Affinity Designer 2 for macOS - (2.5.6/7)

[Patrick Connor]

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.5.7

The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.5.6 and 2.5.7 are listed in this FAQ forum thread:

 

Those are the changes made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for macOS (2.5.5) with 2.5.7 adding one additional fix over 2.5.6 regarding PDF Export and with missing ICC colour profiles.

 

To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here

UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users)

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, which update through the Mac App Store).

[Patrick Connor]

All Readers

This thread is solely for commenting on this announcement.

Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the V2 Bugs on macOS section and questions about usage go in the Desktop Questions forum.

[PaoloT]

In Mac, the Software Update dialog says this is "2.2.5.6".

[Brian_J]

9 minutes ago, PaoloT said:

In Mac, the Software Update dialog says this is "2.2.5.6".

There’s no decimal between the twos. I.e., Affinity Designer 2, version 2.5.6.

[PaoloT]

15 minutes ago, Brian_J said:

There’s no decimal between the twos. I.e., Affinity Designer 2, version 2.5.6.

Oh my. Apologies. I need better glasses.

 

[Brian_J]

48 minutes ago, PaoloT said:

Oh my. Apologies. I need better glasses.

No worries, it’s not just you — mistaking the first 2 for being part of the version number has been raised in the forums quite a few times. I think Serif should change how the product name followed by the version number is written so it’s clear to everyone.

[Patrick Connor]

43 minutes ago, PaoloT said:

Oh my. Apologies. I need better glasses.

 

No we need a clearer sentence 

[HCl]

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[JDub]

Not sure why, but I'm getting incredibly slow download speeds for the update - about 50-60k/sec. It's going to take a while to download.

This is on a 10GB connection, which is currently giving me over 800Mbps/sec over Wifi.

Any ideas on this? It's the third time I've tried this week and the speed is the same. Throttling at Affinity?

[MikeTO]

4 hours ago, JDub said:

Not sure why, but I'm getting incredibly slow download speeds for the update - about 50-60k/sec. It's going to take a while to download.

This is on a 10GB connection, which is currently giving me over 800Mbps/sec over Wifi.

Any ideas on this? It's the third time I've tried this week and the speed is the same. Throttling at Affinity?

This happens sometimes with forum downloads, I think it's an intermittent Amazon Web Services issue. Either try again later or try downloading the full installer instead of the update because it's a different file.

[JDub]

On 11/30/2024 at 3:58 PM, MikeTO said:

This happens sometimes with forum downloads, I think it's an intermittent Amazon Web Services issue. Either try again later or try downloading the full installer instead of the update because it's a different file.

Thanks for the reply. This wasn't a forum download - this was with the built-in app updater.

Designer was slow the other day. Photos was normal very quick just now and so thought I'd take advantage of the speed increase and found that Publisher is dog slow again - Like, click it, forget it and then remember two days later (like I did just now) slow.

[LEB]

Hello everyone,

I always find it very confusing to find out where the release notes are. You click on the link provided in the box, then you go to a web page where they are not. You follow a second link where all the versions are listed, a third which is this one where the release notes are still not. And you give up.

Could this be simplified?

[Baraktorvan]

If you are wanting the release notes, here is the relevant link in the forums that I found. 
 

Too bad the original post did not include it with the announcement. 

[Patrick Connor]

@Baraktorvan

Welcome to the Affinity forums  

12 hours ago, Baraktorvan said:

Too bad the original post did not include it with the announcement. 

The "original post" is here

and has that exact same link you have given, as does the first post in this thread (which the software brings you to if you ask for more info). We do not replicate the release notes for all 9 versions of the application (3 apps on 3 OSs) as it would take too long to check them all if you owned more than one

[Celia at Grafted Works]

On 11/30/2024 at 2:42 AM, JDub said:

Not sure why, but I'm getting incredibly slow download speeds for the update - about 50-60k/sec. It's going to take a while to download.

This is on a 10GB connection, which is currently giving me over 800Mbps/sec over Wifi.

Any ideas on this? It's the third time I've tried this week and the speed is the same. Throttling at Affinity?

I have the same issue.

[Komatös]

18 hours ago, Celia at Grafted Works said:

I have the same issue.

Keep calm, relax and try it again later. 🫠

[JDub]

5 hours ago, Komatös said:

Keep calm, relax and try it again later. 🫠

Yeah, I'm completely calm - but after 3-4 attempts, I thought I'd report it.