Fill and Stroke: Fix HSL color selector sometimes showing corrupted colors with a non-functioning 5th slider (Bug #1635982).Improved performance of shortcut list in preferences.Fix crash when exporting user defined shortcuts on Windows (Bug #1639701).Allow to set shortcuts with characters that need to be escaped (e.g.

Fix “Shift” modifier being added incorrectly for many user defined shortcuts (making them unusable).

Inkview: Fix loading files with non-ASCII characters in filename (Bug #488997).

Fonts: Do not load fonts with illegal characters in font family name which caused a crash.

Many files that could not be opened before (especially those containing large raster graphics) should import fine now.

Import: Fix many issues with importing large files.

LaTeX+PDF export: Fix export for text inside a masked or clipped group.

Notably text was often positioned wrongly after import (Bugs #1089857, #1335660, #1599763, #1675755) and the export option “Convert gradients to colored polygons series” made Inkscape crash (Bug #1549015)

EMF/WMF import/export: Fix many issues that occurred when the system’s locale was set to a language using comma (,) as decimal separator.

SVG import/export: Special characters in the document’s “title” field could result in invalid SVG output and prevent re-opening the file on Windows (Bugs #576126, #1627551).

vss files with special characters in file name (Bug #1662465)

Symbols: Fix loading of Visio Stencils from.

GUI: Window position/size was often wrong on startup and when opening new documents (Bugs #1190828, #1654464, #195683, #568867).

Text: The default style of the text tool can now be changed when nothing is selected.

Text: Fix tiny font size for sub/superscripts (Bug #1658029).

Printing: Fix crash when printing on Windows (Bug #1665768).

GUI: Fix file preview on Windows when using the native file open dialog (Bug #802904).

Add ability to generate one path from multiple paths with LPEs in them (Bug #1664632).

Rework the object panel, including making shortcut handling respect user-defined shortcuts.

Improve selection chemistry z-stack ordering (Bug #1395452).

Add a control point to the centers of rectangles, circles/ellipses and stars to make it easier to move them and to align them in a precise way.

Inkscape fonts crash