Release notes/1.0.1

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TODO: Add changes made to 1.0.x after July 25th 2020 and changes made to extensions 1.0.x branch after April 4th 2020

Milestone on gitlab:

• issues
• merge requests (probably we'll miss to milestone some merge requests targeting 1.0.x)

About this release

Definitely not released yet.

Inkscape 1.0.1 is a stability and bugfix release.

The most notable improvements are:

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Bug fixes

Packaging

• AppImage:
  • now comes with Python 3.8 (Commit)
• Snap:
  • now uses the system's font cache and thus finds all installed fonts (Commit)
  • can now make use of extensions with custom user interfaces (e.g. InkStitch) (Commit)
  • spell checker changed to aspell (erroneously)

General User Interface

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Canvas

• The zoom correction factor no longer depends on the display unit, so correction works properly for documents that are not in mm (Commit)

Dialogs

• The document properties dialog can now be resized even if one is using display scaling on a hidpi screen on Linux

Tools

• 3D-box tool:
  • Keyboard shortcuts for changing angles in the 3D-box tool were adjusted to work as documented, even with the Y-axis inverted (Commit)
• Eraser tool:
  • The mass value field is no longer greyed out and can be used (Commit)
• Node tool:
  • Path > Reverse now works on subpaths again (Commit)
• Pencil tool:
  • The 'flatten simplify (LPE)' button now only shows up when it can be used (Commit)
• Selector tool:
  • Keyboard shortcuts with Alt key for rotating objects also work as documented again with the Y-axis inversion (Commit)
  • Objects no longer seemingly jump or scale up when moving multiple of them with snapping turned on (Commit)
  • Default snap delay was set to 0 so snapping will work more precisely (Commit)
• Text tool:
  • Line height doesn't change spontaneously when switching tools while having text selected (Commit)

Import / Export

• when saving as PDF / PS / EPS + LaTeX, % signs are now properly escaped (Commit)
• the dpi value for exporting to PNG can be specified as a decimal number again

Live Path Effects

• The Knot LPE allows to switch the direction of self-crossings (Commit)
• LPE selection dialog looks better now with some desktop themes (Commit)
• Fill between many: option 'fuse coincident points' has been replaced with good defaults (Commit)

Performance

• Inkscape no longer becomes unresponsive when opening a document with lots of style tags in it (Commit)

Extensions

TODO: add changes from May 1st until now: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/-/commits/1.0.x/ (starts on April 15th)

• Relative paths to linked images no longer break when using an extension (Commit)
• Plot extension and HPGL Output extension no longer have an option to automatically convert objects to path, this is now always done (except for texts) (Commit)
• The Interpolate extension now also interpolates gradients in fills and in strokes (before, it could only interpolate flat colors) and named colors (Commit)
• The extension Render > Barcode > Datamatrix now renders 64 x 64 datamatrices correctly (Commit)
• New extension Color > List All lists all colors used in a document and indicates how often they are used (Commit)
• Rendering a 3D Polyhedron no longer gives deprecation warnings (Commit)
• Path elements are now transformed correctly when applying transformation matrices to them (Commit)
• JessyInk presentations now work again (Commit)
• The Measure Path extension now also works when the Help tab is open when clicking on Apply (Commit
• Text element coordinates are now interpreted correctly, even if they use a different unit than px (Commit) and their (guessed) bounding boxes now consider transforms
• Extensions that adjust colors now work on groups again (Commit)
• Basic extension for exporting as pdf from Scribus was added (not really functional yet, Commit)
• Color > Randomize extension now works correctly for the Hue and Lightness parameters
• The Mesh Gradient to Path extension now works again (Commit)
• The unnecessary Live preview was removed from the Interactive Mockup extension (Commit)
• The DPI Switcher extension works again (Commit)
• The Perspective / Envelope extension now considers transforms (Commit)
• The Interpolate extension works with the tutorial files again (Commit)
• Extensions now understand what to do with the CSS unit Q (1/40th of a cm) (Commit)
• The Hershey text extension fonts now contain letters needed to plot in Danish (Commit)
• When switching plotter pens using the HPGL output extension, the plotter no longer makes a dot with the new pen at the end of the old pen's line (Commit)

Extension failure fixes

Fix a failure …

• … when exporting a document with unknown SVG tags to HTML5 canvas (Commit)
• … when trying to access a document node with an unknown tag (Commit)
• … when trying to import a dxf file with a circle / ellipse (Commit)

Extension API changes / Improvements for Extension Developers

• Shape objects now have an is_visible method (Commit)
• Documentation extended and improved (Commit, []https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/-/commit/9b21776f7c3d746911dac7305b8e1f2a08e38b70 Commit], Commit, Commit)
• Use an underscore in front of the 'name' attribute value to mark things that do not need to be available in the .py file (Commit)
• Shape coordinates are now reported in user units (Commit)
• inkex.addNS() is no longer required, attributes like 'inkscape:groupmode' can now be used directly, too (Commit)
• added method getElementByName() to get an object by Inkscape label (Commit)
• added method getElementsByClass() to get objects by their class name (Commit)
• added method to create Star shapes (Commit)

Upcoming deprecations (1.1 will issue a warning, while both the old and the new version will just work in 1.0.1):

• See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/-/commit/4838d285b01106d243399e6bf36e7956a291eb98

Filters

• Changes to filter region handles are now saved to the file (Commit)

Templates

• The same file can now be used to create multiple template files (Commit)

Color management

• When using color management, the color selector works again (Commit)

Command line

• the pre-1.0 options --export-[type]=, --file= and --without-gui= now have a fallback and print out a warning (Commit)
• when converting a pdf to svg on the command line, the poppler text import method no longer changes randomly (Commit)
• opening files with Windows drive paths (with colons) works again (Commit)
• background color is now exported to PNG when using --export-background even when --export-background-opacity is not set explicitly (Commit)

For packagers

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Crash fixes

Fix a crash …

• … when applying Offset LPE to groups (Commit)
• … when closing Inkscape while the filter editor dialog is open (Commit)
• … with some cursor themes that do not contain an upward arrow cursor (Commit)
• … when the file to open does not exist (Commit)
• … when resizing a document with a grid, when the document properties dialog is closed (Commit)
• … when opening a malformed pdf where the selected page does not exist (Commit)
• … when creating a clone of / opening a file with a symbol from an object with a CSS style (Commit)
• … when exporting an object identified by its ID to SVG from the command line (Commit)
• … when using the dropper tool a lot (Commit)

More bug fixes

There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these probably only affect a small portion of users, or are relevant for development and packaging only.

For a complete list, visit our GitLab issue tracker and see the commit history (all changes since DATE until release date).

Translations

The following user interface translations received updates:

• Catalan
• Chinese
• Croatian
• Czech
• Dutch
• Icelandic
• Italian
• Russian

The following documentation translations received updates:

• French
• Croatian
• Catalan

Contributing to 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.

Known issues

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• Many of Inkscape's old bug reports still need to be tested and migrated to the new bug and feature request reporting page. While some progress has already been made, we still need your help with that task.
• All (migrated and new) open issues for the project are listed on GitLab. If you have some time on your hands and can help fixing them, join us in the development chat and let us tackle them together.

Previous releases

• Release notes/0.92
• Release notes/0.92.1
• Release notes/0.92.2
• Release notes/0.92.3
• Release notes/0.92.4
• Release notes/0.92.5
• Release notes/1.0