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.
January 10th, 2026
Addon
December 18th, 2025
Server
🛠️ Fixes
Task filters using the old version could stop working.
Cell selection and copy/pasting bug fixes
📚 Resources
Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server.
December 16th, 2025
Server
This release fixes a critical issue that meant Guest users could not access review sessions. Review Addon 0.1.1 is also required and can but updated on the Market page.
The Overview Page filter bar now supports Folder filtering, giving you granular control. Filters are distinctly split between Folders and Tasks; filtering by a folder automatically refines the visible tasks based on their parent hierarchy.
We’ve also optimized the general search experience, making it faster and more intuitive to locate specific folders and tasks by name or general phase.
❤️ Improvements
Overview: Filter and search folders #1699
🛠️ Fixes
Table: copying text breaks when cells selected #1696
Links: When linking to a specific comment ensure "all activity" tab selected #1687
Reviews: Ensure all levels can access review sessions including guests #1715
Table: Sometimes double clicking a cell would not edit it #1714
Comments: Ensure annotations data is preserved when editing comment #1716
Table: Fixed an issue that meant it was too easy to override a value #1718
📚 Resources
Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server.
December 16th, 2025
Addon
Requires AYON Server 1.13.5
Fixes an issue where annotation frames would be wiped when editing the comment.
AYON Server 1.13.5 fixes an issue with Guests not be able to access reviews.
December 5th, 2025
Server
Admins can now set and manage a standardized default view for any page across the studio, providing a consistent layout for all users and a quick way to restore a known working state.
The feature supports defining a Studio Default to act as a universal fallback, and a Project Default to serve as a project-specific override.
Users can quickly apply the saved layout at any time via the Reset to default button. Only Administrators can manage these default configurations.
Setting a Project Default requires a Pro or Studio subscription.
Related Panel (Power Features 1.5.0)
The Related Panel is now available on the Tasks (Home) Page to provide immediate, contextual navigation between related work. This feature is part of the Power Features suite. Read more here.
❤️ Improvements
Project-level schemas for permission model #1666
Views: Default views #1649
Create empty review list #1683
Link types access control #816
🛠️ Fixes
📚 Resources
Note: Ynput cloud hosted instances have automatic, scheduled updates. Self-hosted servers require you to update yourself How to Update Your AYON Server.
December 5th, 2025
Addon
The Related Panel is now available on the Tasks (Home) Page to provide immediate, contextual navigation between related work. This feature is part of the Power Features suite and is visible as an expandable bar at the bottom of the page, showing up to five relevant tasks.
The panel supports two primary viewing modes:
Related Timeline Tasks: Displays tasks of the same task type across sibling folders (e.g., viewing Lighting for previous/next shots in a sequence). This is optimized for checking continuity across your sequence.
Related Workflow Tasks: Displays sibling tasks within the same folder, ordered according to the configured project anatomy. This helps users quickly check upstream and downstream dependencies for the current asset/shot.
This functionality is also integrated into the web viewer (Spacebar) to allow users to seamlessly switch playback between related shots/tasks while reviewing.