May Bug Accelerator 2025

This marks the third month of the Bug Accelerator Program for 1.4, with the 1.4.2 completed we're targeting 1.4.3.

April Bug Accelerator 2025

This marks the second month of the Bug Accelerator Program for 1.4, with the 1.4.2 release right around the corner.

Adobe Illustrator Gradient Improvements

Manpreet has improved the opening of gradients from Adobe Illustrator files this month working on many of the calculations needed to translate from Adobe's data format to the open SVG specification...

March Bug Accelerator 2025

This month is the start of our new 1.4 based Bug Accelerator Program with Tav and Martin as our bug fixing developers and Krlr17 as the bug administrator. This is the first time we've had a bug administrator position so we're excited to see if we can get even better results from having dedicated support for this season...

Adobe Illustrator Compatibility Improvements

To allow the import of Adobe Illustrator files into Inkscape, we are developing a Python extension. This post outlines the progress made in the third month of the project, February 2025. The work is carried out inside the git repository extension-ai.

Contract to Import AI Files 2025 Update

To allow the import of Adobe Illustrator files into Inkscape, we are developing a Python extension. This post outlines the progress made in the second month of the project, January 2025.

Find out what Manpreet has worked on in January 2025...

Inkscape Translation Contribution, and Other Short Stories

The Traditional Chinese translations of Inkscape at the time was, let’s say, lacking. There were visible untranslated parts everywhere, namely in the Align and Distribute dialog, the dialog tab names, parts of the menu items, in the settings, and in the tooltips. My gripe was that some of them were partially translated, meaning that maybe the tool name was translated but the tooltip wasn’t, or in the case of the Align and Distribute dialog, some align options were and some weren’t, even though they are similar functions....

Contract to Import AI Files Update

To allow the import of Adobe Illustrator files into Inkscape, we are developing a Python extension. This post outlines the progress in the 1st month of the project, October 2024. Work is carried out inside the git repository [extension-ai](https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extras/extension-ai/).

June Bug Accelerator 2024

The final month for the bug accelerator program is done and we've got some important fixes for the next version of Inkscape...

May Bug Accelerator 2024

This may as the mid point for the 1.4 release we've been focusing on fixing the biggest issues and setting the stage for the final release.

April Bug Accelerator 2024

The new program of paid Inkscape bug fixing is upon us for the 1.4 release. Three developers are participating in this session: Tav, Martin Owens and Vaibhav Malik. Let's take a look at what they got up to in April 2024...

December through February - Gtk4 Migration (Tavmjong)

Tav's December through February report for the Gtk4 migration project.

September through November - Gtk4 Migration (Tavmjong)

Tav's September through November report for the Gtk4 migration project.

October/November - GTK4 migration - dboles

Report by contractor Daniel Boles on GTK4 migration and other work done in October/November of 2023.

October - Bug Accelerator 2023

This month was all about preparing the Inkscape 1.3.1 release, testing and backporting all the fixes and managing the issues that cropped up with the fixes that needed to get into the release. All fixes were re-tested to make sure they wouldn't break in the process.