Welcome to Inkscape 1.2 – and the next level of Inkscape!
As you know, Inkscape is free. You do not have to pay to use it and you can create with it without any restrictions.
Being free means it is an accessible vector graphics solution for students, amateurs, and hobbyists, but it also means that the developer team is working on it as volunteers. This makes the development much slower than that of the profit-oriented development process of Adobe Illustrator, for example.
The development of the predecessors of Inkscape started around 1998, and the first Inkscape version appeared in 2003. The development aimed to create a well-rounded open-source SVG editor. During those years, the Inkscape developer team kept adding feature after feature so that this software could grow into its latest version.
Inkscape 1.0 was officially released in May 2020. This was a huge milestone, a stable release with many new tools and design solutions. Since then, we had Inkscape 1.1 and 1...