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MCP Server (2025.2.4)

Sketch + MCP server = Unlimited possibilities

This update adds an MCP server to Sketch — giving MCP-compatible AI clients direct access to the Sketch documents you choose.

Your AI client of choice can explore your designs, answer questions about layers and styles, generate new assets, help you work faster, and so much more.

For more information and instructions for getting started, check out our documentation.

Improvements

  • We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when a document contained accidentally complex shape groups by adjusting the point at which we simplify boolean operations.

Download Sketch 2025.2.4

Barcelona (2025.2.1)

Our second 2025 update — Barcelona — is here. While we’re hard at work redesigning Sketch for macOS Tahoe, we’re releasing this update with our glass effect now to help you redesign your own apps for iOS 26 and macOS 26. That’s not all this update brings, either.

Introducing: Glass

An all-new glass effect. Yes, the one you’ve been asking for. You’ll find it under a new Effects section of the Inspector, where you can apply automatic settings or tweak every parameter to your liking. It’s a lot of fun to play around with.

Read our glass documentation

Concentric corners

You can now set a layer’s corner style to Auto. This automatically aligns them visually with the corners of the nearest container that has corner properties. We calculate this based on the layer’s distance to that container — or the container’s padding if it’s a stack.

Read our corner styling documentation

Progressive blurs

In the Effects section of the Inspector, you’ll find new layer and background blur options. Choose from Uniform (replacing the previous Gaussian and Background options), Linear Progressive, or Radial Progressive. Progressive blurs support multiple adjustable stops, like gradients, which you can move freely on the canvas.

Read our blurs documentation

Progressive alpha

We’ve added a new button Linear Gradient next to the opacity slider in the Inspector to switch to progressive alpha. This gives you a faster and easier way to fade out a layer compared to setting up an alpha mask. You can also adjust and add stops to the opacity gradient on the canvas.

Read our opacity documentation

New Apple UI Libraries

Apple has updated their Sketch Libraries with glass for both macOS 26 and iOS 26. You’ll find them in Settings > Libraries.

30 more improvements and fixes

Along with the headline features, you’ll find a number of smaller improvements in Barcelona — from being able to add search keywords to components (making them easier to find in the Command Bar), to P3 color space support for WebP exports. There are also plenty of bug fixes and performance improvements to keep things running smoothly.

Improvements

Styling

  • We’ve added a new button next to a layer’s opacity settings in the Inspector to switch to progressive alpha — giving you a faster and easier way to fade out a layer compared to setting up an alpha mask.

  • We’ve added menu and Command Bar items for changing a layer’s corner style, and resetting its corners to their default settings (Rounded, 0).

  • You can now use the eyedropper tool to add or change a page’s canvas color when you haven’t selected anything on the canvas.

Libraries and components

  • We now automatically install updates for Libraries with unchanged license agreements, so you don’t need to accept the agreement again.

  • You can now add search keywords to any component in the Components View, giving you more control and better results wherever you search for components.

  • Nested Symbols now preserve their current dimensions when you swap them within a Symbol that has a stack layout.

Performance

  • We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when you work with background blurs.

  • We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when rendering shadows on image layers.

Workflow and UI

  • If you’ve disabled “Rename duplicated layers” in settings, we now respect your preference and no longer rename layers if they have exports. However, exporting layers with identical names may overwrite each other.

  • We now support the P3 color space when you export using the webp format.

  • We’ve added a menu item and shortcut ⌘6 to view Graphic Templates in the Components View.

  • Container titles on the canvas now dynamically adjust to contrast with dark or light canvas colors.

Changes

Blur types

  • The Gaussian Blur type is now called “Layer” and has three new options: Uniform Blur (previously Gaussian Blur), Linear Progressive Blur, and Radial Progressive Blur.

  • The Background Blur type is now simply “Background” and has three new options: Uniform Blur (previously Background Blur), Linear Progressive Blur, and Radial Progressive Blur.

  • We’ve adjusted the radius value for background blurs to better match current web standards. Existing background blurs have a new radius value but will appear the same.

Libraries

  • The option to open a Library in Settings > Libraries no longer appears when you don’t have the right permissions to open it.

Fixes

Export and rendering

  • Fixes a bug where exporting a Frame might ignore fills on Symbol sources nested inside that Frame.

  • Fixes a bug that could leave artifacts on the canvas when you edited layers inside a Frame that uses Zoom blur.

  • Fixes a bug where, in some cases, a shadow on a group wouldn’t appear if the group only contained a blurred layer.

  • Fixes a bug where a shadow on an image layer could clip unexpectedly.

Layer and symbol behavior

  • Fixes a bug where the Data button wouldn’t work when you selected an individual text override.

  • Fixes a bug that unexpectedly reparented nested Frames within other Frames in your selection as you dragged your selection on the canvas.

  • Fixes a bug where a Symbol instance you set as an alpha mask would switch to being an outline mask if you used it as part of another Symbol.

  • Fixes a bug that caused the Clip Content setting to change unexpectedly when converting a frame into a Symbol.

  • Fixes a bug where the “Preserve space when hidden” layout option would appear in the Inspector for nested symbols in scenarios where it doesn’t work.

Performance and stability

  • Fixes a bug where extremely complex masks or boolean ops could cause Sketch to hang.

  • Fixes a crash that could occur when you replaced the image in an image layer.

  • Fixes a bug in macOS Tahoe where the Settings window could become unresponsive.

  • Fixes a crash in macOS Tahoe that could occur when you pressed Esc while drawing a layer.

  • Fixes a bug in macOS Tahoe that stopped the comment popover from opening when you clicked on a comment pin on the canvas.

  • Fixes a crash that could happen when you downloaded the iOS 26 UI Library, opened it and tried to select a page.

  • Fixes a bug which caused Sketch to hang if you selected a layer that was positioned at an extreme coordinate.

Tools and Canvas

  • Fixes a bug where you couldn’t copy and paste a blur style.

  • Fixes a bug that meant the Scale (K) tool did not remember the origin point you set the next time you used it.

  • Fixes a bug that meant a custom canvas color wouldn’t appear in the canvas view of the iOS app.

  • Fixes a bug in macOS Tahoe that made drawing a selection on the canvas unreliable.

  • Fixes a bug that meant removing blurs on multiple layers only removed the blur from a single layer, rather than the whole selection.

Copenhagen (2025.3)

Our third — and final — major update of 2025 is here. It brings a fresh design with an all-new Inspector, wrap for stacks, one-click image background removal, and more flexible way to organize your Workspace.

We’ve named this release Copenhagen — a city famous for its beautiful, functional design. And that’s exactly what we’ve aimed to bring with this update.

An all-new design

When Apple announced macOS Tahoe, we knew we had to redesign Sketch. We also knew that redesign had to be more than a fresh coat of paint — it had to improve functionality.

In Copenhagen, the toolbar is contextual and automatically adapts based on your selection and tool choice. The layer list has a new focus mode to show only layers you’ve selected and their relevant context.

The new Inspector isn’t just a redesign, either — it’s a full rewrite. It introduces floating panels for things color and color variable selection, numeric fields you can drag to scrub without focusing, and alternate functions when you hold ⌥.

There’s a lot more to talk about this redesign, and we’ve got a full guide to every detail over on the blog.

Blog post: A guided tour of Copenhagen

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