Changes log 2026
2026/Apr/16 Version 1.6.0 Beta 3
Introducing styles
- It is now possible to create styles. A style is a collection of formatting properties.
- To create a style, use one of the new tags in the "presets/style" category.
For the moment, you can create styles pointing to presets.
(When using a preset from your collection, it must be flagged as "design").
- Styles can have an ID.
You can use the ID in markups to format text.
Use markups {sty:id} and {/sty} to format segments of text.
Use markup {lsty:id} to format the entire text line.
Use markup {psty:id} to format the entire paragraph.
- Use the "apply style" tag to apply a style to a project, track, subtitle, exporter, etc.
- If you create a style using an existing ID, it will replace the existing style. In this way you can override styles.
- Styles are useful to control formatting of text from a single tag.
For example, instead of using markups "{yellow}{b}" to make text lines yellow and bold, create a style and use markup "{lsty:speaker2}".
Fixes:
- Images:
Fixed crash when reading some image metadata.
- TimedText export:
Corrected "displayAlign" for vertical left-aligned regions.
Improvements:
- Fonts:
New options in the "font name (any name)" tag to apply for font only if needed.
New features:
- Custom format import:
New support to import clip id.
- Exporter report:
New option in settings/export/report to report tags with errors.
This option checks all the tags in the hierarchy, not only exporter's.
- Markups:
New {/boxcolor} markup to restore the box color (to project's box color).
- Tags:
New "installed preset (by id)" tag.
It inserts a preset into a project, addressing the preset by its ID.
- Tags:
New tags to create styles.
"Style with built-in preset" tag.
"Style with external preset" tag.
"Style with installed preset" tag.
"Style with installed preset (by ID)" tag.
"Style with project preset" tag.
- Tags:
New "apply style" tag to apply a style to the project.
- Tags:
The "captions look" tag has been modified to support styles.
Work in progress:
- GUI:
Drag and drop of icons may not work.
- GUI:
Probably wrong colors and transparencies.
2026/Mar/19 Version 1.6.0 Beta 2
Improvements:
- EBU export:
Alpha channel is now removed when exporting colors.
- FFmpeg:
Updated to version 8.0 (2026-Feb-19).
- FontTools:
Updated to version 4.62.1.
- Microsoft OpenXML:
Updated to version 3.4.1.
- Monitor tool:
New auto fit mode HD 1080.
- NDI:
Updated to version 6.3.1.
New features:
- Commands:
New command to duplicate reels.
- Timeline:
New options in "settings/tools/timeline" to specify how to display overlapping clips.
Work in progress:
- GUI:
The user interface is being moved from Kio1 to Kio2.
2026/Feb/18 Version 1.6.0 Beta 1
Remarks:
- This release is not for production.
This release comes with several core changes. It needs further revision.
- This release requires .NET 4.8.1.
Probably this version of .NET is already present in your Windows.
- The x86 version of Lemony has been removed.
Old Rovi dongles will not work.
- The light visual style is under development.
Introducing element metadata
- Projects elements can now contain metadata.
Metadata works in the same way as variables, but it has the potential to store other kind of values, not only text.
- Use the new metadata tags to set the values.
Use the new metadata overlay to display the metadata on screen.
Fixes:
- GUI:
Corrected vertical position of stacked progress dialogs to avoid appearing out of the screen.
- Japanese:
Corrected alignment of ruby and boten.
- Project save:
Fixed bug when saving in "safe mode". Deleting the original file could fail.
Improvements:
- Actors:
New actor parsing mode: "ID + Box color + Name". It allows to specify actors with colored boxes.
- Actors:
The actor alignment parameters now supports "l", "left", "c", "center", "r" and "right".
- EBU export:
The EBU format can now export font colors and box colors.
- FFmpeg:
Updated to version 8.0 (2026-Jan-17).
- FontTools:
Updated to version 4.61.1.
- Languages:
Updated Disney language codes.
- NDI:
Updated to version 6.3.
- Project save:
Improved "safe mode". Now the temporal file is preserved if the operation fails.
- Report tool:
Some text errors have now its now category.
- Tags:
The "change frame rate (round up)" tag now supports all frame rates with decimals.
(23.976 -> 24) (29.97 -> 30) (47.952 -> 48) (59.94 -> 60).
New features:
- Actors:
Actors now support to have a colored box.
- Commands:
New command category "playlist".
- Commands:
New command "reset playlist from". It resets the playlist from the current time position.
- Font:
Installed fonts are now analyzed when the application is launched.
- Overlay:
New "metadata" overlay. It can display metadata and variables.
- System:
New function to detect when running on a ARM computer.
- Tags:
New "add actor" tag.
- Tags:
New "add metadata" tag.
New "add metadatas" tag.
New "remove all metadata" tag.
- Tags:
New option in the "ffmpeg hardcopy" tag to select "H.266".
- Video export:
New support to export H.266 videos.
Deprecations:
- The "microsoft office" plug-in has been removed.
- The "plint" plug-in has been removed.
- The "virtualization" plug-in has been removed.
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