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title: "4.17.0 macOS"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ERN/678821895/4.17.0%20macOS"
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Release Notes 25.03.2026


## **Improvements **

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- **Light Management: **Improved light clustering behavior in orthographic view, ensuring lights group and separate more predictably when zooming and navigating the scene.
- **Visual Settings: **Presets panel is now expanded by default.


## **Fixed Bugs **

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- **Cloud Licensing: **Fixed Cloud licensing reliability in secured corporate networks, reducing connection issues when obtaining a license.
- **SketchUp: **Fixed an issue where Enscape would temporarily show duplicates of entities that didn’t actually exist.
- **SketchUp: **Fixed a case where wrong textures were shown with materials upgraded from SketchUp 2024 to 2025 and newer.
- **SketchUp: **Fixed a bug that would cause batch rendering of panoramas to fail.
- **View Management:** Allow for the update of the name to be properly executed before we save.
- **Renderer:** Fixed a very rare freeze when opening another Enscape window while the main Enscape window is loading.
- **Renderer: **Fixed grass disappearing while still being in viewport.
- **Renderer:** Reduced aggressive Level of detail for smaller globe plant assets.
- **Renderer:** Missing grass in captures in case multiple, large surfaces with grass material were stacked on top of each other.
- **Renderer: **Fixed light reflection visibility not handling clearcoat materials.
- **Renderer: **Fixed an issue where the sky can appear pixelated in video previews and exports.
- **Renderer: **Fixed disappearing Billboard geometry when camera moved very close.
- **Asset Library: **Improved performance when placing assets in old asset placement modes.
- **Material Editor: **Fixed feedback button in the AI Material Generator not working.
- **V-Ray Scene export:** Enscape produced large V-Ray scene files due to duplicating the geometry of asset instances.
- **Asset Library: **Fixed Enscape hanging on shutdown when assets were still selected.
- **Licensing: **Updated License overlays for Error -200.


## **Known Issues **

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- **Vectorworks: **A problem where self-referencing design layers are not rendering assets.
- **Asset Library:** Enscape could freeze when repeatedly pressing the Asset Library hotkey
- **Light Management - Archicad: **In Archicad, changing a light name will not update it in the Light Management window. On restart of Enscape, the new name will be shown.