What's New in Maya 2025.2 Update

Welcome to Maya 2025.2 Update! You can access the Maya 2025.2 Update from your Autodesk Account.

For technical details including What's Fixed in this release, see the Maya 2025.2 Update Release Notes.

For more on the evolution of Maya over the years, check out the Maya timeline.

Machine Learning (ML) Deformer

The ML Deformer lets you efficiently approximate complex deformation to speed up animating, blocking, or crowd scenes.

USD for Maya 0.29

Updated Universal Scene Description (USD) plug-in now supports USD blend shape import.

LookdevX for Maya 1.5.0

The latest update to LookdevX introduces the Ramp node, which enables the creation of gradients in your graph.

Arnold for Maya 5.4.2.1 plug-in

Maya 2025.2 ships with MtoA 5.4.2.1, which provides tone-mapping in toon, improved volume denoising, global light sampling support for light linking, better OSL interoperability, an update to OpenVDB 11, as well as multiple bug fixes.

Have you tried Flow Retopology for Maya?

There is a new tutorial! Download Flow Retopology for Maya to help work with complex geometry and offload job processing to the cloud.