Releases · pencil2d/pencil

Enhancements/Changes

Interface:

Introduced a comprehensive new icon set - #1356, #1361
Replaced the zoom text on the status bar with an interactive control - #1442
Added help text for the currently active tool to the status bar - #1442
Added toolbars for commonly used actions - #1468
Improved layout of the onion skin tool window - #1589, #1753
Changed the default export file path to the file path of the current project - #1657
Removed vector layer from default timeline setup #1666
Added a warning when adding more sound clips than can be exported - #1701
Added a warning when opening multiple instances of Pencil2D - #1702
Replaced the display option window with a toolbar - #1734
Improved error messages when importing images - #1750
Added an abortable progress dialog when importing animated images - #1801
Added support for importing animated WebP images - #1801
Added support for importing and exporting static WebP images - #1801
Improved usability and reliability of quick sizing - #1806
Added an option to configure keyboard shortcuts to flip the current selection - #1816
Improved zoom behavior for devices that report pixel-based scrolling data - 06a4495
Added translations for Bulgarian, Persian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch (Netherlands) and Cantonese - #1826
Changed the information dialog shown when changing the application language to display in the new language instead of the current one - #1836
Improved the movie export dialog to prevent exporting MP4 files in an invalid resolution - #1833
Improved the layout of the preferences dialog for languages with long translations - #1856

Bucket Tool:

Added an option to set the fill reference layer - #1630
Added an option to toggle tolerance on/off - #1630
Added an option to expand the fill area - #1630
Added the ability to drag to fill - #1630
Improved fill performance significantly - #1707
Added an option to fill using a blend mode: Overlay/Behind/Replace - #1590
Removed nonsensical quick sizing support - #1806

Workflow Improvements

Aligned color palette behavior on vector and bitmap layers so that palette colors and their associated vector strokes are only updated when the replace function is used - #1265
Added an action to paste content from the previous frame - #1682
Added an action to duplicate layers - #1690, #1744
Optimized the peg bar alignment workflow by activating the select tool, creating an initial selection and pre-selecting the first layer upon opening the dialog - #1580

Behind the Curtain

Optimized visual updates of the timeline window - #1737
Improved painting performance by re-rendering only modified areas - #1761, #1789
Improved painting performance by introducing a tiled buffer - #1776
Reworked switching tools temporarily through modifier keys or right-clicking to be more reliable - #1675

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where undoing after deleting a layer caused the program to crash - #1412
Fixed an issue where certain user interface controls did not display correctly when using the Direct2D platform on Windows - #1575
Fixed several issues where the canvas did not immediately update after using certain actions - #1642, #1581, #1580, #1577, #1576
Fixed an issue where undoing the deletion of a keyframe caused the program to perform an additional undo operation or crash - #1629
Fixed an issue where the hand tool icon remained active after zooming with a stylus - #1633
Fixed an issue where transforming areas in certain imported footage would color them black - #1642
Fixed an issue where fill operations were performed twice when performed with a tablet - #1667
Fixed an issue where the system language was detected incorrecty on systems that have secondary languages configured - #1703
Fixed an issue where mouse wheel zoom misbehaved on some systems using the X Window System - #1716, #1711
Fixed an issue where undo information was recorded improperly for the first change made after navigating between frames - #1717
Fixed an issue where the project recovery dialog appeared behind the main window on some systems - #1721
Fixed an issue where rotated selections boundaries were not visualised properly - #1724
Fixed an issue where transforms were applied incorrectly to rotated selections - #1724
Fixed an issue where the undo and redo shortcuts were erroneously disabled under certain circumstances - #1721
Fixed an issue where deleting a sound layer on Windows would under certain circumstances lead to a crash - #1731
Fixed an issue where playback of certain sound clips was truncated on Windows - #1733, #1756
Fixed an issue where the use of valid file name extensions was not properly enforced in file save dialogs - #1736
Fixed several issues where the timeline was drawn incorrectly - #1737
Fixed an issue where dragging the timeline with the middle mouse button could inadvertently alter the frame selection - #1737
Fixed an issue where tool windows briefly appeared and disappeared on startup before the main window was shown - #1737
Fixed an issue where the follow camera image import option used the wrong transform and resulted in general inaccuracies - ebad47e
Fixed an issue where opening Unicode file paths failed when the program was compiled against MinGW32 - eefd148
Fixed an issue where the movie exporter sometimes failed to export sounds when exporting a range that does not start at the first frame - e9f72dc
Fixed an issue where the movie exporter erroneously included hidden sound layers - b315f27
Fixed an issue where importing vector layers from a project file did not preserve their original colors - #1798
Fixed an issue where importing vector layers from a project file caused the program to crash - #1798
Fixed an issue where exporting a movie did not prevent interaction with the rest of the program - #1801
Fixed an issue where importing an image did not account for certain types of potential errors - #1801
Fixed an issue where trying to import an image onto a hidden layer caused the program to crash if a keyframe did not already exist on the target frame - #1820
Fixed an issue where trying to import an image onto a hidden layer did not produce an error if a keyframe already existed on the target frame - #1820
Fixed an issue where opening the preferences dialog on a system using Wayland caused the program to crash under certain circumstances - #1856
Fixed various memory leaks

Various

Raised minimum system requirements of our AppImages to Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" or newer distributions - #1635
Added support for Wayland to our AppImages - #1663
Added update information to our AppImages - #1680
Added MIME type information to .pclx files - #1698
Improved robustness of project save/load logic - #1710
Added compatibility with Qt 6 when building Pencil2D from its source code - #1743
Clarified licence of certain files incorporated from the Qt Project - #1757
Added a custom start menu tile for Windows versions that support them - #1787
Added macOS builds for Apple Silicon - #1835
Added safeguards to prevent loading resources from outside the project - #1843

Known Issues & Gotchas

The vector engine is a work in progress and does not work as intended. Much work will be required, please avoid using it for production
The information dialog shown when changing the application langage may display without any message under certain circumstances
Panning the canvas by middle- or right-click-dragging with a tablet causes the application to misbehave on Windows - #1813
The command line export operation consumes more memory than using the editor - #1117
Users of Huion tablets may experience lag and buggy strokes - #1133
Some users may experience perceived audio delay during playback, depending on the number of layers and frames in the project. Sound scrubbing and movie export are unaffected – #1567, #1179
Using the smudge tool in default mode on bitmap layers adds a white background to strokes. This may cause unexpected results, so please use it with caution
Using the smudge tool in smooth mode on bitmap layers by pressing Alt keeps smudging the pixels rather than blurring the image
Using the bucket tool to fill vector a vector stroke requires the stroke to be selected