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With version 72 of the Mac app, we’re including a whole host of rendering and performance improvements. Many of them are subtle, but they all add up to a better experience — you should notice that things feel more responsive when moving Symbols and Nested Symbols around the Canvas, during exports, and when saving documents to your Workspace.

Elsewhere, we’ve added a new option to choose whether Data you insert into your designs is random or sequential. Plus, we’ve added support for nested data within Linked Data (JSON) sources — which will appear in a group when you add it to your Canvas.

You’ll also find some nifty new shortcuts for aligning layers. ⌃ + ⌘ + ↑↓←→ now align layers left, right, top or bottom. ⌃ + ⌘ + V or ⌃ + ⌘ + H align layers vertically or horizontally. Add the ⌥ modifier to any of those shortcuts to align layers within an Artboard.

Finally, after quietly launching real-time collaboration a few weeks ago for customers with a Teams subscription, it’s now available for everyone who wants it. Now you can invite others into Sketch documents and edit alongside them in real-time. Find out more in our Getting Started Guide.

We’ve just pushed some powerful updates to Workspaces to help you better control who can see and edit your documents. Every Workspace member now gets a My Drafts project — perfect for work-in-progress designs and ideas you’re not quite ready to share. You can access My Drafts from your Workspace in the web app and the Documents window in the Mac app.

We’ve also introduced new document permissions that allow you to limit who in your Workspace can edit specific designs. This is especially handy when working on Libraries and Design Systems documents, where you want to control who can make changes and avoid accidental edits.

With this release, we’re introducing Linked Data — a new way to work with data in your designs. With it, you can use JSON files that combine different sets of data in meaningful ways, making it easier and more realistic when you stress-test your designs.

We’re also giving you more control over document updates with Starred updates. You can now add an optional star to any update to mark it as important. And if you’re making changes to a Library but don’t want to share them with every save? Just Star the latest public update. This starred update will remain as the current Library update, and when you’re happy with your changes, star your next save to push them out to everyone.

Linked Data and Starred updates are available now in the latest Mac app update (71) and in the web app.