Release Notes

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Inkscape 0.44.1 changes with respect to 0.44

• fix a crash on Windows ("python.exe can't find msvcrt71.dll") by providing that dll in the package;
• fix hang in page size widget
• on Mac OS X, removed problems with home folder path names containing spaces;
• inkscape now finds libpng include headers on some systems where it previously failed to do so
• several changes to allow compiling on glib-2.4 systems (e.g. RHEL4);
• allow compiling on systems with incomplete boost library headers; recognize if boost is too old
• inkscape now compiles with gcc-4.2.x.
• fixed a bug where stderr output from scripts was not shown
• fixed a bug affecting the recent files menu
• resolution information is now saved in exported PNG files
• fix some ODG export bugs
• fix dia import
• fix several include issues affecting building on Solaris (there are still some more problems, at least under Solaris 8, and similar ones on OpenBSD)
• added missing German version of the advanced tutorial and made corrections to the calligraphy one; added missing Czech, German, and Brazil-Portuguese tutorials to tarball; added missing German keytable to tarball
• applied changes to the German and Spanish translations of Inkscape strings
• interactivity improvements at high zooms
• fix for specifying CSS colors with percentages
• re-enabled old PDF exporter alongside the new one
• minor fixes to new PDF exporter (a major overhaul is still in the works)
• fixup for invalid "s odipodi" namespace which has become widespread in Inkscape documents
• Mac OS X packaging updates
• miscellaneous build fixes