Release notes/1.4.3

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Changes and Bug Fixes

Inkscape 1.4.3 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features.

The most important fixes and changes in this release are:

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• xx crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected xx
• more than xx bug fixes and small improvements, among them improvements to xx, xx, and xx
• and xx updated translations!

([ MR #], [ Bug #])

Crash Fixes

Fixed a crash …

• … when exporting clones using 'context-fill' or 'context-strokes' to define a color to PDF (MR 7169)
• … when trying to convert a text-along-path that uses the 'path' attribute to define the path, which is new in SVG2 (and not supported by Inkscape yet - Inkscape uses 'href' to link to where the path is defined) to a normal text (MR #7191, Bug #5229)
• … when trying to export one's custom keyboard shortcuts into a file (MR #7192, Bug #5746)
• … when pressing Ctrl + Space in the Filter dialog (MR #7176, Bug #5569)
• … when editing an SVG file that contains text that is not in a text object and the preference to check attributes and properties on editing is set to true (MR #7138, Bug #5337)
• … when opening or closing some files with the Export dialog open, or when opening the Export dialog with certain files open (MR #6989, Bug #4744, Bug inbox#12065, Bug #4786)
• … when trying to export text objects of the type 'text in a shape' that do not actually have a shape associated with them, and prevent those from being created in the first place (MR #7170, Bug #5433)
• Fixed a freeze that occurred when Inkscape was trying to render filtered objects with invalid bounding box sizes (MR #7187, Bug #5356)

General User Interface

• Handles (for rotation, shearing, ...) now look correct, even when the canvas is rotated (MR #7222, Bug #5278)
• The LPE tool (or geometric construction tool) is now by default hidden from the toolbar. It is an experimental tool which is mostly not functioning well (MR #7037, Bug #5044)
• When using drag-and-drop to add a non-SVG-image file to an existing file, Inkscape no longer opens the file in a new window instead, believing that a raster image must be handled according to one's SVG import preference (MR #6929, Bug #5642).

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  Inkscape's new splash screen at first run

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  The splash screen shown on further starts

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  Preferences setting for startup behavior

Style

• Clones or markers that contain groups which are set to inherit their style via 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' attributes now use the correct styles in Inkscape and also when exporting to PDF (MR #7169, Bug #5670, Bug #3458).
• The pattern 'Abstract 1' can now be colored by the user like most other patterns (if you don't know which one that is - it's the first pattern in the 'Geometrical' set, MR #6618).

Dialogs

Align and Distribute Dialog

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Document Properties Dialog

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Export Dialog

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Fill and Stroke Dialog

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Layers and Objects Dialog

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Preferences Dialog

• In the keyboard shortcut settings, the categories for the keyboard shortcuts can now be translated by our translation team (MR #6989, Bug #2285, Bug #5501).

Swatches Dialog

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XML Editor Dialog

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Tools

Calligraphy Tool

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Ellipse Tool

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Measure Tool

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Mesh Gradient Tool

• The option to Show/Hide the gradient node handles works again (MR #7146, Bug #5668).

Node Tool

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Shape Builder

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Spray Tool

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Text Tool

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Clipboard

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Images

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Import / Export

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Live Path Effects

• Simplify: The button that decides whether multiple subpaths of the path are supposed to be treated separately by the effect has been turned into a checkbox (Commit #9470be6d, Bug #4894).

Path Operations

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Keyboard Shortcuts

• When selecting a different set of keyboard shortcuts than the default set in the Welcome dialog, this no longer breaks most keyboard shortcuts and also respects the user's choice (Commit #6a8399ba, Bug #5648)

Extensions

New Extensions

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General Extension Fixes

• Multi-line text entry fields in extension dialogs now expand to show more lines of text when you type in them (if the dialog height allows for it - you still need to resize the dialog as a whole to give the text field space to expand into, MR #7182).

Improvements in Particular Extensions

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Extension Development

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Command Line

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Linux-specific Fixes

• Drag & Drop as well as 'Open file with Inkscape' from the file explorer now work for files in /home and /media if Inkscape is installed in snap format (but not for files saved in most other locations) ([1], Bug #3642)
• Inkscape can now be started from the Welcome dialog when using Wayland as a display server. The button row can now be reached (MR #7224, Bug #5692)

Windows-specific Fixes

• JPEG/JPG export works again (MR #7173, Bug #5728)

MacOS-specific Fixes

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Improvements for Development / Deployment / Testing / Translating

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Translations

The following user interface translations received updates:

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Contributing to interface translations

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Documentation

The following documentation translations received updates:

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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 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