Weekly Recap: January 12 - 16 2026

Updates Announcements
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Hi Creators!

Another packed week of updates! Here’s your quick snapshot of what shipped and what’s coming next :rocket:.

Remember, we keep information at a high level within these recaps. For more information or to leave feedback, please comment on their official announcements linked below.

Betas and Tests

[Studio Beta] Animation Clip Editor: Improved Importing and glTF Support

  • The Animation Clip Editor importer now uses the Import 3D codepath and adds glTF support, multiple-clip importing, automatic local saves to ServerStorage/RBX_ANIMSAVES, a loading spinner, and an updated rest pose selection dialog.
  • This unification delivers faster, more stable imports and consistent behavior with Import 3D, while requiring a separate upload step because imported clips are only saved locally in ServerStorage/RBX_ANIMSAVES.

Updates and Announcements

Upcoming Launches for Avatar Creators

  • We are excited to unveil our 2026 roadmap for avatar creators, which introduces new creative tools like Makeup and Animation Packs to enhance self-expression, alongside economic updates such as Marketplace Select and Timed Options to help build sustainable businesses.

[Full Release] User Provided Default Instances

  • We’re thrilled to announce that User Provided Default Instances are now out of Beta.
  • You can now customize the default property values for any object you insert.

2FA via Hardware Security Keys - Available on Android

  • Hardware security key two-factor authentication is available on Android with FIDO2/WebAuthn using USB-C or NFC keys.
  • This adds hardware-backed protection that reduces phishing risk and matches web/iOS support, and requires updating the app and configuring keys under Account Settings > Security > Two-Factor Authentication.

Forums Category now allows custom sorting

  • Forum categories can be re-ordered via drag-and-drop in Configure Community → Forums.
  • Changes save automatically and appear immediately to all members, and only roles with the “Manage categories” permission can make these edits.

PSA: Several common yielding methods have been renamed

  • Many common yielding methods were renamed to add an Async suffix (e.g., Player:LoadCharacterAsync), while the original names are deprecated but remain available.
  • The rename signals that these calls yield and can error, encouraging concurrent usage (task.spawn) and error handling (pcall), while methods like Instance:WaitForChild and RemoteFunction:InvokeClient/InvokeServer were not renamed and all future yielding methods will end with Async.

Roblox Learn

How to create shoes for Roblox (using auto setup!)

  • Voguebrunette covers how to create designer shoes with the avatar auto-setup tool and a bit of ankle grease.

Release Notes

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Pretty alright week, I thought we would get some cooler stuff but maybe you guys saving that for next week.
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:sparkles: My rating: 44/50

Pretty nice this week although I wish there was some more new studio stuff. I do like that User Provided Default instances are out.
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Some features that the community wants:

  1. Add “Copy path to instance” to the Explorer’s context menu
  2. Make the size limit of Particle Emitters more
  3. Let us get custom lighting for avatar renders
  4. Let us choose how big the lighting grid is
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See you next week, Robloxians!

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Whats next, gang tattoos?

well i really liked that update, specially the animations packs thing. However i’m a little worried about moderation in that

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I am very worried about animations packs update. Knowing what players did with emotes…

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Same, just gotta cross our fingers and hope it won’t be that bad (It probably will be that bad again)

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For a moment I thought it was the devforum after recalling this new feature is for communities.

Nonetheless, it sparked my ideas that such a feature can be implemented here in the forum as well since you can’t change the order of the categories.

And if the feedback is great, it can also be applied to gamepasses.
Would be really handy if you could rearrange those as well.

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We should be fine! (The entire website is crumbling into dust)

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Holy crap, I just had a terrible vision about something makeup could be used for. :ohmy: :sad:
You better moderate those well, or there will be problems… Again.

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please elaborate, what bad things can these be used for?

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One of them is violence and the other is something I probably can’t type about on the forum.

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oh. ok fair enough but this could still be done with dynamic faces or accessories. still should get moderated though

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Is there any ETA for when we are able to access the “new-ish” community role system on Creator Hub via script?

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