What's new in VIKTOR (April 2026)

by VIKTOR

Building engineering apps shouldn’t feel like trial and error. In this update, we’ve made it a lot easier to build, test, and share your apps. The App Builder now checks its own work as you go, you can add AI to your apps out of the box, and sharing apps within your organization is more straightforward than ever.

App Builder validates its own work

Building apps often includes a lot of trial and error: writing code, running it, fixing issues, and repeating the cycle.

The App Builder now takes care of that for you. It automatically runs the apps you create and checks whether everything works as expected, essentially validating its own work as it builds

This means fewer iterations, faster development, and more reliable apps from the start! Visit the documentation to learn more.

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Add AI to your apps

Tried adding AI to your apps before, but got stuck during setup?

You can now use AI in your apps out of the box, no tokens, integrations or approvals needed!

Simply add VIKTOR's self-hosted LLM to your app and start working with documents, images, and your own engineering data right away.

Use it to:

Chat with your app to understand resultsSearch and summarize documents
Extract insights from data
Perform image recognition

Curious how it works? Check the documentation to get started.

Sharing apps made easier

We’ve made it even easier to share the apps you build!

When someone doesn’t have access to an app yet, they can now directly request this. Admins then receive an in-product notification to review and approve (or decline), making access requests more straightforward and easier to manage.

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Other changes

SDK

SDK version v14.29.0 is now available: changelog

CLI

CLI version v0.47.0 is now available: changelog

PLATFORM

Added better handling of app builder development synchronization in multi-region environments
Added support for rendering tables in App builder responses
Refined the project ownership flow to be easier when creating and editing projects
Small improvements for tool blocks in the app builder chat
Changed tooltip legend in the activity dashboard to show readable names instead of names
Adjusted app builder sharing and publish flows
Allow users to be added as app maintainers even if they don’t have developer rights. This is not applicable for environments that do not allow for the self-servicing of developer rights.
Adjusted integrations to always show in the workspace header
Fixed onboarding on SSO environments by skipping the name step
Improvements to prevent app builder timeouts