Here are all the changes from this week’s release. Try them out now at beta.tldraw.com.
What's new
New font! Shantell Sans by ArrowType.
Choose between four font families! (they’re back)
Added an “always snap” mode.
Hyperlinks for images, videos, notes, and geo shapes.
Choose a transparent background when exporting images.
Added justify alignment for text.
New design for menu area.
Added ungrouping and rotating to the action menu.
You can now press the enter key to select the contents of a selected group.
Felt links are now embeddable.
Editing a shape with a label now ensures that the label is on screen.
Improvements
Big improvements to general performance, especially on mobile Safari.
Bookmark URLs now strip their protocol to be more human-readable.
Improved padding on note shapes with lots of text.
The sticky note tool now shows the correct options on the style panel.
The default sticky note color is now yellow.
Shapes stay selected after pinching to zoom or pan.
Text in SVG exports now matches the canvas much more accurately. Not exactly, yet.
Smarter resizing of shapes with labels.
Highlighted text is now readable and consistent across all platforms.
Improved handling of keyboard shortcuts while editing text.
Improved consistency of dotted and dashed styles between different shapes.
A line’s bounding box now appears around its edges, instead of its inner path.
Embed shapes continue running even when not visible on the canvas.
You can now resize YouTube embeds.
Shortened YouTube URLs are now accepted.
Embed shapes with a minimum size now resize correctly.
Embed shapes with a locked aspect ratio now resize correctly.
Arrows now connect correctly to groups and frames.
When you select different geometry shapes, the style panel now correctly shows ‘mixed’.
The visual for a group’s bounding box now tightly surrounds it.
Many icons were improved and tweaked, now loaded as images.
Improved event handling when menus are open.
Improved performance of minimap.
Improved performance when interacting with large numbers of shapes.
Improved performance of freehand shapes.
Added rotation handle to sticky note on mobile.
Disabled edge-resizing on mobile. It’s now easier to drag shapes without accidentally resize them.
Copying shapes as SVG or JSON now works in Firefox.
Removed Export / Copy as JPEG.
Exported frames now have the correct color and label.
Improved the eraser tool: clicking with the tool will now erase all shapes under the cursor.
Fixes
Fixed rare de-sync issues in multiplayer projects.
Fixed an issue where deleting another user’s shape would cause them to deselect other shapes.
Fixed some cases where visual indicators were not being removed.
Fixed and updated translations for Chinese - Simplified.
Fixed background color on print.
Fixed sticky note background color on export.
Fixed clipped arrows in SVG exports.
Fixed expensive cursor updates.
Fixed expensive undo / redo state changes.
Fixed hyperlink buttons not working on mobile Safari.
Fixed sticky notes drifting when being scaled with other shapes.
Fixed some small freehand shapes exploding.
Fixed a bug when drawing a line with only one point.
Fixed text resizing when props change, while in a group, during undo / redo.
Fixed display of straight arrows with labels.
Fixed label on the "Bring Forward" button.
Fixed empty labels being too wide.
Fixed sticky note position when cloning.
Fixed logic for disabling the redo button.
Fixed undo / redo when changing color in the style panel.
Fixed cursor while using the hand tool.
Fixed the erase tool not erasing everything under the cursor.