Release notes/1.4
These Release Notes are in Draft Status.
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Release highlights
Performance
General user interface
Canvas
Tools
Spray Tool
The Spray Tool now shows an outline preview of the next item that it is going to spray, including its shape, rotation and size. The preview is only visible when the tool is not currently spraying. That way, you can choose where to place the next item (with a single click instead of holding the mouse button down, MR #5375).
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Path Operations
Clones
Import / Export
PDF Export
PDF export now supports internal links (going from one part of the file to another part of the same file, weblinks were supported since Inkscape 1.0). This can be used for creating Tables of Contents, for example (MR #5237).
Masking / Clipping
Dialogs
Filter Gallery
The Filter Gallery can be found in the Filters
menu. It shows a scrollable (and hideable) list of all filter categories, and a preview image for each filter, applied to a colorful flower image. Your own filters will appear in the category indicated in your filter file, or, if there isn't any, in the Personal
category. Inkscape looks for them in a folder named filters
in the folder indicated at Edit ➞ Preferences ➞ System: User config
. Some community-contributed files for trying this out can be found in our website's gallery (Bug UX#208, MR #5448).
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Extension Gallery
When you want to quickly get an overview which extensions are available to you, you can now browse your Inkscape extensions in a gallery similar to the Filters' one.
You can use the search field to quickly find the extension you need. The size of the icons is adjustable. They are currently all still identical placeholders, and we invite you to join us if you'd like to help. The menu categories can be hidden if you do not need them.
When you hover over an extension, the dialog shows you a small info text with either the menu path to the extension, or a description (MR #5448).
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Export dialog
Each of the two tabs of the dialog (single file, batch export) now features a little icon in addition to the text (Bug #4338, [ https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6166 MR #6166]).
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Create Anchor (Hyperlink) / Object Properties
To make it easier to select an element in the drawing to link to, a button has been added to the side of the field where the target object's id or the external link must be inserted (Href).
When you click on that button, your mouse cursor will transform into a little hand icon. When the hand hovers over any object or over an empty area of the page, a small indicator text will tell you the id of that object or page. Clicking on the object will automatically insert that object's id into the href field. That way, you do not need to use the Objects or XML dialog to look up the internal identifier of the object you want to link to (MR #5221)
Document properties
A new toggle button that allows you to change the document's scale without changing the size of its contents has been added (MR #5993).
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Grids
- Axonometric grid angles can be set by ratio
- Cleaning up UI
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6132
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5993
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6078
Fill and Stroke
Pattern editor
Added spin buttons option in dialog to control pattern gap
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5484
Layers
Enhance "Add Layer" dialog.
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5074
Object properties dialog
Attributes dialog subsumed "object properties" as a subdialog and got renamed to "Object Properties". Old name "Object Attributes" has been removed and all places referring to it got updated.
Added path data editing panel to former object attributes dialog to complement existing element-specific panels. This is another step toward ux#203.
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6173
Live path effects
Templates
SVG Standards Compliance
Symbols
- Added two new symbol sets, with Sci-Fi and Nature symbols (MR #4792)
Customization / Theming
Customizable Handles
The size, color, stroke-width, outline and opacity of on-canvas handles can now be customized, and their shape can be selected from a set of available handle shapes, by copying the CSS file at inkscape/share/ui/node-handles.css
into the folder indicated at Edit ➞ Preferences ➞ System: User UI
and modifying it. Handles will be updated live in Inkscape as when the file has been saved (MR #5624).
Rendering (advanced)
Windows-specific Changes
macOS-specific Changes
Extensions
Some improvements to memory management are made in the extension system.
- The extension objects, which used to be carelessly allocated on the heap and left there to leak are now owned by the "Extension database".
- A memory issue with the ImageMagick extension is fixed: the memory was allocated with array
new
but freed with non-arraydelete
. Previously this issue was never seen because the destructor was not called, now it is not seen because we usestd::vector
instead of callingnew
anddelete
manually.
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6109
Command line
- Many new actions have been added to allow editing SVG files and customizing export files. These are also available from the Command palette:
- Set the document's SVG version to 1.1
- Set the document's SVG version to 2.0
- Remove any Inkscape-specific SVG data
- Remove any known proprietary SVG data
- Remove auto start positions from markers
- Remove all transforms from all shapes
- Remove context paints from markers
- Replace SVG2 text with SVG1.1 text
- Insert JavaScript for rendering meshes (polyfill)
- Insert JavaScript for rendering hatches (polyfill)
- Recursively unlink all clones and symbols
- Turn all shapes recursively into path elements
- Turn all strokes recursively into fill-only paths
- Make all paths absolute and predictable
- Add bounding box information to all shapes: adds inkscape:visualbox and inkscape:geometricbox attributes
- Add shape path information to all shapes: adds inkscape:d attribute
- Remove unused definitions (gradients, etc.)
Bugfixes
- The snap indicator text no longer flickers when object bounding box and path are in the same location (e.g. borders of a rectangular path) (Bug #4399, MR #6157).
- Clones no longer vanish when their original path is being edited with the Shape Builder Tool (Bug #4682, MR #6131).
- Bump filters and Bevels filters (about 25 different filters) now look again as they were intended, with banding and artifacts much reduced (MR #6190, MR #6162).
- The settings 'Better' and 'Best' for rendering filters now are different again, and 'Better' is a bit faster now (Bug #4722, MR #6133).
Fix Stroke-to-Path on combined paths
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6122
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6100
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6067
Translations
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Documentation
Website
Important Inkscape Project Milestones
Important changes for packagers
Known issues
Other releases
- Inkscape 1.5 — development branch
- Inkscape 1.4 — current stable release branch
- Inkscape 1.3 (1.3.1, 1.3.2)
- Inkscape 1.2 (1.2.1, 1.2.2)
- Inkscape 1.1 (1.1.1, 1.1.2)
- Inkscape 1.0 (1.0.1, 1.0.2)
- Inkscape 0.92 (0.92.1, 0.92.2, 0.92.3, 0.92.4, 0.92.5)
- Inkscape 0.91
- Inkscape 0.48 (0.48.1, 0.48.2, 0.48.3, 0.48.4, 0.48.5)
- Inkscape 0.47
- Inkscape 0.46
- Inkscape 0.45
- Inkscape 0.44
- Inkscape 0.43
- Inkscape 0.42
- Inkscape 0.41
- Inkscape 0.40
- Inkscape 0.39
- Inkscape 0.38
- Inkscape 0.37
- Inkscape 0.36
- Inkscape 0.35