Inkscape 1.0

Released on May 1, 2020

Release highlights

• Theming support and more new customization options
• Better HiDPI (high resolution) screen support
• Native support for macOS with a signed and notarized .dmg file
• Coordinate origin in top left corner by default
• Canvas rotation and mirroring
• On-Canvas alignment of objects
• Split view and X-Ray modes
• PowerPencil for drawing editable, variable width strokes with a pressure sensitive graphics tablet
• New PNG export options
• Integrated centerline tracing for vectorization of line drawings
• Searchable Symbols dialog
• New Live Path Effect (LPE) selection dialog
• New Corners (Fillet/chamfer) LPE, (lossless) Boolean Operation LPE (experimental), Offset LPE and Measure Segments LPE (and more!)
• Path operations, deselection of a large number of paths as well as grouping/ungrouping are much faster now
• Much improved text line-height settings
• Variable fonts support (only if compiled with pango library version >= 1.41.1)
• Browser-compatible flowed text
• Extensions programming interface updated, with many new options
• Python 3 support for extensions

Breaking changes

Breaking changes affect the following areas:

• Custom icon sets
• Some dropped import/export file formats, notably .plt (import and export), .dia, .sk1 and some old Corel Draw and Illustrator formats (import)
• Command line syntax
• Extension development and incomplete compatibility of pre-1.0 extensions
• Packaging

Gallery

Live Path Effects

Canvas

Theming

More New Functionalities

Full Release Notes

The full release notes for Inkscape 1.0 can be found in the Wiki, or you can use the following list to jump directly to the feature / area that you are interested in most:

• General: Application
  • Performance
  • macOS Application
• General User Interface
  • Modernized GUI Toolkit
  • Window position / size / behavior
  • High Resolution Screens
  • Tool box
  • Improved number entry fields
• Canvas
  • Y-Axis Inversion
  • Canvas Rotation
  • Canvas Mirroring
  • Pinch-to-zoom
  • Duplicate Guides
  • Context menu
  • Snapping
• View
  • Center view on page
  • Split View Mode
  • X-Ray Mode
  • Visible Hairlines Display Mode
• Paths
  • Changed behavior of Stroke to Path
  • Unlinking Clones for Path Operations
• Tools
  • Bézier Tool
  • Calligraphy Tool
  • Circle Tool
  • Eraser
  • Measurement Tool
  • Pencil Tool
    • PowerPencil
  • Selection Tool
    • On-Canvas Alignment
  • Text Tool
    • More Compact Tool Controls Bar
    • Better Line Height Settings
    • Improved Text Selection
    • Variable Font Support
    • Basic Support for SVG in OpenType
    • Flow order
    • Browser-compatible flowed text
    • Overview of available text types
    • SVG 2 Text Support in Detail
      • Multi-line text via the CSS 'inline-size' property
      • Multi-line text via the CSS 'shape-inside' property
      • Multi-line text via the CSS 'white-space' property (only rendering)
• Clipping / Masking
• Filters
• Live Path Effects
  • General
  • New Live Path Effects
    • Dashed Stroke LPE
    • Ellipse from Points
    • Corners (Fillet/Chamfer) LPE
    • Measure Segments LPE
    • Offset
    • Power Clip and Power Mask
  • New Experimental LPEs
    • Boolean Operation LPE
    • Angle Bisector
    • Circle by 3 points
    • Circle (by center and radius)
    • Extrude
    • Line segment
    • Parallel
    • Perpendicular Bisector
    • Tangent to Curve
  • Improved LPEs
    • BSPline and Spiro
    • Clone Original
    • Fill Between Many / Fill Between Strokes LPE
    • Knot LPE
    • Mirror Symmetry and Rotate Copies LPE
    • PowerStroke LPE Improvements
• Import / Export
  • Linking and embedding SVG files
  • Mesh Gradient Polyfill
  • SVG 1.1 compatibility
  • Export PNG images
  • PDF Export
  • (E)PS Export
  • OpenClipart Import Removed
• Extensions
  • Extension dialogs
  • Export Layer Slices
  • Frame
  • Hershey Text
  • Interactive Mockup
  • QR Code
• Palettes
• Templates
• SVG and CSS
• Dialogs
  • Arrange
  • Document Properties
  • Fill and Stroke
  • Filter Editor
  • Objects
  • Paint Servers
  • Preferences
  • Selection Sets Dialog Hidden
  • Selectors and CSS [Experimental, hidden]
  • Symbols
  • Trace Bitmap
  • Unicode Characters
  • XML Editor
• Menus
• Customization
  • Customize many files in the share folder
  • Fonts
    • Load additional fonts
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • User interface customization
  • Theme selection
  • Icon set selection
  • Saving the current file as template
  • Custom page sizes in Document Properties
• Command Line
• Tutorials / Documentation
• Translations [as of 2019-12-18]
• Notable Bugfixes
• Breaking changes / Action required
  • For users
    • Custom Icon Sets
    • Third-party extensions
    • Dropped / Replaced Extensions
    • Command line changes
  • For extension writers
    • General
    • Extension dialogs
    • More info
  • For packagers and those who compile Inkscape
• Known Issues
• Inkview