
Initial value of quality of Preview now independent from current zoom level and set to 1.0 by default.Fixed Z-Depth issue for ungroupped layers (issue #299).Improved performance for complex scenes with more than 1000 vector elements (issue #314).Fixed incorrect rendering of Twirl Layer and Noise Distortion Layer (issues #305 and #316).Fixed algorithm of Fast Gaussian Blur, eliminating the random artifacts.Fixed rendering of text with international characters on Windows (issue #379).Disabled scientific notation when displaying numbers (issue #635).Fixed crash when user cancels parameter changing (issue #671).Fixed crash when exported value is set from parameters panel in animation mode (issue #588).Fixed issue which was preventing to change parameters at some circumstances (issues #659, #526, #520).Fixed issues with incorrect window placement on Windows (issue #523).Fixed issue with incorrect GUI font on some Windows systems (issue #667).Timebar is not hidden anymore for cases when scene is only 1 frame short.Fixed incorrect behavior of Draft rendering mode in some circumstances (issue 582).Removed “Cancelled by user” dialog that happens when the user tries to move an animated object (issue #693).Autosave now enabled by default (issue #657).Fixed “No disc in drive” error (issues #489, #724).Portable version of Synfig (zip) now writes settings to its own configuration directory (issue #716).Color dialog now opens with HSV tab active (issue #672).Vertex handles now placed above tangent handles (issue #645).When new Text Layer is created, its name is set the same as text content (issue #407).

Do not waste space for dropdowns in combo boxes (issue #650).Default render settings: now we use avi format with popular mpeg4 codec by default (issue #464).Now it is possible to configure color of transparent areas in Preview Window (issue #636).We plan to continue improving onion-skin features as part of issue #600. At the same time, we have changed functionality of onion-skin: in all previous versions it was linked to keyframes only, now it is set relatively to ordinary frames. Onion-skin functionality was mainly broken since version 1.2.0 – it wasn’t able to display more than on onion-skin layer. Fixes and changes for onion-skin functionality.A sound notification is played when rendering is done (issue #648).Rendering status is now indicated with a progress bar at Info Panel (issues #383, #626).
