your configurations as Presets to automate future migrations.
🍰 Slicing by Lists
Custom Lists are now integrated directly into the Slicer panel.
Quick Filtering: Instantly isolate table items based on specific list memberships.
Cross-Context View: See exactly how your curated lists relate to the broader project production state.
🗂️ Group by Folders
We have overhauled the grouping logic on the Products and Overview pages to provide a more intuitive and flexible experience.
Grouping by folder: You can now group tasks by folder, making it easy to create shot or asset list views.
📣 Mention Teams in Comments
You can now mention an entire Team in the Activity Feed.
Mention a team (e.g.,
@Lightingor@Compositors) to automatically notify all its members in their Inbox.
🎉 New Features
❤️ Improvements
Sort "Copy Settings from" addon version lists by semver #1905
Kanban: Add group by Parent Folder #1919
Filters: Allow filtering by date range on products page #1920
Attributes: Redesign with user friendly types #1936
Workfiles: Show createdBy and updatedBy users for a workfile #1949
Deleting Entities: Improve message of what will be deleted #1922
Search for multiple folders at the same time #1932
Optimized reviewable thumbnail creation and pre-caching #908
🛠️ Fixes
Overview: Tasks "Folder name" column is empty when grouping tasks #1903
Attributes: Delete attribute at top of page does nothing #1904
fix: reviewable files with incorrect unsupported characters failing #1908
Comments: Properly fix and style empty lines #1911
Settings: Fix checking "enabled" expanding collapsed sections #1929
Settings: Fix textarea widget enter misbehaving #1928
Grouping: Overview view switch preserves old grouping fix #1934
Subtasks: Ensure users have proper access to assignees dropdown options #1952
Overview: Group by folder and hierarchy broken #1946
Views: Changing view permissions does not move view to correct section #1955
Products: Product base type filter #1939
List: Fix missing version attributes in the table view #1957
Fixed background process event sender property #899
Fixed addon loading isolation #900
Fixed EntityList transaction management #904
Fix user enum access #912
BaseTypes: Filter and grouping #922
📚 Resources
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April 9th, 2026
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Bugfix release
🛠️ Fixes
Side Panel: Details tab would cause error #1898
📚 Resources
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March 29th, 2026
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Production Tracking
This update brings significant improvements to how you manage entity relationships, upload new work, and interact with data in the table view.
📤 Smarter Version Uploading
We’ve overhauled the manual version upload process from the Project Overview Page to prevent accidental duplicates and streamline your workflow.
Existing Product Matching: When you type a product name, AYON now checks for existing matches in that folder.
Auto-Versioning: If a match is found, the system automatically sets your upload to the next available version (e.g., v004 if v003 exists) and syncs the product type for you.
Product Picker: A new "inventory" icon next to the name input allows you to browse and select from existing products directly within the upload dialog.
🔗 Multiple Links
Managing repetitive relationships is now much cleaner with the redesigned Links Manager. Instead of seeing multiple identical entries, duplicate links to the same entity are now automatically grouped.
Count Badges: Grouped links now display a clear badge (e.g., x5) in both the Links Manager dialog and table cells.
Inline Editing: Need to change the number of links? Click the badge to open an inline input. Increasing or decreasing the number will automatically create or remove links in the background.
✍️ Inline Text Editing
The inline table text editing to make it easier to write longer and more descriptive brief.
❤️ Improvements
Products: Add product base type column to Products page #1873
Entity Picker: Preserve child selection state when switching parent nodes #1881
Description: Improved string fields in the table #1566
🛠️ Fixes
Guests: Fix guests not being able to comment in review sessions #889
Details: JSON viewer displays incorrect text selection #1870
Lists: Fix folder row IDs leaking into list selection lookup #1875
Comments: Adding over 6 attachments causes formatting issues #1878
Filters: Remove confusing radio button icons for boolean filters #1894
Table: Fix sorting column showing on pinned columns #1896
📚 Resources
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March 10th, 2026
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❤️ Improvements
Details Dialog: JSON syntax highlighting and Copy to Clipboard #1798
Review: Move "Open Review session" button to the left side of the toolbar #1860
Use studio logo in emails #868
🛠️ Fixes
Kanban: Open in Browser to Open in Overview #1850
Bundles: Show warning there is a higher version of an addon when editing bundle #1851
📚 Resources
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March 5th, 2026
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❤️ Improvements
Comments: Admins can now delete other users comments #1833
Kanban: Regular users can now see other users tasks if they have full project permissions. #1832
🛠️ Fixes
Views: Pinned columns are lost sometimes #1836
Products: Double clicking on grid version card does not open panel #1839
Version Upload: Product types not showing for users #1840
Descriptions: Support multiple line breaks #1843
Reviewable: Fix loading and scrolling issues for images in reviewables #1848
Users: Fix batch deleting many users dialog styling #1846
Player: Switching versions in the player is very buggy #1845
📚 Resources
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February 19th, 2026
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❤️ Improvements
Bundles: Option to cancel bundle tag change #1830
🛠️ Fixes
Player: Switching versions breaks playback #1829
Table: Sorting should always fallback to label alphabetical #1826
Fix bundle resolving in settings #857
📚 Resources
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February 19th, 2026
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This release focuses on visual clarity, refined project management, and significant UI improvements to streamline your production tracking.
🎨 Task and Folder Colors
Folders and tasks are now much easier to identify at a glance. AYON now pulls the colors defined in your Project Anatomy for folder and task types and applies them to their respective projects.
📦 Streamlined Project Bundles
We’ve overhauled how you manage project-specific environments. Bundle controls have been moved directly into Project Settings to simplify your workflow.
Freeze Bundles: A new
Freeze Bundlesbutton allows you to create a unique, immutable bundle for your project.Active Management: Once frozen, you can manage the specific contents—including addons and dependency packages—ensuring your project's pipeline remains stable and reproducible.
More details are available in Project Bundles documentation.
📊 Table Enhancements
Managing large lists of products and tasks is now more intuitive with several improvements to the Overview and Products pages:
Customization Panel: A new "Sort by" setting has been added to the table's Customize panel for more granular control.
Group Sorting (⚡Power Feature): You can now specify the grouping order, ascending or descending.
Drag-and-Drop Columns: You can now reorder table columns simply by dragging them to your preferred position, allowing for a personalized data view.
🎉 New Features
Project bundle freeze #846
❤️ Improvements
Table: Column reordering by dragging #1799
Table Settings: Show Sort by dropdown in settings #1807
Table: Sorting of groups #1808
Anatomy: Folder and Task colours including link manager colours #1739
Comments: Highlight current users tags name in comments #1824
Task picker when uploading a version #1821
🛠️ Fixes
Products page: Double clicking on version name cell does not open detail panel #1815
Player fix version switching issues #1813
Table: Sorting folders does not respect label special characters #1817
Prevent and remove user email white space #1820
📚 Resources
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February 6th, 2026
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❤️ Improvements
Products: Realtime updates for new and existing versions #1779
Server Offline: Improved experience with hosting AYON Server on a machine without internet access #842
🛠️ Bugfixes
Tasks: Shift selection breaks when using grouping #1778
Feed: Minor activities username not showing when no fullName #1780
Overview: Improve error message on duplicate folders #1783
Products: Ctrl click does not work #1781
Details: Always include the search bar for dropdowns #1792
Project Folders: Pinning should not affect projects order #1790
Details: Clicking links doesn't open the link #1788
Table: Display numeric 0 correctly in the TextWidget #1793
Slicer: Searching folders matching improvements #1796
📚 Resources
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January 27th, 2026
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Keep your studio dashboard tidy with the new Project Folders feature. You can now group projects into a structured, nested hierarchy without affecting their physical location on disk.
Customizable Hierarchy: Create folders and subfolders to categorize your work.
Visual Identification: Customize folders with custom Icons, Labels, and Colors to make navigation intuitive.
Non-Destructive: Organizing projects into folders is purely for workflow management and does not change file paths or server structures.
🎉 New Features
Project Folders - Project organisation #1721
❤️ Improvements
🛠️ Fixes
Views bugs #1756
📚 Resources
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January 16th, 2026
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Bug fixes and stability improvements.
❤️ Improvements
Products Page: Task name and Task type columns for versions. #1752
🛠️ Fixes
Copying text breaks when cells selected #1734
Versions: Fix grouping in cards mode #1750
Annotations: Sizing and drawing of images could be scaled incorrectly
Views: Bug fixes and performance improvements
Project access: Improve error messages for denied access.
📚 Resources
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