v1.7.0 is the biggest PhotoFlare release to date, migrating to Qt 6 and bringing new selection tools, dark mode, rulers, a reworked paste workflow, and dozens of stability and quality-of-life fixes plus G'MIC integration and a plugin system for power users.
✨ What's New
G'MIC Integration
- Full G'MIC filter suite now available via the Filters menu, adding hundreds of professional-grade filters and effects
Tools & Selection
- Lasso freehand selection shape (#492)
- Ellipse selection shape added to the Pointer tool (#76)
- Move selection with mouse and arrow keys (#32)
- Pan the canvas when zoomed in (#391)
- Draw straight lines by holding Shift (#65)
- Scale and rotate pasted images before committing (#283)
UI & Workspace
- Dark icon theme with automatic dark mode detection (#494)
- Rulers on the canvas (#497)
- Zoom controls added to the toolbar
- Grid settings button in the toolbar (#288)
- Copy, paste, and paste as new image added to the toolbar (#489)
- Resize by percentage in the resize dialog (#260)
- Save and restore panel/widget layout between sessions (#398)
- Restore selected tool, primary/secondary colours on launch
- Drag and drop files to open them
- HiDPI display scaling (#168)
Batch Processing
- Multiple source folder/path selection (#112)
- New filters available in the Batch dialog
- File format validation before processing (#327)
🐛 Notable Fixes
- EXIF metadata now preserved and displayed on save (#496)
- Tools no longer operate outside the active selection area (#417)
- Smudge tool effect working correctly again (#416)
- Text alignment corrected (#284)
- Paintbrush strokes are smoother (#302)
- Transparent erasing works correctly with the Eraser tool (#58)
- Print to PDF no longer clips part of the image (#375)
- Titlebar icons display correctly on Wayland (#134)
- Panel flickering on Windows resolved (#228)
- High memory usage with large thumbnail sets fixed (#350)
- Dust reduction with frame no longer creates artifacts (#390)
🔧 Under the Hood
- Canvas performance improvements (#330)
- Bucket fill now runs on a background thread (#410)
- Undo history pruning fixed (#405)
- Numerous smaller stability and crash fixes
For Developers
- Plugin system - initial support for custom filters and file formats via external plugins
This release also includes 30+ additional bug fixes. See the full commit history for details.
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