Hello, everyone! Time for another weekly report.
This week we got successfully merged Ivan’s work into the master branch, so now you can try the zip container feature by installing our development snapshot. Which are in the process of uploading right now, by the way. 
Ivan is now working on the feature, which allows to merge external (imported) sif files into the current (parent) file. This feature is necessary if we want external sif files to be packed into container when we save into zip. At the moment only images are packed. This feature also will be available as stand-alone option: i.e. you will be able to right-click any imported sif file and merge it into current composition.
The second thing Ivan working on is the UI for opening different versions of the file. The internal structure is already implemented, now he needs to add option into the file open dialog to allow user open any previous version of the file.
This week we also have a new tiny feature for image layers - you can right-click any image layer and choose “Fit Image”. That would fit image to canvas. This is a kind of replacement for “Scale new images to fit the Canvas” option, which is buried deep in the Synfig’s preferences.
Also, there is a temporary fix applied to the annoying issue #482.
Recently I have discovered that we have lost the support for Magick++ rendering module, which allows to render into optimized animated gif files. Windows users probably won’t notice that at all, because such module never been available in Windows version. This feature is important to have on all platforms, because we use it in the examples in our upcoming training DVD. After some hours of tweaking I got the Magick++ working for windows version. Linux and Mac are lag behind for now.
We also got merged the new icons from Yu Chen (btw, it worths to look at his UI research page, if you didn’t saw yet)
Carlos have finished adding UI elements for “split tangent” feature and published a little demonstration. He also have a commit in his branch which fixes weird behaviour when inserting new vertex for the spline - the shape shouldn’t be distorted anymore! But I have to confess - I haven’t tested it by myself yet. At the moment there is a heating discussion about keybindings for this feature (see the forum thread of my previous report).
And last, but not least - we have started the fundraising campaign for Synfig! Please check the campaign page - igg.me/at/synfig-october-2013/x/2188395