Release notes/1.5

2026-08-05T18:40:57Z

M1981: Various edits : completed features list, etc.

== Release highlights ==

* Front end migration to GTK 4
*New color management system (RGB, LinearRGB, DeviceCMYK, Gray, Lab, Lch, Luv, CMS - Color managed ICC profile based, HSL, HSV, HSLuv, OkLab, OkLch, OkHsl, XYZ)
*Fill & Stroke pane refactored (+ recolor feature)
*Selection and group behavior more aligned to industry standards (introduce lasso to select objects, clearer and more coherent appearance).
*Introduce a new PDF engine, CapyPDF
*Bugfixes (TODO:number to add)

== Canvas ==

=== Selections ===
Selection boxes, touch to select and lasso select look nicer now. Normal selection is blue, deselection is pink touch box selection has a striped pattern and lasso mode now works on objects too.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6336

=== Special Pasting ===
Right-click menus have special past option added.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6914

== Tools ==

=== Select tool ===
You can now deselect objects from selection more easily.

* '''Ctrl+Shift+drag''': Removes objects from selection

* '''Ctrl+Shift+Alt+drag''': Removes objects from selection with touch selection
When you select by click and dragging selection boxes have new look:

* Blue box - normal selection, select object that are fully inside of this box
* Blue box with dashed fill - Touch selection, select any objects within or partially in this box
* Pink box - remove from selection objects fully in the box
* Pink box with dashed fill - unselect touched objects
* Blue line/lasso - select touched objects
* Pink line/lasso - unselect touched objects

TODO: add gifs

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6336

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7156

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7164

New behavior Unlocking inside of groups

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7172

=== Color Picker Tool ===
We added feature that can pick colors from images/objects under the current/selected ones.

TODO:find out how it works

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6850

=== Measure Tool ===
Improve new Measure Path features (curves, segments, angles) and fix some issues

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7812

Add path segment measurement to ruler tool

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7804

TODO:Add GIFs

=== Node Tool ===
New improvements to Node tool workflows

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6492

Add confine-to-path node editing option, i.e. the ability to slide a node along the existing line when pressing Alt

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/8040

Add a node distance input to the node toolbar

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6600

=== Polygon / Star Tool ===
You can set length of the side edge of the polygon and star numerically from the toolbar.

[[File:Inkscape wySH8BhAGx.gif|751x751px]]

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6920

=== Spiral tool ===
center is created in center of spiral.

[[File:Ezgif.com-optimize (2) ceneter spiral.gif]]

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6870

=== Page tool ===
Added right click context menu for the page tool.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6215

=== Text tool ===
Added suport for snaping to all baselines.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7136

== Import / Export ==

== Dialogs ==

=== General ===
Files now open as tabs inside one inkscape program. This significantly speeds up working with multiple documents at once[[File:Image measurements popup.png|thumb|416x416px]]https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6654

=== Measurements tool ===
Added new options in to pop up in a toolbar of Measurements tool. You can change Display options. And we also added ability to copy selected measurement as a text.

=== Color pickers ===
Color pickers are now implemented as popovers instead of flowing windows.They also give better feedback to user with hover states, active stat and disable state

.[[File:Color-picker-popup.gif|364x364px]]

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6433

=== Document properties ===
Coordinate system origin option can now be changed from document properties

[[File:Imageasdasdasda.png]]

==== Grids ====
New UI Redesign of Grids.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6412

[[File:Image_grids_ui.png|592x592px]]

=== Preferences ===

* New option:New option to keep orphaned clones. ''Preferences > Behavior > Clones > Deleting original: clones > Become orphans''
* You can search for languages Preferences > interface > languages

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6852

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6866

=== CSS and selectors ===
Haldeling of CSS styling back-end was improved and is handled by libcroco. Dialog is now more stable and can handle elements such as <code>@media</code>

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7069

=== Fill and Stroke ===
[[File:Fill And Stroke Dialog - Inkscape 1.5.png|alt=The new Fill and Stroke Dialog in Inkscape 1.5 with the Color Map module selecting a shade of blue|thumb|The new Fill and Stroke Dialog in Inkscape 1.5]]
The Fill and Stroke dialog has been redesigned with a number of improvements.

* The <code>FillNStroke</code> widget was replaced with the new <code>UI::Widget::PaintSwitch</code> widget ([https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7748 MR #7748]).
*Linear and Radial Gradients are now toggles of the same gradient option.
*Recolor feature (replace colors globally)

== Live Path Effects ==

=== Measure LPE ===
New measurement unit "metes" was added .

== Templates ==

Fix instructions in the US zine template

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7762

== Symbols ==

== Customization / Theming ==

== Windows-specific Changes ==

== macOS-specific Changes ==

== Extensions ==
Allow extensions to receive document updates, i.e. to run asynchronously (non-blocking)

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6958

== Command line ==

* Add effect runner which accepts Variant dictionary arguments https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7925
* Add shell equivalent for --export-page https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7753
* Add a query-pages CLI option for getting page details https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7112

== Inkview ==

== Bugfixes ==

== Behind the Curtains ==
Migration to GTK 4

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7481

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/-/merge_requests/702

<nowiki>https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6807</nowiki>

new default PDF exporter, CappyPDF was added.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6818

== Translations ==

== Documentation ==

== Website ==

== Important Inkscape Project Milestones ==

== Important Changes for Packagers ==

== Known issues ==

== Other releases ==

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