Release Notes – January 20th 2023

We’ve been busy! Here are all the changes from this week’s release. They’re all live and ready to try out at beta.tldraw.com.

What's new

• Added Support for Vimeo and Spotify embeds. Paste a link to a Vimeo video or Spotify album or artist onto the canvas to create the embed.
• Added support for diacritics in text shapes and labels.

• Added Toggle Autosize to the menu for text shapes. Select Toggle Autosize to turn a fixed width text shape back into an auto-sizing text shape.

Improvements

• Various under the hood improvements to how we load and update projects.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause clients to de-sync in multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the minimap to adjust incorrectly when shapes were masked by their parent frame shapes.
• Fixed text measurement for text shapes and labels.
• Fixed text measurement on Firefox.
• Fixed rotation and resizing interactions on Android and Firefox.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the app to get stuck in spacebar panning mode when opening the emoji picker on MacOS. (Did you know you could hold spacebar to enter a special panning mode?)
• Fixed whitespace in text shapes and labels.
• Fixed the tap-to-create-a-shape interaction on mobile.
• Fixed keyboard shortcuts in tooltips.
• Fixed click events not registering at the top of the screen.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent some beta.tldraw.com links from embedding in tldraw. (Did you know you can paste tldraw links into tldraw in order to embed them there?)
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when resizing shapes.