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Below is the list of all new features and improvements included in the 2.1 beta. This new functionality is in addition to the many bug fixes and stability improvements in this version (currently 2.1.0.1790).
Depending on how the beta goes / how many issues there are to fix it's possible some more items will be added to this list before 2.1 is officially released - follow this topic if you want to be notified if that happens.

To learn more about these features please click on the link to go to each feature's dedicated post. To give feedback or report bugs against any of these features please reply to that same post (also check out bug reporting and feedback tips).
Features and improvements affecting all platforms
Balanced dashed lines and other stroke improvements (new in build 1730) Running headers in Affinity Publisher (new in build 1730) Show special characters added to Designer and Photo (added to iPad too in 1730) Adjusted Mask Behaviour (new in build 1730) Auto-select options in move tool (new in build 1713/1714) Square bracket stroke width adjustment expanded functionality Blend mode keyboard shortcuts Alt / Option - drag to duplicate in Layers panel Alt / Option click to expand / collapse all in Layers panel Crop tool improvements Auto clean added to paint mixer brush Paste inside picture frame Vector Flood Fill Guides improvements Vector warp nodes now obey snapping Brush panel improvements Raster perspective and mesh warp live filters added to Designer Search bar added to your add-ons (new in build 1713/1714) Analytics Windows and macOS features and improvements
WebP and JPEG XL now available in batch export (new in build 1736) Migrate retail version content and settings to beta version (new in build 1730) Cross references available in Affinity Publisher (this has now been pushed back to 2.2 as announced here) "Close All" added to File menu Asset panel reordering improvements Rename... added to Layer menu & tab behaviour Mask to below... added to Layer menu Measure tool now available in Photo and Publisher Place tool now available in Affinity Photo Drag / Drop bitmap fill to colour and swatch panel Zoom tool context options in Develop persona iPad features and improvements
New left swipe options on iPad layers panel (new in build 1736) Redesigned edit menu (new in build 1730) Some file management changes to iPad (new in build 1730) Style picker added to iPad apps (new in build 1713/1714) Drop down menus with checkable options no longer auto close New keyboard shortcut options added Reset rotation in navigator with double tap Pencil double tap option to open quick menu Long press geometry operation to create compound Tapping warp group thumbnail now selects node tool PDF options now exposed when opening Modifiers now available for Select Object Hide Layer type icon now available Main view rulers added  
If you have not enrolled into the beta program yet and would like to take part, you can do so here. This will immediately give you access to the latest 2.1 beta builds to try for yourself.

Here's a list of some of the bugs which have been fixed in beta builds 2.1.0.1706, 1709, 1713/14, 1730, 1732, 1736, 1742/3, 1769, 1781, 1790 & 2.1.0.1799
(NEW) at the end of the line means "added to this list in the latest patch"
Please reply in this forum only to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other bugs & issues forum.
Bugs affecting all platforms
Fixed: App hangs when zooming AFD-6338 AFFonts can now be streamed from Affinity Store Spanish Hyphenation Dictionary provided with the apps updated Unable to place vector files from the stock panel inside a pic frame. Adjustments Panel contents [and others] had lost their translations. Content that requires downloading via a browser are not shown in My Account Hang exporting specific file to PDF (press ready) Kerning improved in fonts with previously unsupported Kerning Data Flood select tool inconsistent at pixel level [Photo] Astro crash -10GB file [Photo] Opening Pentax RAW files with an Exposure Bias Assistant setting enabled opens as pure white with Exposure maxed [Photo]  Adding two single pages to start of facing document messes up Z-order [Publisher] App crashes when duplicating text frames in a group on Master Page [Publisher] No "Undo" step for autoflowing text, when frame is on a master page [Publisher] Node Transform mode issues with moving multiple nodes and snapping on pages >1 [Publisher] Trying to Place specific PDF into document causes app to get stuck on "Place Images" progress bar [Publisher] Object changes page based on centre of bounding box and not cursor position AFB-7272 Sidenotes set 'Towards / Away from Spine' that are long enough to cover one another are hidden, or displayed on the last page incorrectly AFB-7222 App hangs whilst editing/using pixel brushes, all brushes disappear on next launch. AFD-6283 Adjustments fail to show Preset Names when category is displayed. AFP-5944 File exports to EXR with artifacts/alpha issues. Mesh Warp can break when adjusting warp. AFP-4863 Warp Group exported to PDF results in clipped objects. AFD-6306 Page hyperlinks don't shift when pages inserted. Guides - + snap to units based on delta rather than origin. Insert index does not create a new break if not inserted at the beginning of a paragraph [Publisher] Lens Profiles: Nikkor Z 40mm f/2 lens profile misidentified as Meike 25mm f/1.8 AFP-5994 Non breaking hyphen removed from place DOCX files AFB-7353 Duplicating pinned node possible Misidentified lens - Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 30mm F3.5 Macro AFP-5995 Crop Tool - don't remember setting when unconstrained Lens profile does not automatically apply on ARW (DT 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM) AFP-5938 Unable to move pin/inline position & Can't Unpin AFB-7248 Brush selection does not switch to the new brush when duplicating a brush in Photo/Pixel persona  'Continue' button fails to work after completing registration in My Account   Deleted brushes reappear in brush panel when app is restarted Guides - lock margins / spread origin in dialog Importing PDF drops metadata Lens profile does not automatically apply on ARW (DT 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM) [AFP-5938]   Make Fields behaviour consistent with other UI elements  Misidentified lens - Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 30mm F3.5 Macro [AFP-5995]  Select Same > Unstroked Objects erroneously selects stroked objects Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | C - not matched/identified in Lens Correction Profiles in Develop Persona [AFP-4350]   Unbalanced Margins incorrectly aligned on the last page in document when no master applied .GPR (GoPro RAW) files fail to open with 'File Type Not Supported' error [AFP-5860]  Add Hyperlink copies only the first 128 selected characters [AFB-7450]  Assistant logic for mask change   Auto clean setting (paint mixer) isn't remembered [AFP-6036]  Books panel's Preferences menu lacks a way to update numeric cross-references' values across all chapters prior to export  Can't cancel ongoing download in My Account  Changing the DPI of the document makes the stroke slider unusable   Collapsed topics on the Index panel automatically expand when you add a new topic (Publisher)  Crash editing TOC seperator using Accessibility zoomed view [AFB-7166]  Crash switching pages in specific document   Crop Tool - corner drag hit area now too small   Dragging the Positioning and Transform icons in Character Panel is broken [AFB-7436]  DXF file occasionally opens with incorrect dash gap  EMF exports with brighter colours than expected  Export triggers "Move" UI and not "Save" UI  Grammarly for Desktop causes Publisher to crash when accessing the Find and Replace Panel [cannot replicate anymore] [AFB-7131]  Hang when deleting object styles - propcol specific  Import DXF files with dashed lines set to unbalanced   Include Paragraph Numbering for running headers crashes   Inconsistent behavior when renaming and undoing renaming of swatches, warning shown in UI is not always applicable [PD-371]  Paint Mixer Tool: Auto Clear Brush should say Auto Clean Brush.   Recent docs - both pin and remove from list hover indicator seems unreliable (regression)   Release in Layers context menu is not selectable  Searching Stock Studio with no internet connection should show a 'Connection Failed' error   Transform Origin is moved after adjusting the height/width of an object or flipping it. [AFD-6403]  Unable to paste into a document unless clicking the canvas first [AFP-6016]  Auto-Select Groups Failing to Cycle Through the Complete Layer Stack Attached .PSD opens differently in v2 to v1 [AFP-6035]  Drawing a new table does not take selected font into account   Line width, column guides and distance from text do not scale when rescaling document [AFB-7404]  Renaming global colour adds a history step of "Set global colour"  Resampling/resizing text decorations on a master page increases the width of the decoration, relative to the number of pages [AFB-5642] Running headers - allow to be based on character style? [AFB-7458] Strip Camera Raw crs metadata on export to raster formats [AFP-6056] Add default shortcut SHIFT+[CTRL/CMD]+R to rename layer Add default shortcut to rename layer Rename Layer - could we initiate with double click on Artboard name Add 'Enable associated tools' to the burger menu Crop Tool - shift constrain issues Shared content may not load or save correctly when running apps side by side Add WebP & JPEG-XL to batch export options Crop Tool - CMD shouldn't initiate straighten when over a transform handle/edge Metadata Panel - EXIF 'Date Shot' field incorrectly re-applies the local OS time offset for images lacking timezone data [AFP-6061] Mask gets deleted when undoing the last brush stroke [AFP-5214] SVG code generated by ChatGPT AI crashes Affinity on open [AFD-6524] Balanced dash lines - accept zero in 2nd and 3rd dash SVG copy and paste by defalt [AFD-6466] Vector Flood Fill - add a fill with click on unselected object Exporting File Hyperlinks to PDF is escaping files/escaping them incorrectly. Pixel Brush Tool fails to output if using Accumulation or Flow Jitter when its not 100% [AFP-3919] Text in a Placed PDF is No Longer Split by Layer making it difficult to hide individual items  File size in master doc increasing inexplicably with linked files Non supported lens Nikkor Z 26mm f/2.8 is detected as a KMZ Helios-40 85mm f/1.5 [AFP-6072] Update PANTONE Solid / Process Coated / Uncoated Tables to Version 5 Brush accumulation appears broken in 1.9/2.0 [AFP-4823]  Crop Tool - auto resize on rotate  Pixel Brush Tool fails to output if using Accumulation or Flow Jitter when its not 100% [AFP-3919]  Time Taken to Expand Dashed Strokes Gradually Increases as Second Dash Value Decreases Eventually Causing Designer To Hang [AFD-6485]  Vector Flood - click asset or stock image to add as fill  Using Vector Flood Fill on text creates a Text Frame fill which cannot be removed  Select Tool: Multi-selection across spreads draws incorrectly  Exporting to a Raster format can incorrectly draw the Picture Frame "cross" when it is an embedded/linked Publisher file [AFB-7547]  IDML import > Fill on picture frames is hidden on import [AFB-7203]  UI menu capitalization inconsistencies in Menu lists [AFB-6221]  Dragging an image layer on top of a picture frame won't replace the frames contents  Duplicate brush category auto links it  Boolean operation causes objects to fall outside of group if performed outside an artboard [AFD-5452] Boolean Operation fails to apply fills to text objects Artifacts showing on dashed balanced lines at shape corners. Balanced dotted lines don't expand correctly [AFD-6503] Content Sync UI on secondary IPC instances is non-reflective [HUB-292] IDML file imports with all embedded images replaced with the same initial image - File specific [AFB-7612] Extremely short dash lengths draw and export improved. Unable to use Cmd+Shift together to select objects [AFD-6571]  Glyph IDs are displayed in Hex, but the search is assuming decimal On Text panel's Bullets and Numbering section, tab stop options show paragraph alignment icons Spellcheck is broken by zero non-width joiner Linear DNG opens broken (green channel / pink highlights) [AFP-4293]  [iPad] On Text Panel's Bullets and Numbering section, Tabstop is one word but it's two elsewhere Vector Flood - bitmaps in different colour spaces  Bugs affecting Desktop (Windows and macOS)
When using hover to lock a layer current selection would be lost Searching Stock Studio with no internet connection crashes apps Export dialog doesn't always remember last area setting Typographic apostrophe (or certain other characters) followed by an accented character not copied to clipboard correctly AFB-7168 Issue causing "Min Gap Before" being ignored for Footnotes [Publisher] Placing .docx file enables auto hyphenation, even though it is disabled in Word [Publisher] Opening and closing chapters in a book can leave the files locked and read only [Publisher] AFB-6837 Opening a Book Chapter and closing without making changes stops book from being able to save, or close. [Publisher] AFB-7193 Books Chapter Status can get out of sync [Publisher] PDF passthrough and Artboards not generating a correct export [Designer] Enable Transform Origin for Pen drawn open curves are offset from the object [Designer] Drag and drop with text will drop in a frame that's clipped out [Publisher] Double clicking and deleting a word with a Pin Before/After results in the Pin and Object being removed [Publisher] AFB-7165 Email hyperlinks where the email address (incorrectly) has a leading space fail to export to PDF [Publisher] Character styles list in Hyperlink Panel has duplicate entries [Publisher] Live filters with blend mode treat 0% opacity as 100% AFP-5866 Vertically flipping a copied Pixel selection retains bounding box from original Pixel layer, incorrectly flipped with the new layer and visually clips pasted pixel layer. AFP-5946 Luminosity Mask gives incorrect results due to clipping range. AFP-5840 ISO Value from EXIF data is capped at 65536. AFP-4990 Pixel brush in use loses focus when resized using ctrl+alt+L click drag. Exporting a specific file to SVG shows no progress bar. Docx - index entries not being imported. Creating a table and then placing an XLSX file will cause the cell text to inherit the previous table's stroke width. AFB-7158 No Undo step for autoflowing text when frame is on a master [Publisher]. AFB-7111 Some custom formulas aren't importing correctly [Publisher]. AFB-7027 Vertically flipping a copied Pixel selection retains bounding box from original Pixel layer, incorrectly flipped with the new layer and visually clips pasted pixel layer. AFP-5946  Luminosity Mask gives incorrect results due to clipping range. AFP-5840 ISO Value from EXIF data is capped at 65536. AFP-4990  Pixel brush in use loses focus when resized using ctrl+alt+L click drag  Exporting a specific file to SVG shows no progress bar  Docx - index entries not being imported  Creating a table and then placing an XLSX file will cause the cell text to inherit the previous table's stroke width. AFB-7158 No Undo step for autoflowing text when frame is on a master [Publisher]. AFB-7111  Some custom formulas aren't importing correctly [Publisher]. AFB-7027  Attached file crashes Affinity Publisher on open / place [AFB-7289]   Can't create an e-mail link with a subject in [AFB-7319]   Changing the DPI of a document using any unit, other than pixels, cause the page to change size [AFB-7395]   Clicking "Page" in Cross References dialog doesn't sort Export as PDF Bookmark icons on Anchors panel give false impression their state can be edited from other book chapters Grammar correction to Context Menu > Notes > Goto Note Body/Goto Note Reference [AFB-7325]   Guides - nudge / mouse wheel to edit values? Incorrect Margins used on Right side of a spread when Left side is a single page master. Incorrect vignetting on Pentax-FA 43mm f/1.9 Limited using Serif Labs [AFP-4656]   Opening file with Embedded assets ignores the Link status of the asset when determing if it needs to offer the import  Point transform origin point is always offset to a position off of the page/spread on facing page documents [AFB-7322]   Select Same > Unstroked Objects selects stroked objects. Snapping indicator is offset when drawing objects Sony E PZ: Lens correction doesn't remove vignette [AFP-3164]   Status Bar for Guides needs updating Streamed fonts are not installed correctly in secondary instances [HUB-280]   Text entry for email hyperlinks should be validated on "OK" or before [AFB-7320]   Text outline width cannot be adjusted on text on text frames that have been created on a master page [AFB-7398]   Unable to Lasso Node Select on documents with more than 1 page  Unable to scroll or use the arrows on the White Balance field in Develop Persona [AFP-5659]  Brush selection may be incorrect after duplicating a vector brush [iPad still affected]  Can't create tabstops from paragraph panel on mac [AFB-7396]  Improvement: Add tooltips to link margins/bleed on New Document dialog   Margins are not undoing/redoing correctly.  Margins aren't being scaled correctly during document rescale Tab/Shift+Tab to cycle through renaming Layers fails to work in Export Persona [PD-382]  2 page facing document starting on the left cannot export page 2 individually to PDF Attached documents cause app to crash when added as a Book Chapter Edit Embedded PDF > Layer selection through the layers panel does not select the objects and ignores any edits made to it [AFB-7492] Hang printing a book Preflight Maximum ink setting can wrongly report an error Publisher hangs adding an Index on a book Running headers - add to main menu fields [AFB-7519] Snapping indicator is offset when drawing objects [AFB-7252] User File - importing IDML document with embedded EPS files opens with placed resource size of 0x0, EPS files are not displayed [AFB-7454] When cross-references are updated during export of a book, their values disappear from publication pages [AFB-7518] Brush selection may change after switching to an associated tool when selecting a brush Brush panel - support Grid mode for vector brushes Editing a brush selection from More Info will cause source brushes to be edited if you change the brush. Add a manual 'Refresh' to Resource Manager (Specific) File crashes when saving after being modified [AFB-7512]  Move tool > Context toolbar > Settings button is not translated  Crash editing Running Headers with no document open [AFB-7523]  Book created in an earlier version has begun to display 'locked by another app' dialog or cause app to stop responding [AFB-7544]  Tooltip: Can the Place Image Tool be named Place Tool on desktop (to match iPad) Brush selection may be incorrect after duplicating a vector brush Close all - should just close all files in develop [Under Review] Crash after autosave Inconsistent visibility of the frame preset cog on the context tool bar. When cross-references are updated during export of a book, their values disappear from publication pages Update Endnotes and Update Numbers > Note Numbers fail to respect Restart Every: Book numbering Brush panel - thumbnail view in vector brushes Keyboard input broken after altering table settings [AFB-7583]  Long Plugin file paths cause the Add / Remove icons to be out of view [AFP-6094]   Being prompted to save TIFF with layers or Save As even though only contains Background layer [AFP-5996] & [AFP-5635]  Unable to use NumPad keys to move between Previous and Next Blend Modes [PD-379]  Unable to use Ctrl+Alt to resize brush width since 2.1.0.1736 [AFP-6084]  Dashed lines - make draggable values have 0.1 accuracy  Make "phase" label draggable to change too  Saving changes to a book chapter may cause the app to become unresponsive  Inserting a cross-reference into a book chapter may crash the app  Crash on save with embedded document on Master Page [AFB-7558]  Books > Page Number Options > Start Numbering from Page should auto enable option if a value is changed, or values should not be editable before option is selected  Starting Page Number setting lost when adding document as book chapter  Section Manager > Page Number settings don't function within a chapter document from a book  Identical Index markers across 2 chapters in a book use incorrect page numbers in generated index  Editing shared content in the app will (temporarily) break the content in one of the secondary instances if you have two running Add provides incorrect results when using Smooth nodes, works as expected with Sharp nodes [AFD-6441] Applying Vector Flood Fill to an empty, non-overlapping curve will cause it to crash [AFD-6549] Attached documents cause app to crash when added as a Book Chapter [AFB-7490] Auto-select - alt-drag Hyperlink path button is too narrow Knife Tool is missing Straight Line mode [AFD-6066] use correct profile when converting asset bitmap in a vector fill. Use icons for Knife tool options on context toolbar Crash - Dragging slider on Sub brush settings [AFP-6042]  DNG file not being opened correctly [AFP-4465]  Hang printing a book User file - Crash on File > Print [AFB-7632]  Endnotes take <NoteEnd> into consideration when spellchecking providing unexpected results .XLSX files with font name values in Chinese cannot be used when Data Merging AFD-5571 Divide Operation fails on Picture Frame object  32 bit TIF file shifts exposure when changing between Photo and Develop persona - File(s) specific [AFP-6108]  Exposure shift inserting 32bit (linear) layer(s) into 16bit doc differs in V2 compared to V1 [AFP-6086]  RAF is heavily cropped on open (Serif Labs & Apple Core) [AFP-4488]  Sony RAW converted to DNG using Iridient S Transformer has red areas when adjusting exposure  Develop Persona: issues (highlights rendering) with DNG generated by DxO PureRaw/DeepPRIME technology. [AFP-4444]  V2 displaying additional fringing over V1  Vector Flood Fill crashes with complex DWG documents  App hangs when editing a text frame from a book chapter  Margins that are linked in New document setup are shown as unlinked in document setup [AFB-7642] Books Panel Menu still has entries for Cross references "Calculations failed" error message while flow filling of design containing complex geometry in some instances Linked document previews disappear completely after saving and reopening document. [AFD-5496]  (NEW) Bugs affecting Windows
In Windows versions text contrast in settings did not have the range available to macOS versions. Deleting a (shared) category in App A while editing a styles name in App B can crash App B. Resource Manager doesn't update colour space on linked images. Colour Chooser displays CMYK sliders as 0-255. DAUB W&W - Bristles crashes app when selected from dropdown [Designer/Photo] Lens Profile fails to show as none for some images with no lens profile [Photo] Develop Persona: Opening 2x RAW files at once doesn't save changes/edits after developing [Photo] Endnote numbers reset to zero when dragging frame off of spread [Publisher] Paste without formatting places the object on the next spread/page [Publisher] Asset categories do not remember the 'last used' category [Photo] Windows pixel persona has warp group button on layers panel.  Layers Panel: If a nested layer is collapsed with Alt held down, it collapses the nested layer below.  Live perspective / Warp - added as destructive version on Windows.  UI needs spacing adding between each input box on Colour Chooser.  Unable to use Ctrl click to select objects on Windows with the Vector Flood Fill Tool.  Show as list/Show Brush Names missing from Designer on Windows.  Crash when Shape builder tool is selected. AFD-6239 Adding a preset to an Adjustment Layer will cause the app to crash. AFB-7306 Export as PDF icons overrun the Anchor panel's default width. Windows pixel persona has warp group button on layers panel.  Layers Panel: If a nested layer is collapsed with Alt held down, it collapses the nested layer below.  Live perspective / Warp - added as destructive version on Windows.  UI needs spacing adding between each input box on Colour Chooser. Unable to use Ctrl click to select objects on Windows with the Vector Flood Fill Tool.  Show as list/Show Brush Names missing from Designer on Windows.  Crash when Shape builder tool is selected. AFD-6239  Adding a preset to an Adjustment Layer will cause the app to crash. AFB-7306  Export as PDF icons overrun the Anchor panel's default width.  Book's panel minimum height is too high [AFB-7415]   Brush duplicated via Alt + Left Click is incorrectly highlighted when original brush is resized [AFP-5999]   Cannot zoom using shortcuts after interacting with Basic, Lens etc [PD-390]   Crash after adding an Overlay in Develop [AFP-5990]   Crash on shutdown Crash double clicking cross reference if there is no text selection   Cross Reference filter text box is black in Dark UI  Cross Reference targets can be multi selected  Delete keyboard shortcut icon not on screen when app set to German in Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts set to Publisher and Text [AFB-7381]   Focus is not moved to parent layer when closed via layer bar next to child layer [AFD-6446]   Lens Correction "has already been applied" to Sony ARW file but distortion is still visible Linked EPS files load at different DPI/Resolution in 2.1 Pixel brush nozzle thumbnails showing cut in half  V2 EXE build doesn't currently work with Roaming Profiles Alt + F4 with undocked tools closes toolbar and not application, toggling show tools then crashes [AFB-7227]  Export Persona's Tools Panel on Windows incorrectly contains the colour selectors   Focus remains after naming a layer  Layer Effect blend modes are applied without being selected. [AFD-6230]  Layer Effects/FX Panel no longer accepts field values unless you press return [PD-456]  The 'Unsupported Graphics Card' message needs improving for V2 [AFP-5854]  Unable to use keyboard shortcuts whilst focus is in Text Styles Panel [PD-453]  Windows Layers Panel incorrectly shows the 'Crop' icon instead of the 'Clip' icon [PD-286]  AMD Big Navi GPUs should now work better on Windows. Expanding multiple entry in resource manager 'jumps' to last manually selected resource First Dash Pattern Gap no longer has a minimum value of 0.05 on Windows Font Manager - Fonts disappear after selecting substitute [AFB-7442] Running headers end on dropdown has no entries in it [AFB-7515] Text Contrast doesn't affect Adjustments or renamed layers on Windows [AFB-7498] Asset Panel preference menu isn't being reflected correctly on Windows Crashing using books [AFB-7536] Preferences, User Interface, Light UI: UI Brightness and Text Contrast sliders reset to defaults when we restart the app [AFP-5676] Adding a global colour dialog allows list separator selection when using Tab key to change fields Learned words are forgotten when document is reopened after restarting the application [AFB-7538] Settings > Filler text is clipped on German [AFB-7534] Dragging JpegXL creates new layer instead of dropping into frame when dropped from desktop. [AFB-7486] Context Menu appears in top left of app if called on opened document without left clicking the layer first [AFB-7150] Stroke Panel From Context Toolbar clipped Cannot change document DPI [AFB-7528] Dragging Bitmap onto Tools Panel with the Vector Flood Fill switches to Move Tool Hang/Crash when dragging an FX to the Links Panel Vector Flood Fill Tool - 'Fill to visible boundaries' button is missing tooltip on Windows  Duplicate brush naming is inconsistent  Using the mouse wheel to adjust colour sliders fail to apply the colour on Windows [PD-581]  The pop-up menu for masks fails to highlight the list of masks correctly [AFP-6092]  Dragging the label to resize a shape in Transform Panel creates hundreds of History entries  The Shortcuts title bar in Settings > Shortcuts should be fixed into position [AFP-6076]  Crop Tool - after not committing a rotated crop you get weird behaviour  Filters menu missing Alt accessibility accelerator  My Account is missing when snapped to half of the screen  Vector Flood Fill Tool: One-click flooding of stock images does not work on Windows  Cannot change document DPI above 400 in document setup [AFB-7528]  Hang/Crash after attempting to save document with multiple documents open [AFB-7578]  File is left open when editing a book chapter with a cross reference  Hang - Exporting Book - All Chapters as Pages [AFB-7563]  User File - Index show incorrect page numbers when used between 2 different .afpub files in a book, updating TOC provides different results depending on which option is selected  Setting the numerical value of an effect using a scroll wheel increases the number but does not apply FX [AFB-7571]  User file - Shape Builder crash on undo, crash when selecting groups in the Layers Studio, crash when creating a new shape [AFD-6304] App crashing creating RGB document whilst running in OpenCL on Intel Arc A770 Graphics [AFP-6077] Export Preview: WebP and JPEG XL formats do not zoom with the shortcut [AFP-5615] Crash deselecting text in specific document [AFB-7574] Crop preset greyed out on Windows [AFP-6106] Custom content not being migrated from 2.0.4 to 2.1.0 EXE installs Dash / Gap hover - mouse wheel behaviour Mouse scroll values for dash pattern are incorrect on Windows On Windows, New Document > Document summary does not show if it is a facing page document Add rename layer to layer menu in pixel persona Edit Pixel brush > Dynamics > Distance Max value box does not show as % on Mac and iOS Export dialog defaults can cause Zoom keyboard shortcuts to stop working. Quick FX panel: scrolling the mouse wheel over an input field to adjust the slider does nothing on Windows. [AFD-6550] Resize Document> Aspect ratio lock missing in Windows [AFP-6098] Rulers: Right-click menu is missing the tick for the document unit [AFP-6103] Shape Builder Tool: The + and - keys on the numeric keypad do not Create or Delete objects Use Fill and Auto Close options state is not correctly remembered/retained when switching Tool [AFD-6523] When using Select Object to remove from the current selection, the menu closes as soon as you hold Alt Add rename layer to layer menu in pixel persona "Always install available content" checkbox is not being reflected between session instances [HUB-296]  Copying of settings from Release to Beta isn't working on Windows [HUB-295]  Canvas flickers when switching between open documents [AFB-7440]  Edit Pixel brush > Dynamics > Distance Max value box disappearing [PD-606]  Unable to drag asset to the Colour Panel to apply as Bitmap Fill [AFD-6579]  JPEG Export defaults to CMYK 0,0,0,100 Matte when selecting a colour profile to be embedded, UI fails to reflect and sliders do not function [AFP-6113]  Exporting to JPEG with Embed ICC profile unchecked exports a black canvas [AFB-7611]  Export Preview: Some formats do not zoom with the shortcut [AFP-5615]  Export Preview: Unable to interact with Matte sliders whilst Generating Preview [AFP-6114]  App crash when printing file with pages outside the specified 'Include on Export' range in Section Manager [AFB-7433]  Paste Inside fails to work on Picture Frames when copied from Windows Photo Viewer [AFB-7635]  Settings > Colour > Warn when assigning working profile... is clipped in German and shifts left when clicked [AFB-7581]  RAW files open underexposed / dark [AFP-6119]  RAW files loading slower in V2 [AFP-5882]  PD-633 [Win] Add Area tool as customisation option to Photo and Publisher [PD-635]  New Document Dialog: When deleting a Recent document, the scrollbar jumps up Background grey level slider doesn't function [AFB-7679] General performance improvements Phi Grid is missing in Crop Tool  (NEW) Better memory handling  (NEW) States Panel missing Chinese translation on Windows  (NEW) Bugs affecting macOS
Drag on label (e.g. "X", "Y", etc.) to change values in transform panel could stop working when panel was undocked cmd-mouse scroll to rotate canvas should be off by default PDFs placed during multi-resource file placement operation don't render their colours correctly Document > Go To Page... fails [Publisher] AFB-7104 Shape Builder Tool cursor shows a + even when in subtract mode [Designer] Unsharp mask produces artefacts [Photo] Selection Brush Tool: Too much play in the slider [Photo] Refine overlay disappears whilst painting [Photo] Hang after attempting to edit some already edited, pre-supplied Gouache brushes [Photo] Crash when Alt+dragging a Symbol containing text [Designer] User issue: Gets error when apps are first launched showing, prevents apps from opening. HUB-220  Missing font dialog prevents the other apps from opening.  Frequency Separation, destructive Gaussian Blur and High Pass: corruption/thin colored lines. AFP-5936 High Pass filter rendering issue. AFP-5858  Attached file crashes Publisher on open. AFB-7285  Large area occupied by tickboxes in AutoCorrect preferences prevents scrolling Preferences [Publisher]. User issue: Gets error when apps are first launched showing, prevents apps from opening. HUB-220  Missing font dialog prevents the other apps from opening.  Frequency Separation, destructive Gaussian Blur and High Pass: corruption/thin colored lines. AFP-5936  High Pass filter rendering issue. AFP-5858  Attached file crashes Publisher on open. AFB-7285  Large area occupied by tickboxes in AutoCorrect preferences prevents scrolling Preferences [Publisher].  [macOS Monterey, Big Sur] Resize Canvas, Resize Document, Transform panel input fields: issues when entering values [AFP-5856]   The brush name displayed in the Brush panel does not update after renaming the brush until it is scrolled off and back on screen  FS Sammy displays oddly in the Context Toolbar font list [AFWS-165]   Designer rendering HSV Adjustment differently to Photo [AFP-6003]   My Account screen is cutting off Affinity ID: and Password: labels Outline Layer Fx with blend mode set to overlay on the Fx isn't being applied correctly, MacOS [AFP-5986]   PDF export does not output spaces [AFB-7405]   Print Presets with N-UP cause a hang when opening print dialogue [AFB-7230]   The Add Index Topic dialog may remember See Also content from previous time it was used Typing in certain fields removes the initial character [AFP-5798]   When a brush is deleted the blue highlight moves to the unselected brush below App attempts to reconnect to disconnected SMB share on launch [AFB-7024]  Cannot drag layers from one document to another in V2 [AFP-6020]  Develop Persona: The Develop button is no longer blue on macOS [AFP-5991]  Dialog Title has gone missing on the Preferences / Settings dialog.  Go To Page dialog no longer focuses on page number field and cannot use Return to accept [AFB-7373]  Index panel's Delete icon looked dimmed even when an entry is selected   It's no longer possible to drag and drop layers/objects between documents. [AFP-5685]  Palettes that have bitmap fills fail to display thumbnails when installed as system palette   Sliders in Settings > UI don't function correctly [AFB-7376]  Specific file crashes when entering resource manager [AFB-7120]  Switching to Metadata panel expands both studio views   Template files saved on an external drive show the "._ resource" files in the Template Dialog, usually hidden by macOS [AFB-6982]  Unable to delete a shape preset category if it contains any presets  Adjusting spinners in Character Panel can cause all spinners to stop working [AFB-7390] Blend Mode Shortcuts: Add is missing a shortcut on macOS Brush panel - brush selection lost when category changed  Brush panel - name labels don't scale with font size preference  Brush selection highlight is lost when switching categories Edit Field... Right click option incorrectly available on some fields Layer Panel: Visibility/Lock icons are obscured when a group is present [AFP-6026] On the Books panel's Preferences menu, Update Cross-References seems permanently unavailable  [macOS] Artboard label font size too small Unable to edit file Hyperlinks on macOS after the first Alt-click select raster brush to not set size Swatches on FX menu displayed as an RGB preview when document is set to CMYK [AFB-7219] Crash when closing app after collapsing EXIF/XMP fields in Detail dropdown UI-Misalignment in text styles panels [AFB-7217] Crash with Fields Panel and no document open [AFB-7530] Artboard label font size too small Manually modifying AppleHighlightColor in defaults can cause app to crash on launch [PD-556] "Leading" label in paragraph panel incorrectly anchored [PD-532]  Layer names cropped with large font size  Font UI Size set to Large clips descenders in the Layers Panel [AFB-5632]  Identical Index markers across 2 chapters in a book stops book from saving/generating .afbook file, freezes app on macOS  Layer names cropped with large font size  Add rename layer to layer menu in pixel persona  Layer Visibility toggles won't show if you make the Layers Panel wider [AFP-5740]  Importing .ASE files fails to import the Palette name [AFD-6537]  Vector Flood - Creating multiple new bitmap fills to same object  Localisation - Mac - New document - Margin Tab should be Margins [AFB-6126]  Spread Setup: Unable to tab in Margins  Shapebuilder Tool: hintline for Instant delete says 'Click+[TERIARY] to delete this edge' (should show alt/option symbol) Swatches on FX menu displayed as an RGB preview when document is set to CMYK [AFB-7219]  Correct some positioning/size of labels in the Text Style editor  Color Profile Manager should be initialised BEFORE loading saved data  Endnotes take <NoteEnd> into consideration when spellchecking providing unexpected results (Windows to follow) [AFB-7562] Text Frame panel Unit control inches [AFB-7215]  Cross Reference shortcuts still exist on Mac [AFB-7651]  StudioLink fails to work on macOS [AFB-7653]  Edit Pixel brush > Dynamics > Distance Max value box does not have set min value on Mac [PD-610]  Export Persona hang in Open and Save Panel Process when Exporting Slices [AFD-5921]  New textured intensity brushes do not repeat with portrait images [AFD-2727]  Zooming in/out on a document with Live Perspective can intermittently cause a crash on (M1/M2) MacBooks [AFD-6345] Running Header Settings dialog can get stuck open in the background Book crashing on export to PDF [AFB-7606] Bugs affecting iPad
UI could keep reappearing even after you entered full screen mode. Searching Stock Studio with no internet connection crashes apps "Show group thumbnails" was not being obeyed on layers panel when in compact mode Blur Live Filters: setting Radius to negative values crashes app [Photo] AFP-5770 Crash when cancelling an 'Import Text Styles' on iPad [Designer/Publisher]  You can add 'Break' characters as bullet points causing the app to crash. Placing images from Photos in a pic frame makes them linked and deduplicates them [Publisher] Dragging an object's transform origin may result it in unexpectedly moving to facing page [Publisher] Changing adjustment category on an iPad crashes the app. Send anonymous usage information has no toggle on iPad beta. AFB-7307 'Settings' is clipped.  Rulers don't stay hidden in preview mode.  Hide rulers in full screen.  StylePicker - Add 'hint' text to Context Bar to indicate current status.  Style Picker - Add cursors for mousers.  Rulers disappear temporarily when using pinch to zoom.  Rulers do not immediately update as you change Spread Origin values in Guides Settings.  Hard to deselect pages on PDF Options dialog after selecting all.  Add cross-reference dialog does not validate typed topic name, unlike desktop Brush panel can show incorrect brush previews  It's possible to call multiple Quick Menus with the Pencil's double tap feature  Locking the screen/Minimising app while downloading content cancels the entire operation Option to show note marks is missing Some data entry keypads don't dismiss with second tap   Style Picker - Make cursors bigger Switching app out of focus to a different app, then back into focus changes Palettes list to Recent Colours  Toast - queues notifications incorrectly  Crash Changing an existing anchor type Edit Cross reference button actually inserts one PDF options aren't presented with drag / drop to open  Find and replace. The Replace field's Formatting pop-up menu is empty.  Format button at the bottom of the options menu that brings up the Format editor is hidden  Enable a way to remove several fonts at once  Style Picker freezes when dragging over objects  Zero-Width Space on the on-screen keyboard's special characters layout is missing a hyphen  Anti-aliasing is broken with iPad System Settings > Display > Display Zoom > 'More Space' enabled [AFD-6154]  Numbers are inserted twice when using a magic keyboard [AFB-7453]  Allow multi-select place in Designer and Photo Add Status indicator to Style Picker Tool Context Bar Brush panel - reverts to Basic category on persona change Don't dismiss Style Picker menu when All / None selected Long pressing a Section Name field in document text displays unnecessary Edit option Menu can go offscreen PDF export issue / lock up on iPad Running headers - add as field on keyboard? [AFB-7506] Stock Panel - Pixabay has lost the vector option on first run Text Vertical alignment setting is not reflected in the UI  Fonts installed from creative cloud show on context toolbar with name in Chinese [AFD-6170]  Crop Tool - (iPad) finger modifiers not working Compound icons missing Auto flow has a missing icon for "replace existing" File > Place from Photos uses the first file placed on that session for all subsequent place operations of that file type [AFP-6054] Style picker - status bar copy Fields panel not switching locale after app language change Breaks and Fields incorrectly available in Designer and Photo via keyboard Text > Decorations > Relative to > Top and bottom selectors don't stick [AFB-7220] It's not possible to close the Quick Menu with the Pencil's double tap feature [AFD-6499] Navigator panel rotation lock hit area is too small When installing add-ons, the UI says Installin... due to running out of space Localisation - Account screen - Button text truncated Fix compact mode vector brush previews Artboard label font size too small Delete button missing from Quick Menu Text Capitalisations have gone missing on iPad PDF export issue / lock up on iPad - Area dropdown does not reflect the correct state Add 'Enable associated tools' to the burger menu Artboard label font size too small Move some options currently under group to merge layer menu  Left Swipe Compound options - checkbox not updating  Designer default tools  Buttons at bottom of stroke panel don't work  Node Snapping options are not being updated on first tap [PD-450]  Renaming Swatches - dialog uses incorrect wording, the swatch name is not shown & gradient swatches are displayed cropped  Unable to interact with Arrowhead controls on smaller iPads/Larger set to Display Zoom: Larger Text [PD-563]  Localisation - Account screen - Button text truncated  No ability to select Vectors for iPad Stock Panel   Edit menu clipped in Left-Handed Mode  Convert Image Colour Space missing from PDF export  Relative position of Lock Font and Traits button is misleading about which options it affects  Gradient Tool causes a temporary freeze if magnifying loup appears [AFP-5684]  Live Perspective Filter causes lag and leads to a crash when the magnifier appears [AFD-6470]  Moving Gradient Nodes with Apple Pencil 2 after magnifier shows causes gradient stops to 'jump' & cannot be moved smoothly [AFP-5791]  Unable to interact with Hole Radius, Start Angle and End Angle controls on iPad using a Mouse/Trackpad  [PD-295]  Crop Tool: finger modifiers not working Crop Tool: after not committing a rotated crop you get weird behaviour  Crop Tool: Offset when cropping from selection  Help Menu improvements { Help / Learning Portal / QuickStart Guide / What's New } If a document is closed on the iPad whilst editing an embedded file it will cause the document to fail to open again [AFD-5299] Adjusting settings in the PDF Options dialog can cause the page preview to break Assets Category Drop down menu is hard to read as text is black [AFB-7610] Contour tool: Contour Mitre incorrectly uses Miter US spelling in EN install Document viewer document dimensions cannot display decimal places Double tapping a layer in Compact mode doesn't zoom to selection. [AFD-6357] Double-tap of layer thumbnail doesn't Zoom to Selection [AFB-5832] Some UI improvements on 11" iPad Show tooltip when selecting a filter in My Account Export Panel Localisation Long press to show Quick Menu should be disabled in certain personas On Account window, control for selecting whether content is auto/manually downloaded renders incorrectly Change the studio toolbar order Show Curve Orientation option is missing [PD-601] Text Capitalisation options missing on iPad Double tapping on the < > chevrons no longer resets export zoom Place DWG dialog has some mashed text Color Profile Manager should be initialised BEFORE loading saved data Updated style picker/format dropper tool icons. Overheating whilst in Refine mode [AFP-6111]  Capitalisation context toolbar option is missing from the ? overlay  Layer Context menu can incorrectly appear when moving a layer leading to a crash  Unable to quickly tap on the < > arrows  File created in desktop version crashes iPad version on open  Text Panel's Stroke options lack 3rd dash length/gap and Balanced option  Photo's Reset menu in French is truncated as it doesn't use two columns  Preferences > Reset page is not scrollable in Spanish  Quickly returning through multiple studio menus leaves studio blank until re-entering document [AFD-6341]  Auto Clean Brush is missing from iPad's Paint Mixer Brush [AFP-6075]  Brush Panel corruption can occur with multiple brush kits installed [AFP-6132] Viewport 'furniture' is not being drawn at the correct scale when document is opened with rulers enabled [AFD-6519] On fields whose output can be formatted, the related context menu item is labelled differently than on desktop Popover that contains tab stop options is missing a couple of labels It's possible to force gaps to appear in the Studio Panel bar Vector Flood Fill Tool is incorrectly named just Flood Fill Tool  (NEW) ...and a variety of customer file specific fixes and stability improvements.
To access Affinity V2 beta builds, you first need to add the V2 beta entitlement into your account and then you will be given the beta downloads (and Apple TestFlight links for iPad). Please read these instructions for more information and apply to be a beta tester.

Maybe an in-app Lemmings game activated when we select an obscure combination of settings?
Very minor but you might consider rewording this new text added in the beta:
Store fonts (*.affont) will be loaded from the Affinity Fonts folder on startup: Open Affinity Fonts Folder in Finder
to Affinity Store fonts (*.affont) will be loaded from the AffinityFonts folder on startup: Show in Finder
which would clarify the store, use the actual folder name, and match the Show in Finder button name used in the Resource Manager

Here for y'all to post on the forum like an intercom at retail: "Who owns the PC with the janky 4 monitor layout with varying resolutions and an Intel Arc+AMD combo. Your alarm is going off and your log is full. Please turn it off."

@MikeTOIndeed. Though, I would honestly put it into a new category with some additional text that explains what data it's gathering more in depth. I like it when data gathering is very transparent with what the data contains and what it will be used/not used for. Data mining is a huge business in this day and age, so being well informed on what we are sending over would be appreciated.

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
A number of suggestions have been taken on with guides...

1. When you move a guide by dragging it on a document you will now see both the position of the guide relative to the ruler origin (as before) as well as the distance from the guide's previous position. So this means if, for example, you just want to move a guide 10mm you can achieve that easily without having to change the ruler origin.


2.When dragging a guide, holding Shift will now snap the guide to ruler marks. As this is based on ruler marks this also means the further you are zoomed the granularity of the Shift-constrained snap increases. Shift will snap based on the distance from origin, Shift-Alt will snap to the delta distance.
3. If you hold Alt or Command (Ctrl on windows) before dragging a guide that will now create a copy of the guide.
4. If you drag a new guide from rulers then guide visibility will automatically be toggled on (if it was set to off).
5. Alt-clicking on any guide will delete the guide.
6. Double clicking on an existing guide will now open the guide manager dialog (with the guide you had double clicked having focus in that dialog.
 
Please note: on iPad you will need to use an attached keyboard or use the command controller (if not visible you can toggle it on from the document menu) to access the modifiers. Also worth bearing in mind that Alt is the global modifier for ignore snapping, so if you create a copy of a guide using Alt while you still hold Alt snapping will be disabled.
Please let us know what you think or if you spot any problems with this new functionality.

Apps: Designer and Photo
Platforms: Windows and macOS

A few improvements have been made to the brush panel on desktop...
1. You can now choose to show brush names
In the brush panel burger menu you can now optionally choose to display the brush name in the panel. 

2. Alt-drag now duplicates a brush
3. Brush panel now always highlights the current brush
Previously when you first selected a brush it would be highlighted in the panel, but as soon as you made any change to the brush from its default settings (e.g. change the width) then it would no longer be highlighted. The new behaviour is as follows:
1. When you first select a brush it should be highlighted blue
2. If you change any temporary settings for the brush (e.g. width, hardness, etc.) the brush will remain highlighted but highlight colour changed to red
3. If you change brush tools (e.g. between paint brush and eraser) which have different brushes selected, the panel will now automatically switch categories if needed, meaning you can immediately see your selected brush for the tool you have just switched to.
4. If you have changed any of the temporary properties of a brush you can choose to update the brush to use those as the default settings of that brush. This is available from a right-click on the brush -> Update Brush.
5. Alternatively if you want to reset the brush back to default settings you can choose Reset Brush.

4. Nozzle preview visibility improved
In V2 we added the ability to view your brushes as a grid of nozzle thumbnails without the preview of the stroke (panel burger menu -> uncheck "Show as List"). However, the contrast of the nozzle preview in this view could sometimes be very low, depending on the nozzle itself. We've made some tweaks in 2.1 to hopefully improve things.




Please note: These are mostly just desktop only improvements, although iPad versions do now show a brush as being modified with highlight colour changed to red. While it's not available yet, iPad versions will also have the ability to update a modified brush (from t left swipe menu on the brush) in a future build.
 

Apps: Designer
Platforms: All
A new vector flood tool has been added to Affinity Designer. This is denoted by a paint bucket icon in the Tools Panel (on iPad you can find it nested with the gradient fill tool, on Windows it will currently need to be manually added via Customising the Tools Panel).
This tool allows you to automatically fill areas created by overlapping / intersecting shapes and open curves in your document. This tool requires you to make a selection first of the curves / shapes you want the tool to consider. You can then choose a colour from the colour or swatches panel, and tap within any enclosed area to create a new shape with that fill colour. While in the tool you can also drag swatches from the swatches panel onto any area.

There are two insertion modes to this tool you can select from the context toolbar:
Inside. This will attempt to create the new shapes / fills and place them inside existing shapes where possible. In-between. This will break fills and strokes apart in existing shapes, and insert the new fills in-between.  The difference between the two is shown below. 


While using the tool you can hold Cmd (macOS / iPad) or Ctrl (Windows) to make new selections (also combining with Shift to add / remove items from your selection). You can also click-drag the tool to quickly fill many areas all at once, a simple example is shown below with some text:

The tool works with any type of fill - solid colour, gradient or bitmap. The options in the context toolbar for min, max and stretch to fit are relevant only to gradient and bitmap fills, and refers to the method used to scale the fill to the new shape.
For bitmap fills you can select a bitmap fill swatch to use, alternatively you can create bitmap fills on the fly by dragging a texture file or asset directly into the active colour in the toolbar. Below is a video showing that in action with using assets to create bitmap fills:
Texture Fills.mov
For bitmap fills if the texture has any transparency then the fill will be added as an additional fill to the shape. This allows for overlay style textures to be easily added on top of an existing colour fill. We will look at a way to make this behaviour optional.
Finally it's also worth pointing out that when you are in the tool you can also drag swatch from your swatches panel directly into any area in your selection, to quickly add multiple different colours to areas without having to select them first.
We would love you to try this new tool out and let us know what you think or if you encounter any bugs or unexpected results.

In Affinity Publisher, I have unticked "clip to canvass". An item which overlaps the canvass now shows partially, but it is still clipped by something else, or else the visible pasteboard is very small. How can I make it show?

RAT1830-A [Powerline output facia].afpub

Appreciate the honest and open response. Much better than the silence during the V2 development period. I hope this sets the tone moving forward. 😊
Not that I disliked existing customer support (staff always responded kindly), but some openness helps to create a trustworthy and predictable relation towards customers. Thanks!

@monzo I agree on the critical fixes to V1 thing by the way, we should have made sure that was totally clear out the gate. Apologies.

For professionals, affinty is the best deal ever seen.
I pay 600€ per year for concurrent softwares... Since 2017, I have paid 3000€.
With Affinity, since July 2017, I have only paid €268.96. V2 included. In 5 years! V2 cost me less than V1. 🤣
I think Serif has an extremely respectable pricing policy and the best value for money.
Only one thing to say: Thank you! 🤘

If you had posted this message a month before the release of v2, you would not have had so many negative reactions. Communication with customers is very important.
I'm sure everyone likes cheap software, but I'd rather pay more (even a subscription) if it meant better, faster development and more features for pro users.

Thanks for the update

I've been using affinity now for 5 years and I have a full licence for adobe from work that I never use.
Keep up with this great software, and again thank you

I think this is a clear explanation. I'd already thought the Apple relationship might be part of the reason why taking everyone to the store might cause more problems. After all you are receiving special recognition and it would be silly to think this doesn't help you with funding the program with sales.
I wish we could have received this more "in touch with customers" approach earlier on. I think most would really would benefit from more regular direct responses from Serif. Even if it's lighthearted, it's what some need to feel like the company has their back and is looking after them. That's the feeling I get from interacting with both supporters and critics (many are well-intentioned imv). This should become the norm. Many do want to see you succeed as a company, have good rapport with the staff. Even the more critical posters are just trying to be helpful. So please try to not to take it completely personally though I know easier said than done "social" media culture.

That said, I can only speak for myself. I appreciated the initial 40% offer. I never felt like I wasn't appreciated. I could see 100% why it was not feasible from the IT end, given the sheer size of the company being a postage stamp and the response here. I thought if there was a response, y'all would make it right somehow if you could. Also, the size of the response to V2 should also be telling of the important work you are doing.

Regardless, thank you for all that you do ❤️ We (our household) are grateful to this end because with every update, my job and other workflows gets easier to do. My husband does hobby-related editing. For us, every update is exciting and are rooting for a great alternative to succeed in this space.

Maybe you can find a way to offer a special upgrade price for V3.

Hi All,
Well, it’s been a pretty crazy week since the launch of V2!
This has been a real labour of love for us over the last year or so, and I can’t even begin to describe how hard the development team have worked on it. Not only getting the V2 apps launched, but also of course finally bringing Publisher to iPad. 
With this being our first paid-for upgrade there has understandably been a lot of feedback / questions around future updates and our pricing policies. I thought it was worth addressing / clarifying our position on some of these personally...
Updates to V2 moving forward
Buying V2 not only gets you all the new features you have seen, but we have various updates planned – including many more new features and improvements – which you will get for free. This will continue until such a time that V3 is released. We’re not sure exactly when V3 will be, but I can confirm we are not going to move to anything as regular as an annual upgrade cycle as has been speculated.
It’s worth saying too that V2 does include many under-the-hood changes to our underlying technology, and we have also been investing in several new areas of research recently. Some of these haven’t manifested themselves into new features yet, but overall V2 does give us a better platform to develop on moving forward and I’m sure you will be pleased with the updates V2 will receive.
Updates to V1 moving forward
While we did say on the FAQ that V1 would no longer receive any updates, I want to clarify that was about new feature updates. We will be updating V1 to fix any critical problems caused by operating system updates in the future. So if the next version of macOS breaks V1 we will endeavour to fix it. There will be a point in time when continuing to maintain V1 in this way will not be tenable, but certainly for the foreseeable future we will continue to patch. In fact, we have an update to V1 queued up for release very shortly with some fixes for Ventura and issues caused by a recent Windows security / quality update. 
We will update our FAQ shortly to make that clearer for everyone.
Offer period
In case you didn’t see, I’m pleased to confirm we have decided to run this initial launch offer until 14th December to give everyone the best chance possible to get it if they wish / have a decent amount of time to trial it. 
Upgrade pricing
It’s been really hard to see some of the comments about us not looking after our existing customers – we’re pretty devasted that anyone feels like that to be honest. But the fact is we felt our hands were tied somewhat with being able to offer upgrade pricing in a fair way. The main reason for this was App Store customers (which make up around 35% of our userbase). The problems with that are two-fold: firstly, we didn’t have a way from within V1 to validate an App Store purchase receipt to reliably ensure customers who were entitled to an upgrade could get one; and secondly, we could not find a good way for people to get that discount via the App Store. Us pushing upgrade customers to go exclusively via our own site (including customers who were previously acquired via the app stores) may also have put us in violation of App Store Ts & Cs which we were obviously concerned about.
I’m not saying that these issues were completely insurmountable, but any solutions we came up with would be messy, and most importantly could have resulted in some bona fide V1 customers struggling to get validated and claim their discount. We certainly don’t have the support resource here if we ended up needing to manually validate tens of thousands of receipts for example.
The only option we felt was safe to move forward with was a general launch offer, which would guarantee that every V1 customer could get the discount, whether they purchased directly through us or the App Stores. We knew a side effect of that would mean some new customers would end up receiving that same discount – but we felt that was a better option than V1 customers missing out. It’s also worth saying that while there has been some good press about V2, all our main marketing has been via email and through social media to our followers. In other words, we felt ok about it because we knew the vast majority of people who would find out about it or take advantage of the offer would be existing customers. I would be surprised if over the offer period customers upgrading from V1 didn’t make up more than 90% of our sales.
Overall I do believe us giving a 40% discount, along with the addition of the new Universal Licence of course, is offering fantastic value for money for those who want to upgrade. 
However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. 
We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can.
A comment on no subscription
I do want to say that some of the points above are exactly the reason why software companies move to subscription. Whatever you do with upgrade pricing, you still have the issue of customers who bought the previous version 3 months ago vs. those who have had it 2+ years. Offering perpetual licences also gives the additional overhead of needing to maintain the previous version longer than you would if everyone was on subscription / generally always on the latest version.
We are a small team so some of these complications are not ideal — all we really want to do is focus on developing our latest codebase, push out regular updates and continue with our mission to make great creative software accessible to everyone. 
But it does need to be funded somehow. We know you love our no-subscription model, but there also needs to be a level of appreciation that the alternative is having paid-for upgrades from time to time. That unfortunately comes with its own problems.
All of that said, I have to say we have been blown away with the response to V2 - around 3 times as many people have upgraded in the last week than we expected - and we really can't thank you enough for the support you have shown. More than anything the success of this upgrade puts us in a great place to continue investing heavily in development which is ultimately what it's all about, and we’re super excited to crack on with some great updates coming next year!
All the best,
Ash

Absolutely!...couldn't agree more...'There is nothing you cannot do'.... I like that! .The real discussion should be about what you can learn and achieve.. especially with the newly added tools and features...not whether you not appreciate the colour of an icon or shape of a button.
Well said😀

If Affinity will ever change their model, the people here complaining about the low fee will be to blame. Their greed, lack of buisness model knowledge and marketiung strategies, the self-sentered way of thinking. It is so short sighted and destructive. Terrible behaviour.

As I see, some haters are posting their "I deleted" and so on opinions here. As mostly those rare voices post their individual state of mind and the people who love the product, don't, let me jump in:

The update is amazing. Thank you for your work Serif. Looking forward to the journey on V2 and all the micro enhancements in the future.—Nothing is missing, if you are a "real" creative, who could also express hers/his visions on paper and then make it work digitally in even basic tools. Here with all the complexity of the ALink and the power of the personas, there is nothing you can not do.—And pleaese stop with the auto-tracing-request. This is so immature and you are outing yourself as a lazy amateur who simply can not illustrate or don't want to support other creatives who have illustrated images you want to use.
All the graphic design "heroes" are from before-the-pc-era. They didn't cry about a missing tool or prices of back then really (!) expencive technolgy. I never read anything about Rams, Eames, Rand, Aicher, Carson wining about software and missing functionalities. 

GROW UP!

As I read some of the negative "critics" here, I don't see, why they bother to stick to this tool (V2) and voice their thoughts here, as V1 is still perfectly fine as long as MacOS won't be updated or the M1/M2 chip upgraded. This generation of greedy demanding one-time-purchase-customers is beyond my empathy. I doubt they jump into forums of their car manufaturere to scream and demand features for free if they release a new car model upgrade and they stick with their "old" one which still does everything they have paid for.

Affinity, 10/10

Yeah I know, I'm lazy but that's all I'm doing (probably), it's fiddly. I wanted to see how her face would turn out. She recognised it, so that's something!

Really? Why?

Considering v1 and v2 were something like 8 years apart... You are a very patient person.

$55/3 years = $0.05/day
Confused what your point is.
 
Generally software doesn’t do well in the long-term investment section of a financial portfolio.
Isn’t the going standard for technology 5 years before obsoletion? Maybe less now! I’m not saying I like it, but that’s the reality we live in.
And no, it’s not a subscription. Don’t buy the new versions if you don’t want and keep using your old ones as long as you can. That’s how Adobe (and literally everyone else!) used to be too, before they went subscription.

I've been using Affinity Publisher as part of my role in a large mainly volunteer based organisation. We often share files for others to adapt and re-use. It's a big thing to ask all the volunteers to pay for the upgrade, it would be so much better if my colleagues could pay to upgrade as and when they can. But while V2 files can't be opened by the V1 app, we will either all have to stay on V1 or all move to V2. 

Is there any chance that there could be an option in V2 to save files in a V1 compatible format? This would make a huge difference.