Release Notes

4.2.0

Expected Release Date: October 6, 2026

This release focuses on Maps improvements, mainly satellite map theming, organization-wide art management, and project-level configuration. By introducing dedicated Satellite themes, letting parent organizations manage art across their stations, and giving administrators control over export defaults, we are making AXIS Maps more flexible for multi-station broadcast operations and more consistent across projects. The release also includes road shield upgrades, server-side still rendering, expanded audit logging, and a broad set of stability fixes. It also adds Prime News to the AXIS main navigation, new AxisAPI endpoints for Prime News and Chyron Maps, and fixes for Prime News canvas and composite handling.

New Features and Enhancements

Maps

Satellite Map Themes

The Theme Editor in the Style Editor now includes a Satellite tab alongside Base, so teams can style map elements specifically for satellite view.

• Sync from Base: Satellite themes can mirror Base values automatically. Editing a field on the Satellite tab turns sync off for that field, and turning sync back on asks for confirmation before overwriting your edits.
• Layer Visibility Follows Base: Showing or hiding a layer on Base applies the same state on Satellite. Locked layers display a tooltip explaining why.
• Satellite-Relevant Properties Only: Only properties that apply to satellite view are shown on the Satellite tab, keeping the editor focused.
• Rendered in the Map Editor: When satellite view is turned on, the Map Editor now renders the Satellite theme’s own styling instead of continuing to show the Base theme.
• Safer Saving: Base and Satellite are saved together. If one side fails, a specific error tells you which one, and the successful side is kept.
• Duplicate with Satellite Variant: Creating or duplicating a theme from Base now also copies its satellite variant.
• Allow Satellite Imagery Switch: A new project setting, next to “Allow custom colors”, lets administrators disable satellite imagery project-wide. The Map Editor explains why it is unavailable.

Organization-Wide Art Management

Users in a parent organization can now view and edit art created by their child organizations, while ownership stays with the organization that created it.

• Hierarchical Access: Higher-level users automatically inherit access to art from all child organizations. Users in lower-level organizations see and edit art only at their own level and below.
• Art Grouped by Organization: The Style Editor now lists art in separate sections per organization, with default art in its own group and newly created art placed under your current organization.
• Edit in Place: When a parent-organization user edits and saves art owned by a child organization, the original record is updated and its ownership is preserved.

Project Defaults — Output Formats

Administrators can now control how projects export, so every map in a project is delivered consistently.

• Restrict and Default Every Export Setting: For Aspect Ratio, Resolution, Image Format, Video Output Format, and Video Framerate, administrators can restrict the selectable values and choose a default.
• Applied on Project Open: The Map Editor applies configured defaults when a project opens. If a default is missing or no longer allowed, it falls back to the first enabled value.

Road Shield Improvements

• Configurable Default Sizes: Designers and administrators can set default road shield icon and text sizes under Project Defaults using range sliders. Existing defaults are unchanged.
• Density Control: Road shield density can now be set back to its original maximum value.

Geometry Drawer Layering

Shapes drawn with the Geometry Drawer (polygons, points, lines, sensors) now render above road layers, including road shields. Existing themes are corrected automatically when loaded, with no manual re-editing required.

Server-Side Still Rendering

Stills are now rendered on the server using the same pipeline as video, ensuring matching output between stills and videos and improving consistency across devices.

Theme Editor Improvements

• Last Theme Reopens: The Style Editor reopens your last-selected theme when it reloads.
• Unsaved Changes Protection: A “Discard unsaved changes?” confirmation appears when you leave the tool or switch themes with unsaved edits.
• Duplicate Keeps Your Edits: Duplicating a theme with unsaved changes now carries over those changes instead of the last saved values.
• Themes Saved on Creation: New themes are stored immediately, with their thumbnail captured at that point, even before you click Save.
• Background Layer: The background layer is now a visible, editable layer in the Theme Editor.
• Default Theme Guidance: Default themes now show a clear message explaining that they cannot be edited and should be duplicated, instead of a disabled Save button.

UX Optimization

• Clearer Error Page: The error page no longer shows technical exception details. It displays clear messages for 404 and WebGL errors and keeps the Retry and Go Home actions.
• Missing Translations: Missing interface translations have been added, including buttons on listing items such as labels and locators.
• Park Icon Removed: The park icon has been removed from themes, following client feedback.
• Keyframe Drag and Drop: Dragging a keyframe no longer shows a stray vertical scrollbar.

News

AxisAPI Updates

• New Prime News Endpoint: A new AxisAPI endpoint returns the Prime Project Types, Prime Projects, and Prime Project scenes available in each Axis project, following the same conventions as the rest of AxisAPI.
• Cleaner Responses: The Prime News and Chyron Maps endpoints now return only Axis projects that contain usable content: at least one Prime Scene for Prime News, or at least one assigned Map Style for Chyron Maps.

Bug Fixes

• Roads Line Cap and Join: Cap and Join values no longer carry over when switching between themes.
• Layer Visibility on Save: Layers hidden in the Theme Editor now stay hidden after saving.
• Bookmarks: Bookmarks now restore the correct Style and Theme, including when the bookmark also switches the map style.
• 3D Buildings and Labels: Area and street labels are now displayed above 3D buildings.
• Locator Text: Locator text is now vertically centered.
• LUCI Mode: The error modal no longer shows a redirect to Style Manager in LUCI mode.
• Render Progress: Render progress no longer stalls at 5% in multi-instance deployments and properly reaches completion.
• Vertical Scenes in News: Vertical scenes, such as 720×1280, now scale to fit the News canvas properly.
• Composite Editing: Image content is now restored correctly on the canvas when a composite is loaded for editing from Track or the Composite grid.
• Independent Masks: An independent mask layer is no longer applied as a mask to a separate replaceable image.
• Fit to Canvas Preview: Fit to Canvas now produces the same preview sharpness as manual zoom at the same zoom level. Final output was not affected.
• LUCI Loading Time: Resolved long LUCI loading times caused by connection and authentication timeouts.

4.1.0

Release Date: September 1^st, 2026

This release brings richer map styling, smoother animation editing, and a more polished Style Manager experience. Highlights include drop shadows and thicker stroke widths for roads and shapes, ability to turn off the availability of base layers in Map Theme, drag-and-drop keyframe reordering, project-level default render resolution, and a range of styling, access, and stability improvements across the Map Editor and Style Editor.

New Features and Enhancements

Road Styling

Road networks can now carry more visual depth and weight, giving broadcast maps a bolder, more legible look.

• Road Drop Shadows: Road line layers now support a configurable drop shadow, rendered as a unified shadow pass beneath the entire road stack, so authors can add depth without managing separate shadow layers.
• Thicker Stroke Widths: Routes, polygons, and boundaries now support stroke widths well beyond the previous limit, with a combined slider and numeric input for precise control — ideal for broadcast visibility.
• Road Shield Size Defaults: Project Defaults in the Style Editor now include range sliders for the default road shield icon and text size, giving designers direct control over shield sizing while keeping the existing icon size unchanged for current projects.

Animation Editing

• Drag-and-Drop Keyframes: Keyframes in the animation timeline can now be reordered by dragging, with clear visual feedback while dragging. The new order is preserved when a bookmark is saved and reloaded.

Map Editor and Labels

• Permanent Layer Hiding: Layers set to “Hidden” in a map theme can now be permanently hidden in the Map Editor.
• Delete Edited Labels: Edited labels can now be removed directly with a new delete button in the label editor.

Style Editor and Themes

• Default Render Resolution: Project defaults now include a default render resolution (HD, FHD, 2K, 4K, or none), so a project can open in the Maps app at the intended resolution automatically. Existing projects are unaffected and keep their current behavior.
• New Color Picker in Style Editor: The color picker across the Style Editor has been replaced with a new, unified picker — including support for color palettes — for a more consistent editing experience.
• Faster Locator Previews: Locator style previews in the Style Editor now render more responsively when adjusting properties such as color, blur, opacity, and offset.
• Park Icon Removed: The park icon has been removed from map themes in response to customer feedback.
• Hub-Level Art Visibility and Editing: Users in a hub or parent organization can now see and edit arts created at any station beneath them directly in the Style Editor, with arts grouped into a section per owning organization in the Art panel. Saving an edit to a station-owned art updates that same record in place, preserving its original ownership, while station-level users continue to see only their own organization’s arts.

Style Manager

The Style Manager changes include clearer organization handling and cleaner project and style listings.

• Project Names in Map Styles: Map styles now show the associated project name, making it easier to tell styles apart.
• Cleaner Organization List: Organizations with no map styles are now hidden from the Map Styles column, reducing visual clutter.
• Access Guidance: Users without an available project, style, or map theme now see clear, actionable messages — with guidance and shortcuts to resolve the situation or switch to another project or style — instead of an empty screen.

Navigation and Sign-In

• Streamlined Language Selector: The language menu now shows just the flag icon, with the language name available on hover.
• Email in Navigation: The signed-in user is now identified by email in the navigation bar, matching AXIS.
• Partner Launch Support: Maps now recognizes launch parameters from the AXIS Portal partner login — preselecting the project and style and pre-filling map details — and supports a streamlined “Back to Luci” navigation when opened from the LUCI platform.

Bug Fixes

• Overlapping Shape Selection: Clicking overlapping circles on the map now selects and edits the same shape that appears highlighted.
• Road Rendering: Curved roads now render as smooth, fully connected lines at close zoom, instead of showing squared segments or small gaps.
• Line Cap and Join Carryover: Switching between themes no longer carries a previous theme’s road line cap and join settings into a theme that hasn’t set them.
• Hidden Layers on Save: Layers set to hidden in the Theme Editor now stay hidden after saving.
• Zoom Level with Elevation: The zoom level value now matches between the Map Controls and Quick panel when elevation is enabled.
• Station-Level Style Arts: Arts created at a higher organization level can now be assigned to styles for station-level organizations as expected.
• 3D Building Labels: Area and street labels no longer render underneath 3D buildings when the Buildings visibility layer is enabled.
• Road Shield Density Reset: Changing the Road Shield density and then returning to the original value now correctly restores the original shield density instead of rendering fewer shields.

4.0.0

Release Date: July 28, 2026

The new version introduces end-to-end news workflows that bring PRIME templates into AXIS News, reduce legacy dependencies, and simplify graphics production. In the Maps module, new animation tools enable more dynamic storytelling through animated map sequences. Expanded customization capabilities, such as custom typography, editable hillshade, and broader boundary coverage, help teams maintain visual consistency across productions. Last but not least, a series of UI and UX upgrades across both modules improves everyday usability.

News

AXIS 4.0 enables end-to-end news workflows through the integration of PRIME templates within AXIS News, bringing Chyron’s advanced graphics authoring capabilities into the AXIS ecosystem. This helps customers work more efficiently with simplified newsroom graphics workflows and reduces legacy dependencies. Journalists and producers can create image composites that seamlessly fit into their PRIME scenes with the new Composite Editor, which lets them add the images and text that support their story directly within AXIS. A new Preview Mode enables faster editorial review, so users can preview their compositions, including assets from AP and Getty Images (upon subscription), without a full render.

Maps

This release delivers the Styles Manager — a new organization-level application for building Map Styles and assigning them to projects — together with the Map Style model that reshapes how styling flows from the Styles Editor into the Map Editor. Alongside it, this cycle completes the Color Palette system, promotes hillshade terrain to a first-class configurable layer, adds visual previews across the editors, and expands locator and label typography controls. A substantial round of bug fixing across Locators, Style Editor, Color Palettes, Bookmarks, and the AXIS Track integration rounds out the release.

New Features and Enhancements

Styles Manager

A new organization-scoped application for creating Map Styles and controlling which design assets reach which projects. Styles Manager is the governance layer over the Style Arts produced in the Styles Editor.

• Map Style Creation Wizard: A progressive five-step wizard walks users from organization selection through choosing or creating a Map Style, picking Art categories with selected/existing counters, selecting individual Arts via preview cards, and finally assigning the Map Style to projects.
• Hub and Station Scoping: Hub-level users see their own Map Styles alongside those of each Station beneath them, and can assign a Hub Map Style to a Station's project. Station users see only their own scope; assignment does not work in reverse.
• Art Assignment Protection: Editing an Art that is already assigned to a Map Style now creates a new Art rather than modifying the original in place, so a change in one project cannot silently alter every other project using that asset. Unassigned Arts remain freely editable.
• Organization-Scoped Data Access: Backend queries are restricted so users retrieve only their own organization and its descendant projects and styles, and validation prevents a Map Style from being assigned across organization boundaries.
• Art Category Icons: Icons from the Styles Manager action bar were added to the Art categories to make asset types easier to recognize at a glance.

Styles Editor Rework

The Styles Editor has been reworked around the Map Style model, replacing the project-as-package approach with an organization-wide asset library.

• Card-Based Art Library: The project dropdown has been removed. Selecting a tool now shows all of the organization's Arts as preview cards, with a separate action for creating a new one.
• In-Use Warnings: Editing an Art that is assigned to a Map Style now surfaces a warning that the asset is in use and will be saved as a new Art, with a duplicate or rename flow on save.
• Deferred Visibility: A newly created Art is saved to the organization library and does not appear in any project until it is added to a Map Style through Styles Manager.

Map Style Integration in the Map Editor

• Map Style Dropdown: A Map Style selector has been added to the Map Editor, exposing the styles assigned to the current project.
• Style-Filtered Tools: Map Themes, Locator Styles, and other Art-consuming tools now offer only the Arts contained in the selected Map Style.
• Multiple Styles per Project: Projects with more than one assigned Map Style allow switching between them, with the editor refreshing its available Arts on change.
• Assigned Style Loading: Opening a project fetches its assigned Map Styles and initializes the active selection.

Color Palette System

The project-scoped Color Palette tool lets teams define, organize, and reuse named brand colors across AXIS Maps, ensuring consistent color usage throughout every map element.

• Palette Management: Create, edit, duplicate, rename, and delete palettes within a project, each holding a set of named colors with undo/redo and JSON import/export.
• Dual-Mode Color Picker: A shared color picker opens to either a full color mixer or a grid of palette swatches, usable from both the Map Editor and Style Editor.
• Loading and UX Refinements: Palettes show a loading state while fetching, and custom color entry on the canvas resolves to a clean HEX value.

Hillshade Terrain Layer

• Hillshade in Themes: The hillshade layer is part of the official base-layer configuration and is included in themes.
• Configurable Hillshade Art: A Hillshade art type lets style editors define per-project terrain constraints — exaggeration ranges, hillshade method, and shadow and highlight colors.
• Style Editor Control: Hillshade settings moved into the Style Editor so that projects stay within a visually consistent look rather than giving every Maps user unrestricted control over the terrain layer.

Visual Theme and Art Previews

• Theme Preview Thumbnails: Saving a map theme captures and stores a thumbnail of the map so themes can be displayed as visual previews. Thumbnail capture never blocks or rolls back a theme save.
• Art Grid Views: The Style Editor shows themes and locators as preview cards in a grid, built on generalized thumbnail card and picker-grid components.

Art Removal

Users can now delete themes, typefaces, safe titles, locators, and color palettes from the Styles Editor, with both backend support and frontend controls in place.

Locator and Label Typography

• Street Intersection Locators: A new intersection search mode lets users place a locator at a street crossroad. Street 1 and Street 2 are required with an optional city or area, and results resolve to a single match, a short pick list, or an inline message when nothing is found.
• Force Uppercase for Locators: A “Force uppercase” option renders locator label text in all caps in both the editor preview and on the map, and is saved with the locator style.
• Per-Zoom Font Size in Themes: Label layers in the theme editor can set font size per zoom level alongside font, edited together in a single combined zoom table.
• Missing Typeface Warnings: Arts referencing a deleted typeface now warn the user instead of silently rendering with the removed font.

Geometry and Route Editing

• Rename and Hide: Drawn geometries and routes can be renamed inline from the listing and toggled between visible and hidden, with both name and visibility persisted through bookmarks and keyframes. Hidden items are excluded from route calculations.
• Simplified Drawing Workflow: The manual “Done” button has been removed from the Geometry Drawing tool so shapes finalize without the extra step.

Boundaries and Project Defaults

• Boundary Picker: Project Defaults gained a searchable, region-collapsible boundary allow-list so administrators can control which geographic boundary layers are available to Maps users. When no restriction is configured, all boundaries remain available.

Project Filtering

• Searchable Project Selector: A search bar lets users filter the project list in real time.
• Relevance and Sorting: The Map Editor shows only projects with at least one style assigned, while the Style Editor pins projects that already have styles to the top and can display a per-project style count.

AXIS Track Integration

• Corrected Edit Redirect: The Edit button in AXIS Track no longer sends users to the legacy Maps application for assets created in Chyron Maps.
• Basic Track Edit Integration: Assets created in Chyron Maps now route to the correct application from Track.
• Navigation Entry Point: A Track button was added to the navigation using the new app drawer style.

UI Redesign

• Map Editor Improvements: Layout, spacing, typography, and component styling across the Map Editor were refined while preserving existing functionality.

Geographic Search and Map Icons

• Coordinate Parser for Geo Search: Geo search parses entered coordinates directly, with reverse geo search corrected for US locations.
• Map Icon Availability: Resolved an issue where no map icons appeared in Chyron Maps despite the user having access to them in AXIS Track.
• Icon Search Input Buffering: Icon search buffers keystrokes so a request fires once the user pauses typing, reducing traffic and improving responsiveness.

Bug Fixes

Locators

• Double Shadow: Locators no longer render a duplicate shadow, which became visible when the shadow color was changed in the Style Editor.
• Shadow on Target Marker: Locator shadow settings now apply to the Target marker consistently with other locator elements.
• Shadow Offset Gap: Adjusting the shadow offset no longer separates the backplate from the callout.
• Character Limit: The 100-character locator text limit now applies to the whole string rather than to each line individually.
• Removed Locator Handling: Locators referencing deleted styles or fonts now behave consistently when a bookmark is reloaded.

Style Editor and Color Palettes

• Theme Rename: The Rename action has been restored to Map Themes.
• Typeface Upload: Uploading a custom typeface no longer removes the default typefaces or breaks locator styles that use them.
• Color Name Length: Color names in a palette are now capped at a reasonable length.
• Hex Code Autocomplete: The color picker no longer autocompletes hex codes while the user is typing them.
• Project Ordering: The Color Palettes project dropdown now lists projects with existing arts first, matching the behavior of other tools.
• Palette Deletion Recoloring: Deleting an in-use color palette no longer restricts recoloring to black when another palette is available.

Map Editor

• Frozen Label Layering: Frozen labels no longer render above locators, map icons, shapes, and routes.
• Raise Color Picker: The color picker no longer closes after a single click when recoloring a raised area.
• Safe Title Persistence: A selected safe title is retained when the user navigates away from and back to the safe title settings.
• Icon Font Isolation: Changing the font on one placed icon no longer changes the font of every other icon on the map.

Geolocation

• Continent Filter Persistence: The continent filter now resets when the map is reset and no longer carries over between projects.
• Coordinate Order: Tools that use geosearch, including Routes and Locators, now display latitude and longitude in the same order as the geosearch bar.

Maps 2.0.0–beta.6

Release Date: June 18, 2026

This beta release advances map styling, terrain depth, and editor usability. It introduces a project-scoped Color Palette system, hillshade terrain support, a new Style Manager foundation, and a significant UI redesign across the editors, alongside reliability and performance improvements throughout the platform.

New Features and Enhancements

Color Palette System

A new project-scoped Color Palette tool lets teams define, organize, and reuse named brand colors across AXIS Maps, ensuring consistent color usage throughout every map element.

• Palette Management: Create, edit, duplicate, rename, and delete palettes within a project, each holding a set of named colors (for example, a “Breaking News Red”) with undo/redo and JSON import/export.
• Dual-Mode Color Picker: A new shared color picker opens to either a full color mixer (canvas, hue, opacity, color-space selector, and HEX/RGB/HSL inputs) or a grid of palette swatches, usable from both the Map Editor and Style Editor.
• Shared Component Library: Color picker building blocks and palette logic were moved to a shared library so both editors draw from the same components, with redesigned thumbnail grids and card previews.
• Loading and UX Refinements: Palettes now show a loading state while fetching, and custom color entry on the canvas resolves to a clean HEX value.

Hillshade Terrain Layer

Hillshade rendering is now a first-class part of the map, giving terrain visualizations greater depth and clarity.

• Hillshade in Themes: The hillshade layer is now part of the official base-layer configuration and is included in themes, giving terrain more depth and clarity across the standard map styles.
• Configurable Hillshade Art: A new Hillshade art type lets style editors define per-project terrain constraints — exaggeration ranges, hillshade method, and shadow and highlight colors.

Visual Theme and Art Previews

The editors now present arts and themes as visual previews instead of text lists, making it faster to find and select the right style.

• Theme Preview Thumbnails: Saving a map theme now captures a thumbnail of the map automatically, so themes can be displayed as visual previews. Thumbnail capture never blocks or delays saving a theme.
• Art Grid Views: The Style Editor now shows themes and locators as preview cards in a grid, giving a consistent visual layout across art types. Default content ships with previews ready out of the box.

Style Manager Foundation

A new Style Manager application has been introduced as the foundation for an upcoming set of style management tools, establishing the groundwork for feature work to follow.

UI Redesign

The web interface has been updated to align with the latest approved design, improving clarity and consistency across the experience.

• Refreshed Navigation and Icons: The navbar has been redesigned and icons switched to a cleaner outline style.
• Map Editor Improvements: Layout, spacing, typography, and component styling across the Map Editor were refined while preserving existing functionality.

Project Filtering

Project selection has been streamlined so users can focus on the projects that matter to their work.

• Searchable Project Selector: A search bar lets users filter the project list in real time.
• Relevance and Sorting: The Map Editor now shows only projects that have at least one style assigned, while the Style Editor pins projects that already have styles to the top and can display a per-project style count.

Locator and Label Typography

• Force Uppercase for Locators: A new “Force uppercase” option renders locator label text in all caps in both the editor preview and on the map, and is saved with the locator style.
• Per-Zoom Font Size in Themes: Label layers in the theme editor can now set font size per zoom level alongside font, edited together in a single combined zoom table.

Locator Intersection Search

The Locator tool can now place a marker at a street intersection, not just a free-text address. Broadcast workflows often need to pinpoint a specific crossroad (for example, “Main St & Oak Ave”) as a point of interest, and this adds a dedicated search mode for exactly that.

• Address / Intersection Toggle: A mode toggle above the search field in the Locator panel lets users switch between the existing address autocomplete and the new intersection search.
• Intersection Inputs: In Intersection mode, three fields appear — Street 1 and Street 2 (both required) and an optional City / area — with a Search button that stays disabled until both streets are entered.
• Smart Result Handling: Using intersection geocoding, a single match is selected automatically, while multiple matches are presented as a short pick list for the user to choose from.
• Clear Feedback: If no intersection is found, an inline message suggests adding a city name; if the request fails, the user is prompted to try again. Once a location is selected in either mode, the rest of the panel works as before for setting locator text, choosing a style, and saving.

Geographic Search and Map Icons

• Coordinate Parser for Geo Search: Geo search now parses entered coordinates directly, with reverse geo search corrected for US locations.
• Map Icon Availability: Resolved an issue where no map icons appeared in Chyron Maps despite the user having access to them in AXIS Track.
• Icon Search Input Buffering: Icon search now buffers keystrokes so a request fires once the user pauses typing, reducing traffic and improving responsiveness.

Reliability and Performance

This release also includes a range of behind-the-scenes improvements to strengthen reliability, performance, and long-term stability.

• Data Integrity: All art types — locators, themes, safe titles, typefaces, project defaults, and bookmarks — now validate automatically on save and upgrade older content seamlessly on load, protecting your work as the product evolves.
• Platform Modernization: Ongoing updates to the underlying platform and its dependencies improve performance, security, and stability across the application.

Bug Fixes

• Continent Filter Reset: The continent filter now resets to “All continents” when the map is reset with “Start over,” instead of retaining the previously selected continent.
• Persistent Geo Search Suggestions: A previously searched place no longer bypasses the active continent filter when its query text remains in the search bar.
• Reverse Geo Search for US Locations: Reverse geo search now returns results correctly when a US coordinate is entered.
• Unexpected Sign-Outs: Resolved cases where users could be unexpectedly signed out of Maps and returned to the AXIS dashboard during a session.
• Map Icon Search: Corrected the Map Icons search so it reliably returns matching results.

Maps 2.0.0–beta.5

Release Date: April 16, 2026

This release focuses on professional-grade customization and dynamic storytelling. By introducing a dedicated Typefaces Editor and robust Animation Support, we are providing users with the tools to create highly branded, cinematic map sequences that capture audience attention and deliver complex geographical narratives with precision.

New Features and Enhancements

Maps Styles Editor — Typefaces

We have expanded brand customization options to include typography.

• Custom Font Uploads: Superusers can now upload custom brand fonts directly into the system.
• Project-Specific Application: Once uploaded, these fonts can be applied to particular projects to ensure total visual alignment with network or brand identity standards.

Animations Support

We are introducing a suite of powerful animation tools designed to transform static maps into engaging broadcast sequences:

• Multi-Scene Keyframing: Users can establish multiple keyframes to spotlight different locations or perspectives within a single sequence. This allows for complex, multi-point narratives to be told through a continuous, engaging camera path.
• Seamless Transitions: A variety of transition effects are available to ensure fluid movement between scenes, eliminating jarring shifts and maintaining a cinematic feel.
• Customizable Timing: The duration of each animation and individual keyframe can be adjusted with precision. This ensures the visual movement matches the pacing of voiceovers or the urgency of breaking news.
• Flexible Export Configurations: Finalized animations can be exported in a range of customizable formats, frame rates, and resolutions to meet the specific technical requirements of any broadcast environment.

Maps 2.0.0–beta.4

Release Date: April 1, 2026

This release focuses on refining the user journey through significant UI simplifications and enhanced customization within the Map Styles and Bookmarks workflows.

New Features and Enhancements

Map Styles Editor User Interface

We have overhauled the experience to prioritize clarity:

• UI Simplification: The interface has been streamlined to reduce visual clutter.
• Rename Functionality: Superusers can now rename locators and themes directly within the editor.

Maps Styles Editor - Locators Styles: Define the visual styles of geographic markers, target markers, and callout pointers once, then deploy them across projects.

Bookmarks Enhancements

Managing your saved views is now more flexible:

• Rename Function: Added the ability to rename bookmarks for better project organization.
• Tooltips: Informative tooltips now appear to help identify bookmarks at a glance.

Quick Actions Panel

• Icon-Based Navigation: The UI now utilizes a simplified system of icons instead of text labels for a cleaner workspace.

Bug Fixes

• Layer Visibility: Routes layers no longer cover locator markers; locators will now correctly render on the top layer.
• Theme Persistence: Satellite layer visibility now correctly persists even when the map theme is changed.
• Session Management: Users will no longer default to a "demo user" profile when a session expires

Maps 2.0.0–beta.3

Release Date: March 3, 2026

This beta release marks a significant step forward in brand consistency and workflow automation. By introducing a centralized Map Styles Editor and expanding AXIS Track integration, we are empowering superusers to define global visual standards while giving designers more powerful tools to save, recall, and deliver broadcast-ready map assets.

New Features and Enhancements

AXIS Track Save & FTP Delivery: 

We have streamlined the transition from design to distribution by integrating new export destinations.

• Track Integration: Users can now save map outputs directly to Track for centralized asset management.
• FTP Push: Delivery to an FTP server is now supported within the Track interface, enabling seamless file transfers to designated FTP folders. 
  

Map Styles Editor 

We are introducing a comprehensive update to the Map Styles Editor. Superusers can now define and share branded styles across the organization and projects, ensuring visual consistency. 

• Theme Editor: Create high-level aesthetic themes to change the look and feel based on your brand guidelines instantly. Change the entire "atmosphere" of a map, including landmass colors, label textures, and environmental lighting, with a single click.
  
• Custom Safe Titles: Upload custom safe-title overlays to match specific regional or network broadcast standards.
  

New Default Themes

We’ve introduced a suite of improved default themes. These serve as starting points, allowing superusers to visualize different themes before fine-tuning specific brand elements.

Bookmarks Enhancements

• Expanded settings: In addition to prior functionality, bookmarks now store Polygon settings and Map Icons.
• Thumbnail Fix: Resolved an issue where bookmark thumbnails were not displayed correctly. Visual previews are now fully functional.

Quick Panel Optimization

• Quick Panel UI: Redesigned for better legibility and faster access to frequently used features and bookmarks. 
   

Maps 2.0.0–beta.2

Release Date: January 27, 2026

We are excited to share the latest updates for Chyron Maps. This beta release focuses on expanding your creative toolkit with a robust new keyframing system and support for modern social media formats.

New Features and Enhancements

Advanced Keyframing (Bookmarks)

The bookmarking system has been completely rebuilt in preparation to provide a more reliable animation workflow. You can now save and restore the exact state of your map, making it easier to transition between different views.

• State Persistence: Keyframes now accurately capture visibility settings, road details, boundaries, and specific routes.
• Boundary Outlines: Support for boundary outlines is now integrated directly into the keyframe architecture.
• Improved Thumbnails: Fixed issues with thumbnail generation to ensure your saved bookmarks are easily identifiable at a glance.

Vertical Content Support (9:16)

To support mobile-first storytelling and social media platforms, Chyron Maps now supports a 9:16 aspect ratio. You can now compose your maps specifically for vertical displays without manual cropping.

Map Styles Editor (Demo Mode)

We are introducing a preview of our comprehensive Map Styles Editor. Currently in Demo Mode, this tool allows you to explore and test the upcoming styling framework that will define the visual identity of your maps. 

Preview the future of map customization:

• UI Defaults and General Settings: Configure core map behaviors and global interface preferences.
• Map Theme Editor: Experiment with high-level aesthetic themes to change the look and feel of your geography instantly.
• Typography and Typefaces: Test custom font integrations to ensure map labels align with your brand guidelines.
• Color Palettes: Explore centralized color management for land, water, and data layers.
• Locators and Safe Titles: Preview placement tools for locators and toggle Safe Title overlays to ensure your compositions are broadcast-ready.

Refined Label Controls

We’ve improved how you interact with map labels to ensure a more intuitive editing experience:

• Direct Selection: Clicking a label in the list now automatically selects it for editing on the map.
• Font Constraints: Added minimum and maximum font size limits to maintain visual consistency.
• Localized POIs: Point of Interest (POI) labels now correctly display localized names based on your settings.

Bug Fixes

• Street Labels: Fixed a bug where "freezing" street labels caused them to disappear or change geometry.
• UI Polish: Resolved an issue where map attribution text would overflow the map area.
• Search Stability: Fixed an "infinite fetch" loop that occasionally occurred when using the geographical search tool.
• Interface Tweaks: Added padding to sliders to eliminate unnecessary scrollbars for a cleaner workspace.

Technical Notes

• Back end: We have optimized our logging systems for better AWS integration, ensuring faster troubleshooting and improved environment stability.

3.3.2

Release Date: January 27, 2026

Following our recent transition to Single Sign-On (SSO), AXIS 3.3.2 is a maintenance update focused on stabilizing the authentication experience and refining the Order module. This release ensures that your sessions remain secure and your workflow remains uninterrupted.

Authentication and Session Management

To provide a smoother experience with our new SSO implementation, we have deployed several improvements to how AXIS handles user sessions:

• Smart Session Refresh: Improved automatic session refreshing to prevent unexpected logouts while you are working.

• Clearer Notifications: If a session does expire, you will now receive a clear, timely notification to re-authenticate.

• State Stability: Fixed underlying issues with session state handling to ensure a consistent experience across different browser tabs.

Order Module Improvements

• Ordering Workflow: Resolved an issue where ordering was not functioning correctly for specific workflows.

• Auto-Refresh: The Order list webpage now refreshes automatically, ensuring you are always looking at the most current data.

• New User Onboarding: Fixed a bug where user settings were not initializing correctly for newly created accounts.

3.3.1 

General Fixes

• Input Validation: Refined phone number validation to be more flexible and prevent errors during profile setup.

• Stability Updates: General platform maintenance

3.3.0 and Maps 2.0.0-beta.1

Features

• AWS Cognito integration, including single sign-on  
  • The  AXIS AWS Cognito integration has rolled out, meaning single sign-on (SSO) is now live
• AXIS Maps: New AXIS Maps are now released in production as a beta feature. Core new features and improvements:
  • 3D map visuals and enhanced Maps controls
  • Brand-new Polygon and Freeze, Shields slider features
  • Enhanced core functionalities: Raise, Locators, and Routes
  • Customizable symbols and a new pre-defined set of Icons
  • New data sources, layers and support for custom layers
  • UI and data localization
  • Worldwide data and geopolitical boundaries coverage
  • Next-level performance, rendering speeds, and overall user experience
  • Support of new output formats, resolutions, and aspect ratios
  • New intuitive interface

3.2.1

Overview

• A patch and maintenance release

Improvements

• [News] Enhanced title validation now prevents the use of special characters, ensuring consistent and reliable delivery.
• [Track] Improved Search Engine Optimization.
• [AP Media API Integration] Technical enhancements.
• [Maps] Added support for the "Raise Color" feature in Chromium 49, ensuring backwards compatibility.

Bug fixes

• [User Permissions] Resolved an issue where users could upload assets to read-only public projects.
• [Maps] Corrected a rendering issue affecting Maps Locators with specific gradient settings.

3.2.0

Bug fixes

• [Maps] Fixed an issue where the default Maps Icon set was not available for new Organizations.
• [Maps] Fixed an issue where Maps Icons were not loading properly for several users.
• [Order] Fixed an issue where changes made to Media Formats were not being saved properly.
• [Order] Added a notification for Order Failed status.
• [News] Removed the "Type" field from the Upload Section in the UI.
• [All] Minor UI style fixes

New Features

• [Maps] Maps Still Rendering Speed Improvements: Experience a significant boost in performance with the latest Maps module update. We've optimized map processing, dramatically reducing the time it takes to create a Map Still render. What used to take around a minute or more now completes in just a few seconds, enabling a smoother and more efficient workflow.
• [Maps] Multiple Raise Colors support: The Maps module now supports up to 8 distinct Raise colors, providing greater flexibility and visual clarity when highlighting different regions on your maps.  This enhancement allows for more detailed and nuanced visualizations, enabling you to effectively differentiate and categorize regions. Up to 64 regions can be highlighted at once. 

To configure the Raise colors for your maps, please contact our Customer Success team. They will be happy to assist you in tailoring the color scheme to your specific needs and preferences.

• [Maps] Ocean Grid (on/off) settings: You now have the ability to easily toggle the visibility of the Ocean Grid (Meridians and Parallels) directly within the Maps UI. This provides greater control over the appearance of your maps, allowing you to choose whether to display or hide the grid lines for a cleaner look or to emphasize specific geographical features.

• [Maps] Vignette settings: Enhance the visual appeal of your maps with the new vignette setting. You can now adjust the intensity of the vignette effect or disable it completely, giving you more control over the overall look and feel of your maps.
  • To adjust the vignette settings, please contact our Customer Success team. They will be happy to help you achieve the desired visual effect for your maps.

Image descriptions: Vignette Enabled (Default Settings)

Image description: Vignette Disabled 

• [Maps] Area Label Preview Mode: Gain greater control over the presentation of area labels with the new UI default setting for your organization. Similar to the existing functionality for street labels and highway signs, administrators can now enable a "preview mode" for area labels as the default setting for your organization's Maps style. This allows area labels to be visible during map creation and preview, but hidden in the final rendered output. This feature offers enhanced flexibility for visualizing and fine-tuning maps without cluttering the final presentation with labels.

Image description: This setting can be configured by administrators within the Maps module settings.

3.1.2

Overview

• Enhanced Maps UI preview rendering speed
• Optimized load balancing for faster Maps rendering
• Increased keyframe support for Maps animations
• UI compatibility with legacy NRCS versions

Improvements

• Performance improvements in Maps UI preview rendering: Optimized processes improve the speed and responsiveness of the Maps module user interface, reducing data traffic and making map creation more efficient.
• Improvements in Maps assets delivery: Load balancing enhancements across Maps rendering systems ensure faster delivery of Maps animations across the platform. This is an initial step towards further reducing asset delivery wait times.
• Maps animations keyframes increase: The limit for Maps animation keyframes has been increased to 5 (from 4), providing greater flexibility and control over animation sequences.
• UI Design Compatibility support for legacy NRCS: AXIS UI now supports compatibility with older NRCS versions utilizing Chromium version 51 (released in 2016) and newer.

Bug fixes

• Change in the Output formats settings is causing a caching difficulty of Maps bookmarks
• Search filter in Street Labels list does not work properly
• Street Labels and Area Labels modal dialogues need UI improvements when dealing with long lists

3.1.0

Overview

• AXIS version 3.1.0 brings new features in the form of enhanced security, usability, and design. This update introduces features that will improve the overall user experience (responsive Web UI with a new design) and make our product more secure (support of FTPS). Additional changes include News module stability improvements, bug fixes in Portal and Quotes modules and ongoing enhancements of system monitoring and alerting. 

New features

• Responsive Web UI: We're introducing an update to our product's user interface, designed to enhance your user experience across different devices. Responsive design that adapts to your screen, ensuring an improved user experience.

Image description: Track: Responsive Web UI example

Improvements

• Design changes: Our refreshed user interface is complemented by a partly reimagined visual identity that improves the overall aesthetic of AXIS. A notification panel has been redesigned to provide a more intuitive and user-friendly experience. Our product's color palette has undergone a refinement, introducing a fresh color scheme both in Dark and Light Theme. Additional changes may be noticeable throughout the system, including a new AXIS logo and refreshed design of navigation menu, icons, tables and other. 

Image description: Order: Example of page redesign

Image descriptions: News: Example of page redesign

• FTPS Support: You can now enhance your data security and safeguard your transferred files with the introduction of FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) support in our latest release. This protocol ensures that your file transfers remain secure and protected against unauthorized access. Feel free to contact the AXIS support team to learn more.
• Important note for Relay Agent Users: While FTPS is a valuable addition to our product, it is currently not available for users of Relay Agent. We are actively working on extending FTPS support to Relay Agent users in the near future.

Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes in Portal, Quotes and News.
• Links in emails sent from AWS are pointing to WG site 
• Quotes renders fonts incorrectly
• Load balancing in News doesn’t properly distribute the load

2.3.1

New feature

• Charts: Default style selection: Administrators within both group and station now have an option to select a default style for each station to which they have the proper rights assigned. This feature is available in Charts dropdown menu in Default Settings subpage.

Image description: Charts: Default Project & Default Project Style

Improvements

• Consolidation of UI in Portal, Order and Track: Following the UI improvements in Order and Quotes, we are now introducing a second bulk of general changes to both UI and UX, this time in Portal and Track. These changes are logically grouping the functionalities available on subpages, streamlining the workflows and unifying the look of the visible elements. General changes are centered around the location and style of the page elements. These changes do not remove any part of the existing functionality. We will continue to deliver same improvements in the upcoming updates for all AXIS modules. 

Image descriptionL Track: Example of minor UI improvements in Asset Preview

• AP’s Media API migration: AP’s Content API is being retired on June 30th, 2022. All stations that used to use AP services in AXIS and have a new, valid AP Media API key will be migrated, to ensure the continuation of existing News and Track services that are tied with the AXIS-AP integration. Please reach out to your Associated Press contact person in case you experience any difficulty with the service availability after June 30th.

Image description: AP Content API retirement announcement

Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes in Portal, Track, Order and News

2.3.0

Overview 

• Maintenance release of AXIS 2.3.0 is bringing a major rework to Axis architecture, minor new feature in News module, UI improvements of Order and Quotes modules and several bug fixes in Portal, Order, News, Track and Maps modules. Technological improvements done to the entire architecture are part of the bigger overhaul and will rollout incrementally over the period of upcoming few months. These changes will have a positive impact on the performance, stability and future scalability of AXIS. Delivery cycle of functional improvements and bug fixes will be significantly decreased and in most cases will no longer require a maintenance window. 

New features

• News: Size asset to fit from top to bottom: We are introducing a minor feature in News module in the form of “Size To Fit” button. This new feature will enable you to size your asset from top to bottom so it easily fit into your selected template depending on the asset resolution. This button is an addition to the existing “Reset Layer” button which resets the placement of your asset from left to right. Additional asset-related workflow improvements will be delivered in one of the upcoming updates.

Image description: News: Size to Fit feature

Improvements

• Consolidation of UI in Order and Quotes: Following the Dark and Light theme rework of AXIS delivered in previous updates, we are now introducing first bulk of general changes done to the UI in Order and Quotes modules. These changes are logically grouping the functionalities available on subpages, streamlining the workflows and unifying look of the visible elements. General changes includes mainly the location and style of the page elements – unifying the design across the module. These changes doesn’t remove any part of the existing functionality. We will continue to deliver same improvements in the upcoming updates for all AXIS modules. 

Image description: Order: Example of UI change in Order List

Bug fixes

• News: Getty – Asset Not Ready error
• News: Canvas preview issues of non-16x9 templates
• Track: Image upload not respecting EXIF
• Additional minor bug fixes in Portal, Order, News, Track and Maps

2.2.0

Overview

• Maintenance release of AXIS 2.2.0 is bringing an architectural change for AXIS Maps, workflow improvement of AP’s Media API and several bug fixes in Portal, Order, News, Track, Maps, Charts and Quotes modules. Technological improvements done to the Maps architecture aim to improve responsiveness of the entire module and to prevent any potential unintended reconnection.

Improvements

• AP’s Media API workflow improvement: AP’s new Media API is rolling out later in 2022. AXIS is now ready to support this transition to ensure continuation of support of AP images in AXIS News and AXIS Track.

Bug fixes

• Maps: Connection lost to server causing cyclical reconnects
• Maps: Disappearance of bookmarks affecting few stations
• News: Several users timing out during the assemble process
• Additional minor bug fixes in Portal, Order, News, Track, Charts and Maps

2.0

New Features

• Dark UI redesign
• UI consolidation
• New home page
• New data set in Maps

Bug Fixes

• Maps locator styles are no longer duplicated
• Maps composite zoom no longer affects the entire page
• Map discrepancies are now fixed by new maps data set
• Data provider subscriptions are now populated from top level org.
• Additional (73) bug fixes

Improvements

• User settings consolidation
• Administration settings consolidation
• New charts animation output format with alpha (MOV)
• Getty Images workflow improvement
• Performance, stability, reliability & technical improvements

Dark UI redesign

Introducing a fresh dark UI look for AXIS platform including entirely new home page available after logging into the system and/or by clicking on the Axis logo on the top left section of the screen. Additional changes include consolidated icon set throughout the entire platform, unified loading screen animation and consolidated user & administrator settings.

News

Charts

Maps

Quotes

Track

Order

All modules are now available solely in this new dark UI look with plans to introduce an option to switch between the dark and light UI in future releases.

User settings consolidation

User settings are now available in the account drop down menu on the top right section of the screen. This menu includes Account settings, Notification settings, Help (containing release notes and training videos) and option to log out from the system.

Administration settings consolidation

Administration settings are now available through the gearwheel on the top right section of the screen. Administration settings are available only to administrators of AXIS platform.

1.0.0

New Features

• Charts V2 with animations
• Configurable default News Project
• Copy downloaded Getty Images to a local folder with metadata

Bug Fixes

• Thumbnail upload not working for Order Media Formats
• Certain characters blocked from Order Title field 
• Cannot select Quotes Project in LUCI5 
• IIS server error thrown in download of Order attachment/uploads due to file size

Improvements

• Codebase cleanup and technological renewal
• Charts V2 with Animations
• Create broadcast quality horizontal bar charts, vertical bar charts and pie charts with up to 6 data points.  
• Charts can be created as still images or animations up to 9 seconds in length.
• Custom chart styles are created to client specifications by ChyronHego Creative Services.
• Integrates with CAMIO news production workflow.

• Configurable Default News Project: This feature allows an organization to change the default project in News from ‘All Projects’ to ‘Local Projects’.  This may be desirable if ‘All Projects’ contains premium content from third party image providers.  

Users will not see third party content unless they change the drop down to ‘All Projects’ or the specific third party content folder (i.e. AP GraphicsBank V2 or Getty Editorial Images). 

This feature is configured for the entire organization (i.e. station group).  It cannot be changed at the lower level organizations.  A superuser at the top level organization can click on Home > Administration > Organization Settings.

The superuser can then select All Projects or Local Projects and click the SAVE button. 

• Copy downloaded Getty Images to a local folder with metadata: This feature is specifically for Getty Editorial images. Getty Editorial images which are downloaded either in News or Track will be optionally copied to a local folder with metadata.  

• ID: a new ID will be assigned for this asset but the Getty ID will be appended to the title field for reference.
• Title: the label Getty and the Getty ID will be appended to the assets Title for reference
• Description: the name of the original author of the image is appended to the end of the Description field.
• Author: the name of the Axis user that downloaded the image will be used as the asset’s author.

This feature is configured for the entire organization (i.e. station group).  It cannot be changed at the lower level organizations.  

A superuser at the top level organization can click on Home > Administration > Organization Settings and check the Automatically store Getty image to a project box and select the project to use.

Note that the selected project must be a public project.  A special project that is clearly named should be created for this purpose.