Release Notes

Release highlights

Inkscape 0.92.4 is a stability and bugfix release. It also brings some notable performance improvements for filter rendering, measure tool, saving and moving paths (with a live path effect) and includes a couple of small, but impactful usage improvements.

Important changes

This Inkscape version will not work with Windows XP / Vista anymore. Inkscape 0.92.3 is the last supported version on those OSs.

The Inkscape project has opened a new, user-facing bug tracker on gitlab: https://inkscape.org/report . Please use this new tracker to report issues that occur with Inkscape 0.92.4 and with development builds.

Improvements

Align and Distribute

You can now align multiple (ungrouped) objects as a group relative to another, single object.

This makes "treat selection as group" useful with the selections "Last selected / First selected / Biggest object / Smallest object" in which case all elements will be moved as a group relative to the "focused" element which will be kept fixed.

Example aligning multiple (ungrouped) objects to first selected object:

Align as group to focused.gif

Color sliders

The movement of the color sliders can now be constrained by holding the "Ctrl" key while dragging.

(step size is 16 if the max value is 255, and 10 if the max is 100)

Color slider default.gif Color slider constrained.gif

Extensions

Automated Graphics Processing

Inkscape is now able to read and write pipes. You can use this to process data without using temporary files.

You can read from standard input:

 cat vector.svg | inkscape --file - --export-png img.png

You can write image data to standard output and directly convert to JPEG:

 inkscape --file vector.svg --export-png - | convert - out.jpg

Also a full processing chain is possible by reading and writing to pipes:

 cat vector.svg | inkscape --file - --export-png - | convert - out.jpg

Other improvements

Regression fixes

Notable bugfixes

More bug fixes

There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these probably only affect a small portion of users, or are relevant for development and packaging only.

For a complete list, visit our launchpad bug tracker and see the commit history on gitlab (all changes from March, 11th 2018 until release date).

Translations

The following UI translations received updates:

The following documentation translations received updates:

Contributing to interface translations

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Documentation

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

See bug tracker