Well, I use Windows, so I’m happy!!! 
I love this build! It’s way faster!!! I’m so happy with these improvements that I could cry 
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Development Report (Sep 26 - October 3)
Hello everyone!
Here’s what we’ve got since the last report:
Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where plugins fail to run for files with non-latin characters (Windows) (#3220)
- Fixed error when importing file from different drive on Windows (#3214)
Code cleanup & refactoring:
- Prefer range-based for loop and avoid direct etl::handle (#3227)
- Use synfig:filesystem::Path for sketch, palette & others (#3219)
That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!
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Development Report (October 3 - October 15)
Hello everyone!
Here’s the latest news about Synfig development:
Features:
- Added CSS classes and IDs to widgets/panels to allow visual customization (#3230)
- Timetrack Widget can now have its own color for the selected row (#3232)
- Workaround to allow to alternate even/odd row colors for Timetrack (#3231)
Code cleanup & refactoring:
- ETL/clock moved to synfig/clock in “context.cpp” (#3228)
- Prefer synfig::filesystem::Path over std::string (#3229)
- Avoid compiler warning about missing override keyword (#3237)
- Remove unused #include (somehow missed in #3141) (#3235)
- Avoid compiler warning: missing parentheses around assignment (#3238)
- synfig::OS::get_binary_path() doesn’t require a fallback anymore (#3236)
- Clean etl::handle and alike (#3233)
That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!
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Win64 Test Build (Link Expires 18 Nov 2023)
SynfigStudio-1.5.2-testing-2023-10-18-win64-efb71.zip
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Development Report (October 16 - October 23)
Hello everyone!
Here’s what we’ve got since the last report:
Features:
- Added “invert” parameter to ChromaKey layer (#3240)
Fixes:
- The “Name” column in Layers Panel now the widest one (#3243)
Code cleanup, refactoring, and CI:
- Added backtrace output in case of build fail (#3241)
- Dialogs for saving and exporting now uses filesystem::Path (#3234)
That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!
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Personal thank you to @rodolforg for implementing this. Synfig’s way of masking using shapes with “Alpha/Alpha Over/Straight Onto” always seemed a bit limiting.
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Development Report (October 23 - November 5)
Hey everyone!
Here’s what we’ve got since the last report:
Features:
- Add Layers, Parameters and Timetrack treeviews styles for even/odd rows (#3245)
Fixes:
- Restored icons for Tools menu (#3248)
- Solid Color layers are now exported correctly in Lottie exporter (#3252)
- Restored hotkeys for tools (#3262)
- Fixed recent file list reversing every time Synfig Studio launches (#3256)
- Fixed an issue of not being able to open file paths longer than 23 characters on Windows (#3265)
Code cleanup, refactoring, and CI:
- Dialogs for document opening now use filesystem::Path (#3246)
- The synfig::OS::launch_file_async() now uses filesystem::Path (#3249)
- Bump macOS version in Github Actions (#3259)
- Replace unsafe sprintf() with snprintf() (#3263)
- Remove unneeded macro stratof (#3257)
- studio::App::brushes_path now uses synfig::filesystem::Path (#3250)
- Create load_interface() method on ResourceHelper (#3258)
- Icon controller now uses synfig::filesystem::Path (#3254)
That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!
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Win64 Test Build (Link Expires 06 Dec 2023)
SynfigStudio-1.5.2-testing-2023-11-06-win64-62db8.zip
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Development Report (November 5 - November 21)
Hey everyone!
Here’s the latest Synfig development news:
Features:
- Added presets to canvas resize window (#3213)
Fixes:
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Fixed build on Debian 9 (#3169)
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Fixed missing OS namespace for MSVC compiler code (#3253)
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Fixed memory leak in Text Layer (#3269)
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Fixed an issue with Synfig CLI not rendering “.lst: images (#3275)
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Fixed an issue with units in tool panel not following the preferencespreferences (#3276)
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Prevent accessing invalid index while parsing Distance string (#3277)
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Store a more precise distance value on settings file (#3278)
Code cleanup, refactoring, and CI:
- Cleanup an old debug line (#3266)
- Prefer synfig::filesystem::Path rather than synfig::String or std::string (#3273)
- PVS-Studio has been added to the list of organizations (#3267)
That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!
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Win64 Test Build (Link Expires 21 Dec 2023)
SynfigStudio-1.5.2-testing-2023-11-21-win64-5e401.zip
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in 1.4.4 i could import a sound and have it play whenever im playing the animation, and i could have a waveform in the sound section in the timetrack window. these dont seem to be working in the new version.
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Development Report (November 22 - December 10)
Hello everyone!
Here’s the latest Synfig development news:
Features:
- Layers and parameters lists can now be stylized with even/odd rows (#3242)
- Pressing ESC key or right-click cancels dragging of control point (#3268)
Fixes:
- Fixed memory leak when the load default palette button is repeatedly pressed (#2633)
- Fixed an issue with image not loaded when imported through drag’n’drop (broken conversion URI to file path on Win32) (#3280)
- Use u8_str() (UTF-8 compliant) instead of c_str() for filesystem::Path (#3287)
Code cleanup, refactoring and CI:
Build:
- Fixed mingw cross-build (#3291)
- Add support for installing build dependencies in Red OS (#3289)
- Suppress warnings from libxml++ (autotools) (#3290)
That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!
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