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/4cffac1d1618581c442fc36f57031fba7be117ca#note_474793882

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 drag / Ctrl + Shift + Scroll 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.
• A long-standing, very annoying bug where, when copying an object to the clipboard while also running certain other programs on Linux desktops (mainly clipboard managers), caused multiple export extension dialogs to open, has been fixed, so you can now again use your favorite clipboard manager while also using Inkscape (Bug #575)
• 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• An outdated link that pointed to a potentially offensive website now has been removed from a branding document (Commit b53beb)
• 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)
• … that happened randomly when using undo / redo (Commit 3cb09a)
• … when importing an SVGZ file by drag-and-drop (Commit b8e782, Bug #906)

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