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

• Frontend Changelog

• Backend Changelog

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

Creative reviews just got a lot more powerful and organized. This update focuses on giving you total control over your review sessions with a brand-new Playlist panel, a highly visual grid view, and the ability to compare your work against anything in your project.

📋 Direct Playlist Management

The new Playlist panel replaces the old "Clips View," allowing you to manage your entire session directly within the player.

• Custom Sections: Create any number of collapsible sections to organize your work. Use them to separate Shots vs. Assets, group by Sequence, or categorize by Priority (e.g., "Final Polish" vs. "Needs Fixes").

• Dynamic Grouping: Instantly group clips by Status or Task. You can even drag a clip into a different status group to update the version's status in real-time.

• Live Editing: Add, remove, or replace clips on the fly. Swap versions or pick a completely different product to insert into the session without leaving the interface.

• Reordering: Simply click and drag thumbnails to change your review sequence instantly.

🖼️ Visual Card View

The Review tab on the AYON server has been redesigned for a more visual experience. The new Grid View makes it much easier to browse your review sessions at a glance.

🔍 Compare Anything

The comparison tool is no longer limited to previous versions of the same product. You can now compare your current clip against any version, product, or folder in the system.

• Cross-Department Checks: Compare your lighting render directly against the layout or animation paths to ensure everything lines up.

• Sequence Continuity: Load a completely different shot to check that lighting and color match perfectly between cuts.

🛠️ Quality of Life & Fixes

• Playback Speed: You can now set and sync video playback speed (from 0.25x up to 2x) for all participants.

• Actions Menu: Trigger external AYON Actions directly from within the review session.

• Timeline Fixes: The timeline now scrolls with the playhead during playback and properly aligns when reviewing images or very short clips.

• Refined Shortcuts: Pressing I or O now updates the point to your current frame instead of toggling it off. Use [ and ] for annotation brush sizes, and , or . to toggle your side panels.

Fixes many issues that would causes the graphs to not render in the editor mode.

• Ensure graphs render when there are no groups to filter by.

• Some field attributes didn’t load the groups properly.

• Snapshot graphs were missing include segment options.

• Time Series graphs now allow the ability to hide “Unknown” values.

❤️ 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

• Frontend Changelog

• Backend Changelog

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

❤️ 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

• Frontend Changelog

• Backend Changelog

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

• Reviewables Scrolling: We’ve fixed a layout issue where a large number of reviewable items would overflow the panel without a scrollbar. You can now easily scroll through and access every reviewable along with keyboard support.

• Faster, More Reliable Image Loading: Cloud-hosted instances now benefit from an improved image loading strategy. We’ve resolved a bug that occasionally caused a black screen when viewing reviewables and added a loading indicator to provide clear feedback while your media is being prepared for playback.

🗓️ Introducing the Scheduler

The Planner Addon has evolved from high-level strategy to granular execution. The new Scheduler links your timeline directly to the production hierarchy, ensuring dates and assignees reflect across the studio in real-time.

• Integrated Project Table: Navigate folders and tasks via a familiar spreadsheet-style table to assign dates and people within your actual project context.

• Planner Overlay: Reference your strategy while you work. Toggle the Planner Overlay to see high-level phases "ghosted" over your task list, ensuring individual tasks align with broader goals.

• Create Schedule Tool: Automatically generate schedules for all matching tasks based on a planned phase (e.g., "Lighting"), instantly populating timelines for specific assignees.✅ Subtasks

✅ Subtasks

Break down complex work without cluttering your main project structure. Subtasks offer a cleaner, more organized way to manage daily milestones.

• Granular Tracking: Split large tasks into smaller chunks for clearer artist instructions and better progress tracking.

• Timeline Visibility: View and schedule subtasks directly on the timeline, nested under their parent task to keep the view tidy.

🔍 Advanced Timeline Controls

• Interactive Zooming: Click interval headers to zoom in, or hold Option/Alt to zoom out for rapid navigation.

• Smart Snapping: Move or resize events with new "faded handles" that snap to nearby edges for perfect alignment.

• Stamping Duplicates: Use Shift + Option + Arrow Keys to "stamp" events back-to-back, perfect for rapid scheduling.

• Spreadsheet Integration: Copy timeline events and paste them directly into Excel or Google Sheets, or paste data back into AYON.

❤️ Improvements & Navigation

• Off-screen Indicators: Small arrows signal when events exist out of view. Click them or press G to jump straight to the action.

• Pinning Tracks: Keep essential lanes, like artist bookings or milestones, pinned to the top of the UI while you scroll.

• Views Support: Both the Planner and Scheduler now fully support the Views system, allowing you to save filters, zoom levels, and groupings.

❤️ 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

• Frontend Changelog

• Backend Changelog

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