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Version 88 of the Mac app is out now, bringing with it a completely rewritten prototype player. With it, playing your prototypes should feel smoother, faster and more reliable. This new player lays the groundwork for some new Prototyping features, including one in this release — Auto Link to Artboard.

This update also includes a whole host of small but mighty, quality of life improvements — from using Shift-Command-D to duplicate a layer under the original, to the option to snap to quarter pixels in vector editing mode.

Version 87 of the Mac app is out now. With this release you can add a blur to alpha masks, use Inspector operators to position layers relative to Artboards, and easily spot layer visibility/lock states thanks to a new set of Layer List icons.

Version 86 of the Mac app is out now. This release is all about fixing bugs and making small, quality-of-life improvements that add up to a better overall experience in Sketch. We’re working hard on new features and we can’t wait to share them with you soon.

Whether you want to see what’s new with your favorite design platform, you’re looking for inspiration for your next project, or you want to go deep and learn everything there is to know about a Sketch feature, Discover has you covered.

You’ll find the Discover tab in your Workspace’s navigation. Inside, you’ll find a curated selection of articles, resources and inspiration — along with news about the latest Sketch updates.

We’ll update Discover regularly, so keep checking back for fresh content. And, of course, if there’s something you’d love to see here, let us know. We’d love to hear about it.

Version 85 of the Mac app is out now! With this release, we’ve taken the time to fix some bugs, refresh our Faces data set with some new images, and bring additional Mac support to a feature we shipped earlier this month — the ability to restrict access to projects.

Along with starring updates to mark their importance, you can now add a description against any update in your document’s history. You’ll find the option to add a description to any update in each document’s timeline in the web app.

You can add descriptions to both regular and starred updates, this keeps things flexible so you can choose to use them in a way that suits you and your team best. Update descriptions are a great way to highlight what’s changed in this update to your design, or the latest components you’ve added to a Library.

Introducing: Color Tokens. With Color Tokens you can export, integrate and sync Color Variables from your designs to your development projects. If you’ve got a document or Library with Color Variables, you can now use the web app to download Color Tokens in CSS or JSON formats, or generate a URL that stays up to date with any changes you make.

Restrict access to projects. With this update, we’re giving you even more control over when and where you share your work. Now you can choose whether a project is visible to your whole Workspace, or just the members you invite to it. It’s ideal when you’re working under NDAs, or just want to keep noise around new ideas to a minimum.

Version 84 of the Mac app is out now. With this update, we’ve focused on smaller fixes and improvements that make Sketch better to use every day. We’ve also included a small round of Prototyping improvements (with plenty more to come). Please make sure you are on Big Sur (11.0) or later to use version 84 and newer updates. You can download previous versions of the Mac app (with support for older operating systems) from our updates page.

Version 83 of the Mac app is out now! With this update, we’ve introduced Corners, so you now have full control of the size and style of corners in your rectangles. It’s now faster than ever to adjust multiple corners at once — or focus on just a single corner — using on-Canvas and Inspector controls. Plus, we’ve added a bunch of new Corner Styles that will take your illustrations to the next level. You can also style corners on triangles, stars, polygons and closed paths directly from the Corners panel in the Inspector and use any Corner Style on them.

Elsewhere, we’ve given segmented controls in the Inspector a small makeover to make them less distracting so you can focus on the work on your Canvas. You now also have more control over the prefix’s placement when exporting and we’ve made it easier than ever to link to previous Artboards or to other pages when adding Links to your prototypes. As always, we’ve squashed some pesky bugs and improved performance based on your feedback. We hope you enjoy the update!

P.S. A friendly reminder to enable Two Factor Authentication (2FA) to secure your Sketch Account. It’ll only take a few minutes to add an extra layer of security!

Version 81 of the Mac app is out now! With this update, we’ve introduced Foresight, to help you preview the outcome of alignment and resizing actions on the Canvas. Now, you’ll see an outline on the Canvas showing your shapes’ future position and dimensions. So you can quickly understand how your designs will look before you make a decision.

Elsewhere, we’ve made improvements to Prototyping — including better management of start points in your documents. We’ve also made it easier to share a prototype from local documents. Now, when you share your prototype, you’ll be prompted to save it to your Workspace so you can easily share it with everyone you need to via a link.

Also, you can now upload a local Sketch document to your Workspace from the Recent Documents tab in the Workspace window by dragging it into a Project.

Finally, we have also removed the checkbox about sharing usage analytics in Sketch because we stopped collecting this information altogether.