July Bug Accelerator 2026
With July being the final month for the 1st round of the 2026 Bug Accelerator Program, we focused on rapidly landing quality of life fixes and clearing the way for the next round of BAP work in the...
View ArticleJune 2026 Bug Accelerator
June has been quite the month for us as we had to catch up from a later start to May. Still, we managed to hit a milestone of 60% completion on the 1.5 Milestones list, even if temporarily, thanks to...
View ArticleMay 2026 Bug Accelerator
This month we began the Bug Accelerator Program with developers Michael (@mikix) and Seán (@leftmostcat) fixing bugs, and Roland (@rolandixor) as the bug administrator. This is our second time in a...
View ArticleOctober, November, and December 2025 Bug Accelerator
TavFix a crash when an LPE is applied to an SVG polygon element (committed).Fix crash on MacOS when opening file by right clicking on file icon.The MacOS crash was particularly important to fix. We...
View ArticleJuly and August 2025 Bug Accelerator
The Bug Accelerator Program for 1.4 continues.TavFix a number of User Interface bugs for right-to-left text.Reduce the text "pick-box" size to make it easier to select items behind text.Fix crash in...
View ArticleMay Bug Accelerator 2025
This marks the third month of the Bug Accelerator Program for 1.4, with the 1.4.2 completed we're targeting 1.4.3.Martin OwensRefactor pdf input preferences to standard extension prefs !7233Backport...
View ArticleApril Bug Accelerator 2025
This marks the second month of the Bug Accelerator Program for 1.4, with the 1.4.2 release right around the corner.Martin Owens Splash screen issues on MacOS and Linux involving the CLI #5644...
View ArticleAdobe Illustrator Gradient Improvements
Below, you can find a list of what Manpreet has worked on in March 2025. Gradients were the primary focus of development this month. For more details, please see MR !105.Color Stop Operator...
View ArticleMarch Bug Accelerator 2025
This month is the start of our new 1.4 based Bug Accelerator Program with Tav and Martin as our bug fixing developers and Krlr17 as the bug administrator. This is the first time we've had a bug...
View ArticleAdobe Illustrator Compatibility Improvements
Below, you can find a list of what Manpreet has worked on in February 2025:GradientsGradients have been the main focus of development. Development is ongoing in MR !105.Gradient Definitions: The parser...
View ArticleContract to Import AI Files 2025 Update
To allow the import of Adobe Illustrator files into Inkscape, we are developing a Python extension. This post outlines the progress made in the second month of the project, January 2025. The work is...
View ArticleInkscape Translation Contribution, and Other Short Stories
As the title stated, my Traditional Chinese translations are included in Inkscape 1.3.1 and onwards. This is my first serious contribution to an open source project, and I’m pretty glad seeing my work...
View ArticleContract to Import AI Files Update
To allow the import of Adobe Illustrator files into Inkscape, we are developing a Python extension. This post outlines the progress in the 1st month of the project, October 2024. Work is carried out...
View ArticleJune Bug Accelerator 2024
Some general thoughts about the program this year compared to last year; we are starting to get to more difficult and harder to fix issues as previous efforts pick off all the smaller problems, I found...
View ArticleMay Bug Accelerator 2024
The issues we have been working to can be found here: https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/milestones/13Martin's FixesSome administration and mentoringBatchItem Review in !6324 to merge fixes for #4523...
View ArticleApril Bug Accelerator 2024
This month was the starting point for the 1.4 release, which is Inkscape last Gtk3 based release before moving onto Gtk4. Many of the fixes in this list have been worked on in a backwards way as we...
View ArticleDecember through February - Gtk4 Migration (Tavmjong)
Another three months have passed. My contract hours have been used up. The Gtk4 version of Inkscape runs and can be used for work but we've encountered more problems than we anticipated. As a result,...
View ArticleSeptember through November - Gtk4 Migration (Tavmjong)
It's been three long quick months since my last update. A lot has happened. Most importantly, we can compile and run a Gtk4 version of Inkscape! But while Daniel's contract was extended, he's taken on...
View ArticleOctober/November - GTK4 migration - dboles
Dev blog time again! Towards end of October, PBS boldly sped us towards running Inkscape on GTK4 by doing some temporary ‘bodges’ against our gtk4 branch to fix build errors and get Inkscape at least...
View ArticleOctober - Bug Accelerator 2023
This month was all about preparing the Inkscape 1.3.1 release, testing and backporting all the fixes and managing the issues that cropped up with the fixes that needed to get into the release. All...
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