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A HUGE thanks to the team for this upgrade. Have been wrestling with my first large Affinity Publisher book project – since moving from InDesign – for a couple of months. The file is north of 400 MB with hundreds of illustrations across 317 pages. Just moving through the file by scrolling in the Pages panel took several minutes, and threw up more beach balls than a record attempt in Florida. Updated to 1.10 this morning. Completed an author's correction that would have taken several frustrating minutes in less than half-a-minute. This update is a game changer for those of us working with large files. Ten times faster – seems an understatement. So well done. And now we know where all that developer effort has been directed for the last several months. With that work done, can I put my hand up for some developer attention to supporting variable fonts? An increasing number of new fonts, such as through vendors like MyFonts, include a variable option as matter of course. In the works?

THIS is the update i´ve been waiting for. It is absolutly stunning. from a heavy stutter mess to fluid scrolling through my document. Even better as in InDesign before my change to Affinty. Thank you! Now i am not regret my change anymore and can work much more efficient and without inner hate against the stutters^^ Love you!

Just tested a few things in Photo and WOW, what an update! The performance is incredible, everywhere!

I thought 1.9.3 was fast with the M1 chip. V. 1.10 leaves 1.9.3 at the starting gate! The paint brush almost paints before I start painting!! (Hyperbole but descriptive). I know it will be the same thing with Designer and Publisher (also successfully downloaded) but won't waste forum space with the same comment. Thank you everybody! This is a wonderful update.

Note that the auto-update occurs only if in System Preferences > Software Update > Advanced the option "Install app updates from the App Store" is enabled. If this is set up like the above, the Mac App Store app "Updates" section should show the updates with an install button for each of them.

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.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.0 The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.10.0 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.3 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 Defringing and increased maximum radius 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 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 GPU acceleration for blend ranges Fixed crop tool issue where all presets were landscape Added support for most emoji Added ability to Load ACM lens profiles Added additional file drag drop options when holding Option key 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 application menu, Affinity Photo > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. 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 macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases and needs a product key).

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.0 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for iPad 1.10.0 (over the last release Affinity Photo 1.9.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Improved GPU rendering Improved Serif Labs RAW engine Improved Lens Correction for Canon, Tamron and Sigma lenses Improved PDF import/export Improved performance with: Panorama stitching Defringing and increased maximum radius 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 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 GPU acceleration for blend ranges Added support for most emoji Create a pattern layer from the current selection. Pattern layers can be mirrored. 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 corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad App Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t contact us if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.10.0 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.10.0 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.9.3 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. Added support for most emoji. 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 application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. 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 macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer, version 1.10.0 (note this 1.10.0 build calls itself 1.10.X in the about box, but is nevertheless 1.10.0 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for iPad 1.10.0 (over the last release Affinity Designer for iPad 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. Improved SVG import/export. Added support for most emoji. Assorted other small fixes. Help & localisation improvements. (IGNORE NEXT LINE, it is for 1.10.0 and above) The improvements in 1.10 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Designer iPadOS update announcement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

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 macOS release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.10.0 Changes in this build The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.10.0 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.9.3 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: 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. Implemented OpenType character variant samples and parameter names. 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 application menu, Affinity Publisher > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. 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 macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

The speed of the update download is very slow, fyi. For Photo and Designer.

@Kristin verumsolum Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums Yes that will happen for a short time due to the steps in the release procedure, the update link uses a redirect which pointed to the last release notes but now points to 1.9.3 (here). Thanks for telling us.

I'm in early, but the new update popup that showed up in Publisher had a link to the 1.9.2 release notes instead of this thread.

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.3 Changes in this build The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.9.3 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.9.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Resource Manager - memory leak fixed Fixed a performance regression Memory leak fixes in the Layer panel Help and Localisation improvements The new features in 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Publisher macOS 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 application menu, Affinity Publisher > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. 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 macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.9.3 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.9.3 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.9.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Resource Manager - memory leak fixed Fixed a performance regression Memory leak fixes in the Layer panel Help and Localisation improvements The new features in 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Designer macOS 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 application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. 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 macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.3 The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.9.3 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Resource Manager - memory leak fixed Fixed a performance regression Memory leak fixes in the Layer panel Help and Localisation improvements The new features in 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Photo macOS 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 application menu, Affinity Photo > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. 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 macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases and needs a product key).

Downloaded first day of release, but wanted to say thanks for the update! The unexpected unsplash changes which caused the crashes are thankfully working properly again in a production version!

Thanks for the update - much appreciated. 😉

Thanks! Loads of goodies in this update

If you're having problems making the purchase you can email affinity@serif.com for assistance. However, it might be something as simple as needing to update or use a different browser, or needing to disable an extension like NoScript.

Hi, I wanted to check before updating my 3 Affinity apps to version 1.9.2 (currently all are on 1.9.1 on my MacBook Pro and working). When I open any of the 3 Affinity apps, a message appears suggesting to update to Mac OS 10.12 is that mandatory to be able to run 1.9.2 or a suggestion for improved performance? (due to legacy programs on my Macbook Pro I'm on OS 10.9.5 , but will be getting a new additional MBP (with the Apple Silicon processor) later this year that will run on latest OS. (I can't find anything on the website referring to the Mac OS requirements for 1.9.2) Thanks :)

In the past couple of weeks I've noticed that I'm finally using Affinity more than Adobe First impressions of this update are really good. Thanks