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Sketch ships named seasonal releases while extending its web app and courting AI agents.

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◆Current state
Sketch is on a named-release cadence — Dublin (2026.1) and now Edinburgh (2026.2) — with interim maintenance builds in between. Recent work clears long-standing feature requests (selection colors, independent borders, corner smoothing, a new eyedropper) and adds multi-paste, perceptual gradients, and symbol performance. Parallel investment is going into the web app's developer-handoff tools and a skills repo for AI agents that work with Sketch.
◆Where it's heading
The Mac app is in steady refinement, paying down a backlog of requested features and performance, while the web app and AI-agent integration are where the newer strategic bets sit. The handoff-tooling focus suggests Sketch is defending the design-to-development workflow against web-first competitors.
◆Prediction
Expect the named seasonal releases to continue with interim maintenance builds, more web-app handoff improvements, and further investment in agent-facing skills as AI design workflows mature.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    Edinburgh (2026.2)

    Edinburgh (2026.2) adds multi-paste, perceptual and vibrant gradients, symbol and Library-replacement performance gains, and prototype player options. A substantive seasonal release continuing the refinement arc.

  2. 2mo ago

    Dublin maintenance: minor improvements and bug fixes

    A maintenance build carrying the Dublin features plus minor improvements and bug fixes. No new user-facing capability.

  3. 2mo ago

    Dublin maintenance: minor improvements and bug fixes

    Another Dublin maintenance build with minor improvements and bug fixes. Corrective rather than additive.

  4. 2mo ago

    Dublin (2026.1)

    Dublin (2026.1), the first major Mac release of 2026, delivers long-requested features: selection colors, independent borders, corner smoothing, and a new eyedropper with color-variable support. A meaningful backlog-clearing release.

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  5. 2mo ago

    Dublin (2026.1)

    A near-duplicate feed entry for the same Dublin (2026.1) release as the preceding item, published at a different timestamp. Counted once; this copy carries no additional signal.

  6. 3mo ago

    Web layer list and inspector improvements

    A batch of web-app improvements, especially across developer-handoff tools like the layer list and inspector. Reinforces the web app as the surface for design-to-development workflows.

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