Inkscape supports German petition to recognize Open Source volunteers

The Inkscape project has joined the group of supporting organizations for the German petition to recognize open source work as volunteering for the common good ("Ehrenamt"). Despite the petition being local to Germany, we believe that strengthening the position of open source contributors there will be beneficial to the open source community as a whole.

Inkscape 1.4.4 boosts performance and crushes crashes

While chugging away on the big 1.5 release, the Inkscape team has also worked on improvements for the current stable Inkscape 1.4.x line. Learn more about the improvements you can expect in this minor release!

Artist Interview: Can Inkscape-made artwork compete in an international film festival?

Read on to meet and learn from Jorge, artist and Inkscape user from Chile, who used only Free and Open Source software to create a short film for an international children's film festival, and who won the young jury's hearts.

Inkscape was hiring: Developers and Administrator (2026)

[expired] Inkscape is hiring two C++ developers and one issue administrator to accelerate the release of the 1.5 mega release...

Bugs banished – Inkscape 1.4.3 is out!

Introducing Inkscape 1.4.3 - our latest maintenance and bugfix release.

This new minor release patches critical bugs and crashes. Update to benefit from more than 120 bug and crash fixes, 23 improved user interface translations, and even a few new features.

IndiaFOSS 2025

The Inkscape project sent four contributors (Anunay, Ishaan, Manpreet, and Vaibhav) to attend IndiaFOSS 2025 which took place on September 20 and 21, 2025, in Bengaluru. The event provided a platform for Indian FOSS contributors to discuss their projects, future collaborations, and more...

Libre Graphics Meeting 2025

Right after Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, from May 28th to the 31st, the team attended to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2025, also in Nuremberg. It was a great opportunity to learn and share, and a unique experience to see how Inkscape contributes to the Libre Graphics scenario globally...

Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg

From May 24-28, 2025, we hosted an Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, Germany, just before this year's Libre Graphics Meeting. With 14 on-site participants, 2 remote participants and 3 external guests (Cedric, Elisa and Tiar), this was Inkscape's largest physical event yet, and a good sign the project is healthy and growing. 

Read more to see what were were up to during those four days!

2-in-1 release – Inkscape 1.4.2 is out!

Inkscape 1.4.2 is here! This update brings more than 70 bug & crash fixes, a fresh splash screen, new path cleanup tools, updated translations and enhanced support for file formats like Affinity Designer and Vectornator.

Inkscape Summit Frankfurt 2025

For the past few days, 7 Inkscape Members met up in Frankfurt, Germany to collaborate on various projects and get to know each other.

We were especially delighted to have two InkStitch maintainers, a major downstream project of Inkscape, join us. This way, we got to learn about the struggles and worries of projects using Inkscape better, and even built a new capability for extensions to interact with Inkscape during the event.

Inkscape at 21 is growing up and getting organized

November 6, 2024, marks the end of the 20th anniversary year for the Inkscape project, and the beginning of a new decade of adventure. There were a few milestones this past year, among them an informal global celebration, a bug-fix program, an About Screen Contest, an Inkscape Summit, a summer of code, and the launch of version 1.4.

Here’s a brief look at some of those milestones.

Inkscape’s 20th Anniversary

On November 18, 2023, the Inkscape project celebrated its 20th anniversary.

The anniversary celebration was an online get-together of Inkscape users and contributors.

This was an initiative by the Vectors team and the intention was to bring Inkscape users and contributors together to celebrate 20 years of Inkscape.

Inkscape launches version 1.4, with powerful new accessible and customizable features

After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign.

Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind the scenes on new features, improving current ones, bug fixes and setting the stage for the arrival of GTK 4.

Inkscape Summit 2024

We had a great Inkscape Summit in Rennes, France. Our three-day meeting was hosted by long-time Inkscaper's Elisa and Cédric in their school of design Activ.design...

Congratulations to Inkonic on winning Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest

We have a winner!

Congratulations to the winning entry by artist Inkonic for their artwork "Inkscape's Path–Artist's Blossom".