

The new release is available for most Linux via AppImage package. The Inkscape’s official wiki page is really great, with screenshots and animations that are better than my words here! So, for more details go to the wiki page.

The new release features new shape builder tool, allows to select multiple overlapping shapes. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. The free and open-source vector graphics drawing software, Inkspace, announced first beta release for the next major 1.3 series. Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
