This is a huge one. A great release with very sweet improvements! (Especially with the bug I missed about panelbutton @Wurschdhaud ;) , that explain the 5.3.1)

Maybe AI has something to do with it! Lots of new tools, lots of improvements, lots of fixes, lots of help.

I may forget quite a few people, some easily identified, others, more discrete: 🙏 🚀 🌟
@Wurschdhaud (Great newcomer), @tay0thman (Great help), @MohamedAsli (un grand merci), @Isaiah-Narvaez-42, @WemyssJ, @ramyamaher , @Swichllc, @thumDer, @nasmovk, @Denver-22, @czwangxtt, @frank-e-loftus, @IGF-Zhang
The usual suspects in the background: @sanzoghenzo and @dosymep

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pyRevit

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pyRevit CLI (Command line utility)

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Highlights

• New Tool #2880: Enhancements for Measure 3D ❤️

• New Tool #2873: New tool simple xls ex+import

• New tool #2881: Sectionbox navigator 🚀

• Improved tool #2865 / #2866: View Range / Improved overall tool functionality

• New feature #2793: Allow for an option to close other outputs for all scripts in pyrevit settings

• Improved tool #2738: Toggle Grid Bubbles By Direction 🪨
• Improved tool #2864: feat: Print Sheets: DWG exporter, progress bar, crash prevention + more 🦾
• New Tool #2883: Add Relink Textures tool to pyRevitTools

• Improved #2827: Rewrite of the print_table function: module "output" init.py 🌟
• New Tool #2792: Copy parameter values of selected parameters to another one 🚀

• Improved #1809: Content bundle _content requirement removal ⭐

Changes

Tools

• Implemented #2847: linkify too long error message isn't descriptive
• Improved #2825: Enhancement for "Count Faces": Coarse+Fine
• Resolved #2812: Update pyrevitlib\rpws\server.py
• Resolved #2804: enhancenment for select all objects passing filter
• Resolved #2803: Prune old command 'Toggle Grid Bubbles in View'
• Implemented #2243: Isolate or Select By by Visibility Graphics Filter
• Improved #2797: Refactor Section Box Tool to Support Configurable Toggle for Visibility or Active State
• Improved #2782: added support for linked files - same as orient section box
• Improved #2773: Enhance get_view_filters function to support ordered retrieval of filters
• Improved #2754: Copy Sheets to Open Documents: add "Preserve detail numbers" option (default ON), safer param handling, and richer logs
• Improved #2745: Enhancement 1739 - Improve Copy Legend Functionality
• Resolved #2723: Enhance font replacement functionality in Revit families
• Implemented #2695: add a iter_project_parameters to make the related functions more efficient
• Implemented #2274: Water and Airflow parameters - Sum total tool unit fix
• Implemented #2386: "Orient Section Box to Face" works with Linked files
• Implemented #2317: Button to PIN all Links & Grids & Others
• Implemented #2243: "Isolate" or "Select By" by Visibility Graphics Filter

Runtime

• Resolved #2879: Update binary files (to preserve clone functionality

Engines

• Resolved #2877: Add clean option to bundle.yaml configuration

Extensions

• Resolved #2824: Adding Revitesse to extensions

Installer

• Resolved #2762: Add .NET 8 Runtime Check to Installer Scripts
• Resolved #2757: Fix: Create config directory before writing

Command Line Utility (CLI)

• Resolved #2757: Fix: Create config directory before writing

Python API

• Implemented #2695: add a iter_project_parameters to make the related functions more efficient

This is a huge one. A great release with very sweet improvements!

Maybe AI has something to do with it! Lots of new tools, lots of improvements, lots of fixes, lots of help.

I may forget quite a few people, some easily identified, others, more discrete: 🙏 🚀 🌟
@Wurschdhaud (Great newcomer), @tay0thman (Great help), @MohamedAsli (un grand merci), @Isaiah-Narvaez-42, @WemyssJ, @ramyamaher , @Swichllc, @thumDer, @nasmovk, @Denver-22, @czwangxtt, @frank-e-loftus, @IGF-Zhang
The usual suspects in the background: @sanzoghenzo and @dosymep

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pyRevit CLI (Command line utility)

• 📦 pyRevit CLI 5.3.0.25308 MSI Installer - Admin / System %PATH%

Highlights

• New Tool #2880: Enhancements for Measure 3D ❤️

• New Tool #2873: New tool simple xls ex+import

• New tool #2881: Sectionbox navigator 🚀

• Improved tool #2865 / #2866: View Range / Improved overall tool functionality

• New feature #2793: Allow for an option to close other outputs for all scripts in pyrevit settings

• Improved tool #2738: Toggle Grid Bubbles By Direction 🪨
• Improved tool #2864: feat: Print Sheets: DWG exporter, progress bar, crash prevention + more 🦾
• New Tool #2883: Add Relink Textures tool to pyRevitTools

• Improved #2827: Rewrite of the print_table function: module "output" init.py 🌟
• New Tool #2792: Copy parameter values of selected parameters to another one 🚀

• Improved #1809: Content bundle _content requirement removal ⭐

Changes

Tools

• Implemented #2847: linkify too long error message isn't descriptive
• Improved #2825: Enhancement for "Count Faces": Coarse+Fine
• Resolved #2812: Update pyrevitlib\rpws\server.py
• Resolved #2804: enhancenment for select all objects passing filter
• Resolved #2803: Prune old command 'Toggle Grid Bubbles in View'
• Implemented #2243: Isolate or Select By by Visibility Graphics Filter
• Improved #2797: Refactor Section Box Tool to Support Configurable Toggle for Visibility or Active State
• Improved #2782: added support for linked files - same as orient section box
• Improved #2773: Enhance get_view_filters function to support ordered retrieval of filters
• Improved #2754: Copy Sheets to Open Documents: add "Preserve detail numbers" option (default ON), safer param handling, and richer logs
• Improved #2745: Enhancement 1739 - Improve Copy Legend Functionality
• Resolved #2723: Enhance font replacement functionality in Revit families
• Implemented #2695: add a iter_project_parameters to make the related functions more efficient
• Implemented #2274: Water and Airflow parameters - Sum total tool unit fix
• Implemented #2386: "Orient Section Box to Face" works with Linked files
• Implemented #2317: Button to PIN all Links & Grids & Others
• Implemented #2243: "Isolate" or "Select By" by Visibility Graphics Filter

Runtime

• Resolved #2879: Update binary files (to preserve clone functionality

Engines

• Resolved #2877: Add clean option to bundle.yaml configuration

Extensions

• Resolved #2824: Adding Revitesse to extensions

Installer

• Resolved #2762: Add .NET 8 Runtime Check to Installer Scripts
• Resolved #2757: Fix: Create config directory before writing

Command Line Utility (CLI)

• Resolved #2757: Fix: Create config directory before writing

Python API

• Implemented #2695: add a iter_project_parameters to make the related functions more efficient

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pyRevit

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git for-each-ref refs/tags/v* --sort=-creatordate --format=%(refname) --count=1
git log --pretty=format:%h %s%n%b%n/ v5.1.0.25094+1017..HEAD

Highlights

• pyrevit-mcp extension added (@JotaDeRodriguez 🚀 )
• Add support for 'title:' in the .panel bundle.yaml
• Preflight Checks: new config mode to export data from the audit all check to csv (and then use in BI tools)
• int64 fix to support 2026 LongId

Changes

Tools

• Improved #2704: "Copy Sheets to Open Documents" now preserves detail number
• Resolved #2691: Color Splasher : Wrong Revit API Class invocation + fixes on the MEP Zones and Spaces behaviour
• Improved #2716: Preflight Checks: fixed logic issue in Audit All in the model checker
• Improved #2679: Update Renumber tool to handle multiple open UI Views in the Active UI
• Resolved #2670: Create worksets for linked elements Fix: Added utf-8 encoding
• Resolved #2667: Update "Generate Revision Report" Tool to give more control
• Resolved #2668: Update Create Revised Sheet Set, to Give the users control
• Resolved #2665: Tool: Font Switcher 🤩
• Resolved #2644: Add "Associated to Others" to Wipe Family Parameters button
• Fix on selectFromList by @iorhanV
• Go Telemetry module update (the whole telemetry is getting externalized in a different repo on the next release hopefully)
• Fixed Renumber tool

Bundles

• Resolved #2702: Add support for 'title:' in the .panel bundle.yaml

Extensions

• Resolved #2637: LibGit2Sharp missing CredentialsProvider fix Thanks for that one @dnenov
• Quickly Toolbar extension by @tay0thman

Changes

Tools

• Resolved #2626: Revit 2026 compatibility - first draft
• Improved #2620: Dev/2606 Fix for orienting view to faces of objects that have transformations

Extensions

• Resolved #2614: Added pyByggstyrning to the extensions.json

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pyRevit CLI (Command line utility)

• 📦 pyRevit CLI 5.1.0.25094 Installer - Admin / System %PATH%

Highlights

• Resolved #2558: pyRevit5 signed DLLs @jmcouffin
• Consolidated hosts files @thumDer

Changes

Command Line Utility (CLI)

• Resolved #2579: fix: CLI, removed exception from ClearAllCaches @thumDer

Tools

• Resolved #2586: doc: tooltip improvement for Select Element Types Tool / Search @jorisvandermeulen
• Resolved #2585: fix: get_rvt_link_doc_name in query.py @jmcouffin
• Cad audit check improvement @nasmovk
• Get Openings Tool from @mangrove-art

Documentation

• CNAME for docs domain @sanzoghenzo

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pyRevit

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pyRevit CLI (Command line utility)

• 📦 pyRevit CLI 5.0.1.25051 Installer - Admin / System %PATH%

Highlights

• All versions of Revit, 2025 up and down, are supported, YES!
  It has been the case for 6 months, but we were greedy and tried to fix as much as we could before releasing. Huge thanks to @dosymep
  and @sanzoghenzo 🙏

• New Iron Python Engines:

  • Default is 2.7.12
  • 3.4.2 available (expect bugs as this version dropped some of the modules used by some of the tools)

• Cpython is still not fully supported, the task at hand is way too big for our current manpower

• New Code Signing Certificate with Azure Trusted Signing

Changes

Tools

• Preflight Checks

  • Extra preflight checks thanks to our hackathon participants ( @tay0thman @andreasdraxl @nasmovk )
    • CAD checks
      • Resolved #2423: Create CADAUDIT_check.py
    • Wall naming convention check ( Resolved #2453: walltypes_naming_convention_check)
      • Resolved #2453: walltypes_naming_convention_check
    • Coordinates check
      • Resolved #2425: Update radar_check.py - Code Cleanup, expanding tabulated info
  • New full audit tools, scans all linked models and report plenty of data + allow exporting that data to CSV
  • Improved #2348: Create levels_check.py
  • Improved #2349: Create grids_check.py

• Color Splasher

  • Thanks to @NonicaTeam lots of fixes and a nice save and load scheme function
  • Complete cleaning and a dose of refactor to better match pyRevit standards
  • Resolved #2514: Color Splasher: Unwanted characters in filter name
  • Resolved #2494: fixes 2479 - color splasher
  • Improved #2457: color splasher update
  • Resolved #2355: Color splasher 'DataTable' issue : full_frame: true

• Copy Sheets

  • Resolved #2513: Precision on the tool behaviour: copy sheets

• Convert lines

  • Resolved #2509: Convert lines closing event

• Resolved #2387: New Tool - Move Viewport label

• Fixes

  • Resolved #2461: cycle family types

Engines

• Resolved #2538: fix: Handle netcore/netfx folders in CLI runner path resolution

Runtime

• Resolved #2427: Loader refactor
• Resolved #2363: fix net folder
• Resolved #2356: Update HyperlinkEngine.cs

Python 3

• Improved #2422: IronPython 3 Compatibility and Update for xlrd & xlsxwriter

IronPython

• Improved #2422: IronPython 3 Compatibility and Update for xlrd & xlsxwriter

DotNet API

• Resolved #2395: Update ScriptConsole.cs

Command Line Utility (CLI)

• Brought back the DLLs in the repo to maintain the usability of clones for now
• Resolved #2539: loading pyRevitLabs.json in PyrevitCLI manually if assembly is not found
• Resolved #2510: Update pyrevit-hosts.json
• Resolved #2427: Loader refactor

Wiki

• Complete review adding the docstring for better documentation and usability

  • Improved #2523: query module docstring review

• Developer Guide by @sanzoghenzo 🍾

  • Resolved #2511: Update dev-guide.md

• Fixes

  • Resolved #2517: docs: make the text in the logo follow the site theme
  • Resolved #2515: docs: remove doc_mode

Runtime

• Resolved #2516: fix(config): allow concurrent access to pyrevit_config.ini @sanzoghenzo
• Resolved #2428: CRITICAL [pyrevit.runtime] Can not find required reference assembly: System.Drawing.Common

Extensions

• Resolved #2460: Added Pam Building Design+ extension
• Resolved #2430: fix for update button in Revit 2025

Languages

• pyRevit speaks: English (@eirannejad originally), French (@jmcouffin), Russian(@dosymep) and German (@Thomas84)
  • Tools and Tool tips have been edited accordingly and some of the main windows as well thanks to @dosymep again

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pyRevit CLI (Command line utility)

• 📦 pyRevit CLI 5.0.0.25034 Installer - Admin / System %PATH%
  The MSI is preferred as we have had issues with the exe lately

Highlights

• 🟢 We moved the pyRevit repo from @eirannejad user account to the pyrevitlabs org to facilitate the work of maintainers and to release some (if not all ;) ) of the pressure from @eirannejad shoulders. It has been ten years, you know... 🟢

• Resolved #2188: rpw resources engine update - 🍾 This is major and thanks @jbf1212 for this fix. Now you wont get the LoadComponent 3 args error using the rpw module

Tools

• Improved #2209: Lines per view counter improvements by @jmcouffin, a new take on @frederic-beaupere tool, with a new shift click option to query lines in linked files views
• Implemented #2178: Feature/show view range by @thumDer, pretty nifty tool 👏 Next time you will train on Revit, I am sure you will think about Tamas 😄

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pyRevit

• 📦 pyRevit 4.8.15.24089 Installer
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pyRevit CLI (Command line utility)

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Highlights

Changes

Python 3

• Resolved #2139: fix: make pyrevitlib cpython compatible

Engines

• Resolved #2139: fix: make pyrevitlib cpython compatible
• Dropped old python engines. Some external extensions tools using the rpw module may throw an error and require some fixing.

Lib2GitSharp

• Version update bug fix

Stale Issues handling

• Old issues are now handled automatically. If no extra information is given within weeks of the stale flag, the issue gets close. Even though some issues require fixing, they are sometimes too big or lacking manpower, information, reproducibility.

Issue / Bug template refactor

• Issue report has been entirely refactored to align with bug fixing context requirements. Please, do fill in all the required context data and go through the general FAQ fix steps

What's Changed

Bugs fixes

• Bug fix/find rev clouds not show rev number by @sweco-begertjanvdb in #2050
• Update libGit2Sharp version by @jmcouffin in #2062
• Update pyRevitLabs.Common.csproj by @jmcouffin in #2063
• CLI: fix for Lib2GitSharp version token mismatch by @jmcouffin in #2064
• LibGit2Sharp Credentials Provider fix by @kekejun in #2075
• upgraded libgit2sharp version to 0.29.0 by @kekejun in #2079
• fix: recursion on emojis renderer by @sanzoghenzo in #2105
• Fix for get RVT info tool by @jmcouffin in #2134
• Joris van der Meulen > patch forms init by @3Pinter in #2135

CI/CD workflows improvements

• Run CI workflow only official repository by @sanzoghenzo in #2086
• bring GitHub workflow mods to develop-4 branch by @jmcouffin in #2136
• stale issues workflow and bug report template modifications by @jmcouffin in #2140
• Ci optimizations by @sanzoghenzo in #2145
• Ci optimizations brought into develop-4 by @jmcouffin in #2146

Improvements

• Feature/revision report include mark by @sweco-begertjanvdb in #2051
• Pick icon change by @jmcouffin in #2092
• Issue template update by @sanzoghenzo in #2112

Development improvements

• drop old ironpython engines by @sanzoghenzo in #2095
• builld: fix chocolatey package build by @sanzoghenzo in #2111
• fix: reorder search paths by @sanzoghenzo in #2137
• fix: make pyrevitlib cpython compatible by @sanzoghenzo in #2139
• mongo DB driver update fix for #1699 by @jmcouffin in #2154
• Update MongoDB driver to go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver by @dvdgnz in #1699

New Contributors

• @kekejun made their first contribution in #2075
• @3Pinter made their first contribution in #2135

Special thanks

• Great involvement of @sanzoghenzo, your help is very much appreciated! 🎉
• @sweco-begertjanvdb thanks for your surgical help! Keep on.

Full Changelog: v4.8.14.24016+1909...v4.8.15.24089+0912

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• 📦 pyRevit CLI 4.8.14.24016 Installer - Admin / System %PATH%

Highlights

• Implemented #2021 #2022 #2028 #2029: Color Splasher ported to pyRevit from [Original BIMOne Color Splasher (https://github.com/bimone/addins-colorsplasher) with help from Nonica and some time donated from BIMOne Inc.
  
  ✨Bonus features: Create filters and apply to view, Create legend

• Implemented #1832: PyRevit Synchronise button, tool that can replace the Revit sync button and offer the possibility to automatically sync on starting view and close other windows. Many people involved around this tool including @jmcouffin @thumDer @alexdaversa @Robbo1234 @aniketdikshit

• Updated #2023: Update dependencies
• Resolved #1865: handling #1864 multiple Revit session launch at the same time thanks to @thumDer
• New bundle feature: name a second set of icons icon.dark.png in your bundle to have a Dark Theme friendly icon display thanks to @dosymep

• Added helper script for dark mode icon conversion
• New pyRevit API Documentation thanks to @sanzoghenzo : https://docs.pyrevitlabs.io

Changes

Tools

• Improved #2014: improved view handling
• Improved #2015: Add current date to Print Sheets tool filename formats.
• Implemented #1832: PyRevit Synchronise
• Improved #1944: Added cat to entities without tags
• Improved #1943: Exception for Workset links already existing
• Improved #1932: Fix for #1913 - Set Crop Region now works with Elevations
• Improved #1921: Reassign Parent for Keynote
• Improved #1872: config mode for Get Centroid

pyRevit API Documentation

New documentation workflow and platform:

• CI when publishing PR against docs branch
• mkdocs backend
• Modern theme,
• Better presentation and code highlighting of examples embedded in modules docstring, copy button for sample code, ...

New documentation website

Thanks to for the initiative and extensive work @sanzoghenzo and @jmcouffin to help the fixing of the docstrings against google python recommendations

• Resolved #1951: update docs with latest changes
• Resolved #1950: Updated forms.alert sample
• Resolved #1919: docs: switch doc generation to mkdocs
• Improved #1896: docs: add docstrings

Runtime

• Resolved #1931: Fix invokebutton
• Improved #1885: Implementation of Theme Changed Event (2024+)
• Resolved #1862: fix: make envvars cpython compatible
• Resolved #1865: handling #1864

Engines

• Resolved #1931: Fix invokebutton

Extension Checks

• Improved #1916: Create worksets_content_check.py

Bundles

Now handles dark theme. Dark Theme UI event implementation

• Improved #1897: UITheme
• Resolved #1871: Option to set icon size for toggle_icon and UIpanel's is_beta

Hosts Database

• Resolved #1888: Update pyrevit-hosts.json

Extension Hooks

• Improved #1885: Implementation of Theme Changed Event (2024+)

Python 3

• Resolved #1862: fix: make envvars cpython compatible

Attention (Please)

• ⚠️ This round of release notes has been generated automatically so it might have missed some stuff.
• ⚠️ We closed A LOT of old issues reported on github so we can focus on the remaining and not be one of THOSE open-source projects. Direct all hate mail to pyRevit Forums and tag @eirannejad 🥲
• 😍 This release is compatible with Revit 2024

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• 📦 pyRevit CLI 4.8.13.23182 Installer - Admin / System %PATH%

Highlights

• Revit 2024 Support
• Bundles creator extension:
  
• Implemented #1759: sort 'List Legends on Sheets' by Sheet Number (after Legend Name)
• Implemented #1752: Select Elements from Group and Subgroups
• Implemented #1753, #1774 and #1789 : New Feature override 2D elements in current view
  
• Implemented #1743: New Tools: Set legend component orientation

• Implemented #1707: Feature - List all sheets a Legend (or Schedule) is on #1702

Changes

Tools

• Improved #1848: docs: fix userconfig examples
• Improved #1841: added possibility for multiple selection
• Resolved #1838: Update bundle.yaml - Removed update flag
• Resolved #1837: Fix 2d toggle reload behaviour
• Upgraded #1793: Fix #1732 import export family config
• Resolved #1765 and #1704: fix read and write mode, set to binary
• Resolved #1807: Pr/1805 added sorting to include exclude param from view template
• Resolved #1806: fix for #1805 + added 3D view templates
• Improved #1801: forms.show_balloon() first prototype [forms module]
• Resolved #1800: added translation to Wipe Selected Families
• Resolved #1788: Tool 'remove empty elevation tags' moved to 'wipe' section
• Improved #1709: fix: add generic itrerable support to make_link
• Resolved #1720: forms.ask_for_number_slider ignores min and max values
• Improved #1694: Enhancement OverrideVG options with Dash
• Improved #1655: include exclude params from view templates
• Improved #1669: New tool: Set Views Crop Box Line Weight
• Resolved #1588: Create Schedule from CSV File

Localization

• Resolved #1849: Settings translated in french
• Resolved #1799: Russian localization Settings Window
• Resolved #1800: added translation to Wipe Selected Families

Bundles

• Resolved #1777: fix assembly cache
• Resolved #1747: Fix: other.rfa Content Button Bundle Marker #1745
• Resolved #1745: Content Button Bundle - Dot Marker
• Resolved #1742: Fix Tooltip videos
• Resolved #1664: added python and yaml snippets and extension for single button creation
• Resolved #1637: Fix tags manager

Engines

• Resolved #1781: #1705