New in AYON: Q1 2026 feature roundup
Q1 was a busy period for AYON, with major updates across planning, review, project organisation and production tracking.
Some releases, including Planner 1.0.0, have already had their own dedicated posts. This roundup focuses on the bigger features and workflow improvements from the first quarter of 2026, rather than every patch, bug fix or smaller refinement.
Planning moved closer to daily production
The Planner add-on introduced Scheduler and Subtasks, bringing high-level planning closer to day-to-day production work.
Scheduler links timelines directly to your production hierarchy, making it easier to assign dates, manage people and keep detailed task schedules aligned with broader project plans. Subtasks give teams a lighter way to break down complex work without adding more full tasks to the main project structure.
We covered Planner in more detail in our dedicated release post.
Review Sessions became more flexible
The Review add-on continued to improve through Q1, with updates focused on live collaboration, playlist control and comparison workflows.
Presenter Mode helps keep everyone aligned during a session by letting one person control playback, while other participants can still add annotations and feedback in real time. Review also introduced a redesigned Playlist panel, visual Grid View and more flexible comparison tools.
You can now organise clips into sections, reorder them by dragging thumbnails, update sessions without leaving the player and compare a clip against other versions, products or folders in the project.
Projects became easier to manage
AYON 1.14.0 added several improvements for project organisation and setup.
Task and folder colours now use the colours defined in Project Anatomy, making production views easier to scan. Project Bundles were also streamlined, with controls moved into Project Settings and a new Freeze Bundles option for creating stable, project-specific environments.
For long-running productions, this helps teams keep a project on a known setup while the wider studio pipeline continues to evolve.
Production tracking got smoother
Manual version uploading is now smarter. When uploading from the Project Overview Page, AYON can detect existing products, set the next available version automatically and sync the product type. A new product picker also helps users choose from existing products instead of creating accidental duplicates.
The Links Manager now groups repeated links to the same entity, with count badges that can be edited inline. Tables also gained useful workflow improvements, including drag-and-drop column reordering, better sorting controls and improved inline text editing for longer briefs and descriptions.
What’s next
Q1 was less about one isolated release and more about connecting several parts of AYON more tightly together: planning, review, project setup, production tracking and pipeline stability.
Since then, we’ve continued refining these features based on feedback from studios using them in production.
