Release Notes

Released on May 12, 2025.

Inkscape 1.4.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features.

Release highlights

• a new splash screen, providing a visual cue while Inkscape loads in the background
• initial support for importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve files
• a new extension to Clean up Paths
• substantially improved Affinity Designer files (.afdesign) import
• 20 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import
• more than 50 other bug fixes and small improvements, among them improvements to Boolean operations, layer selection, minimal window width and restoration of Spray tool buttons' functionality
• and 15 updated translations

Read all about Inkscape 1.4.2 in the release notes!