NR Release Notes

The following page contains an overview of updates for KeyShot 2026 Network Rendering.

2026.3

Release date November 12th 2026

Improvements

  • KEYS-38410: The Render Queue refreshes straight away when your computer wakes from sleep.

  • KEYS-38533: KeyShot Studio and the Render Queue no longer freeze at startup on a slow network.

  • KEYS-38422: A restarted Manager reuses tiles it has already rendered instead of rendering them again.

  • KEYS-38577: Network Rendering Workers now check that a downloaded update works before switching to it.

  • KEYS-38575: Network Rendering Workers stop retrying an update that keeps crashing, instead of looping forever.

Bugs

  • KEYS-38549: Fixed a Worker that briefly lost its connection overwriting correctly rendered parts of the image with outdated results.

  • KEYS-39232: Fixed parts of one job being rendered with another job's scene, which produced wrongly stitched images.

  • KEYS-38674 Fixed blank regions or a crash when stitching overlapping image bands.

  • KEYS-38675: Fixed stitched images containing blank or garbage pixels where a band was missing.

  • KEYS-38676: Fixed shifted or corrupted high-resolution Network Rendering results when denoising or render layers are used.

  • KEYS-38854: Fixed Region rendering failing with Network Rendering.

  • KEYS-39242: Fixed Network Rendering jobs stalling or running slowly because work was sent to busy Workers.

  • KEYS-39424: Fixed animation jobs failing at the end if the Network Rendering Manager restarted mid-render.

  • KEYS-39228: Network Rendering now prepares the oldest jobs first, so they no longer wait behind newer ones.

  • KEYS-39299: Network Rendering no longer prepares or stitches jobs that were deleted while they waited in line.

  • KEYS-39390: Fixed the Network Rendering Manager reporting itself as unhealthy after the farm had been idle for an hour.

  • KEYS-38550: Network Rendering Workers now clean up scene data after every job.

  • KEYS-38738: Opening the Render Queue from KeyShot Studio now brings it to the front without freezing Studio.

  • KEYS-38483: The Render Queue shows a clearer placeholder when a thumbnail can't be loaded.

 

2026.2.2

Release date July 31st 2026

Bugs

Fixed a crash at startup on CPUs without AVX2 support. KeyShot Network Rendering Workers would crash immediately on launch due to AVX2-accelerated code being executed before the CPU capability was checked.

 

2026.2

Release date June 23rd 2026

Security Fixes

All security fixes can be found at KeyShot CSIRT and PSIRT.

Improvements

KEYS-37826: Improved Render Queue performance in many places.

 

2026.1

Release date March 24th 2026

Security Fixes

All security fixes can be found at KeyShot CSIRT and PSIRT.

New Feature

KEYS-36218: “KeyShot Network Rendering Monitor” is now called “KeyShot Render Queue” and is installed with KeyShot Studio.

Bugs

KEYS-28665: Fixed an issue where rendering a region did not work correctly on Network Rendering.