Release Notes 2026.2

This release has the following new features, improvements, and security/bug fixes.

 

Security Fixes

More information at KeyShot CSIRT and PSIRT.

 

New Features

• KEYS-38404: Added support for GPU Rendering on Apple Silicon (Beta).

• KEYS-37871: Added ability to group Material Graph nodes.

• KEYS-37832: Added ability to edit sub-colors in multi-colors directly from the Colorway panel.

• KEYS-37744: You can now create Keyframe Animations directly on the timeline by choosing a part and then clicking “Add Keyframe”

• KEYS-37606: Unassigned material nodes are now preserved upon saving scenes and materials.

• KEYS-37605: Added support for Maya 2027 on Import.

• KEYS-37426: Re-added and refreshed the look of the 'Add to group' option. The option has been renamed to "Move to Group" in the scene tree context menu.

• KEYS-30428: Show user-filtered metadata in scene tree.

 

Improvements

• KEYS-37870: Added “center and fit selection” hotkey (default ctrl+alt+F).

• KEYS-37866: Added ability to scroll animation timeline horizontally using Shift+scroll.

• KEYS-37823: Removed analytics wizard from the welcome flow and preferences.

• KEYS-37821: Added Link to Legal instead of having EULA in installer.

• KEYS-37774: Option for opening Logs folder is added to KeyShotID menu.

• KEYS-37634: Updated Datakit to version 2026.2, adding import support for CATIA V5 2D/3D R2026, Parasolid V38.1, and UG NX 2512 Series (up to 2512.4000).

• KEYS-37570: Edit Colors and Color Picker added to Colorways.

• KEYS-37564: Optimized exported glTF/GLB geometry for smaller output file sizes.

• KEYS-37452: Made CPU Rendering performance improvements.

• KEYS-37207: Adding a keyframe now centers the animation curve if its set to the new "Per Keyframe" mode.

• KEYS-36961: CAD Metadata can now be viewed in the scene tree via an option in the Metadata Widget.

• KEYS-36892: Animation render settings now has a single output location.

• KEYS-36806: Enabled drag and drop of multiple gallery items.

• KEYS-36787: Made UI tweaks to the Studios view.

• KEYS-36748: Render button is disabled now when no jobs are selected in the Queue.

• KEYS-36724: Improved the thumbnail quality of assets in Gallery.

 

Bugs

• KEYS-38251: Fixed offline startup app freeze

• KEYS-38219: Fixed a rare crash that could occur during the KeyShot ID login flow when rapidly initiating and canceling the login sequence.

• KEYS-38178: Fixed an issue where KeyShot Studio would freeze after deleting a Planar Light from the scene tree, requiring the process to be forcefully terminated.

• KEYS-37922: Fixed an issue where pressing Esc would not deselect the currently selected animation in the timeline.

• KEYS-37890: Fixed wobbly geometry view camera.

• KEYS-37853: Fixed side wheel not side scrolling in Animation Timeline.

• KEYS-37757: Fixed crash when moving hide animation event on the timeline.

• KEYS-37756: Ctrl + A to select all items in RealTime View. Also applies to the Material Graph.

• KEYS-37749: Highlighted geometry found in Animation Wizard.

• KEYS-37742: Fixed cameras multi-selection issue after changing the sorting.

• KEYS-37738: Fixed separate words search issue for the Library.

• KEYS-37719: Fixed crash when using hotkeys for creating a new scene after adding multicolors for the model.

• KEYS-37717: Fixed resetting realtime-view rendering on reordering the cameras.

• KEYS-37705: Fixed an issue where the active workspace was not correctly remembered between sessions, causing the UI layout to appear incorrectly on restart.

• KEYS-37683: Fixed an issue where 3D mouse movement was inverted in the Geometry View when using Perspective or Orthographic camera mode, causing inconsistent navigation compared to the real-time view.

• KEYS-37662: Fixed crash when opening a .bip containing imported geometry.

• KEYS-37597: Fixed drag and drop and multi selection for Cameras list.

• KEYS-37596: Fixed the drag and drop issues for multiple cameras.

• KEYS-37595: Fixed an issue in the camera list where dragging and dropping to re-order did not behave as expected.

• KEYS-37594: Fixed issue with drag and drop multiple cameras at once.

• KEYS-37593: Fixed issue on dragging the Free camera.

• KEYS-37592: Fixed incorrect link in Welcome Window to Manual page.

• KEYS-37540: Fixed multi material sync with colorway.

• KEYS-37514: Fixed colorways not being properly saved if included colors are only used in sub-materials.

• KEYS-37508: Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting animations in the timeline.

• KEYS-37454: Fixed performance issue when enabling denoise in CPU mode.

• KEYS-37453: Material graph zoom out level now restricted to avoid instabilities.

• KEYS-37438: Optimized startup time for USD/glTF export mode.

• KEYS-37412: Fixed rotation numeric values in Move Tool not immediately taking effect.

• KEYS-37329: Fixed .heif files not being supported.

• KEYS-37242: Fixed that images locked folders in Gallery could be deleted using the “Delete” button.

• KEYS-37216: Fixed it so that root directories in Gallery cannot be removed.

• KEYS-37182: Fixed rebinding issues for ‘Show Only’ and ‘Hide Part’ actions.

• KEYS-37179: Fixed Library being blocked while downloading from Cloud Library.

• KEYS-37155: Fixed Background rendering not automatically updating the view in Gallery.

• KEYS-37090: Fixed screenshots not properly refreshing the Gallery view.

• KEYS-37058: Fixed floating window behavior and ordering for KeyShot Studio on MacOS.

• KEYS-36992: Fixed the Pattern Tool inversely indexing Material and Part names.

• KEYS-36959: Fixed an issue where USD files containing texture scale and offset data would display textures at incorrect sizes after import.

• KEYS-36838: Fixed the timestamps along Animation Timeline shifting while horizontally scrolling at certain zoom levels.

• KEYS-36789: Fixed an issue where new items in the Gallery view were not sorted correctly.

 

Additional Release Notes

Additional Release Notes can be found here.

Cloud Rendering: Cloud Rendering Release Notes

Network Rendering: NR Release Notes