Release Notes

Release Notes

At Kinship, we’re continually refining and improving our services. This page keeps you updated on the latest changes and enhancements.

At Kinship, we’re continually refining and improving our services. This page keeps you updated on the latest changes and enhancements.

1.98.5.0

Add-in

Beta

🔧 Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where private collections and projects could be missing from the Revit Add-in search scope filters for Admins.

1.98.4.0

Add-in

Beta

✨ Improved

  • When a tracked model with Materials enabled is opened, Kinship now queues newly copied material images for direct upload.

  • Revit out-of-the-box material images are no longer copied into Kinship’s material cache. Custom material images are still copied as expected.

  • Unused Object Style cleanup now clears unused material references instead of deleting Object Styles, reducing the risk of unintended changes to uploaded families.

🔧 Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where uploading files or folders could fail to generate thumbnails for selected RFA files.

  • Fixed an issue where family uploads could remain stuck in pending upload after a successful upload.

  • Fixed an issue where material processing could show a Revit worksharing error when another user owned a material appearance asset.


1.98.0.0

Add-in

✨ Improved

  • Materials can now be added to libraries and collections without enabling the Materials setting in Model Tracking.

🔧 Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where uploaded Revit family files could include unused Object Styles and their assigned materials from the source model, ensuring downloaded RFAs no longer carry unused material data.

  • Fixed an issue where annotation family uploads could process material assets even though annotation families do not use materials, ensuring downloaded annotation RFAs no longer carry unnecessary material data.

🧹 Cleanup

  • Updated the add-in signing certificate.

  • Improved internal export diagnostics for troubleshooting upload issues.

2026.05.30

Web

🔧 Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where family thumbnails could be missing after upload or regeneration, ensuring item previews display correctly.

  • Fixed an issue where time zone abbreviations could be treated as time offsets, ensuring dates display with the intended time zone text.

🧹 Cleanup

  • Improved thumbnail repair and recovery.

  • Improved file handling reliability.

1.97.6.0

Add-in

Beta

🔧 Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where annotation family uploads could process material assets even though annotation families do not use materials, ensuring downloaded annotation RFAs no longer carry unnecessary material data.

🧹 Cleanup

  • Updated the add-in signing certificate.

  • Improved internal export diagnostics for troubleshooting upload issues.

1.97.2.0

Add-in

Beta

✨ Improved

  • Materials can now be added to libraries and collections without enabling the Materials setting in Model Tracking.

🔧 Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where uploaded Revit family files could include unused Object Styles and their assigned materials from the source model, ensuring downloaded RFAs no longer carry unused material data.

2026.05.18

Web

✨ Improved

  • Improved Materials pages by showing model thumbnails on the Models Using This Material page.

  • Updated Most Used Materials so materials stay ordered by usage while still allowing secondary sorting.

  • Updated new team defaults so “Display results from other projects” starts turned off.

  • Improved public sign-in and team selection styling.

🔧 Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where material images could be removed during file cleanup, ensuring material images are preserved.

  • Fixed an issue where pasted email addresses or sign-in codes could fail in some browsers, ensuring paste actions work more consistently.

  • Fixed an issue where shared collection names with special characters could affect the shared header.

  • Fixed an issue where SSO error details could display incorrectly.

  • Fixed an issue where installer download details could show beta release information when no beta installer was available.

  • Fixed an issue where recent material searches could fail when saved search values were not stored as plain text.

  • Fixed long member names and emails in sharing and ownership dialogs so lists remain readable.

🧹 Cleanup

  • Improved performance and stability.

  • Refactored internal code to improve maintainability.

  • Reduced false error reports from expected browser and network events.


2026.05.06

Web

🔧 Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where Batch Update changes were not being applied correctly in Kinship

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