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title: "4.18.2 LTS macOS"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ERN/1109032964/4.18.2%20LTS%20macOS"
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Release Notes 24.06.2026


## **Improvements**

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- **New Interface Design:** Enscape's interface has been rebuilt on the Chaos design system, giving a cleaner and more modern look while keeping your workflow familiar and consistent with the rest of the Chaos family.
- **Chaos Notification Center:** Stay informed directly within Enscape with in-app notifications for tips, feature updates and important messages, reachable from a dedicated inbox in the renderer toolbar. Notifications can be snoozed for an hour or until the next day, and the old update popup has been retired.
- **Complex Scene Support:** Removed the 2 GB scene size limitation, so Enscape can handle larger and more complex projects without serialization-related crashes.
- **Improved Asset Brush Placement Speed:** Placing assets with the brush is now significantly faster and more stable.
- **Asset Brush Distribution:** Assets are now distributed more uniformly during brush placement, and density is handled correctly when overlap is allowed at maximum density.
- **Help Panel:** The mode-specific tab is now selected automatically when a GUI mode is activated or changed.
- **Grass:** Smoother transition between detailed grass and LOD grass, reducing visible cut-offs especially in orthographic views.
- **Scene Export:** The enabled and disabled state of lights is now included when exporting .vrscene files, so lights you switched off stay off in the exported scene.
- **Asset Library:** Enscape now finds the correct Cosmos Browser instance on shared machines, so the Asset Library connects reliably when several users are logged in.
- **Chaos Cloud:** Uploads now correctly handle scenes with textures that use Unicode characters.
- **Security Update:** Updated log4net due to a vulnerability issue in 3.2.0.
- **AI Enhancer:** The AI Enhancer feature is no longer in beta.
- **Chaos Notification Center:** Toasts and modals no longer appear while the notification inbox is open, so they cannot interrupt you while you are reading.
- **Chaos License Server:** Updated to 6.3.1, adding a native macOS builds of the License Server.
- **Chaos Unified Login:** Fixed the “database is locked” error when several Chaos applications register at the same time.
- **Chaos Unified Login:** Native macOS builds of Unified Login.
- **Scene Export:** Improved the speed of the full scene export.
- **Localization:** Refreshed the Enscape and Notification Center translations.


## **Fixed Bugs**

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- **Light Management:** Fixed lights positioned behind geometry briefly appearing when opening the Light Management window.
- **Asset Library:** Fixed Enscape freezing when the Asset Library hotkey was pressed repeatedly.
- **Asset Library:** Fixed the CAD not regaining focus when hiding the ongoing placement window.
- **Material Editor:** Fixed the Material Editor not always updating the Height Map Type when changing materials.
- **Material Editor:** Fixed the Material Editor UI becoming stuck when the current material cannot be saved.
- **Material Editor:** Fixed the Material Editor exporting materials with a .matpkg.matpkg file extension.
- **Custom Asset Library:** Fixed custom assets becoming corrupted when saving failed due to file access permissions.
- **Ray Tracing:** Fixed ray-traced artificial lighting not working properly with clearcoat materials when using ReSTIR.
- **Telemetry:** Fixed the “Learn More” link on the Telemetry page not opening the help page.
- **Veras:** Fixed the Veras file save dialog omitting the file extension in certain conditions.
- **Light Management:** Fixed light clusters closing when selecting lights after a manual expansion.
- **Vectorworks:** Fixed asset creation being affected by the active working plane of the project in Vectorworks 2026.
- **SketchUp:** Fixed GUI modes not working correctly when switching the active document.
- **Renderer:** Fixed the Enscape window going blank after restoring state in certain conditions.
- **Asset Library:** Fixed Enscape repeatedly showing the same message and never closing if the CAD was closed during multi-asset placement.
- **Vectorworks:** Fixed Vectorworks plugin registration failing during Enscape installation on macOS Tahoe 26.4.
- **Rhino:** Fixed symbolic links in file paths not being automatically resolved.
- **Stability:** Fixed exceptions being incorrectly turned into generic IPC serialization errors.
- **Visual Settings:** Fixed a crash when opening Visual Settings or the Video Editor.
- **In-App Prompts:** Fixed Veras and Envision prompts not being permanently dismissible.
- **Batch Rendering:** Fixed a crash when canceling batch rendering while Light Management was active.