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Inkscape 1.4.3 release candidate available for testing!
by Maren Hachmann 14 Dec '25

14 Dec '25

Inkscape 1.4.3 Release Candidate ================================ Inkscape 1.4.3rc(2) is now available for testing for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! Being a pre-release, this version is not intended for production use, but to help us smooth out any issues that should not show up in the actual release which is due in less than 2 weeks from now. You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.3rc BUGFIX and MAINTENANCE RELEASE ------------------------------ The upcoming Inkscape 1.4.3 will be a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features. The most important fixes and changes in this release are: * 24 crash/freeze fixes many of which prevented users from opening certain files or exporting certain objects with Inkscape 1.4.2 * and almost 100 bug fixes and small improvements, among them: * JPEG/JPG export works again on Windows. * The problem with user interface text showing up as rectangles ('tofu') instead of letters if certain fonts are installed on macOS is finally resolved. * Ungrouping big groups is faster again. * All pasting options ('on page', 'width'/'height'/'size'/…) are now accessible from the right-click menu on canvas. * The Measure tool snaps again at its end point, so you can make accurate measurements again. * The LPE dialog now offers to convert Line, Polyline or Polygon SVG objects to paths before applying a path effect to them * When resizing the Inkscape window, the buttons in the Commands bar (copy, paste, open, dialog shortcuts) show up one by one instead of waiting for the window to get big enough to show the second half at once. * When converting strokes to paths, patterns and gradients are no longer lost. * Aligning on a circle or arc now works more reliably. * Text on Path now also works with rectangles. * Many improvements have been made to the PDF import. * Results from path operations no longer end up at the bottom of the object stack unexpectedly and the Split Path operation has learnt to better handle nested shapes. * The current layer by default is now the one where you have last selected an object (might need a preferences reset to apply). * Whether the current page is changed when you select an object on it has been made optional. * You can now make small changes to how Inkscape looks without needing to modify the full theme file. * The bug that sometimes made it impossible to make gradients and patterns fully opaque has been prevented from reaching adulthood (it has been around since 2007!). * and 23 updated interface languages and 12 updated documentation languages! See the release notes draft for more information: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.4.3 Inkscape 1.4.3 will also be a 'bridge release' in the sense that it can be used to convert the planned Inkscape 1.5 multipage file format to the pre-1.5 multipage format. Versions lower than Inkscape 1.4.3 will not be able to interpret pages created in Inkscape versions 1.5 and upwards. Opening a document in Inkscape 1.4.3 and saving it will convert it to the current ('old') page format. Background: While the 'old' format of pages in Inkscape is a custom addition that only works in Inkscape, the new format will make use of the svg:view element, which is standardized and can work in other SVG viewers, too. Find more information about this in MR #7525. (the release candidate corresponds to the INKSCAPE_1_4_3_RC2 tag in the Gitlab repository) Report Bugs ----------- Use at your own risk, and please report all bugs you find in our Inbox bug tracker on GitLab ! If you find any issue with this beta version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this beta release! -- The Inkscape team

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Developer Meeting Dec 12th 2025
by Martin Owens 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

Hey devs, Big meeting today. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Charlotte, Ltlnx, Marc, Mikekov, René, Pbs, Regie, Ishann, Tav, Vaibhav # The 1.4.3 Release ltlnx is managing the 1.4.3 release and talks about the task list which is almost entirely done. * One item to do is the versioning which Marc will take care of now. * Documentation is in sync. * all graphics are up to date * Martin says Extensions are out of sync and won't be up to date in time for the release. Ishann asked about it. * We will directly pull from the CI for RC build which is scheduled for today. * There is a signing step which is now integrated which improves the process. * Tav concluded his Bug Accelerator program with the fixing of startup crashes on macOS * 1.4.3 RC will e released tonight, and given to vectors to announce so we can get testing. Vectors have asked for an announcement time for the RC, dev team will make the builds and would like as much time as is possible for users to download and test the RC to pick out any major breakage from various updates to libraries and various fixes. Marc asks about website problems for the release. Martin reports that the website is unstable and sometimes works well and sometimes get slow. We looked at some of the remaining critical and blocking issues. Charlotte looked into the keyboard switching issue which may have been fixed upstream, we'll be keeping an eye on it for the release candidate. Other blockers have all been fixed and we look like we're in a good place. René didn't get much of a response for his tofu fix, but knows it's fixed because of other apps that have all been fixed in the same way. # Translations problems Maren brought an issue about possibly AI or automated updates for Swedish and how we handle that Marc says it's all settled. PBS raised a problem with po file being updated frequently which leads to massive submodule repository every time we pull in master branch and update the submodules. the frequency can be adjusted and the old commits can be squashed when needed to save space. 7d day frequency for weblate sync. # Funding discussions We talked about the meeting we had with the owners of Audacity and some of the interesting ideas for funding models. This discussion covered a lot of ground but has not been recorded in the minutes so people could speak their mind. # Any other business We talked about the lack of announcement messages in rocket chat, Ben has fixed the crontab but it's still not going through. Rene talked about sorting out some of the build folders to make it easier to manage changes and remove dead files. Thanks everyone for coming, Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer meeting 5th Dec 2025
by Wen-Wei Kao 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Inkscape Developer meeting 2025-12-05 Attendees: Mc, Tav, MikeKov, ltlnx Mike, Mc and Tav talked about hatches support in the pattern editor. Mike proposed that the hatches be listed along with the patterns in the pattern editor, and could be marked as such. We can also have a feature to convert hatches to paths, so that it would be more useful for Ink/Stitch people. Mc asked about the string freeze, RC and release times, and wrote up a message to send to the translators mailing list. The metadata for release descriptions also came up; we would want to merge it before the string freeze, so that translators could translate them before the release. About the release dates, the consensus is to have an RC on the 12th, and release on Christmas. Tav was working on macOS bug fixes for 1.4.3, especially crashes related to the splash screen and opening files from the Finder. He has an MR for testing and debugging stuff. Willy also tried some debugging and determined that #ifdef-ing out the splash screen stops the crashes. Tav concurs that if it's not fixable we would need to disable the splash screen on macOS. Mike and Tav talked about the color font rendering MR. There are some edge cases to consider before merging. Thanks everyone for coming! -- Willy

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String freeze for 1.4.3
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Hi devs, hi translators, With about three weeks to go before 1.4.3 release, we are now in */string freeze/.* If we find critical mistakes, they will be communicated to translators, but you should consider that the translatable strings in weblate (for Inkscape 1.4.x component : https://translate.inkscape.org/projects/inkscape/1-4-x/inkscape/ ) should not move before the release. If possible, can you submit potential updates before Dec 19th ? If you need a few more days, please contact me so that I know that some translation is in the works. Thanks everyone ! Best, -- Marc

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Developer Meeting: Nov 26th 2025
by Martin Owens 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Hey everyone, New time for this week's developer meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Mikekov, Vaibhav, ltlnx, René The meeting time had changed but the website has issues sending out reminders to everyone. A reminder here that you can subscribe the the ical for the developer team's calender here: https://inkscape.org/*developer/calendar.ics add this as a remote calendar in your calendar software and you should get up to date reminders. Martin looked into why the website wasn't behaving and found the crontab on the new machine wasn't migrated. Sent an email to Ben who was contracted to do that work for the migration. Mikekov, Vaibhav and Martin talk about spin button we have a long talk about user experience. Screen sharing was done and we worked out the share of work between Mikekov and Martin who are trying to unify the widget experence. Mikekov has been working on the font selector which uses a preview and icon view which are going away. These are being replaced with ListView and GridView widgets. We also can hide certain styles to collapase families of fonts together. This also resolves some cut off preview problems. Viabhav, not doing too much, tried to replicate the extensions gallery crash. Not replcated on he's local linux machine. Had a discussion with Jabier about LPE archetchture, and wants to write an article about it to clarify the architecture. We talked about the problems in the lpe system and fixing issues with the defs. litnx has been pusing 1.4.x fixes, including the welcome dialog. Martin asked if he could take care of the backports. René has been busy with the prepartions for the 1.4.3 release with updates to the dependencies. Lots of deps because it's been a while. Currently investigating the macOS tofu problem, there are some problems with kerning which might be caused by a dep which might not be fixable. We talked about the release schedule and getting everything ready. The conservative updates to the deps might be a better way to update the macOS and Martin suggests René make an assessment about the work they might have to do vs. the benefit of updating the deps for the point release. René wants to revive the tests for the windows CI. Pbs asked if we could use clang, this was tested but doesn't look like it would work. Thanks everyone for coming everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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freeColour palettes available and ready for inclusion in Inkscape after a change of licence
by christoph-schaefer＠gmx.de 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

Hi there, I've been no longer active in Open Source or Open Content development/promotion for some years, mostly due to health reasons (Long Covid), but also some personal disappointments. However, one of the issues that are still important to me is the original mission of freieFarbe/freeColour (not its current incarnation). With respect to Inkscape and other FLOSS programs, the most important development is that after I resigned in protest, because they refused to honour an internal agreement to release all colour palettes under the zlib licence, they did it anyway, albeit much later (https://freiefarbe.de/en/licence/). What does this mean? It means that Inkscape can now choose to include any of the more than 300 commercial colour palettes from the Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0 and, more importantly, both versions of the free and open Pantone alternative HLC Colour Atlas (standard and XL) in one of the formats supported by Inkscape (https://freiefarbe.de/en/thema-farbe/software/). I would, however, strongly advise against including all OCSC files. A reasonable selection would be the HLC and CIE palettes for the fF CMYK colour fan (as opposed to the much larger Atlas) and the HKS palettes, since HKS is still being widely used for signage in Europe. As regards the rest, you could either provide a download + installation opportunity, as Scribus currently does, or simply leave it to users to download and install the palettes they want or need. With all of the fF content under the zlib licence, this should no longer be a legal problem. I wish you good luck and success for the future! Christoph

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Developer Meeting, Nov 18th 2025
by Martin Owens 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Hey Devs! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Mike, Philip, Tav, Willy Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ (TIME HAS CHANGED!) Mike has been working on making the newer spin button widget used in the rest of the project. Migrating over the UnitTracker and various widget fixes. Willy is trying to fix 1.4.x: text tool pop-over Spinbutton changes, pop-over closes. and Command bar collapsing issue. Pbs talked about animation and live preview, some time was spent discussing the preview functionality and what we can do to allow changes to be previewed without modifying the document or abusing the rendering engine with extra changes at unexpected times. This discussion was quite long. RPATH issues in our build systems are ongoing. Tav has been working on macOS bugs and crashes where jpeg files are not accessable from finder, this involved learning a lot of how macOS works for depevelopers. and color font support and getting the tests all smoothed out. Talking about the late meeting situation, looks like the best time is 2 hours after the early meeting. Which is about 3 hours earlier than currently set. 6pm France, Noon in Boston, 1am Asia etc. Pbs and Martin talked about the filters engine work and the need for clearing up the premultiplicating situation in bilinear interpolation for various different spaces. Martin has been working on harmonising spin button user experience. Thanks for coming everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Nov 10th 2025
by Martin Owens 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Dear Developer Team, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Tav, Charlotte, Martin, Mikekov, Jonathan Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Tav has been adding color fonts to Inkscape so we support all the various different formats. SVG, OpenType COLRv1, COLRv0 and Google Font thing. He's made some color fonts with the same glyph to test the font support going forwards. There's a couple of failing tests for some clipping and some pepper and carrot text tests. This test is useful for visually inspecting possible problems before committing the changes with slight differences. There's a slight problem with strokes not being rendered in Firefox which makes it hard to compare the SVG Font format. Martin talked about Conical gradients, which are needed for some css and COLORv1 Object to Path. Marc, not much, some updates for weblate and the translations stuff. Tav asked about how easy it is to add a new file, and Marc explained that it's all automatic now so is even easier. There's a security fix in librsvg which is a security problem, we're hoping that the new version will be able to fix it, but we don't know for sure if it will fix it. Marc has time to work on the 1.4.3 release and Martin points to the milestone page on GitLab https://gitlab.com/groups/Inkscape/-/milestones/19 for everyone to work from. Charlotte has been looking into the the bug for windows flashing back and forth in windows. But it's tricky because windows development is so much slower than on Linux even with a powerful CPU. She's also added a merge request and was concerned she has the ability to push directly to master but this isn't the case. Jonathan is still around and interested in working on funding projects but time is tight right now with his PhD. Martin talked about the website and taking payments, is in talk with Ben about putting together the second round of funded work to add that Stripe integration to the website. Martin has been working on widgets in the fill and stroke dialog and has been working on the harmonising the generic widgets so our programs looks more cohesive. And also has been working on some UX testing workflows with RDP and desktop sharing, but the technologies aren't great for disposable desktop sharing. Will share if it's figured out. Mikekov has been working on some UI improvements here and there, the next target is the spin button, we have developed our own based on Tav's work and now we need to remove all the older generic Gtk spin buttons with our more functionality such as unit support. We talked a bit about the design of this widget and all the possible ways of integrating units into the actual box itself. Next meeting we will decide the new meeting time for these later developer meetings. Thanks everyone who was able to come.

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Survey Results 2025
by Martin Owens 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

Dear Developer Team, Big thanks to everyone who filled out this year's developer team survey. These are the digested results as a summary, full results can be provided on office.inkscape.org Admin note: We'll use office.inkscape.org for next year's survey exclusively. There was no difference between google and nextcloud in functionality. 26 people responded, 77% claimed to be programmers, 65% were active, 70% were new (and didn't fill out the 2024 survey). For developer platform we have a fair split between Debian based (35%), Fedora or Arch based (35%) and macOS (23%). With Windows being 4% (1 person), so a considerable deficit in windows developer retention this year. Testing looks little better with 60% able to test on Wayland, 50% on X11, 46% Windows and macOS. Extra 23% Android and one person on macOS intel and one on ChromeOS. Most people who needed help are finding help in the chatroom. Only one person needed help and didn't find it. Build instructions were found by everyone except 2 people. And only 1 person couldn't get their build to work. Most people fixed issues they wanted to or was interesting. No one couldn't find issues to work on. Merge requests was our biggest failure this year with a lot of problems reported ion Slow Reviewing, Reviewers asking for too many changes (usually diverging from the original work with refactoring challenges) and also a new problem, merge requests getting stuck waiting for the UX/UI team to respond. This is the first time where we've tried to put a pause on merges until they can be checked by the UX team but we're going to have some rules about how long we can wait for volunteers to become available to check the work. (and how big the requested changes can be before it should just be a rejection) Testing was good. We're getting better at requesting people write tests. though most people didn't think testing frameworks were expressive or extensive enough yet. A direction the project is improving on this year. The majority of people work on Inkscape as Volunteers for Public Service (54%),followed by Education and Leisure (42%), 3 people were hired to work on inkscape and 9 people said "Other" mysteriously. What we should work on ranged from improving programmer documentation, tutorials and videos to help developers get started. To full breakdowns of all the various parts of the code. A big problem highlighted was the massive duplication of documentation on the wiki, website and code repository was highlighted by the vast majority of people. Other things of note were timing of meetings (see Tav's poll) and and paying more people to work on inkscape. Lots of people thanked the project for keeping everything moving and how helpful an friendly our community it. Well done everyone! That's it for this year. Thanks to everyone for responding and I'll see you all next year. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Measurement input UI suggestion
by Ray at Daylon 03 Nov '25

03 Nov '25

Hi everyone, I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to modify Inkscape's UI where input of measurement values are used. My apologies if this has been discussed before. Currently (version 1.4.2) measurement input fields use an edit box containing the number and a combo box to specify the measurement unit. My suggestion is to use an edit box alone, with the user indicating the measurement unit after the number by typing its name e.g. "4.2px". A space may be optionally used if desired e.g. "4.2 px" (current locale is used to interpret and display decimal points). Okay, but why? - Less UI widgets to place, show/hide/enable, reflect to/from, etc. - Less chance of accidentally using the wrong unit by forgetting to change the combo box selection. - Ability to use multi-unit measures e.g. "2p4" to indicate 2 picas and 4 pts, common in typography, or things like "6ft 2in". - Percent symbol (%) can be used where appropriate to indicate a percentage of some contextual distance e.g. a document dimension, lessening the need for users to figure out the computed distance. If this is of any interest, I have some C++ library code to help with implementation. Ray Gardener Daylon Graphics Ltd. www.daylongraphics.com

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Developer Meeting, Nov 2nd 2025
by Martin Owens 02 Nov '25

02 Nov '25

Hey Everyone, Sunday meeting this week, Monday next week, big thanks to everyone who came today. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Willy(ltlnx), Marc, Philip(pbs), Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ There was a discussion about live path effects and merge requests. We reviewed a merge request which was stuck in review and got it un blocked by the consensus of the team. We talked about some of the difficulties with live path effects and getting things fixed while waiting to get lpe structures refactored. We talked about the release for 1.4.3 and some of the outstanding issues, the file opening in macOS and the language change crashes in windows. A review of a bunch of different issues depending on their priority on the milestone mostly between Itlnx and Pbs. We talked about a Gio security bug which can cause a security issue, but it's an upstream issue and it's only breaking on Windows. We tried to think up ways of testing the issue given out limited access to windows machines and experts who can help debug it. Marc will report a bug upstream to Gio / security gnome org. Marc has moved the translation work their own po files and communicated with the developer and translation mailing lists. Thanks Marc! Martin has paused working on the engine waiting for reviews, they're working to get a new paint order widget which is a restackable widget that allow values based on their order and is poking Gtk with the specific UX they want. Willy was working on the default canvas colors in the preferences and has been looking at some of the difficulties in Gtk4 widgets for color selection. Tav has been working on getting his merge requests merged and reviewing his color font work again. Martin will do the developer survey results next week. Thanks everyone for joining on this Sunday Evening/Morning. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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New submodule: po/
by Marc Jeanmougin 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

Hi devs, po/ is now a submodule pointing to https://gitlab.com/inkscape/translations.git If you have any issues with this folder in your branches/MRs, make sure when you rebase to get the content with "git submodule update --init" to be able to build :) Apart from that, not much changes for translations on the dev side, just more automation. Small changes 1 : You don't need to specify a new translatable cpp or inx file manually - if you want to mark a new file with strings as NON-translatable, you will still need to add it into POTFILES.skip, now in the translations repository Small change 2 : If you fix a typo in the source code and don't want to fuzzy its previous translations, you'll need to do the po file search and replace into the translations repo If you have any questions, feel free to ask :) Best, -- Marc

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Developer Meeting, Oct 25th 2025
by Martin Owens 25 Oct '25

25 Oct '25

Hey Devels, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Martin, Elendil, pbs Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin asked everyone to fill out the developer survey. We first talked about adjusting the developer meeting times now that we have lots of new developer and people with new schedules. Tav was to create a survey for possible new times, Marc will follow up with Tav to get that poll. We talked about the data access API, Martin asked Ryan to do a DX (Developer Experience) test of the new API adding a dithering filter. Also added was a color transformation filter and Martin is looking forward to his working being code reviewed. Martin has added a multi page SVG update moving inkscape's custom inkscape:page element to the SVG2 view element. The attributes are pretty much the same. An update mechanism is added and lots of tests for various things. Testing with Firefox and Chrome this work should allow multi page support in other SVG viewers and editors. Marc is working on the translations repository. Finished migrating to weblate and moving the po directory with a submodule and clearing out all the merge requests outstanding. Creating CI jobs for updating and is weighing up an automated or manual process. Now to figure out if we need to remove the CI translator checker, Martin agrees. Elendil has been working on a regression with the version attribute which appears to be missing from the svg files that we are currently exporting from 1.5. Marc wants to talk about XSLT export hidden objects and the way the extensions don't current handle XSLT effect extensions, Marc will write this code to put it in. Martin talked about adding such a feature directly to the export dialog since it's already doing much of the same work for hiding objects off the page. The code already exists. Pbs has touched the recolor artwork google summer of code. Looked into a new packaging system called "Sharon", this might let us deliver AppImage type builds with Vulcan support. Martin and Pbs talked about the color access API and some of the direct and compile time problems between that and the color API itself. Martin answered questions and requested code review as the primary help needed. We talked about some of the llm influenced merge requests and how to handle people who don't even talk without using an LLM. Philip asked Marc about heap and symbol problems, and if plugins (compiled ones) have ever worked in windows because the issues if you need to access things outside of the inkscape binary. There was a discussion about how the extensions and various plugins should work and what is known out in the wild. We talked about the release of 1.4.3 and the focus on bug fixing. Martin would like more developers to consier working on things in the milestone to get it as good as possible. Marc wanted to know about capypdf packaging and what kind of packaging we should expect to see for the 1.5 release. Martin says we're likely to need an up to date version and Marc says he'll make a Debian package and make sure it's available mostly for the PPA. We talked about various packaging strategies. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. Next one is Sunday 2nd November. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Survey 2025
by Martin Owens 24 Oct '25

24 Oct '25

Dear Developers, As a follow up from last year's developer survey, could I get all developers to fill out this year's survey and your experiences with Inkscape as a programmer this year. The goal is to gage how easily it is to contribute, people's thoughts and the ongoing improvements in onboarding and making this work enjoyable: https://forms.gle/HPggfawPou2aHS6i6 Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin \owens

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Developer Meeting Notes: Oct 17th 2025
by Martin Owens 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Hey Developers! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Mikekov, Martin, Jabier, Willy, Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We kick off with Willy who has two open open merge requests for the developer team to consider. One is the rotation snapping which is ready to be re-reviewed. It uses a regulr Spin Button instead of a Math Spin Button so it's got some regressions still. The second is a 1.4.x patch for the toolbars so the buttons dispear one by one instead of chunking entire groups at a time. We talked about the 1.4.3 issues and the open issues and when we can schedule the release. We suggest a December release with a project wide request to focus on fixing some of the remaining issues for 1.4.3 so make it a really stable release before 1.5 comes out. We talked about the 1.5 release and Martin's idea for releasing 1.5, 1.5.1 and then calling the 1.5.2 Inkscape's 2.0. This is in an attempt to promote stability an give users the time to field trial some of the new functionality before we make a big splash with the 2.0. We talked about freeze policy. Mikekov went through some of the remaining open issues in Gtk4. Martin asked if our Gtk upstream needs help or not or if things are progressing organically at the right speed for our release on macOS, windows etc. We talked about the dificulty of getting program admins who can organise projects that pay people to work on different aspects of our release issues. And our recruitment of volunteers that tends to depend heavily on programmers instead of people who might be more stilled in admin releated organising. Mikekov helped with the Dash2 issues, and doing merge requests. His currently thinking about the preferences dialog. He's been medidating on how to clarify the preferences to reduce the amount of duplicate code and depend on the glade file directly. There's a couple of routes to having preferences paths defined in glade files and widgets constructed with simple APIs, there's a refactoring pathway for how we would get there too. But the ultimate aim would be to remove most of the code until only loading of the glade file remains. We talked about how Gtk custom widgets work so we don't need to load each widget by Id. Tav has been working on color in CSS issues with export. He wants to have a meeting with Martin to talk about Color further. He's looking into the problem of integer artefacts and generating example files in 16bit to test how browsers are currently dealing with the older limitations and if they have been overcome. Some of these artefacts are actically used by filter designers as inputs to produce iteresting results. Report on Bug Accelerator Program, Tav has a few hours left. Martin talked about his engine improvements and walked through the entire plan for filters, color, memory surface management and the stepping stones that are being worked on to get everything in place for CMYK support. Tav and Martin talked about various details in support and what it means for SVG. Tav says that the attendance at the late meeting is very poor. Should we redefine a new time for that meeting so it's easier for other contributors. Martin asked Tav to make a survay for all the new contributors about their availability. Thanks to everyone who was able to come to this week's meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, Oct 1st 2025
by Martin Owens 01 Oct '25

01 Oct '25

Hey Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Youstena, René, Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Martin starts off with a quick introduction, and a short update on the website updates and the downtime people may have experienced. René looking into windows CI, it felt so bad that he felt he had to work on it. The goal is to make it faster and usable as being so slow sucks the joy out of everythig. The 7z archive builder is now running on a persistant runner which René said he would never run one again, but it was required to make it much much faster. The mechanism for depedancies was switched from 7z packaged, to a Microsoft based format which has advantages which can mounted and doesn't need to be 'extracted' as well as being more windows native. There's a bit of work more to do which is how easily it is to build depedencies, moving the config back into the main CI builder itself. Martin Martin talked abut Gtk and the need to keep the version we are building with and targeting for 1.5 will have to be a future version because of the known bugs that will have to be fixed in time for release. Martin's work on filter rendering and unit testing and is currently working on Light sources after completing the ConvolveMatrix work last week. A lot of tricky decisions will have to be made about interpolating in other color spaces but the new code will give us the flexibility to choose. Some backwards compatability will be needed for Integer calculations too. Tav has been working on CSS Color parsing and some of the found bugs, checking over our support introduced by Martin in 1.5. The Lch color conversion was wrong and has now been fixed, case insenstivity, and a range issue on Lch. Tav has questions about the color picker, we're currntly using Luv in the color picker. Martin and Tav had talk about color, rendering, document color space. Talking about how to achieve backwards compatibility and various other issues between Inkscape and SVG for color support. Youstena is a student from Egypt who is interesting in contributing to open source and introduced themselves. We asked around if anyone still needed to claim from the SFC, Tav was waiting on something but he'd put it in later too. We may want to make sure per-deim and travel between events where there is more than one event happening should be in the next vote. Thanks everyone for coming!

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, Sept 15th 2025
by Martin Owens 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Hey everyone, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Mikekov, Tav, Martin Mikekov has been working on some beautifcation projects, various things like the roller, gradient editor etc. We collectively talked about the failures at the SFC regarding reimbursements and people who are still waiting on reimbursement for items months and months ago. Tav would like to get into fixing the LPE dialog and converting polylines and lines to paths. Martin is working on filter mechanics involving a new cairo surface image access class with unit testing. We reviewed some merge requests. Short meeting this week, Thanks everyone.

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Forbidden attributes in per-tool and last-used styles
by Henry Wong 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Hello Inkscape devs, I'm looking through the code that sets/reads desktop and tool styles (sp_desktop_set_style, sp_desktop_get_style, etc.), and have some questions on some of the attribute filtering that happens. As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of styles (except the 3dbox oddity): * The "last used style": /desktop/style * A per-tool style: /tool/<tool_path>/style For these styles, certain CSS properties are forbidden and are filtered out (e.g,. "shape-inside", "filter", "stop-opacity"). Filtering happens both when reading from the style and writing to the style. For the filters when reading (in sp_desktop_apply_style_tool <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/desktop-style.cpp?re…>), the list of forbidden attributes are different for the global style and per-tool style. (More attributes are forbidden for the global style than the per-tool style). There is a different list of filters when writing the styles (sp_css_attr_unset_blacklist <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/style.cpp?ref_type=h…>, sp_css_attr_unset_uris <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/style.cpp?ref_type=h…>). The rules differ between the global and per-tool style, AND the rules differ from the ones applied when reading the styles. (More attributes are forbidden for the per-tool style than the global style?) Is there a reason the rules ended up this complicated? (Especially the part where the attributes that are writable to the style differ from the set of attributes allowed to be read back.) I'm wondering whether they can be simplified to something like: * Some set of attributes are forbidden from all default styles. Apply the same filter for both reading and writing. Or * Some set of attributes are forbidden for all default styles, and a superset is forbidden for the global last-used style. But the same filters are used for both reading and writing.

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Inkscape Meeting, Sept 7th 2025
by Martin Owens 07 Sep '25

07 Sep '25

Dear Devs, Another week and another great developer meeting: Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Tav, Martin, PBS, ftOmara, MikeKov, Rafal, Ishaan Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ PBS asks Martin abou the page manager, we talked about manager objects, selected pages, and the intention of the manager and it's relationship to sp-page objects. The manager is designed to encapsulate the state of the selected page so most calls shouldn't need to know the selected page directly. PBS has been working on the GSoC project to recolor artwork project. There is a live preview mode which needs to be sorted out. the conflict between the SPObject, xml tree and the display tree. A big discussion erupts between many developers have input into how the functionality could be done. We talked about the way the xml tree and sp object tree works together. This created a debate about about abstractions and various other internal core elements for Inkscape. The general consenus is that we'd like the preview functionality split out into it's own merge request. Martin will ask Adam about the design implication of having the preview change in multiple places or just in one place at a time. Mikekov has been doing some UI beautifucation projects. And we talked about the missing event problems in macOS that might be something we need to get that reported upstream. Martin has continued to work on the rendering engine work. A long term project to improve the capabilities of the rendering engine color support. Ishaan reports that the all four people are going to India FOSS event. There's concerns about how long the process has taken with the SFC as friction continues between us voting to pay for events or materials and people getting reimbursed or getting travel booked in time. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes; Aug 22nd 2025
by Martin Owens 22 Aug '25

22 Aug '25

Hey Everyone! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Marc, Philip, Mikekov Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin is eliminating direct access to the cairo surface raw. Philip and Martin talked at length about the Surface API, how to render CMYK, how to deal with speed problems and some different parts of the code and functionality. Some ways in which the cleanup will hopefully open us up to replacing cairo, but maybe not, it depends. Philip has been porting UI extensions to GTK4, including Extensions manager and clip art importer, there's been some issues with the CI which needs to be updating. And working on the start screen lifecycle manager, it's currently held up with testing. He wants to ask Adam for testing but Martin is happy with the testing so far. Mikekov has been looking into the object properties dialog for text, which is a lot more involed than expected. Marc has been looking at the launchpad builds and why they seem to fail. There are test for the cms profile test. The team spend the rest of the meeting investigating the test failures so we can keep things moving. Philip wants to know if the Linux CI job, he wants to to merge it with the AppImage job to save space and CI time. Marc says that the Linux job is a normal build and the AppImage used to have some special sauce, Philip wants to check if this is still true. One builds in a debug and the other builds in release mode. We have decided to remove the linux build. The website releases app will be updated when it is done. Thanks for reading. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer's Meeting; August 6th 2025
by Martin Owens 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

Dear Developers, This week's developer meeting notes are below. Big thanks to everyone who was able to come. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Carlotte (cfcurtis), Martin, Tav, Ishaan, Jonathan, Mikekov Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin talked about his work on the rendering engine getting cairo surrfaces with multiple color space rendering. A lot converting, memory management, pre-multiplication, understanding lcms2 input and output limitations an doing a lot of test trials to work out how to effectively test the changes in the engine's handling of Cairo surfaces. Jonthan has been mentoring on the google summer of code project. He's been tracking a number of 1.5 issues which are upstream issue but don't have the required issue in the upstream project. There are some examples needed to be able to replicate the issues more easily for an upstream developer. Mikekov has been looking for various fixes to keep busy. Working on object attributes dialog related features. Tav asks about the speed problems with the Object dialog and being able to backport the fix to 1.4 if it's fixed in 1.5. We talked about node editing and making sure that we're not doing inefficient things. Charlotte haven't done a ton of work, but looking at PDF related issues for import and export. Tested the odf support in capypdf. Martin talked about a gradient export bug in capypdf. Jonathan asked if she's interested in PDF files which don't import cleanly. Ishaan has been working on selections and discovered that some things are not working on master, holding ctrl for example. And some inconsistancies with Alt. We talked about various selector issues. Martin and Mikekov recommend making event systems robust against order of events where possible. Tav has been back bug fixing for 1.4, Jonathan asked about releasing a 1.4.3 after the last blocker is fixed and we are in agreement. We have at leas 35 bugs fixed a bunch of things that are to be backported for 1.4.3 on our todo this. Martin asked Ishaan about the Indian event. They are ordering of travel arrangements and he will be meeting with pono to get the accommodations paid for tomorrow. We did a small tutorial for updating submodules and keeping things correct, sharing commands. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. See you all next time. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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CLI: Extensions need GUI
by Alexander Roalter 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

When I run Inkscape in CLI mode, and want to run an extension that needs currently selected elements, the currently selected elements are only passed if the CLI is run in GUI mode (with --batch-process parameter). Otherwise, no IDs of selected elements will be passed to the extension python script. I tracked it down to src/extension/implementation/script.cpp, where the _change_extension method is called from two different methods (both are overloaded Script::effect methods), one is for the case where a desktop is available, the other was added for "pure document version for calling an extension from the command line", and has no desktop. But the current selection still can be extracted from the SPdocument*, so I made this patch that duplicates the passing of the selected elements as parameters to the extension from the other effect() method. -- cheers, Alex

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Developer Meeting Notes: July 29th 2025
by Martin Owens 29 Jul '25

29 Jul '25

Hey Devs, Today's meeting was very light. Just me and Mikekov. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We talked about his recently landed object properties branch into main and what to work on next. Also talked about the road map team and some of the considerations for what that would look like. Mike raised a concern that our reimbursements for Nuremberg were delayed getting processed. One thing I think might help for next time is a small spreadsheet we can share which has all the voted on numbers, and names of people. I, someone else, or Roseanna could pop the numbers in from the reimbursement claim to see if they check out more quickly. We talked about color (I always talk about color), I'm mulling over hosting a video conference between various free software devs working on color in their projects. Might be fun, might be useful. That's it for this week! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting July 21st 2025
by pulsar17 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting, it was a short one, and text-only: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Vaibhav, Ishaan, Mike Next Meeting: July 29th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Vaibhav - Working on some crash fixes related to text/text on path. Also created an issue to track removal of unnecessary header files from Inkscape's codebase, hoping it will make the CI/local builds faster. So far most unused header files in the UI directory have been removed. Ishaan - some light experimentation with selection cues. Mike - Hoping to see his MR delivered, but it is failing one test: peppercarrot. This test has something to do with fonts, and Mike doesn't understand why it started failing in his branch. Thanks to all who joined. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting July 13th 2025
by pulsar17 13 Jul '25

13 Jul '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Tav, Philip, Ishaan, Adam, René, Willy Next Meeting: July 21st https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Philip - questions about packaging and CI, discussion about Conan, jhbuild, and building GTK packages with Conan. Also has a patch for icons in menus, probably a hack. Some discussion on why icons in menus are a good thing, and maybe we should try upstreaming it in GTK, might get accepted. Tav had looked at the icons issue in the past, even had a patch for it. Had questions about building capypdf without updating deps on macOS - René answered that it's possible to do, but hasn't started work on it yet. René - Dependency updates for macOS and Windows. Also helped with Mike's big MR, suspected glib version too old, some debugging related to Locales left on Mike's part - Fill and Stroke dialog not opening (target parsing error). Worked on packaging Inkscape using (more) standard Apple practices. Willy - learning c++, good progress so far. Ishaan - continued work on incremental selection, currently in a branch on the personal fork, will open an MR sometime soon. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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