Highlights
- Add a native layer state manager with saved-state editing and viewport/transparency support.
- Add the BLEND/BLE command with tangent (G1) and curvature (G2) continuity for open curves.
- Redesign the plugin manager with search, README details, update detection, repository management, and clearer installed/available states.
- Add a visual hatch-pattern picker and unify hatch rendering across GPU capability backends.
- Persist browser state and recent-document thumbnails in the web build.
Fixes
- Preserve shared curve endpoints during rendering and prevent live polyline flicker.
- Delay complex hatch-pattern LOD until needed and keep hatch previews accurate during grip edits.
- Remove implicit drawing limits from the grid while preserving axis visibility.
- Preserve tiled viewport controls and isolate drawing-space state correctly.
- Complete MATCHPROP property coverage, nested block editing, selection cleanup, and PDF save-dialog parenting.
- Trust platform certificate stores for plugin downloads and link web plugin actions to the desktop application.
Performance and platform
- Make scene geometry edits incremental.
- Select renderer paths from actual GPU limits and improve large wire-buffer handling.
- Add a comprehensive security policy and refresh sponsor information.
- Add OpenAEC sponsorship to the Start page.
Full Changelog: v0.8.9...v0.9.0