v0.7.0

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

New Contributors

• @iynaur made their first contribution in #1575
• @aeroc7 made their first contribution in #1629
• @kant made their first contribution in #1649
• @Benjiidavidson made their first contribution in #1718
• @donarturo11 made their first contribution in #1657
• @anpanring made their first contribution in #1750
• @musicinmybrain made their first contribution in #1757
• @thomnath made their first contribution in #1781
• @minhhuynh103 made their first contribution in #1783
• @Fatih20 made their first contribution in #1361
• @CSinclair89 made their first contribution in #1816