Release notes/1.1.2

Release highlights

Definitely not released yet.

Inkscape 1.1.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you more than 20 bug fixes, 8 crash fixes, 13 improved translations and improved documentation.

Bug fixes

General

• Fixed Windows test builds, so testers can again try out intermediate versions (MR #3762
• Fixed building Inkscape with GCC 12 / C++17 (MR #3683)
• Fixed building Inkscape with Poppler 21.11.0, e.g. on Slackware Linux (MR #3636, Bug #2906)
• Toolbar fields now use the units the user selected as display units (in Document preferences) again (MR #3716, Bug #1747)
• Mouse cursors for tools are now completely visible, no matter how transparent the currently selected color is (MR #3640, Bug #2025)
• Graphic tablet pens that have a built-in eraser tip now again automatically switch to the correct tool (MR 3636, Bug #2866)
• On macOS, the system menu now uses the correct language and menu decorations look better on systems with non-English locales (MR #3531)
• When clicking on the color indicator in the bottom left corner, the Fill and Stroke dialog will now open again (Bug #2621, MR #3754)
• Multiple untranslatable strings are now translatable (MR #3918, Bug #2492, Bug #2279, Bug #809)
• When automatically converting text to path on the commandline for export, differently formatted text parts no longer lose their styling (MR #3918, Bug #2602)
• Clones/symbols/glyphs are now positioned correctly relative to each other when pasting them into a new document (MR #3922, Bug #387)
• Copy-pasting an object with a Live Path Effect repeatedly into a new document now pastes the current object, not an outdated one (MR #3922, Bug #1743)
• Linking an additional path to the Measure Path LPE as a projection target works again (MR #3922, Bug #3035)

Dialogs

• Filter editor: The standard deviation for Gaussian blur can now be 0, if there is no blur (MR #3650, Bug #2724)

Themes

• win32 theme now contains expand/collapse arrows for expandable lists (MR #3636, Bug #2876)
• win32 theme offers improved contrast when hovering over text (MR #3550)
• win32 theme context menu border looks better now (MR #3550)
• win32 theme offers improved contrast when hovering over text (MR #3550)

Tools

Text tool

• Font dropdown now updates when changing font for the same text multiple times through the dropdown menu (MR #3731, Bug #2056)
• Line spacing works again with current Pango versions (e.g. 1.49) as used on Fedora Linux (MR #3717, Bug #2864)
• Line spacing now always stays the same when only changing the line height units (MR #3640, Bug #2465)
• Unicode mode now accepts numbers entered with numpad keys (a bug with a long beard, reported in 2014! MR #3716, Launchpad Bug #1394559
• Copied style no longer includes the shape of a flowed text and some other text positioning data, which caused all kinds of strange behavior (MR #3899, Bug #2807)

Crash fixes

Fixed a crash when …

• … grouping / ungrouping / importing / pasting a 3D box or after doing so and editing it (MR #3731, Bug #2833)
• … trying to add the "Measure segments" Live Path Effect to a path with empty / one-node subpaths (MR #3636, Bug #2725)
• … running inkscape --actions=action-list on the command line if Inkscape has been built with DBUS support (MR #3636, Bug #2813)
• … exporting to a raster image file with a file name that contains non-ASCII characters (MR #3784, Bug #2548)
• … importing an SVG file that contains a 3D box (MR #3592, Bug #2881)
• … pressing Backspace while using the Bézier tool (MR #3715, Bug #2764)
• … selecting Other locations in the Open/Save/Import dialog, with the preview active (MR #3786, Bug #2549)
• … dragging a guide line off the canvas to delete it (MR #3899, Bug #3084)
• … starting Inkscape with the Icon Preview panel open on Wayland (Bug #3047, MR #3937)

Extension bug fixes

Crash fixes

• A crash in the 'Seamless Pattern' extension has been fixed (MR extensions#367)
• A crash in the 'Win32 Vector Print' extension has been fixed (MR extensions#393, Bug extensions#249)
• A crash in the 'Web Slicer' extension has been fixed (MR extensions#406, Bug extensions#267)

Bugfixes in particular extensions

• Help texts in 'Scatter' and 'Pattern along Path' extensions simplified (MR extensions#378)
• The Symbols option for 'Barcode' now works (MR extensions#395, Bug extensions#150
• The space character in the 'Braille' text extension now has the correct width (Bug extensions#410)

Improvements that apply to all extensions

• The file chooser in extensions can no longer accidentally choose a directory instead of a file (MR #3716, Bug #2822)
• Compact float notation (such as 1.2 .3 ) in paths is now supported for all extensions (MR extensions#385)
• Extensions are now able to process files with a lot of deeply nested groups (MR extensions#376, Bug extensions#429)
• The handling of files containing comments has been improved (MR extensions#372, Bug extensions#369)

Translations

The following UI translations received updates:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Catalan
• Croatian
• Czech
• German
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Lithuanian
• Romanian
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese
• Slovenian
• Traditional Chinese
• Spanish
• Ukrainian

Contributing to interface translations

Want to help with translations? Learn how to help!

Documentation

• Documentation is now built with current Inkscape and Python 3. The tutorial files make use of SVG2 flowed text (MR docs#3531)
• Translation statistics show correct version number (Commit 4eb6a4)
• Documentation for how to generate and write documentation updated (Commit docs-069f69; Commit docs-53f93c)
• Man page export area description improved (Commit docs-72b2a8)
• Added two XML editor shortcuts to keyboard shortcut reference (Commit docs-a47008, Bug docs#55)
• Broken translation files now cause the documentation generation to abort (Commit docs-f3f16d, Bug docs#37)

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 1.1.2 release.

• Extensions: The unit conversions for circles and rectangles is incorrect, which leads to displaced elements for some extensions (extensions#437, extensions#438). Workaround: Convert circles and rectangles to paths before calling the extension.

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