2.2 Beta Build 2 (1903)

[Ash]

Hi All,

Thank you for all your feedback so far on the 2.2 beta.

We have just made a new build live - version 2.2.0.1903 (is rolling out now, should be available over the next hour or so).

There are a few new features in this build to draw your attention to:

Custom text variables
Create and place password protected PDFs
Additional keyboard shortcuts for brush tools
Alt-click new layer automatically adds selection to that new layer
Holding alt when editing text puts you in hand tool

Lots of fixes too - the list for those is here.

As I mentioned in the colour picker thread earlier in the week, we have also now rolled back the changes we had made (well we've kept the new lozenge, but the other behaviour has now reverted back to how it was in 2.1). We will now re-introduce those (as well as other improvements) in the 2.3 beta. For that reason I have now hidden the colour picker thread and removed from the feature list.

Important: This build also includes some changes to how we load and save files, in particular to be more robust when files are saved on removable storage / network drives and in scenarios when connection to those drives maybe lost. We believe these changes to be safe, but there could be more risk than normal with this beta that you could encounter file save problems / lose work. For that reason wanted to remind you again that we recommend you do not use the betas for production work and create a backup of any important files you want to load into the beta.