Paolo Del Signore

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.10.0
The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.10.0 over the release build Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.2 are as follows:
Improved performance with: Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow) Editing speed with long stories Placed images Embedded documents Low-memory conditions Placed PDFs set to Passthrough Documents containing placed documents (Resource Manager) Smaller PDF export file sizes when multiple copies of the same passthrough PDFs are present. Better output of placed PDFs set to Passthrough exported as PDF formats that do not support Passthrough. Added support for most emoji  Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages. Added ‘Limit Initial Zoom to 100%’ preferences option (Windows) Implemented OpenType character variant samples and parameter names. Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents failing to load
(The maximum number of allowed open file handles was being exceeded leading to erroneous 'Future Version Error') Import keyboard shortcuts from IDML files. Resource Manager: New Relink option for missing resources. New File Type column. EPS files can be linked. Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes. Help and localisation improvement.  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.10.0
The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.10.0 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.2) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Improved performance with: Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow). Placed images. Text. Embedded documents. Low-memory conditions. New Selection options Parent, Top, & Bottom Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages. Improved SVG import/export. Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents failing to load.
(The maximum number of allowed open file handles was being exceeded leading to erroneous 'Future Version Error') Added support for most emoji. Added ‘Limit Initial Zoom to 100%’ preferences option. Resource Manager: New "Relink" option for missing resources. Added "File Type" column. EPS files can be linked. Assorted other small fixes. Help & localisation improvements.  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.0
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.10.0 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.9.2) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Improved GPU rendering Improved Serif Labs RAW engine Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages Improved Lens Correction for Canon, Tamron and Sigma lenses Improved PDF import/export Astrophotography Edit stacked image names for better organisation Stack images for different filters simultaneously using file groups (auto-alignment avoids resampling) Open FITS files directly in Photo Persona (control over demosaicing) Support for FUJIFILM X-Trans sensor images Improved performance with: Panorama stitching Multiple placed Info page samplers Adjustment layers when hardware acceleration is disabled Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow) Placed images Embedded documents Low-memory situations (including Windows OpenCL preventing fall-back from hardware to software) Converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats Documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible) Raw CR3 support (for Canon EOS 850D) Median Blur mode for Frequency Separation filter Added hardware acceleration to Gradient Map adjustment Added support for most emoji   Added ability to Load ACM lens profiles Added additional file drag drop options when holding Alt key Fixed crop tool issue where all presets were landscape Resource Manager: New Relink option for missing resources New File Type column EPS files can be linked Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes. Help and localisation improvement.  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

I have translated my above post into English and I will copy this below, as this explains why this option doesn't appear to work in Affinity Photo - 
Unfortunately, none of the pixel brushes in Affinity Photo or the pixel brushes in Pixel Persona by Affinity Designer can be applied to a vector curve. For this functionality the 'vector brushes' contained in the designer persona of Affinity Designer must be used.
These 'vector brushes' are created to follow vector curves, e.g. B. the ones you draw with your pen. These brushes follow the nodes you created. Typically a pixel texture is applied over the vector curve and the 'Structured Line Style' is applied in the Strokes panel.
Since Affinity Photo does not support these 'vector brushes', you can see that the stroke does not change when you select Textured Line Style in the Stroke panel. You have to use Affinity Designer if you want to apply this visual look to your vector curves.
The reason for this option in Affinity Photo is that you can edit any curves that may have been edited / imported from Affinity Designer. For example, suppose you are creating a document in Affinity Designer and applying a structured line style to your vector curve. Then transfer this document to Affinity Photo. Unfortunately, you can't change the textured line style brush used here. However, this option has been left in the Stoke control panel so that you can further edit this stroke in Affinity Photo.
To put it simply, Affinity Photo's Strokes panel provides this option for compatibility reasons only and does not support the functionality required to natively apply a brush to your vector curve.
As mentioned earlier, in my opinion, the best option is to send the document from Photo to Designer, where you can then apply this look to your curves.
I hope that clears things up!

Hello,
a question on Affinity Photo V1.9 Texturlinie.
A curve drawn with drawing pencil shall get Pinseltextur.
This does not work with me in Affinity photo, is there a solution?
The buttonTexture line dont work.
I would be very pleased about an answer.
Thanks.
Yours sincerely
Heiko Till

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.8.5
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.8.5 (made since the last release Affinity Publisher for Windows v1.8.4) 
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed many tablet input problems (by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3).  Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode
(NOTE: previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored). Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in the earlier 1.8.0  ,  1.8.2 and the 1.8.3 update announcements.
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.8.5
Changes in this Build
The changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.5 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.4) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed many tablet input problems (by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3).  Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode
(NOTE: previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored). Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool. Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in the 1.8.0 , 1.8.2 and 1.8.3 update announcements.
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.5
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.5 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.4) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed many tablet input problems (by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3).  Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode
(NOTE: previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored). Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool Fixed raster Crop Tool units multiplying incorrectly on the context toolbar Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 made since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in 1.8.0 , 1.8.2  and the 1.8.3 update announcements.
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.8.4
Changes in this Build
The changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.4 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.3) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed import of PSD files with extended blend modes Fixed crash when making some selections Changed mask thumbnails to use black, not transparent Fixed OCIO transform being removed when the window is moved or minimised Fixed Character Panel's Decorations colour box displaying in RGB  Fixed Layer Effects Gradient Overlay sliders not working correctly Fixed flickering brush preview with tablet input Fixed spurious lines being drawn with tablet input Fixed Alt+Drag colour picker getting stuck when using tablet input Added user preference for whether to try to keep selections after deleting Fixed  expand stroke failure on strokes that use velocity as a controller  Fixed gradients not changing when Global Colour is modified [Installer] Prevent installation into non-empty directory Fixed setting artboard/spread origin from panel not accounting for artboard spread position Fixed various issues with guide positions and artboard origins Allow closing of curves for special case selection Removed "Windows Ink" option, and replaced with high precision WinTab support Fixed AI import incorrectly identifying as EPS when it was actually a PDF with extra data at the front Fixed PDF import for documents with extra data at the front Fixed PDF export for some Asian fonts that support many glyphs Fixed Layers panel dropping of items of right of thumbnail in expanded parents Fixed right-click context menu to disable Merge Down when attempting to merge a Pixel Layer into a shape Fixed PDF import crash due to infinitely searching for fonts Fixed HSL ring displaying incorrectly when returning to the adjustment  Fixed being unable to drag afassets into the app  Changed PDFs to open as restricted if we don't have permission to edit, copy or print them Fixed PDF export accidentally outputting all RGB images at 16-bit Fixed Guide positions to be displayed relative to current Artboard Fixed layer blend modes not scrolling with arrow keys  Improved performance of font loading (and tried to improve behaviour with font managers) Improved PDF export support for 16-bit and 32-bit images Fixed SVG import of elements with closepath not followed by move Fixed SVG export of curves with large bounds Fixed incorrect sheet colour in PSD export (following import) Fixed incorrectly enabled control on Text Style decorations Fixed click to select items with group crops Fixed locked layers being selectable via Marquee selection Fixed PDF import of certain unicode characters producing the wrong character Fixed SVG import to ignore spurious quote marks in "url('#identifier')" references Fixed SVG import to treat gradients with one stop as solid fills Fixed SVG import having wrong default for gradientUnits Fixed crash when importing an invalid SVG due to negative heights or widths Fixed hand cursor getting stuck after panning  Fixed crash when pressing V with Alignment flyout open Fixed font names always displaying their English names Fixed PDF export with embedded ICC profiles Fixed SVG import of booleans Fixed SVG import of documents with multiple <svg> elements Fixed fill aspect ratio for Radial and Conical to be maintained unless the correction handle is visible Fixed text edit handles to allow auto pan ability Fixed changing tool while the Align Panel is open (if the next tool supports the alignment options, it will remain open, else it will close) Fixed crash when dragging items in the Layers control Improved performance of PDF import Improved performance of text when rendering text Fixed vector export of text occasionally filling characters Fixed crash when closing floating document  PDF Import - Import now allows creation of Artistic Text if 'Group lines of Text into Text Frames' is switched off Fixed New Document dialog previous document selection highlight not being remembered Fixed Ctrl+M with nodes selected to not bring up the curves dialog  Fixed crash when docking a panel with the Brushes panel Fixed crash with Appearance panel after using Ctrl+Z on vector brush input  Fixed PNG export not displaying the size warning if the export dialog was previously closed with a different preset  Help and Localisation improvements. Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement and this 1.8.2 update announcement
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.4
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.4 (over the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.3) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
X3F: Fixed uninitialised crop areas in release builds  X3F: Fixed non-sequenced reads from files (was preventing any X3F file from being loaded in CL release builds)  X3F: Apply Black and White in Develop Persona when the Monochrome flag is set Fixed redo always being a step behind in Develop Persona Fixed import of PSD files with extended blend modes Fixed Hasselblad RAW files loading thumbnail preview only Fixed occasional crashes loading RAW files  Allow Saving a document with history to be in recorded macros Fixed crash when making some selections Fixed Voronoi reset not matching the default Changed mask thumbnails to use black, not transparent Improved LAB defaults for selective channels in the document view Fixed OCIO transform being removed when the window is moved or minimised Fixed Character Panel's Decorations colour box displaying in RGB  Fixed Layer Effects Gradient Overlay sliders not working correctly Changed brush parameter shortcut from Alt+RightMouseButton to Ctrl+Alt (same as macOS) Fixed flickering brush preview with tablet input Fixed spurious lines being drawn with tablet input Fixed Alt+Drag colour picker getting stuck when using tablet input Fixed crash when failing to load an X3F file (some files will still fail to load, but won't crash) Fixed gradients not changing when Global Colour is modified  Improved support for Canon EOS-1D X Mark III colour data.  [Installer] Prevent installation into non-empty directory Added EOS 1D-X Mark III to list of known CR3 cameras  Fixed Flood Selection Tool is offset with 'All layers' enabled Stopped Image quality dropping after exiting an edited Equirectangular image Minor CR3 tweaks Fixed CR3 from a Canon EOS-R opening with a purple haze Fixed Develop Persona Red Eye Removal Tool crash Improved support for X3F files Removed units from the Crop Tool ratio option Fixed rotating a raw file in Develop Persona darkens it  Fixed adding guides in Develop Persona darkening image Removed "Windows Ink" option, and replaced with high precision WinTab support Fixed AI import incorrectly identifying as EPS when it was actually a PDF with extra data at the front Fixed PDF import for documents with extra data at the front Fixed PDF export for some Asian fonts that support many glyphs Fixed Layers panel dropping of items of right of thumbnail in expanded parents Fixed right-click context menu to disable Merge Down when attempting to merge a Pixel Layer into a shape Fixed PDF import crash due to infinitely searching for fonts Fixed HSL ring displaying incorrectly when returning to the adjustment  Fixed being unable to drag afassets into the app  Changed PDFs to open as restricted if we don't have permission to edit, copy or print them Fixed PDF export accidentally outputting all RGB images at 16-bit. Fixed RAW files appearing too dark Fixed High Pass filter for LAB colour Fixed Detect Edges after developing a RAW file in 32 bit Fixed NEF import from Nikon D90 rendering incorrectly Fixed CTRL+M with a node selected to not show the curves dialog. Fixed handling of ' XP ' EXIF data from Luminar 4 exported files  Fixed placement of RAW files to apply default settings Fixed Selection Brush Width not remembered if changed by Right mouse button + Alt modifier Fixed layer blend modes not scrolling with arrow keys  Improved performance of font loading (and tried to improve behaviour with font managers) Improved PDF export support for 16-bit and 32-bit images Fixed SVG import of elements with closepath not followed by move Fixed SVG export of curves with large bounds Fixed incorrect sheet colour in PSD export (following import) Fixed incorrectly enabled control on Text Style decorations Fixed click to select items with group crops Fixed locked layers being selectable via Marquee selection Fixed PDF import of certain unicode characters producing the wrong character Fixed SVG import to ignore spurious quote marks in "url('#identifier')" references Fixed SVG import to treat gradients with one stop as solid fills Fixed SVG import having wrong default for gradientUnits Fixed crash when importing an invalid SVG due to negative heights or widths Fixed hand cursor getting stuck after panning  Fixed crash when pressing V with Alignment flyout open Fixed font names always displaying their English names Fixed PDF export with embedded ICC profiles Fixed SVG import of booleans Fixed SVG import of documents with multiple <svg> elements Fixed fill aspect ratio for Radial and Conical to be maintained unless the correction handle is visible Fixed text edit handles to allow auto pan ability Fixed changing tool while the Align Panel is open (if the next tool supports the alignment options, it will remain open, else it will close) Fixed crash when dragging items in the Layers control Improved performance of PDF import Improved performance of text when rendering text Fixed vector export of text occasionally filling characters Fixed crash when closing floating document  Fixed New Document dialog previous document selection highlight not being remembered Fixed Procedural Texture rendering different to macOS applications Fixed Ctrl+M with nodes selected to not bring up the curves dialog  Fixed crash when docking a panel with the Brushes panel Fixed PNG export not displaying the size warning if the export dialog was previously closed with a different preset  Help and Localisation improvements. Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 made since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement and  this 1.8.2 update announcement
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

If Serif wanted Publisher to happen it would have been released years ago.
Oh, wait...
 
You are talking about a relatively small company with a small development team whose products are used by many people who are constantly requesting all kinds of features and there simply isn't time to do all of them at once, so they need to prioritize.  Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it never will.  Your priorities are just that - yours - they may not match those of other users, or of the developers.
 
A polygon tool was added to CorelDRAW after it had been around for over 6 years.
Adobe Illustrator was around for 6 years before it supported layers.  About 2.5 years later they started supporting gradients, then after another four years they added support for transparency (more than 12 years after the product was first released in order to get transparency support!).
It took Adobe over 7 years to support table styles in InDesign after it was first released (Affinity Publisher had these basically from day one).
QuarkXPress was around for 9+ years before they started supporting bézier curves.
 
Compared to what the now "major players" offered when they first came out, the Affinity apps are off to a running start.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.3
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.3 (over the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.2) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped Fixed Procedural Texture rendering differently to macOS  Further boolean operation improvements  Tweaks to Alignment Fixed misidentification of Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary when mounted on a Canon camera Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects Fixed some Pentax lenses being listed as "Pemtax" Fixed crash when switching between Panorama documents Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space Fixed autosave failing to work Fixed crash opening empty (0Kb) files Fixed PDF export failing with embedded LAB document Fixed PDF export of images to preserve their colour space Fixed PDF export failing when a document contains an empty clip Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask Fixed sporadic selection failure when invert selecting with Move tool Fixed sporadic PSD import crash Fixed floating panels being clipped when collapsed  Help and Localisation improvements. Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 made since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement.
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

1.8.2 -> 1.8.3 cycle has been the first release which has been done entirely while working from home. We appreciate your thoughts.

Saving often and saving several files through the process MyDesignName-Stage001, MyDesignName-Stage002, MyDesignName-Stage003 and so on is a lesson everyone has to learn the hard way*. And keep backups elsewhere too.
2 is 1 and 1 is none. So have at least 3. 1 on your machine, 1 on removable storage and 1 somewhere else (secure cloud/company server/whatever). And there are higher levels of paranoid archival if you want to go down that route.
*Graphite Addict learned this lesson, thankfully second hand, 3 decades ago when a copywriter lost a weeks' work 😑