Aseprite v1.3.14

Hello asepriters! Today we're finally releasing Aseprite v1.3.14 as the new stable one. It has been in beta for some months.

If you were using v1.3.13 and didn't give a try to the beta before, you'll be able to find some new features since v1.3.11-beta that now are available for everyone.

What's new

New interactive Text tool with T key #28

New diagonal symmetry #1171

New drop files on timeline to import files as layers/frames/cels, works on Windows and macOS #131 #4636

Added "Transform" checkbox to move slices with its content #4533

Aseprite v1.3.14.4

Fixed timeline thumbnails with semi-transparent colors #5257
Fixed GIF animations with semi-transparent colors #5226
Fixed crash rendering empty text in certain UI elements #5255
Fixed edge-case detecting old sessions to be recovered #5252
Fixed separation between text and suffix in UI text fields #5261

Aseprite v1.3.14.3

Windows: Brings back Windows Vista/7 compatibility #5211
Export user & extension defined properties #5186 (thanks to @Necronomison)
Improve SVG output merging similar pixels (thanks to @LeSnow-Ye)
Fixed pivot movement when dragging a selection with Alt key to snap to grid #5238
Fixed bug/font baseline alignment news items/file list items when multiple fonts/emojis are needed #5221
Fixed crashes when a big font size is specified for the Aseprite font #5240
Lua API:
Update API version to 34
Added events to listen to blendMode, name, opacity and visibility Sprite layer changes #5164

Aseprite v1.3.14.2

Fixed double-clicking/dropping an .aseprite-extension file to install it #5209
Fixed the default font size for CJK and other translations #5210
Fixed bug with third-party themes using odd size values for the Aseprite font
Fixed some crashes using the font search capability with the Text tool #5214
Added possibility to disable hinting for theme ttf/otf fonts #5215

Aseprite v1.3.14.1

Fixed dithering options using Sprite > Color Mode > Indexed and fixed crash switching between Grayscale/Indexed options #5207
Fixed crash when default font is not available or invalid (edge-case for theme authors) #5208

Aseprite v1.3.14

Added pin icon to the Palette presets + performance improvements #2365 #5069
Added a way to change default Timeline options t/19863 #1485
Fonts & Themes:
Added option to switch font hinting #4931 laf#138
Added support to scale sprite sheet fonts
Better support to use system fonts from themes
Added missing Esperanto accents (ŜŝŬŭ) (thanks to @Fussmatte for this and the Esperanto translation)
Performance improvements:
Startup optimizations #5090
Prevent polling keyboard state for each message
Improve performance loading list of fonts
Improve performance resizing dialogs #5166 (related to #5028)
Windows: Fixed window flash when Aseprite is launched #5018 laf#136
Fixed file dialog size not being loaded properly #4460 (thanks to @JoshuaL03)
Fixed user data visibility after window size reset #4923 (thanks to @JoshuaL03)
Prevent scrollbar from shifting 1px on click (thanks to @LukeBarcenas)
Fixed bug exporting tilesets from the CLI #5053
Fixed regression in File > Export > Export As dialog where the -export string wasn't included to avoid overwriting the same file #5035
Allow to use the close button when a popup window/menu box is displayed #5111 #5134 #5144
Fixed un-replaceable transparent pixels created by resize #5032 (thanks to @lightovernight)
Fixed timeline scrolling when creating layer #4930
Fixed regression with timeline thumbnails t/25097 #5083
Fixed crash using Shift+click for first time in Tiled Mode #5055 #5151 #5195
Fixed symmetry button is kept pressed when we didn't pressed #4760
Fixed font rendering issues in non-English languages #4804
Fixed some UI/theme issues when UI Scaling > 100% #5043
Fixed some issues loading .fli/.flc files:
Fixed animations with an odd column count (thanks to @mecirt in flic#2)
Fixed loading .flc files with BRUN chunks with more than 256 packets (thanks to @mertenpopp in flic#3)
Dropping files from File Explorer/Finder to the Timeline:
Fixed some bugs when dropping sprites with tilemaps/tilesets or in specific locations
Improved feedback when dropping into a cel
Lua API:
Update API version to 33
Added Dialog:separator() more in line with other widgets #4989 (thanks to @MapleGecko)
Added uuid field to layers #5033
Added os.rename() and os.remove() functions
Fixed cel.image:clear() cannot be undone #5015
Fixed regression overwriting path specified in Dialog:file{filename} #5061
Linux: Dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04. Ubuntu 20.04 is the minimum now