Inkscape 0.92.1 Now Available
Feb. 17, 2017, 2:54 a.m.
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
Regression Fixes
- Text: baseline-spacing related issues with regular and flowed text in legacy Inkscape SVG files (Bug #1655483 and others).
- Text: Default baseline spacing stored in relative units is always converted to document units (Bug #1645016)
- Path effects: Crash on ungroup if group contains elements with path effects (Bug #1657591)
- Clipboard: Pasting a path effect from clipboard fails (Bug #1656093)
- Clipboard: Fix copy&pasting of groups which contain elements with path effects (Bug #1656527)
- Selection: Node tool can select objects on locked layers (Bug #1656141)
- Clones: Critical warnings with clones and symbols (Bug #1653184)
- About screen missing for several UI languages (Bug #1659426)
- Selection: Missing transformation handles after reset of rotation center (Bug #1657874)
Important bugfixes
- Bitmap images: Crash when opening files with invalid image links (Bug #1660142)
- Bitmap images: Fix path separators in relative image links (Windows) (Bug #1659347)
- File import: Failure to open CDR/Visio/WPG files from paths with special characters (Windows) (Bug #1656763)
Translations
- Catalan: Tutorial translation ("Basic") added
- Czech: UI translation updated
- English (GB): UI translation updated
- French: UI translation updated
- French: Man page, Readme and Keys & mouse reference updated
- German: Man page and Keys & mouse reference updated
- Icelandic: UI translation updated
- Italian: UI translation updated
- Latvian: UI translation updated
- Russian: Tutorial translation ("Tracing Pixel Art") added
- Russian: UI translation updated
- Spanish: UI translation updated
- Slovak: Tutorial translation ("Tracing Pixel Art") added
- Slovak: UI translation updated
- Ukrainian: UI translation updated
Documentation
- Shortcuts: Add shortcut '7' for cycling through path effect parameters in node tool (Bug #1656713)
- Shortcuts: Add new Shift+I shortcut to keys and mouse reference (Bug #1644609)
- Man page: Add new --no-convert-text-baseline-spacing command line option (Bug #1661811)
Known issues
- DPI Change: Dialog needs better explanation of available options (Bug #1659229)
- DPI Change: Provide command line options for batch-processing legacy files (Bug #1659489)
- DPI Change: known issues with 'Scale elements' option (Bugs #1653230, #1653230, #1653236, #1654342, #1654796, #1654880, #1654903, #1655005, #1655053, #1660228)
- DPI Change: Default grids in documents created with Inkscape 0.91 don't scale correctly (Bug #1653893)
- Renderer: Artifacts in Gaussian blur effects with default quality settings (Bug #1656383)
- Node tool: Deselecting selected nodes of complex paths takes a long time (Bug #1652100)
- Fill and Stroke: HSL color selector may show corrupted colors, defunct 5th slider (Bug #1635982)
Help Support Inkscape
We are already at work both on another bugfix update (0.92.2) targeted in a few months and a future development release (0.93) with more fundamental changes to the codebase. If you wish to track either of these developments, you can learn more at: https://inkscape.org/download/development-versions/
The Inkscape Project thrives due to your support. We are a volunteer-driven community built from thousands of contributions of time, skill, and funds, to create a powerful open source tool that is made available for free to everyone in the world. We invite you to join our community and participate in helping advance Inkscape towards new objectives. Come help us chart out the new directions that Inkscape needs to take! Inkscape is created *by* the community *for* the community.
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