February 19th, 2026
Server
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
Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server
February 19th, 2026
Addon
Requires server version 1.14.0 or higher.
Group sorting
You now set the sorting order of the groups to Ascending or Descending to flip the order.
February 6th, 2026
Server
❤️ 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
Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server
February 4th, 2026
Addon
Syncing has been redesigned to improve the user experience and performance, most notably with the introduction of Presenter Mode. This update ensures smoother collaboration during creative reviews, keeping everyone on the same page.
Presenters
Anyone in a review session can now take the lead. Presenting puts one person in control of the timeline, ensuring that all participants follow the same frame and sequence. While the presenter drives the session, other users aren't just passive viewers, they can still contribute by creating real-time annotations and feedback.
Auto Sync
Joining a session is now faster and more intuitive. When entering a review, users are prompted to join the sync, with Syncing set as the default choice. Once joined, you are instantly aligned with the presenter and the rest of the team, making it effortless to jump straight into the discussion.
User Management
Stay informed about who is participating in your review. You can now easily see who is currently in the session and who is synced by simply hovering over the sync button or checking the People tab. Managers and presenters have enhanced control to sync users, manage or remove presenters, identify who hasn't joined, and even remove users from the session if necessary.
❤️ Improvements
Looping has been improved to make it easier to review clip by clip.
Invert grid lines when on lighter backgrounds.
Review is a premium addon included with the Studio subscription, or as an extra with a Pro subscription.
January 30th, 2026
Addon
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
❤️ Improvements
Calculated Attributes: Access child folders of a folder entity - Rollup Subfolders.
🛠️ Fixes
Templates: Improved hierarchy template application with case-insensitive name matching and a new "Skip" mode for handling existing folder and task conflicts.
Annotations: Change brush size shortcuts to
,(smaller) and.(bigger).
January 27th, 2026
Server
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
Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server
January 19th, 2026
Addon
The loading and syncing performance has been significantly improved and we recommend updating for a more stable experience.
Theatre Mode and Collapsible Panels
Maximize your review space with Theater Mode, designed to eliminate distractions and let your media take center stage.
Theater Mode: Instantly expand the UI to fill your screen, removing browser and system clutter.
Flexible Layouts: Further customize your view by collapsing the timeline or the side panel independently to focus strictly on the visuals.
Quick Toggle: Effortlessly cycle through default, theater, and fullscreen modes using the F shortcut.
Sync and Playback Performance Improvements
Sync
Multiple bugs that caused de-syncing have been resolved and optimisations have improved stability and performance for bigger sync sessions.
We’ve heard your feedback and a new syncing design are in the works with Presenter mode and improved usability.
Playback
The loading strategy has been drastically improved to prioritise time to play. This means you can start playing the first clip sooner, whilst the remaining clips load in the background.
Review is a premium addon included with the Studio subscription, or as an extra with a Pro subscription.
January 16th, 2026
Server
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
Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server
January 15th, 2026
Addon
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
Annotations: Fix an issue where the brush shortcuts
q, e, bwould interfere with input typing, like the description.Related panel: The panel would sometimes show we an error message when no task was selected.
Shared: The “Add guest” input field could incorrectly trigger password managers.
Annotations: Fix an issue that affected the history and undo/redo actions.