================== = Inkscape 1.4.2 = ==================

Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.4.2 is now released.

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You can find out about the new features at: https://inkscape.org/news/2025/05/12/2-in-1-release-inkscape-142-is-out/ ,

or read the release notes at https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.2/Inkscape_1.4.2.html

Download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.2/

then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/

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Inkscape 1.4.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features. Release highlights:

a new splash screen, providing a visual cue while Inkscape loads in the background     initial support for importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve files     a new extension to Clean up Paths     substantially improved Affinity Designer files (.afdesign) import     20 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import     more than 50 other bug fixes and small improvements, among them improvements to Boolean operations, layer selection, minimal window width and restoration of Spray tool buttons' functionality     and 15 updated translations

----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team -----------------------------

Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], testing and bug triaging[4], documentation[5] or even outreach[6]!

The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/

The preferred points of contact are:

[1]https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.org... + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel%C2%A0 (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_testing [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation [6]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors

A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible!

-- The Inkscape team