✨ Improved

• Minor tweaks and performance improvements

🚀 New

Materials have arrived

Materials are now available in the Library and tracked in models. Browse by class, preview appearance and properties, and load them directly into Revit from the Kinship add-in or web app. Kinship ensures materials look right for everyone on your team, automatically.

✨ Improved

• Select All / None for categories - Select All and None options when choosing categories for libraries or collections.

• Open Kinship opens Library - The Open Kinship button in the Revit ribbon opens directly to your team’s Library page instead of the activity page.

• Shortcut handling - Improved reliability of desktop shortcuts during install and uninstall.

• Better handling of restricted projects and collections - Improved permission checks ensure users can reliably upload families to collections they have write access to, and restricted projects and collections are handled more correctly throughout the add-in.

• Help links - Updated help links in the add-in.

• Smoother upgrade experience - When upgrading from an older Kinship installation, the installer now automatically detects and removes previous non-auto-updating versions, preventing duplicate installations and version conflicts. Your Kinship configuration is preserved throughout the process.

• Uniform error messages - Clearer, more consistent error messages across the add-in.

• Installer - Shows a clear message when an IT-managed installation is detected; improved handling of existing installations. And plenty of other improvements behind the curtains

• Background sync app - Syncing now starts more reliably when launched from the website.

🔧 Fixed

• Model text visibility - Model text is no longer hidden during thumbnail generation.

• Thumbnail generation - Elements are unselected before thumbnail export; background set to white correctly.

🧹 Cleanup

• General performance improvements and bug fixes.

• Code simplification and refactoring across the add-in.

🧹 Cleanup

• Minor improvements and bug fixes

🚀 New (Well, almost)

• Materials management feature (coming soon)

✨ Improved

• Thumbnail generation now ignores selected elements, producing cleaner visuals

• Families containing only 3D model text now render correctly in thumbnails

• Library page is now the default landing page after login

• Support references now direct to support@kinship.io and docs.kinship.io

• Added autocomplete information for Intune package deployment

🔧 Fixed

• Custom keyboard shortcuts are now preserved when updating the add-in

🧹 Cleanup

• Improved Sync app feedback and logging

✨ Improved

• Minor performance enhancements

✨ Improved

• Improved installer reliability in edge cases

✨ Improved

• Added "Select All" and "Select None" options when adding Schedules and View Templates to Collections

🧹 Cleanup

• Minor improvements to Installers

✨ Improved

• Enhanced Deployment & Installation Guide - The Deployment and Installation Guide (formerly the IT Requirements document) has been significantly expanded with clearer explanations of installation methods, update behaviors, and guidance on choosing the right approach for different deployment scenarios.

• Clearer MSI package naming - MSI installer packages now use clearer, more descriptive naming to distinguish between the version that updates automatically and the version that does not update automatically.

• Select All / None for categories - A new Select All/None option is now available when selecting categories to add to a library or collection.

• Improved add-in search performance - Teams that have disabled Display results from other projects should now experience noticeably faster search performance in the add-in.

• Open Kinship button enhancement - The Open Kinship button in the Revit ribbon now opens directly to your team’s Library page. Previously, it opened the activity page for the current model.

🔧 Fixed

• Numerous fixes to the installers, including improvements to deployment packages, handling of conflicting installations, and prevention of installation errors.

• Resolved an issue that prevented users from setting a custom cache path required for virtual desktop environments.

• Fixed an issue where searches could initially return no results or become unresponsive.

• Resolved an issue causing the “Failed to export Family” error to appear.

• Fixed various errors when using the Navigator interface.

🧹 Cleanup

• Minor UI enhancements and small fixes to the sync app context menu.