Release notes/1.5

Release highlights

• front end migration to GTK 4

Canvas

Selections

selection boxes, touch to select and lasso select look nicer now . Norma selection, is blue and touch box selection has a striped pattern.

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 selecion more easaly.

• Ctrl+Shift+drag: Removes objects from selection

• Ctrl+Shift+Alt+drag: Removes objects from selection with touch selection

When you select by clcik and draging slecion boxes have new look:

Blue box - normal selecion, select object that are fully inside of this box

Blue box with hache fill - Touch selecion, select object tha touch this box

Pink box - unselect

Pink box - unselect touched objects

Blue line - select touched objects

Pink line- unslect touched objects

TODO: add gifs

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

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

new behiviour Unlocking inside of groupes

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

Color Picker Tool

we added feature that can pic colors from images/ objects under .

TODO:find out how it works

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

Node Tool

new improvemts to Node tool workflows

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

Polygon / Star Tool

You can set length of the side edge of the polygon and star numerically from the toolbar.

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

Spiral tool

center is created in center of spiral.

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

Dialogs

General

Files now open as tabs inside one inkscape program. This significantly speeds up working with multiple documents at once

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

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

Document properties

Cordination system origine option can be changed from documet properties

Grids

New UI Redesign of Grids.

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

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 @media

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

Live Path Effects

Measure LPE

New measurement unit "metes" was added .

Behind the Curtains

new defoult PDF exporter, CappyPDF was added .

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

Other releases

• Inkscape 1.5 — development branch
• Inkscape 1.4 — current stable release branch (1.4.1, 1.4.2 next bugfix release)
• 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