Release Notes

Released on November 18, 2023.

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Inkscape 1.3.1 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even two new features.

The most important fixes and changes in this release are:

• more than 30 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import and Live Path Effects
• a new feature to disable snapping to grid lines, while still snapping to grid intersections
• a new feature to split text into its letters (characters), while keeping the kerning (letter distances) intact
• the Shape Builder tool now creates an appropriate number of nodes
• activating a layer in the Layers dialog no longer requires you to double-click to enter the layer on the canvas to be able to work in it
• no more auto-expanding layers in the Layers dialog and improved behavior on deleting and moving layers
• right-clicking now applies the change to the selected object, not whatever group it is in
• the Page tool's size field no longer refuses to be edited
• improved handle visibility with dark desk colors
• multiple improvements for converting text objects to a path
• PDF files that could not be opened with Inkscape 1.3 can now be opened / imported again
• the English terms for Live Path Effects can now be searched for even if you use Inkscape in another language, so you can better follow tutorials
• on macOS and many current Linux distributions, gradient dithering is now available
• there exists a workaround that users can apply for the problem with the missing user interface fonts
• 3 fixes for extension bugs
• 16 improved user interface translations
• some small updates for the included tutorials and the man page
• and almost 40 more bug fixes

To learn more about what has been fixed, read the full release notes.