What’s New

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.

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.

Libraries

• The option to open a Library in Settings > Libraries no longer appears when you don’t have the right permissions to open it.

Export and rendering

• Fixes a bug where exporting a Frame might ignore fills on Symbol sources nested inside that Frame.
• Fixes a bug that could leave artifacts on the canvas when you edited layers inside a Frame that uses Zoom blur.
• Fixes a bug where, in some cases, a shadow on a group wouldn’t appear if the group only contained a blurred layer.
• Fixes a bug where a shadow on an image layer could clip unexpectedly.

Layer and symbol behavior

• Fixes a bug where the Data button wouldn’t work when you selected an individual text override.
• Fixes a bug that unexpectedly reparented nested Frames within other Frames in your selection as you dragged your selection on the canvas.
• Fixes a bug where a Symbol instance you set as an alpha mask would switch to being an outline mask if you used it as part of another Symbol.
• Fixes a bug that caused the Clip Content setting to change unexpectedly when converting a frame into a Symbol.
• 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.

Performance and stability

• Fixes a bug where extremely complex masks or boolean ops could cause Sketch to hang.
• Fixes a crash that could occur when you replaced the image in an image layer.
• Fixes a bug in macOS Tahoe where the Settings window could become unresponsive.
• Fixes a crash in macOS Tahoe that could occur when you pressed Esc while drawing a layer.
• Fixes a bug in macOS Tahoe that stopped the comment popover from opening when you clicked on a comment pin on the canvas.
• 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 which caused Sketch to hang if you selected a layer that was positioned at an extreme coordinate.

Tools and Canvas

• Fixes a bug where you couldn’t copy and paste a blur style.
• Fixes a bug that meant the Scale (K) tool did not remember the origin point you set the next time you used it.
• Fixes a bug that meant a custom canvas color wouldn’t appear in the canvas view of the iOS app.
• Fixes a bug in macOS Tahoe that made drawing a selection on the canvas unreliable.
• Fixes a bug that meant removing blurs on multiple layers only removed the blur from a single layer, rather than the whole selection.

For a full guide to the API changes in this release, check out our developer documentation.

New additions

• Introduces new ways of interacting with Frames.
• You can now pass ExportFormats (e.g. from Layer.exportFormats) directly to sketch.export().
• The Selection.filter method is now available on Document.selectedLayers and Page.selectedLayers arrays.
• Adds a run-script command for sketchtool that enables quick code execution without needing to have a full plugin bundle on disk.
• Adds an option for case-insensitive search in sketch.find().
• Adds an option for inclusive search in sketch.find().
• Adds support for concentric corners.
• Adds a Blur.saturation property for background blurs.
• Adds the blendingMode property for individual Style components, including fills, borders, and shadows.
• Adds two missing blending mode values to Style.BlendingMode: Plus Darker and Plus Lighter.
• Adds support for Stacks.
• Adds support for progressive blurs.
• Adds ImageData.base64 property for quick access to base64-encoded image data.
• Adds Frame and Graphic search type predicates to find().
• Adds an Override.defaultValue property.
• Adds Style.tint property for Groups.
• Adds APIs to interact with Masks and masked layers.
• Adds Style.progressiveAlpha to control Progressive Alpha.
• Adds ShapePath.edited property that make it clear if a ShapePath has been edited or not.

Changes and fixes

• Reinstates the sketchtool run command, which became unavailable in 2025.1.
• Replaces the SymbolMaster.fromArtboard() function with SymbolMaster.fromFrame().
• Fixes the Style.blurs property setter.
• Fixes an issue that could add an unexpected background fill to some Groups.
• Fixes a bug where Override.value would return an invalid value for a color override.
• Fixes a bug that stopped changes to a Symbol’s hidden properties from being reflected immediately in images generated by sketch.export.
• Fixes a bug that stopped changes to Symbol overrides from being reflected immediately in images generated by sketch.export.
• Fixes Flow.target getter returning undefined instead of Flow.BackTarget for back actions.