Everything you do daily, made calm
What the beta does today, and what is coming.
In the beta today
Artist layout
A grid of thumbnails with state you can read without colour, and the two buttons artists need.
Blockers, not grey buttons
A Submit that cannot run says why and offers each fix.
A safety net
A safety copy before anything lossy, kept for 14 days. Undo from the notification.
Checkpoints
Save your open work to the server as a shelf and go back to it, with an undo.
Preview before change
Get latest, revert and unshelve show what they will touch first.
Previews that stay safe
Images, text, audio and video, and 3D models (glTF, FBX, OBJ, STL, PLY, USD) with textures, animation, measuring and compare. Previews never run a file's own code.
PDF and Office previews
A PDF viewer with thumbnails and an outline, and an approximate view of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Read-only.
Open in
Photoshop, Substance Painter, Blender, Maya and more, found on your computer; a read-only copy opens.
Resolve and merge
Merge automatically, keep yours, take theirs, or choose for each clash by hand, with a safety copy first.
History and who changed what
A file's revisions, a time-lapse of who changed each line, a revision graph, and what changed between two versions.
Streams without fear
List, details and a guarded switch. Merge down and copy up explain what will happen before they run. A stream editor and a stream graph.
Works offline
When the server is out of reach, folders you opened before stay readable from the saved copy.
Still to come: Queuing the edits you make while offline.
Studio profiles
A studio can lock settings, each lock with a reason, fix the starting layout, and set a description template with rules.
Still to come: Columns, saved views, menus, signing and sharing a profile from the depot.
Doctor and a 5-minute tour
Checks that the app can work here, saved data you can clear, and a support bundle. A short tour for first-time users.
Coming
Labels and jobs
Pick, apply and look up labels and jobs without leaving the file you are working on.
Not in the beta yet · Not scheduledExtensions and an AI agent, off by default
Add columns, panels and commands; an agent can only propose, you approve.
Not in the beta yet · Not scheduledReview workspace
Preview, annotate and decide in a read-only workspace.
Not in the beta yet · After 1.0Ropework's own Perforce client
Today Ropework runs the free p4 command-line client. The plan is to replace it with a client of our own. The direction is decided; research, a legal read and a schedule are not done, and no code has been written for it yet.
Not in the beta yet · Not scheduledUbuntu 24.04
An AppImage and a .deb now build. They still need testing on a real Ubuntu 24.04 desktop before they are published, so there is no Linux download yet.
Not in the beta yet · Next, after testingThis list is generated from one status file that is checked at every release (current to version 0.27.0). Every feature will be in every plan. See Releases for what each beta added.