Android Studio Rabbit 1 Canary 5: the known issues to read first
A canary build worth reading the caveats on before you update.
Android Studio Rabbit 1 Canary 5 was released on September 10, 2026, and it carries known issues worth reading before you update.
Two affect Compose previews. Zooming in the Compose preview view simultaneously scrolls up, and the @Preview not top-level declaration lint does not work if the preview is defined in a companion object.
Two affect assets. Android Studio cannot view animated GIFs and cannot convert them to animated WEBP. In Vector Asset Studio, Clip Art icons do not appear until icons_metadata.txt is manually deleted.
One is a privacy concern: when using local models, the thumbs up and thumbs down controls appear to send private data unexpectedly.
The release notes also record that PreviewParameterProvider is nested inside another class. They do not say whether that is a deliberate change or a defect, so treat it as something to check against your own code rather than as either.
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