Release notes/1.1.2

Release highlights

Released on February 5, 2022.

Inkscape 1.1.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you more than 40 bug fixes, 11 crash fixes, 8 fixes for extension failures, 15 improved user interface 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• Copy-pasting an object with a Live Path Effect repeatedly into a new document now pastes the current object, not an outdated one (MR #3922, Bug #1743)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)
• Saving files with markers as SVG1.1 results in valid markers again (MR #3942, Bug #2785)

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)
• … copying nodes if there is a Bend LPE in the clipboard (MR #3942)
• … (freeze) when changing the document's license while the Selectors and CSS dialog is open (MR #3939, Bug #2700)

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 extensions that try to access the user's current selection with files containing comments (MR extensions#372, Bug extensions#369)
• Very large documents with deeply nested groups no longer cause extensions to fail when trying to look up a root element (Bug extensions#429, MR extensions#376, Commit extensions#be7e96)
• Very large documents no longer cause extensions to freeze while it's searching for free object ids (MR extensions#348, Bug extensions#378)
• The Hershey Text extension no longer fails if a text has the style attribute line-height:normal; (MR extensions#302, Bug #361)
• The GCodetools Plasma extension now generates GCode again (MR extensions#388, Bug extensions#276)
• Exporting as HTML5 Canvas no longer fails when the drawing contains a text put on a path (but the text is ignored) (MR extensions#318, Bug extensions#292)

Bugfixes in particular extensions

• The Symbols option for 'Barcode' works now (MR extensions#395, Bug extensions#150)
• The space character in the 'Braille' text extension now has the correct width (Bug extensions#410)
• The Voronoi extension now properly respects the page boundaries (MR extensions#382, Bug extensions#403)
• Cell sizes and stroke width in the Voronoi extension allow entering larger values now (MR extensions#356)
• Mockups created with the Interactive Mockup extension work correctly with current browsers again (MR extensions#405)
• The Web Slicer extension now exports images again (Bug extensions#267, MR extensions#406)
• When importing a DXF file, polylines are now included (MR extensions#338)
• Help texts for paper thickness in the Perfect bound cover bookcover making extension were improved (MR extensions#304, Bug extensions#265)
• The Scatter extension now places objects at the correct positions again (MR extensions#323, MR extensions#323)
• The tangential (along path direction) offset for scattered objects is now defined in % of pattern object length (MR extensions#323)
• Help texts in 'Scatter' and 'Pattern along Path' extensions simplified (MR extensions#378)
• Formulas rendered by LaTeX (pdflatex) now more reliably give the correct result (MR extensions#349)
• The JessyInk keybindings dialog now better fits on the screen (MR extensions#340, Bug extensions#261, MR extensions#380)

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 that call external programs no longer mangle texts with special characters on systems that do not use UTF-8 encoding (MR extensions#363)

Improvements for development / deployment

• Developer documentation improvements (Commit extensions#636109)
• Installation metadata updates (MR extensions#369)
• Fixes for the automatical testing on GitLab (MR #369)
• Extension test suite improvements for many of the fixed bugs

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