[Essey Russom]

I was wondering when is the next alpha being released and what new features will it have?

[Niels]

Hi Essey, thanks for asking 🙂

It was supposed to have been released months ago. As we are working on new additions, we also try to fix the bugs found in the previous Alpha version. We have one really annoying bug, that we can’t seem to get rid of. It’s a freeze that happens to only a few people while exporting png or jpg files. We want to have this fixed before we release Alpha 8. So it is hard to set a date.

New stuff is so far this:

Drop vector data option (to not have the lasso slowness problem. Huge!)
Autosave
Scale option for movie clip export (export in, say, double resolution with perfectly crisp lines)
Save and use pen settings
Touch gestures on touch screen computers
Reset rotate view with double click
Stamp floating selection in all selected drawings
Reverse sequence
Many bugfixes and smaller improvements

If you want me to explain some of the above – feel free to ask. (But maybe you can tell already what they are about).

Best,
Niels

[Augusto]

It seems awsome update!

[Sam W]

Hope you manage to nail that bug! Next update sounds great.

[Julien Rashti]

I was just about to ask actually, I hope you manage to fix it, definitely an alpha version worth waiting for!

[Niels]

Thanks Julien! We are actually still struggling with that exact problem (it’s a particular difficult one). But we WILL crush it eventually! (Along all the other things we are evolving). 😉