1.98.8.0
Add-in
Beta
✨ Improved
Improved material image handling so Revit’s built-in material images and images referenced through custom render appearance folders keep their existing paths. Custom image files added from direct file paths are still copied into Kinship when Materials is enabled.
Updated add-in installation support for Revit 2026 and above while preserving compatibility with earlier Revit versions.
Improved compatibility for the browsable search interface in Revit 2024 and above, reducing conflicts with other add-ins that use WebView2.
1.98.7.0
Add-in
Beta
🔧 Fixed
Fixed an issue where unused Revit material assets could remain in uploaded family files after unused materials were removed, ensuring downloaded RFAs are cleaned more completely.
2026.06.09
Web
🔧 Fixed
Fixed an issue where Material images could fail to load from storage, ensuring Material previews display consistently.
1.98.6.0
Add-in
Beta
✨ Improved
Tracked models with Materials enabled now process custom material images after Sync with Central, reducing the need to reopen a model before Kinship copies newly added material images.
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.
2026.06.08
Web
✨ Improved
Improved the Edit Material dialog so material sets are loaded in full and handled more reliably.
Improved Materials search in basic view with a clearer load action and hover state.
Improved Library performance when item counts are recalculated.
🔧 Fixed
Fixed an issue where resolving duplicate items while moving items into the Library could affect list membership incorrectly, ensuring replaced or merged items stay on the expected lists.
Fixed an issue where empty containers could appear in the Add From dialog, ensuring only containers with items are shown.
Fixed an issue where grouped item sets could show a category from an older Revit version, ensuring the latest version’s category is shown.
Fixed an issue where missing family thumbnails could stay broken, ensuring previews can be restored when source files are available.
Fixed an issue where deleting a Material class could permanently remove matching materials, ensuring affected materials are unassigned and handled through the standard deletion flow.
Fixed an issue where the reset password flow could drop the email entered on the sign-in page, ensuring users do not need to re-enter it.
Fixed an issue where saved user preferences could return the wrong preference set, ensuring preferences load consistently.
Fixed an issue where time zone abbreviations could be treated as time offsets, ensuring dates display with the intended time zone text.
🧹 Cleanup
Simplified the page footer.
Improved file handling reliability.
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.