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.
Download Synfig Studio 1.0 RC-2
Windows
Linux
Mac OS XThis 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.