Linux Tablet Driver Project Revived

Linux graphics tablets need your help. If you have a graphics tablet that's not a Wacom, read more about how you can help make your hardware work with your Linux computer.

Inktober 2017

Inkscape is a great tool for creating vectorized versions of sketches. The InkTober event every year is a challenge of drawing and inking artworks, based on a certain set of ideas which you can then post to show off your amazing skills and keep practising your art. We've put together a gallery where you can post your InkTober artworks as well as a few how to videos for ways you can use inkscape in the creation of inked vectors of sketches.

Good luck everyone!

Private Internet Access Sponsors Inkscape

Private Internet Access (PIA) has proudly joined the family of corporate sponsors that help us make Inkscape even better. At the Platinum level of sponsorship their $10,000 contribution will have a significant impact. It will enable the project to continue to provide Inkscape freely to designers, artists, makers, scientists and students around the world.

Inkscape 0.92.2 Delivers Greater Stability and Easier Contributions

Inkscape 0.92.2 brings a number of fixes and small usability enhancements to this popular vector-graphics application. It is also the first release after migrating the project's code to GitLab. These amount to a more stable and capable creative tool that can now receive improvements from a much larger development community.

What Happened at Hackfest 2017

This year's Inkscape hackfest was held at the Carrefour Numérique², in Paris, France. Nine developers and contributors joined together to fight bugs, add features and talk about the future of Inkscape development and community.

Inkscape moves to GitLab

The Inkscape project has completed its planned move from launchpad using the bazaar repository system, to GitLab using the git repository system.

Hackfest 2017 - Paris

Developers are planning for the 3rd annual Inkscape Hackfest - this year to be in Paris, France.  Lucky hackers!  It will be held from June 27th through July 1st, at Carrefour Numérique, which is a Fablab/hackerspace located inside Paris's modern science museum, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie.

Hackfests are usually rare opportunities for programmers to come together in person, for intense hacking sessions.  We usually notice increased motivation and excitement about development just before and after hackfests, and a flurry of activity with the code.

New Inkscape Beginners Manual

A small team of translators and other editors is excited to announce that work has started on an Inkscape guide, which is written specifically for beginners. The focus is on "how" rather than "why", and is meant to gently guide new Inkscape users through all the most basic features.

Technically, it's derived from a manual which was originally published by a French team, led by Elisa de Castro Guerra. Currently the focus is on translating it to English. Once translated, it will be ready for a few updates. And we've discussed adding some extra chapters or features, such as a glossary and/or a troubleshooting section.

Inkscape 0.92.1 Now Available

The Inkscape project announces an update to its 0.92.0 release, bringing important bug and regression fixes, updated translations, and improved documentation.

Download 0.92.1 packages from the website.

Inkscape 0.92.1 is a stability and bugfix release. Below are listed the main changes.  For a more complete list, see:

https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+milestone/0.92.1

Snap Package for Linux, MacPorts Port for OS X available

The latest Inkscape release, Inkscape 0.92, is now available for you to install on OS X via MacPorts, and as a distribution-independent snap package for GNU/Linux.

Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released!

The Inkscape project announces a new version 0.92 of its popular vector drawing software. New features include mesh gradients, improved SVG2 and CSS3 support, new path effects, interactive smoothing for the pencil tool, a new Object dialog for directly managing all drawing elements, and much more. Infrastructural changes are also under way, including a switch to CMake from the venerable Autotools build system.