June 2026 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Developer Meeting, June 22nd 2026
by Martin Owens 22 Jun '26

22 Jun '26

Hey everyone, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Charlotte, Martin, Sean Burke, Mike Terry, Tav Next Meeting: June 30th at the later time: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin talked about his rendering engine work, most of the tests are passing. Remaining issues are fixing filter integration, rasters and the conversion from INT32 formats and a couple of other issues. At the end of the meeting Martin gave a demonstration of the test generation python script and some of the ways this helps with the development and testing. Charlotte asked about the performance impact of converting images from INT to FLOAT before being able to render it. This would be easier on the GPU as it's always floating point, but we basically have no choice since cairo can't paint INT to FLOAT and visa-versa so the stack has to keep things consistant. Tav and Martin talked about type conversions and the problem of rendering at 2x scale to reduce artefacts and how that would impact performance. Using the preview to do a better job at rendering for example. Tav has been struggling with how to handle variable font axis opsz (optical size). A newer way of doing size font hinting in a smarter way. We have a font instance at 512x scale and then scale everything ourselves to get the right sizes. But this doesn't work for optical size axis since it changes the shape of the glyph based on how large it is on screen. Martin talks about how to design the API with what we have with make font instances capable and not break a bunch of things. A FontSet object is planned to track font selections more generically. Charlotte discovered that latex won't include pdfs generated by capypdf. Generating reproducable version and will make an issue for it. Roland talks about the Bug Accelerator Program; priority on more serious issues. There's some follow up with some serious developers for some of the issues. Reviewing the 1.4.x issues for moving to 1.5. This week they're removing low priority issues to clear the decks for seeing what the major blockers are. Martin will be making an assessment in a week's time for the extension to the bug accelerator project. Sean reports that there is a crash while it builds it's cache, and it might not be resolvable without refactoring. He recommend that for now the new font dialog should be disabled. Martin adds that the new object properties dialog should also be disabled if the large speed impacts can't be fixed. See you all at the next meeting, June 30th. Best regards, Martin Owens

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Apple Developer Program
by René de Hesselle 22 Jun '26

22 Jun '26

Dear all, Background: ----------- Creating properly signed and notarized releases for macOS requires a paid membership in Apple's developer program. This membership comes in the form of a yearly subscription. So every year we get to decide anew if we see enough value in signing macOS releases to warrant the expense of 99 € that comes with it. It is possible to distribute and use unsigned apps on macOS just like on Windows. The downside is that a user has to take additional (but not overly complicated) steps to make this work while macOS itself discourages people from using unsigned apps. Proposal: --------- We've been creating signed macOS apps since 1.0 and I propose to continue this practice at the expense of 99 €. Additional information: ———————————------------ The last two years I payed for the membership out of my own pocket. Votes: ------ a. Agree to spend 99 € on the Apple Developer program b. Disapprove participation in the Apple Developer program c. Other: ________ René

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Developer Meeting Notes; 14th June 2026
by Martin Owens 14 Jun '26

14 Jun '26

Hey Everyone, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Mc, Martin, René, pbs, Vaibhav Next: Monday 22nd June; https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Marc managed to get access to the windows store and he will upload Inkscape 1.4.4 to the store as soon as he is free. René has been preparing the latest updates. Mason 1.11.x is the highest we can go, Mason 1.12 and above will require a python version which is not available for the macOS versions that we support. Has been investigating how to integrate all the deps, turbo jpeg is using graphics magick instead of image magick 6. PBS reports that capypdf is now available for his android CI which is useful. We want capypdf available for all our platforms and we can't make it available on macOS because of meson, and the C++23 requirements for the PPA and AppImage. We talk about graphics magic instead of image magic and the instability of upgrading Gtk which caused knock on effects. Martin says the icc jpeg profile function could be patched out if we wanted to restrict the version. Marc, René and pbs talk about build systems, windows, macOS and other platforms. Possibly using Nix, or Conan instead which already has a lot of packages available. But questions of it being invasive, although it might make sense for package building and CI. The only part of inkscape that requires image magic at all is a set of internal bitmap extensions; most of them could be either ifdefed out or replaced with internal functions. Philip would like to package caapypdf as a 3rdparty submodule to fix the C++23 and meson requirements which are easy to patch out and makes building for intel mac and PPA much harder. Martin asks that an issue be created upstream to let Jussi know about what we're action we're taking down stream and why. Philip asked Marc for PPA administration access. Marc says ok. The Gtk and Gtkmm versions are always out of sync on debian systems and this causes us problems. We talked about peel some more for the future upgrade path. Martin has been working on outputting images in the command line, for no real reason. Just playing. Thanks everyone for coming this weekend! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting: June 6th 2026
by Martin Owens 06 Jun '26

06 Jun '26

Hey everyone, Great meeting this Sunday Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: PBS, Martin, Elendil, Roland, René Next meeting: June 14th (Sunday) at the later time Link: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We talked about the CI building issues for windows briefly. We talked about the bug accelerator program briefly. Pbs asks about the capypdf static builds and the problem with debian and macOS older versions. We conclude that the best was to tackle it is to have the older versions detect C++23 and disable CapyPDF if not. AppImage tooling issues have cropped up, pbs looked at mterry's fixes. There's a OpenGL bug which causes AppImage to crash. There's a possible solution to include their own version of mesa which is bloated but might be able to fix it. AppImages are mostly used for testing. Roland suggests using DistroBox. Martin suggests using lazy AppImage building instead of building them for every MR. Elendil says that while not useful for every commit it is useful for merges into main for bisecting. René, asks about using CI to get access to macOS for testing with Roland, René will ask Roland in a few days to see how things are going. Martin noticed a pattern with CI pipeine failures for project members. PBS recommends using `git push -o ci.skip` to make sure your own GitLab CI never runs and thus fails. René reports he is burned out and will be taking a break for a few months. Wants to make sure he doesn't leave Max G. with unfinished packaging work, will message him in the issue. Elendil has been looking at the new poppler release, more ifdefs. We talked about the best ways of handling ifdefs in code, he's made compat functions for things like pointers. We talked about how to talk with poppler about a more long term solution with API breakge. Roland talks about the bug accelerator program. Locked in on two specific bugs right now, mterry is working on modifiers est at 10 hours. Seán is working on refactoring. The focus is on crashes and making inkscape 1.5 more stable. Collecting the Gtk4 related issues together for a sprint focused on that with things like menus, popovers and similar. We talk about the lot of Gtk3 issues that need to be closed. Should they be tagged as gtk3 so they can be filtered out. we talk about 1.5 being a special case, while pbs makes the case for closing already fixed issues. Martin talked about their rendering engine work. Pbs asks about rendering with Ints vs. Floats, martin says that having No color space will use Ints and using RGB color space will use floats; to be consistent with previous code. Martin says the code looks to be mostly working how it intends to with some minor differences in rendering output. Pbs and Martin talk about code generation and testing, bounding boxes for glyphs and making a new glyph drawing item for every single drawing object. There's a bunch of work we can do to make text much much faster. Pbs finally asks about the shape builder task Seán is working on; asks for any findings to be documented. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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