Release notes/1.1.1

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Release highlights

Definitely not released yet.

New Features

Menus

• We've added a link to our donation page in Help → Donate, to make it easier for users to contribute to the project financially (MR #3325)

Bug fixes

General

• Thanks to the upstream fix in gtk3. Graphic tables work again in windows (Bug #1293, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/1563) - needs confirmation!
• Stroke to Path no longer loses the object's id (Bug #2759)
• Undoing Object to Path for an object with a Live Path Effect is now possible without also undoing the preceding action (Bug #1504)

Dialogs

• Welcome dialog:
  • Fixed a paper size typo (Bug #2570)
  • Renamed some confusing device size names (Bug #2570)
  • Removed an unnecessary warning when choosing the keyboard shortcuts set (Bug #2529)
• Transform dialog: Matrix tab no longer stubbornly insists on using display units instead of the units the user selected (Bug #2429)

Filters

• Fast crop: Transparency is now respected when applying the Filters → Fill and Transparency → Fast Crop filter (Bug #2419)

Import

• EPS: Users that have installed Inkscape in the snap packaging format can open EPS files again (Bug #1406)

Export

• Optimized SVG: Save as → Optimized SVG works again in Linux AppImage (Bug #1738)

Markers

• Start / end markers: A bug was fixed where the path tip protruded over the arrow marker's end (Bug #2593).

Menus

• Help menu: Now using a different set of web links to link to the documentation from the Help menu (MR #3325)

Packaging

• Build fixes:
  • Building Inkscape works again on systems with musl libc (MR #3410)
  • Building Inkscape works again on NetBSD (MR #3390)

Templates

• All templates generated from the 'Welcome' dialog now use a document scale of 1, making it easier to hand-edit documents created using them (Bug #2728)

Tools

• Measure tool: Settings for font size and precision for the Measure tool work again (MR #3343)

Crash fixes

Fixed a crash when …

• … using a grid with the Document Properties dialog open on Windows. This also fixes a memory leak on other operating systems, that did not necessarily lead to a crash. (Bug #2585)
• … trying to copy an object without ID (Bug #2714)
• … entering a space character in the 'Attributes' field of the 'Clone Original' LPE settings dialog (Bug #1709)

Translations

The following UI translations received updates:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Catalan
• Czech
• Polish
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Traditional Chinese

The following documentation translations received updates:

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Contributing to interface translations

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Documentation

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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.

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