The second release candidate of Synfig Studio 1.0 is available for download! It’s been more than a month since the last release candidate, but we are slowly moving towards the better release. Thanks to everyone who reporting bugs and leaving feedback!

We would like to give a special thanks to those people who supported development of Synfig Studio in via regular PayPal subscription in this period. Much thanks to:

Boudewijn Rempt, Trisha Toews, Ksenia Kuzyaeva, Kevin Wilcoxon, Walter Michalik.


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This update addressing an important crossplatform compatibility issues for Linux and OSX, as well as other general fixes and improvements. Below you can find a full list of changes comparing to the previous release candidate.

List of changes:

  • New Cutout Tool. Thanks to Evgenij Katunov.
  • New option to choose light or dark UI theme (see “Edit” -> “Preferences” -> “Misc” -> “Use dark UI theme”).
  • Fix Z-Range feature (#757).
  • Fix crash when using any tool on Region Layer (#810).
  • Fix crash when clicking “Open history” button (#788). Thanks to Frijol.
  • Synfig CLI fixes: Replace ETL functions with Boost, display frames instead of lines, percentage completed and improved remaining time calculation. Thanks to Diego Barrios Romero.
  • Linux build: Fix missing icons in GNOME, LXDE and some other environments (#786#806).
  • Linux build: Fix missing dependency for Ubuntu (#675).
  • OSX build: Fix insensitive menus (#810).
  • OSX build: Fix Preferences dialog crash (#789).

NOTE: For OSX build we have hit a serious Gtk3 compatibility issues (see here and here), so we have been forced to migrate from native to X11-based builds. So, in order to run Synfig Studio on OSX, users have to install Apple’s XQuartz package.

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