Release notes/1.4.4

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Changes and Bug Fixes

Definitely not released yet.

Highlights

Inkscape 1.4.4 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you a few selected fixes for some irritating bugs, and comes with updated translations.

It is also a bridge release in the sense that it can be used to convert the planned Inkscape 1.5 multipage file format to the pre-1.5 multipage format. Versions lower than Inkscape 1.4.3 will not be able to interpret pages created in Inkscape versions 1.5 and upwards. Opening a document in Inkscape 1.4.3 and saving it will convert it to the current ('old') page format (MR #7608).

Background: While the 'old' format of pages in Inkscape is a custom addition that only works in Inkscape, the new format will make use of the svg:view element, which is standardized and can work in other SVG viewers, too. Find more information about this in MR #7525.


Crash / Freeze Fixes

Fixed a crash …

Fixed a freeze that occurred when

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General User Interface

Canvas

  • When using the Layers and Objects dialog to move objects between groups, the bounding boxes on the canvas will now show the correct size and position again ([MR #7704], [Bug #5996])

Bars

Various

Style

Dialogs

Objects Dialog

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7817 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7825

Preferences Dialog

Welcome Dialog

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7817

Tools

Keyboard Shortcuts

Extensions

General Extension Fixes

Extension Development

Linux-specific Fixes

Windows-specific Fixes

MacOS-specific Fixes

Improvements for Development / Deployment / Testing

  • libuemf is now a submodule, which makes switching between Inkscape branches during development easier ([MR #7787]).

Known Issues

On Wayland (display server), depending upon the Gtk version your system uses, a crash may occur when moving a docked tab, or closing a floating dialog. Trying to undock a dialog may result in the wrong dialog being undocked (Bug #6013, Upstream Gtk issue).

More known issues can be found on GitLab.

Translations

The following user interface translations received updates (as of Dec. 21 2025):

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Contributing to interface translations

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Documentation

Weblate is now being used to translate tutorials, man page and keyboard shortcuts, but still needs some finetuning.

The following documentation translations received updates:

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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.

Other releases

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