Release Notes — April 14th 2023
VS Code extension, image cropping, and industry-leading anti-wobble.
Hello! And welcome back to another tldraw release.
Last week we left beta and upgraded tldraw.com to our new version. If you’re feeling nostalgic then you can still find the original tldraw is still up at old.tldraw.com, and read more about the change in our blog post.
We’ve also released our new Visual Studio Code extension. You can use the extension to work with offline .tldr files in your VS Code editor. Learn more and install the extension on the VS Code marketplace.
But now it’s time for some more changes! Read on what’s landed this last week.
What’s new
You can now crop images and GIFs. Double-click or press the enter key to start cropping.
You can drag the cropped image around.
Double-click an edge to reset the crop.
👉 Tired of double clicking? You can also crop an image by dragging an edge while holding the command or control key.
We also added a New project button to the menu. Use it to clear the current project and start over.
Improvements
We improved cursor responsiveness on the whole. You can now draw, select and interact while your camera moves around.
Collaborator cursors now look and feel more responsive too. No more wobbling or stuttering.
And thanks to our community contributors, we’ve added and updated translations for Catalan, Finnish, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Traditional Chinese.
Fixes
Added titles to overflow buttons in the UI.
Tightened up the corner radius of frames in image exports.
Fixed keyboard nudging happening when you’re in the middle of another action.
Fixed a bug with pasting large SVGs that could cause your shared project to get out of sync.
Fixed a bug where visiting a read-only project would lock a user into read-only mode even on the regular project URL.
Replaced justify text alignment with a placeholder for a future ‘position’ setting.
Fixed a bug where a hole could appear in short solid lines.
Fixed a bug where the camera could get stuck after using the minimap.
Fixed a bug where arrows sometimes didn’t connect correctly when importing projects from the original tldraw.
When importing projects from the original tldraw, you now start in the first page instead of the last.
Firefox: Fixed a bug where your cursor could get stuck after using the control key.
That’s it for this week!
As always, please do let us know what you think about these changes. Drop by our discord or find us anywhere else. Until then, see you next week!
Here’s a teaser…
Really impressed with attention to detail in tldraw -- nicely done!