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)