Weekly Reports (2024)

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Development Report (December 10 - Jan 7)

Happy New Year to everyone!

Here’s the latest Synfig development news:

Features:

  • Allow to change resource file path in Canvas Dependencies dialog (#3105)

Fixes:

  • Do not show “Icon” text in header of Layers Panel (#3244)

  • fix: Synfig hangs when convert.exe cannot be found (#2850, #3298)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who always help to make Synfig better!

Edit BobSynfig:
Win64 Test Build (Link Expires 09 Feb 2024)
SynfigStudio-1.5.2-testing-2024-01-09-win64-2f4b4.zip

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Development Report (December Jan 3 - Feb 6)

Hey everyone!

Here’s the latest Synfig development news:

Features:

  • Port layer to Cobra renderer: Metaballs (#3305)

Fixes:

  • Add Magick++ as a possible importer (#3323)
  • Add missing scroll bar to Paste Layer dialog (#3310)
  • Adjust minimum panel size (to allow better movement of panels) (#3296)
  • Add fill-color instead of outline-color to palette (#3314)
  • Fixed an issue where guides were ignored when loading from files with old format (#3303)

Code cleanup, refactoring, and CI:

  • ci: changed caching logic (#3319)
  • refactor: reduce scope of two variables (#3321)
  • ci: bump github actions version (#3318)
  • build: CMake sets wrong Synfig Studio/ETL versions (#3315)
  • ci(commitlint): disabled rule for subject-case (#3317)
  • chore: script version-bump.sh must update CMake files (#3316)
  • chore: bump year to 2024 (#3299)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who always help to make Synfig better!

Edit BobSynfig:
Win64 Test Build (Link Expires 29 Feb 2024)
SynfigStudio-1.5.2-testing-2024-01-31-win64-7f395.zip

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Development Report (December Feb 6 - Feb 20)

Hello everyone!

Here’s the latest Synfig development news:

Features:

  • Now it is possible to export to WebM VP8 / VP9 video format (#3330)

Fixes:

  • Fix importing via magick++ for version >= 7.0.1 (#3332)
  • Fixed an issue in which undo didn’t work properly after deleting last guide-line (#3304)

Performance:

  • Avoid canvas inspection when DockInfo is not shown (#3328)

Code cleanup, refactoring, and CI:

  • build: fix typos on magickpp module (#3333)
  • refactor: remove unused variable (#3322)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who always help to make Synfig better!

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Development Report (December Feb 20 - Apr 8)

Hello everyone!

There was some pause in our development reports, because we were busy with participating in Google SoC. And - good news! - we’ve got accepted - https://www.synfig.org/2024/02/23/synfig-is-accepted-for-google-summer-of-code-2024/

Now we are reviewing proposals from aspiring students, thanks to everyone who submitted!

And here a few code changes that we had for this period:

Code cleanup, refactoring, and CI

  • Add CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (#3335)
  • Add cmake to linux install script (#3338)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who always help to make Synfig better!

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