Release notes/1.4

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Pending questions: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4792#note_1756882987 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/9927

Canvas

New look for nodes controls. Handles can be customized by the CSS file at share/ui/node-handles.css

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5624#note_1644395997

Snapping

improved snapping stabilty

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6157

Tools

Spray tool

We added canvas cursor preview for shapes you are about to spray . Its useful if you are about to spray diffrent objects

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5375#note_1549354167

Shape builder tool

Improved work with clones

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6131

Dialogs

Filter galley

• new dialog that allows you to browse all Filter presets
• Some filters have improved quality of rendering

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5448

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6190

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6162

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6133/diffs

Extension galley

new dialog that allows you to browse all extensions

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5448

Export dialog

Added icons for single and multiple exports.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6166

Object Properties

Feature: PDF Internal Linking

We have supported linking to external websites using urls in pdf for a long time. But have not supported linking to other pages or items. This feature adds tracking of connected objects to the sp-anchor so we know when a hyperlink is linked to an local object instead of a url.

Add object picker tool. Anchor element "href" attribute can be selected by clicking on a destination element apart from editing it by hand.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5237

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5221

Document properties

• Added content-scale-lock to document properties

Grids

• Axonometric grid angles can be set by ratio
• Cleaning up UI

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6132

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5993

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6078

Fill and Stroke

Pattern editor

Added spin buttons option in dialog to control pattern gap

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5484

Layers

Enhance "Add Layer" dialog.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5074

Symbols

• Added two new symbol sets, with Sci-Fi and Nature symbols (MR #4792)

Extensions

Some improvements to memory management are made in the extension system.

• The extension objects, which used to be carelessly allocated on the heap and left there to leak are now owned by the "Extension database".
• A memory issue with the ImageMagick extension is fixed: the memory was allocated with array new but freed with non-array delete. Previously this issue was never seen because the destructor was not called, now it is not seen because we use std::vector instead of calling new and delete manually.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6109

Command line

• Many new actions have been added to allow editing SVG files and customizing export files. These are also available from the Command palette:
  • Set the document's SVG version to 1.1
  • Set the document's SVG version to 2.0
  • Remove any Inkscape-specific SVG data
  • Remove any known proprietary SVG data
  • Remove auto start positions from markers
  • Remove all transforms from all shapes
  • Remove context paints from markers
  • Replace SVG2 text with SVG1.1 text
  • Insert JavaScript for rendering meshes (polyfill)
  • Insert JavaScript for rendering hatches (polyfill)
  • Recursively unlink all clones and symbols
  • Turn all shapes recursively into path elements
  • Turn all strokes recursively into fill-only paths
  • Make all paths absolute and predictable
  • Add bounding box information to all shapes: adds inkscape:visualbox and inkscape:geometricbox attributes
  • Add shape path information to all shapes: adds inkscape:d attribute
  • Remove unused definitions (gradients, etc.)

Bugfixes

Fix Stroke-to-Path on combined paths

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6122

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6100

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6067

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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