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, pressure sensitivity works again with Windows Ink activated (Bug #1437, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/1563) - needs confirmation!
• Undoing 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)
• Saving no longer leaks memory (Bug#2800)
• Startup times improved, 3.3 seconds to 3 seconds on one Windows machine (Commit 228b6a)
• Hide unnecessary warnings in terminal about optional font directories not being used (Commit 76fb99)
• Canvas no longer blurred when moving window from HiDPI to a regular display (Commit f7162b)
• Fix selecting objects by clicking on wmii and some other window managers (Bug #2801)
• Caps lock no longer stops Delete, Page Down and some other shortcut keys from working (Bug #2496)

Dialogs

• Clicking the resize separator will toggle visibility of docked dialog (Commit 3c8683, Bug #4676, MR #2969)
• 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)
• Text and Font dialog: Font features load in under a second, instead of minutes for fonts with lots of font features. More font feature glyphs shown too (Commit 0dacc4, MR #3449)

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

• Snap remembers user preferences even when the home directory is not available to the snap. This may occur in LDAP, SSSD, or other set ups where there is a modified nsswitch.conf and NSCD is not acting as a proxy to snaps. (MR #3474)
• Build fixes:
  • Building Inkscape works again on systems with musl libc (MR #3410)
  • Building Inkscape works again on NetBSD (Commit 1029bb, Commit bfb81a, Commit 160dc7, Commit e12966)
  • Building Inkscape works again on FreeBSD (Commit 06b143)
  • Building Inkscape works again with GCC 7 (Commit 3d8be5)

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)
  • Position dialog moves handles to the right place again (Commit 1fcc33)
  • Measurements no longer reset on right click or tool switch (Commit bd9349, Commit 341a0e)

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)
• … stroke to path applied on paths with no area, fill, stroke, or markers (Bug #2502, Bug 2572)
• … entering a space character in the 'Attributes' field of the 'Clone Original' LPE settings dialog (Bug #1709)
• … closing a window while the filter editer dialog is floating and a filter is selected (Bug #2753)
• … pasting 3D boxes when the 3D box tool is active (Bug #2741)
• … multiple objects selected for spray tool in single path mode (#2740)
• … quitting in command line or when opening windows if done before window fully loads (Bug #2776, Bug #2487)
• … Homebrew or MacPorts used and XDG_DATA_DIRS is not defined (Commit 1a6c62)

Extension bug fixes

• Fix LaTeX extension on Windows (MR #309)
• Add __version__ for inkex (MR #360, Bug #409)

Translations

The following UI translations received updates:

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

The following documentation translations received updates:

• …

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 (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