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CE.SDK v1.76 Release Notes

Neslihan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:17:25 GMT

With this release, the mobile video timeline gets a meaningful upgrade, background removal comes to Android, and a set of engine improvements tighten text, shape, and font-size handling across platforms.

Let’s jump in!

Edit Multi-Clip Timelines on iOS and Android

The mobile video timeline now supports multiple clips per foreground track. Long-press any clip to drag it within a track, across tracks, or into a gap to create a new track. Split, trim, and move are all gap-aware and respect locked clips.

For your product, this means: users can manage their video edit the way they’d expect — organizing clips in a single track instead of working around single-clip limitations.

→ Video Editor Starter Kit – iOS
→ Video Timeline Docs – iOS

→ Video Editor Starter Kit – Android
→ Video Timeline Docs – Android

Remove Backgrounds on Android

The Background Removal plugin is now available for Android. Users can remove backgrounds from images directly in the editor, without leaving the app or sending images to an external server.

For your product, this means: Android users get the same background removal capability that was already available on web, closing a gap for teams building cross-platform photo editing experiences. Users stay in your app for design tasks.

→ Android Background Removal Docs

New Plugin: Turn PDFs into Editable Designs

A new plugin and demo lets you import PDF documents directly into CE.SDK and turn them into fully editable designs.

With that, users can bring existing PDF assets into your editor without rebuilding them from scratch, opening up workflows around template reuse, document personalization, and print editing.

→ Try the Demo

Improvements

Set Font Sizes in Pixels or Points
v1.76 adds per-scene font-size unit control. Choose pixels or points for a scene, and CE.SDK font-size APIs and editor UI follow that unit across all platforms.

Set Different Line Spacing Per Paragraph
Each paragraph in a text block can now have its own line spacing, instead of every paragraph sharing the same setting.

Add Precise Strokes to Texts

Style text outlines down to the last detail! The same controls you’d expect on any shape, now on text and captions too.

Tweak stroke position (inner, outer, center), dash patterns, cap styles, and corner joins directly on text and caption blocks.
→ Text Effects Docs

Draw Better Lines
Lines are now true line shapes. You can control how the ends of lines and dashes are styled (round, flat, or square), instead of working around lines behaving like thin rectangles.

Control Where Images Sit Inside a Block
New APIs let you control how image fills align inside a block when using Contain or Cover fill modes. Useful for templates where the inserted image’s aspect ratio is unknown. Also available for cropping in the web editor.

Changelog

v1.76 includes a significant number of improvements across platforms. See the full changelog for the complete list.

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CE.SDK v1.75 Release Notes

Neslihan — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:18:08 GMT

v1.75 is an engine release. Four new capabilities across media support, color workflows and smarter canvas and selection behaviors.

Let’s dive in!

Import Animated PNGs

CE.SDK now supports APNG import. Animated PNG files load and behave in line with GIF import, giving you a second animated format to work with in your editor.

→ Supported File Formats Docs

Pull Dominant Colors from Images on the Canvas

The engine can now extract the most prominent colors from an image already placed on the canvas. The data is available programmatically, ready to feed into palette suggestions.

→ Colors in CE.SDK Docs

Control How Far Elements Can Move

Define how far elements can be dragged beyond a page or parent boundary. This is now fairly simple with new movement constraint APIs.

Allow partial overflow where it makes sense while keeping content inside the intended editable area everywhere else.

This means more precise control over template behavior. Useful for any use case where content boundaries need to be enforced.

→ Movement Constraints API Docs

Improvements

Reach Elements Hidden Behind Transparent Images

Clicks now pass through transparent image areas to the element underneath. Selecting stacked elements just got easier.

Instead of selecting the top image, the click passes through to the element below. Now, users can reach and select elements from overlapping images without trouble.

Changelog

v1.75 includes bug fixes across the engine, web, iOS, and Android. See the full changelog for the complete list.

CE.SDK Release Notes v1.74

Neslihan — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:53:50 GMT

v1.74 is a web-focused release. Color and Gradient editing gets a full rebuild, closing gaps with popular editors. And PDF export takes a meaningful step forward for professional print workflows.

Edit Gradients with Full Control

The color input system in the web editor has been rebuilt. The user-facing result: gradient editing now works the way you’d expect it to.

Create and edit linear, radial, and conical gradients
Add and remove gradient colors, and switch between gradient types without losing the colors. Color picking now works consistently across all contexts: fill, stroke, shadow, and text.

Build and refine complex gradients entirely within your editor, without relying on external tools.

→ Explore Gradients Documentation

Export Print-Ready PDFs Without Extra Steps

Professional print workflows have a high bar for color fidelity. v1.74 raises CE.SDK’s output to meet it.

Spot colors are written as device CMYK in the exported file, matching what professional print pipelines expect.
Overprint on text is preserved correctly.
You can now opt out of ICC profile embedding in the print-ready PDF plugin when your workflow doesn’t need it.

Take exported PDFs directly into production with less manual intervention, making CE.SDK a stronger fit for workflows where color fidelity is a real purchasing factor.

→ Print-Ready PDF Plugin Documentation
→ Export to PDF Documentation

Improvements

Edit Vectors with Precision

Vector editing now feels more precise and easier to control, with better bend handles, live corner rounding, mirrored handles for new points on curved paths, new anchor snapping, and clearer tooltips throughout the editing flow.

Align Elements with Snapping Guides

Snapping guides have been refined to better show what is being aligned, using bounded guide segments, clearer visual distinctions, and new anchor-to-anchor feedback, making object placement and path editing more predictable and easier to understand.

Developer Experience

Web Demos Are Now Starter Kits

Every web demo is now a Starter Kit. That means 46 fully-fledged, clonable app templates. Starter Kits are production-ready configurations complete with the toolbars, behaviors, and workflows a real product needs.

Clone it, run it, build from there.

Whether you need the core Design, Photo, and Video Editors (and their powerhouse Advanced variants), specialized industry kits for Apparel, or AI-optimized workflows for generative assets, there is now a clonable app for every use case.

→ Explore Web Editor Demos
→ Starter Kit Documentation

Changelog

v1.74 includes fixes across the engine and web editor. See the full changelog for the complete list.

CE.SDK v1.73 Release Notes

Neslihan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:29:35 GMT

v1.73 is a mobile-focused release. The main act is our new architectural foundation for iOS and Android: Starter Kits give you full ownership of your editor configuration. On the engine side, CE.SDK now supports SVG export across all platforms.

Own Your Mobile Editor — Not Just the Config

The old model was simple: drop in a solution component (PhotoEditor, VideoEditor, DesignEditor), pass a license key, ship. For most teams, that was exactly the right starting point. Fast to integrate, zero configuration overhead, a full editor running in your app within hours.

As products matured, though, teams needed more. Deeper customization. Granular control over behaviors. An editor that felt like theirs.

That’s what Starter Kits for Mobile addresses.

The prebuilt solution components are replaced by a single Editor entry point and a set of Starter Kits: complete, working editor projects for each use case that live in your codebase, not ours. Set it up in minutes.

For your product, this means: you can adapt the editor to fit your product, not the other way around.

Everything Is In Your Code Now
Each Starter Kit is a real editor project — not a thin config wrapper. Every toolbar item, every callback, every loading phase is written out explicitly in files you own.

That means your team can read the integration, review changes to it, and understand exactly what the editor does and why. No more hunting through SDK internals to figure out why something behaves the way it does.

SDK Updates Stop Touching Your UI
Previously, updating CE.SDK could introduce new buttons, changed defaults, or different menus without you asking for them. Your QA had to catch it.

That dynamic is reversed now. Engine improvements, bug fixes, and performance gains come through updates as before. But your editor UI stays exactly where you left it. New features arrive as optional building blocks, documented and ready when you want them.

No More Customization Ceiling
The old configuration APIs had a line between what you could change and what you couldn’t. Starter Kits remove that line entirely. You can restructure initialization, inject custom logic between loading phases, and build workflows specific to your product.

If you can see it in the code, you can change it.

If none of the five kits match your needs, the Editor view accepts raw configuration directly.

Migration

This is a breaking change on both iOS and Android. Migration guides cover every change with before-and-after examples.

→ Android Migration Guide
→ iOS Migration Guide

Starter Kit Repositories

Editor	iOS (Swift)	Android (Kotlin)
Photo	GitHub	GitHub
Design	GitHub	GitHub
Video	GitHub	GitHub
Postcard	GitHub	GitHub
Apparel	GitHub	GitHub

Export Vector Designs as SVG

Until now, users working with vector content in CE.SDK had no path to get that content out as a vector file. CE.SDK v1.73 adds SVG export via the image/svg+xml MIME type.

Text is exported as vector paths for consistent rendering across environments regardless of font availability. Drop shadows, blur, effects, and embedded raster images are rasterized and included as embedded images within the SVG output.

→ Exporting Blocks Engine Guide

Changelog

See the full changelog for the complete list.

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CE.SDK v1.72 Release Notes

Neslihan — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:47:49 GMT

CE.SDK v1.72 is a massive design and creative capabilities release: Edit vector paths in your web editor. Generate AI images on mobile. Record voiceovers on iOS and Android, and format text with lists, underline, and strikethrough across every platform. Design and video scenes unify into a single editing surface on Web.

Let’s take a look!

Edit Vectors with Precision on the Web

CE.SDK now lets users edit any shape at the path level.

Select a shape and enter Edit Path mode. Manipulate individual anchor points and curves. Move nodes, bend segments, add or remove points. Lastly, apply fills, gradients, and colors.

In this example, we build our figure from a simple polygon shape:

Build custom icons, illustrations and detailed layouts directly in the web editor, without leaving your app.

→ Explore Vector Path Editing Documentation

Design and Video Editing In One Editor

Web users can now work across design and video in a single scene. Everything you can do in design mode, you can do in video mode too.

For your product, this means a simpler, more coherent editing experience for users who work across both formats.

Note: The feature toggle shown in the video is coming to our demos soon. It is not part of the default CE.SDK setup.

→ Visit CE.SDK 1.72 Migration Guide

Generate AI Images on Android and iOS

The AI image generation plugin now ships on iOS and Android.

This is the first mobile AI plugin for CE.SDK. Users can generate images directly inside the mobile editor through custom plugin panels, without leaving the creative workflow.

For your product, this means: you can now deliver AI-powered creative features on mobile with the same plugin architecture already available on web. One capability, every platform.

→ Try Android Mobile Demo
→ Try iOS Mobile Demo

Record Voice-Overs on Android & iOS

Tell your story by giving your videos a voice. iOS and Android users can now record their voice directly over video clips.

Layer multiple voiceover tracks on the timeline. Perfect to record engaging videos, like creators work in TikTok and Reels.

→ Try Android Mobile Demo
→ Try iOS Mobile Demo

Decorate Text On All Platforms

Updates for text editing land simultaneously across platforms:

Use Bullet and Numbered Lists to structure text with ordered and unordered lists. Underline and strike text, including custom underline colors.

Improvements

Rename Pages with Double Click
Web users can now rename pages directly on the canvas with a double click, without navigating to a separate settings panel.

Place Elements Anywhere with Infinite Canvas
Web Users can now place elements outside page boundaries. The canvas extends beyond the page, giving users a flexible workspace to park assets, build off-canvas elements. Work more freely without being constrained to the page frame.

Changelog

See the full list of fixes and breaking changes in the v1.72.0 Changelog and 1.72.0 Migration Guide.

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CE.SDK v1.71 Release Notes

Neslihan — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:37:43 GMT

v1.71 is a design capabilities release. Animations arrive on iOS, completing motion design across every platform. The web editor gets free layout mode. Variable fonts land across all platforms.

Let’s dive in!

Add Animations to Your iOS Video Editor

Add dynamic motion to your text and design elements with CE.SDK for iOS. Our Animations for design blocks (images, shapes, stickers) come with a comprehensive library. This release also ships with a sleek UI.

Comprehensive Animation Library
Access a full suite of in, out, and loop animations—mirroring the capabilities of our animation for Web and Android.

Tailored Motion Controls
Fine-tune animations like duration, easing, direction, and more.

→ iOS Animation Documentation
→ Try the iOS Video Editor Demo
→ Download the iOS Demo App

Design Multi-Format Scenes with Mixed Page Sizes

In your web editor, every page in a scene can now have its own dimensions. If enabled, the resize panel automatically adapts to your selection. Resize one page or all pages at once.

For your product, this means: users can design across multiple formats in a single session. Social post, banner, side by side.

One Font File, Every Weight: Variable Font Support

Our engine now supports variable fonts! A single font file can represent multiple weight and style variants, eliminating the need to load separate files for each.

For your app this means: leaner asset loading, more typographic flexibility, and better brand consistency for users working with modern type systems.

→ Variable Fonts Docs

Improvements

Stay Focused on a Simplified Video Timeline
The web video timeline now focuses on the active track by default, hiding other tracks to reduce visual noise. Users can still access everything, but the default view keeps attention on what they’re actually editing.

Full Changelog

All performance improvements, breaking changes, and fixes are in the v1.71.0 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.70 Release Notes

Neslihan — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:08:17 GMT

Fresh off v1.69 (our biggest developer experience release yet), v1.70 now strengthens what’s already there. The Android video timeline gets a professional-grade overhaul, iOS and Android gain video duration controls. Under the hood, significant stability improvements across every platform.

Let’s dive in!

Edit Videos with Clarity on Android

These updates to the Android video timeline improve how editing looks and feels for your mobile users.

Use Real Audio Waveforms for Accurate Video Editing

Audio clips now display actual waveform visualization, replacing the previous placeholder. Users can see exactly where audio peaks and drops — making precise edits faster and more intuitive.

→ Explore Audio Waveform Docs

Keep Your Timeline Clutter-Free

Images, stickers, and shapes now display one thumbnail per clip, instead of repeating across the track. The timeline is cleaner and easier to read, keeping complex video compositions tidy on mobile screens.

Keep Text Visible Throughout Your Timeline

Text clips now show their actual text content alongside the clip label, so users can identify and navigate text layers without opening each one.

Improvements

Set Video Duration Limits on iOS and Android
You can now define minimum and maximum video duration constraints directly in CE.SDK on both iOS and Android.

Timeline markers make the boundaries visible to users while they edit, and export validation ensures clips meet the defined limits before rendering.

Edit Colors like a Pro – in One Panel

The color panel for web is now unified: preview, saved colors, and custom editing controls all live in one place. Users can pick, adjust, and reuse colors in a single continuous workflow, without a separate modal or extra clicks.

CMYK Color Mode for Web
Additionally, the web editor supports restricting the color picker to a specific color mode: RGB, CMYK. When CMYK is enforced, elements using a different color mode show a clear convert option rather than broken inputs.
New pages, asset library blocks, and fill type switches automatically convert colors to match the configured mode.

Full Changelog

All technical details, breaking changes, and migration notes are in the v1.70.0 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.69 Release Notes

Neslihan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:29:53 GMT

v1.69 is the biggest developer experience release we’ve shipped. Agent Skills collapse the time from idea to working editor from days to under a minute. Production-ready Starter Kits eliminate days of boilerplate setup. PPTX and Canva Importer lets users bring their existing designs directly into your editor. And a comprehensive video overhaul across Web, iOS, and Android closes the gap between CE.SDK and native professional editing apps.

Let’s dive in!

Introducing IMG.LY Agent Skills for CE.SDK

The biggest change to CE.SDK’s developer experience since launch.

AI agents have changed how developers build. With Agent Skills, CE.SDK works natively with your AI agent.

Install the plugin for Claude Code or Cursor and your AI coding agent becomes a CE.SDK expert with bundled access to guides, API references, and starter kits across 10 web frameworks. No external services, no MCP servers, no context-switching.

What your developers can now do:

/cesdk:build — Describe a use case in plain language. The agent detects the framework, pulls the right starter kit, and scaffolds a working project autonomously.
/cesdk:explain — Ask any CE.SDK implementation question and get answers adapted to the specific framework and experience level.
/cesdk:docs-[framework] — Retrieve guides and API references directly from the IDE, without leaving the editor.

For your product, this means: developers prototype in minutes, not days. Non-technical team members can now build and extend functional editors independently. And onboarding new engineers to CE.SDK shrinks from a multi-day ramp to a single session.

→ Quick Start & Full Announcement
→ Explore Agent Skills Documentation

Launch in Minutes with Production-Ready Starter Kits for Web

Previously, getting CE.SDK running in a real product meant adapting complex demo projects: stripping features, adjusting architecture, and undoing assumptions baked into example code.

Starter Kits replace all of that with pre-configured, production-ready editor UIs.

Specialized kits for Photo, Video, and Design editors are scoped, clean, and immediately deployable. Each kit starts with a focused feature set. You explicitly opt in to what you need, so your UI stays performant and your users don’t see capabilities they can’t use.

For your product, this means: a functional, shippable editor in minutes rather than days of setup. Clean architecture from day one, without accumulating technical debt.

→ Explore Starter Kit Documentation

Let Users Bring Their PPTX & Canva Designs to CE.SDK

Some customers don’t start from scratch. They have existing creative assets locked inside PowerPoint and Canva — and until now, bringing those into CE.SDK required manual recreation.

The new PPTX Importer removes that barrier.

Users can import native PowerPoint files or export Canva designs as PPTX and bring them directly into your CE.SDK-powered editor, with layouts, elements, and structure intact.

→ Try the PPTX Import Demo
→ View PPTX npm

Professional-Grade Video Editing Across Platforms

This release expands CE.SDK’s video features across web & mobile platforms.

Control Video Speed (iOS & Android)

Users can now adjust the playback speed of video and audio clips via a dedicated Speed UI. This has been one of the most-requested mobile features and is now available on both platforms.
→ View Video Speed Documentation iOS
→ View Video Speed Documentation Android

Create Video Groups in the Timeline (Web)

Multiple clips can now be combined into a single manageable unit with synchronized timing, trimming, and a unified timeline representation.

This enables complex, multi-layer content production and speeds up the design process.

Video Timeline Now Grows Automatically (Web)

The timeline now automatically adjusts its height based on content. Manual track configuration is gone, and complex projects are easier to pick up for your new users.

Use a Clutter-Free iOS Timeline (iOS)

Non-video tracks now show a single thumbnail per clip, reducing clutter in multi-layer timelines on your iOS app.

Full Changelog

See all technical details, breaking changes, and performance improvements in the v1.69.0 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.68 Release Notes

Neslihan — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:51:58 GMT

This release focuses on engine refinements and developer velocity. We are introducing the CE.SDK Docs MCP Server to bring our documentation directly into your AI coding workflows.

Let’s dive in!

Enhanced Developer Experience

Code Faster with the CE.SDK Docs MCP Server

Integrate CE.SDK documentation directly into your development environment. By supporting the Model Context Protocol (MCP), we optimize how AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code Copilot search and retrieve our latest technical guides and API references in real time.

For your team, this means more accurate, context-aware code suggestions and a significantly faster integration process without leaving your editor.

→ Read our Docs MCP Server Guide

Improvements

Perfect Your Global Reach with RTL Text

We have refined our native right-to-left support for languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian with a new “Auto” alignment feature.

The engine now detects script direction on the fly, aligning right for RTL languages like Arabic, and left for LTR languages like English.
For your product, this delivers a truly native feel for your users.

→ Get started with our RTL Guide

Refine Animations with More Control Settings

We have expanded the “Grow” animation style with new directional controls. Creators can now scale elements from all corners, instead of only the center.

This allows for more intentional, fun motion design that aligns with high-end standards.

Full Changelog

See all technical details and the complete list of fixes in the v1.68.0 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.67 Release Notes

Neslihan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:25:01 GMT

This release focuses on stability, speed, and developer experience, making CE.SDK easier to scale and more reliable for real-world production workflows.

Let’s dive in!

Improvements

Archive exports on the web are now more memory-friendly and stable, especially for large, resource-heavy projects.

Instead of loading all assets into memory at once, CE.SDK now streams or writes exports incrementally, significantly reducing memory usage during export.

For your users, this engine update provides a reliable experience when saving or sharing complex designs.

→ Learn how CE.SDK handles exports - Docs
→ Configure and control exports - Guide

Design Faster with Ready-Made Text Designs

Text Designs are prebuilt text elements users can insert into a design, similar to ready-made headlines, callouts, or fun text layouts.

Text Designs are now more robust and easier to work with. Each text design is handled as a self-contained component that automatically includes the assets it needs, making templates more reliable and easier to scale.

→ Explore the Text Design Guide

Enhanced Developer Experience

Build Faster with Practical, Production-Ready Guides

We’ve expanded our CE.SDK Guides for Web to help developers move quickly from setup to deeper customization and advanced workflows.

The guides walk through practical implementation patterns, including AI integrations, automated design-template workflows, and editor UI customization. Each topic is designed to help teams extend CE.SDK in production environments.

The CE.SDK documentation guides cover essential developer workflows with working examples and live demos.

→ Explore All CE.SDK Guides for Web

Full Changelog

See all technical details, including breaking changes, in the v1.67 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.66 Release Notes

Neslihan — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:46:37 GMT

This release expands CE.SDK’s global reach with native support for right-to-left text. Users can now type and edit naturally in languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian, while products benefit from cleaner multilingual workflows.

Let’s dive in!

Support Right-to-Left Languages Out of the Box

CE.SDK now fully supports right-to-left (RTL) text input, making it easy to build editors for languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian (Farsi).

Text direction switches automatically, characters flow correctly, and cursor movement behaves as users expect when typing and editing.

For your users, this means a natural, native text editing experience in their language. We are excited to see fully international, beautiful templates!

For your product, it removes the need for custom workarounds and unlocks multilingual templates and global-ready creative workflows.
→ Explore Text & Language Support Documentation

Improvements

Use Transparent WebM Videos for Rich Motion Design

CE.SDK for Web now supports transparent WebM videos, making it easy to layer animations, overlays, and motion elements without a background.
This opens up new creative possibilities for effects, lower thirds, UI animations, and branded motion content directly in the editor.

Full Changelog

See all technical details, including breaking changes, in the v1.66 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.65 Release Notes

Neslihan — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:54:13 GMT

This release adds a fresh Product Editor demo and a set of quality improvements that make editing smoother and more intuitive. CE.SDK v1.65 introduces under-the-hood enhancements that set the stage for powerful features coming in the next releases.

Let’s dive in!

Power Product Customization with CE.SDK

Let your users design products like apparel, mugs, phone cases, and more with a real-time, fully interactive product editor made with CE.SDK.

The Web Product Editor UI demo shows how CE.SDK handles multiple print areas, live mockups, and print-ready design exports in a streamlined workflow.

For your product, this provides a ready-made blueprint for building custom merchandise editors, print-on-demand tools, or any e-commerce customization experience.
→ Try the Product Editor UI Demo

Improvements

Fine-Tune Text Styling Without Selecting

When users apply styling without selecting text, CE.SDK now updates the entire text block instead of applying the style only to future characters.

This feels more predictable and matches user expectations in formatting-heavy workflows.

Make Your Libraries Searchable or Not

Asset library entries can now declare whether they are searchable using the isSearchable field.

The search bar appears only when at least one visible entry supports search, keeping the interface clean and context-aware.
→ View Asset Library Documentation

Full Changelog

See all technical details, including breaking changes, in the v1.65 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.64 Release Notes

Neslihan — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:29:00 GMT

This release brings powerful new automation capabilities with CE.SDK Renderer, letting you export media at scale on your backend. Your users also gain more creative control with video speed editing.

Let’s dive in!

Scale Your Exports with CE.SDK Renderer

We are excited to introduce a new platform: CE.SDK Renderer brings production grade exporting to your backend, allowing you to turn CE.SDK templates into finished media with the speed, consistency, and scale required for modern creative automation.

Running the CE.SDK engine natively on your server, the Renderer delivers fast and reliable export of images, PDFs, and fully compliant H.264 and H.265 videos. It removes the limitations of browser and Node based exporting and enables automated, personalized, and high volume content workflows.

Packaged as a ready-to-run Docker container, CE.SDK Renderer supports GPU acceleration, batch processing, and predictable output fidelity for enterprise production needs.

Perfect For Your Use Case
CE.SDK Renderer is ideal for dynamic ad creation, personalized video variations, template driven print assets such as postcards or brochures, and large scale automated content generation across marketing, e-commerce, and creative automation platforms.

→ Explore deep-dive into CE.SDK Renderer
→ View CE.SDK Renderer Documentation

Change Video Speed for Fun Video Editing

Your users can now change video speed right in the web editor. Slow clips down to spotlight important moments, or speed them up to keep content tight and engaging.

This removes the need for external editing apps and keeps more creation inside your product.

→ View Payback Speed Documentation

Enforce Image Ratios on Mobile

Force Crop is now available for Mobile, as seen for the Web editor: Force Crop ensures that images and videos always follow the aspect ratio your template requires.
If a user uploads media that does not fit the intended layout, the editor automatically crops or guides them through cropping, so the final design looks exactly as intended.

It is especially valuable for social stories, ads, marketplace listings, and any workflow where the output size must be precise.

Force Crop supports three modes so you can choose how much control you give users:

silent
Applies the crop automatically without showing the crop UI.
always
Applies the preset and always opens crop mode, so users can review and adjust.
ifNeeded
Only opens the crop UI when the media does not match the required ratio.

→ View Android Force Crop Documentation
→ View iOS Force Crop Documentation

When selecting any element, the canvas menu appears and contains a “more options” drown-down section. It is now fully customizable using the builder API.

You can add, remove, or reorder menu items and include individual actions (flip, copy, paste, etc.).

Get more control over the editor UI, and tailor tools and workflows to your users’ needs.

→ Change Canvas Menu Order Documentation
→ Explore Canvas Menu Documentation

Enhanced Developer Experience

Evaluate CE.SDK Without A License

CE.SDK now allows a null license value, enabling developers to run the editor in evaluation mode more easily.

This simplifies your demo setups, prototyping, and onboarding new developers. No license token is needed during early development stages.

Applies to: Web, iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native. Includes a watermark.

Improvements

Confirm Edits with Enter
Number and text fields in the Web editor now update only when users press Enter or click away. This helps prevent little mistakes and makes editing feel calmer and more intentional.

Full Changelog

See all technical details, including breaking changes, in the v1.64 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.63 Release Notes

Neslihan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:33:15 GMT

This release makes creative workflows smoother across every platform.
Users on macOS can now edit videos directly in Safari. Additionally, the web editor gets a new built-in color picker for faster color selection. On mobile, creators can now edit grouped elements and use ready-made font combinations to design faster and stay on brand.

Let’s dive in!

Bring Powerful Video Editing to Safari Users

CE.SDK now supports playback and editing video in Safari 26.0 and higher on macOS. Give your users on Mac full access to pristine, browser-based video editing.

This update lets your users create, animate, preview, and edit videos directly in Safari with the same CE.SDK features they already know from Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

For your product, this means broader reach and platform consistency, enabling you to deliver a pristine editing experience that feels native everywhere.

→ Try the video demo in Safari
→ Explore CE.SDK’s video capabilities

Use A Color Picker Inside Your Editor

Users can now sample colors from anywhere on their screen and apply them directly in the web editor with the new built-in color picker.

It’s a fast, intuitive way to match brand colors or grab inspiration without typing in hex codes or switching tools. Supported in Chrome, Edge, and Opera for Web.

Improvements

Edit Groups in Videos on Mobile

Scenes that include grouped elements can now be uploaded into the Mobile Video Editor, allowing users to move and edit groups and ungroup the elements when needed.

While group creation itself is not yet available on mobile, this update brings better parity with the web editor and a more efficient editing workflow on smaller screens.

See a great example for editing groups next:

Use Font Combinations for Videos on Mobile

Asset sources in the Mobile Video Editor now support font combinations for Video on iOS and Android.

For your product, this means faster user activation and higher content output. Presets help new users create great-looking designs instantly, while giving brands a consistent, on-trend look.

Select & Resize with Precision

Working with small or zoomed-out elements is now more precise across platforms. Resize handles remain visible even on tiny elements or at low zoom levels, ensuring users can always resize. This improves control and precision in dense designs and complex layouts, keeping editing predictable at any zoom level.

Enhanced Developer Experience

We’ve added new resources to help developers create richer, more flexible experiences with CE.SDK.

Generate Captions, Translations and Effects with Audio Export

Our new Audio Export Guide shows how to extract audio directly from scenes or blocks to create auto captions, translations, and automated transcripts. Or process audio externally for creative effects!

This makes it easier to extend CE.SDK beyond editing, helping you power smarter, more accessible, and more engaging media tools.

→ Read the Audio Export Guide

Full Changelog

See all technical details, including breaking changes, in the v1.63 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.62 Release Notes

Neslihan — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMT

This release introduces the Print-Ready PDF Plugin, a modernized editor theme, and editing control improvements. Empower your users to design with precision, export for print, or work more efficiently across media.

Create Print-Ready PDFs

We’re excited to introduce the Print-Ready PDF Plugin for CE.SDK, enabling you to transform your designs into professional-grade PDFs.

Key Features

PDF/X-3 Compliance for printing industry standards
RGB → CMYK Conversion for print color output
ICC Profile Support for your custom profiles, or our shipped profiles
Client-Side Processing — no backend needed

This plugin provides a straightforward solution for generating print-ready PDFs with your app. By handling the conversion client-side, it simplifies workflows and reduces reliance on external tools.

Getting Started:
→ Integrate the Print-Ready PDF Plugin
→ View Print-Ready PDF Plugin Docs

Design Faster in a Modern, Distraction-Free UI

The CE.SDK editor has a new look: simpler, brighter, and more focused. This visual refresh reduces complexity, improves readability, and helps your users design faster while keeping your product future-proof.

Friendlier and Easier-to-Use Interface:

The editor now features a flatter UI appearance with size-consistent elements, including buttons and dropdowns, making it feel more intuitive and less “boxed-in.”
Increased font weight improves legibility.
More rounded interfaces contribute to a friendlier and more inviting feel, especially for users who are not professional designers.
A refined color palette provides better contrast.

Panels now visually step back, so designs take the spotlight. The result is an interface that feels balanced, and easy to use.

The new theming system is built for flexibility. It supports more straightforward customization and evolving brand identities, keeping your editor modern and consistent without constant redesigns.

→ Explore the New Look (Demo)

Export Audio for Captions, Editing, and Automation

The new exportAudio API supports extracting audio from scenes, audio blocks, or video fill blocks.

This gives developers full control over audio output for editing, mixing, or automation workflows. For example, you can extract audio for automatic transcription and auto video captions.

Coming Soon: Learn how to generate and translate captions automatically in your editor — our full guide is on the way.

→ View Exporting Audio Docs

Improvements

Smarter Video Timeline Controls

Editing clips is now smoother and more intuitive: Users can drag to select multiple clips, click the background to deselect, and scroll with the middle mouse button for precise navigation.

These enhancements make working on complex timelines faster and more fluid.

Enhanced Developer Experience

Build Multi-Language Editors with Locales List

With cesdk.i18n.listLocales(), web developers can now easily retrieve available locales, making it easy to build multi-language editors for global products.
→ View Localization Docs

Build Custom Workflows with Actions List

Web developers can list all registered actions with cesdk.actions.list(). This makes it easier to build custom workflows.
→ View Actions Docs

Evaluate CE.SDK without a License Key

Quickly prototype, test, or demo CE.SDK without setup friction — try out CE.SDK without a license (includes watermark).

Full Changelog

See the full list of updates in the v1.62 Changelog.

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CE.SDK v1.61 Release Notes

Neslihan — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:40:15 GMT

This release brings instant animation previews, new playback-speed control for clips, and smoother audio handling on mobile. All aimed at making motion design and media playback more intuitive for your users and more reliable for your app.

Let’s dive in!

Preview Your Animations Instantly

CE.SDK now plays a live preview whenever you add or update an animation. Your users can immediately see how their animations behave without pressing “play,” making it faster to fine-tune motion and create polished results.

For your app, that means smoother editing workflows, less trial and error, and a more professional user experience out of the box.

→ Try the Animation Demo for Web.

Fine-Tune Playback Speed for Clips

Our CE.SDK engine now supports playback speed control for videos, GIFs, and audio. Developers can programmatically adjust speed using setPlaybackSpeed and getPlaybackSpeed.

→ Explore the BlockAPI documentation.

Preview: Adjust Video Speed in the Editor

Within our next releases, your users will be able to fine-tune video speed right inside the editor, using an intuitive user interface for the Web.

This will give creators more control over pacing and style, from slow-motion moments to fast-cut edits. Let users craft more dynamic, platform-ready content for social media without leaving your app.

Improvements

Smarter Audio Handling Across Platforms
On iOS and Android, the audio device is now lazy-initialized. This means, it will activate only when audio starts playing. This reduces energy use and improves reliability after pauses or process restarts.

Full Changelog

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CE.SDK v1.60 Release Notes

Neslihan — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:53:17 GMT

This release delivers more flexible and future-ready solutions. CE.SDK v1.60 introduces support for Lottie and MKV files, enhanced color options, Angular integration, and future-proof updates for iOS 26 — alongside improvements for streamlined CE.SDK customization and developer experience.

Let’s dive in!

Add Motion With Lottie Files

Our Engine now supports .json Lottie files as video fills. Add lightweight, scalable animations to video projects without large asset sizes.

→ Explore all supported formats in our documentation.

Work With MKV Video Formats

CE.SDK now supports MKV (Matroska) files, including H.264, H.265/HEVC, AAC, and MP3 alongside VP8, VP9, AV1, and Opus. More uploads work out of the box, reducing friction for your users.

Stay Flexible with iOS 26

Apple’s new Liquid Glass design system in iOS 26 changes safe-area handling, toolbar sizing, and system banners. CE.SDK v1.60 prepares you for this shift: choose whether to embrace the new look or preserve your current layout.

By default, when you build against the iOS 26 SDK, our editor automatically uses the new system visuals and behaviors for seamless alignment with Apple’s latest design language.

If you continue building with a pre–iOS 26 SDK, nothing changes: your app continues to look and behave as before, and our SDK maintains the previous experience.

If you want to build with the iOS 26 SDK but temporarily keep the classic UI, Apple provides an Info.plist switch: UIDesignRequiresCompatibility to enable UI compatibility mode.

When this is present, your app won’t adopt Liquid Glass, and our SDK will mirror that choice to remain consistent with the rest of your app.

*Note: Apple hasn’t published a deprecation date for this compatibility key; plan your migration accordingly.*

Resources:
→ Apple Documentation - Liquid Glass Introduction
→ Apple Documentation - Adopting Liquid Glass

More iOS Improvements

This release also brings the new PhotoRoll integration, replacing the legacy uploads tab with direct access to the system photo library. Alongside this, we prepared the NavigationBar for Apple’s updated design, improved accessibility with VoiceOver fixes, adjusted search behavior for Liquid Glass, and resolved audio playback issues after recording with the system camera.

Switch Editor Theme Instantly, Match System Settings

CE.SDK for Web now adapts to your users’ system settings out of the box. A new system theme option automatically switches between light and dark mode. Because theming works at runtime, you don’t need to reload the editor to apply changes — making it easier to deliver seamless experiences.

→ Explore Theming documentation.

Deliver Accurate UI Colors With P3 and OKLCH

Our Theming API lets you style the web editor’s user interface — toolbars, panels, and other elements — so it matches your brand. In CE.SDK v1.60, theming now supports the P3 color space and OKLCH color format, giving you modern, more accurate colors for your editor’s UI. This ensures branded themes look vibrant and consistent across today’s wide-gamut displays.

Drop CE.SDK into Angular Apps with Ease

We’ve added official Angular support via @cesdk/cesdk-js/angular, bringing the same plug-and-play experience developers already love in React and Vue.

→ Get started with Angular documentation.

Enhanced Developer Experience

Be Flexible When Handling Actions and Common Tasks

CE.SDK now introduces new Actions and Utils APIs that simplify how you manage editor workflows.

With the Actions API, tasks like save, export, load, or upload are managed centrally instead of across multiple places. This reduces repetition and makes it easier to customize how users interact with the editor.

The Utils API adds ready-to-use defaults for dialogs, file handling, exporting, and scene management. These save time and cut boilerplate while still letting you override behavior when needed.

→ Explore the Actions API and Utils API.

Manage Settings in a Unified Place

With Settings API, we’ve consolidated the Settings interface and introduced unified setSetting and getSetting methods, replacing multiple type-specific methods. For developers, this means:

Cleaner, more consistent API surface
Easier to learn, easier to maintain
Improved TypeScript support with automatic type inference

→ Explore Settings API documentation.

Full Changelog

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CE.SDK v1.59 Release Notes

Neslihan — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:09:03 GMT

This release makes building with CE.SDK smoother than ever: embed editors in minutes with React & Vue wrappers, get WebM video support, and enjoy sharper visuals with improved image scaling.

Work with WebM Video Files

CE.SDK for Web and our Engine now support WebM videos. Supported codecs include VP8, VP9, and AV1. This allows you to handle more video formats efficiently, deliver faster-loading videos, and ensure smooth playback across browsers and platforms.

→ Explore all supported formats in our documentation.

Add a Full-Featured Editor to React or Vue in Minutes

CE.SDK now ships React and Vue wrappers directly in the @cesdk/cesdk-js package. Just install, import, and skip lengthy setups.

Get prebuilt editors and smart features out of the box. This frees your team to ship faster and focus on what makes your app unique in the market.

Browse pre-built solutions for React and Vue.

What You Get Out of The Box

All-in-one integration
With wrappers included, installation is cleaner and simplified. Simply install and import the necessary components.

Prebuilt Editor Solutions
Our wrappers provide ready-to-use editor components. Perfect for rapid prototyping or embedding full-featured editing experiences.

Rich Editing Features
Use built-in support for photo & video editing (crop, filters, adjustments), smart AI tools, template creation, asset libraries. Customize the UI if needed.

→ Get started with React
→ Get started with Vue

Improvements

Keep Images Crisp Without Accidental Upscaling
When you add a bitmap image to your canvas, CE.SDK now ensures it isn’t placed larger than its original size. This prevents low-res images from being upscaled automatically and looking blurry, while still letting users enlarge them manually if they choose.

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CE.SDK v1.57 Release Notes

Neslihan — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:15:37 GMT

This release features under-the-hood improvements focused on stability, memory management, and overall performance, particularly for iOS.

Additionally, we’ve enhanced the mobile experience with a refreshed built-in asset library on iOS and Android, featuring new shapes, stickers, and curated font combinations to help users design more easily. Let’s dive in!

Save Bigger Scenes, More Reliably on Mobile

Archiving complex projects with large assets can spike memory usage, causing performance issues or failures in some scenarios. To support more complex or asset-heavy scenes, we’ve improved how archive export works on iOS and Android.

This update reduces memory load and helps your app save larger projects more efficiently and reliably.

Design Faster with Fresh Mobile Assets

We’ve overhauled the iOS & Android default assets in CE.SDK. Let users start creating with inspiring design elements right away.

Shapes now include gradient and image fills, plus ‘outline’ shapes.
Stickers have been refreshed to provide a more fun starter set.
Text comes with curated font combinations for quick, polished typography.

This update means you can ship your app with ready‑to‑use creative tools. Less setup work for you, and more engaging options for your end users.

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CE.SDK v1.56 Release Notes

Neslihan — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:01:31 GMT

CE.SDK 1.56 brings major updates for editing control and customization: translate the editor and camera UI on mobile for a smooth experience in any language! This release also adds Force Crop to guarantee every project starts in the right format. We’ve refreshed our default asset library to jumpstart creativity.

Let’s see what’s new!

Translate Your Mobile Editor and Camera

You can now localize CE.SDK on iOS and Android, making it easy to translate the editor and camera UI for a great experience in any language.

Translate Your Editor
Reach global audiences and meet local expectations with minimal effort! All visible UI elements in the editor can now be localized.

Simplified Text Customization
Easily override our default labels and messages by using a clear, structured system.

Camera SDK Localization
Not only our editors: CE.SDK Camera supports localization, too. Configure it separately using the iOS Camera and Android Camera documentation.

Explore the documentation to localize on iOS and Android.

Start Every Edit with a Crop

Try Force Crop in our new demo.

Configure whether images must be cropped before editing. With Force Crop, you set the aspect ratio or format for your users’ project.

Three modes give you full control:

Always – The editor opens in crop mode, and users crop before they can edit.
If Needed – Users see crop mode only if the image doesn’t fit the required format.
Silent – The preset format is applied automatically, without showing the crop step.

This ensures every project starts in the right format—whether it’s for Instagram Stories, avatars, YouTube Shorts, or product images—without leaving room for user error.

Force Crop is supported for Web and our Engine.
Get started with the Force Crop documentation and demo.

Improvements

Richer Built‑In Asset Library

We’ve overhauled the default assets in CE.SDK to make it easier for your users to start creating with quality content right away.

Shapes now include gradient and image fills, plus outline options for more design flexibility.
Text comes with curated font combinations for quick, polished typography.
Stickers have been refreshed to provide a more meaningful starter set.

This update means you can ship your app with ready‑to‑use creative assets.

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CE.SDK v1.76 Release Notes

Edit Multi-Clip Timelines on iOS and Android

Remove Backgrounds on Android

New Plugin: Turn PDFs into Editable Designs

Improvements

Changelog

CE.SDK v1.75 Release Notes

Import Animated PNGs

Pull Dominant Colors from Images on the Canvas

Control How Far Elements Can Move

Improvements

Reach Elements Hidden Behind Transparent Images

Changelog

CE.SDK Release Notes v1.74

Edit Gradients with Full Control

Export Print-Ready PDFs Without Extra Steps

Improvements

Edit Vectors with Precision

Align Elements with Snapping Guides

Developer Experience

Web Demos Are Now Starter Kits

Changelog

CE.SDK v1.73 Release Notes

Own Your Mobile Editor — Not Just the Config

Migration

Starter Kit Repositories

Export Vector Designs as SVG

Changelog

CE.SDK v1.72 Release Notes

Edit Vectors with Precision on the Web

Design and Video Editing In One Editor

Generate AI Images on Android and iOS

Record Voice-Overs on Android & iOS

Decorate Text On All Platforms

Improvements

Changelog

CE.SDK v1.71 Release Notes

Add Animations to Your iOS Video Editor

Design Multi-Format Scenes with Mixed Page Sizes

One Font File, Every Weight: Variable Font Support

Improvements

Full Changelog

CE.SDK v1.70 Release Notes

Edit Videos with Clarity on Android

Use Real Audio Waveforms for Accurate Video Editing

Keep Your Timeline Clutter-Free

Keep Text Visible Throughout Your Timeline

Improvements

Edit Colors like a Pro – in One Panel

Full Changelog

CE.SDK v1.69 Release Notes

Introducing IMG.LY Agent Skills for CE.SDK

Launch in Minutes with Production-Ready Starter Kits for Web

Let Users Bring Their PPTX & Canva Designs to CE.SDK

Professional-Grade Video Editing Across Platforms

Full Changelog

CE.SDK v1.68 Release Notes

Enhanced Developer Experience

Code Faster with the CE.SDK Docs MCP Server

Improvements

Perfect Your Global Reach with RTL Text

Refine Animations with More Control Settings

Full Changelog

CE.SDK v1.67 Release Notes

Improvements

Save and Share Large Projects Reliably

Design Faster with Ready-Made Text Designs

Enhanced Developer Experience

Build Faster with Practical, Production-Ready Guides

Full Changelog

CE.SDK v1.66 Release Notes

Support Right-to-Left Languages Out of the Box

Improvements

Use Transparent WebM Videos for Rich Motion Design

Full Changelog

CE.SDK v1.65 Release Notes

Power Product Customization with CE.SDK

Improvements

Fine-Tune Text Styling Without Selecting