With version 1.3 of Inkscape, you’ll find improved performance, several new features, and a solid set of improvements to a few existing ones.
This version is squarely focused on helping users get organized and work more efficiently with our free and open source vector-editing software.
I like most things there. Specially the pinned colours and the shape builder tool. However there’s one thing that worries me:
I hope that this is configurable. Consistent behaviour is far more important than having the application assume (often incorrectly) that it knows what the user wants.