Release notes/1.0.2

These Release Notes are in Draft Status. Important Links: Commit History Main Program (continue after: Dec 24, 2020 Commit History Extensions (continue after Oct 18, 2020, after 6b1f9a09) Commit History Documentation (starting: Sept. 6 2020, after d40b3cfa)

Pending questions: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/573c5005cada4d9fa3f5605562bed45bb38704f6#note_446696559 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/e30b42c01eecba1f63af85a073f94615b15ff6e7#note_474785438 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/4cffac1d1618581c442fc36f57031fba7be117ca#note_474793882 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/2580#note_474796742 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/3cb09a5c9721172db756aab0830f84534cfb433a#note_474798216

About this release

Definitely not released yet.

Inkscape 1.0.2 is mainly a stability and bugfix release.

New Features

• Zooming by middle mouse button click (pressing scroll wheel) can now be deactivated in Edit > Preferences > Behavior > Steps: Zoom with middle mouse click (Commit 186736)
• Canvas rotation by Ctrl + middle mouse click can be prevented in two ways:
  • temporarily for the current document from View > Canvas Orientation > Lock Rotation (Commit 8ea381)
  • for all new Inkscape windows in Edit > Preferences > Interface: Lock canvas rotation by default (Commit 5e60b5)

Bug fixes

General

• A series of related bugs with text objects was fixed (MR #2434).
  All of the affected actions required a text object to behave like a path, but it behaved like a group, and the action failed. This series of bugs mostly affected new users who were following tutorials which did not work as expected.
  Specifically, the following actions now work again:
  • A text object unioned with itself results in a single path again.
  • Text objects can again be used with other objects in all Boolean operations.
  • Text objects can again be inset and outset.
  • Text objects can again be used to create a Dynamic Offset or a Linked Offset.
• Converting an object's stroke to a path no longer makes its clones vanish (Bug #1120)
• Improved rendering performance when zooming through multiple zoom levels (Commit 28e21e)
• CSS classes that start with a letter that isn't part of the ASCII set are no longer ignored (Bug #1094)
• An outdated link that pointed to a potentially offensive website now has been removed from a branding document (Commit b53beb)
• Clips and masks now ... (needs info - see https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/2580#note_474796742)(Commit 985f39)
• Random actions should no longer cause sudden scaling of the canvas (Commit dc6a60)
• Transforms made to items cloned with the Clone Original LPE are now retained after reopening a saved document (Commit fb433a)
• Fixed some transformation issues on linked LPE item transforms (Commit 769c56)
• When converting an object's stroke to a path, any clones that were linked to the path are now correctly re-linked to the group resulting from the operation (Bug #1120)

macOS

• Packaging has been updated for macOS, which improves a performance regression in Inkscape 1.0.1, so Inkscape 1.0.2 is about as fast (or slow) as Inkscape 1.0. [needs confirmation]

Circle Tool

• Arcs from Inkscape files created with versions older than 1.0 are no longer rendered as slices (Bug #1900)
• When dragging on an ellipse's handles inside the ellipse to create an arc, Inkscape no longer renders it as a closed slice (Commit def938)

Mesh Gradient tool

• Objects with a mesh gradient now keep their fill when copied to a different document (Bug #579)

Text tool

• The font preview sample now contains the correct currency symbols €¢ (instead of \342\202\254\302\242). One needs to reset the preferences to see the updated font sample text (MR #2547).

Filter Editor dialog

• The dialog elements are readable now when using a dark theme (Bug #885)

Objects dialog

• The search function in the 'Objects' dialog shows results again (Bug #1736)

Crash fixes

Fix a crash …

• … when drawing with the Calligraphy tool inside a group with the 'Rotate copies' live path effect (and possibly when adding items to groups with a different path effect applied to them) (Commit b62cd9, MR #2386)
• … when duplicating a text that had lost the frame it was flowed in (Bug #1919)
• … when 'trying to acces to a freed gchar' (needs info: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/3cb09a5c9721172db756aab0830f84534cfb433a#note_474798216)
• … when ...

Extension bug fixes

Specific extensions

• A few label texts were improved in the new "Scribus PDF Export" extension (MR #226)
• The preview works again for the "Interpolate" extension (Bug #303)

Extension failure fixes

• "Change case" extension works again (Bug #302)
• "Interpolate attribute in a group" extension works again (Bug #310)

Translations

The following user interface translations received updates:

• language

The following documentation translations received updates:

• language

Contributing to translations

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Documentation

• Update 1

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

• Issue 1

Previous releases

• Release notes/1.0 (1.0.1)
• Release notes/0.92 (0.92.1, 0.92.2, 0.92.3, 0.92.4, 0.92.5)
• Release notes/0.91
• Release notes/0.48 (0.48.1, 0.48.2, 0.48.3, 0.48.4, 0.48.5)
• Release notes/0.47
• Release notes/0.46
• Release notes/0.45
• Release notes/0.44
• Release notes/0.43
• Release notes/0.42
• Release notes/0.41
• Release notes/0.40
• Release notes/0.39
• Release notes/0.38
• Release notes/0.37
• Release notes/0.36
• Release notes/0.35