This update contains all the great features in our Edinburgh release, along with minor improvements and bug fixes.

Our second 2026 update — Edinburgh — introduces multi-paste, perceptual and vibrant gradients, big performance improvements for replacing Libraries and symbol-heavy documents, and a better prototype player. NEW IN EDINBURGH Multi-paste and more predictable paste behavior You can now use Paste, Paste Over, and Paste and Replace across multiple selected frames, groups, or layers in a single action. Pasting into a group now centers content within it. Pasting onto the Canvas places content in a more intuitive position relative to your selection. Perceptual and Vibrant gradients (Oklab and Oklch) Two new gradient interpolation options: Perceptual (Oklab) for smooth, natural-looking transitions, and Vibrant (Oklch) for punchier, more saturated results. Both are based on human color perception, unlike Classic (RGB), which can produce muddy midpoints. Your most recent interpolation method becomes the default for new gradients, and Copy CSS includes the correct color-space syntax. Copy-paste more properties Copy Properties (⌥⌘C) now covers fills, borders, shadows, inner shadows, effects, size, position, and prototyping interactions. Hold ⌥ when pasting fills, borders, or shadows to Paste and Replace existing styles instead of adding them. Prototype Preview improvements A new Follow Selection option lets you change your selection without affecting what’s shown in the Preview window. A new Float on Top option keeps the Preview window above other windows. Sharing a link to a prototype is now instantaneous. IMPROVEMENTS Symbols and Libraries - Moving and resizing Symbol instances is now around twice as fast; changing text overrides is even faster. - Replace Library is now almost 15x faster than before. - Symbol instances with auto corners now calculate their own concentric corner radius from their parent context. Inspector - A new Round to Pixel button appears at the top of the Inspector when you have pixel fitting enabled. - In vector editing, Round to Pixel rounds selected points using your current pixel snapping setting. - Every Inspector and sidebar control with a keyboard shortcut now shows it in its tooltip. - Hold ⌥ and the Lock Proportions button becomes Change Orientation. - Prototype start points for your current page now appear in the Inspector when nothing is selected. - You can right-click a gradient stop in the Color panel to copy its color value or remove it. Layers and editing - Size to Fit (⇧⌘F) is now a single adaptive action — its label updates to match your selection. - Duplicate Without Interactions lets you copy layers without carrying over their prototype connections. - We no longer delete whitespace-only text layers when you deselect them. General - You can now create a new page with ⇧⌘N. - You can now double-click a gradient stop to center it between adjacent stops. Alternatively, you can choose Place at Midpoint from the gradient stop context menu, where you can Distribute Stops. - The Flatten Bitmaps to setting now defaults to @2x. - Return and ⌘-Return behavior is more consistent: Return dives deeper into containers without losing selected shapes; ⌘Return now supports groups, taking you straight into vector editing. For full details of bug fixes in this update, see the changelog on our website.

This update contains all the great features in our Dublin release, along with minor improvements and bug fixes.

This update contains all the great features in our Dublin release, along with minor improvements and bug fixes.

Our first major 2026 update — Dublin — contains a few features you’ve been asking for, along with a lot of smaller improvements and fixes. Here are the headlines: Corner smoothing controls and capsule support There's a new Corner Settings panel in the Inspector, giving you full control over exactly how smooth your rounded corners should be. If you're working with squircles, capsules, or corners greater than 90º, you'll see much better results for those shapes. You can now round corners on combined shapes with boolean operations, and drag a corner to round it to its maximum possible value. Independent borders and better border controls By popular demand, you can now set borders independently for each side of a layer. For each border, you can control all sides equally (the default), choose a single specific side, or choose Custom to set different widths for each side. There's also a new option to center dashed borders so their dashes fall neatly on corners. You can now apply advanced border settings — ends, joins, dash — to borders on text layers. Selection colors See and adjust every color in your current selection — fills, borders, shadows, text colors, and tints — in one place. Adjusting a selection color updates every layer using it. Hover over a color to highlight layers that use it on the Canvas. Use Combine Opacities to group colors with different opacities together; adjusting them preserves individual opacities, and scrubbing opacity adjusts them relatively. When your selection mixes Symbols and regular layers, overrides and selection colors appear together in the Inspector. Hold ⌥ on any overridden color to reveal a Reset Overrides button. All-new color picker You can now use the color picker to select and apply Color Variables. When the loupe is above a color variable, you’ll see its name in a label below the raw value. Hold ⇧ and click to select or apply the Color Variable itself. You can grab Color Variables from solid fills and borders, gradient fills and borders, text layers, and tints. The new design is compact by default — scroll or pinch on a trackpad to change the loupe's size, and right-click to reset it. Improved Color panel Based on your feedback, we've revamped the Color panel to make things easier to use, especially around gradients, gradient presets, and Color Variables. Gradient presets are now one click away in gradient mode. Switching between custom colors and Color Variables is more consistent across solid colors and gradient stops. You can now toggle between list and grid views when choosing a color variable for a gradient stop. It's also easier to see and change a custom color's format and copy its value. 150+ improvements and fixes Drop multiple images onto the Canvas and they'll arrange into a neat grid — or a masonry grid if they have different sizes. Right-click any fill, border, shadow, or text color to copy its value in popular formats, including SwiftUI. The "Replace with Symbol" action is back by popular demand. And we fixed over 100 bugs.

This update brings bug and crash fixes, plus all the great features from our Copenhagen release. Fixes - Fixes a bug that meant the Inspector showed an opacity field for text colors using color variables, which was different to every other instance of color variables. - Fixes a bug that stopped you from using number keys to position gradient stops. - Fixes a bug that meant the opacity of colors would reset to 0% or 100% if you entered incomplete or invalid hex values in the Inspector. - Fixes a crash which could happen when you dragged large images into Sketch. - Fixes a crash that could happen if there was no text content in your pasteboard when Sketch attempted to read it. - Fixes a crash that could happen when you double-clicked to renamer a layer in the Layer List with focus mode enabled. - Fixes a performance issue in documents containing hidden Symbol instances that no longer references a valid Symbol.

This update brings improvements and bug fixes, plus all the great features from our Copenhagen release. Improvements - When in Scale mode, the Layout section of the Inspector now shows a more relevant title to make it clear that you’re in this mode. We’ve also improved the UX with tooltips and avoided some text clipping. Fixes - Fixes a bug on macOS Tahoe versions before 26.2 that meant you couldn’t click on toolbar buttons on the sign-in screen. - Fixes a bug that stopped the document window controls from correctly responding to mouse hovering and clicks in some cases. - Fixes a bug that didn’t show when we limited the number of overrides in the Inspector for Symbol instances with a large number of overrides. We now show a **Show All** button to view all overrides in this case. - Fixes a bug where dragging export previews onto the canvas always inserted vector data. We now use the first export format in the order to decide whether we insert an image layer or vector data. - Fixes a bug where the Canvas would sometimes scroll unexpectedly when you edited text at certain zoom levels. - Fixes a bug that caused the wrong menu items to appear in the Text Styles contextual menu. - Fixes a bug that stopped the **Open in Library** option for Text Styles from working. - Fixes a bug where Copy SVG Code would generate SVG code with the wrong size. - Fixes a bug that meant the that traffic lights in Sketch’s window could become unresponsive in macOS Sequoia.

Improvements - Color hex fields in the Inspector now support CSS color names. We also support `clear` and `transparent`, which both render black at 0% opacity. Supported single characters also resolve to their full hex code. - You can now swap Text Styles for text layers that are part of a combined shape. - Toolbar items, especially in the Components view, have better contrast in dark mode for macOS Sequoia and earlier. Changes - Rename is now back in the context menus for both the layer list and the canvas. - Share options (AirDrop, Messages, share extensions, etc.) are back in the Export panel in the Inspector. - The export presets menu in the Inspector now once again includes the option to create a new preset. We’ve also tidied up this menu a bit. - Math operations now work similarly to how they did in Barcelona and earlier versions again. If you enter a position value beginning with a “-” or “+”, we’ll treat it as an absolute value for single selections. For multi-selections, we’ll treat it as a relative value (e.g. entering “+10” for a multi-selection will move the selection by 10”). Entering “!” no longer has any effect. - We now sort Symbol color overrides in three ways. First, by the number of times the color appears in the Symbol(s), with the most common colors at the top. Second, by the order the override appears in the Symbol source (usually the layer order). Finally, by the color description (usually its hex code). Fixes - Fixes a bug where exports you create by dragging image previews out of the Inspector would include the entire nested naming structure in their filename. It now correctly respects that nested structure by creating the relevant folders. - Fixes a bug where templates inside folders would no longer open a new copy when you double-clicked on them. - Fixes a bug that stopped the Reset Overrides button from appearing if you had selected a parent Symbol or nested text layer. - Fixes a bug that blocked you from changing the end cap style of dashed borders in closed shapes. - Fixes a bug that stopped you from using the Escape key to close the Rename Layers sheet. - Fixes a bug that meant dashed border settings did not apply individually to a multi-selection when you scrubbed the input fields. - Fixes a bug that incorrectly showed the option to add multiple shadows to groups (via the plus button, or duplicate/paste). Groups only support one shadow. - Fixes a bug where the JPEG file extension would differ depending on the export method you used. We now consistently export as .jpg. - Fixes a bug which stopped the Copy CSS Attributes option from working correctly in the Components view. - Fixes a bug that caused the Reset Overrides to disappear after you changed an interaction target on a Symbol instance. - Fixes a bug that meant you couldn’t use the native macOS color panel to change colors when you had an Inspector panel open. - Fixes a bug where the style picker would not always remember the style you applied to the current selection. - Fixes a bug that stopped the layer list in focus mode from expanding a frame when you selected a layer within it. - Fixes a bug that stopped the multi-layer rename dialog from being resizable. You can resize it once again, and it will remember its size. - Fixes a bug which meant active buttons in the toolbar would not respect your system accent color choice. - Fixes a bug where individual corner radii fields could appear blank. - Fixes a bug that stopped us from remembering last-used text between documents in all cases. - Fixes a bug where advanced border settings would not work in the Components view. - Fixes a bug that incorrectly disabled sizing controls for nested symbols within stack-based symbol instances. - Fixes a bug that caused export previews in the Inspector for SVG or PDF exports to look squashed. - Fixes a bug that meant we didn’t always recognize the first digit you entered in a text field for multi-selections.

This update brings performance improvements and bug fixes, plus all the great features from our Copenhagen release. - We’ve improved performance in the Inspector when you edit layers with Symbol overrides. - When you enter any value to an Inspector field with a math symbol (+ - % *) we’ll now treat that value as a math expression. For example, if a layer’s Y value is set to 10 and you enter -5, the Y value will become 5. To override this and set a negative value, add a ! to the end of the value (e.g. -5!). - The Artboard Manager plugin is incompatible with 2025.1 and above. - Fixes a bug that stopped sizing options from showing for lines within stacks. - Fixes a bug that meant you couldn’t set a negative spread for shadows by dragging the Inspector field. - Fixes a bug where segmented and toggle controls could behave unexpectedly when you reordered shadows in the Inspector. - Fixes a bug where the border position control was active for open paths, even though you can’t use it. - Fixes a crash that could occur if you quickly switched between the Components and Canvas views on a pre-Tahoe macOS version. - Fixes a bug where the minimap wouldn’t refresh immediately after you switched pages. - Fixes a bug that stopped the refresh data command in the Command Bar from working.

A new look for macOS Tahoe We’ve given Sketch a complete redesign for macOS Tahoe. It’s focused, consistent, and most importantly, more functional. There’s an all-new contextual toolbar, a cleaner layer list, and we’ve redrawn every single icon (over 600 of them). You’ll see a few subtle uses of Liquid Glass, too. An all-new Inspector We’ve redesigned and rebuilt the Inspector from scratch. Freely movable panels replace most of the previous popover menus. The new color panel makes variables more accessible. Inputs and sliders are easier to work with. Prototyping controls are now also in their own panel, rather than an Inspector tab. A more focused layer list A new, optional focus mode filters items in the Layer List to show only siblings and the parent container(s) of the layer(s) you’ve selected. It also collapses containers and groups automatically. There’s also new iconography and path lines to make Layer List cleaner and hierarchy easier to understand. Wrap for Stack layout You can now set items in a stack to wrap when their combined height (for vertical stacks) or width (for horizontal stacks) exceeds their container’s fixed dimensions. You can also choose how items that wrap align. Background removal You can now remove backgrounds from images using two new tools: one for images with objects in the foreground, and another for images with people. Both use Apple’s on-device, machine learning frameworks. Other improvements - You can now resize any layer to fill its parent with a new “Size to Fill” action. You’ll find this under the Layer Menu. You can also resize just the width or height to fit or fill — you’ll find options for these in the Width and Height submenus in the Layer menu. All of these actions are also available in the Command Bar. Finally, you can Option-double-click on a layer’s selection box to resize it to fill. - The Frame and Graphic tools now remember their own last-used dimensions separately. This makes it easier to click-to-insert different types of containers at consistent sizes. - When you add a stack layout to a single text layer, we now give the stack itself some padding and a fill color, giving you an instant button-like design. - You can now press [⇧]-Arrows to move a stack item to the start or end of the stack. - Opening a document is now up to 5x faster than it was previously. - We’ve improved the accuracy of spreading shadows on some complex shapes. - Frames that clip their contents now better prevent fills from bleeding through any foreground content around their edges. This applies unless a frame’s fill has a blend mode that suggests blending with other layers is intentional. - We’ve improved CSS export with support for size, visibility, and blend mode properties. Corner radius output now uses CSS shorthand when possible for cleaner code, and multi-layer copying includes layer names as comments for better organization. - We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when you open larger documents. - We’ve added Frame, Graphic, Slice, and Hotspot as filter options in the Layer List. We’ve also split the Symbol option into two: Source and Instance. - The “Hide All Grids And Layouts” action (available in the Command Bar) now hides grids and layouts in nested frames, not just top-level ones. There’s also now a menu item for this action under View > Canvas. - We’ve moved the Rotate Copies controls from a sheet to a panel, meaning you no longer have to decide how many copies to make in advance. Now you can tweak your rotated copies as much as you like. - You can now rotate layers by 90º via new buttons in the Inspector. Hold [⌥] and hover over the Flip Horizontally / Vertically buttons so they change to Rotate Left / Right. You’ll also find these actions in the Layer > Transform menu and the Command Bar.

This update improves Sketch’s performance with documents that contained especially complex shape groups.

This update brings performance improvements and bug fixes, plus all the great features from our Barcelona release. - We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when you open larger documents. - Fixed a macOS Tahoe bug that stopped you from removing a selected layer from your selection by shift-clicking on it.

This update brings performance improvements and bug fixes, plus all the great features from our Barcelona release. Improvements - We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when you open large documents. - The “Convert Groups to Frames” prompt is more accurate and will no longer suggest to convert groups inside graphics to frames. Fixes - Fixes a bug that caused Sketch to use excessive RAM in some complex documents. - Fixes a bug that caused Sketch to continue using system memory after you closed a document. - Fixes a crash that could occur when you used Command-arrow keys to pan to the extreme edges of content on the canvas. - Fixes a bug that stopped symbol instances set to Fill Width from shrinking in size with the parent stack layout. - Fixes a bug that caused Sketch to hang or slow down significantly when you made a secondary-click selection within larger symbol instances. - Fixes a bug that stopped Glass from appearing in some previews. - Fixes a bug where areas near a progressive background blur could appear pixelated when you zoomed in. - Fixes a bug in macOS Tahoe that made it impossible to drag Smart Distribute spacing handles on the canvas. - Fixes a bug in macOS Tahoe where dragging a layer could offset it from your cursor. - Fixes a bug where a frame you used as a mask could hide its contents. - Fixes a bug that caused an unexpected box to appear on the canvas when you dragged a stack.

This update brings improvements and bug fixes, plus all the great features from our Barcelona release. Improvements - We’ve made some small tweaks to the glass effect, making it more accurate with Apple’s iOS 26 implementation. - If you have switched off specular highlights for glass, we no longer blend any of its fills automatically, giving you full control over the blend modes you use. Changes - The option to open a Library in Settings > Libraries no longer appears when you don’t have the right permissions to open it. Fixes - Fixes a crash that could happen when you downloaded the iOS 26 UI Library, opened it and tried to select a page. - Fixes a bug where the “Preserve space when hidden” layout option would appear in the Inspector for nested symbols in scenarios where it doesn’t work.

→ Introducing: Glass This update brings a new glass effect to Sketch. Yes, the one you’ve been asking for. You’ll find it under a new Effects section of the Inspector, where you can apply automatic settings or tweak every parameter to your liking. → Concentric Corners You can now set a layer’s corners to Auto. This visually aligns them with the corners of the nearest container that has corner properties. We calculate this based on the layer’s distance to that container — or the container’s padding if it’s a stack. → Progressive Blurs In the Effects section of the Inspector, you’ll find new layer and background blur options. Choose from Uniform (previously Gaussian or Background), Linear Progressive, or Radial Progressive. Progressive blurs support multiple adjustable stops—like gradients—that you can move freely on the canvas. → New Apple UI Libraries Apple has updated their Sketch Libraries for both macOS 26 and iOS 26. You’ll find them in Settings > Libraries if you want to enable them. Improvements Styling - We’ve added a new button next to a layer’s opacity settings in the Inspector to switch to progressive alpha — giving you a faster and easier way to fade out a layer compared to setting up an alpha mask. - We’ve added menu and Command Bar items for changing a layer’s corner style, and resetting its corners to their default settings (Rounded, 0). - You can now use the eyedropper tool to add or change a page’s canvas color when you haven’t selected anything on the canvas. Libraries and components - We now automatically install updates for Libraries with unchanged license agreements, so you don’t need to accept the agreement again. - You can now add search keywords to any component in the Components View, giving you more control and better results wherever you search for components. - Nested Symbols now preserve their current dimensions when you swap them within a Symbol that has a stack layout. Performance - We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when you work with background blurs. - We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when rendering shadows on image layers. Workflow and UI - If you’ve disabled “Rename duplicated layers” in settings, we now respect your preference and no longer rename layers if they have exports. However, exporting layers with identical names may overwrite each other. - We now support the P3 color space when you export using the webp format. - We’ve added a menu item and shortcut ⌘6 to view Graphic Templates in the Components View. - Container titles on the canvas now dynamically adjust to contrast with dark or light canvas colors. Changes Blur types - The Gaussian Blur type is now called “Layer” and has three new options: Uniform Blur (previously Gaussian Blur), Linear Progressive Blur, and Radial Progressive Blur. - The Background Blur type is now simply “Background” and has three new options: Uniform Blur (previously Background Blur), Linear Progressive Blur, and Radial Progressive Blur. - We’ve adjusted the radius value for background blurs to better match current web standards. Existing background blurs have a new radius value but will appear the same.

Fixes a bug that meant it was possible to paste a symbol source inside an existing symbol source in some cases.

- We’ve updated how we convert Artboards to Frames — this happens when you open an older document after this update. If an Artboard didn’t have “Adjust content on resize” enabled, we’ll now set a fixed height and width for its contents, and pin them to the top-left corner. This preserves the previous behavior where resizing the Frame won’t proportionally affect the size or position of its contents. Important: This change does not affect documents that you have already opened in a previous Athens update. It only applies to older documents you open in v2025.1.3 or later. - Fixes a bug that meant it was possible to nest a Symbol source within another Symbol source when you moved layers within the Layer List. - Fixes a bug where editing a layer which uses borders and shadows (with no fills) could leave artifacts on the canvas. - Fixes a bug where layers you set to ignore stack layout would not respect their pins when you resizes containing stack on the canvas. - Fixes a bug that caused undo/redo actions to behave unexpectedly when you were working with layers within a stack. - Fixes a bug where changing a background blur to use only the saturation effect could still render it blurred.

In this update, we’ve changed how we convert Artboards to Frames. If an Artboard didn’t have “Adjust content on resize” enabled, we’ll now set a fixed height and width for its contents, and pin them to the top-left corner. This preserves the previous behavior where resizing the Frame won’t proportionally affect the size or position of its contents. This change does not affect documents that you have already opened in a previous Athens update. It only applies to older documents you open in v2025.1.2 or later.

This update includes bug and crash fixes, performance improvements for blurs, and brings tints to Layer Styles. It also includes all of the great new features we released with our Athens update — Stacks, Frames, Graphics, Command Bar updates, and more.

INTRODUCING: STACKS Yep, it’s finally here. This is an all-new layout tool in Sketch, with many of the features you’ve been asking for. If you know auto layout in Figma, or stacks in Framer, this is our take on it. With Stacks, you can create anything from buttons that grow or shrink with their labels, to complex nested layouts that adapt to container size or content. You can control a Stack’s size, padding, alignment, distribution, and styling. You can choose if its items have a different alignment, fill all available space, or ignore layout altogether. And that’s just the start. NEW CONTAINERS: FRAMES & GRAPHICS We’ve added two new container types to Sketch — Frames and Graphics. Frames replace artboards with support for nesting and styling with multiple properties. You can add resizing constraints to their contents, or apply a stack layout, making them ideal for UI design. Graphics have a fixed size like frames, but their contents resize proportionally, so they’re great for designing icons and other graphical elements. You can still use groups in both frames or graphics, as a simple way to organize and keep layers together. COMPONENTS IN THE COMMAND BAR You can now find and insert Symbols (Y), Text Styles (⌃T), Layer Styles, Color Variables, and templates from the Command Bar (⌘K). You can also replace any component you’ve selected with ⌥⌘R. We’ve improved Symbol thumbnails with customizable dark or light backgrounds, added rich previews for other component types, and introduced new keyboard shortcuts to quickly drill down through your Libraries. NEW COMPONENT SWAPPING UI We’ve replaced the Inspector menus for swapping Components with a new popover inspired by the Command Bar. It shows more useful information (like alignment for Text Styles), has keyboard shortcuts to navigate Libraries faster, snappy search, and more. There are also buttons (and shortcuts) to open the Command Bar for larger previews, preserve current Symbol dimensions (⌘P), and hide nested Symbols (⇧⌘H). AND SO MUCH MORE This is likely our biggest update to Sketch ever. Alongside these features, there are over 100 related improvements, changes, and fixes — all there to make for a better Sketch.

This release fixes a bug which could cause unintended data to appear in internal crash logs. We recommend you update to this version of Sketch as soon as possible.

This release fixes a bug where documents with lots of text layers would cause Sketch to slow down and use a lot of system memory. It also fixes a bug that caused Symbols to disappear or change unexpectedly in the web app when you saved a new version of your document. Thanks for reporting these!

This release fixes some bugs and crashes you’ve been telling us about — thanks for your reports!

This release contains a number of bug and crash fixes that you’ve been telling us about. Thanks for your reports!

Bug Fixes This release includes all the great new features we just shipped (Smart Animate, better PDF exports, Spanish localization, easy Library swaps, and more…) along with a few important bug fixes that you’ve reported. Thanks for all your feedback! What's fixed - Fixes a bug that stopped overrides for hidden layers with custom layer visibility inside a Symbol from showing in the Inspector. This fix brings back the previous behavior, showing overrides for those hidden layers where you have set a custom layer visibility for Prototyping interactions. - Fixes a bug that caused contents of the Recent Documents view in the Workspace window to reset every time you relaunched Sketch. - Fixes a bug that caused some Symbol overrides, Layer Styles and Color Variables to disappear if you copied and pasted that Symbol into another document.