Version 0.4.8 (June 30, 2014):
- Features:
- option to auto-save documents and recover auto-saves (after Edward Yang, Aiwarrior, Timo Kluck)
- new Export to PDF code using cairo (and config option to enable legacy code)
- horizontal view mode
- improved touchscreen handling
- pencil cursor option (patch by Luciano Siqueira)
- added "new pages duplicate background" option (new default is false)
- updated Windows build and packaging instructions
- XInput device handling:
- ignore events from non-drawing devices by default (ignore_other_devices)
- "touchscreen as hand tool" option (after Rumen Zarev and Daniel German)
- "pen disables touchscreen" option; dialog box to designate touch device
- tweaks to xinput event processing for touchscreens
- Bugfixes:
- generate cursors from pixbufs (fixes a Win32 bug)
- work around Win32 bug: refuse paste if mismatched format
- fix configure.in for automake-1.13 (Florian Bruhin, Andreas Huettel)
- smoother icons for eraser and shapes buttons (by Colin Macdonald)
- fix a cross-platform g_basename() issue (after Daniel German)
- bugfix for file paths with non-English characters in Win32
- add some margin around lasso selection rectangle (after Niklas Beisert)
- warn for fontconfig cache generation in Win32
- Translations:
- Chinese (simplified) translation (by Mutse)
- updated German translation (Stefan Holtzhauer)
- Polish translation (by Mis Uszatek)
- Chinese (traditional) translation (William Chao)
- Japanese translation (by Hiroshi Saito)