Release notes/1.5

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

"Hotkey" changes for scrollwheel node select/deselect.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/8019

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

Coordinate system origin option can now be changed from document 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

Fill and Stroke

The new Fill and Stroke Dialog in Inkscape 1.5

The Fill and Stroke dialog has been redesigned with a number of improvements.

• The FillNStroke widget was replaced with the new UI::Widget::PaintSwitch widget (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

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

Behind the Curtains

Migration to GTK 4

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

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

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6807

new default 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, 1.4.3, 1.4.4 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