Release notes/1.3

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Release highlights

• Pattern editor , Pattern canvas controls, and pattern performance
• Shape builder - New tool for building complex shapes form simple shapes. = live boolean tool
• and so much more!

Performace

There has be lots of effort to improve performance of all aspects in Inkscape. Lots of refractroing of various inefficient code: Display- small hacks, handling of Patterns , Paint server and filters. After that we added Multi treading to Bitmap tracing, ...(more to come)

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=merged&label_name%5B%5D=Project%3A%3AMultithreading

General user interface

indicators of used colors

Color palettes have indicator color of stroke and fill of selected object.

New feature past on page

You can copy and past object from one page to another

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4695

Canvas

Pressing F temporarily hides on-canvas overlays (transformation handles, grids, guides ...). This allows quick preview of final artwork without any distractions.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4395

Added display overlay controls in top right corners. You need to have scrollbars enable to see it.

OpenGL Canvas rendering (GPU rendering)

We added OpenGL rendering it is highly experimental and its turned off by default. (known to be broken on Mac ). Preferences -> rendering -> OpenGL

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4133

Tools

Node tool

Pattern editing on canvas is now easier you can click on any part of pattern and it will show you controls on that position. We also outline that shows you edges of pattern. First square controls position circle controls rotation and second square controls size hold shift to constrain proportions.

We also fixed performance problems with patterns so now you can have smaller patterns in project and also its possible to zoom in on pattern

editing pattern on canvas

Shape Builder (New)

New tool for fast shape building and Boolean operations.

Use: Select multiple overlapping shapes and select shipbuilder tool. Selection will be fragmented on overlapping areas everything else is going to be hidden until you confirm operation. Now you Click and drag to combine segments together or hold Shift + Click and drag to substract and Sigle click on segment to split. Adding is represented by Blue color removing by pink

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4709

Masking / Clipping

• A new option to preserve clips / masks when ungrouping objects has been added (Edit → Preferences → Behavior → Clippaths and Masks: When ungroup, clip/mask is preserved in childrens). The option is active by default. This means that when you now ungroup a group that has been clipped, the elements inside it will inherit the clip. Previously, the clip was removed and everything became un-clipped. To go back to previous default behavior, deactivate this new option. (MR #3564) -->

Dialogs

Layers and Objects

We added search feature, and more UX improvements like click and drag to lock change visibility of the objects. Cliclking on grup does not auto expand . Selecting multiple object and hiting visiblity change all selected.

Fill and stroke Dialog

New pattern editor

Added in to UI. You can preview patterns change name, size, rotation, offset, gaps and colors for some specific patterns. We also added collections of patterns ~paint/pattern.svg so its easier to be organized . Since this allows having much more patterns preset we also added search function .

Symbols

You can drag and drop symbols on canvas and they are going to be place where you dropped them

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4666

Templates

All template dialogs (Welcome screen, New from Template, Page tool default sizes) now use the same template sizes ([1] MR #479)

Notable bugfixes

Crash fixes

Fixed a crash that occurred …

• when …

Even 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.

Translations

The following UI translations received updates:

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The Windows installer translation was updated for:

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The following documentation translations received updates:

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Contributing to interface translations

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Documentation

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
• 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