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    97.2

    This release fixes a crash that could occur when you made a marquee selection.

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    Requires macOS Monterey (12.0.0) or newer

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    97.1

    This release fixes some bugs and crashes that you’ve reported in our latest update.

    Fixes (12)

    • Fixes a bug that stopped the Workspace window from showing local templates if you were using a license and not signed into a Workspace.
    • Fixes a bug that caused PDF or EPS slice exports to include all content outside the slice and increase the size of the final export.
    • Fixes a bug that stopped the Workspace window from showing recent documents if you registered Sketch with a license key and were not signed in to any Workspaces.
    • Fixes a bug that caused Command-D to discard unsaved documents from the Workspace Save panel. To discard an unsaved document, you can instead use Command-Backspace.
    • Fixes a bug that caused SVG formatting to change with locale, leading to incorrect exports depending on your Mac’s region settings.
    • Fixes centerOnLayer and adjustToFit in the Javascript API, which were using removed and renamed Sketch methods.
    • Fixes a bug that led to nested Symbol overrides no longer being sorted alphabetically.
    • Fixes a rare crash that could occur when you resize Artboards in certain circumstances.
    • Fixes a crash that could occur as you applied rounded corners.
    • Fixes a bug that led to poor performance with some Sketchtool commands.
    • Fixes a bug that caused the Workspace window to temporarily show Workspace documents after you signed out.
    • Fixes an issue that made marquee selection wrongly select masked layers even if the marquee selection was entirely outside the mask. The fix also includes an improvement that makes marquee selection behave the same way as click selection, using the actual layer shape instead of the bounding box to determine if a layer should be selected.
    Download Sketch 97.1

    Requires macOS Monterey (12.0.0) or newer

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    Collections

    Introducing a new level of organization for your Workspace. With Collections, you can group documents inside of Projects. Just like Projects, Collections are workflow-agnostic — so you can organize documents using whatever groupings suit you and your collaborators best. Collections are available right now in the latest version of the Mac, iOS and web apps.

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    • iOS app

    View & Mirror — now on iPad

    Sketch View & Mirror (our iOS companion app) now supports viewing local documents (from Files or third-party apps), offline mode and Apple’s Handoff feature. Better still, it’s now available for iPad, where you can browse your designs in a beautiful full Canvas view and see all the details — whether they’re on an Artboard or not.

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    • Mac app

    Selection improvements

    We’ve spent some time improving all the little interactions that might bug you or feel inconsistent when it comes to selection and dragging in the Mac app. Overall, it should feel easier and more predictable to select layers by clicking on their visible parts, or move layers by dragging within their selection box. Check out the video above for a walkthrough of these changes.

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    Multi-layer renaming

    You can now select multiple layers and use Edit > Rename (⌘R) to rename your entire selection, with support for modifier tokens and optional matching of portions of the layers’ names. You can also use Edit > Rename All (⌥⌘R) to rename all the layers on your current page, with the option to filter for specific layers to rename. Finally, you can quickly rename another selection of layers using the last renaming pattern you used via Edit > Rename with Last Format (⌥⇧⌘R).

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    • Mac app

    Version 97 is available to download

    Our latest update to the Mac app introduces Collections, multi-layer renaming, a new save dialog, and a whole host of selection and dragging improvements.

    Improvements (14)

    • We’re continuing to improve on our experimental feature — Smart Layout in groups. This update brings support for duplicating and adding new layers to groups, as well as Smart Layout for Artboards. Learn how to enable it, if you haven’t already, and head over to the community forum for a full list of changes.
    • You can now use File > Save with Description (⌃⌘S) to add a description and Star when you save a version of a document you’re working on. Descriptions give everyone a quick way to see Changes when browsing a document’s version history in the web app, while Stars control a version’s visibility to Viewers (or, if it’s a Library document, whether the changes trigger a Library update).
    • You can now create a rectangular marquee selection on the Canvas by pressing X and drawing your marquee. This makes it easier to make a selection on top of a layer (such as a background layer) without selecting the layer itself.
    • Right/secondary-clicking on overlapping layers, while holding ⇧, will now bring up a quick layer selection menu. You can hover over each item in the menu to see a highlight around that layer on the Canvas, making it even easier to select a layer hidden below another.
    • We’ve tidied up SVG exports so they include fewer unnecessary digits within any fractional values.
    • You can now press and hold ⌥⌘ before or after you start dragging a marquee to select layers that are fully enclosed within the bounds of another layer. Holding ⌥⌘ when you have already selected layers has a different effect and will move the selected layers, even if your cursor is not positioned over them.
    • You can now ⌘-click on an Artboard’s background/empty space to select it, even if it already contains layers.
    • We’ve improved performance in a few different areas in this release; when you switch between particularly complex pages in documents, for documents with large gradients and blurs, and for shadow spreading on oval shapes.
    • When you’ve selected a nested Symbol or layer inside another Symbol, you can now use Edit > Select > Select Containing Symbol (⌘ Esc) to select the parent Symbol.
    • You can now right/secondary-click anywhere within a layer’s selection box, and not just on the layer itself, to bring up the contextual menu. This works even if the layer you’ve selected is not the frontmost layer.
    • You can now ⌘-click on a selected layer within a multi-layer selection to exclusively select that layer and deselect all of the others.
    • You can now click inside a hollow shape (one with a border, but no fills) that you’ve already selected to select a layer behind it. This does not affect dragging a selected shape, which can happen within that shape’s hollow area.
    • When you are aligning multi-selections, you can now use Artboards as a reference object.
    • When you select a locked layer via the Layer List, you can now move, resize and rotate it, just like any other layer. Making a selection on the Canvas won’t pick up any locked layers, which saves you from making accidental edits.

    Changes (8)

    • Command-click will now consistently select a Symbol when you click on its empty space, even if there’s a Text layer or another Symbol where you click. You can quickly select a layer that’s behind another using Shift-secondary-click.
    • Invision legacy DSM plugin version 1.1.50 has been marked as incompatible with Sketch 97.
    • Sympli Handoff plugin version 1.4.2 has been marked as incompatible with Sketch 97.
    • We’ve removed the ability to ⌥-click to select an obscured layer. Instead, you can now right/secondary click while holding ⇧ to bring up a quick layer selection menu. This also fixes some issues where holding ⌥ and hovering over layers would not show measurements correctly.
    • You can no longer click on empty space within a Group to select it. This way, you can be sure that you’ll always select directly under your cursor, so long as that layer is unlocked, without unexpectedly selecting a Group’s empty space in front of it. This does not affect dragging a Group you’ve already selected.
    • With this update, we no longer support macOS Big Sur. We now support macOS Monterey or newer. You can continue to use version 96.3 of Sketch with Big Sur, or upgrade to a new version of macOS.
    • When you duplicate layers with ⌥-drag, releasing ⌥ simultaneously or slightly before releasing your mouse (or trackpad) will now still duplicate the layers instead of moving them.
    • You can now drag a selection of layers by clicking and dragging on any empty space within the outer selection box, and not just on the layers themselves. This is especially helpful if you’re dragging many small layers or shapes with borders but no fills. If you want to select an unselected layer within that area, though, you can still do that.

    Fixes (13)

    • Fixes an issue where rearranging an unselected layer with Smart Distribute could add it to the current selection, instead of exclusively selecting it.
    • Fixes a bug that could stop you from exporting very large PDF and EPS files.
    • Fixes a bug that caused export previews in the Inspector to render in full resolution and not as a preview.
    • Fixes a bug that caused blurs for very large layers to use lots of system memory.
    • Fixes a bug that could clip Artboard backgrounds incorrectly when you copied and pasted multiple Artboards — within Sketch or to another app.
    • Fixes a bug that wrongly indicated that you could set/unset a layer within a multi-layer selection as reference object when you hovered over the empty space within the individual layer’s selection box. To set/unset a reference object within a multi-layer selection, you need to click on a solid part of the layer, and this fix makes that more obvious.
    • Fixes a bug that meant shapes with a border but no fill would have a selection hit area that was unnecessarily large on the inside of the shape, making it harder to select layers behind them.
    • Fixes a bug that made it impossible to select a shape with both a fill and border by clicking on its border.
    • Fixes a bug where Paste Over and Paste Here would not paste in the correct position if you had selected an Artboard.
    • Fixes a bug which caused open paths to disappear when you converted them to outlines.
    • Fixes a bug that caused Symbols belonging to a deactivated Library to not appear in the Symbol menu in the Inspector, even if they were present in the current document.
    • Fixes a bug that meant resizing Sketch’s window with the Components View active would not shrink the expanded search bar, but instead hide other toolbar icons.
    • Fixes a bug that made it impossible to rotate a layer on the Canvas by 180º in some cases.
    Download Sketch 97

    Requires macOS Monterey (12.0.0) or newer

    • Mac app

    New save dialog

    We’ve completely redesigned the Save dialog, giving you more context about your Workspace, easier organization, and full support for the new Collections feature. This is now the default way to save in Sketch. You can still save locally to your Mac via the “Save to Your Mac” button in the Save dialog, or via File > Save to Your Mac. You can also change the default save and open location under the General tab in Sketch’s Settings.

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    • Mac app

    96.3

    This release contains an important bug fix related to a feature we’re releasing soon. It also fixes a crash that could occur if a layer or slice had an invalid export format, caused by a plugin or Figma import (we now change that export format to PNG).

    Download Sketch 96.3

    Requires macOS Big Sur (11.0.0) or newer

    • Mac app

    96.2

    This update fixes a few crashes you’ve reported, along with a couple of Smart Layout-related bugs, and one which caused exports with a defined width to fail. Thanks for your feedback on these!

    Download Sketch 96.2

    Requires macOS Big Sur (11.0.0) or newer

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    • Web app

    Resolve Comments

    Conversation complete? Discussion done? Details debated? You can now mark comments (and their replies) as resolved in the web and Mac apps. Resolved comments disappear from view, but you can always bring them back (and reopen them) via the View menu in the Mac app or the drop-down menu in the web app’s sidebar.

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    • Mac app

    Version 96 is available to download

    Our latest update to the Mac app includes support for resolving comments, a new experimental features menu, and a whole host of small-but-mighty improvements to your workflows.

    Improvements (17)

    • Our Figma importer is now more reliable when opening big documents. Thanks for all your reports and feedback!
    • When you preview an overlay’s position on the Canvas, we now show you relevant content (like shadows, for example) that falls outside of the overlay’s Artboard bounds.
    • We’ve improved the rendering performance of previews in the Insert window and menus.
    • When you select a nested Symbol inside a Symbol instance, you’ll see a new Preserve space when hidden option in the Inspector. Enabling this will preserve that nested Symbol’s space if you hide it, meaning that the dimensions of the Symbol that it’s nested within won’t change if it has Smart Layout properties.
    • We’ve tidied up and improved the Inspector options for editing Symbol overrides, especially when it comes to using Data sources and multi-image selections.
    • We’ve improved the performance of flattening selections to bitmaps and trimmed PDF exports.
    • When you select layers inside a Symbol instance, or nested Symbols inside another Symbol, you’ll now see a dashed border around the parent instance, giving you some more visual context and a reminder that the whole instance will move if you drag your selection. Additionally, we’ll show a button to the right of the parent instance and clicking it will change your selection to that parent instance.
    • You can now double-click on a layer’s icon in the Layer List to quickly pan and zoom to that layer on the Canvas.
    • The magic wand selection tool for bitmap editing is now more reliable and predictable.
    • When you place or move guides, they’ll now snap to the middle point of any layer you have selected.
    • Let’s be honest, no-one knows what each blending mode does. To help with this, we’ve added Foresight to the blending modes menu. Now, you’ll see instant, on-canvas previews as you hover over each option. We’ve also added labels to each group of blending modes, making it easier to understand what they do.
    • When you’re editing a text layer on the Canvas, selecting another layer will now automatically set it to edit mode, making it easier to edit multiple text layers sequentially. We’ve also added a highlight when you hover over text layers to make it clear you can select those while in text editing mode.
    • The color profile of your document now always appears in the title bar under the document name. With this update, we’ve removed the notification that would appear at the bottom of the Canvas when you open a document with a color profile that differs from your default.
    • When you’re editing gradients, we now show more on-Canvas information, including the position of stops, Start/End labels, and values for angle, length and ratio. Switching between linear and radial gradients should now give you more predictable results, and radial gradients now resize along with their shape.
    • You can now hold Command and Option to measure between a selected layer and layers inside a Symbol instance. You can also hold Option to measure between layers inside a Symbol instance.
    • In the Inspector, you can now click anywhere on the labels of panels and subpanels to expand or collapse them, or to add a new property if none already exist.
    • You can now use hex color codes with alpha values in the Hex fields and the alpha value will apply to the Opacity field. For example, #FF000080 will become a color with Hex of #FF0000 and an Opacity of 50% — the last two characters represent the opacity value, with 00 being 0% and FF being 100%.

    Changes (9)

    • When you have selected a nested Symbol inside a Symbol instance, you can delete the entire top-level Symbol instance using Command-Backspace.
    • Sketch no longer works with Anima v4.4.6, InVision Panels v1.5.1.513, Sympli Handoff plugin v1.4.1 or ContentSync v8.6.3. If you’re using Sketch with these plugins, please update to their latest versions.
    • We’ve added a new Labs pane to Sketch’s Settings window. Here, you’ll find details of experimental features to try out, along with buttons to find out more about each one and share your feedback as you try them. This new pane replaces the previous experimental features menu.
    • When you use Command-click to select within a Symbol, we’ll now select the entire parent Symbol if you click on a nested Symbol or shape that you’re using as background layer (i.e. one that’s the same size as the parent Symbol’s Artboard).
    • The default color of prototyping flows is now teal, making them easier to distinguish from other parts of the UI that use Sketch’s default tint color of orange. You can customize the colors for Guides, Measuring, and Prototyping by going to Settings > Canvas > Colors.
    • If you’re offline, it’s not possible to create or respond to comments, so we now hide their markers on the Canvas until you’re back online.
    • We’ve changed how comments and Artboards interact with each other, making them consistent with how layers and Artboards interact. When you create a new Artboard around an existing comment, we will link it with that Artboard. When you move or resize an Artboard so that it covers a comment, that comment’s link will not change. We also now dim comments that are not linked with whatever is directly below them — whether that’s the Canvas or an Artboard — to make this easier to spot.
    • When you select a group with even spacing, which is itself inside a group with even spacing, the Smart Distribute handles will now adjust the position of your selected group and the spacing around it, instead of its contents.
    • Borders can now have a minimum width of 0.1, rather than 0.5, when you’re scaling layers.

    Fixes (15)

    • Fixes a bug that caused Document Libraries you’d disabled for a document to reenable automatically the next time you opened a document.
    • We’ve improved performance for handling documents with very large numbers of hidden layers.
    • Fixes a bug that caused unwanted artefacts to appear on layers with a translucent fill.
    • Fixes a crash that could occur if a Symbol override caused a Symbol to become recursive.
    • Fixes a crash that could occur when Sketch tries to process prototype flow connections.
    • Fixes a bug that caused notifications about payments and trial expirations to appear for non-Admin Workspace members.
    • Fixes a bug that caused some of a layer’s blur to be cut off, if you moved the origin of a zoom blur outside that layer’s bounds.
    • Fixes a bug that created a missing Symbol when you selected both a Symbol source and instance then used Option-drag to create copies.
    • Fixes a bug that trimmed the shadows and borders around the edge of a layer if you copied and pasted it into another app.
    • Fixes a bug that caused Symbols overrides to appear on a nested Symbol instance unexpectedly, when original override was disabled within the parent Symbol and you detached it.
    • Fixes a bug that caused some components to render differently in the Components view previews than they did on the Canvas.
    • Fixes a bug in the Workspace window where the search field in the My Drafts view would lose focus after every keystroke.
    • Fixes a bug that caused Artboards you pasted into a new page or document to appear in reverse order in the Layer List. Now, they’ll appear in the same order as they do in their original page or document.
    • Fixes a bug that caused Symbols with Smart Layout and a minimum size to appear incorrectly as instances with no overrides.
    • Fixes a bug where Shift-clicking and dragging a layer in a multiple selection would deselect the layer you originally clicked before you started dragging the selection, leaving that layer in its original position.
    Download Sketch 96.1

    Requires macOS Big Sur (11.0.0) or newer

    • Mac app

    95.3

    This release includes a handful of bug fixes and tweaks to make sure everything runs smoothly. If you sent feedback about any of these — thank you!

    Download Sketch 95.3

    Requires macOS Big Sur (11.0.0) or newer

    • Mac app

    95.2

    This release includes fixes for some bugs and crashes you’ve reported — thanks for letting us know about them! It also includes all of the great new features and improvements below.

    Download Sketch 95.2

    Requires macOS Big Sur (11.0.0) or newer

    • Mac app

    Commenting in the Mac app

    Say hello to commenting on the Mac! Share your feedback and thoughts right in the context of your designs while you‘re designing. Now, no matter where you comment or reply, your conversations will always stay in sync.

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    • Mac app

    Templates

    You can now turn any document into a template that everyone in your Workspace can use — ideal for repeatable tasks or creating consistent document setups. We’ve also added a bunch of beautiful, free and customizable templates — from presentations and social posts, to mockups and business cards — to help kickstart your next project. Check them out in the Workspace window (⌘O).

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