Release notes/1.2.2

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Release highlights

Definitely not released yet.

Inkscape 1.2.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you … In addition to these fixes, this version features more than XX crash fixes, over XX bug fixes, XX fixes for extension bugs, XX improved user interface translations, XX improved documentation translations and updated documentation.


Crash fixes

Fixed a crash when …

Bug fixes

General

  • Symbols that contain a clipping path or mask no longer cause the Symbols dialog to create a high processor load (Bug #3607, MR #4567)


Linux-specific fixes

  • Inkscape no longer fails to run on Artix (Bug #7526, MR #4744)
  • Inkscape can now be built on systems using Poppler 22.09.0 (MR #4719)

Note about snap packages

It is no longer possible to install the Inkscape snap with the --classic option. If you need functionality that is unavailable in the standard snap package (being able to add custom filter packs, custom extensions communicating with other programs on the system / requiring system-wide dependencies, XX …), please choose a different packaging format.

Windows-specific Fixes

  • Extensions Manager and Clipart import work again on Windows. This fix was already available in 1.2.1, if you downloaded it after July 19 (Bug #3695, MR #4653).
  • The Text tool no longer crashes when selecting some specific fonts that have been installed multiple times in different file formats (Bug #7354, MR #4658)

macOS-specific Fixes

Command line

  • Trailing or duplicate semicolons no longer cause an action list command to fail (Bug #3480, MR #4714)

Improvements for development / deployment

  • Automatted Windows builds work again (MR #4744)
  • Windows builds succeed again in CLANG64 environments (MR #4153)

Extension bug fixes

See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/-/network/master for details.

Bugfixes in particular extensions

Improvements that apply to all extensions

Translations

The following UI translations received updates:

The following documentation translations received updates:

Contributing to interface translations

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Documentation

Contributing to documentation and documentation translation

Contributions to the documentation translations, as well as improvements to its contents, are welcome at the inkscape-docs repository.

Known issues

These issues could not be fixed in time for the 1.2.2 release:

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