Limecraft has announced the availability of Limecraft 2026.4, the fourth of eight planned platform releases this year. The update introduces Team-Based Access Control, GPU-accelerated media processing for Apple Silicon, and further enhancements to localisation and editorial workflows.

As media organisations scale their operations, administrative overhead increasingly becomes a bottleneck. Managing user permissions across dozens of productions, coordinating external contributors and maintaining consistent access controls can consume significant resources. Limecraft 2026.4 addresses this challenge with the introduction of Teams, a new account-level framework for managing permissions across multiple workspaces.

“Several of our customers operate across hundreds of active productions, involving internal teams, freelancers, production partners and service providers,” said Maarten Verwaest, CRO of Limecraft. “Teams provides a scalable way to manage access rights consistently, reducing administrative effort while improving governance and transparency.”

Teams extends Limecraft’s existing role-based access controls by allowing administrators to group users, permissions and workspaces into reusable configurations. New productions can be linked to existing teams instantly, while new users automatically inherit the appropriate permissions. The feature is particularly valuable for large scale producers, managed services providers, and broadcasters managing large talent pools.

The release also introduces a beta version of GPU-accelerated video encoding and decoding within Limecraft Edge for Apple Silicon Macs. Leveraging Apple’s dedicated media engines, the implementation significantly accelerates ingest and proxy-generation workflows.

For localisation professionals, new translation optimisation settings provide greater control over the balance between processing speed and translation quality. It is now possible to optimise for speed or for accuracy according to the specific requirements of individual productions, helping align turnaround times with quality expectations.

The 2026.4 release reflects Limecraft’s broader strategy of helping media organisations scale efficiently while maintaining operational control across production, localisation and content delivery workflows.