Difference between revisions of "Release notes/1.4.3"

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These Release Notes are in Draft Status.

Important Links:

Commit History Documentation

Pending questions:

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Definitely not released yet.

Changes and Bug Fixes

Inkscape 1.4.3 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features.

The most important fixes and changes in this release are:

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xx crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected xx
more than xx bug fixes and small improvements, among them improvements to xx, xx, and xx
and xx updated translations!

([ MR #], [ Bug #])

Crash Fixes

Fixed a crash …

… when exporting clones using 'context-fill' or 'context-strokes' to define a color to PDF (MR 7169)
… when trying to convert a text-along-path that uses the 'path' attribute to define the path, which is new in SVG2 (and not supported by Inkscape yet - Inkscape uses 'href' to link to where the path is defined) to a normal text (MR #7191, Bug #5229)
… when trying to export one's custom keyboard shortcuts into a file (MR #7192, Bug #5746)
… when pressing Ctrl + Space in the Filter dialog (MR #7176, Bug #5569)
Fixed a freeze that occurred when Inkscape was trying to render filtered objects with invalid bounding box sizes (MR #7187, Bug #5356)

General User Interface

Handles (for rotation, shearing, ...) now look correct, even when the canvas is rotated (MR #7222, Bug #5278)
The LPE tool (or geometric construction tool) is now by default hidden from the toolbar. It is an experimental tool which is mostly not functioning well (MR #7037, Bug #5044)
When using drag-and-drop to add a non-SVG-image file to an existing file, Inkscape no longer opens the file in a new window instead, believing that a raster image must be handled according to one's SVG import preference (MR #6929, Bug #5642).

Inkscape's new splash screen at first run
The splash screen shown on further starts
Preferences setting for startup behavior

Style

Clones or markers that contain groups which are set to inherit their style via 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' attributes now use the correct styles in Inkscape and also when exporting to PDF (MR #7169, Bug #5670, Bug #3458).

Dialogs

Align and Distribute Dialog

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Document Properties Dialog

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Export Dialog

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Fill and Stroke Dialog

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Layers and Objects Dialog

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Swatches Dialog

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XML Editor Dialog

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Tools

Calligraphy Tool

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Ellipse Tool

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Measure Tool

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Node Tool

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Shape Builder

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Spray Tool

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Text Tool

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Clipboard

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Images

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Import / Export

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Live Path Effects

Simplify: The button that decides whether multiple subpaths of the path are supposed to be treated separately by the effect has been turned into a checkbox (Commit #9470be6d, Bug #4894).

Path Operations

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Keyboard Shortcuts

When selecting a different set of keyboard shortcuts than the default set in the Welcome dialog, this no longer breaks most keyboard shortcuts and also respects the user's choice (Commit #6a8399ba, Bug #5648)

Extensions

New Extensions

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General Extension Fixes

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Improvements in Particular Extensions

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Extension Development

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Command Line

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Linux-specific Fixes

Drag & Drop as well as 'Open file with Inkscape' from the file explorer now work for files in /home and /media if Inkscape is installed in snap format (but not for files saved in most other locations) ([1], Bug #3642)
Inkscape can now be started from the Welcome dialog when using Wayland as a display server. The button row can now be reached (MR #7224, Bug #5692)

Windows-specific Fixes

JPEG/JPG export works again (MR #7173, Bug #5728)

MacOS-specific Fixes

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Improvements for Development / Deployment / Testing / Translating

Weblate …

Translations

The following user interface translations received updates:

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Contributing to interface translations

Want to help with translations? Learn how to help!

Documentation

The following documentation translations received updates:

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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.

Other releases

Inkscape 1.5 — development branch
Inkscape 1.4 — current stable release branch (1.4.1, 1.4.2 next bugfix release)
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

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 * Handles (for rotation, shearing, ...) now look correct, even when the canvas is rotated ([https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7222 MR #7222], [https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/5278 Bug #5278])
 * The LPE tool (or geometric construction tool) is now by default hidden from the toolbar. It is an experimental tool which is mostly not functioning well ([https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7037 MR #7037], [https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/5044 Bug #5044])
+* When using drag-and-drop to add a non-SVG-image file to an existing file, Inkscape no longer opens the file in a new window instead, believing that a raster image must be handled according to one's SVG import preference ([https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6929 MR #6929], [https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/5642 Bug #5642]).
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