Inkscape 1.3 Released!

That is good news. I have to draw a lot of diagrams and I find myself stuck between a few tools, none of which is perfect. Any one of those that improves is a great thing!

• Draw.io is brilliant for quickly creating stuff, but you can't easily reshape shapes
• Visio is ok, but for software that aims to be diagram -focused, compared to draw.io, its connectors are appalling
• Affinity designer is good, and not too expensive, but the lack of (outline+text*) objects (compared to draw.io and visio) quickly becomes a pain with complex diagrams. Plus complete lack of support for variable fonts is a showstopper for me.
• I was really pleasantly surprised by inkscape when I tried it again the other year after many years of not using it. It's really come along and improved. I know its not intended for diagrams, so dynamic connectors and (outline+text*) shapes aren't there. If they were, it would be the perfect tool.

I'm looking forward to trying out the new features of this release.

*When I say (outline+text) I mean a shape with text in it that isn't two separate objects I have to wrangle with careful alignment or grouping etc. If you don't know what I mean, take a look at how easy it is to put text in shapes in draw.io compared to inkscape