✨ Improved

• Improved the Import CSV dialog for Batch Updates. Drop a file anywhere on the page, upload progress is shown and can be cancelled. Validation messages explain issues such as invalid file types, empty files, and files over the 50 MB limit before the import starts.

• Updated the Import CSV flow. Submitting a file shows a single confirmation with a View Batch Updates action. Imports that match no records report an error instead of completing silently. Completion notifications are sent only when content actually changed.

• Updated the library menu so Import CSV appears only for Content Managers and Admins.

• Search on the web app now follows the “Display results from other projects” setting in Team Settings. When the setting is off, search results and filters exclude content from other projects, and the Models option in the Location filter is hidden.

• Increased the maximum file size for template uploads to 500 MB.

• Updated Template pages. Template page headers now offer the same actions as template cards. Added a Choose Revit Version dialog that lists open and compatible Revit versions when the New from Template action could open in more than one Revit version.

• Updated the Templates section so navigating between the listing, template pages, and comments no longer reloads the page.

• Project Coordinates are now labeled Survey Point in project settings. A project with no existing Survey Point now inherits the survey point values from its first complete model, and the update is recorded in the project’s history.

• Updated family thumbnail uploads on the web app to accept JPG images in addition to PNG.

• Improved keyboard and screen reader accessibility across dialogs and Team Settings, with clearer focus styles and keyboard navigation in listings.

• Updated the report pages, adding search to the Failed Instances reports and category names to the Failed Families report.

• Improved Revit build recognition with support for Revit 2027.2, Revit 2026.5, and Revit 2024.3.6.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed issues where family thumbnails could fail to update after editing a family in the Revit Add-in or re-uploading an image, and where list and collection tiles could show missing thumbnails, ensuring thumbnails display and update correctly.

• Fixed issues when moving library content between lists: approved items no longer show a false Replace Existing Items prompt.

• Fixed an issue where using Undo again after approving families could apply the approval to every family in Pending Approval, ensuring Undo only affects the families from the original action.

• Fixed an issue where content from a restricted collection assigned to a project could be missing from search in the Revit Add-in, ensuring newly granted content appears after the next sync.

• Fixed issues where search in the Revit Add-in could fail while projects or collections were still loading, ensuring search results display reliably.

• Fixed an issue where switching a team's Kinship Version Channel from Beta to Stable did not move add-in installations back to the stable release, ensuring installations follow the selected channel.

• Fixed an issue where signing in could fail after changing your password, ensuring the new password works immediately.

• Fixed an issue where sorting families by name could follow internal names instead of the displayed names, ensuring lists sort in the order you see.

• Fixed an issue where system family subtypes, such as specific stair types, were missing from discipline pages, ensuring they appear with their parent categories.

• Fixed an issue where editing a template's name or details cleared its Last Updated date, ensuring the date reflects the latest change.

• Fixed an issue where material pages for grouped families could show the wrong thumbnail and Revit version, ensuring the page matches the version you can load.

• Fixed an issue where the contents of Schedule families could fail to load, ensuring schedule data is available.

• Fixed an issue where library families upgraded to a newer Revit version reported Collection as their source in the Revit Add-in details panel, with a View in Kinship link that did not open, ensuring upgraded families report their source as Library and link correctly.

• Fixed an issue where Survey Point metadata from Revit models in German was not recognized, ensuring coordinates from those models appear in Kinship.

• Fixed an issue where the Last Updated details on model and project summary pages could wrap onto separate lines, ensuring they display correctly.

• Fixed an issue where navigating back from the materials library could fail, ensuring you return to the previous page.

• Fixed an issue where batch actions could fail after changing a search, ensuring actions apply to the current selection.

🧹 Cleanup

• Minor security improvements.

• Updated internal dependencies and development tooling.

🚀 New: Searchable text in drafting views, sheets, and detail items

Kinship now extracts the text contained in drafting views, sheets, and detail items stored in the library. Searching from the Revit Add-in finds these items by the text that appears in them.

What is extracted

Text notes, annotation tags, keynotes, generic annotations, titleblock text, and view and sheet names and numbers.

For sheets, Kinship collects text from the sheet and from everything placed on it, including the views on the sheet and the detail items inside those views, so a sheet can be found by text that appears anywhere on it.

Limits

• Dimension values inside detail item families are not extracted.

• Text in imported CAD files, images, and PDFs is not read.

🚀 New

• Added a Run diagnostics button to the Kinship page in the Revit Options dialog. It checks for connection, installation, and configuration issues affecting Kinship.

✨ Improved

• Adding a project template now checks the model's file size before upload and shows a File is too large message when the model exceeds the maximum upload size.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue where comments entered when adding a project template were not stored with the template, ensuring they appear on the template page.

• Fixed an issue where loading families from the web platform into Revit could fail with a connection error for users on private networks.

• Fixed an issue where the family details panel in the library could show the wrong source and link for families that belong to collections.

• Fixed an issue where guide grids were included with sheets added to the library.

• Fixed an issue where an upgraded family file could remain locked while the family stayed open, preventing the upgraded version from being saved back to the library.

🧹 Cleanup

• Improved performance and stability.

• Updated internal dependencies and build tooling.

🚀 New

• Added the option to rename material classes, allowing Content Managers and Admins to keep class names consistent. When a class is renamed, family parameters that use it update to the new name.

✨ Improved

• Improved template listings with search and sorting options, with templates ordered by Last Updated by default.

• Improved template uploads: you can drag and drop files onto the empty Project Templates section, and the Create Template and Add File dialogs stay locked while files upload so they cannot be closed accidentally.

• Updated template versions so the download option is not offered while a version is still processing.

• Updated the New from Template button so Revit versions are listed in their own dropdown, and template comments so author names link to their profile pages.

• Improved keyboard navigation and accessibility in the new template dialogs and dropdowns.

• Improved Revit build recognition with support for Revit 2026.4.2 and Revit 2025.4.6.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue where comments added when publishing a template from the Revit Add-in could fail to be stored, ensuring they appear on the template page.

• Fixed an issue where deleting a template did not redirect to the templates listing, ensuring you land on the right page after deletion.

• Fixed an issue where the Download button on family Files pages could fail to start the download, ensuring files download correctly.

• Fixed an issue where the Revit usage chart could appear blank, ensuring usage data displays correctly.

• Fixed an issue where library search could fail when a search returned no results, ensuring empty searches display correctly.

• Fixed an issue where the Unassigned option in library filters could fail when no project data was available, ensuring the filter returns correct results.

🧹 Cleanup

• Updated internal dependencies and development tooling.

🚀 New: Project Templates

Project Templates lets teams store Revit project templates in the Kinship library and start new models from them without leaving Revit.

How it works

To add a template to your library, open the model in Revit and choose Project Template from the Add to Library dropdown. Then set a name and optionally add a comment. If a template with the same name already exists, Kinship will add the model as a new Revit version. If a template with the same name and same Revit version already exists, Kinship will overwrite the existing one.

To create a new model from a template, click the New Project button on the Kinship ribbon panel. This will display a list of the templates in your library. Selecting one starts a new model from that template. Templates might be available in several Revit versions, and Kinship automatically opens the version that most closely matches the one you are working in.

You can also start a new model from the Kinship web app by going to the Project Templates section on the Library landing page, clicking into any template and then choosing New from Template.

Availability

Everyone can start a model from a template using the New Project button.

Only Content Managers and above can add or update templates.

Limits

• Templates can be .rte or .rvt files, and the latter either central or non-central models.

• The New Project dialog lists only templates available in your Revit version or earlier.

• Newly added templates will appear for use only once their upload finishes processing.

✨ Improved

• Updated the Kinship ribbon with a refreshed icon set and clearer tooltips and descriptions for every button.

🚀 New: Project Templates

Project Templates lets teams store Revit project templates in the Kinship library and start new models from them.

How it works

• The Library home page now shows a Project Templates section with the most recent templates and a See All link to view all of your team’s templates.

• Each template has its own page with description, information, comments, and its available Revit versions.

• The + Create Template button opens a dialog to add a new template. You can upload .rte or .rvt files, add multiple files for different Revit versions, as well as edit the name, image and color for the template.

• You can add a description to a template from its detail page by clicking on Edit Info under the More menu in the top right, or by clicking on the + Add Description button in the About section.

• Template files can be downloaded, updated, opened for editing, or deleted for each Revit version.

• The New from Template button starts a new Revit model from the template. This will default to creating the model in your active Revit version. You can also click on a specific Revit version of the template to create a new model in that version.

Availability

• Everyone can browse templates and create new models from templates.

• Only Content Managers or Admins can add and manage templates.

Limits

• Templates can be .rte or .rvt files, and the latter either central or non-central models.

• Newly added templates will appear for use only once their upload finishes processing.

✨ Improved

• Updated icons across the Web Platform for a more consistent look, including More menus and navigation chevrons.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue where dropdown menus on family Files pages could fail to open, ensuring file actions work correctly.

• Fixed an issue where grouped families could show incorrect Added by and Last updated by details, ensuring family lists display the right people.

• Fixed an issue where filtering the library by Revit version could return incorrect results, ensuring the filter matches the selected versions.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue preventing some details from being loaded.

• Fixed an issue where materials assigned to family Object Styles could be unassigned in some cases.

🧹 Cleanup

• Improved performance and stability.

• Refactored internal code in preparation for new features.

✨ Improved

• Improved History pages so recent activity loads faster and large histories are easier to browse.

• Improved responsiveness during long-running requests, ensuring other tabs and actions are less likely to wait.

• Improved Revit build recognition with support for Revit 2027.1 and Revit 2024.3.5.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue where family pages could show a 404 when links referenced an archived or upgraded item, ensuring users land on the current item page.

• Fixed an issue where family type thumbnails could fail to display when type names contained unsupported filename characters, ensuring type previews display correctly.

• Fixed an issue where non-workshared models could show an empty team listing, ensuring model team members display correctly.

• Fixed an issue where the Download Journal action could fail from crash details, ensuring journals can be downloaded reliably.

• Fixed an issue where shared collection pages could miss confirmation messages, ensuring action feedback appears correctly.

• Fixed an issue where pending team invitations could show missing invitation dates or inviter details, ensuring invitation details and exports are consistent.

• Fixed an issue where table row selection could behave inconsistently, ensuring selection and deselection work reliably.

🧹 Cleanup

• Updated collection-sharing email templates so footer dates stay current.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue where materials assigned to family Object Styles could be unassigned in some cases.

🧹 Cleanup

• Improved performance and stability.

• Refactored internal code in preparation for new features.