Release Notes

New Features

Menus

• We've added a link to our donation page in Help → Donate , to make it easier for users to contribute to the project financially ( MR #3325 )

Bug fixes

General

• Thanks to the upstream fix in gtk3, pressure sensitivity works again with Windows Ink activated ( Bug #1437 , https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/1563 )
• Stroke to Path works on text again ( Bug #2333 )
• Undoing Stroke to Path no longer loses the object's id ( Bug #2759 )
• Undoing Object to Path for an object with a Live Path Effect is now possible without also undoing the preceding action ( Bug #1504 )
• Saving no longer leaks memory ( Bug#2800 )
• Startup times improved, 3.3 seconds to 3 seconds on one Windows machine ( Commit 228b6a )
• Hide unnecessary warnings in terminal about optional font directories not being used ( Commit 76fb99 )
• Canvas no longer blurred when moving window from HiDPI to a regular display ( Commit f7162b )
• Clicking selects objects again on wmii and some other window managers ( Bug #2801 )
• Caps lock no longer stops Delete, Page Down and some other shortcut keys from working on Windows ( Bug #2496 )

Dialogs

• Clicking the resize separator will toggle visibility of docked dialog ( Commit 3c8683 , Bug #4676 , MR #2969 )
• Welcome dialog:
  • Fixed a paper size typo ( Bug #2570 )
  • Renamed some confusing device size names ( Bug #2570 )
  • Removed an unnecessary warning when choosing the keyboard shortcuts set ( Bug #2529 )
• Transform dialog: Matrix tab no longer stubbornly insists on using display units instead of the units the user selected ( Bug #2429 )
• Text and Font dialog: Font features load in under a second, instead of minutes for fonts with lots of font features. More font feature glyphs shown too ( Commit 0dacc4 , MR #3449 )

Filters

• Fast crop: Transparency is now respected when applying the Filters → Fill and Transparency → Fast Crop filter ( Bug #2419 )

Import

• EPS: Users that have installed Inkscape in the snap packaging format can open EPS files again ( Bug #1406 )

Export

• Optimized SVG: Save as → Optimized SVG works again in Linux AppImage ( Bug #1738 )

Markers

• Start / end markers: A bug was fixed where the path tip protruded over the arrow marker's end ( Bug #2593 ).

Menus

• Help menu: Now using a different set of web links to link to the documentation from the Help menu ( MR #3325 )

Packaging

• Snap remembers user preferences even when the home directory is not available to the snap. This may occur in LDAP, SSSD, or other set ups where there is a modified nsswitch.conf and NSCD is not acting as a proxy to snaps. ( MR #3474 )
• Build fixes:
  • Building Inkscape works again on systems with musl libc ( MR #3410 )
  • Building Inkscape works again on NetBSD ( Commit 1029bb , Commit bfb81a , Commit 160dc7 , Commit e12966 )
  • Building Inkscape works again on FreeBSD ( Commit 06b143 )
  • Building Inkscape works again with GCC 7 ( Commit 3d8be5 )

Templates

• All templates generated from the 'Welcome' dialog now use a document scale of 1, making it easier to hand-edit documents created using them ( Bug #2728 )

Tools

• Measure tool:
  • Settings for font size and precision for the Measure tool work again ( MR #3343 )
  • Position dialog moves handles to the right place again ( Commit 1fcc33 )
  • Measurements no longer reset on right click or tool switch ( Commit bd9349 , Commit 341a0e )

Crash fixes

Fixed a crash when …

• … using a grid with the Document Properties dialog open on Windows. This also fixes a memory leak on other operating systems, that did not necessarily lead to a crash. ( Bug #2585 )
• … trying to copy an object without ID ( Bug #2714 )
• … stroke to path applied on paths with no area, fill, stroke, or markers ( Bug #2502 , Bug 2572 )
• … entering a space character in the 'Attributes' field of the 'Clone Original' LPE settings dialog ( Bug #1709 )
• … closing a window while the filter editer dialog is floating and a filter is selected ( Bug #2753 )
• … pasting 3D boxes when the 3D box tool is active ( Bug #2741 )
• … multiple objects selected for spray tool in single path mode ( #2740 )
• … quitting in command line or when opening windows if done before window fully loads ( Bug #2776 , Bug #2487 )
• … Homebrew or MacPorts used and XDG_DATA_DIRS is not defined ( Commit 1a6c62 )

Extension bug fixes

• Fix LaTeX extension on Windows ( MR #309 )
• Add __version__ for inkex ( MR #360 , Bug #409 )

Translations

The following UI translations received updates:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Catalan
• Czech
• Polish
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Traditional Chinese
• Simplified Chinese