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The Release Notes for the Publisher beta have this:
Presumably the changes have become big enough that they required changing the file formats in an incompatible way, which is the usual trigger for a change to the major release number (1.x), vs just incrementing the minor number (1.x.y).

If you drag a file onto your canvas it becomes a new layer.
If you drag a file onto your canvas while holding the Alt key, the Place Image panel opens, with the file preloaded in it, and the cursor becomes the Place Image cursor. This allows you to position and size it as you want.
Edit: And if you select multiple files and drag them onto your canvas while holding the Alt key, they all appear in the Place Image panel, and you can Place them individually using the Place Image cursor/tool.

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.4.1082 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update from the 1.9.2 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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This beta has a performance focus. We have addressed a number of issues particularly with the handling of placed images and documents. If you notice performance improvements (or regressions!) over 1.9.2, or if you notice bugs which appear to have been introduced in 1.9.4, please let us know.
Resource Manager Improvements New 'Relink' option for missing resources New 'File Type' column in Resource Manager Improved efficiency when updating Resources for some documents Show progress for long operations Improved memory management for placed PDFs set to Passthrough Improved output of placed PDFs set to Passthrough to targets not supporting Passthrough Artboard Labels could disappear Fixed some issues with Picture Frame content scaling ---
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Yup, also made a post for the same problem, but even after 3 updates they didn't fix it. I think it's because they mainly develop for Mac and basically only port on Windows. Please, take care of us mortal Windows users too. we are probably the majority of Affinity users anyway! 🙏

Contour tool creating garbage on strokes.  Please check the video for details.

Screen Recording 2021-05-27 at 6.19.09 AM-2.mp4  
OS: macOS Catalina 
Ram: 16GB
Macbook pro 15in mid-2015
No external devices attached with USB. 
 

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Soon
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.4.1076 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update from the 1.9.2 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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This beta has a performance focus. We have addressed a number of issues particularly with the handling of placed images and documents. If you notice performance improvements (or regressions!) over 1.9.2, or if you notice bugs which appear to have been introduced in 1.9.4, please let us know.
General
Performance and memory usage improvements when using placed images and documents
Significant performance improvements in low memory situations
Misc / UI Issues
Fixed (more) issues parsing numeric field in non-English locales
Master page guides were shown on both pages of a spread, when the master is applied to only one page
Table and Text Frame panels can now scroll
Improved handling of replacement of missing fonts via Font Manager
Fixed discrepancies with tinted global colours
Added 'Limit Initial Zoom to 100%' preferences option (defaulted to off)
Fixed text flow linking issues duplicating an  pages in a facing page document
Changed default severity of Missing Glyphs preflight check to 'Error'
Fill Mode not propagated through symbols correctly
Text and Tools
Fixed issue with Paragraph Minimum letter spacing
Implemented OpenType character variant samples and parameter names
Improvements to OpenType GPOS Cursive positioning
Tab leader lines can draw incorrectly with path text
Don't break lines after dashes or hyphens if followed by a digit or close-quote
Typing at the start of a blank line could take the following paragraph's formatting
Paragraph formatting lost when deleting at end of story
Fixed possible hang resizing table columns
Some font weights remain in All Caps after toggling them off using the Character Panel
Find / Replace - Replace expressions with tokens not restored correctly
Fixed shortcut limitation in Text Tools for Page Up / Page Down
Application could hang with the Text Style panel open for non-English locales
Filter degenerate cases (e.g. single stray points) when font outlines are converted to curves
Import / Resources
Fixed width handling for certain characters from standard fonts (e.g. Helvetica) on PDF import
Updating a PDF via Resource Manager was resetting Interpret / Passthrough
Artboards could be resized when replacing placed documents
Fixed a bug / possible crash in the PSD importer
EPS Import was ignoring Fill Mode for pattern fills
On Windows we may need to normalize a stored macOS resource path before use
Export / Print
Placed PDFs could disappear on PDF Export to Greyscale if 'Rasterise All' was selected
Fixed Export document rounding issues when exporting spreads with bleed
Fixes for output of very thin lines for plotters and cutters
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Please Serif , add "transforms"  to the link panel.      They  are so much missed after Photoshop chain-links

I have recently shifted from Adobe to Affinity. Most of my work is related to Designer, I use Photo occasionally. I’m very satisfied with it overall. I can do pretty much everything on Affinity which I could do on Adobe. But I have noticed that there are some very basic tools which are missing in Affinity apps. Here, I’m making a list of those tools. My request to Affinity decision makers & developer team is that, please include these tools in Affinity 2.0 as designers are desperately waiting see these in Affinity (Most of them are just related to Designer but some are missing in Photo too):
 
Freeform Gradients Gradient Mesh Tool Vector/Pattern Fill Shape Builder Tool Live Tracing Perspective Distort/Free Transform RTL Languages Support Blend Shapes Inefficient Boolean Operations 3D Text Tool Simplify Curves Live Mesh Warp Filter

I'm sorry, I think we have to agree to disagree! 🙂
 
 

To be honest I can't really see the point in having such basic animation. Presumably you would also need some way to set the speed, and also be able to export it in a suitable format? For basic animation I would have thought that animated GIF support in APhoto would be more useful.

Very much needed

yea i also want this feature

Shape Builder +1

Just adding my voice to this thread requesting this feature for the hundredth time.

I hope it can get fixed soon, thank you!

It already exists on Affinity Photo on MacOS, I think, and is a known bug that it's missing on Windows.

The prayer node ui workflow appears in 2.0

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, improvements and fixes.
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
Auto-update: Available
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first build of Affinity Photo 1.9.4 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
The 1.9.4 beta will have a performance focus as we circle back to clean up some inefficiencies which have crept in over time. If you notice performance improvements (or regressions!) over 1.9.3, or if you notice rendering bugs which appear to have been introduced in 1.9.4, please let us know.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since 1.9.3
 
- Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter.
- The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation.
- Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920.
- Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document.
- Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file.
- Panorama stitching performance improvements.
- Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible).
- Render EXIF exposure time as decimal if above 1.
- Fixed F-number always showing as "f/0" for Leica M-series cameras (and others).
- Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description.
- Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard.
- Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
 

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Changes
Added 'Limit Initial Zoom to 100%' preferences option (defaulted to off)  Fixed crash on document load when the OpenCLOn12 compatibility pack has been installed Implemented GPOS Cursive rule (used by "Charis SIL" font) Fixed PDF Export group opacity potentially being applied twice Previous release notes

Greetings,
I have found that I am unable to drag and drop layers from one document to another. I know that I can copy paste. But drag and drop feels more convenient.
Please consider this feature request. Thank you 

No 3d stuff  in AP please, if you need that please stay to PS. 

Nooooooooo
There are many dedicated programs that do 3d painting very well. The last thing that Affinity needs is a worse implementation that just bloats the program unneccesarily. Keep it focused!

How come this thread dates back to 2015 and the shortcut that seems like it would be 5 minutes of code still hasn't been implemented? lol

I am trying to convert from PS for two weeks now and there's a few niggles in workflow speed. I'm down to 75 days left on my 90 day trial and lack of this hotkey would probably sway me to stick with PS sorry to say. I do love how Affinity Photo feels more native in performance than what PS has degraded too over the last few years but workflow speed is workflow speed. If I can flow with my jobs effortlessly then I do a better job. Being forced to spend more time and clicks doing something so simple causes disruption to my flow. 

This thread has so much support for this hotkey lol. And not wanting to sound arrogant but seeing a staff member comment very early on back in 2015 and still not resolving this issue doesn't give me the best impression for further "feature" development. Take this as constructive criticism from someone using this software for 2 weeks professionally (5-8 hours a day heavy usage coming from a 19 year profession in using photo editing software). I know your strongest marketing point is Price and that's great but what about those who can afford PS for life too? Gotta hook me with something even if it's as small as a hotkey.

Hi,
 
Shift+F5 will open the Edit -> Fill tool - but I agree, a fast way to fill with primary / secondary would be useful..
 
Thanks,
 
Andy.

Previously when working with the Pen Tool you could hold Ctrl to temporarily switch to Node Tool, while in this form of Node Tool you could click over any part of an existing path to add a new node on that part of the path. Now in version 1.9, when you are in Pen Tool and hold Ctrl to change to Node Tool; is no longer possible to add nodes like in previous versions since the temporary Node Tool deletes the segment, which is a new behavior of the Node Tool. I'd like to a way to go to the previous behavior please.