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Friction 1.0.0-rc.2

Introducing the second release candidate for Friction 1.0.0.

This new release candidate introduces significant UI/UX improvements and general bug fixes. While this was originally intended to be the final version, the extensive changes have necessitated another release candidate.

Please test this version and provide feedback.

Complete changelog can be found on GitHub
Additional downloads can be found on GitHub

Featured changes

UI/UX

Added horizontal zoom buttons to the timeline/graph
The last-used fill/stroke is now remembered and stored, which improves the drawing experience
The selection is now cleared when you right-click in draw, circle, or rectangle mode
“Restore default fill/stroke” and “Restore default UI” options have been added to the help menu
The default fill color is now white
The default fill/stroke colors are now adjusted to the background on a new scene to avoid color conflicts
Rewind/Forward in quarters can now be triggered with Shift+Alt+left/right
The scene is now updated after zoom in/out actions
Icons have been updated
You can now use TAB to focus to and from X/Y value sliders
Undo functionality has been improved
The cursor is now set to the end of the text when a text input is focused
An option to lock/unlock toolbars has been added to the view menu
The last-used font family, size, and style are now remembered, which improves the text tool experience
The align widget has been refactored with no visible changes
The font widget has been refactored with no visible changes
A crash caused by scroll events in the frame spinbox has been fixed
Added “Center Align” option in scene context menu
Major changes have been made to the tools and toolbar UI (see below)

ToolBox (toolbars)

Several toolbars have been refactored and merged into a new “ToolBox”.

This release introduces a new toolbar for easy access to common properties, including transforms and related properties for selected items.

This new toolbar also includes sub-tools (node/draw mode) that were previously located in the tool selector toolbar. The color picker indicator has also been moved to this toolbar.

ToolBox Screenshot 1 ToolBox Screenshot 2 ToolBox Screenshot 3 ToolBox Screenshot 4

Documentation will be updated as soon as possible to reflect changes in this release.

More toolbar-related features are planned for v1.1.

SVG

Import: Support for pasting SVG from the clipboard (Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+v) has been added
Export: DstOut masking support has been added
Export: mix-blend-mode (blend modes) support has been added.

Renderer

PNG images now have proper unassociated alpha (unpremultiplied)
TIFF images now have proper associated alpha (premultiplied)
The output path is now trimmed

Windows

UI font issues have been fixed

macOS

Native support for Apple Silicon has been added

macOS support is still experimental.

Linux

An XDG arguments bug in AppImage has been fixed
Fullscreen has been disabled on Wayland

SDK

Updated to Qt 5.15.17 with KDE/custom patches (Qt 5.15.13 is now the minimum supported version)
Updated to FFmpeg 4.2.11 with custom patches

Support

See our community page for more information
See our download page for system requirements

See RC 1 release notes for more information regarding changes for v1.0
See Beta 2 release notes for more information regarding changes for v1.0
See Beta 1 release notes for more information regarding changes for v1.0

Published 6 August 2025.

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