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 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/c682469a08e3fb0db117c7ee451a7b56942ad22d#note_480434946 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/4078b22130a5b3fd6d6e9b757403b09d1f9ff431#note_480458194

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 5eb7c5)
  • for all new Inkscape windows in Edit → Preferences → Interface: Lock canvas rotation by default (Commit e8c10d)

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 (Commit fe7c68, 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 88efa4)
• Random actions should no longer cause sudden scaling of the canvas (Commit 49fc36)
• Transforms made to items cloned with the Clone Original LPE are now retained after reopening a saved document (Commit 3cb09a)
• Fixed some transformation issues on linked LPE item transforms (Commit 546b64, Commit e3cad6)
• 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)
• When copy-pasting some items along with their originals/frames/paths (clones, text-on-path, text-in-a-shape, linked offsets), they are no longer displaced in relation to the pasted original ((Commit b93f21) ,Bug #853)

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)

Eraser Tool

• A long-standing issue with the Eraser tool no longer working as soon as the user has interacted with a menu or dialog or another user interface element (instead, it painted red lines into the root layer) has been fixed (Bug #2068, Commit 2057bf)

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).
• Custom font directories are found now and taken into account, even when the installed Pango version is newer than 1.44.7 (Bug #1977, Commit 1771fa)

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)

Selectors and CSS dialog

• In addition to multiple crash fixes (see below), the dialog now correctly recognizes style tags inside the documents defs section (Commit 12f4d6, Bug #905)

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)
• … that occurred sporadically when closing Inkscape (Bug #1918, Commit 275d15)
• … when popping an object out of its current group (Commit a803b1, Bug #1770)
• … or, actually, multiple different crashes occuring with the Selectors and CSS dialog on Redo, Undo and Clone actions, as well as on closing the document and when having a duplicate window open (Commit 12f4d6, Bugs #142, #828, #1168, #1157, #688)
• … with the Clone LPE (Commit e3cad6)
• … when trying to export to PDF when there are markers included in the document whose color is defined by context-stroke (like Inkscape stock markers) (Bug #1984, Commit 9b5de7)

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:

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The following documentation translations received updates:

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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