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Friction 1.0.0

Introducing Friction 1.0.0.

This release focuses heavily on squashing bugs and refining the core architecture.

We will address any regressions and bugs in future patch releases or the next feature release.

Changes since 1.0.0 RC 3

New Features & Enhancements

• New Color Wheel and Map (refactored the color settings widget)
• Setup Wizard (Quick Setup): Added a setup wizard that will guide you through setting up Friction on first run.
• Rendering & Export:
  • Added WebM render profile preset.
  • Export to image sequence now features a new, dedicated dialog.
• SVG Import Improvements:
  • Refactored SVG gradient support (fixed gradient points and alpha on import).
  • Refactored text support on SVG import.
  • Refactored SVG clipboard (paste) support, now supporting paste from Inkscape on macOS.
• New Expressions Presets: Added “Frame Remap Loop” and “Frame Remap Loop (bounce)”.
• Experimental GLES3: Initial support for OpenGL ES 3.0. This is an experimental feature needed for future Flatpak aarch64 and Android support (will disable external shaders).
  • This feature must be built from source and is not available in any binary release.

Note for existing users: To access the new presets, please use the ‘Install Presets’ option in the Help menu, or use the new Quick Setup.

UI & UX Improvements

• Refactored the Duplicate function.
• Branding: New logo (and splash screen on Windows).
• Menus & Icons:
  • Added persistent menu to gizmos/snap/grid buttons.
  • Added persistent menu to ‘View’.
  • Added layer/box type icon on timeline/properties.
• Workflow & Canvas:
  • Support for step rotation via keyboard modifiers (Ctrl = 1 step default, Shift = 15 steps default. Configurable in grid settings).
  • Converting object to path now removes the original object and adds the suffix “Path” to the new object.
• Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • Add Key(s): Alt+K
  • Object to Path: Shift+Ctrl+C
  • Stroke to Path: Ctrl+Alt+C
• Added support for HiDPI rounding in the UI to fix visual artifacts on some font-scaled configurations (Uncheck “HiDPI PassThrough” in settings to enable).
• Various small UI/UX tweaks.
• Fixed some UI issues on macOS.
• Improved scene width/height input in canvas toolbar.
• UI (HiDPI) fixes for input slider.
• Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 26+.

Bug Fixes & Stability

• Core & Animation:
  • Fixed crash on macOS if drag but not drop.
  • Fixed crash on import file (if file not exist).
  • Fixed lagging audio on some setups.
  • Fixed issues with rotation when using the flip function.
  • Added fallback behaviors and safety checks to prevent crashes when handling corrupted or incompatible node data.
  • Fixed regression in color animator button (would not update color if changed).
  • Fixed a crash if a linked item didn’t have a color animator.
  • Fixed issues in follow path effect.
  • Fixed issues in parent effect.
    • WARNING: This will introduce different output in older projects.
• Scenes:
  • Fixed crash when deleting a scene linked in another scene.
  • Fixed a crash when unselecting (set none) a linked scene target.
  • Bug fix in renderer for multiple scenes.
• Rendering & Encoding:
  • Fixed crash in box render data.
  • Fixed alpha in WebM video export.
  • Fixed crash and/or corrupt image in video/image encoder.
  • Fixed a crash in video/image encoder if image dest is unpremultiply.
  • Fixed preview/render cache issues on macOS.
  • Fixed renderer UI settings bug when using “unsupported” formats/codecs.
  • Bug fix in output settings widget where available codecs would not refresh.
  • UI/UX (bug) fixes to the render instance widget.
• SVG: Bug fixes in SVG Optimizer.
• SVG: Fixed encoding (UTF-8) on Windows.
• Sandboxing: File I/O has been refactored to support sandboxing, ensuring complete support for Flatpak/Portal on Linux.
• Upgraded to Qt 5.15.19.
• EGL is now default on Linux (GLX is deprecated). This enables us to support both X11 and Wayland.
  • Note that NVIDIA on X11 has issues with EGL (black screen), we provide custom binaries for systems that still need GLX.
• Raster Effects:
  • Fixes for shader effects.
  • Fixed crash in Noise Fade (CPU/GPU).
  • Fixed crash in Wipe (CPU/GPU).
  • Fixed crash in Colorize (CPU).
  • Fixed crash in BrightnessContrast (CPU).
  • Fixed crash in Blur (CPU).
  • Fixed crash in Shadow (CPU).
• Video: Framerate fixes.
  • WARNING: This fixes wrong framerate for video clips, this might break old projects with video clips with different FPS than project.

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Published 8 November 2026.

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