Release Notes – March 31st 2023

Hello! and welcome to this week’s release notes for tldraw.

This will be the final update before we exit beta, so expect some last-minute house-cleaning and quality assurance while we prepare for our (re)launch. 🚀 If you’d like to learn more about that, check out our blog post!

What’s new

You can now paste from Excalidraw. While the styles are a bit different between the two apps, we’ve done our best to preserve your choices (such as labels and arrow bindings).

You can now move content to a new page with the context menu. Previously, you would have had to create that new page first. To try it out, right click on a shape or selection and select Move to page > new page.

We’ve restored the ability to snap to the center of a shape by dragging a handle close to the center. Yet another surprisingly nuanced arrow feature.

There’s been a huge community effort around translations! Thanks to our amazing contributors, you can now find full translations for 10 additional languages:

• Catalan (new)
• Finnish (new)
• Italian
• Korean
• Nepali
• Romanian (new)
• Russian
• Thai
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese (new)

There’s also improved partial support for 6 languages:

• Arabic
• Danish
• Galician
• Hungarian (new)
• Polish
• Turkish

And we’ve updated some of our existing languages too, based on community contributions:

• German
• Spanish
• French

Improvements

• tldraw now uses your preferred language when it loads.
• Using the draw tool will no longer change your selected shapes.
• You will automatically select images, bookmarks and embeds when you paste them.
• We’ve improved the tooltips on arrowhead style options.
• We now show a message when you try to open a file into a shared project.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where page menu items changed height when being edited.
• Fix a bug where a clipped frame could have shapes placed into it.
• Fixed triple-touch gesture not exiting pen mode.
• Fixed some long translations making the style menu too wide.
• Fixed some long translations squashing arrowhead style options.
• Fixed some long translation strings getting hidden by overflowing the menu.
• Fixed a bug with resizing where the size of line and draw shapes wouldn’t match the cursor position.
• Simplified the outlines of line and draw shapes.
• Fixed a bug where the selection box could stay visible after pinching.
• Fixed a bug where you could undo changes to the window size.
• Fixed a bug where your focus could get trapped when editing text in nested tldraw projects.
• Added better character support in exports.
• Fixed bookmark and embed shapes sometimes getting pasted with transparency.
• Fixed a touch-only system prompt appearing on fine pointer devices.
• Fixed a missing Thai translation.
• Fixed changing language sometimes not applying immediately.
• Fix an issue preventing rooms with names longer than 32 characters from being opened.
• Fixed projects not importing from the original tldraw if they had too many shapes inside.
• Fixed projects not importing from the original tldraw if they contained some invalid number data.
• Fixed ovals being too small when imported from the original tldraw.
• Fixed a rare crash caused by creating a group with nothing inside it.
• Fixed the “Back to content” button sometimes not appearing.
• Fixed read-only rooms continuously trying to fetch the project’s QR code.
• Fixed Apple Pencil interactions not working correctly in the help menu.
• Safari: Fixed some issues with copying and pasting.
• Android Chrome: Fixed a bug where you couldn’t move the caret in text labels.

That’s it for this week!

As always, please do drop by the discord to share feedback, ask about features, or just say hello. Otherwise, we’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday—and hopefully with a fresh URL. See you then!