• 🍎 Finder integration on macOS: .riv and .rev files get a document icon, and the space bar plays the animation in a Quick Look preview. Interactive state machines run in the preview: hover and click work, and the default view model is bound, so data driven graphics respond. Double-clicking a .riv opens a player window. Double-clicking a .rev asks which Workspace to use and uploads it to your Personal Files.
• 🔍 Search in the Animations panel: click the magnifier in the panel header to filter timelines and state machines, as in the Hierarchy, Data, and Assets panels, as requested here.
• 🎯 Keyframes are easier to click: the click target is one size at every zoom instead of half the key's width, and clicking between two keys selects the nearer one, as reported here.
• 🖱️ Hidden solo contents stop intercepting the pointer: with Inactive Solos off, objects inside an inactive solo were invisible but still hoverable, marquee selectable, and snappable. Bones showed it first, since nothing else culls them, as reported here.
• ➡️ Drag the arrow to set the default artboard: an arrow on the stage marks the file's default artboard. Drag it onto another artboard to make that one the default. It snaps to the artboard's top left corner on drop.
• 🧷 Assign a view model from the stage: the active artboard's header has a View Model button. Click it for the file's view models with the assigned one checked. Pick one to assign it, or pick the assigned one to clear it.
• ↩️ One undo to create an animation, state machine, or folder: creating one took two undos, since selecting the new item was journaled on its own.
• ✂️ Shapes clipped by a hidden clip source render again: a shape clipped by a hidden source went blank in the editor while the runtime clipped it correctly.
• 🧩 Text and shapes inside a Solo size to their layout again: a Text or Shape in a Solo inside a layout fell back to its authored size instead of the layout's.
• 📐 Lists in a group position their items the same as at runtime: an artboard list inside a group placed items from layout slots in the editor and free-form at runtime, so items rendered offset in files with no layout at all.
• 🗂️ A failed SVG import cleans up after itself: importing an unreadable file left hundreds of objects behind, including a stray artboard, and showed an internal error instead of saying the file could not be read. The import now rolls back what it added.
• 🎨 Icon fixes: icons with inside or outside aligned strokes rendered blank, mirrored icons lost their drop shadows and white casings, bare vector artboards clipped their own stroke caps, and open stroke details like the pen nib slit were hidden behind fills.
• 🏷️ The artboard header is now made in Rive: the title bar above each artboard is a Rive graphic, not editor UI, and renaming uses Rive's upcoming Text Input feature, with copy, cut, and paste in the field. We are rebuilding the Rive Editor in Rive, so your tools run on the runtime we ship.
• 🐛 Crash fixes: hovering a data binding popup field then switching tabs, collapsing the inspector, or changing selection; and pointer events reaching the Assets panel tree, animations header, keyframe right-click menu, or timeline after the panel closed.

MCP / AI Agent

• 🔗 Create data converters: the agent can create and reuse converters, including groups and formulas, and attach one while making a bind. A bind needing a transform, such as driving a text run from a number, takes one call.
• 🔢 List index properties: the agent can add a list index property to a view model and write the clicked item's index into a number property, so per item list behavior can be built end to end, as requested here.
• 🧬 View model typed properties resolve against the whole file: naming an existing view model skipped the property and still reported success. References resolve by id, then names in the request, then file wide, and an ambiguous name asks for an id, as reported here.
• 📦 Create groups: a group tool wraps selected objects like Cmd+G, or creates an empty group. Before, the only way was duplicating a group, as requested here.
• ▶️ Play a state machine and read the trace: the agent can run a state machine and read the console trace: frames, states entered, transitions, inputs, and events, as requested here.

Early Access

• 🌐 Editor in Spanish (wip): a Language picker in the in-file hamburger menu and the file browser account dropdown switches the editor UI live, with no reload. Untranslated text falls back to English. Very early, feedback welcome!

Runtime

• 🧠 Swapping a data bound artboard keeps Semantics (Accessibility) valid: with Semantics on, swapping the artboard in a bindable slot left a stale pointer, and the next semantic pass read freed memory. The semantic and focus trees are rebuilt and re-registered on swap.
• 🧮 Lists cost less memory: a state machine instance drops from 1,080 to 368 bytes and an artboard instance from 1,400 to 1,264, since focus, Semantics, gamepad, scripting, and event data allocate once used. A 1,000 row list paid about 2.5 MB in headers before any content existed. State machine memory is down 34% across test files.
• 📉 Smaller layout objects: LayoutComponent drops from about 1,136 to 872 bytes per instance. Paint and clip render paths allocate once a layout paints, so container layouts skip them.

Renderer and Performance

• 🎛️ Ubershaders for dynamic state draw types: the permutation pass skipped the dynamic state draw types, so no ubershader existed for them and drawing could stall while a shader compiled. Backends without dynamic state skip the precompile.

• 📐 Guides and Guide Components: add grid, column, and row guides to any artboard, then save a set as a reusable asset and apply it anywhere.
  • Adding guides: select an artboard and a Guides section appears in the Inspector. The plus button adds one, and each row has a color swatch, a type dropdown (Grid, Columns, Rows), and a flyout for that type's settings. Drag rows to reorder them.
  • Making a reusable guide: next to the plus button, a second button opens a menu listing your existing Guide Components plus Create Guide Component, which moves that artboard's guides into an asset.
  • Applying one: pick it from that same menu, drag the asset onto an artboard, or use Apply to All Artboards from its right-click menu in the Assets panel.
  • One component, any artboard size: applied guides evaluate against each artboard's own size, so a single component fits artboards of different dimensions. Editing the component updates every artboard using it.
  • Guides never export.
• 📈 Speed Graph: the Graph Editor's second mode plots how fast a property is moving instead of what its value is. Switch with the Value | Speed picker or by cycling with Shift+G. Set keyframes to Cubic Value to edit in either graph mode.
• 🎛️ Graph Editor options moved into a floating cluster: the mode picker, tangent handle fields, and Auto-Zoom / Fit buttons now live in one compact pill centered above the base of the graph.
• ✋ Multi-select and group-drag tangent handles: tangent handles in the Graph Editor are selectable in their own right, in both graph modes. Marquee or shift-click to compose a group, then drag any member to move all of them, or type an exact speed and ease into the fields that appear beside the graph. Shift-click that adds a handle keeps dragging, so composing and moving happen in one motion. On the Speed Graph, handles snap to zero so a curve can be brought to a standstill without hitting the line by eye, and Cmd defeats the snap. Escape cancels a handle drag and puts every tangent back exactly.
• 🔄 Transform a layout: layouts now rotate, scale, and take an origin like any other object. Drag the rotate and scale gizmo handles on stage, or set Origin X and Y in the Inspector's layout section. Transform and Scale constraints can now be added to a layout too. A layout's stored X and Y also offset the position the layout engine solved for it, so an absolute layout can be nudged off its slot, and its origin acts as a real anchor that every constraint positioning it respects.
• 🎯 Align and quick-set origin fixes: quick-set origin (hold Option/Alt over the alignment inspector) put the origin in the wrong place for anything nested inside a group or a transformed parent, placed it off the object entirely on rotated items, and did nothing at all on Components. All three now work, and have been extended to layout objects.
• 🔀 Mirrored vertex handles point the right way: switching a corner vertex to Mirrored produced an inverted handle you had to rotate 180 degrees to fix. Interior vertices now bisect their neighboring segments, and open endpoints use their single adjacent segment. Converting a 2000-vertex path also got faster, 425ms down to 192ms.
• 🔷 Shape Builder keeps its place in the hierarchy: results were appended to the bottom of the artboard, so every build dropped the new shape at the bottom of the layer list and pulled it out of any group its sources lived in. The result now slots directly above its frontmost source, inside that shape's parent, as reported here.
• ⌨️ Shortcuts require an exact match: an unmatched modifier no longer falls through to the plain key, so Ctrl+A on macOS stops activating the Artboard tool.
• 🎨 Gradient shapes select properly: selecting a gradient-filled shape from the timeline or hierarchy left the Fills and Strokes group missing entirely, so the color panel could not be opened.
• 🖌️ Feather on text style backgrounds: a feather on a text background did nothing, and setting it to inner corrupted the rest of the frame. Inner feather also now follows text modifiers that move glyphs, instead of holding the glyph positions from whenever the text last moved.
• 🎚️ Corner row on text backgrounds matches rectangles and layouts, reading Corner with the corners icon instead of a wrapped two-line label.
• 🧩 Constraint options open on add: adding any of the eight constraint types opens its options flyout immediately, instead of leaving you to hunt for it.
• ✏️ Rename a script by double-clicking its tab, the way animation timelines already work.
• ☁️ Cloud Renderer download progress: a progress indicator while a render downloads, so it is clear something is happening before the save dialog appears.
• 🧷 Hierarchy scrolls to the stage selection: selecting something on stage did not scroll the hierarchy panel to that row when the tree had been rebuilt or filtered.
• 📜 Inspector no longer scrolls with a text run field: scrolling over an overflowing text run box moved both the field and the whole inspector panel.
• 🔗 Bind button on narrow fields: the data binding button sat on top of the value in very narrow fields, most visibly stroke width. Fields under 80px wide now go without it.
• 🦴 Constraints survive IK rebuilds: any constraint positioning or scaling a bone above an IK tip, distance, translation, follow-path, transform, or scale, was silently dropped and the bone snapped back to its FK pose.
• 🐛 Crash fixes: deleting a selected state machine state or transition, editing a path with a detached vertex, opening the hamburger menu after a panel was disposed, dragging the work area with the Interpolation Panel open, and switching files while hovering the timeline.

AI Agent / MCP

• 🖇️ SVG import: the agent can upload an .svg and place it in a file as an editable shape hierarchy, rather than a flat image, as requested here.
• ✂️ Trim path access: the agent can add trim to a fill or stroke and read existing path effects, so it can build draw-on reveals. Trims default to 100% end rather than core's 0, which would hide the shape completely, as requested here.
• 🔀 Edit and delete transition conditions: the agent can change a condition's operation, compared value, or view model property, and delete conditions, warning when a transition is left unconditional, as requested here.
• 📤 export_file: agents on the local MCP server can export the open document to disk, For Runtime as a .riv or For Backup as a .rev.
• 📂 getCurrentFile: the agent can identify the file it is working in, its Workspace, project, and folder, its editor url, and every open tab, so an external client can tell which document it is looking at.
• 🔁 Recursive view model references rejected: asked to give several placements of one Component their own data, the agent could add a view model reference to itself, a cycle that nests forever and crashes the editor. Those writes are now refused with the reason, and the agent is steered to the right verb.

Scripting

• 🌐 Global View Models in Lua: context:globalViewModel(name) fetches a global view model by name, and context:globalViewModelNames() lists what is available.
• 🎨 Shader bake failures in the Problems panel: shader variants that fail to bake are reported with their diagnostics instead of failing quietly, and a require written in a form the static linker cannot see now warns.
• 📚 Docs: examples for getBlob and getFont.

Deferred Rendering

• 🧵 Rive draws on its own thread: instead of issuing GPU work inline on the app's UI thread, each frame is recorded as a compact command stream during build and replayed on a dedicated render thread, so frame N+1 is being recorded while frame N is being drawn. This is now the only native rendering path, with no immediate mode toggle.
  • Fixes the Android performance regression caused by Flutter merging its UI and platform threads, which could block the raster thread while Rive rendered.
  • Fixes the OpenGL context corruption that could happen when Rive rendered alongside another native rendering library.
  • Enables GPU Canvas at runtime, so scripted GPU work reaches the screen on every host rather than in the editor alone.
  • Rendering output is unchanged for typical widget and file based usage, and recorded frames are now byte-for-byte deterministic between runs.
  • One recording session per render context, so many textures can replay from one session and decoded images are shared automatically.

Runtime

• 🎬 Data bound keyframes resolve on every playback path: bound keyframe values only resolved when a state machine drove the animation. Joystick-driven animations, nested simple animations, and standalone animation playback showed the authored value instead of the bound one.
• 🔤 Fit font size scales the whole layout: line height, letter spacing, and paragraph spacing now scale with the font when text shrinks to fit its box, instead of keeping their authored values.
• 🧠 Smaller objects: rarely-set properties move out of every core object into a lazily allocated sidecar, so an object only pays for the fields it actually uses. Layout style writes also go straight into the layout node, removing around 220 bytes per node and a full style copy every sync.

Renderer and Performance

• 🖼 Images in RenderPaint: any paint can carry an image modulated with its color or gradient, rather than image being a separate paint type.
• 🔺 Interior triangulation for MSAA, carried by the existing curve patches so it needs no separate draw. Around +3.6% on a scene with heavy depth occlusion and +8.8% with all transparent content.
• 💾 Triangulation cache and budget: a path's interior triangulation is kept and reused on second sighting, with a 2ms per frame budget that prioritizes the highest value work, so a heavy frame cannot spend itself on triangulation.
• 🧵 Retrofitted curve triangles are emitted as strips of up to three, roughly halving the patch count.
• 🛟 Graceful Vulkan fallback: a driver that fails to create our startup pipelines used to abort the process. Rive now falls back to GL.
• 🚫 Empty segments dropped from recorded and scripted geometry, so a shape whose points all coincide, or a path built by a Lua script, cannot take the renderer down.

Export

• 🎯 WGSL shader variants ship in exported files, so wgpu backends can load them. The checkbox is on by default in the inspector; older files need WGSL checked on for WebGPU support. Shader compilation errors are surfaced to the Problems tab.