Shotcut version history
Free open source video editor with broad format support.
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26.8.1Verified 2026-08-23 from Shotcut GitHub releases.
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Newest first15 stable release records
- 26.8.1v26.8.1Official release ↗
Added **Elements** panel to the **File > New** and **View** menus and the **Generate** buttons.
- 26.6.25v26.6.25Official release ↗
External Monitor with a System Display
- 26.4.30V26.4: All the Small ThingsOfficial release ↗
Added symmetric resize of a timeline **transition** using its trim handles.
- 26.2.26v26.2Official release ↗
Fixed crash when adding long video to **Timeline** with Qt 6.10.1 (broke in v26.1).
- 26.1.30v26.1Official release ↗
Hardware Video Decoding!
- 25.12.31v25.12.31Official release ↗
This version hot-fixes problems found in 25.12.30:
- 25.12.30v25.12Official release ↗
Higher Bit Depth: 10-bit Video CPU Pipeline
- 25.10.31v25.10Official release ↗
Added **New > Image/Video from HTML**
- 25.08.16v25.08Official release ↗
This version fixes new bugs in the [previous version 25.07](https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/releases/tag/v25.07.26). Details:
- 25.07.26v25.07Official release ↗
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- 25.05.11v25.05Official release ↗
Added **Alpha Strobe** video filter.
- 25.03.29v25.03Official release ↗
This version includes many fixes related to the addition of new features in the previous version, as well as numerous quality-of-life enhancements.
- 25.01.25v25.01Official release ↗
Added **Bins** and media type & text search to **Playlist**.
- 24.11.17v24.11Official release ↗
Fixed **Convert** stopped converting variable frame rate to constant (broke in v24.10).
- 24.10.29v24.10Official release ↗
Shotcut gets its first AI based on [OpenAI's Whisper](https://openai.com/index/whisper/), courtesy of the [whisper.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp) project.
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