Hello, quick question. Please how stable is Synfig’s development version? Is it better than the actual stable version? Also is it worth switching to currently?
Stable doesn’t mean that it crashes less, but that the features which were “in progress” in dev version are generally available.
Dev version is newer and more advanced but some features can still be WIP.
And a file produce in dev version could but unusable in a previous (stable or dev) version.
“Use it at your own risks” is often used as a warning, even though it could be with lots of bugs fixed.
Note that even so-called (official) development versions can be quite old.
If you want the latest features available, you can use an UNOFFICIAL appimage build that I’m building from the latest commits with the build system we use.
I make it for my own usage and I publish it to avoid others to have to play with Docker and have to reserve gigs of disk space.
Work also in Windows 10/11 with WSL 
Also, with the UNOFFICIAL builds, as it is AppImage v2, you can have several versions in parallel with own .config and .home, it will not mess your config.
And as a general rule of thumb, if you start a project with a specific version, keep it during the production (especially with dev version).
And keep this version just in case if you want to alter the file later.
When it is time to upgrade, check that the file (a copy) can still be opened in the new version before to get rid of it.
Another good reason to use AppImage v2 (UNOFFICIAL yet, official are still in v1)
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Hi, I always build the master branch of github. I always try to report all the bugs I find.
In this last year they have made several improvements to the color palette adding several useful options. There are two bugs that are greatly affecting working with the master branch at the moment: The first is that multiple selection cannot be done in the work area, at least in the eedebcf commit from two days ago. This bug was already reported but apparently it could not be corrected.
The second is one I haven’t reported yet, with the free time filter, it only happens when mixed with other filters.
Otherwise I have had no further problems and this way I can use Synfig with the latest improvements.
I hope it’s helpful.
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Thanks a lot. I have tried downloading the latest development version from gumroad, it installs but then it says “not responding” and it can’t open up. I’ve tried using a different laptop but it’s still the same thing.
thanks a lot. I can’t seem to get the development version on gumroad to open on my laptop, is there a fix to this?
It could be because of the font cache generation at first launch.
Also could be because it found some incompatible settings from your profile of Synfig.
Try also to download directly from GitHub.
And to start it from a cmd, so you could see error message (and activate the console for errors)