Release Date: July 16, 2026
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IMPORTANT: RV 2026 is the last release to support Intel-based Macs.
We are happy to announce the release of RV 2026.0.0!
This release brings several upgrades and stability to the application to be compliant with the VFX Reference Platform CY2025.
This release also brings new features by adding Shapes and Text support to the Annotation toolset, as well as the possibility to have Thumbnails and Filmstrips generated for the media sources in RV’s Session Manager.
Known Issues
- 10-bit monitor output with Qt6 is not supported in this release. [SG-42267]
- Side-by-side Compare mode does not work as expected while sharing a Playlist in a Live Review session with Review player if Continuous Playback is enable. [SG-44116]
New Features
- Session Manager now generates and displays thumbnails and filmstrips for local and Flow Production Tracking media sources. Thumbnails and filmstrips refresh automatically when a source is modified, so previews stay in sync with the underlying media. A new Session Manager setting lets you turn thumbnail generation off when you want to reduce overhead or skip previews entirely. [SG-42109]
- Shape and text annotations — The annotation tool now supports Shapes and Text. These annotations can be shared within a Live Review session between RV and Flow Production Tracking Review. [SG-42887]
- Live Review sessions are now properly left after a period of user inactivity. [SG-43259]
- The selected OCIO config is now saved in RV’s settings, resolving an “OCIO environment variable not set” error after activating the feature. [SG-35309]
- Added an alt/option hotkey and environment variable (
RV_NO_SEQUENCE_PATTERN) to prevent RV from loading images as an image sequence. [SG-41979] - Added crash-dump generation capabilities to RV. [SG-42630]
- Added support for AJA 12G-SDI output over a single link. [SG-27382, SG-42264]
SDK / Platform Updates
- Updated AJA SDK to version 17.6.0. [SG-42175]
- Updated Boost to 1.85.0 (VFX Reference Platform CY2025). [SG-42380]
- Updated NumPy to 1.26.4 (VFX Reference Platform CY2025). [SG-42372]
- Updated OpenEXR to 3.3.6 (VFX Reference Platform CY2025). [SG-42374]
- Updated OCIO to 2.4.2 (VFX Reference Platform CY2025). [SG-42375]
- Updated minimum Visual Studio platform toolset to 17.6 (VFX Reference Platform CY2025). [SG-42373]
- Updated FFmpeg to version 8.0. [SG-42382]
- Refactored Apple ProRes decoding. [SG-42419]
- Rebuilt OpenSSL 3.0.0 with enable-md2 to restore MD2 symbol support. [SG-43099]
- Addressed libpng vulnerability CVE-2026-25646. [SG-42121]
Bug Fixes
- Fixed events from previous connections still being processed after rejoining a Live Review session. [SG-41466]
- Fixed a warning when joining an RV-to-RV Live Review session: “Failed to retrieve session metadata (status=403)”. [SG-42489]
- Fixed missing annotations on RV. [SG-43249]
- Fixed frames with an annotation plus an erased annotation getting stuck in Hold mode during Live Review sessions with Flow Production Tracking Review. [SG-43908]
- Fixed the text annotation size slider no longer being taken into account. [SG-43924]
- Fixed rvio crashing on startup when using a session file containing text annotations. [SG-44083]
- Fixed a long path issue on Windows. [SG-35913]
- Fixed the Console “Show on” option resetting to the first option on restart. [SG-40350]
- Fixed a BMD SDI bug showing a green line on the right side of the screen in YCbCr 10-bit DCI resolutions. [SG-42272]
- Fixed random crashes involving SoundTrackIPNode. [SG-42334]
- Fixed GLSL errors reported in the console on Windows (and Linux) with AMD. [SG-42604]
- Fixed RVIO segfaulting (exit code 11) after transcoding a file sequence for submit on Rocky Linux 9. [SG-42890]
- Fixed a crash in Flow Production Tracking RV when a Wacom tablet is mapped to a display not aligned with the rest. [SG-42902]
- Fixed Favorites and Visible Fields preferences from the Screening Room browser not being saved when relaunching the application. [SG-42921]
- Fixed issues with GLSL shader fragments and programs on AMD. [SG-43255]
- Improved robustness when handling unknown schemas during OTIO import. [OpenRV #1341]
OpenRV Community Contributions
- Added 60 and 59.94 fps options to the Control FPS menu. [SG-42880]
- Added Dissolve blend composite mode to stackIPNode, with UI controls. [SG-41316]
- Migrated to OpenImageIO (OIIO) 3.1.12.0 and build with OCIO. [SG-42131, SG-40796]
- Disabled x11 features on macOS. [SG-42137]
- Added Alt modifier check for mouse wheel events to support horizontal scroll. [SG-41698]
- Fixed an off-by-one frame count error for audio-only files. [SG-42144]
- Fixed a crash when adding a session file alongside media files. [SG-43602]
- Bounds-checked start/num in get*Property commands to prevent out-of-range access. [SG-43603]
- Fixed ACES 2 displaying black. [SG-43392, SG-43607]
- Added a thread-safe consoleWrite command for Python console output. [SG-43604]
- Updated openjpeg 2.5.0 → 2.5.4. [SG-43297]
- Updated libatomic_ops 7.7 → 7.10. [SG-43299]
- Updated doctest 2.4.9 → 2.4.12. [SG-43308]
- Updated pcre2 10.43 → 10.47. [SG-43309]
- Updated webp 1.2.1 → 1.6.0. [SG-43311]
- Updated libtiff 4.6.0 → 4.7.1. [SG-43313]
- Updated libraw 0.21.1 → 0.22.0. [SG-43398]
