Future 0.92.x bugfix releases
Let's plan on a 0.92.4 in a few months, maybe in the May/June timeframe.
As we've talked about in the past, we'll be continuing to do bugfix releases on the 0.92.x branch for the foreseeable future, and we'll be treating it as an equivalent of a 'long term stable' series for Inkscape in case changes. Some aggressive changes in 0.93 may lead to bad breakages for some users, so we want to give them a reliable fallback.
So, please continue backporting good fixes from master into the 0.92.x branch, and record the changes in release notes:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92.4
If you don't have commit access to 0.92.x (or don't feel comfortable pushing to it), you can mark bugs in Launchpad with the 'backport-proposed' tag, so committers can more easily spot them. (But make sure the bug has a patch attached to it that will actually apply and build against 0.92.x.)
A few release process todo's I'm aware of:
* Mac builds - need a volunteer * 'make distcheck' - needs added to cmake * PPA recipe updates - needs scripted [hackfest: bryce/alex] * NEWS file update - change python script to use BeautifulSoup [bryce] * packager announcements - set up a proper mailing list [bryce] * Transition to new RSA 4096 GPG signing key [bryce] * cleanup the release documentation [bryce] * lp milestone, etc. updates - needs a LP script so its less manual
Let me know if you'd like to help on any of these tasks.
Bryce
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:42:17PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Inkscape 0.92.3 is a maintenance release resolving numerous bugs and making this the most stable release of the series.
To download the latest packaged version of Inkscape visit:
https://inkscape.org/release/0.92.3/
(Note: A build of 0.92.3 is not currently available for MacOS. The project welcomes additional contributors with MacOS expertise.)
Among the most reported bugs addressed were:
- Blank pages being output when printing multiple copies of a document
- The inability to cancel during the export of large files
- Application crashes caused by dragging a path at a cap or line join
- Keyboard shortcut problems on non-Latin keyboard layouts
Also a few performance improvements and usability enhancements of note:
- New SVG export options from the command line
- Support for right-to-left text
- Improved ellipse controls
- Multi-line text support for the PDF+LaTeX export
- New render tile preferences for performance tuning
- Better startup performance for many Windows users
Find out more about the release at:
https://inkscape.org/en/news/2018/03/22/announcing-0923-release-inkscape/
Inkscape 0.92.3 -~= Released 2018-03-11 =~-+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Release Highlights | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Inkscape 0.92.3 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, but it also brings some small new features, like being able to set an ellipses' radii numerically in the tool controls, or switching the writing direction from left-to-right to right-to-left. Windows users will be happy to learn that the long startup times many of them were seeing could greatly be reduced. A new rendering option with an adjusted default value can vastly improve performance when working with filters.
Many of the bug fixes address important functionality, like printing issues, crashes with the node tool or problems with keyboard shortcuts.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Improvements | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Command line usage
Three new command line options controlling page size are supported when exporting in SVG format:
• --export-area-drawing (feature requests in bug #1597921 and bug #1722844) • --export-area-page while using --export-id • --export-margin
Text tool
Support for switching between RTL and LTR writing directions has been added (on narrow screens, find it by unfolding the overhang menu for the text tool's tool controls by clicking on the triangle at the far right).
Circle/ellipse/arc tool
New fields for setting vertical/horizontal radius (Rx/Ry) were added to the tool controls bar. (Bug #1181127)
PDF+LaTeX export
Support for multi-line text with basic support for line-spacing attribute was added. (Bug #771959)
Please note:
• Currently only the line-spacing of the top level text element is considered, i.e. all lines in one text element share the same line spacing. • LaTeX is much more clever with respect to line spacing, so layout might not always be exactly the same as in Inkscape. • Make sure to use a continuously scalable font in LaTeX, otherwise results might be unexpected.
Preferences
A new renderer option called "Rendering tile multiplier" was added. Making this value larger can speed up drawing, if you have large areas with complex filters in your drawing or work a lot with high zoom levels on filtered objects. Making the value smaller can make zooming and panning in relevant areas faster on low-end hardware (if there are no large filtered areas on the visible part of the canvas). The default value makes your screen consist of about four tiles that are rendered independently, if you're not using a hidpi screen (which requires more tiles). For a more detailed explanation, see:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/211#note_62157385.Startup Performance
The first start of Inkscape on Windows is much faster now.
This is the result of improvements in fontconfig 2.13.0, a third party library which handles font related tasks for Inkscape. One of the tasks is creating an index of all fonts available on the system which is much faster now. If the new indexing causes any issues (i.e. fonts or glyphs not available that could be used before) make sure to let us know or report the issue directly to the fontconfig project.
Extensions
Extensions on Windows can now make use of Tkinter, without requiring users to install it themselves. Tkinter provides functionality for creating interactive graphical user interfaces. This is used, for example, by the TexText extension that renders mathematical LaTeX formulas to SVG (feature request at bug # 1735451).
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Regression Fixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
• Potentially missing command line output in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows 7. (Bug #1714278) • Extensions in the 'Raster' submenu relying on ImageMagick were broken and caused crashes in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows. (Bug #1720330) • gcodetools were creating wrong orientation points since the dpi change had been made for Inkscape 0.92. (Bug #1680760) • Regression on 0.92.2 makes it impossible to fill a powerstroke shape (Bug #1715433) • The preferences dialog was tiny by default. (Bug #1360213) • Node handles no longer get too large when selected, and they also revert back to standard size when deselected. (Bug #1568644) • Export to .odg (Open Document Drawing) works again on Windows. (Bug #1654034) • Inkscape no longer freezes when trying to import clipart from OpenClipart when the openclipart.org server takes too long to respond to requests. (Bug #1745521) • Text that is written in vertical direction now has its marks (e.g. accents) on the correct side again. (gitlab commit 2abe0bb6) • The 'Clone original' path effect works again to fill a path with a PowerStroke applied to it (useful for drawing cartoons) (Bug #1715433)
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Important bugfixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
• Fix crash when attempting to drag path at cap or line join. (Bug #1691406) • Inkscape process did not exit cleanly on Windows. (Bugs #1412365 and #1715339; also causing #1714278) • File extension was sometimes omitted when adding saved files to Windows' list of "recently used documents" resulting in unusable links. (git commit 4d599528) • Do not crash on systems with illegal fontconfig configurations. (Bug #1716516) • Resolve issues when attempting to save files to non-existing directories. Could happen for shortcuts.xml and when setting the autosave location manually. (Bug #1719629) • Allow cancellation of bitmap export. (Bug #1195929) • Fix issues with PDF+LaTeX export: wrong stacking of text/graphics, missing pages in PDF output. (Bugs #771957, #1417470) • Fix shortcuts not working as expected when a non-latin keyboard layout is the primary keyboard layout on a system. (Bugs #1226962, #1730246, #1734308) • Printing multiple copies of the document resulted in one copy and many blank pages. (Bug #490866, #1733424) • Fix export area when exporting single objects to SVG using the --export-id command line switch. (Bug #1306662, #1707368) • Fix DXF output and Windows vector print scaling for documents with a custom view box. (Bug #1672066) • Invalid output generated from extensions no longer makes Inkscape crash. (gitlab commit 608fa56e) • The Ruler Live Path Effect now shows correct measurements in the default template (and other non-px-based templates), too (Bug #1460858) • The Document Properties dialog now has a more compact layout, so all items should be accessible on smaller screens (Bug #1510831)
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | More bug fixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these probably only affect a small portion of users, or are relevant for development and packaging only.
For a complete list, visit our launchpad bug tracker and see the commit history on gitlab (all changes from August, 6th 2017 until release date).
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Translations | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
The following UI translations received updates:
• French • German • Icelandic • Italian • Korean • Spanish • Ukrainian
The following installer translations received updates:
• Korean
Contributing to interface translations
Want to help with translations? Learn how to help at:
https://inkscape.org/contribute/translations/+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Documentation | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Documentation Relaunch
The Inkscape documentation repository, containing the man page, the keyboard shortcut list as well as the tutorials and their respective translation files, has been almost completely refactored (Java has been dropped in favor of Python), and was updated to work with git and gitlab.
Documentation Updates
The man page and the keyboard shortcut list have been updated.
Where to find recent documentation
Continuously updated man page (for command line usage), keyboard and mouse shortcut list, tutorials and translation statistics for the various parts of the Inkscape project are available on the inkscape.org website:
• Man page • Keyboard shortcuts • Tutorials • Translation statistics for Inkscape 0.92 series / development branch
Tutorials, as always, are also included with your Inkscape installation.
Contributing to documentation and documentation translation
Contributions to the documentation translations, as well as improvements to its contents, are welcome at the inkscape-docs repository.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Known issues | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
• DPI Change: known issues with 'Scale elements' option (Bugs: 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) • Line height: Changing "baseline spacing" stops working. (Bug #1707808) • 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) • Performance: Using the objects dialog at least once in your Inkscape session slows down actions such as duplicate and delete for files with many objects. (Bug #1431274)
For information on prior releases, please see:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape
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As far as Mac builds we have someone willing to volunteer SSH access to their hardware to do the builds on (thanks to Grady on G+). I assume that's all we'll need but we still need to sign the builds. We're tracking the issue on the Vectors team for now at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/49
I've also opened an issue on the GitHub project for the guy who is apparently already doing these builds, but without XQuartz, asking if he would be interested in getting involved with the official builds. Haven't heard back yet, but the issue is here: https://github.com/valerioa/Inkscape-MacOS-Curated-Build/issues/14
Ryan
On 03/24/2018 12:38 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Mac builds - need a volunteer
I think we've got a Mac builder/packager. He's even offered ssh access to his box for automating builds. He's travelling more news when he gets back.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 12:36 PM Ryan Gorley via Inkscape-devel < inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
As far as Mac builds we have someone willing to volunteer SSH access to their hardware to do the builds on (thanks to Grady on G+). I assume that's all we'll need but we still need to sign the builds. We're tracking the issue on the Vectors team for now at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/49
I've also opened an issue on the GitHub project for the guy who is apparently already doing these builds, but without XQuartz, asking if he would be interested in getting involved with the official builds. Haven't heard back yet, but the issue is here: https://github.com/valerioa/Inkscape-MacOS-Curated-Build/issues/14
Ryan
On 03/24/2018 12:38 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Mac builds - need a volunteer
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Bryce,
On 2018-03-25 05:38, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Let's plan on a 0.92.4 in a few months, maybe in the May/June timeframe.
As we've talked about in the past, we'll be continuing to do bugfix releases on the 0.92.x branch for the foreseeable future, and we'll be treating it as an equivalent of a 'long term stable' series for Inkscape in case changes.
Starting with the bz2 on Fedora 27 x86_64 using "./configure" I get:
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 ./configure: line 6007: syntax error near unexpected token `2.2' ./configure: line 6007: `LT_PREREQ(2.2)'
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:42:17PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Inkscape 0.92.3 is a maintenance release resolving numerous bugs and making this the most stable release of the series.
To download the latest packaged version of Inkscape visit:
I notice there are no DEB or RPM packages there but there is a SNAP - so should AppImage be considered too?
How do I find out who does the Fedora packages?
Thanks,
Phil.
If this is just about getting a build, not about how to get there: Would cmake be an option for you?
It might be that the autotools build is a bit outdated since Inkscape switched to cmake and most devs are using it, so that might be a reason why issues have gone undetected - although for the 0.92.x series, it's supposed to still work, as far as I understand.
See also: https://inkscape.org/en/develop/getting-started/#092-onwards
Maren
Am 25.03.2018 um 03:55 schrieb Philip Rhoades:
Bryce,
On 2018-03-25 05:38, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Let's plan on a 0.92.4 in a few months, maybe in the May/June timeframe.
As we've talked about in the past, we'll be continuing to do bugfix releases on the 0.92.x branch for the foreseeable future, and we'll be treating it as an equivalent of a 'long term stable' series for Inkscape in case changes.
Starting with the bz2 on Fedora 27 x86_64 using "./configure" I get:
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 ./configure: line 6007: syntax error near unexpected token `2.2' ./configure: line 6007: `LT_PREREQ(2.2)'
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:42:17PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Inkscape 0.92.3 is a maintenance release resolving numerous bugs and making this the most stable release of the series.
To download the latest packaged version of Inkscape visit:
I notice there are no DEB or RPM packages there but there is a SNAP - so should AppImage be considered too?
How do I find out who does the Fedora packages?
Thanks,
Phil.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:55:12PM +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
Bryce,
On 2018-03-25 05:38, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Let's plan on a 0.92.4 in a few months, maybe in the May/June timeframe.
As we've talked about in the past, we'll be continuing to do bugfix releases on the 0.92.x branch for the foreseeable future, and we'll be treating it as an equivalent of a 'long term stable' series for Inkscape in case changes.
Starting with the bz2 on Fedora 27 x86_64 using "./configure" I get:
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 ./configure: line 6007: syntax error near unexpected token `2.2' ./configure: line 6007: `LT_PREREQ(2.2)'
Yes, the 0.92.x series still includes our deprecated autopackage scripting, but you'll need to run autogen.sh prior to configure, as mentioned in the README. Have you tried that yet? I just re-tried it and it appears to be working (it configured ok, at least).
The packaging framework as implemented currently in 0.92 can create dists either using the cmake machinery or the autobuild machinery, but the cmake approach is the one I'm using now. I don't really test the automake dist stuff any more, but one can expect it should still work on the 0.92.x branch, and there's no plans to introduce anything to deliberately break it. Certainly autobuild patches are still acceptable for 0.92.x to fixing issues that might crop up.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:42:17PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Inkscape 0.92.3 is a maintenance release resolving numerous bugs and making this the most stable release of the series.
To download the latest packaged version of Inkscape visit:
I notice there are no DEB or RPM packages there but there is a SNAP - so should AppImage be considered too?
How do I find out who does the Fedora packages?
There's debs on our stable ppa, and should be in debian and maybe ubuntu soonish.
For RPM, that's a good question - if you find who is responsible on Fedora, I can add them to my packager pre-announce notice list. Offhand I would guess the people listed in the Changelog for the RPM file might know? Let me know if you can find out. https://fedora.pkgs.org/25/fedora-x86_64/inkscape-0.92-3.pre2.fc25.x86_64.rp...
I can add others to the notification list, such as AppImage. If that person is interested in and willing to take the notifications, I just need the email address I should send the notice to. I just ask that they be legitimate packagers of something Inkscape users are using - the package pre-announce notice list isn't intended as a way for news folks to get a scoop. ;-)
Bryce
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