Changelog
Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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- Trim handles in the task player
- Background color for PNG images with transparency
Benefits
:- Focus a review on a specific part of a clip
- Assess transparent images accurately against a suitable background
- Faster, more precise review sessions
The Kanban board has also been redesigned.
Benefits
:- Follow task progress in a clearer, more visual way
- Update task statuses with less friction
- A consistent look with the rest of Kitsu
The team schedule has several updates:
- Filter by department
- Supervisors can assign anonymous busy slots
- Managers see the team's time off, while supervisors in the same department see only the dates
- Drag-and-drop assignment is smoother
Benefits
:- Find available people in a given department quickly
- Respect privacy while still showing enough to plan around absences
- Reassign work faster
By default, a user cannot reply to tasks they aren't assigned to. A person who is mentioned can now reply in the task where they were mentioned, even if they aren't assigned to the task or don't belong to the same department.
Benefits
:- Answer questions right where they were asked
- Keep feedback and discussion attached to the relevant task
- Fewer messages lost in email or chat
Series schedules can now be organized by episode. The Production Schedule page includes an episode selector, "All" and "Main Pack" views, and drill-down for sequence, episode, and edit task types, an assignment panel, and a Today button.
Benefits
:- Plan long series one episode at a time
- Move from a high-level overview to the detailed schedule of a sequence or edit in one click
- Assign work and jump back to the current date directly from the schedule
Metadata descriptors can now belong to a specific task type, and each one has its own column in the task list.
Benefits
:- Track information that matters to one department like render layers for Lighting, without cluttering other boards
- Entity task lists stay readable, with only the relevant columns shown
- Each team can structure its own data
A member can now have a different role on each production.
Benefits
:- Give someone supervisor rights on one show and artist rights on another, without creating separate accounts
- Keep permissions tight on each production, so people only see and edit what they need
- Fits freelancers and shared staff who move between projects in different positions
Kitsu now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC), giving studios a way to let their teams log in using an existing identity provider instead of managing separate Kitsu credentials.
Once OIDC is enabled in the backend configuration, the login page automatically displays a "Login with [provider]" button alongside the standard login form.
Studios that already rely on a centralized identity system, whether that's Google Workspace, Okta, Azure AD, or another OIDC-compatible provider, can now login faster! Rather than creating and maintaining a separate password for Kitsu, team members can sign in with the same credentials they already use for everything else.
Centralizing authentication through an identity provider means IT and pipeline admins can manage access from one place: onboarding, offboarding, and permission changes all flow through the existing system instead of requiring manual updates inside Kitsu itself.
It also reduces password fatigue for artists and production staff, and shrinks the attack surface that comes with juggling multiple credential sets across different tools.
If you've ever needed to check frame-to-frame consistency while reviewing animation in Kitsu, there's now a much faster way to do it: onion skinning for annotations is available directly in video playlist reviews!
Onion skinning overlays nearby annotation frames (up to 5 frames before and/or after the current frame) so you can see motion, spacing, and timing issues in one go without scrubbing back and forth.
It's a staple feature in animation software, and now it's available right inside the review process!
Review playlists are often the first place inconsistent spacing, jittery arcs, or volume loss become visible to someone other than the animator.
Before, catching these issues meant either trusting your eye on a single frame or jumping into the original animation file to compare frames manually. You can now spot these problems directly in context without breaking your review flow or switching tools.
Kitsu's playlist annotations just got a useful upgrade: an eraser tool.
Until now, if you drew an annotation on a playlist clip and wanted to fix a small part of it, your only option was undoing the whole stroke or starting over. That's fine for quick notes, but it gets tedious when you're giving detailed feedback and you only need to clean up one corner of the drawing.
With the eraser, you can now selectively remove parts of your annotation's color without touching the rest.
Tighter, cleaner notes for your team, fewer redo-from-scratch moments, and a review workflow that feels a bit more like a real drawing tool.
Small addition, but you'll use it often if you spend a lot of time annotating playlists for feedback.
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