Release notes/1.1.2

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Release highlights

Definitely not released yet.

Bug fixes

General

• Fixed Windows test builds, so testers can again try out intermediate versions (MR #3762
• Fixed building Inkscape with GCC 12 / C++17 (MR #3683)
• Fixed building Inkscape with Poppler 21.11.0, e.g. on Slackware Linux (MR #3636, Bug #2906)
• Toolbar fields now use the units the user selected as display units (in Document preferences) again (MR #3716, Bug #1747)
• Mouse cursors for tools are now completely visible, no matter how transparent the currently selected color is (MR #3640, Bug #2025)
• Graphic tablet pens that have a built-in eraser tip now again automatically switch to the correct tool (MR 3636, Bug #2866)
• On macOS, the system menu now uses the correct language and menu decorations look better on systems with non-English locales (MR #3531)

Dialogs

• Filter editor: The standard deviation for Gaussian blur can now be 0, if there is no blur (MR #3650, Bug #2724)

Themes

• win32 theme now contains expand/collapse arrows for expandable lists (MR #3636, Bug #2876)
• win32 theme offers improved contrast when hovering over text (MR #3550)
• win32 theme context menu border looks better now (MR #3550)
• win32 theme offers improved contrast when hovering over text (MR #3550)

Tools

Text tool

• Font dropdown now updates when changing font for the same text multiple times through the dropdown menu (MR #3731, Bug #2056)
• Line spacing works again with current Pango versions (e.g. 1.49) as used on Fedora Linux (MR #3717, Bug #2864)
• Line spacing now always stays the same when only changing the line height units (MR #3640, Bug #2465)
• Unicode mode now accepts numbers entered with numpad keys (a bug with a long beard, reported in 2014! MR #3716, Launchpad Bug #1394559

Crash fixes

Fixed a crash when …

• … grouping / ungrouping / importing / pasting a 3D box or after doing so and editing it (MR #3731, Bug #2833)
• … trying to add the "Measure segments" Live Path Effect to a path with empty / one-node subpaths (MR #3636, Bug #2725)
• … when running inkscape --actions=action-list on the command line if Inkscape has been built with DBUS support (MR #3636, Bug #2813)

Extension bug fixes

• … the file chooser in extensions can no longer accidentally choose a directory instead of a file (MR #3716, Bug #2822)

Translations

The following UI translations received updates:

• Croatian
• Simplified Chinese
• Czech
• Russian
• Catalan

Contributing to interface translations

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Documentation

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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.

Known issues

These issues could not be fixed in time for the 1.1.2 release.

Other releases

• Inkscape 1.4 — development branch
• Inkscape 1.3 — current stable release branch (1.3.1, 1.3.2 next bugfix release)
• 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