Release Notes
Release candidate for Inkscape 1.3.1, November 3, 2023.
This is a testing and preview version of the Inkscape 1.3.1 maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even two new features.
The most important fixes and changes in this release are:
- 30 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import and Live Path Effects
- a new feature to disable snapping to grid lines, while still snapping to grid intersections
- a new feature to split text into its letters (characters), while keeping the kerning (letter distances) intact
- the Shape Builder tool now creates an appropriate number of nodes
- activating a layer in the Layers dialog no longer requires you to double-click to enter the layer on the canvas to be able to work in it
- no more auto-expanding layers in the Layers dialog and improved behavior on deleting and moving layers
- right-clicking now applies the change to the selected object, not whatever group it is in
- the Page tool's size field no longer refuses to be edited
- improved handle visibility with dark desk colors
- multiple improvements for converting text objects to a path
- PDF files that could not be opened with Inkscape 1.3 can now be opened / imported again
- the English terms for Live Path Effects can now be searched for even if you use Inkscape in another language, so you can better follow tutorials
- on macOS and many current Linux distributions, gradient dithering is now available
- there exists a workaround that users can apply for the problem with the missing user interface fonts
- 3 fixes for extension bugs
- 12 improved user interface translations
- some small updates for the included tutorials and the man page
- and almost 40 more bug fixes
To learn more about what has been fixed, read the full release notes.
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