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title: "4.18.1 macOS"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ERN/856752180/4.18.1%20macOS"
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Release Notes 27.05.2026


## **Improvements**

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- **New Interface Design: **Enscape’s interface has been updated with a cleaner, more modern design, improving visual consistency while keeping your workflow familiar and intuitive.
- **Chaos Notification Center: **Stay informed directly within Enscape with in-app notifications for tips, feature updates, and important messages, now accessible through a dedicated notification inbox.
- **Complex Scene Support:** Improved scalability by removing the 2GB scene size limitation, allowing Enscape to handle larger and more complex projects without serialization-related crashes.
- **Improved Asset Brush Placement Speed:** Placing assets is now significantly faster and more stable.
- **Consistent Light Clustering:** Light management now uses the same clustering algorithm whether you are viewing all lights or only visible lights, providing a more consistent and predictable user experience.
- **Intuitive Asset Scaling:** The scaling gizmo is now more intuitive. Scaling along the X and Z axes now correctly corresponds to the direction you move your mouse, regardless of the gizmo's orientation.
- **Help Panel:** The mode-specific tab is now selected automatically when a GUI mode is activated or changed.
- **AI Enhancer:** The AI Enhancer feature is no longer in beta.
- **Grass:** Smoother transition between detailed grass and LOD grass, reducing visible cut-offs especially in orthographic views.
- **Scene Export:** The enabled/disabled property of lights is now included when exporting .vrscene files.
- **Security Update:** Updated log4net due to a vulnerability issue in 3.2.0.


## **Fixed Bugs**

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- **SketchUp: **Fixed an issue where GUI elements would not display correctly when switching between active documents.
- **Light Management: **Resolved a bug where lights positioned behind other objects would briefly appear when opening the Light Management window.
- **Asset Library: **Fixed an issue where Enscape could freeze if the Asset Library hotkey was pressed repeatedly.
- **Asset Library: **Fixed CAD focus issue when placing assets.
- **Asset Library:** Fixed an issue where Enscape would keep showing the same message and never close if the CAD was closed during multi-asset placement.
- **Material Editor**: Fixed Material Editor not always updating Height Map Type when changing materials
- **Material Editor**: Fix Material Editor UI getting stuck when the current material cannot be saved.
- **Material Editor**: Fixed Material Editor exporting materials with `.matpkg.matpkg` file extension.
- **Custom Asset Library:** Fix custom asset gets corrupted when saving fails due to file access permissions.
- **Renderer:** Fixed Enscape window going blank after restoring state in certain conditions.
- **Vectorworks:** Fixed asset creation is affected by the active working plane of the project in Vectorworks 2026.
- **Vectorworks:** Fixed an issue where Vectorworks plugin registration could fail during Enscape installation on macOS Tahoe 26.4.
- **Archicad:** Fixed Archicad 26 being incorrectly listed as a supported version in the Enscape preview.
- **Ray Tracing:** Fixed ray-traced artificial lighting not working properly with clearcoat materials when using ReSTIR.
- **Veras:** Fixed Veras File Save Dialog omitting file extension in certain conditions.


## **Known Issues**

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- **Light Management:** Light icons can sometimes appear incorrectly in the viewport.