Release Notes

Inkscape 1.0

Released on May 1, 2020

Release highlights

Theming support and more new customization options
Better HiDPI (high resolution) screen support
Native support for macOS with a signed and notarized .dmg file
Coordinate origin in top left corner by default
Canvas rotation and mirroring
On-Canvas alignment of objects
Split view and X-Ray modes
PowerPencil for drawing editable, variable width strokes with a pressure sensitive graphics tablet
New PNG export options
Integrated centerline tracing for vectorization of line drawings
Searchable Symbols dialog
New Live Path Effect (LPE) selection dialog
New Corners (Fillet/chamfer) LPE, (lossless) Boolean Operation LPE (experimental), Offset LPE and Measure Segments LPE (and more!)
Path operations, deselection of a large number of paths as well as grouping/ungrouping are much faster now
Much improved text line-height settings
Variable fonts support (only if compiled with pango library version >= 1.41.1)
Browser-compatible flowed text
Extensions programming interface updated, with many new options
Python 3 support for extensions

Breaking changes

Breaking changes affect the following areas:

Custom icon sets
Some dropped import/export file formats, notably .plt (import and export), .dia, .sk1 and some old Corel Draw and Illustrator formats (import)
Command line syntax
Extension development and incomplete compatibility of pre-1.0 extensions
Packaging

Gallery

Live Path Effects

Canvas

Theming

More New Functionalities

Full Release Notes

The full release notes for Inkscape 1.0 can be found in the Wiki, or you can use the following list to jump directly to the feature / area that you are interested in most:

General: Application
- Performance
- macOS Application
General User Interface
- Modernized GUI Toolkit
- Window position / size / behavior
- High Resolution Screens
- Tool box
- Improved number entry fields
Canvas
- Y-Axis Inversion
- Canvas Rotation
- Canvas Mirroring
- Pinch-to-zoom
- Duplicate Guides
- Context menu
- Snapping
View
- Center view on page
- Split View Mode
- X-Ray Mode
- Visible Hairlines Display Mode
Paths
- Changed behavior of Stroke to Path
- Unlinking Clones for Path Operations
Tools
- Bézier Tool
- Calligraphy Tool
- Circle Tool
- Eraser
- Measurement Tool
- Pencil Tool
  - PowerPencil
- Selection Tool
  - On-Canvas Alignment
- Text Tool
Clipping / Masking
Filters
Live Path Effects
- General
- New Live Path Effects
- New Experimental LPEs
- Improved LPEs
Import / Export
- Linking and embedding SVG files
- Mesh Gradient Polyfill
- SVG 1.1 compatibility
- Export PNG images
- PDF Export
- (E)PS Export
- OpenClipart Import Removed
Extensions
- Extension dialogs
- Export Layer Slices
- Frame
- Hershey Text
- Interactive Mockup
- QR Code
Palettes
Templates
SVG and CSS
Dialogs
- Arrange
- Document Properties
- Fill and Stroke
- Filter Editor
- Objects
- Paint Servers
- Preferences
- Selection Sets Dialog Hidden
- Selectors and CSS [Experimental, hidden]
- Symbols
- Trace Bitmap
- Unicode Characters
- XML Editor
Menus
Customization
- Customize many files in the share folder
- Fonts
  - Load additional fonts
- Keyboard shortcuts
- User interface customization
- Theme selection
- Icon set selection
- Saving the current file as template
- Custom page sizes in Document Properties
Command Line
Tutorials / Documentation
Translations
Notable Bugfixes
Breaking changes / Action required
- For users
- For extension writers
- For packagers and those who compile Inkscape
Known Issues
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Release Notes

Inkscape 1.0

Release highlights

Breaking changes

Gallery

Live Path Effects

Canvas

Theming

More New Functionalities

Full Release Notes

Inkscape 1.0

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