articy:draft X - Version 4.3.16.43676

Released: 2026-09-15

General

• Fixed: "Add..." action for strips is now disabled if object is not claimed.

API

• Fixed: ApiSession.Repartition() now correctly applies SCMCommitMessage argument if executed in background thread or non-interactively.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.15.43596

Released: 2026-08-25

MDK

• Fixed: Adding the first element to a strip property is now possible.
• Fixed: Removed redundant callback to IsObjectCreationAllowed.
• Improved: You can add a commit message to the Repartitioning operation.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.14.43440

Released: 2026-07-06

General

• Added: Elements can now be added to Strips via a menu.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.13.43402

Released: 2026-06-18

General

• Fixed: Problem with Rulesets where a state "include self, but exclude children" was not properly propagated to children containers.

MDK

• Fixed: The ObjectSelectorDialog object was placed in the wrong namespace, which was fixed. This might be a breaking change for your plugins.
• Improved: Added functionality to create and modify Rulesets from code. Usage sample can be found here.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.12.43387

Released: 2026-06-12

API

• Fixed: Crash when loading a project, because of a problem with the SystemFolderNames.ProjectSettings value.

MDK

• Fixed: Renamed the SystemFolderNames entry Settings to ProjectSettings, because of a System Folder lookup problem.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.11.43381

Released: 2026-06-11

General

• Fixed: Template properties that are excluded from the data layout of a ruleset will actually be excluded from the export.
• Fixed: Export settings were not properly cleared when opening another project and therefore "bleeding" into the other project.
• Fixed: Handling of Plugin Settings view to also write back its data when submitting the settings partition, not only when the view was changed.
• Improved: Mouse wheel support when scrolling packages in rulesets.

Multi-User

• Fixed: Bug where Partition state icons in the navigator were not properly updated . (e.g when the update was triggered from a background worker thread).
• Improved: SCM command handling. Added bulk operations when (re-)loading a project, improving load time and SCM load processing.
• Improved: Perforce logging with timing and call thread information. Using p4.ResultDumpLimit can be used to limit the number of result records that will be dumped. (Either from command-line or Clientsettings.xml file)

API

• Improved: Added the version of the API to the log output, not only the version of the using API program.

MDK

• Improved: Added ImportAssets Bulk operation.
• Improved: Added smart bulk update of multiple partitions when calling UpdatePartitions.
• Improved: Added IsPartitionUpdateAvailable method to check if a single partition has updates.
• Improved: Added GetPartitionsWithUpdates method to bulk check which partition has updates.
• Improved: The settings folder is now also available as ObjectProxy. This fixes that ValidatePublishing gets a null partition root when submitting the settings partition.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.10.43296

Released: 2026-04-14

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.9.43256

Released: 2026-04-14

General

• Fixed: A regression bug in object enumeration that affected many areas of articy:draft X has been fixed, most notably the XML export and repartitioning.
• Improved: Added some code to work around an input lag problem on the Rich-Text Boxes that appeared on some system. This code is enabled by default, as it should not cause any problems on unaffected systems, but can be disabled with the command-switch -ui.disableaffinityfix

Exports

• Fixed: The VoiceOverReference of the LocalizedString tag in the XML export did not properly state the target asset Id. This was fixed.
• Improved: Improved the calculation of "script fragment hashes" for Rule Set based (Engine) exports. If the same expression was moved from one pin to another, this was not properly detected as a change in the engine plugins.

Multi-User

• Improved: The Perforce SCM connector now fails a command with an exception in case the ticket has expired while running articy:draft X. Please close and re-open the project when this error is thrown.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.8.43224

Released: 2026-03-30

General

• Fixed: Multi-branch context menus did not show type options.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.7.43216

Released: 2026-03-26

General

• Fixed: Consistent default type selection in context menus to set context sensitive default object to create.

MDK / API

• Enhancement: DiscardProject and DiscardPartitions functions now allow plugins to discard changes and keep or release claims.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.5.43178

Released: 2026-03-03

General

• Fixed: Crash in the FREE version, if trying to start a presentation when the project was in locked state, because of the exhausted object limits.
• Improved: "Smart Create" (Shift + Ctrl + 1 /  +  + 1) now also alternates the assigned templates if the Dialogue Fragments with the alternating speaker have different ones.

Multi-User

• Fixed: The Multi-Partition selector used in "Discard and unclaim" and "Publish multiple partitions" now disables the OK button when no partition is selected.
• Fixed: Problem when replacing an asset file from a source with the same name, but other content as the existing one.
• Improved: "Discard and unclaim" command's availability and behavior in some edge cases.
• Improved: Thread safety for Multi-User locks. This fixes a problem where sometimes opening a project was aborted with an unexpected error.

MDK / API

• Fixed: Typo on an exposed method. ChangesAssets was renamed to the proper ChangeAssets. The old one is still available for backward compatibility, but should be replaced, because it will be removed in the future.

Plugins

• Updated: AI Extensions updated to current ChatGPT models. Updated code to use the official OpenAI Libraries.
• Fixed: A problem in LocaImportExport that broke writing of the "-skipped" Excel file.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.4.43125

Released: 2026-02-09

General

• Fixed: "Discard and Unclaim" feature now releases locks on SCM side.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.3.43114

Released: 2026-02-03

General

• Fixed: Ensured that the progress bar reaches 100% when loading the project and the loading dialog does not auto close (e.g when the user opens the messages).
• Fixed: Problems with updates in Plugin Manager dialog. Number of updates was not updated properly, installing one update cleared the download button for all others too.
• Fixed: Bug that created a visual problem when the "Show template information" was enabled and a template/feature was changed. This did not update any open Property sheets accordingly.

Multi-User

• Enhanced: Better handling of progress of Sync/Submit commands for Perforce.
• Fixed: "Import Project" command which copied assigned users from the source project if that project was existing on the server, where the new, imported project was created.
• Added: Added new Action "Discard and Unclaim" for a single partition and the whole project.

articy:server

• Added: More database logging for Claim/Unclaim operation events.
• Fixed: Possible race condition of project opening and claiming a partition.
• Fixed: Starting the server now checks if the server has a non-zero server GUID and creates one if not.

MDK / API

• Fixed: Problem that the Project Root object did not properly report its system folder children.

Plugins

• Fixed: Problem with AssetToEntities plugin when it was enabled and the global plugin menu including the Plugin Manager dialog was opened.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.2.43060

Released: 2026-01-05

General

• Fixed: Crash that could happen when tying to get a tooltip of an object.
• Changed: Reversed '-nortbfix' to be turned on by default and renamed it to '-ui.affinityfix'. This should improve the performance issues for those with heavy lag problems.

Multi-User

• Fixed: Crash that could happen when tying to get a tooltip of an object.
• Fixed: Upon closing a project, locally deleted asset files are no longer removed physically if the containing partition is still claimed. When using SVN this was not a problem because SVN would restore those files, Perforce would not do that.

articy:server

• Fixed: Problem that a new server did not always get its own Server GUID.

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.1.43035

Released: 2025-12-09

articy:draft X - Multi-User

• Fixed: Instabilities and crashes

articy:draft X - Version 4.3.0.43010

Released: 2025-11-25

New NuGet.API package: 4.3.0
New NuGet.MDK package: 2.3.2

articy:draft X - Client

• Fixed: Audio Control now no longer holds a file lock in certain scenarios
• Fixed: Stable / deterministic floating point serialization & persistence to avoid accidental project changes

articy:draft X - Localization Import/Export Plugin

• Fixed: Voice Over importer defaults to "Assets" system folder as import target
• Fixed: Voice Over importer UI correctly displays selected target folder
• Fixed: Voice Over importer overrides existing assets on import instead of duplicating them

articy:draft X - MDK

• Fixed: Inconsistencies in the Text related MDK Callbacks
• Fixed: Property-changed callbacks now handle Undo/Redo changes of first edits in multi-language text correctly
• Enhanced: Property-changed callback API now allows to react to a plethora of property changes

Older versions

Version 4.2
Version 4.1
Version 4.0