Production Branch (PB)#
Production Branches provide reliable, stable versions of Omniverse technologies, maintaining API consistency for 9 months and releasing every 6 months. All artifacts and content are accessible to members of the free NVIDIA Developer Program, with Enterprise Support accessible to NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Omniverse licensed customers during the supported time window.
Production Branch - October 2026 (PB 26h2)#
PB Collection on NGC |
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First Release |
October 2026 |
Planned End of Support (EOS) |
July 2027 |
Planned End of Life (EOL) |
October 2027 |
Support Matrix |
New and Updated Features - Advancements with Point Clouds, Updated USD and MDL Material Compatibility, and Major Feature Highlights for Omniverse Kit:
Kit SDK / Core Extensions:
Point Cloud to Virtual Factory: AI-driven Generative Meshing and GPU-accelerated meshing turn point cloud data into usable 3D meshes. A new public Storage/Auth API connects these workflows to enterprise storage systems.
Native Video Textures: Video files and RTSP streams are now decoded on the GPU and used as textures, including on Dome Lights for animated lighting. They work with the timeline, Movie Capture and OmniGraph.
Better Material Compatibility: MDL materials now work fully inside USDZ packages. MaterialX/OpenPBR warm loads are about 3 seconds faster, and OpenUSD is upgraded to 25.11.
Rendering and Simulation at Scale: RTX Real-Time 2.0 gets quality fixes, and LiDAR sensor support is broader. Scene partitioning now handles 16K+ environments for large Isaac Lab training runs.
Collaboration and CAD Exchange:
Live sessions join faster and file updates show up more quickly.
CAD Converter 209.7 adds 2D DWG support, including DWG inside Revit files.
DGN and FBX conversions keep more of the original geometry.
SDK Reliability: Multiple improvements across undo/redo, the Extensions Manager, OmniGraph, and viewport tools. Tracy profiler is updated and air-gapped deployment is simpler.
Render Settings Layer Routing: A new setting,
saveUsdAttributes, allows render-setting USD opinions to be routed to the session layer instead of the active edit target.Thread Block Detector: Reports Python thread-blocking bottlenecks in Kit applications, helping developers identify and address performance issues.
Hamburger Menu Support in Context Menus:
omni.kit.widget.context_menunow supports hamburger menus for Kit UI context menu workflows.Stage Window Type Column: The
typecolumn is now flexible and resizable, preventing long prim type names from truncation.
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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A slimmed down version of Omniverse Kit containing only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
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A slimmed down version of Omniverse Kit containing only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
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A slimmed down version of the Omniverse Kit containing only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
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Samples and Resources for Omniverse Kit Application Streaming. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Snapshot of Kit Extensions registry for Air Gap. |
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This container is a base container ready for Kit Applications. It contains only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
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NVIDIA Omniverse Hub Workstation Cache allows for file content and derived data caching for Kit-based applications. |
Production Branch - May 2026 (PB 26h1)#
PB Collection on NGC |
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First Release |
May 2026 |
Planned End of Support (EOS) |
January 2027 |
Planned End of Life (EOL) |
April 2027 |
Support Matrix |
New Features - Agentic AI Development, Major Feature Highlights for Omniverse Kit, Clash Detection SDK, and Sensor Simulation:
Agentic AI Development: The 26h1 Production Branch makes Kit and platform services agent-native:
Kit SDK: Ships with first-party MCP servers exposing 400+ Kit extensions, 1,000+ config settings, and app templates to Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex agents. These are made available on the NVIDIA-Omniverse/kit-usd-agents GitHub repo.
Storage API: Includes a dedicated ovstorage Agent Skills package to scaffold local or production-grade Storage API deployments and custom adapters, using conversational prompts.
OVCC 4.0.4 + OVDC 6.0.0: Caching services ship with an agent skills package. Each
SKILL.mdguides agents through the evaluation, sizing, configuration, and deployment.
Kit SDK / Core Extensions / Kit App Template:
Rendering and Materials: Full path-tracing support for Gaussian splats via the new UsdVol.ParticleField OpenUSD schema. New OmniProjectorAPI enables runtime projected UV generation. Adds OpenPBR support and an updated Material Graph Editor sample with full MaterialX support.
Physics and Performance: Nested rigid-body physics and Fabric performance optimizations deliver higher-fidelity, scalable simulation for large, complex industrial and robotics scenes, improving throughput for digital twins, industrial automation, and large-scale synthetic data generation.
CAD/DGN Conversion: Expanded interoperability with ACIS solid modeling support, BSplineSurface-to-mesh conversion, and richer diagnostics for higher-fidelity CAD-to-USD pipelines and easier troubleshooting of conversion issues.
Clash Detection: Now a core Kit extension with published tests, simplifying setup for Kit-based apps with clash detection. Supports streamed point clouds for real-time analysis against meshes in dynamic-capture workflows, with improved baking, visualization, and dual-viewport support.
Sensor Simulation: Sensor Processing Graph for custom sensor post-processing modeling represented in OpenUSD; OmniUltrasonic schema for schema-based ultrasonic sensor definition; API for instantaneous full-scan lidar capture; reduced memory usage for non-visual sensors.
Visualization for Robotics Learning: New minimal render mode for extremely fast, stable visualization without full light transport; scene partitioning allows splitting the visibility of a scene between different sensors.
Omniverse Storage API (ovstorage): Inaugural release providing API specifications for custom development of service adapters, with NVIDIA reference implementations, enabling new deployments to leverage AWS S3 or Azure Blob storage within Omniverse. This new stack is capable of running on both local and production-level Kubernetes infrastructure.
Enterprise Nucleus Server (2023.2.10): Security updates and patches, including support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Docker 29.4.1.
OVCC (Omniverse Content Cache) 4.0.4: A shared file cache that offers support for S3, Azure, GCP, Omniverse Storage, and the Enterprise Nucleus Server. The Content Cache enables faster file loads from remote storage backends and reduces egress from backend storage.
OVDC (Omniverse Derived Cache) 6.0.0: A shared caching service for optimized RTX renderer data. This improves performance and reduces load times for all users by providing cached shaders, textures, geometry, and more.
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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A slimmed down version of Omniverse Kit containing only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
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A slimmed down version of Omniverse Kit containing only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
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A slimmed down version of the Omniverse Kit containing only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
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Samples and Resources for Omniverse Kit Application Streaming. |
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NVIDIA Omniverse Hub Workstation Cache allows for file content and derived data caching for Kit-based applications. |
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Omniverse Nucleus is the database and collaboration engine of Omniverse. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Snapshot of Kit Extensions registry for Air Gap. |
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This container is a base container ready for Kit Applications. It contains only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
Production Branch - December 2025 (PB 25h2)#
PB Collection on NGC |
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First Release |
December 2025 |
Planned End of Support (EOS) |
August 2026 |
Planned End of Life (EOL) |
November 2026 |
Support Matrix |
New Features - Major Feature Highlights for Omniverse Kit, Clash Detection SDK, and App Streaming:
Breakthrough Real-Time Rendering: RTX Real-Time 2.0 is now the default, delivering real-time path-traced visuals with enhanced lighting simulation fidelity for highly accurate large-scale simulations.
Advanced Sensor & Scene Simulation: Expanded support for rolling shutter, structured light sensor patterns, customizable camera ISP, and photometric lighting units—plus improved IES profile accuracy and optimized performance for massive OpenUSD VFI scenes.
Optimized Performance & Clash Management: Major scene and asset optimization tools, faster memory management (mimalloc, zero-copy), and Fabric Scene Delegates (FSD) are enabled by default. Dynamic clash detection and analysis are faster and more accurate offline and runtime playback, with advanced grouping, filtering, and database migration support.
Core Technology & Platform Upgrades: Integrated Pixar USD 25.02, Python 3.12, NumPy 2.x, and CUDA 12.4.1 for modern workflows and compatibility. Enterprise-ready with robust string safety, expanded ARM support, improved diagnostics, and OpenTelemetry-based observability.
Enhanced Security, Collaboration, & Infrastructure: Resolved vulnerabilities across Kit, Nucleus, and App Streaming; improved diagnostics, observability metrics and logging, streamlined cache management, and cloud deployment. Collaboration features have been enhanced with a new deep link functionality where customers on cloud deployments can share a scene via a unique URL, enabling others to join with matching timing and camera view.
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Product Description |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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A slimmed down version of Omniverse Kit containing only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
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A slimmed down version of Omniverse Kit containing only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
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A slimmed down version of the Omniverse Kit containing only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |
|
Samples and Resources for Omniverse Kit Application Streaming. |
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NVIDIA Omniverse Hub Workstation Cache allows for file content and derived data caching for Kit-based applications. |
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Omniverse Nucleus is the database and collaboration engine of Omniverse. |
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Clash Detection SDK for Linux is used in construction and design projects to identify conflicts between different elements within digital models. |
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Clash Detection SDK for Windows is used in construction and design projects to identify conflicts between different elements within digital models. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. |
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Snapshot of Kit Extensions registry for Air Gap. |
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This container is a base container ready for Kit Applications. It contains only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. |