[FAQ] 2.1 Release Notes (improvements and major fixes)

[Patrick Connor]

2.1.0 Features and improvements

This post is the list of all new features and improvements included in the 2.1.0 release, and just below it is a list of the main bug fixes.

Features and improvements affecting all platforms

• Balanced dashed lines and other stroke improvements 
• Running headers in Publisher 
  • Running Headers tutorial: https://youtu.be/Amb1dIIU2ig
• Show Special Characters added to Designer and Photo 
• Adjusted Mask Behaviour 
• Auto-select options in move tool 
• 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
  • Cropping in Photo tutorial: https://youtu.be/Az4rTIBSjrE)
• Auto clean added to paint mixer brush
• Double-click artboard label to rename
• Ability to create more complex dashed lines
• Paste inside picture frame
• Vector Flood Fill in Designer
  • Vector Flood Fill tutorial https://youtu.be/JSxLzJjaG_4 
  • Vector Flood Fill with Bitmap Fills in  Designer tutorial: https://youtu.be/ekMotILwS70
  • for button to appear, requires Resetting Toolbar using

    "View" > "Customize Tools" > "Reset" 

• 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 
• Spanish Hyphenation Dictionary provided with the apps updated

In addition to those features on all platforms above, these are the Windows and macOS features and improvements

• WebP and JPEG XL now available in batch export 
• "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
  • Measure and Area Tools: https://youtu.be/7uh4l0kFlpI
• Place tool now available in Photo
• Zoom tool context options in Develop persona
• Drag / Drop bitmap fill to colour and swatch panel

In addition to those features on all platforms above, these are the iPad features and improvements

• New left swipe options on iPad layers panel 
• Redesigned edit menu 
• Blend mode and opacity now available in main Layers Panel
• iPadOS Photos app integration
• "Show in Files" option from Live Document burger menu 
• Style Picker tool added to iPad apps 
• 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
• Advanced PDF options when opening now exposed
• Modifiers now available for Select Object
• Hide Layer type icon now available
• Main view rulers added
  • Rulers and Column Guides tutorial https://youtu.be/D-wYDh8xR5s

As well as all these improvements over 2.0.4 listed above, listed below are the most important bugs that have been fixed in 2.1.0

[Patrick Connor]

2.1.0 Bug Fixes

This post covers the main bug fixes that are included in 2.1.0. The bug fixes are organised by operating system.

(A) Bug fixes which affected all platforms 

• App occasionally hangs when zooming
• Boolean Operations improved resulting in many fixes
• AFFonts can now be streamed from Affinity Store
• Improved Kerning support - GPOS type 8 chaining contextual lookups now supported. 
• Opening some files caused the app to crash
• Hang can occur when deleting object styles
• Warp Group exported to PDF results in clipped objects
• Shape Builder Tool instant crash hitting return on Symbols [Designer]
• All keyboard input broken after altering table line/fill settings [Publisher]
• .GPR (GoPro RAW) files fail to open with 'File Type Not Supported' error
• Metadata Panel - EXIF 'Date Shot' field incorrectly re-applies the local OS time offset for images lacking timezone data [Photo]
• Transform Origin is moved after adjusting the height/width of an object or flipping it
• Canon multiple exposure RAW file loads with pink overlay when using Serif LABs
• Line Objects report X/Y values incorrectly in the Transform Panel
• Improved Linear DNG processing [Photo]
• Drawing a new table does not take selected font into account [Publisher]
• Object changes page based on centre of bounding box and not cursor position [Publisher]
• Stock Panel - Pixabay has lost the vector option
• Some specific lens profile changes [Photo]
• Updated Libraw to 0.21.1 release
• Many other fixes
• Translation Improvements
• Help file improvements

(B) Bug fixes which affected Desktop (Windows and macOS)

• Being prompted to save TIFF with layers or Save As even though only contains Background layer [Photo]
• Inconsistent behaviour when renaming and undoing renaming of swatches, warning shown in UI is not always applicable
• Sidenotes set 'Towards / Away from Spine' that are long enough to cover one another are hidden, or displayed on the last page incorrectly
• Copying non-destructive RAW layer and pasting into a separate document renders the RAW layer invisible in the original RAW file
• Typographic apostrophe OR certain other characters followed by an accented character pastes incorrectly into external apps
• Deleting a (shared) [brush/asset] category in App 1 while editing a styles name in App 2 can crash App 2
• Pixel Brush Tool fails to output if using Accumulation or Flow Jitter when its not 100%
• File size in master doc increasing inexplicably with linked files
• Unable to scroll or use the arrows on the White Balance field in Develop Persona
• Brush accumulation fixed
• Opening and closing chapters in a book can leave the files locked and read only and stops book from being able to save, or close.
• Crash data merging if the source contains Cyrillic text
• Non Live Filters are prompting the app to ask if the user wants to save a TIFF with layers or flattened
• Fix for document specific crashes and hangs on load & print
• Changing the DPI of a document using any unit, other than pixels, cause the page to change size
• Tabbing in many dialogs/panels improved
• Spanish Hyphenation Dictionary updated
• Docx import improvements
• PDF Export fixes
• PSD Import fixes
• Knife tool improvements including Straight Line mode 
• Many other desktop fixes

(C) Bugs fixed which specifically affected Windows

• Preferences, User Interface, Light UI: UI Brightness and Text Contrast sliders reset to defaults when we restart the app
• Cannot change document DPI 
• Export Preview: WebP and JPEG XL formats do not zoom with the shortcut
• Export Preview: Some formats do not zoom with the shortcut
• RAW files open underexposed / dark [Photo]
• Font Manager - Fonts disappear after selecting substitute
• V2 MSI build doesn't currently work with Roaming Profiles
• Crash using Shape Builder with ' Clean up unused curves ' enabled
• Crash when using the Shape Builder tool, crash when marquee selecting with Shape Builder, crash when selecting Shape Builder tool
• Develop Persona: Opening 2x raw files at once doesn't save changes/edits after developing
• DAUB W&W - Bristles crashes app when selected from dropdown
• Long delay when calling the Edit Brush dialog.
• Performance improvements for problems encountered when using the application for a long time.
• Many other Windows specific fixes

(D) Bugs fixed which specifically affected macOS

• App attempts to reconnect to disconnected SMB share on launch [threads]
• New textured intensity brushes do not repeat with portrait images 
• Zooming in/out on a document (for example with Live Perspective) can intermittently cause a crash on (M1/M2) MacBooks
• Export Persona hang in Open and Save Panel Process when Exporting Slices
• Text Frame panel Unit control inches
• Grammarly for Desktop causes Publisher to crash when accessing the Find and Replace Panel
• Frequency Separation, destructive Gaussian Blur and High Pass: corruption/thin coloured lines
• Typing in certain fields removes the initial character
• Searching Stock Studio with no internet connection crashes apps, but should show a 'Connection Failed' error
• It was no longer possible to drag and drop layers/objects between documents.
• Live filters with blend mode treat 0% opacity as 100%
• Find and Replace fails to highlight special characters
• Many other macOS specific fixes

(E) Bugs fixed which specifically affected iPad

• Fonts installed from creative cloud show on context toolbar with name in Chinese 
• Anti-aliasing is broken with iPad System Settings > Display > Display Zoom > 'More Space' enabled
• UI could keep reappearing even after you entered full screen mode.
• Searching Stock Studio with no internet connection crashes apps
• Rulers don't stay hidden in preview mode & Hide rulers in full screen. 
• Brush Panel corruption can occur with multiple brush kits installed
• Blur Live filters: setting Radius to negative values crashes app.
• No Text Capitalisations options (etc) on iPad [Publisher]
• Live filters with blend mode treat 0% opacity as 100%
• If a document is closed on the iPad whilst editing an embedded file it will cause the document to fail to open again
• Searching Stock Studio with no internet connection crashes apps, but should show a 'Connection Failed' error
• No PDF options when opening a PDF file
• Drop down menus with checkable options no longer auto close
• UI improvements to Preferences/Settings
• Many other iPadOS specific fixes

Affinity Windows applications include the fixes in lists (A)+(B)+(C)

• (A) Bugs fixes affecting All Apps
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• (B) Bug fixes affecting desktop Apps
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• (C) those fixes affecting Windows

Affinity macOS applications include the fixes in lists (A)+(B)+(D)

• (A) Bugs fixes affecting All Apps
  +
• (B) Bug fixes affecting desktop Apps
  +
• (D) Bug fixes affecting macOS

Affinity iPad applications include the fixes in list (A)+(E)

• (A) Bugs fixes affecting All Apps
  +
• (E) Bug fixes affecting iPads.

These list are just the highlights of the many (300+) fixes made during the recent 2.1.0 beta cycle, which are listed in full in this post .

If you have reported a bug and it is not yet fixed, please do not worry or report it again. More fixes will be made in the forthcoming 2.2 beta cycle.

 

[Patrick Connor]

2.1.1 Bug Fixes

This post covers the bug fixes that are included in 2.1.1 The bug fixes are organised by operating system.

Bugs affecting all platforms

• PDF imports with unsupported characters for the 'Subject' field, then fails to export out to PDF.
• Crash when enabling document Baseline Grid due to Running Headers on Master Pages.
• Crash applying a Paragraph Style to a Running Header within a small text frame.
• Non-breaking hyphens no longer draws, though does not affect ALL fonts.
• Crash adding pages into a facing page document with flowing text.
• Help updates 

Bugs affecting Desktop (Windows and macOS)

• 'Title' and 'Description' fields are not read from the XMP sidecar files.
• Batch Processing RAW files creates incredibly dark results.
• Data Merge sources stored on a Cloud drive can crash the app when deleting data source.

Bugs affecting Windows

• Export dialog correctly handling transparency again.
• Cropping in the develop persona does not visually apply crop.
• Changing the Opacity of an object via the Colour panel dropdown fails to visually update the object on the canvas.
• Fields Panel- changing the contents without pressing enter causes the fields to clear when enter is next pressed in a field.

Bugs affecting macOS

• NIK Collection: Crash when closing app after Colour Efex.
• Crash after deleting a template file.

Bugs affecting iPad

• Version number in iPad settings is full version number not just build.
• Stroke width cannot exceed 100 in any unit in Stroke Panel.