Release Notes for Flix 8.1.2

Release Date

1 October 2026

For a detailed guide on upgrading to Flix 8.1.2, refer to the Upgrading to Flix 8.1.2 section at the bottom of this page.

Feature Enhancements

  • ID 623224 - Links to the Foundry support portals have been updated.

  • ID 625086 - If sentry is enabled, but no dsn’s are set, the issues are now sent to the Foundry sentry servers.

  • ID 625256 - A new experimental option has been added to the Flix config. Inside this section is an option for block_refs_to_aaf. If this is true, ref panels will not appear in the _new aaf file, matching the behaviour in the 7 series.

Bug Fixes

  • ID 590825 - The font_directory config option is no longer supported and will be removed in a future version. In it’s place is a new fonts section, where you can control the editorial font and size, and the fonts used for contact sheets. See the config.example.yml for a full example of usage.

  • ID 604909 - When sending dialogue from the Client API (for example, from the Storyboard Pro Extension), the dialogue editor will now update to reflect the changes without needing a refresh.

  • ID 610929 - The Flix player now correctly reflects the show frame rate.

  • ID 618661 - If a header response would be too large to potentially cause an error (specifically when using a proxy), pagination links are now removed from the header.

  • ID 618691 - Tweaked the config.example.yml file sentry: customer_id help to reflect what is actually supported.

  • ID 619028 - If a show has an aspect ratio of 0, it will now successfully upgrade.

  • ID 623912 - Moved the server generation of media object dimensions to happen as a background process (if they are missing), rather than on sequence revision load. This improves the initial load of sequence revisions to match previous Flix versions.

  • ID 623931 - Entering fullscreen mode in the player now ensures the application is fullscreen.

  • ID 625120 - Fixed a potential crash when resizing shots after undo.

Known Issues

  • FLIX-384 - Flix Server will fail to start if the font_directory option is set. Please note that in the 8 series this option does not have an affect. Please use the new fonts config options to set custom fonts.

System Requirements

Flix Server

Note:  Flix Server is built and tested exclusively on Intel processors. Running the Flix Server on AMD processors may lead to unexpected runtime errors.

Warning:  For security reasons, the date and time for the machine on which Flix Server is installed needs to be set correctly. This also applies to virtual machines. For more information, please refer to this Knowledge Base article.

Linux

Note:  The volume where the /tmp directory resides should have at least twice as much free space as the largest AAF imported into Flix. We recommend at least 16 GB, which is enough for most studios.

The recommended requirements are:

Item Requirements

Operating System

Rocky 9

RAM

At least 16 GB

CPU

A 64-bit Intel processor @ 3.2 GHz, or higher

8 cores, or more

The minimum requirements are:

Item Requirements

Operating System

Rocky 9

Note:  Flix Server is built and tested exclusively on Intel processors. Running the Flix Server on AMD processors may lead to unexpected runtime errors.

RAM

At least 8 GB

Note:  The volume where the /tmp directory resides should have at least twice as much free space as the largest AAF imported into Flix. We recommend at least 8 GB, which is the minimum storage requirement.

CPU

A 64-bit Intel processor @ 2 GHz, or higher

Flix Client

Note:  Flix Client is currently not available on Linux. Other operating systems may work with Flix Client, but have not been fully tested.

macOS

Article:  For more information on Foundry products and supported macOS versions, see Foundry Knowledge Base article Q100592.

Item Properties

Operating System

• Sequoia

• Tahoe

RAM

4 GB

Processor

ARM-based Apple Silicon processor

2 GHz or faster processor with SSE 4.2, or later

Windows

Item Properties

Operating System

• Windows 11

RAM

4 GB

Processor

A 64-bit processor @ 2 GHz, or higher

Third-Party Application Support

Note:  Photoshop support requires some extra set up before you install the plug-in, see Installing Plug-ins for Photoshop for more information.

Application

Supported Versions

Adobe Photoshop

CC 2025, 2026

Adobe Premiere

CC 2024, 2025.3

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

2024, 2025.0.1, 2025.2

Avid Media Composer

2024, 2025
Maya 2024

Upgrading to Flix 8.1.2

This update requires end users to upgrade Flix Client to version 8.1.2.

If you're running a Mac with an ARM-based Apple Silicon processor and you want to switch to a version of Flix Client which uses Apple Silicon natively, you must download and install the Apple Silicon-specific Flix Client manually from:
https://www.foundry.com/products/flix/download

Note:  If you use the Flix Client auto-update feature in a version earlier than 6.5.0, the client will be updated to the latest Intel version using Rosetta emulation.

Additionally, the new Transfer Utility port must be accessible on each server and all clients. The default port number is 9091, but the port can be changed by setting the client_transfer_port parameter in the config.yml file to a different port number. See Flix Server Options for more information.

From Flix 6.3.7, or Later