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subject line for email:  Announcing Inkscape 0.41 Release . www.inkscape.org
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= Announcing Inkscape 0.41 Release . www.inkscape.org =


= Inkscape 0.41 =
The Inkscape community is proud to announce the release of Inkscape 0.41, "A Cross-platform Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Drawing Tool" today.


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The primary focus of 0.41 has been bug fixing. With over 100 bugs fixed since the 0.40 release, this significantly strengthened Inkscape on Windows and support for international users.  We owe deep thanks to the many users who have worked patiently with us to report the problems and validate these fixes.  Several serious crashes, memory leaks and mis-features are now corrected and certain areas are noticeably snappier thanks to user submitted bug reports.


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Two new powerful features also found their way into release 0.41. First, the black and white tracing functionality introduced in 0.40 has been improved to also allow conversion of color and grayscale images. Now Inkscape can convert photos, scanned artwork, and other drawn images into editable illustrations in the SVG format. Second, is the addition of a new clone tiler facility which creates patterns, tesselations, and other sorts of geometric tiling arrangements.


The Inkscape community is proud to announce the release 0.41 of
User requests and comments also stimulated a number of improvements to units handling, extensions, the Invert Selection command, layers selector, icon theming, and the addition of several new translations.
Inkscape, "A Cross-platform Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Drawing
Tool."


The primary focus of the 0.41 release has been on bug fixing.  Inkscape
A number of large scale changes are planned for the 0.42 release, including converting the interface to use Gtkmm and the incorporation of a new Document Object Model (DOM), which will provide the core for implementing scripting.  This should keep us busy for a while!  If you'd like to join in the work, please drop by.
has already earned a reputation for being robust and hard to crash; but
there were a number of corner cases and rare bugs that we took great
pleasure in squishing for you.  In particular, many fixes have gone in
particular to Windows and Internationalized character sets; even more
so than in past releases we owe deep thanks to the many users who have
worked patiently with us to report the problems and validate these
fixes.  Several serious crashes, memory leaks and mis-features have
been corrected, and certain areas now see noticeable speedups.  We only
wish we could have fixed more!  See our Known Issues section for
problems we know about but didn't have time to fix for this release.


Of course, no Inkscape release would be complete without at least a few
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
new features. First, we've built on the black and white tracing
functionality introduced in 0.40 with a surprisingly powerful color and
grayscale tracing capability.  Second, a new clone tiler facility has
been added for creating patterns, tesselations, and other sorts of
pattern tiling arrangements.


In addition, user requests and comments stimulated a number of
improvements to unit handling, extensions, the Invert Selection
command, layers selector, icon theming, and more.  Translations have
also received an amazing amount of attention this release, including
several new translations of tutorials.  All this and more can be seen
in explicit detail in the 0.41 Release Notes.


We were quite strict with ourselves to avoid adding new dependencies
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and to hold off on ambitious new features we have planned in order to
make 0.41 especially stable.  The only dependency change is a minor
version update for the Boehm garbage collector libgc, which we
increased to version 6.4 due to freezes that occurred in some
circumstances on Windows and Linux.
 
However, for 0.42 we intend to go a bit wild with some aggressive
changes that we've been working on experimentally on the side for
several months now.  We expect these changes to destabilize the
codebase considerably, so it may be a while before our next release;
please wish us luck.  The first of these changes is a complete
reimplementation of the graphical user interface using Gtkmm.  The
second is the incorporation of a new DOM that will provide the core
that we can finally build a scripting system on.  Both the interface
design and scripting have been remarked on by reviewers lately so we
know this work takes Inkscape in the right direction.  Wish us well,
and if you'd like to get your hands dirty with us doing this
implementation work, please drop by!
 
 
Download your packages (Linux, Windows, Mac OSX):
   
   
     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438
     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438
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For many more details, see the Release Notes for 0.41:
For many more details, see the Release Notes for 0.41:
   
   
     http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes041
     [[ReleaseNotes041]]


Community submitted screenshots:
Community submitted screenshots:
   
   
     http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/
     http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/
[[Category:Marketing]]

Latest revision as of 13:06, 20 June 2006

subject line for email: Announcing Inkscape 0.41 Release . www.inkscape.org

Announcing Inkscape 0.41 Release . www.inkscape.org

The Inkscape community is proud to announce the release of Inkscape 0.41, "A Cross-platform Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Drawing Tool" today.

The primary focus of 0.41 has been bug fixing. With over 100 bugs fixed since the 0.40 release, this significantly strengthened Inkscape on Windows and support for international users. We owe deep thanks to the many users who have worked patiently with us to report the problems and validate these fixes. Several serious crashes, memory leaks and mis-features are now corrected and certain areas are noticeably snappier thanks to user submitted bug reports.

Two new powerful features also found their way into release 0.41. First, the black and white tracing functionality introduced in 0.40 has been improved to also allow conversion of color and grayscale images. Now Inkscape can convert photos, scanned artwork, and other drawn images into editable illustrations in the SVG format. Second, is the addition of a new clone tiler facility which creates patterns, tesselations, and other sorts of geometric tiling arrangements.

User requests and comments also stimulated a number of improvements to units handling, extensions, the Invert Selection command, layers selector, icon theming, and the addition of several new translations.

A number of large scale changes are planned for the 0.42 release, including converting the interface to use Gtkmm and the incorporation of a new Document Object Model (DOM), which will provide the core for implementing scripting. This should keep us busy for a while! If you'd like to join in the work, please drop by.

Inkscape. Draw Freely.


Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX packages: 

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

For many more details, see the Release Notes for 0.41: 

    ReleaseNotes041

Community submitted screenshots: 

    http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/
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