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    Dark Mode Toggle

    You can now toggle between Dark Mode and Light Mode and choose a dark or light Canvas, independent of your system settings.

    Snapping Improvements

    Snapping has been much improved, including a new look for measurements and customizable guide colors.

    Snapping (11)

    • When resizing the height of text layers, they snap to fit their text
    • Layers will now snap during resize if they match the height or width of overlapping layers
    • Smart Guides will now appear when inserting new Symbol instances
    • When click-and-dragging to insert a new fixed text layer it will now snap to existing layers
    • Fixed a bug where Artboards would snap to their own Grid or Layout when moved in the Canvas
    • Improved behaviour when inserting a new shape from the center of a pixel
    • Snap lines now appear more consistently when moving layers via the keyboard
    • Smart Guides - Measurements now have a new appearance to be more readable
    • Measurements have a new appearance and the color can be configured via the Preferences
    • Improved snapping when dragging a layer in or out of an Artboard
    • Smart Guides now appear more consistently when moving and resizing layers

    Enhancements (13)

    • You can now apply images from Data in the Image tab of the Fill Popover
    • Canvas Color - You can now choose to display either a light or dark Canvas via the Preferences
    • Light Switch - Users on macOS Mojave can now choose between dark and light mode independent of the system preference
    • Added the ability for Data applied to layers inside a group to be refreshed when the group is selected
    • You can now display the system Color Panel when Option-clicking the color well in the Inspector
    • Improved the clickability of the Fit button, used to resize Artboards to fit their content, within the Inspector
    • You can now click-and-drag to scrub values for the Dash and Gap border properties in the Inspector
    • You can now access the Replace With menu when Control-clicking a Symbol override in the Layer List
    • Sketch now supports Simplified Chinese and will reflect the system language setting
    • Added the ability to toggle the visibility for all overrides on a Symbol master
    • Improved alignment of icons inside Toolbar buttons
    • Added new Artboard preset sizes for Galaxy S10 and updated iPad models
    • Improved behaviour where Arrowheads could be erroneously enabled on a closed shape

    Bug Fixes (37)

    • Fixed a bug where the boolean operation applied to a selected subpath couldn’t be changed via the Toolbar
    • Fixed a bug where certain overlapping curves within boolean operations wouldn’t appear as expected
    • Fixed a bug where creating a new Text Style while editing text wouldn’t apply it to the layer
    • Fixed a bug where document colors in certain added Libraries wouldn’t be available in the Color Popover
    • Fixed a bug where undo wouldn’t work for the Hex field in the Fill Popover
    • Fixed a bug where moving or copying a color or gradient between Global and Document presets would not keep its name
    • Fixed a bug where a new color or gradient preset would not reveal the collapsed presets section
    • Fixed a bug where the empty gradient preset placeholder would not appear alongside the solid color presets
    • Fixed a bug where the grid/list switcher would appear incorrectly in the Fill Popover
    • Fixed a rare crash that could occur while interacting with the Fill Popover
    • Fixed a bug where the Color Picker would not open or close instantly due to containing too many bitmap presets in Global Palette
    • Fixed a bug where the Lock properties control in the Inspector couldn’t be unlocked as expected in some cases
    • Fixed a bug where you couldn’t drag the export preview to the Finder if it contained a / in its name
    • Fixed a bug where values shown within the Inspector wouldn’t update in realtime while editing layers in the Canvas
    • Fixed a bug where a text layer’s properties would not update in the Inspector after using the Scale command
    • Fixed a bug where the Pages List would always be collapsed after toggling the Hide Interface option
    • Fixed a bug where the layer preview icon in Layer List would not reflect the actual flip or rotation applied
    • Fixed a bug where override menus in the Inspector could allow a Symbol to be overridden by another instance of itself
    • Fixed a bug where Library Updates would not commit in some rare cases
    • Fixed a bug where nested instances locked within another Symbol master would be selectable in the Canvas when moving the cursor over the parent Symbol instance
    • Fixed a bug where artefacts would be left on Canvas when rotating a layer when Show Pixels is enabled
    • Fixed a bug where artefacts would remain in the Canvas when dragging a layer with an open path
    • Fixed a bug where the applied Layer Style could be removed from a layer when selecting to Paste Style
    • Fixed a bug where the Replace With… menu and its submenus would be enabled when the current selection was empty
    • Fixed a bug where the rotation value in the Inspector would not update when rotating via the Touch Bar
    • Fixed a bug where pixel rounding would be disabled in the vector editor when Shift-dragging a handle control point
    • Fixed a bug where rotated gradients weren’t rotated as expected when copying CSS attributes
    • Fixed a bug where the selection handles would partially disappear when editing the corner radius of multiple layers
    • Fixed a bug where selection dimensions in Bitmap Editor would not reflect the actual size selected
    • Fixed a bug where you could not rotate multiple layers via the Touch Bar
    • Fixed a bug where Symbol instances wouldn’t always be placed on full-pixel values when inserting
    • Fixed a bug where the Export group contents only option would still apply to Slices after they were moved up and out of their previous group
    • Fixed a bug where selecting to Copy CSS Attributes for a flipped layer wouldn’t include the expected transform property
    • Fixed the size of the Pixel 3 Artboard preset
    • Fixed a bug where copying layers might include their Artboard‘s background color when pasting the copied layer outside of Sketch
    • Fixed a bug where inserting a new page would add a page to the first opened document rather than the active document
    • Fixed a bug where the Inspector would unexpectedly scroll when changing the grid colors
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