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

Tools

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

Dialogs

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

Grids

New UI Redesign of Grids

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

Live Path Effects

Measure LPE

New measurement unit "metes" was added .

Customization / Theming

Icons

New icon pack added called Dash

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6115

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