Release Date: February 9, 2026
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Here is our new 2025.1.0 extension for RV!
This release is focused on enhancing the new Live Review workflow, first delivered in RV 2025.0.0. Presentation mode provides you with the same Live Review experience that was available in 2025.0.0. The new Collaboration mode lets every participant actively join the host: users can now add and edit annotations, move between frames, control playback.
In addition, this RV release allows you to use these Live Review features with the Creative Review web application through Flow Production Tracking, making it possible to collaborate between web and desktop application users.
Known limitation
With the release of these new Live Review features, it is important to note that Live Review session created in RV 2025.1.0 will exclusively works with other users using RV 2025.1.0. Starting with RV 2025.1.0, the Live Review sessions created in RV 2025.1.0 are not compatible with past RV releases and conversely. [SG-41881]
For more information, please refer to this documentation here.
New Supported Platform
RV is now officially supported on MacOS Tahoe 26.2.
New Features
- Prevent playback from beginning immediately when a non-host participant clicks into RV’s timeline while unfocused. [SG-41892]
- Enabled the possibility to execute “rv.extra_commands” script while being in a Live Review session. [SG-41307]
- Live Review now lets you update your package to the latest version with a single click. [SG-41220]
- Live Review now detects version incompatibilities and notifies you if your RV or Live Review version isn’t supported for the session you’re joining. [SG-41219]
- RV now notifies you when a new Live Review package is available for download. [SG-41204]
- A new Live Review>Settings>“Show pointers for all participants” option is available to show/hide the pointers of the participants in an RV<->RV Live Review session. The option is enabled by default to show the pointers of all participants. [SG-41214]
- Each participant in a Live Review collaboration session has their own independent annotation undo/redo history. [SG-41210]
- Live Review sessions are no longer reloaded when switching presenters in an RV-RV Live Review session. [SG-40856]
- Improved multiple annotations rendering performance. [SG-40852]
- Flow Production Tracking users who were previously authenticated through RV can now use the RVIO command-line tool. [SG-40834]
- Update to the About Box makes it easier to find the version of each dependency used in RV. [SG-40829]
- Increased audio track support from 8 to up to 32 tracks. [SG-40208]
- Added a confirmation dialog to prompt presenters to confirm or save the session when clearing a Live Review session. [SG-40184]
- RVLinkLauncher enables users to select which version of RV to launch when more than 1 version is installed. The RVLinkLauncher is only available on macOS. [SG-40174]
- Range discrepancy for missing media is now 19 frames. [SG-40172]
- UI Improvements to several menu items. [SG-39787]
- General Live Review Performance Enhancements. [SG-41854]
SDK update
- Updated the Blackmagic Design DeckLink SDK to version 15.2. [SG-37413]
Bug Fixes
- All participants are set to the same View after opening Screening Room in a Live Review session. [SG-41889]
- Unable to double-click timeline to upload media as a participant in a Live Review session. [SG-41880]
- Fixed an issue where video resolution wasn’t displayed in RV when in a Creative Review-hosted Live Review session. [SG-41684]
- Fixed an issue which would affect the display of some icons ever since changing the UI theme in the release of RV 2025.0.0. [SG-41669]
- Fixed an issue around the “Inputs” box resetting the clip selection when moving source clips in the view node. [SG-41614]
- Fixed an issue that would not block users trying to export or save in folder which would be set in read-only mode by the system. [SG-41548]
- Fixed an issue which would cause participants of a Live Review session to have their sound setting muted again when presenter changed in a Live Review session. [SG-41289]
- Fixed an issue where an exception was thrown in the RV console when ending Compare mode in a Live Review session hosted by Creative Review with an invalid version loaded. [SG-41124]
- Fixed an issue where the Screening Room remained open when joining a Live Review session as a Participant in Presentation mode. [SG-41043]
- Fixed an issue which would prevent the user to draw annotation with a Stylus on Mac since the update of Qt6. [SG-40730]
- Fixed an issue where loading a .rv session file would slow down the loading of multiple sources. Now leveraging the new startPreloadingMedia(). [SG-40663]
- Fixed an issue where the play Forward/Pause buttons would stop responding when playing WAV files on Linux. [SG-40625]
- Resolved a macOS Tahoe issue that caused dialog window options to become unresponsive. [SG-40541]
- Fixed an issue where the pointer within a presentation device was mismatched in comparison to the pointer location in RV. [SG-40392]
- Fixed a memory leak that could occur when executing rv.runtime.eval() in a custom package render. [SG-40330]
- Fixed an issue which would show exported snapshots from RV as empty canvas ever since the update to Qt6. [SG-40210]
- Fixed an issue around the RV_OVERRIDE_TRANSFER_MOV that would not override the application default values anymore. [SG-39715]
- Fixed an issue around the metadata of some MXF file flavors that could not be read by RV. [SG-39404]
- Fixed an issue which would cause the zoom and pan value to be offset in RV’s player when being a participant of a Live Review session with the Creative Review app. [SG-39266]
- Fixed an issue where there would be a UI update zoom issue when working in a Live Review session between the Creative Review app and RV. [SG-39264]
- Fixed an issue where settings modified via the write settings API did not apply to the current session [SG-35073]
- Fixed an issue where TIFF compression metadata was not accurately represented. [SG-34355]
- Fixed an issue where a participant in a Live Review session could load media locally through File>Open menu. [SG-41496]
- Fixed an issue where a participant in a Live Review session could import media through drag-and-drop from folder. [SG-41061]
- Fixed an issue where a participant in a Live Review session could use RV’s Session Manager to load media. [SG-40072]
- Fixed an issue which would cause a crash when cancelling an export while using RV on MacOS Tahoe. [SG-41101]
OpenRV Community Contributions
- Added support for GIF movies in RV (OpenRV community contribution). [SG-40579]
- Fixed Alt modifier not clearing on Alt + Shift key release (OpenRV community contribution). [SG-40373]
- The RV file dialog now supports basic file operations such as creating folders, deleting and renaming files or folders, and refreshing (OpenRV community contribution). [SG-40372]
- New “setPresentationDevice” python command has been created to select the desired settings for the Presentation Device through scripting (OpenRV community contribution). [SG-40371] - [SG-35073]
- Fixed an issue on the Y-axis when using color picker (OpenRV community contribution). [SG-40370]
- Improved stability when modifying Sequence EDL properties by adding bounds and null checks, validating source indexes, and updating node behavior to return a safe error image instead of throwing exceptions (OpenRV community contribution). [SG-40369]
- Drag-and-drop now supports directory filtering for improved file selection (OpenRV community contribution). [SG-40368]
- Added Rec. 2020 YCbCr-to-RGB conversions and SMPTE 2048/Hybrid Log-Gamma transforms (OpenRV community contribution). [SG-40366]