Release Notes – January 13th 2023

Here are all the changes from this week’s release. Try them out now at beta.tldraw.com.

What’s New

• New font! Shantell Sans by ArrowType.
• Choose between four font families! (they’re back)
• Added an “always snap” mode.
• Hyperlinks for images, videos, notes, and geo shapes.
• Choose a transparent background when exporting images.
• Added justify alignment for text.
• New design for menu area.
• Added ungrouping and rotating to the action menu.
• You can now press the enter key to select the contents of a selected group.
• Felt links are now embeddable.
• Editing a shape with a label now ensures that the label is on screen.

Improvements

• Big improvements to general performance, especially on mobile Safari.
• Bookmark URLs now strip their protocol to be more human-readable.
• Improved padding on note shapes with lots of text.
• The sticky note tool now shows the correct options on the style panel.
• The default sticky note color is now yellow.
• Shapes stay selected after pinching to zoom or pan.
• Text in SVG exports now matches the canvas much more accurately. Not exactly, yet.
• Smarter resizing of shapes with labels.
• Highlighted text is now readable and consistent across all platforms.
• Improved handling of keyboard shortcuts while editing text.
• Improved consistency of dotted and dashed styles between different shapes.
• A line’s bounding box now appears around its edges, instead of its inner path.
• Embed shapes continue running even when not visible on the canvas.
• You can now resize YouTube embeds.
• Shortened YouTube URLs are now accepted.
• Embed shapes with a minimum size now resize correctly.
• Embed shapes with a locked aspect ratio now resize correctly.
• Arrows now connect correctly to groups and frames.
• When you select different geometry shapes, the style panel now correctly shows ‘mixed’.
• The visual for a group’s bounding box now tightly surrounds it.
• Many icons were improved and tweaked, now loaded as images.
• Improved event handling when menus are open.
• Improved performance of minimap.
• Improved performance when interacting with large numbers of shapes.
• Improved performance of freehand shapes.
• Added rotation handle to sticky note on mobile.
• Disabled edge-resizing on mobile. It’s now easier to drag shapes without accidentally resize them.
• Copying shapes as SVG or JSON now works in Firefox.
• Removed Export / Copy as JPEG.
• Exported frames now have the correct color and label.
• Improved the eraser tool: clicking with the tool will now erase all shapes under the cursor.

Fixes

• Fixed rare de-sync issues in multiplayer projects.
• Fixed an issue where deleting another user’s shape would cause them to deselect other shapes.
• Fixed some cases where visual indicators were not being removed.
• Fixed and updated translations for Chinese - Simplified.
• Fixed background color on print.
• Fixed sticky note background color on export.
• Fixed clipped arrows in SVG exports.
• Fixed expensive cursor updates.
• Fixed expensive undo / redo state changes.
• Fixed hyperlink buttons not working on mobile Safari.
• Fixed sticky notes drifting when being scaled with other shapes.
• Fixed some small freehand shapes exploding.
• Fixed a bug when drawing a line with only one point.
• Fixed text resizing when props change, while in a group, during undo / redo.
• Fixed display of straight arrows with labels.
• Fixed label on the "Bring Forward" button.
• Fixed empty labels being too wide.
• Fixed sticky note position when cloning.
• Fixed logic for disabling the redo button.
• Fixed undo / redo when changing color in the style panel.
• Fixed cursor while using the hand tool.
• Fixed the erase tool not erasing everything under the cursor.