[Inkscape-user] Inkscape 0.92.1 now available

[Bryce Harrington]

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:

https://inkscape.org/en/download/


Inkscape 0.92.1 is a stability and bugfix release. Below lists 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 selected 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 editor: 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/en/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.

Your donations also help further Inkscape's mission. You can donate to
Inkscape's general fund, or target your donation to support our SVG
Standards work or Hackfests.

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