🏎️ 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.

You can now use Ctrl/Cmd + Click to select specific clips within a review session timeline to isolate your playback.

The player will seamlessly skip any unselected clips, making it incredibly easy to see how a non-continuous sequence cuts together or temporarily exclude a specific shot from your view.

💯 Column Summaries

Column summaries provide a quick overview of your data with metrics tailored to each column. Count folders, tasks, products, or versions, view status breakdowns, calculate averages for numeric fields, or identify missing values such as unassigned shots—all directly from the table.

🔄 Automated Status Updates

Eliminate manual tracking. This update allows for automated status synchronization across folders, tasks, and versions based on predefined triggers. For example, when a version is approved, the parent task status can automatically advance to the next status.

🔒 Project Setting Pinning

Maintain consistency from day one. You can now automatically create project-specific overrides for specified settings during project creation. This effectively "pins" your configuration, ensuring project-level settings remain stable even if studio-wide values change later.