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
    • More Compact Tool Controls Bar
    • Better Line Height Settings
    • Improved Text Selection
    • Variable Font Support
    • Basic Support for SVG in OpenType
    • Flow order
    • Browser-compatible flowed text
    • Overview of available text types
    • SVG 2 Text Support in Detail
      • Multi-line text via the CSS 'inline-size' property
      • Multi-line text via the CSS 'shape-inside' property
      • Multi-line text via the CSS 'white-space' property (only rendering)
• C lipping / Masking
• Filters
• Live Path Effects
  • General
  • New Live Path Effects
    • Dashed Stroke LPE
    • Ellipse from Points
    • Corners (Fillet/Chamfer) LPE
    • Measure Segments LPE
    • Offset
    • Power Clip and Power Mask
  • New Experimental LPEs
    • Boolean Operation LPE
    • Angle Bisector
    • Circle by 3 points
    • Circle (by center and radius)
    • Extrude
    • Line segment
    • Parallel
    • Perpendicular Bisector
    • Tangent to Curve
  • Improved LPEs
    • BSPline and Spiro
    • Clone Original
    • Fill Between Many / Fill Between Strokes LPE
    • Knot LPE
    • Mirror Symmetry and Rotate Copies LPE
    • PowerStroke LPE Improvements
• 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
  • I nteractive 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
    • Custom Icon Sets
    • Third-party extensions
    • Dropped / Replaced Extensions
    • Command line changes
  • For extension writers
    • General
    • Extension dialogs
    • More info
  • For packagers and those who compile Inkscape
• Known Issues
• Inkview