Hey everyone,
We’ve just released a new beta — Dublin. You know the score by now; download it, try it out, and let us know what you think!
This first major release of 2026 includes some highly-requested features, and over 150 improvements and bug fixes.
Let’s run through the headlines…
Selection colors
By popular demand! Selection colors give you a quick way to see and adjust colors across your entire selection. You’ll see this new section in the Inspector when you select multiple layers or containers with different color fills, borders, shadows, text colors, and tints.
When you adjust a selection color, it affects any layer using that color. Hovering over a color in the Inspector will highlight layers in your selection that use it on the Canvas. Clicking the Chevron next to a color will narrow your selection to just the layers that use it.
By default, we show colors sorted by frequency and separated by opacity separately, but you can sort by color, and combine opacities. Adjusting colors with combined opacities will preserve the original opacities, and adjusting the opacity will adjust different opacities relatively.
When your selection contains both Symbols and non-Symbol layers, we’ll show overrides and selection colors together in the Inspector. If you override a color, hold ⌥ to reveal a Reset Overrides button next to that color.
Independent borders and better border controls
Also by popular demand, you can now set borders independently for each side of a layer.
For each border, you can control all sides equally (default), choose a single specific side for that border, or choose Custom to set different widths for each side.
On the subject of borders, a new option to center dashed borders so their dashes fall neatly on corners. You can also apply advanced border settings (ends, joins, dash) to borders on text layers now, too.
Corner smoothing controls, capsule support and more
There’s a new Corner Settings panel in the Inspector, giving you full control over exactly how smooth your rounded corners should be.
And for those of you smoothing out squircles, capsules and corners greater than 90º, you’ll now see much better results for those shapes.
There’s a new “Max” option for corners, so you can make pills/capsules that remain rounded no matter their size. You’ll find this in the Corners panel section of the Inspector, the Layer menu and the Command Bar. You can also double-click the corner handles on the canvas.
Finally, you can now round the corners on combined shapes with boolean operations.
All-new eyedropper tool
You can now use the eyedropper tool to select and apply Color Variables directly. It has a new, more compact design that gives you more context when picking colors.
When the eyedropper tool’s loupe is above a color variable, we’ll show its name in a secondary label. Hold Shift and click to select and apply the Color Variable itself.
You can grab Color Variables from solid fills and borders, gradient fills (we’ll pick the color variable at the nearest gradient stop) and borders, text layers (their fills, borders and color), and tints.
Improved Color panel
We’ve revamped the Color panel to make things easier to use, especially around gradients, gradient presets, and Color Variables.
Gradient presets are now one click away when you’re in gradient mode. Switching between custom colors and color variables is more consistent across solid colors and gradient stops. And you can now switch between list and grid views when choosing a color variable for a gradient stop.
150+ improvements and fixes
This release contains improvements across all corners of the app. You’ll find every one of them in the release notes, but here are a few highlights:
- When you drag and drop multiple images onto the Canvas, into a frame, or onto Sketch’s Dock icon, we now place them in a neat grid. If the images have different dimensions, we’ll arrange them in a masonry-style grid to minimize gaps.
- You can now control borders and fills for individual layers within a combined shape, which now affect and determine the overall shape.
- Based on your feedback, we’ve made the Color panel easier to use. Gradient presets are now one click away in gradient mode. Switching between custom colors and Color Variables is more consistent across solid colors and gradient stops. You switch between list and grid views when choosing a color variable for a gradient stop. It’s also easier to change a custom color’s format and copy its value.
- You can now toggle Pixel Fitting (without having to open Settings) via the Arrange menu, with the shortcut ⌃⌘X, or in the Command Bar (“Fit Layers to Pixel Bounds”).
- There’s a new shortcut — ⇧⌘C — to copy a link to the current page, or top-level frame (if you’ve selected one) in your current document.
- You now flip layers horizontally or vertically using ⇧H and ⇧V.
We also fixed over 100 bugs, including plenty of small issues in the Inspector, combined shapes, Symbol instances, and more.
You can view the full release notes and download the beta from sketch.com/beta — or update directly from a previous beta build.
As ever, we strongly recommend backing up your documents before opening them in any beta build. If you run into any issues or have feedback, you can let us know via Help > Send Beta Feedback in the app, or via Share an issue.
Thanks!
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