AYON Core 1.10.0 brings the desktop tools closer to the AYON web app. The Launcher, Workfiles tool, and Loader now share the web app's look and many of its interaction patterns, so if you already know your way around AYON in the browser, the desktop tools should feel familiar too.

Consistent UI Enhancements

The Launcher, Workfiles tool, and Loader now share the color theme of the AYON web app, along with a new folder and task tree that shows each entity's status.

• Performance Improvements: This update also includes performance improvements across the Loader and Publisher.

• Statuses in the folder and task tree: Every folder and task shows its thumbnail and status icon. Hover over the icon to see the status name.

• Launcher: Along with the new tree, the filter for showing only tasks assigned to you has a new icon, at the top right.

• Workfiles tool: Uses the same tree, so you can see folder and task statuses while opening and saving workfiles.

• Notifications: Toast messages follow the same visual language as the web app.

  

Meet the New Loader/Browser

The Loader, which is the same tool as the standalone Browser, got the most updates in this release. Its products area now works like the Products page of the AYON web app:

• Table and cards views: Switch between a detailed table and a cards layout with large thumbnails.

• Filter and Group By: Filter versions, for example to show only the latest, and group them by product, status, or attributes such as Product Group.

• Customize and Views: Use Customize to adjust the layout, such as the row height in the table or the card size in the cards view, and use the Views button at the top left to switch between saved views. These work the same way as on the Products and Versions Page.

• Multiple selection: Select several versions, and their thumbnails are combined into one preview, each shown as a diagonal slice.

The slicer on the left lets you choose how to find versions: by Hierarchy, Reviews, or the new Lists. Select a review session or list to see the versions it holds.

Changelog

Enhancements

• Browser: Added a Lists slicer category with list folders. #2167

• Browser: Group versions by product attributes, such as Product Group, using a new nested Group By menu. #2132

• Browser: Set the product group of selected products with Ctrl+G. #2138

• Browser: The filter bar adds Select all, Clear, and Toggle buttons, and an Excludes toggle to filter out the selected values. #2140

• Browser: The version context menu opens much faster, and selecting versions no longer blocks the UI. #2130

• Browser: The cards view loads only the fields its cards show. #2134

• Browser: Clicking an already selected version no longer starts new background queries. #2142

• Publisher: Faster reset with many instances. #2107

• Publishing: The two hero version integrators are merged into one IntegrateHeroVersion plug-in. This also fixes hero versions not being created for instances with only trait-based representations (broken since 1.9.11). #2117

• Load placeholder: Added hero version support. #2110

• Settings: Complex core settings now have descriptions. #2121

• UI: Overlay messages now match the style of the AYON web app's toasts. #2155

• UI: Disabled checkboxes are drawn faded. #2133

• UI: The project combobox uses the Low style by default. #2158

• UI: Task rows no longer show the task type in the label; the full label is in the tooltip. #2157

• Loader: Rich text in loader labels no longer blocks mouse clicks. #2124

Bug fixes

• Browser: Hero versions are shown and filtered correctly. #2156

• Browser: Fixed views stuck loading in hosts whose log output fails from worker threads, such as DaVinci Resolve on macOS. #2137

• Publisher: Fixed the active toggle in the List view, which re-enabled disabled instances on publish. #2151

• Publishing: Errors are now caught when cleaning up explicit directories. #2168

• Scene Inventory: Fixed the tool showing empty when a container's project is missing. #2112

• Scene Inventory: Fixed containers with the same representation id in different projects using the wrong project's data. #2114

• Load: Fixed the outdated containers check failing when a container's project is missing. #2113

• Nuke Assist: Opens the workfile on launch, like Nuke and NukeX. #2125

• Launcher: The workfile path is normalized before it's added to launch arguments. #2126

For developers

• AbstractTemplateBuilder.open_template accepts a preset. #2162

• EnumDef items support an icon and a tooltip. #2120

• Fixed a segfault in UI tests. #2150

Get the Update

1. Install AYON Core 1.10.0 from the AYON Market.

2. Duplicate your production bundle and edit the copy.

3. Select Core 1.10.0, then create the bundle.

4. Set the new bundle to Staging to test it, then to Production when you're ready.

For more information, see Install Addons.

A brand new editor for comments and descriptions, new ways to reuse comments, and a handful of fixes.

✍️ New Comment Editor

Comments, descriptions and text cells now share one new editor that is quicker to write in and stores plain markdown. For example:

• Slash menu: Type / to add headings, lists, checklists, quotes, code blocks, images, videos and mentions.

• Emoji: Type :tada: and pick from your most used emoji.

• Embeds: Put a YouTube link on its own line and it becomes a player in the comment.

• Descriptions: Mention users, tasks and versions in a description, the same as in comments.

🎞️ Link Comments to Frames

In a review, a new frame button in the comment editor ties your comment to the exact frame it is about. For example:

• Single frame: Click the button to link the comment to the current frame.

• Range: Stretch the marker to link a range of frames instead. Clicking the button again removes the link.

• Jump to it: A posted comment shows a frame chip. Clicking it jumps the player to that frame, and sets the in and out points for a range.

📋 Duplicate Comments

Pick Duplicate to new comment from the comment menu to copy a comment into your own comment box, ready to adapt and post. For example:

• Client feedback to artist notes: Copy a client's comment, reword it, choose a category and post it for the artist.

• Attachments come along: Images, attachments and annotations are copied, and the original comment is never changed.

• No names passed on: The author's name is left out, and an "Original comment" link points back to the source instead.

🎉 New Features

• Comment editor: Link comments to frames #2370

• Comments: Duplicate to new comment #2376

• Comments: Copy a comment's text and link to comments, shown as chips #2376

❤️ Improvements

• Editor: New markdown editor for comments, descriptions and text cells #2364

• Comments: Admins can edit anyone's comment #2376

• Slicer: Search with pasted lists of names #2425

• Thumbnails: Folders and tasks now show the thumbnail of their latest version #1144

• Settings: Migrate the settings of a single addon between two versions #1097

🛠️ Bugfixes

• Table: Editing a cell with several selected now applies to all of them for text, number, date and boolean columns #2369

• Delete: Restore the force delete dialog for folders with children #2377

• Assignees: Use the users enum source for assignee options #2390

• Settings: Restore error details when saving addon settings fails #2428

• Settings: Support conditional enums on multiselect fields #2430

• Tables: Rows with empty sort values are no longer skipped when paging #1142

• Tables: Fix sorting by numeric attributes #1175

• Tasks and folders: Fix createdBy issues #1147

📚 Resources

• Backend Changelog: 1.16.8

• Frontend Changelog: 20261006

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

Enum attributes that keep themselves up to date, a slicer that can slice by several things at once, more context on the Products page and tons of enhancements and bug fixes.

🔄 Dynamic Enums

Attribute options no longer have to be typed in by hand. Pick an Enum source in the attribute editor and the list stays up to date on its own. For example:

• Reviewers: Create a multi-select on tasks that uses the Users source. New users show up automatically, and you can hide inactive ones.

• Statuses: Offer the statuses of the project you are working in.

• Addon sources: Addons can provide their own, like countries by region or options pulled from another service.

🍰 Slice by Multiple Things

The slicer can now be split into stacked panels whose selections combine, so you can narrow down a project from several angles at once, such as a folder hierarchy alongside a status or assignee. Each panel can be collapsed down to a header that shows what it slices.

Multi-slicing is a Powerpack feature. Without a license, only the first panel is used.

📦 Parent Columns on Products & Lists

You can now add folder and task columns for versions on the Products and Lists pages. This gives you more information about their parents, be that a shot (folder) status or a linked task's assignee.

📥 Inbox Improvements

A few updates to help you stay on top of what is current:

• Newer version banner: Selecting an outdated version now shows a banner naming the latest version, with a shortcut to jump straight to it.

• Day dividers: Messages are grouped by day, with timestamps and tooltips showing exactly when something happened.

🎉 New Features

• Attributes: Dynamic enums #2283

• Slicer: Slice by multiple things at once #2294

• Products: Folder, task and product columns #2260

• Inbox: Show a banner when a newer version exists #2355

• Services: Container registry authentication #1108 #2296

❤️ Improvements

• Entity picker: Thumbnails #2279

• Lists: Add Copy link button to Share tab #2317

• Inbox: Day dividers, timestamps and tooltips #2318

• Inbox: Added itemFilter for more control over updated messages #1122

🛠️ Bugfixes

• Comments: Loading indicator when posting multiple annotations or comments #2288

• Comments: Open mentions in the project of their own editor #2348

• Comments: Fix annotation ranges displaying as NaN if frameStart attribute isn't present #2354

• Search filter: Fix custom date range dialog #2313

• Viewer: Opening the viewer now focuses the dialog #2314

• Player: Split arrow keys between entities and reviewables #2331

• Entity panel: Hide play icon when there are no reviewables #2330

• Products: Copy full product and version labels from the table #2361

• Table: Disable sorting for multi-select custom attributes #2362

• Shortcuts: Limit new entity T/N/M shortcuts to the overview #2356

• Links: Fix entity picker closing and links not loading in flat folder view and entity lists #2366

• Errors: Standardized error messages #2328

• Lists: Fix explicit column order in list loader #1123

• Bundles: Auto-remove addons from a bundle if they were removed #1102

• Projects: Transaction error handling when saving a project #1134

📚 Resources

• Backend Changelog: 1.16.7

• Frontend Changelog: 20260929

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