Friction 0.9.6 Beta 1

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Introducing Friction 0.9.6 Beta 1. This release includes several changes to the user interface and some additional new features.

We are now in feature freeze, please report any regressions or other issues introduced in this release.

WARNING! Project files saved with 0.9.6 are not compatible with older versions.

Final release is scheduled for early May.

UI/UX

• Improved viewer and timeline UI
• Don't wrap item labels
• Improved "Fill and Stroke" widgets
• New UI layout handler
• Render Queue: Fix missing labels (-none-) on project load
• Added shortcut for bookmark color (B)
• Added shortcut for Pivot local/global (P)
• Don't allow group link to be dropped on it's target
• Render queue state fixes
• Various minor tweaks
• Updated some icons

Renderer

Added support for profiles on selected codecs:

• H264 (baseline/main/high)
• ProRes (proxy/lt/standard/hq/4444/xq)
• AV1 (main/high/professional)
• VP9 (0/1/2/3)
• MPEG4 (simple/core/main)
• VC1 (simple/main/complex/advanced)

Effects

• Effects can now be renamed

Windows

• Support window title bar dark/light theme
• Removed dependency on Windows Media Foundation (Adds support for Windows N)

Linux

• Removed Ubuntu Lunar (23.04) native package
• Added Ubuntu Noble (24.04) native package
• Removed Flatpak package, will submit to flathub at some point
• Fixed broken RPM package

Other

• Source tarball (friction-VERSION.tar.bz2) is now available for releases
• Major improvements to the build process
• Started moving GUI code to frictionui library
• Moved more code to the frictioncore library
• Removed a lot of unused code
• Upgraded from Qt 5.12.12 to Qt 5.15.13
  • Should fix several UI issues on Windows

Full Changelog.

Known Issues

• Friction is beta quality software, expect issues and missing/broken features
• CSS style sheets are not supported when importing an SVG
  • SVG's from Adobe Illustrator (and others?) may have issues due to this
  • In some circumstances this might result in an invalid undo state after import
• SVG gradients may not import correctly
  • In general gradients needs some work
• There are still some minor issues with HiDPI
• Shader effects are still experimental and may introduce issues

And more, see our issue tracker for more information.

Support

• If you find an issue with the application please report it on our issue tracker (requires a GitHub account).
• For general discussion, feature requests etc use our forum (requires a GitHub account).

For other inquiries use support at friction dot graphics.

System Requirements

Minimum hardware

• 4GB RAM available
• AVX x86_64 compatible dual core CPU
  • Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3/i5/i7
  • AMD Bulldozer
• OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU and driver
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8 series (G8x/Tesla)
  • AMD Radeon HD 2000 series (R600/TeraScale 1)
  • Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge)
• Audio device supporting WASAPI on Windows and PulseAudio on Linux

Recommended hardware

• 32GB RAM
• CPU
  • Intel Kaby Lake Core i5/i7 or newer
  • AMD Ryzen/Threadripper 1000 series or newer
• GPU
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or newer
  • AMD Radeon RX 560 or newer
  • Intel UHD Graphics 620 or newer

Supported systems

• Microsoft Windows (N) 10/11
  • Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 or higher is needed on Windows 10
• Ubuntu 22.04/23.10/24.04 and compatible
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9/8.x/9.x and compatible
• Generic Linux (glibc 2.17+/libgcc 4.8.5+)

Linux notes

We have a universal Linux build recommended for most users. It's provided as a portable tarball, RPM and AppImage.

• They are all identical, only the package format differs
• Third-party dependencies are kept in sync with the Windows build, only the compilers differ

Ubuntu packages are built against system dependencies and differs from our universal build.

Native Wayland is currently not supported.

Checksums

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