Kit 109.0.4 Release Notes#

Release Date: March 2026

Kit SDK#

Added#

  • Foundation - Added TURN server support for live streaming WebRTC connections [OMPE-79015]

Fixed#

  • Character Behavior - Camera navigation with mouse and keyboard was unresponsive and sticky [OMPE-80597]

  • Kit App Template - Elements in USD Viewer scenes are not interactable [OMPE-76946]

  • Kit App Template - USD Viewer did not display selection outline for selected objects [OMPE-76860]

  • Kit SDK - Deeplinks did not update camera position correctly for some scenes [OMPE-81734]

  • Kit SDK - omni.activity.ui does not capture USD|Resolve events, causing incomplete activity model updates [OMPE-80528]

  • Kit SDK - Measure tool displayed errors when measuring streamed point clouds with “local” XYZ coordinates [OMPE-79407]

  • Kit SDK - Copy/paste operations in script editor only copied partial content from large files [OMPE-78064]

  • Kit SDK - Timeline widget does not show the current time position when first opened via a deeplink [OMPE-78036]

  • Kit SDK - Application crashed on Linux when accessing window properties with invalid windowing interface [OMPE-75612]

  • Kit SDK - Application crashed when UI widget parent became invalid during cleanup [OMPE-75068]

  • Kit SDK - MaterialX referenced shaders break when collecting a USD stage, due to incorrect texture collection when image inputs have colorspace attributes [OMPE-74584]

  • Kit SDK - Frame rate dropped significantly for multiple users during large collaborative sessions [OMPE-65127]

  • Kit SDK - The main viewport flickers when multiple Hydra engine instances are active (e.g., while loading and visualizing a lidar sensor) due to a present-thread synchronization issue in omni.kit.hydra_texture. [OMPE-54307]

  • omni.anim.skelJoint - Characters using USDSkel animation files do not play automatically, requiring manual re-assignment of the Animation API on the Skeleton Root [OMPE-78281]

  • omni.kit.window.preferences - create_setting_widget_combo tooltip displays on the combo box instead of the label [OMPE-77030]

Improved#

  • Kit SDK - Updated cryptography package from 46.0.3 to 46.0.5 in omni.services.pip_archive [OMPE-82023]

  • Kit SDK - Updated Pillow Python module to 12.1.1 [OMPE-81985]

  • Kit SDK - Removed omni.kit.command_macro.cloud dependency from omni.kit.perf_startup [OMPE-81707]

  • Kit SDK - New ov-base-ubuntu-22 image available nvcr.io/nvidia/omniverse/ov-base-ubuntu-22:2026.2.3 [OMPE-81026]

  • Kit SDK - Fixed SSL context verification issue in private API usage [OMPE-80781]

  • Kit SDK - Base image of Kit Sample container apps updated to nvcr.io/nvidia/omniverse/ov-base-ubuntu-22:2026.2.3 [OMPE-80565]

  • Kit SDK - Updated OpenSSL to 3.5.0 in omni.client.lib [OMPE-80093]

  • Kit SDK - Updated NVIDIA IndeX libraries to version 387500.3473 [OMPE-80085]

  • Kit SDK - Updated OpenSSL to 3.5.4 in omni.services.pip_archive [OMPE-80082]

  • Kit SDK - Updated StreamSDK version SW_37323298.0_gs_04_80 in omni.kit.livestream.webrtc [OMPE-80071]

  • Kit SDK - Updated urllib3 Python module in omni.services.pip_archive to >=2.6.3 [OMPE-80022]

  • Kit SDK - Updated aiohttp Python module in omni.services.pip_archive to 3.13.3. [OMPE-79959]

  • Kit SDK - Updated omni.services.pip_archive to use setuptools==80.10.2 to update jaraco-context and wheel. [OMPE-79955]

  • Kit SDK - Updated python-multipart Python module in omni.kit.pip_archive to 0.0.22. [OMPE-79951]

  • Kit SDK - Updated pycares Python module to 5.0.1. [OMPE-79268]

  • Kit SDK - Updated urllib3 Python module in omni.configurator_publisher to >= 2.6.3 [OMPE-78065]

  • Kit SDK - Updated urllib3 Python module in omni.kit.registry.nucleus to 2.6.3. [OMPE-77496]

  • Kit SDK - Updated omni.services.client to be compatible with FastAPI 0.118.0 or higher [OMPE-77011]

  • Kit SDK - Updated certifi Python module in omni.configurator_publisher to 2023.7.22 [OMPE-75618]

  • Kit SDK - Updated omni.kit.profiler.window with Tracy backend support and removed deprecated Snakeviz dependency [OMPE-74648]

  • Livestream - Added TURN server and liveness support to livestream extensions [OMPE-81363]

  • Livestream - Added Kubernetes liveness probe support for livestream extensions [OMPE-78951]

  • RTX - Improved Fabric Scene Delegate performance in PhysX non-render update path [OMPE-74520]

  • USD Storage API - Updated Client Library to 2.68.4 with OpenSSL 3.5.5 [OMPE-81897]

Rendering#

Fixed#

  • RTX - XR opaque data messages have incorrectly handled payload field data, causing potential data corruption [OMPE-82503]

  • RTX - Application crashed when switching between XR experience types (VR, AR, Tablet) [OMPE-82026]

  • RTX - Point cloud streaming authentication failed due to changed message format from DGXC portal [OMPE-80828]

  • RTX - Firefly filtering clamp values are incorrectly set, causing render settings to become unreadable when using Firefly sampling [OMPE-80094]

  • RTX - RTX setting /rtx-transient/scenedb/useUniformsReindexing did not function correctly [OMPE-79396]

  • RTX - Materials rendered as gray when using dome lights with simple fog enabled [OMPE-78014]

  • RTX - Scenes displayed visual corruption when rendered with multi-GPU and adaptive sampling enabled [OMPE-77881]

  • RTX - Crash when playing back time-sampled mesh animations with vertex interpolated normals on welded geometry [OMPE-76830]

  • RTX - Application freezes when playing timeline with sim-ready assets due to dangling references in GRPCDataStore when shard count exceeds 16 [OMPE-74201]

  • RTX - certain OCIO (OpenColorIO) shader configurations fail to compile [OMPE-68427]

  • RTX - IndeX importer did not automatically re-import when importer settings were changed in USD [OMPE-46941]

  • RTX - Setting an inverted or very high camera clipping range value causes a crash or hang on Windows in RTX ray tracing mode. [OMPE-40037]

  • omni.kit.pointclouds - Fixed wrong scan transformations for files containing multiple scans [OMPE-79829]

  • omni.pointcloud.potree2 - Updated omni.pointcloud.potree2 support for ov-dgxc-portal-sample 1.4.1 [OMPE-81186]

Improved#

  • RTX - Updated CloudXR extension to 6.0.5. [OMPE-80072]

  • RTX - Updated GLib to 2.87.1 in omni.gpu_foundation. [OMPE-75305]

Known Issues#

  • Kit SDK - Live sync participants are temporarily dropped from sessions while performing large operations, due to heartbeat timeout on blocked main thread [OMPE-74200]

  • Kit SDK - Deactivating tooltips in XR can cause a crash when used with omni.kit.tool.markup. [OMPE-82613]

  • RTX - XR controllers menu/tooltip are broken with multi-GPUs setup [OMPE-86192]