Release Notes 2025.1

Security fixes

  • KEYS-34267: Fixed CVE-2021-3575

  • KEYS-34199: Fixed CVE-2023-4863 Fixed CVE-2023-1999

  • KEYS-34139: Fixed ZDI-CAN-24586

  • KEYS-34087: Fixed CVE-2024-32608

  • KEYS-33433: Fixed CVE-2023-45853 Fixed CVE-2022-37434

  • KEYS-33431: Fixed CVE-2022-37434Fixed CVE-2023-45853

  • KEYS-33393: Fixed ZDI-CAN-23704

  • KEYS-33391: Fixed ZDI-CAN-23698

  • KEYS-33389: Fixed ZDI-CAN-23694

More information at KeyShot CSIRT and PSIRT.

 

New Features

  • KEYS-34066: Added new hotkey "Add Studio" (Default Hotkey: Ctrl+Shift+S)

  • KEYS-34011: Added new Light Tool for easier placement of Physical Lights

  • KEYS-33951: Added support for the Re-tessellate Tool in the Scripting API

  • KEYS-33873: New animation type available for parts and groups, that allows for toggling their visibility at singular points in the timeline

  • KEYS-33514: Added AR (USDz + GLB) to Export Mode

  • KEYS-33290: Added gLTF export to Export Mode

  • KEYS-33289: Added USD Export to Export Mode

  • KEYS-31881: Added new Material Type: Planar Light

 

Improvements

  • KEYS-34420: Added new Light Textures and Environments to the Library from Greyscalegorilla!

  • KEYS-34162: In the Material Graph, selecting a connection between nodes in and adding a node using the Quick Find (Q) function, will filter for valid nodes and auto insert it between

  • KEYS-34161: Nodes in the Material Graph can now be ctrl+dragged onto a connection to insert it between

  • KEYS-34055: Added ‘Cancel’ buttons to processing steps in Export mode

  • KEYS-34035: Added 'Normal' Gradient Type to Color Gradient Texture Type

  • KEYS-33965: Added option to duplicate a sub-material without linking colors

  • KEYS-33949: Moving a group that contains many parts using the move tool is now more responsive in various scenarios

  • KEYS-33908: Added option to choose between ‘Texture Resolution’ or ‘DPI’ for determining Texture sizes in Export mode

  • KEYS-33886: Improved performance of bump maps and labels in GPU mode

  • KEYS-33866: Made speed-up improvements to the Baking step in Export mode

  • KEYS-33530:

    • Improved detection on when geometry nodes require execution (which in turn reduces time spent on calculating geometry nodes)

    • Automatically executing geometry nodes when they are removed from a material

    • Removed unnecessary execution of geometry nodes when importing, which significantly speeds up importing scenes containing geometry nodes

    • Fixed import behavior when importing using the setting "Apply materials from Scene" to matching source names.

  • KEYS-33513: Added support for importing:

    • Jt v10.10

    • Parasolid v37.0

  • KEYS-33071: Added options for adjusting Scene Color and Color Swatches views inside the Color Picker

  • KEYS-31405: Improved the default location for File Browsers

  • KEYS-23305: Updated method with which file previews are created on MacOS

     

Bugs

  • KEYS-34463: Fixed a crash when that could appear randomly when running the denoiser

  • KEYS-34461: Fixed a .step import issue which would omit subassemblies

  • KEYS-34412: Fixed crash when users had images in their resources with a width or height of 1 pixel

  • KEYS-34259: Fixed a crash rendering Shadow and Lighting passes in GPU mode with IES lights

  • KEYS-34168: Fixed crash that can occur when rendering an animation with an animated sky environment

  • KEYS-33930: Fixed an issue where the Geometry View would not be drawn

  • KEYS-33910: Fix direct illumination for very dense scattering media

  • KEYS-33893: Fixed an issue causing column width in Scene Tree not to be remembered

  • KEYS-33730: Fixed an issue that caused bip files to be slow to load after many imports

  • KEYS-33599: Fixed an issue that prevented Maya 2025 files from being imported

  • KEYS-33491: Fixed an issue with importing animated cameras from FBX

  • KEYS-33480: Fixed incorrect vStartIndex in XR output

  • KEYS-33451: Fixed lux.getCameraLookAt() returning pivot coordinates in place of target coordinates

  • KEYS-33314: Fixed an issue where scenes with many image styles would take long to load

  • KEYS-33232: Fixed an issue where Triangle count in Scene Information did not get updated

  • KEYS-33129: Fixed a crash on Floating License check-out

  • KEYS-32950: Fixed a crash that could occur when checking for a Demo License

  • KEYS-32907: Improved the UV unwrapper to better uitlize UV space, which marks a significant improvement for really small objects

  • KEYS-32790: Fixed duplicate warning when applying Color from Library

  • KEYS-32714: Fixed Environment Pins not being able to be dragged and dropped into Folders

  • KEYS-32206: Improved triangulation of geometry on Alembic import to avoid crash

  • KEYS-31560: Fixed a performance issue when dragging Animation Folders on the Animation Timeline

  • KEYS-31502: Fixed the Sharpen Image Style effect breaking thumbnail generators

  • KEYS-31492: Fixed instability when interacting with a Camera in the Geometry View with a Top View

  • KEYS-31135: Fixed an issue that caused Rounded Edges to not be rendered correctly in GPU mode

  • KEYS-30164: Fixed bug in GPU mode that added double environment lighting for diffuse surfaces through faded objects