Glyphs Changelog

What's new in Glyphs 3.2.2 Build 3259

Apr 22, 2024

Fix handling if "Export vmtx Table" parameter
Stability improvements

New in Glyphs 3.2.1 Build 3258 (Apr 11, 2024)

New in Glyphs 3.2 Build 3257 (Apr 10, 2024)

New in Glyphs 3.1.2 Build 3151 (Jan 17, 2023)

New in Glyphs 3.1.2 Build 3150 (Jan 17, 2023)

New in Glyphs 3.1.2 Build 3149 (Jan 17, 2023)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3148 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3147 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3146 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3145 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3144 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3143 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3142 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3141 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3140 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3139 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3138 (Nov 29, 2022)

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New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3135 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1.1 Build 3134 (Nov 29, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.1 Build 3133 (Jun 19, 2022)

New in Glyphs 3.0.4 (Dec 17, 2021)

bove all, this latest version is a maintenance update for Apple’s latest two systems, macOS 11 Big Sur and macOS 12 Monterey. Though as always, the update has a few goodies for everyone, and we highly recommend updating right now: Open Glyphs 3, and choose Glyphs > Check for Updates, then simply follow the on-screen instructions.
Variable fonts and TrueType:
Big improvements to feature variations with a lot of different rules, and feature variations derived from bracket layers. If you have not already, read the Switching Shapes tutorial.
Kerning exports better, and all exceptions are preserved in the complete designspace, even if only some of the masters have a kerning exception, and even if you use alternate layers for switching shapes.
You can now make use of a Virtual Master also in single-master setups.
The Font Info > Font > Axis Mappings dialog has been much improved, with a clearer distinction between internal and external coordinates.
Glyphs will now always export a fallback name table ID 25 for variable fonts, even if no variationsPostScriptNamePrefix is set in Font Info > Font > General. Our hope is that it will fix most variable font issues with InDesign. Speaking of names, the variable font filename is better calculated now and ends in ‘VF’ by default. You can override it with a fileName custom parameter in a Variable Font Setting in Font Info > Exports.
Glyphs now properly exports all flags in the glyf table, which can have an influence on how overlaps in TrueType curves are rendered. This improves rendering in Chrome and Firefox, and in some font previews. Many thanks to Rob McKaughn for pointing us into the right direction.
And there have been a couple of simple bugfixes for variable fonts:
The Scale to UPM parameter now works as expected in a Variable Font Setting.
Masters, instances, spacing and components are better imported from a compiled variable font or designspace file.
Cleared some issues with export of variable GPOS
View > Show Master Compatibility is working a bit better now, with clearer drawings and colors
OpenType features:
You can now remove glyphs with the new del statement. It probably makes most sense in a contextual rule: del @finalForms connector';
The above statement deletes the glyph connector after final shapes, e.g., in a script typeface.
The include() statement now also works across multiple nesting levels. That is if you include a feature code file that again includes an include() statement, which in turn references another feature code file that again includes an include() statement, and so on.
The feature code compiler will now tolerate the AAT features morx and kerx in Font Info > Features and not treat them as errors anymore. Sorry for the inconvenience, AAT people. Now life is good again.
Editing:
You will appreciate the small improvements in your daily work. You can now toggle the export status of a glyph through the context menu in Text mode. Even a selection of multiple glyphs at once will work.
And you can type regular characters in the glyph selection dialogs, not just glyph names.
A few good news for reusing shapes: Glyphs now gracefully handles component loops, i.e., composites with components referencing each other. For instance, A has B as component, B has C as component, and C has A as component.
Speaking of component issues, detached corner components will show their badges, so you can still select and delete them. And if you have been using Cap Components, you will be pleased to hear that the Fit option now works as it should.
Good news for CPAL/COLR workflows: composites referencing glyphs with Color Palette layers will decompose properly into color layers.
Language support:
You would not believe it, but yes, we do have some changes in Latin. For one thing, we moved the legacy encodings Mac Roman and Windows 1252 to Languages > Latin > Legacy Encodings.
And in Mac Roman, we fixed a wrong entry: it must be increment, not Delta, ahem. Please remove the MacRoman and Win1252 entries from the Filters in the sidebar, and only use the entries Languages > Latin > Legacy Encodings from now on.
Also in the Font View sidebar, we improved Sámi support. The sidebar was lacking some punctuation glyphs. Not anymore now. Many thanks to Niklas who has been in contact with the Sámi parliament of Finland. Pretty cool.
While we are at it, we have been moving currency signs from Languages entries into the default listing of Categories > Symbol > Currency.
Thanks to Tanya, Nick, and all the others who have been helpful and patient with my many questions. Like before, all currency signs will be filtered with this category anyway, just now some more are also listed by default. We will do that if the currency sign (a) is not tied to a specific script (because then it will be listed in the respective Languages entry), (b) is in widespread use, and (c) can be easily typed on common keyboards. No, Alt-Gr codes on Windows and character pickers do not count. Based on this, do you have more suggestions? Let us know in the forum.
Quite a few improvements have been made in the GlyphData file. Thanks to your input, we have been able to add or expand support for many languages and scripts: Javanese, Tamil, even Dives Akuru. Many thanks Sérgio, Fadhl and many others who contributed.
We added Belarusian to the language picker, so you can now easily write and test OpenType features localized for Belarusian Cyrillic.
The new custom parameter Use Arabic Presentation Form Unicodes, available in Font Info > Font, will write legacy Unicode values for positional shapes. We do not recommend this option for shipping OpenType fonts, but it can be useful for testing and perhaps supporting legacy software environments. Use it only if you know what you are doing.
And if you know what that means, we updated MapFileAdobe-CNS1. Many thanks to Ken for his input. We could also fix an issue in the Adobe-KR ROS. And if you have been struggling with the import of CIDs, you will love to hear that we were able to track down and fix the bug that caused you so much trouble. It’s all good now.
Scripting:
Some good news for the scripters among you. Glyphs now officially supports Python 3.10, and we were able to update much of the API documentation.
For plug-ins, we added a new, much safer addCallback API. Make sure you use the latest plugin binary from the GlyphsSDK to profit from it.
Glyphs should now spit out much better error messages when a script fails. Also, in case you are a TextMate user, the line numbers in the tracebacks are clickable again.
In further news, we fixed Glyphs.localize() method for zh-Hant. And we added GSDocumentDidCloseNotification and proper KVO (Key Value Observing) for NSDocumentController.documents and Glyphs.orderedDocuments. If you know what this means, you will understand how much easier your life just became. And your users will appreciate it as well, we are sure.
The usual:
Thanks to your bug and crash reports, we have been able to further improve both stability and performance of our favorite font editing app. And then some. Here is a very selective list of our further update news:
Improved bracket layers in OTVar export
Improved Chinese and Portuguese localizations (thx Colt and Sérgio)
Improved font export at a low level
Improved app performance with a sub-grid and a high zoom level
Improved UFO handling, especially round-tripping of glyph.userData and kerning to and from UFO files
Improved component handling
Fixed toolbar issues in macOS 12
Improved sidebar behavior: quicker update of badges, logical-and concatenation in filters
Improved Edit > Compare Family…
Fixed the decomposition of component anchors in ligatures into consecutive anchors like top_1, top_2 (thx Joancarles)
Improved handling of RTL kerning (including clipboard operations)
Improved hinting:
Improved behavior of TT deltas on zones
Improved behavior of TT zones with a scope
When editing paths, hints attached to the outline are preserved much better
Better decomposition of PostScript hints
Improved TT instructions (thanks Edgar)

New in Glyphs 3.0.3 Build 3091 (Jun 28, 2021)

Cap components:
We rethought cap components from the ground up. They are much more flexible and make more sense now. When you set up a new cap component, generate a new glyph called _cap.strokeend, and inside, simply use two anchors node1 and node2.
They represent the butt line of the shape you will later apply it to. I recommend to keep them horizontal or vertical, then they are easier to handle. Now, select a straight line segment on a shape, then right click to bring up the context menu, and pick Add Cap Component.
The screenshot shows the same cap component used four times. You see, they adapt much better to the receiving shape.
And if you have cap components in an old project of yours, do not worry. The old cap-component algorithm is still supported, so Glyphs retains backwards compatibility to your old designs, as long as there are no node1 and node2 anchors in your _cap glyph.
Interpolation and variable fonts:
In File > Font Info > Axes, you can now drag axes into a different order. This is important because in Adobe apps (and probably elsewhere too), the axis order determines the sorting of instances in the font menu.
And when it comes to axis mapping, axis locations and conditon statements in the feature code, we now clearly differentiate between internal and external coordinates. Internal coordinates, or ‘design coordinates’, are the axis coordinates used in File > Font Info > Masters. Internal coordinates are used throughout the app, e.g., in the brace and bracket layer interfaces, or with the condition statement in File > Font Info > Features. External coordinates, or ‘user coordinates’, are the coordinates presented to the user in the finished font files. You can translate from internal to external coordinates with Axis Location and Axis Mappings parameters.
Axis Location parameters are available in both File > Font Info > Masters and now also for instances in File > Font Info > Exports. E.g., you can map the Regular instance to Weight axis coordinate 400.
Alternatively, in File > Font Info > Font, you can use the Axis Mappings parameter to link internal to external coordinates, and even do more complex mappings.
The range for the internal coordinates is determined by the actual axis positions of the masters in Font Info > Masters, whereas the range for external coordinates is determined by the Axis Location parameters in Font Info > Masters.
In further variable-font news, export of axis names to the STAT table has been improved. And feature variations now also export for cursive attachment, i.e., exit and entry anchors, very important for Arabic variable fonts.
In static font exports, you can add an InterpolationWeightY parameter for differentiate between x and y coordinates in interpolation. Nothing new, but now the preview respects the parameter and gets updated as soon as you add or change it. Speaking of static fonts, all coordinates are now properly rounded after interpolation.
And, Glyphs performs more checks and error reports at export, including impossible master setups or outlines that do not lend themselves to TT conversion for variable fonts. If you have been using the betas, you may have seen those already.
Monospaced fonts:
Thanks to all the users who gave us valuable feedback, we could add a few improvements for creating monospaced fonts. It all depends on the use of the isFixedPitch custom parameter. You can add that parameter to File > Font Info > Font or now also in instances listed in File > Font Info > Exports.
Once isFixedPitch applies to a font export, it does two things: firstly, it sets the isFixedPitch bit in the post table (or in shorter notation: post.isFixedPitch), marking the font as monospaced. Secondly, it syncs all glyph widths in the font with space. Careful: if the parameter is added to File > Font Info > Font (rather than Exports), it does that in the .glyphs file already.
An application that looks for monospaced fonts may either check for the presence of post.isFixedPitch and/or scan the advance width of all glyphs in the font. That is why it’s a good thing that the parameter takes care of both.
You can also force the syncing behaviour with a number value called .monospace in File > Font Info > Masters. If you do it this way, the number value is used instead of the width of the space glyph. Either way, all widths will be listed as automated.
Another thing that is new, is that really all glyphs are set to the monospaced value (be it the width of the wordspace or the number value), and that includes nonspacing glyphs now. That may sound counterintuitive, but most algorithms that scan for monospaced fonts will skip fonts that have nonspacing marks with zero widths.
Mac name table:
Internally, OpenType fonts consist of tables. One of these tables is the naming table or name table, which stores all kinds of wordings for the font: the family name, the style name, the copyright, you name it. It allows to store each of these entries for different languages and even different operating systems or ‘platforms’, as the spec calls them.
Typically, fonts created in this millennium would contain name table entries for the Mac platform and the Windows platform. This is also how Glyphs handles it by default: any name you enter in Font Info is stored for both platforms. Though, as it turns out, the differentiation between platforms has become more and more obsolete, and all software today can do just perfectly without the Mac entries. So, all you really need inside a font are the entries for the Windows platform. If you want Glyphs to export just the Windows entries, add an Export Mac Name Table Entries custom parameter to File > Font Info > Font or to an instance in File > Font Info > Exports.
Currently, the default value is on. So if there is no parameter, or the parameter is inactive, or the parameter is active (the parameter enabled) and turned on (the value of the parameter), Glyphs will still export name table entries for both platforms. So, if you do add the parameter, you will probably add it like this.
The first checkbox activates the parameter (if it is off, it will take the fallback value), the second checkbox determines its value.
OpenType features:
We have a few improvements for tokens. First of all, when you edit your token code, the selection behaviour is much improved. Especially when you double click a word, the word gets selected and not the complete token.
With the class(ClassName) syntax, you can refer to the content of an OT class.
You can now refer to things on the interpolated layer with the layer keyword. In case you are wondering, it is equivalent to layer0, but makes more sense.
The feature code parser has become more flexible in coding styles. It will allow class names that start with a period, e.g., @.connectors. And it will accept the pos x 10 y; order, next to pos x y 10;, for pair positionings.
And you will like that Window > Text Preview has become more responsive for changes in the feature code.
Anchor propagation:
This one is little more complicated. Bear with us. Or skip this chapter if it doesn’t make sense to you.
In File > Font Info > Font and Exports, there is a new custom parameter called Propagate Anchors. It controls the propagation of top and bottom anchors in composites for mark attachment. Default is on.
Typically, you want the top and bottom anchors for two things: firstly, connecting components for composites like beh-ar.medi with a single dot below, or teh-ar.medi with two dots above, etc. And secondly, to provide a connection point for nonspacing marks that are placed with the two mark attachment OpenType features, mark Mark Positioning and mkmk Mark to Mark Attachment. If anchors propagate, then you do not need to set additional anchors in beh-ar.medi, e.g. for the vowel marks, because the anchors of its components ‘shine through’ to the composite. Thus, mark attachment also works in composites without additional anchors. This is the default, and also what you want in the very most cases.
However, the downside is that anchor propagation may increase the size of the mark and mkmk features significantly. And perhaps, in conjunction with a large kern feature, it may just be enough to even cause a subtable overflow and the font cannot export. In this case, consider adding this parameter and turn its value off.
Then, only glyphs that actually contain these anchors will produce entries in mark and mkmk features.
PostScript autohinting:
We updated the PS autohint binary with the very latest code from Adobe.
And we added Autohinting as an option for the Filter parameter. That way you can more precisely determine which glyphs do and do not get autohinted, because you can add include: or exclude: to the filter string.
Improvements and fixes:
And of course, there have been a lot of tiny improvements and little fixes here and there, often hardly worth mentioning, but in total, they will improve your Glyphs experience. To pick out just a few:
Glyphs > Preferences > Shortcuts now allows F keys
New fonts now have a default italic angle setting in File > Font Info > Masters.
Glyphs now validates the postscriptName property in File > Font info > Font or Exports, and warns you about a faulty entry.
Improved setup of brace and bracket layers, and improved handling of complex bracket layer setups in OTVar export
Anchor selection is prevented when View > Show Anchors is off, but once you add an anchor, it is turned on again
Paths > Transformations > Cursify now also works for left slanting
Improved handling of custom parameters in Font Info (esp. with multiple selection)
Fixed problems with Wacom tablets in Font Info
Color font improvements: you can apply svg as a layer attribute via the context menu in the Layers palette, and you can apply a palette color (from the Color Palettes parameter) to master layers too.
Fixed a bug in the Round Font filter
Improved Knife tool (Shift-E) in edge situations, e.g., when cutting directly through a node
Improved masking components
Improved Arabic layout in Edit view and some decompositions in the Arabic glyph info
Improved decomposition of double marks with suffix, e.g., brevecomb_acutecomb.case
Faster Edit view update after changing vertical metrics in Font Info
The preview in the TT Instructions tool (shortcut I) is much improved more responsive
Improved RTL kerning
Further improved overlap removal
PS-to-TT conversion works better for shallow curves, and TT-to-PS conversion yields better results now
Improved measurements with the Measurement tool (shortcut L)
Improved rendering in Show all Instances
Improved export of variation selectors, advanceWidthMax for empty glyphs, fsSelection, and the Optical Size custom parameter.
Improved generation of OpenType feature Languagesystems, improved automatic class and feature generation
Plugin Manager can now handle dependencies
Many more font info properties are now in the Python wrapper
Syntax coloring is synced between macro window and feature view
Newline characters are prevented in tags
Added support for Salish
Improved French localization (thx Nathalie)
Import Manufacturer from a compiled .otf
Fixed import of old Mac font suitcases
Fixed encodingID export to UFO (thx Paul)

New in Glyphs 3.0.2 Build 3058 (Jan 27, 2021)

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New in Glyphs 3.0.1 Build 3039 (Jan 15, 2021)

New in Glyphs 3.0.0 (Jan 15, 2021)

General:
New app icon
Ready for Big Sur
New Start Window opens at launch
Modular and flexible UI principle for customizing glyph sets (‘Languages’), extensions, and localizations
Drawing and Shaping:
View > Show Nodes > Extra Nodes: predicts intersection points, allows to attach special components
Draw tool (P): hold down Cmd while dragging handles to create asymmetric smooth handles
New special component type: Segment Components glyphsapp.com/learn/reusing-shapes-segment-components
New special component type: Brushes glyphsapp.com/learn/reusing-shapes-brushes
Components indicate their alignment status with a subtle color tint: green means auto-aligned
Apply graphic attributes to paths: stroke width, fill, mask, color, gradient, shadow and glow
Copy and paste attributes via the context menu
Fit Curve indicates current curvatures, allow incremental increase and decrease of all selected curvatures
Editing:
Context menu items: Focus on Selected Paths, Clear Focus on Paths; for toggling exclusive editing of some paths
Context menu item: Locked; for preventing changes to the respective glyph, locked status is indicated in the top right corner
Lock and unlock paths via the context menu, locked paths indicate their status with a red node highlight on mouse-over
Context menu item: Sharpen Corner for continuing segments adjacent to the current node selection until they intersect
Glyph > Transform Metrics: allows to add relative changes equally on both LSB and RSB
Paths > Transformations: shifting, scaling, slanting of shapes
Paths > Interpolate with Background
Filter > Shape Order (formerly: Fix Compatibility)
Edit > Paste Special (Cmd-Opt-V) now allows pasting of copied glyphs as components
All editing commands are applied on all masters simultaneously if you press the Option key:
Glyph > Update Metrics (Ctrl-Cmd-M) + Opt: for All Masters
Glyph > Add Component (Cmd-Shift-C) + Opt: for All Masters
Glyph > Create Composite (Ctrl-Cmd-C) + Opt: for All Masters
Glyph > Decompose Components (Cmd-Shift-D) + Opt: for All Masters
Glyph > Set Anchors (Cmd-U) + Opt: for All Masters
Glyph > Reset Anchors (Cmd-Shift-U) + Opt: for All Masters
Paths > Correct Path Direction (Cmd-Shift-R) + Opt: for All Masters
Paths > Round Coordinates + Opt: for All Masters
Paths > Tidy Up Paths (Cmd-Shift-T) + Opt: for All Masters
Paths > Remove Overlap (Cmd-Shift-O) + Opt: for All Masters
context menu on an individual node: Make Node First + Opt: in All Masters
context menu on one or more nodes: Open Corner + Opt: in All Masters
context menu on one or more node pairs: Reconnect Nodes + Opt: in All Masters
Selecting:
New tool: Lasso Select (Shift-V)
Hold down Ctrl to slant a selection rectangle you are dragging
Edit > Keep Layer Selections in Sync: keeps the selection the same across all compatible master layers
Multiple Masters and Layers:
Improved Layers palette:
change a layer type via context menu to Alternate, Intermediate, Color, iColor, Color Palette. Then double click the layer name for settings if applicable
Reorder and filter layers directly in the Layers palette
Drop a backup layer on a master layer to swap them (equivalent to Use as Master Layer in the context menu)
Double click an Intermediate or Alternate Layer to access their settings
View > Show Compatibility (Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-N) allows you to drag start points on any of the displayed layers into a new location
Improved algorithm for automatically correcting path directions, resetting start points and reordering shape orders
Previewing:
Edit > Text Preview: preview long texts in any instance with Apple’s CoreText
In the Preview area of the main window, simply click and drag to reposition the preview text
Color:
Color layers: allow color fills and strokes, gradient fills, shadows and inner glows. Can be exported into an SVG table (but no support for shadows in the OT table) or any of the image formats PDF, SVG and PNG.
Color Palette layers can be exported as CPAL/COLR. Or to an SVG table with the Color Palette for SVG and Color Layers to SVG parameters.
iColor layers will export as sbix table in a font, or as bitmapped SVG with the SBIX to SVG custom parameter.
Filter > Glyph as Image controls image export settings for selected glyphs, and can export PDF, SVG and PNG.
View > Show Pixel Preview renders a pixelated preview directly in Edit View. Control pixel size in context menu.
Glyph Info category ‘Icon’ changes glyph metrics to image dimensions
Managing glyphs:
Customize Languages glyph sets with the plus button next to the Languages header in the sidebar
From the search field at the top of the Font View sidebar, quickly filter glyphs by name or Unicode value or with a regular expression
Smart category ‘Small Caps’ can indicate which small-cap glyphs are missing, based on available glyphs
Glyph > Info for Selection: Glyph Info dialog can be accessed from Edit view too
From Edit View, navigate to the current glyph’s cell in Font View via the context menu command Show Glyph in Font View
Glyph Info now covers writing direction and sort name, and new property ‘Case’ for differentiating between Uppercase, Lowercase, Small Caps, Minor (small figures and letter), and N/A.
Glyphs with custom Glyph Info indicate their status with an ‘i’ icon in their Font View cell.
Font Info:
The Font Info UI is now completely modular, inline-documented and localizable wherever possible
Localize an entry by duplicating it with its plus button and choosing a language from the pop-up menu; remove an entry by Opt-clicking the button.
Search and filter the custom parameter
Copying and pasting of properties and parameters between Font Info windows of different fonts. No need to focus on a section first, the entries will fall into the right place automatically.
Batch-edit multiple masters or instances after Shift- or Cmd-selecting their names in the sidebar.
Font Info > Masters > Metrics are pairs of height and zone size, or an italic angle. Metrics can be filtered by script or glyph category.
Font Info > Font > Exports: add Variable Font Settings for parameters that apply to the whole variable font.
OpenType Features:
Completely house-made feature compilation, we have dropped Adobe MakeOTF for generating binaries.
UI improvements: improved syntax coloring, changing font size with Cmd-plus/minus, autocompletion of class and glyph names.
Customizable code snippet menu.
Live code verification checks for errors as you type, can suggest corrections. Issues are marked in-line in the feature code and in the feature list in the sidebar.
Spec button in each feature takes you to the official documentation.
Adding a feature gives you a searchable list of all registered features to choose from.
Add dynamic code with tokens:
number values are defined and named in Font Info > Masters, can be inserted with a prefixed dollar sign in the feature code: $numberName
number values can be used for calculations with curly braces: ${numberName2}
predicate tokens produce a list of glyph names for which the predicate applies; write an NSPredicate between square brackets: $[name like “.sc”]
Opt-click on a glyph or class name or a predicate token to preview its glyph scope.
Contextual mark attachment anchors: duplicate an attachment anchor with a prefixed asterisk and an optional arbitrary dot suffix to invoke the Anchor Context UI (Cmd-Shift-I) at the bottom of the Palette sidebar. Type the OT feature context with * as placeholder for the current glyph, e.g., “* @tall” for a conditional anchor position that is invoked whenever the glyph is followed by glyphs from the @tall class.
Feature code preprocessor macros: add feature code for variable fonts only by enclosing it between “#ifdef VARIABLE” and “#endif”, or for static fonts only by using #ifndef instead of #ifdef.
Add OTVar conditions by using the condition keyword, followed by any number of comma-separated lowvalue < tag < highvalue structures, followed by a semicolon. Code that follows will only be added if the condition is met. Exports as feature variations in OTVars. E.g., condition 600 < wght < 900, 70 < wdth < 90;
Extending:
The Glyphs Python API requires Python 3.
Install plug-ins, scripts, Python 3 and modules via the Plugin Manager. Filter by name and installation status (installed/uninstalled).
Add custom extension collections by supplying a custom package list URL in Glyphs > Preferences > Addons.
Exporting:
File > Export UI completely overhauled: exports for static fonts (including both desktop and webfonts), variable fonts, Metrics, UFO, and SFSymbols.
Static font export allows direct test installation in memory without cache problems. An app may need to restart to force-rebuild its font menu if the font is test-installed the first time.
File > Export All (Cmd-Opt-E): hold down Opt to batch-export all open fonts with the most recent export settings.
New file format .glyphsPackage, equivalent to .glyphs, but data split in many separate files to facilitate subversioning (git, svn).
App Preferences:
Customize all colors, for both Light and Dark Mode
Categories of sample strings

New in Glyphs 2.6.6 Build 1352 (Jan 15, 2021)

New in Glyphs 2.6.6 Build 1351 (Jan 15, 2021)

New in Glyphs 2.6.6 Build 1350 (Dec 1, 2020)

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New in Glyphs 2.6.5 Build 1342 (Jul 1, 2020)

Menu Commands and Tools:
Hold down Opt key to turn Paths > Add Extremes into Force Extremes.
The Knife tool (Shift-E) now works as expected when you cut a path through the same segment twice.
Now also in the Annotations tool (A), you can temporarily invoke the Hand tool by holding down the space bar, and the Select tool with the Cmd key.
Rectangle and Circle tools (F, Shift-F) now behave as expected with big grids.
Variable Fonts and Interpolation:
Glyphs does not export any TrueType Delta instructions in variable fonts anymore.
Font Info > Font > Custom Parameters > Axis Mappings parameter allows decimal numbers
Font Info > Masters > Custom Parameters > Axis Location now works now as you would expect it with intermediate masters.
Improved Font Info > Font > Custom Parameters > Axes dialog, now only accepts 6 axes and validates axis tags.
Fixed: missing kerning pairs in variable fonts, and a rare problem in TrueType conversion where a curve segment would collapse.
Filter > Fix Compatibility dialog now properly works with Bracket layers again (thanks Tamir).
Plug-ins and Scripts in Catalina:
Third-party extensions automatically inherit Glyphs’ notarization now, even when it is not installed through Window > Plugin Manager.
Python scripts that open a file dialog now work as expected in Catalina.
Reusing shapes:
Improved Smart Component settings: now accepts numbers with decimals.
Smart Glyph settings now allow properties to be reordered by dragging.
You can now re-interpolate smart components with the context menu of the Layers palette.
Copying and pasting smart components, especially multiple ones at once, now works as expected.
Transformed components decompose at export.
Improved snapping when dragging regular components.
TrueType:
Start point is preserved more reliably.
Round trip conversion PS-TT-PS avoids double nodes
TTFStems and TTFZones parameters: zone and stem deltas now work properly for sizes above 47 PPM.
File Import and Export:
Also invoke the File > Export dialog (Cmd-E) when the Font Info window is in front.
Improved conversion to and from UFO: better mark feature writing, locked state of a component is properly exchanged with ufolib, better UFO export dialog.
More Improvements:
Improved app localizations for Japanese, Chinese, French or Spanish (thanks Nathalie, Willie, Sol, Txus, Toshi).
You can now add an unlimited number of color palettes in the Color Palettes parameter (thanks Rasmus)
Improved handling of double encodings
Display String legibility improvements: no more escaping of /space in tab titles, but escaping of PUA glyphs with their glyph names.
Improved OpenType feature code generation, especially in mark and mkmk, and for Thai
The Dimensions palette for Thai now works as expected
Metrics keys with a negative constant, e.g., =-10 now work as expected.
The red indicator for ultra-short paths (

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New in Glyphs 2.6 Build 1192 (Dec 27, 2018)

Mojave Compatibility:
Support for Dark Mode
Added option to disable Dark Mode in Font view: Glyphs.boolDefaults["GSFontViewDarkMode"]=False
Dramatically improved performance in Mojave
Fixed Select Glyphs search field in Mojave
Fixed update of Font view when switching masters in Mojave
Edit View:
Improved performance of Edit view
Added one-click segment selection
Change order of selection: now, double clicking selects the path added last
The Select Glyphs window is now resizable (thanks jan)
Added warning for glyphs with too many nodes
In the Preview area, use vertical metrics of instance instead of currently selected master
Improved display of PS hints with invalid values
Improved handling of preview height
Fixed update of color label in info box
Fixed path operations
Fixed vertical layout and handling of vertical metrics
Show appropriate info box when switching to vertical mode
Improved moving the cursor up and down in text mode
Main accent will always display on top of the mark cloud, without opacity
Font View:
Use better suffix when duplicating a glyph with a .00x suffix
Added Categories > Numbers > Small Figures to the sidebar, and added fraction glyph to the Fraction category
Allow plain unicode characters in list filters
Properly update badge counts on nested entries in the sidebar
Smart filters: Only count actual hints in Has Hints
New smart filter option Has PostScript Hints: lists glyphs with PS-style manual hints (stem and ghost hints)
New smart filter option Has TrueType Hints: lists glyphs with manual TT hints, added with the TrueType Instructor tool (I)
New smart filter option Has Corners: lists glyphs that contain corner components
Assign the color to the right glyph when right clicking on an unselected item
Fixed Font view layout problems (thanks inka)
Font Info and OpenType Features:
Validate URL entries and display warning if necessary
For ligatures with .loclXXX suffix, do not add the suffix to all components if the suffixed glyph is not in the font (thanks Rob)
Prevent subtable overflow in mark feature
Show feature popup for features referenced in an include() statement in a feature prefix
Improved handling of aalt feature
Added missing Feature names
Reusing Shapes:
Prefer base glyphs with .topAccent or .bottomAccent suffixes for composition (name of anchor + Accent, multiple camel-cased anchor names in alphabetical order are possible)
When saving a file, update alignment of all components
Improved handling of cap components
Allow extra paths in _cap, too
Fixed manual decomposition of cap components
Narrower default width for _corner glyphs
Keep corner components when swapping background
Fixed copying and pasting of corner components on partial paths
Fixed corner components on start points
Fixed crash with invalid corner components in instance preview
Fixed rotating of smart components
TrueType:
Improved drawing in Master Compatibility with quadratic curves
Adding inflection points when converting to TrueType
Convert to Quadratic accessible in Font view
Autohint TrueType is accessible from Font view if TT Instructor tool (I) was selected before
Autohint TrueType now also adds x-direction hints for vertical stems (only if there are vertical stems defined in TTFStems)
Added TTPreviewAlsoShowOffCurveIndexes default
Added TTZoneRoundingThreshold parameter: its value is added to any positive zone position before rounding, and added twice to the x-height zone, default: 0.09375
Added control value cut-in, which deactivates outline distortions if the effective change results in something bigger than 1.515625 screen pixels
Always use minimum distance of 0.25 and add TTMinimumDistance parameter
Triggering TrueType autohinting will not generate PS hints any more
Use new ftxenhancer location
Improved TrueType stem deltas
Fixed small differences in TTF and CFF export
Fixed crash with TrueType curves and path operations (it will not actually remove overlap, yet)
Fixed import of vertical TTStems
Fixed red line preview in TrueType tool
Fixed some issues with TrueType hinting preview
Fixed a rounding problem with TT stems set to automatic
Fixed copying TT hints when the master has PostScript hints
Fixed problems with zero width zones in TrueType export
Fixed TrueType preview when there is a component in the .notdef
Fixed accents that have hints at intersections (thanks Christoph)
Fixed TrueType hints from corner components
Fixed strong stem settings in ttfAutohint settings (--stem-width-mode)
Color Fonts:
Only draw color layers from current master
Support for alpha in colors
Include color layers in master compatibility
Interpolate color layers
Allow color brace layers
Keep the selected color layer when switching to the next glyph
Fix Color Layers to SVG: choose proper COLR table setup
Improve handling and drawing of glyphs with iColor layers (for sbix): match spacing with default layer, always draw the images full size
Draw sbix image in text mode
Better sort sbix layers on import
Fixed positioning of sbix images in SVG
Improved sbix to SVG export
Improved image scaling and positioning with SBIX to SVG conversion
Fixed SVG export of nested components
Improved error reporting when loading SVG
Variable Fonts and Multiple Masters:
Allow adding more than one master at once in File > Font Info > Masters > Add Other Font
Adding font as master preserves all layers
Support for Color Variable Fonts with COLR/CPAL
Added variableStyleName and variableFileName parameters
Variation Font Origin renamed to Variable Font Origin
Check if paths are valid when exporting Variable Fonts
Small improvement to the STAT table in Variable Fonts
Fixed variable font export of GPOS with extension lookups
Fixed kerning in Variable fonts with three axes
Languages, Scripts, Encodings, Localizations:
Added more emojis to GlyphData
Fixed double encodings in CID-keyed fonts
Added bopomofo to CJK scripts
Added Chinese groups to the Font view sidebar (thanks 3type)
Alignment for components in CJK glyphs now disabled by default
Fixed scripts and sorting of some Chinese numbers and han or bopomofo glyphs
New Korean sidebar (thanks Minjoo, Aaron, Sandoll)
Allow auto alignment for Hangul
Fixed issue with adding Hangul components
Support new ROS Adobe-KR
Added Buginese to glyph data and sidebar
New Khmer sidebar and updated Khmer Glyph Data (thanks Ben)
Fixed mark positioning for Khmer
Some corrections to the South East Asian entries in the Font view sidebar (thanks Ben)
Updated Devanagari sidebar and GlyphData (thanks Kimya, Rob)
Ignore iMatras with additional suffix (thanks Rob again)
Fixed some deva/marathi names in sidebar
Change default feature order to allow alternates for Indic special glyphs (thanks Rob)
Added more Canadian native languages to GlyphData
Added some scripts to be handled as RTL (e.g.: oldHungarian, phoenician)
Don’t break Arabic RTL rendering when marks are in the string
Fixed some GlyphData issues (one Arabic)
Added Unicode values for uppercase Georgian
Fixed locl feature for Ukrainian
Fixed some missing script tags
Fixed some glyph info issues (subcategory of small-cap marks)
Fixed production name of copy pasted glyphs
Improved filtering of kerning between different scripts (Thanks fritze)
Fixed handling of plane 16 unicode
Fixed import of unicode2 from Info/GlyphData.xml
Make sure double encoded glyphs lose their second unicode if this glyph is inserted
Make sure to add nameID16/17 if localized names are present
Fixed layout in localizations of Offset Curve Filter Dialog
Improved localizations and fixed a few typos
Updated Chinese localization
Updated French localization (thanks Nathalie)
Scripting:
Do not hide macro window when app is not active
Improve GSPathPen: better compatibility with various pen types (thanks Jens)
Added .axes property to GSFont and GSFontMaster
Added API to allow plugins to influence the interpolation
Give full file path as argument with GSDocumentWasExportedNotification
Several additions/fixes to the python wrapper
Fixed imports in plugins
Fixed links in descriptions in Plugin Manager
Fixed callbacks in reporter plugins when no layer is selected
Fixed download and update of python modules
Use proper address to download fontTools
Import & Export:
In compatibility dialog, pre-select all issues with more then 10 units difference
Fixed pasting outlines from Affinity Designer
Import strikeoutPosition/Size into custom parameters on import of OTF
Improved stability when several fonts are imported at once
Improved error reporting on export
Fixed import of feature code (add support context subs)
Fixed import of kerning from .designspace files
Set correct OS2.usLastCharIndex when there are upper-plane chars
Fixed import of multi-line classes with exactly one glyph name on the first line
Fixed missing Name Table Entry from instances
Fixed calculation of xAvgCharWidth
Fixed export of uniqueID parameter
Properly sort cmap subtables
General:
Largely improved overall performance
Use more legible shapes for glyph names (in kerning panel, font view and info box)
Allow printing from Finder (thanks Jürgen)
Use CMYK colors for printing
Added Glyphs.defaults["GSShowVersionNumberInDockIcon"]
Allow filtering for script in Glyph Info window
Improved performance when batch-editing kerning and kerning groups
Improved handling of .glyphsproject documents
Improved stability: all reproducible crashes fixed
Improved feedback for Add-on Modules installation
Improved loading and recognizing of license files
Improved Round Corner as export filter
Improved setting layer/glyph colors from context menu
Improved handling of very large userData inside the .glyphs file.
Fixed undo after setting the first node, decomposing nested components, for OT classes, OT prefixes, zones and stems
Fixed ‘stuck zoom’ phenomenon
Fixed empty preview
Fixed image paths when duplicating the document
Fixed rare issue where file would open empty
Fixed opening files in macOS 10.9 that where saved in later macOS versions
Fixed a handful of UI glitches
Fixed a crash with nested components
Countless small fixes and improvements

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New in Glyphs 2.5.1 Build 1141 (May 18, 2018)

Editing:
Allow Re-interpolate on all selected layers.
Global guides now also show in Brace and Bracket layers.
Keep names and Unicode values for Private Use Area glyphs.
Prevent corners from being dragged.
Improved copying glyphs from one font to another.
Improved undo with components.
Fixed application of Transformation filter on text selection containing a control character (e.g., newline).
Fixed display of View > Show Master Compatibility.
Fixed undo after Filter > Fix Compatibility.
Variable Fonts:
Added mkmk GPOS variation.
Improved variation of anchors from components.
Fixed mark positioning with with anchors from nested components.
Fixed .designspace import.
Import & Export:
Fixed issues with nested components in component checker on opening older files.
Run import validation on all imported files, including UFO and TTF.
Added option to show layers affected by the Component Move warning.
Better handle production names if Use Custom Naming is set.
Fixed duplicate production name when glyph is duplicated in Edit view.
Longer glyph names are possible now.
Read/write displayStrings to UFO.
Fixed reading of files with Windows line endings.
Fixed an issue with local GlyphData.
Fixed scaling on export.
Improved and accelerated TTF export.
Fixed rare issue with TrueType instructions on intersection points.
Fixed ttfAutohint settings (use --stem-width-mode).
Fixed bug in ttfAutohint option parsing.
Localizations and Language Support:
Improved Bulgarian Cyrillic sidebar entries (thx Krista and Botio).
Updated Chinese, Korean, Portuguese and French localizations.
Remove non-ASCII localization for default font name.
Scripting:
Add Update button to the vanilla warning dialog.
Add Variable Font and UFO support to the Python export function font.export(Format=VARIABLE/UFO) and instance.generate(Format=UFO).
Fixed plugins that use Robofab and FontTools.
Fixed problem with objectsGS.py, which should fix the recent Drawbot problems.
Now macro output is always visible in Window > Macro Panel.
General Improvements:
Use unique file names for generated image files (after pasting an image into a glyph).
Improved sorting by Unicode in Window > Glyph Info.
Improved the handling of trial and EULA dialogs.
Improved storage of document settings in .glyphs file.
Improved appearance in fullscreen mode.
Better error reporting.
Improved stability and performance.
Small fixes and improvements.

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General Improvements:
Added View > Show Nodes > In Background
Added more options for foreground and background stroke colors in Preferences
Added Direction column to Font tab > List view
Added possibility to double-encode glyphs
Added custom parameter “Smart Components Compatibility Mode” for backwards compatibility
Added custom parameter “Keep Transformed Components” to prevent decomposing on export
At import, moved components are detected and auto-alignment is disabled where necessary
Improved round-tripping UFO
Improved SVG import, especially parsing of arc
Better recover corrupted files
Fixed some crashes
Many small improvements and fixes
Improve handling of Upper plane characters
Add support for 6. axis (thanks luc)
Hinting:
Much improved TrueType instruction. Better UI and much better instructions.
Auto rounding for anchors and stems that are not attached to a zone
New Custom Parameter “Get Hints From Master”
First support for horizontal TT hints (thx Monika)
Import hints from FLS UFOs (exported with vfb2ufo and the -64 option)
GASP: use all symmetric hinting
Improved TT Zone handling: Align zones to other zones, deltas for zones
Improved TT Stem handling: Deltas for stems
Remove All Hints only removes TT hints
Get TT hints from corners
Fixed including hints of components
Opening .ttf files preserves TT outlines and binary instructions.
Variable Fonts:
Support for Bracket layers (as Feature Variation)
Improved STAT export in OTVar
Metrics:
Improved search menu in Window > Kerning
Copying and pasting from Window > Kerning now uses new .metrics file format
Window > Kerning now allows filtering for groups or glyph kerning without a search string
Editing:
Added Paths > Make Corner (also in context menu; select some nodes and Glyphs will try to remove them and make a sharp corner. Good to un-round a font)
Added dragging handles for Smart Glyph parameters (for enabling handles, use anchors named after respective parameters)
Added possibility to nest corner components
Selection as Component: if base component has top or bottom anchor, a corresponding anchor will be added in the new glyph
Improved handling of flipped components
Improved Decompose Corners
Improved copying and pasting of Smart Components
Improved Offset Path filter
Fix acute corners and inflections
Improved Autostroke
Much improved text selection behavior in Edit tab
Much improved Upper Plane layout in Edit tab
Fixed: cursor behavior in Edit tab with ligatures (in certain constellations)
Fixed: Edit > Paste Special > Only Replace Active Layer will paste only the copied layer
Switched back to Lucida Grande for small text in Edit view
Languages:
Minor Glyph Data improvements for Chinese punctuation, Mongolian and others
Removed combining strokes and slashes from default Latin sidebar entries
Improved Monotonic Greek sidebar entry, added Greek punctuation (thx Ειρήνη)
Improved Adobe-Korean1 mapping file
Improved Arabic decompositions
Fixed Arabic ccmp code for shadda_xxx-ar
OT Features:
Improved handling of additional custom mark feature code
Added custom parameters: Remove Prefixes, Replace Prefix
Improved syntax coloring in Font Info > Features
Fixed export with include() statements
Fixed export with no lookups
Fixed import of features if lookup name matches feature tag
Python API:
Added GSPath.transform()
Updated .py wrapper (thx @yanone)

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OTVar and TrueType:
Added support for OTVar-specific tables, including preliminary support for STAT
Only export STAT table if requested with custom parameter (individual axes for some glyphs only)
Added support for virtual OTVar masters
Added optional Axis Location parameter
Updated ttfAutohint to version 1.6
Prevent export TT tables prep, fpgm, cvt if no hinting is in the font
Different decomposition of nested components: now keeps more components in TrueTypes
Improved OTVar export with intermediate origin master
Improved handling of components in OTVar export
Properly export maxSizeOfInstructions in maxp table
Fixed export of TrueType without production names
Fixed missing paths in TrueType export (thanks Christoph)
Reusing Shapes:
Improved handling of corner components: please review your files and report problems
Significantly improved calculation of inner corners
Improved corner alignment
Improved sharp connections in corner components
Improved pasting of caps and corners
Improved calculation of smart components
Improved calculation of corner component between two curve segments
Removing overlap now properly handles corner and cap components
Corner and smart components are now separate groups in Font view
Allow renaming of properties in smart glyphs without loosing settings in components
Better decompose nested and flipped components
Fixed: anchors are properly inserted when decomposing special components
Fixed: scaling of corner components inside scaled components
Fixed: mirroring of alignment when corner component is mirrored
Fixed: copying and pasting of paths with corner components
Fixed: autohinting of components
Fixed: several issues with smart components (interpolation, renaming of axis)
Fixed: shifted components with ‘Rename Glyphs’
Metrics:
Metrics keys can now be more complex, e.g., =H*-0.1
Metrics keys: Up and down arrows in number field add to additions and subtractions, e.g., =H+10
Glyph > Update Metrics now also syncs brace and bracket layers
New ‘Link Metrics With Master’ parameter in Font Info > Masters
Added TSB and BSB to list mode
Improved kerning filter with groups that contain greek and punctuation
Fixed Arabic figure kerning
OpenType Features:
CJK: Preliminary support for vpal and palt features, please test and report
Allow custom mark feature code alongside automatic code, use either “# Automatic Code End” or “# Automatic Code Start” to denote position in auto-calculated code
Properly handle include(); in feature code
Use user-defined coding font size for Feature Editor
Improved detection of oldstyle figures in feature code generator
Improved automatic Devanagari feature code
Make feature pane splitter remember its position (thanks Ben)
Improved handling of custom kern feature code
Better support for manual GPOS and GDEF table
Languages & Localization:
Added Bengali to the Languages sidebar
Added African-Arabic glyphs
Fixed Arabic ccmp code for shadda ligatures (shadda_xxx-ar)
Added some support for Syriac script
Added preliminary support for Adlam script
Improve the Hangul CID mapping file (thanks Norbert)
Some Hangul improvements
Properly scale CJK virtual body
Updated German localization (thanks @yanone)
Fixed some typos in the English UI (Thanks @yanone)
Some GlyphData improvements
Import & Export:
Import more info from OTF
Don’t touch custom parameters in ufo.fontinfo (thanks Frederik)
Handling of userData in UFO
Properly round-trip info values in UFO
Fixed reading and storing label color in UFO
Fixed crash on export in macOS 10.9
Fixed export to .otf
Fixed export with glyphs that are not compatible
Fixed problem reading .glyphs file (thanks Fritze)
Fixed import of .ttc files.
Fixed import of feature code with custom mark feature
Fixed import of old suitecase fonts
Scripting:
Largely improved callback registering in Python wrapper
Add mousedown/up notifications (for reporter plugins)
Allow “# MenuTitle:” (with a space) to denote script title (thx @joancarles)
Fixed an issue where a script could cause deadlock during saving
Many small Python API updates, see docu.glyphsapp.com (thx @yanone)
General Improvements:
Boolean path operations can now handle overlapping paths with differing orientations
The state of sidebar panels is now stored
Auto-alignment of ‘sinf’ and ‘subs’ letters (thanks Ludwig)
The ‘Has Special Layers’ smart filter also respects reverse bracket layers
Better font handling for Print-to-PDF in the latest macOS versions (no more garbled text in PDF)
Improved handling of exit/entry anchors in the Anchor menu in grey info box
Improved preview image of current master
Improved ‘Reencode Glyphs’ custom parameter
Improved SVG table export
Improved tabbing behavior (empty fields)
Improved pasting Illustrator outlines
Fixed: several issues with copying and pasting of glyphs
Fixed: context menu > Autohint properly hooks up hints to nodes
Fixed: vertical resizing and scrolling of Font Info > Notes
Fixed: reinterpolation in Layers panel
Fixed: dragging instances in Font Info does not reorder instances anymore
Fixed: regex replace with period and numbers Find and Replace…
Fixed: upside-down placeholders in glyph selection dialog
Fixed: growing file size with invalid ‘userData’ keys
Fixed: renamed glyphs (through custom parameter) are now displayed properly in instance preview
Fixed: no more ghost numbers in Measurement tool (L) after overlap removal
Improved stability and performance
Many small fixes and improvements

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GENERAL:
Added Variable Fonts to File > Export, with support for multiple axes and Brace layers (intermediate deltas). For testing, use Google FontView: github.com/googlei18n/fontview.
Compatibility with macOS Sierra
Improved Plugin Manager: should work for everyone now
Reopen last closed tab (Cmd-Opt-Shift-W, or hold down Option key with Window menu)
Added tooltips to warning icons in Font view glyph cells
iOS GlyphsViewer now asks for permission to show preview
Smart filters work on active layers only now
Added ‘Has Anchors’ to smart filter options
Warn user about CFF subroutinization problems when glyphs with many nodes are in the font
Prevent automatic text replacements in code entry UI
Print dialog now remembers page orientation
Improved performance of instance preview with a lot of text
Improved performance and stability of .glyphsproject documents
Improved double clicking in Font view
Improved handling of non-printing glyphs
Improved drag-reordering of sidebar elements
Fixed arrow key behaviour in Font Info > Masters > Metrics
Fixed and improved Edit > Compare Fonts
Fixed behaviour of Font Info and Macro windows in fullscreen mode
Fixed export of name id 4
Fixed fullscreen display of toolbar in OS X 10.9
Fixed issue with upper plane Unicodes in application services
Many more small fixes and improvements
Improved stability and performance
EDITING:
Added ‘Close Open Paths’ to context menu: connects nearest open nodes
Properly set smoothness of nodes when adding or removing nodes
Opt-arrowing or Opt-dragging multiple off-curves now locks each point’s angle
Aligning an anchor will snap it to the background anchor of the same name
Grey preview letters for empty glyphs are now also visible in text mode
Show all glyphs that use this glyph as a component: now also works when Text tool is active
Select newly generated glyphs in Edit view
Glyph width is maintained after Edit > Clear
Transformation tools: origin now snaps to other objects
Improved performance of Round Corner filter
Layer duplicates do not carry the original layer name anymore
Edit > Select Sample Text now adds current string if selection was not moved before pressing OK
Improved stability and performance of clipboard operations
Fixed and improved Edit > Paste Special (including Undo)
Fixed glyph info for pasted glyphs
Fixed nudging (Ctrl-Opt dragging) with selected off-curve nodes
Fixed unresponsive Edit view after closing a tab
Fixed empty Edit view when Select All Layers tool is active
Fixed text reflow with spaces in Edit view
Fixed selection for Paste-Undo-Redo
METRICS:
Disable incremental metrics key (e.g., ‘+=10’) when there is an unaligned component
Kerning is now rounded to the grid
Update Metrics also works in the background layer
Custom kerning increments with defaults GSKerningIncrementLow and GSKerningIncrementHigh (no UI yet)
Custom spacing increments with defaults GSSpacingIncrementLow and GSSpacingIncrementHigh (no UI yet)
Improved preview of cursive attachment
Improved filtering in Window > Kerning
Improved precision of sidebearings (thanks Tim)
Improved vertical kerning
COMPONENTS:
Show guide measurements for components
Glyph > Make Component Glyph now finds accents with multiple suffixes (e.g., ‘acutecomb.sc.narrow’)
Add Corner now works with more than one selected node
QuickLook now supports corner and smart components
Automatically switch alignment when corner component is flipped
Also allow ‘_smart’ as possible name prefix for smart glyphs
Transform Filter does not scale components if base glyph is scaled
Prefer ‘.narrow’ or ‘.i’ variants of accents on glyphs with ‘i’ base glyph (e.g., itildebelow, thanks Alexei)
Allow 12 parameters in smart glyphs
Cap components are now included when paths are copied to the background
Proper handling of smart components in Brace layers
Improved handling of unattached cap and corner components
Improved Glyph > Make Component Glyph
Improved Glyph > Update Metrics with Brace layers and corners/caps (thanks Tim)
Improved Component from Selection dialog, added input validation
Improved handling of components in color layers
Improved Brace layers for nested components
Improved handling of self-referencing components
Auto-update metrics when base glyph of components has changed
Fixed subcategory for precomposed glyphs
Fixed resizing of smart components with dragging the bounding box
Fixed preview of auto-aligned components
Fixed a serious bug with smart components (thanks Roman)
Fixed path direction of flipped components in Preview (thanks Jan)
Fixed issue with partially aligned components and metrics keys
Fixed position of shine-through anchors in nested components
Fixed recalculation of metrics on adding components
Fixed cap components on start node
Fixed size of caps and corners when UPM is scaled
COLOR LAYERS:
New custom parameter ‘Color Layers to SVG’ parameter exports a COLR/CPAL or Color-Layer setup as SVG
New custom parameters: ‘Export COLR/sbix/SVG Table’ for control of color table generation
Render iColor layers in FontView
Reverted the rendering order of the color layer preview: now the first layer/master will be drawn last
Save image data opened from sbix fonts
OPENTYPE FEATURES:
Use IgnoreMarks for latin/cyrillic/greek kerning
Export mark feature code for all glyphs that have suitable anchors
Improved code for automatic smallcap features (including fallback to default for .loclXXX glyphs)
Added warning for invalid values in kern feature
Removed use of script tags in .case part of ccmp
Fixed generation of pcap feature
Fixed autogeneration of some OpenType feature (pres, kern)
Fixed some problems with Indic feature code
Remove alternate iMatras from pres feature code
INTERPOLATION:
Allow Width value in Bracket layers, syntax: [,]
Bracket layers don’t need a name any more, only the bracket with numbers [XX, XX]
Edit > Show All Masters now includes Brace and Bracket layers
Added Local Interpolation custom parameter to interpolate some glyphs differently, syntax: ;;; include:
Fixed interpolation of corner components
Fixed interpolation of smart components
Fixed preview of interpolated corner components
Fixed interpolation of Metrics Keys
Resolved an issue with extrapolation
IMAGES:
Manual cropping of images by Cmd-Opt dragging a bounding box corner
You can now copy and paste images from Finder
Fixed cropped images (thanks Wei)
LANGUAGES AND GLYPH DATA:
Fixed and improved inter-script kerning
Improved feature code for accented Dutch IJ/ij
Added missing altName to jdotless
Fixed Georgian glyph info
Use last set writing direction in new tabs
Improved automatic Arabic/Farsi liga code
Improved preview of auto-aligned Arabic layers
Improve detection of glyph info in fonts with custom glyph names
Added Hebrew mark feature code
Support for handling Hebrew cantillation marks
Added Tifinagh to sidebar languages
Added Khmer script tag to mark features
Added default GSUB for ROS Adobe-Japan1-3
Fixed Unicode mappings to Adobe CMAPs (Corrected Japan1 CMAP)
Fixed export of CID font with glyphs that are not in the ROS
Fixed Japanese groups in sidebar
Many small additions to the GlyphData XML
USER INTERFACE LANGUAGES:
Added Turkish localization (thanks Nurullah)
Improved stability for Japanese and Finnish localizations
Fixed number key shortcuts (master switching, tab switching and Fit Curve) on French and Czech keyboards.
Updated Chinese localization
Updated Japanese localization (Thanks Toshi)
Updated Portuguese localization
Updated Spanish localization (thanks Txus)
TRUETYPE:
Implemented Delta instructions
Added info for Delta instructions
Added TTFZones custom parameter
Added the keys next to Caps Lock as shortcuts for TT instructions: a=Add Anchor, s=Add Stem, d=Add Diagonal, f=Add Align, g=Add Interpolation
Several fixes and improvements in the TrueType tool (thanks Frode)
Improved rendering and export of TrueType instructions
Improved automatic TT stem selection
Fixed selection of first stem in TT tool
Fixed TT preview image size in 10.9
Fixed TT preview of active master
WEBFONTS:
Use zopfli compression for WOFF
Fixed wrong warning about duplicate instances on webfont export
IMPORT/EXPORT:
New custom parameter ‘Decompose Glyphs’ controls components affected by ‘Rename Glyphs’
New custom parameter ‘Disable autohinting for glyphs’ (works only for CFF)
Allow spaces in Value strings of Filter parameters
Changed behaviour of ‘Keep Glyphs’ parameter: now activates non-exporting glyphs when listed
Fixed export of ‘Name Table Entry’ and ‘copyright’ parameters
Store ‘Disable Last Change’ in ufo.lib
Fixed order of classes and prefix for UFO export
Fixed import of Unicodes from ufo
Fixed a small issue when importing ROS
Fixed AFM and PFM import
Fixed import of PFB files, including components
Fixed import of OpenType fonts
Fixed import of CFF fonts with flex hints
Fixed glyph names of imported OTF/TTF files
Fixed import of style name
SCRIPTING:
Much improved AppleScript support
Allow setting font size for Macro window: Glyphs.intDefaults["MacroCodeFontSize"] = 13
Added a few things to the Python wrapper (including MOUSEMOVED notification)
Some fixes for the Python wrapper (slicing, remove overlap, userdata, color and glyph.name)
Improved handling of exceptions in Python code
Tab.text() give more chars and less escaped names
decomposedCopy also decomposes corners/caps
Glyphs accepts files handled by plugins when they are dragged on the app icon
Workaround for NSBundle bug in Python plugins
Fixed headers in GlyphsCore.framework
Fixed GSGlyph.lastChange
Fixed __contains__ for font.glyphs and customParameter
Fixed export of fsType if set through a script
Fixed layer.getPen()
Fixed stuck Macro window

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TOOL:
We added a new tool: the Pencil (shortcut B). The Pencil tool is the fourth icon in the tool bar and allows you to ‘draw’ paths freehandedly. Just draw a line and when you stop drawing it automatically converts your cursor movement into a path.
Cool thing! Naturally, you’ll have to do some cleaning up. But the tablet users amongst you will love this, we’re sure.
While we are at it, there is another change in the toolbar: The Select All Layers tool is now packed behind the Select tool. You can toggle between both selection modes with Shift-V. This helps keep our toolbar clean and tidy.
OPEN CORNER AND RECONNECT NODES ON STEROIDS:
You can now open multiple corners at once! Simply select all the nodes where you want an overlap, then choose Open Corner from the context menu.
Speaking of opened corners: You can use overlaps for invisibility, too, or white opened corners. Since it is hard to describe, we’ll let a picture speak for itself.
This is going to be huge. For the invisible opened corners to work, they must be small enough. The threshold depends on the lengths of the last segments with the opened corners. The algorithm is a little more complicated, but in general, the visible parts must be longer than the invisible ones.
Likewise, you can now also reconnect many node pairs at once. Select all pairs you want to reconnect, open the context menu and pick Reconnect Nodes.
IMPROVED METRICS:
Perhaps you already noticed the little yellow icons in Font view. They indicate that the current Metrics Key is not in sync, and may need updating.
Speaking of Metrics Keys, you can now combine Metrics Key calculations with auto alignment! To do that, put an equals sign followed by plus or minus and a number into the sidebearing of your auto-aligned glyph. E.g., =+20 will extend the auto-aligned sidebearing by 20 units, while =-15 will decrease ist by 15 units.
FONT NOTE:
In File > Font Info (Cmd-I), you will find a new tab, Note. It stores the Font Note, previously only accessible through a custom parameter and a third-party Palette extension. This will make collaboration and keeping to-do lists much easier. Oh, and did we mention, it also supports some Markdown highlighting.
Type in anything you like. It will not be exported into the OpenType font.
State of Component Alignment:
It is time for a little recap, because every Glyphs user should know this. There are two different ways components are positioned automatically.
Aligning components is the first one. Take, for instance, two letter components. They are put next to each other just as if you would type them. Aligning takes both spacing and kerning into account. That may sound like old news to you. But two things are new about it in 2.3:
More glyphs are aligned by default. Apart from letters, alignment is now on by default for Spacing Combining marks and small figures. That includes subscript, superscript, and fraction figures. The small-number alignment behaves differently: only the horizontal placement is enforced automatically, following the italic angle if needed. You can freely move them vertically. Try it, it’s cool.
And then, you can now force automatic alignment for any component, not just the default cases. To do that, simply right-click a component and choose Enable Automatic Alignment from its context menu.
PLACED IMAGE HANDLING:
People who work with placed images will love this. As a tribute to our beloved Netscape Navigator (R.I.P.), we changed the way missing images are displayed. And as a side effect, we have gotten rid of those pesky error messages.
SMART FILTERS:
You want filters? We got filters! We’ve added eight new options for the Smart Filters in the sidebar of the Font tab. For instance, you can now filter based on annotations with Has Annotations, or for the presence of Bracket or Brace Layers, by choosing Has Special Layers. Or, find all glyphs that have manually placed hints with the Has Hints filter option.
Look closely, you can also filter for Category and Subcategory, or whether the glyph has customized glyph info (Has Custom glyph Info). For finding metric problems, you can also filter for glyphs that have auto-alignment in place (Is Auto-Aligned), and whether the metrics keys are out of sync.
OPENTYPE FEATURES:
The figure features are calculated differently when a default set plus three of the four variants (.lf, .tf, .osf, .tosf) are present. In that case, Glyphs will not measure your figures anymore, but look at the existing figure suffixes to determine the style of the default figures.
And the building of the ornm (ornaments) is now failsafe: Glyphs checks for the presence of the bullet before it does anything.
The cvXX features (Character Variants) can now be automated. It is triggered when a glyph has a .cvXX suffix, where XX stands for figures between 00 and 99. But don’t get too excited about it, Character Variants are only supported by LateX at the moment.
And as always, there have been many small tweaks and improvements. Kerning in Southeast Asian scripts now ignores marks, for instance. And ccmp works much better now for Devanagari.
LANGUAGE SUPPORT:
Glyphs now speaks Chinese! The user interface now has both a simplified Chinese and a traditional Chinese localization. For the latter, we are very much indebted to the wonderful But Ko. Also, the Czech and Japanese localizations have received significant updates.
As for language support in fonts, the African N’Ko script can now be exported. And we have made significant improvements for Kannada, Devanagari, Khmer, Lao, Hangul, Malayalam and Myanmar. Many Glyph Info additions for Arabic: we have added many Unicode 8 and even some Unicode 9 Beta mappings. And Arabic feature generation works much better now. Many improvements for Chinese: We have added CNS1 mapping. And Japanese: improved Japan1 mapping, and accents should now work better with halfforms. Also, you can now kern between Han and Kana glyphs.
For a nice change in the Edit view, the shoulderHeight custom parameter in File > Font Info > Masters can now also be used for Hebrew glyphs.
You can now employ local Glyph Info files. Put your custom GlyphData.xml next to your .glyphs file, or in an Info folder, or in the parent folder. If Glyphs finds it in any of these places, the content will override the installed Glyph Info. This makes it much easier to share custom glyph data for a specific project.
BATCH EDITING:
We made some tweaks to allow an even more streamlined workflow. For starters, you can now select and add multiple glyphs to your Edit tab via the File > Edit > Find… dialog (Cmd-F).
In the same dialog, you can now type multiple, space-separated search terms. E.g., searching for dieresis ss01 will find all glyphs that have both dieresis and ss01 in their name.
And you can now add the same component to many glyphs at once. To do that, select the glyphs in Font view, choose Glyphs > Add Component… (Cmd-Shift-C), pick the glyph you want to add as component, and confirm the dialog.
CUSTOM PARAMETERS:
There are loads of new and improved custom parameters! Here is the quickest rundown we could do:
Master Background Color in File > Font Info > Masters, so you can better differentiate in which master you are when you’re switching between masters a lot.
Master Name overwrites the master name generated from the weight and width popups. The name will be visible in the tooltip above the master buttons at the top of the window.
Export Glyphs turns on non-exporting glyphs, or turns off exporting glyphs.
Remove Feature now also supports the GPOS features kern and dist.
Replace Feature allows custom kern features for every instance.
Update Features in instances to force the recalculation of automated features.
Write Kern Table will export the fully expanded kerning. You have to do your own subsetting though, so make sure that your kerning fits in the table.
Name Table Entry adds entries to the name table. The format is nameIDs;text where nameIDs are the same as in the name table syntax in feature files. Example: 4 3 1 1033;Blabla Sans
Disable Last Change can help with version control.
Has WWS Names sets bit 8 of the fsSelection value in the OS/2 table. If you don’t know what that means, please keep walking, nothing has happened.
makeOTF Argument if you know what you are doing.
unicodeRanges now also available in instances.
Post Table Type allows you to set the post table version.
TTFAutohint control instructions allows you to fine-tune your TT Autohinting.
And codePageRanges sets the Codepage Ranges. Careful, this can influence sorting in Adobe menus.
BETTER IMPORTING:
Glyphs now imports many more things, when you open an existing font. Most importantly, it now preserves the components in TrueType fonts. And it tries to recreate anchors when you import feature code that contains mark attachment.
Many special settings are imported as custom parameters: PANOSE values, hhea vertical metrics, and OS/2 winAscent and winDescent from CFF fonts.
When you import a .metrics file, and the values in the .metrics file disagree with the auto-alignment in the font, automatic alignment will be disabled for conflicting compound glyphs.
TRUETYPE IMPROVEMENTS:
People who work a lot with TrueType will appreciate that we updated the internal ttfautohint to version 1.5. What’s more, you can now add your control instructions as a Custom Parameter in File > Font Info > Instances.
If you do your own manual TrueType hinting, the TrueType tool now offers to preview Grayscale, DirectWrite, or ClearType. Not just the outline, but also a pixel preview.
Switch between rendering styles and PPM sizes in the grey info box. Be warned, however, that the pixel renderings are just an approximation. The actual output in Windows applications may vary.
Also note that vertical distortions for Grayscale and DirectWrite are much smaller, outlines now snap to pixel fourths (Grayscale) or fifths (DW), respectively. This makes for a much smoother outline scaling, and less drastic jumps of horizontals between certain PPM sizes.
PLUGINS, SCRIPTS & PYTHON:
In Glyphs 2.3, you can add aliases in your Plugins folder, very much like it has already been possible with Python scripts in the Scripts folder. You will still have to restart the app for newly installed plugins, but you don’t need to copy anything into the Plugins folder anymore. Also, Glyphs can see when an opened plugin is situated inside a git folder, and will offer to create that alias straight away.
If you find the current plugin installation situation too complicated, well, worry no more. Glyphs 2.3 now has a full-fledged Plugin Manager, accessible via Window > Plugin Manager! All plugin authors are invited to register their plugins, so users can find, install and uninstall their filters and reporters with a single click. And, the plugins are auto-updated to their latest versions at every app start. This should finally take care of the most frequent reply in support mails, ‘I already fixed that. Please make sure you have the latest version installed’.
But when it comes to Python, we have saved the best thing for last: Yanone rewrote the Python API and the Plugin SDK. And he has done a phenomenal job, a big round of applause please.
It is now much, much, much easier to create a new plugin for Glyphs. Needless to say, this is our biggest change ever under the hood. So, make sure you have the latest versions of all your plugins.
And by the way, Yanone also cleaned up and reworked the application icon.
MANY SMALL IMPROVEMENTS:
As always, the update sports literally hundreds of little improvements that will make a difference in your everyday type design experience.
For one thing, in the Preview area, Always Center Active Glyph is now an option. When activated, as you may have guessed, the selected glyph appears centered at all times, adding big gaps on either side if necessary. But if deactivated, Glyphs will try to fill the Preview area as well as possible, keeping the text flush left or right. To toggle between the settings, open the preview field by clicking on the eye icon next to Features in the left bottom corner of your Edit view. Then, right click to open the context menu and select Always Center Active Glyph.
You can now directly switch to a specific tab by pressing Cmd-Opt-1 through 9. That means that Cmd-Opt-1 always takes you back to the Font tab.
Make kern exceptions without prior class kerning. Pan and zoom while the Annotations tool (A) is active. In Font view or Edit view, hold down the Option key to set the layer color, rather than the glyph color. Use the Transformations palette to also transform caps, corners, and align anchors. In the Layer palette, drag a layer copy on top of a master to use it as master. The instance preview at the bottom of the window shows more Filter and Prefilter custom parameters. Grids larger than 1 only apply to on-curves, while off-curves can move freely, so you can still place circles in a rigid grid. The mark cloud will now prefer .case accents for lowercase letters with ascenders, such as h or l.

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New in Glyphs 2.3 Build 830 Beta (Jan 11, 2016)

Allow to force alignment for all components
Add a lasso select and pen tool
_part component layers are included in the MM fixing tools
Plugins can be placed in the Plugin folder with aliases
allow multiple search terms in find glyphs dialog
A lot improvements to east asian languanges (Lao, Myanmar) (thanks ben)
first round of adjustment to Japan1 mapping (thanks all involved)
Add CNS1 mapping files
Add traditional Chinese localization (thanks But Ko)
Update Czech translation
export abvm/blwm for khmer
fix accent cloud for Halfforms
Update python wrapper (thanks jan) Please check docu.glyphsapp.com for changes
Apply PreFilter in instance preview
Select a segment by clicking on it. (still makes problems with selection by double clicking paths)
Prevent smooth corners between line segments
Allow to not centre the active glyph in the preview view. Change setting form context menu in preview view.
Import panose values
import hhea as/descender
Fix some ufo improvements (font info, components, production names)
Fix featureName export
Post notification after exported (GSDocumentWasExported)
Improve AppleScript support
improved edit view positioning after master switching again (the view shouldn’t move away when switching back and forth))
Improve import of SVG
Fix rounding errors with components that are not on the grid (after interpolation)
fix 'Generate Glyphs' formulas with parts that are not in the GlyphData
Disable dialog for missing image. Show a "missing image" placeholder instead
store disablesAutomaticAlignment in .ufo
fix accent cloud for Halfforms
Remove "Add missing symbol glyphs" custom parameter and disable it for TTF export
Add "has Annotations" and "add hasSpecialLayers" filters to sidebar
Add "Write Kern Table" custom parameter. It will export the fully expanded kerning. Make sure that your kerning fits in the table.
Fix sorting when switching from grid to list
Allow multi select 'Open Corner' and 'Reconnect Nodes'
Add "Has WWS Names" and "makeOTF Argument" custom parameter
allow making exceptions without prior class kerning
Fix drawing for metrics and images
better preview and display components in brace layers
"Correct Path Direction for all Masters" checks for brace and bracket layers now
Fix input in textfield if none latin keyboard layout is used
Improve key moments with smaller grid
And a few hundred smaller changes and improvements

New in Glyphs 2.2.2 Build 827 Beta (Jan 6, 2016)

New in Glyphs 2.2.2 Build 826 Beta (Dec 12, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.2.2 Build 825 Beta (Dec 7, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.2.2 Build 824 Beta (Nov 23, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.2.2 Build 822 Beta (Oct 28, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.2.1 Build 819 (Oct 28, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.2.2 Build 821 Beta (Oct 28, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.2 Build 818 (Oct 10, 2015)

New: Cmd-X now cuts and breaks open paths.
New: Pasting a partial path replaces the path selection.
New: Instance Preview parameter for the previewed glyphs in File > Font Info > Instances. It takes a list of glyph names.
New: kerning indicator colors can now be customized in Preferences > User Settings.
New: Added support for SVG table (Mozilla/Adobe SVG color font): drag SVG files onto a separate "svg" layer.
New: Allow storing of custom values for script, category, subcategory and production name per glyph. This gives some independence from the GlyphData file.
New: versionString custom parameter (value: 'Version %d.d’).
New: kerning group names are validated upon entry.
New: smaller grid for offcurve nodes in coarse grid/subdivision settings.
New: Link Metrics With First Master custom parameter (for layered color fonts).
Glyphs now offers to decompose compounds when referenced glyphs are deleted (thanks Christoph).
Longer glyph names are now possible.
Increased the number of possible masters.
You can now add custom shortcuts for all tools in Terminal: defaults write com.GeorgSeifert.Glyphs2 AnnotationTool.Hotkey "q"
Changed automatic components to pick up non-combining accents, too.
Glyphs now cleans up its Temp folder: files older than two months are deleted.
Improved Select All Layers tool.
Improved Annotations tool: selection, moving/transforming with keyboard, Copy Paste
Improved performance in the OpenType feature editor significantly.
Improved master compatibility and display of alignment zones for brace/bracket glyphs.
Improved bounding box handling and transformation of smart components.
Improved drawing of background paths and dark background colors, as well as background path drawing on non-Retina displays.
Proper production names for non-default Unicode settings.
Improved Apple Color font export
Improved Color Palette parameter dialog.
Improved Webfont Only parameter.
Improved Autohint command in Edit view.
Updated Cyrillic localization (thanks Alexei).
Removed validation in Font Info (now allows empty values).
Fixed: no more 'space' at GID 1 (was needed for compatibility with Apple Pages).
Fixed: Metrics of Brace layers now properly sync (thanks Christoph).
Fixed: Add Master from Other Font
Fixed: Replace Classes parameter
Fixed smallcap-related problems such as c2sc or composition.
Fixed: kern feature without any singleton kerning.
Fixed Kerning Panel problems in MacOS 10.11.
Fixed: Anchor button (for multiple anchors) in grey Info box.
Fixed some problems with anchors when exporting TrueType.
Fixed TTF export with nested components if one component is set to not export.
Fixed some undo problems
Fixed problem with "Add Extremes" (thanks Natalie)
Fixed: corner components are preserved when paths are copy pasted
Fixed scaling to different UPM with un-aligned components (thanks Linda)
Many small improvements and fixes.
Stability improvements.
UFO:
Improved glyph width if no advance width is given in the .glif file.
Mask layer is now imported as background.
Improved style names in .ufo export and export to .ufo for converted names.
Glyph Data and Language Support
New: Kannada in the sidebar, first implementation of feature code and Glyph Data.
New: Thai and Burmese were added to the dimension panel.
New: Cherokee has been added to the Glyph Data.
Improved support for Tamil, Khmer, Kannada, Lepcha and Gurmukhi.
Improved Greek accents, some cyrillic anchors were added
Improved some arabic component autoalign.
Improved CJK metrics and vertical mode, added Grid parameters
Improved Japanese CID mapping and glyph data.
Improved Glyph Data for Hangul.
Fixed some Latin accented letters (thanks Mark).
Fixed composition for precomposed devanagari
Fixed generating of CID mapping for ROS-0.
Fixed subcategory for rakar forms
Scripting:
New: possibility for Scripts to draw (documentation is coming)
New: plugins can add a file type to the Open/Save dialogs with full document support
New: old copies of GlyphsApp.py are now automatically removed from script folder
New: allow menu items from Reporter plugin.
Removed the delay on first script run. You may need to import some Cocoa classes yourself now.
Added annotations to Python wrapper.
Improved error handling for Python scripts (thanks Mark) and error reporting on export.
Improved Glyphs.documents and Glyphs.fonts proxies in Python wrapper.
Fixed GSFont.save().

New in Glyphs 2.2 Build 817 Beta (Oct 9, 2015)

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New in Glyphs 2.2 Build 813 Beta (Oct 4, 2015)

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New in Glyphs 2.2 Build 811 Beta (Sep 30, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.1.1 Build 809 Beta (Sep 23, 2015)

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New in Glyphs 2.1 Build 767 RC (Jun 25, 2015)

EDITING:
New: Filter > Fix Compatibility: Drag the elements up or down to match them.
New: View > Show Info now shows kerning group info and lock also for the left glyph.
New: View > Show Bounding Box.
New: Window > Preview Panel.
You now can lock many selected guides at once.
If two nodes are selected when adding a guide, the line will coincide with them (thanks Ben).
Dramatically improved generation of kern feature: much more kerning is possible without a subtable overflow, and the resulting GPOS table will be smaller.
Nodes can now be aligned via the transformation palette.
Images can now be rotated.
Transformations filter can now export Custom Parameter to the clipboard.
New and improved warning badges for missing components and bad component references.
Add Components dialog now remembers the most recent search string.
Bracket layers: improved preview and mark cloud.
Feature selector pop-up is highlighted if a feature is selected.
Auto-alignment for glyphs that are affected by "Rename Glyphs" parameters.
Annotation tool: Select All selects all annotations.
Annotation tool: Move annotations with the keyboard.
Fix drag duplication of paths with curve segments.
Fixed decomposition of anchors for nested components.
Fixed mark feature.
Fixed cursor of knife tool.
Fixed scrolling in vertical layout.
Improved "Reconnect Nodes" function.
Improved anchor decomposition of rotated components.
Improved display of selected components.
Improved undo, especially for anchors.
LANGUAGES, SCRIPTS, AND GLYPH DATA:
New Latin decomposition: oslash now uses slashlongoverlaycomb.
Some glyph names changed for better compatibility with FDK feature code.
Basic support for Gurmukhi.
Fixed Devanagari fullforms OT class generation.
Fixed Hebrew mark positioning.
Improved Arabic decomposition.
Export glyphs that are not present in ROS.
Improved Japanese character mapping.
SMART COMPONENTS:
Allow extrapolation in Smart Components.
Editing of multiple Smart Components at once.
Improved handling of nested Smart Components.
Smart Components can use Width or Height Property for bounding box scaling. Preliminary support only.
Smart Components can now use all layers from all masters.
HINTING:
New: instructed TrueType outline preview for manual TT hinting.
Improved TrueType prep table for manual TT hinting: basic overshoot suppression.
Improved performance of TrueType Instruction tool.
Fixed problems with diagonal hints.
Minimised path distortions by using freedom vector for manual TT instructions.
Updated TTF Autohint to latest version.
FONT VIEW:
New: user-defined Categories and Languages in Font View sidebar.
New: folders in Font View sidebar.
Added Music and Braille to sidebar.
Localised group titles in Font View, grid mode.
Improved Font View update after adding a glyph.
FONT INFO:
New custom parameters: "Replace Feature", "Remove Classes" and "Replace Class".
Removed validation for style linking check boxes.
Improved storing of "Color Palettes" custom parameter.
Preview now respects custom parameters 'winAscent' and 'winDescent', or preferably 'Preview Ascender', 'Preview Descender'.
UFO:
Read and write UFO guidelines.
Fixed writing of widthClass to UFO.
Improved UFO import and export.
Improved conversion of lib data between .glyphs and .ufo formats.
Improved handling of extra UFO layers (background), now compatible with RoboFont.
Improved stability of UFO handling.
SCRIPTING:
Major update of the Python wrapper. See docu.glyphsapp.com for details. Many thanks to Yanone.
Properly set current directory for scripts.
Fix updating of smart components if values are set by a script.
GENERAL:
Hide Masters button in toolbar in single-master files.
Fixed preview for fonts without instances.
Updated Spanish localisation (thanks Txus).
No more quotes for negative numbers in file format. This will cause some changes in version control, but makes the file easier to parse for third parties.
Fixed copying and pasting of placeholders for sample strings.
Fixed copying and pasting of upper plane characters (u10000 and above).
Many small improvements and fixes.
Stability improvements.
Improved QuickLook.

New in Glyphs 2.0.1 Build 765 Beta (Jun 24, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.0.1 Build 760 Beta (Jun 22, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.0.1 Build 759 Beta (Jun 17, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.0.1 Build 757 Beta (Jun 15, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.0.1 Build 756 Beta (Jun 13, 2015)

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New in Glyphs 2.0.1 Build 727 (Jun 12, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.0.1 Build 754 Beta (Jun 2, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.0.1 Build 751 Beta (May 22, 2015)

New in Glyphs 2.0.0 Build 726 (May 18, 2015)

Color:
Added support for color fonts.
Display color glyphs in font view.
New Select All Layers tool.
Webfonts:
Added WOFF, WOFF2 and EOT export.
Added option to export CFF based webfonts (thanks Tim).
Added QuickLook for webfonts.
Components:
Added Corner, Cap Components
Added Smart Components
The decomposition of accented letters uses the nonspacing combining accents now.
Improved Make Component for glyphs with suffixes.
Prevent problems with circular components.
Remove the limit for nested components (thanks Claus).
Raw components with checker pattern in Master compatibility.
Snap to nodes in components.
Allow symbols in mark feature
Export mark2liga for all scripts.
Fixed position of nonspacing marks if they where spaced.
Improved handling of combined marks.
Mark to Mark positioning works for Indic scripts now (thanks David).
Fixed drawing and handling of nodes/anchors at different handle sizes.
Use nested anchors for auto alignment of accents.
Fixed anchor button in component inspector for nested components.
Fixed position of center anchor for italic fonts
Implement LigatureCaretByPos in GDEF table. Add 'caret_XX' anchors to the ligature glyphs.
Improved lookup of anchors in components.
Improved auto anchor placement.
Improved alignment of components on export.
Fixed generation of the mkmk feature for Latin.
Adding a component to an empty glyph will set the spacing.
Fixed auto alignment of scaled components.
Fixed composition of small caps
TrueType:
Much improved TT export.
Automatically add a DSIG empty table to TTF fonts.
Added TrueType Instructioning tool.
Improved the decomposition of the nested components for TrueType export.
Added custom GASP table settings.
Fixed TTF conversion when missing extremes (thanks Linda).
UFO:
Fixed import of OT features from UFO.
Small UFO fixes.
Write metrics keys to UFO.
Improve saved data types in UFO font info.
Improved precision of values exported to .ufo.
Spacing and Kerning:
Added .metrics file export.
Added third state to the kerning button in the edit view. It can look the spacing up now while doing the kerning with keyboard shortcuts with the Text tool to prevent accidental changes.
Improved metrics drawing in text mode.
Fixed setting kerning exceptions for both glyphs
Fixed import of kerning classes
Fixed import of kerning from OTF (thanks Botio).
Fixed removing kerning exceptions (thanks Daan).
Added renaming of kerning classes in the kerning panel.
Fixed metrics drawing for RTL.
Fixed calculation of width for auto aligned RTL glyphs.
Changing spacing with the transform filter should preserve components position a bit better.
Fixed transformation filter setting 'LSB'.
Implemented absolute metrics keys (use equal+number, =20) (thanks Ralph).
Implemented im/export of .metrics files. This helps moving spacing, classes and kerning between files. Developed together with Igino Marini form iKern.com.
Scripting:
Many improvements in the Python wrapper. See docu.glyphsapp.com.
Load aliases of script files in Script Menu.
Add a GSInstance.generate() method to Python wrapper.
Arguments:
(str) Format: 'OTF' or 'TTF'.
(str) FontPath: The destination path for the final font. If none, it uses the default location set in the export dialog.
(bool) AutoHint: If autohinting should be applied. Default: True.
(bool) RemoveOverlap: If overlaps should be removed. Default: True.
(bool) UseSubroutines: Whether subroutines are used for CFF. Default: True.
(bool) UseProductionNames: Whether production names are used. Default: True.
Custom Parameters:
Allow easier Filter parameter names by dropping the 'GlyphsFilter' prefix. You can use 'RemoveOverlap;' instead of 'GlyphsFilterRemoveOverlap; now.'.
Added 'Disable Masters' custom instance parameter.
Added 'Use Extension Kerning' Parameter.
Added 'Keep Glyphs' custom parameter for subsetting.
Added 'PreFilter' custom parameter. It works just like the 'Filter' parameter but is executed before decomposition.
Added TrueType related Custom parameters, a.o., 'Remove post names for webfonts', 'TTFAutohint options'.
Fixed 'Rename Glyphs' parameter.
Fixed 'Scale to UPM' parameter.
Added 'Master Color' custom parameter.
Added 'Color Palettes' parameter.
Added dialog for settings PANOSE values and export it correctly.
Scale values in master custom parameters (thanks Ermin).
Non-Latin:
Glyph Data updates for Arabic, Devanagari, Thai and many others.
Shoulder Height Custom parameter. Useful for Arabic or Devanagari.
A lot of improvements to the Indic script feature support, added some Gujarati, Oriya, Tibetan support.
Automatically activate all features if Devanagari script is selected (thanks Claus).
Added contextual Devanagari iMatra feature generation.
Big improvements to Devanagari handling (thanks Rob).
Greatly improve the Devanagari feature generation. (a.o., rakar+nukta, add vertical contextual kerning for candaraBindu, thx Alessia).
Added iMatra feature for Gujarati.
Added some support for Oriya, Telugu and Malayalam.
Fixed Arabic kerning.
Change 'tatweel-ar' to 'kashida-ar'.
Changes automatic alignment for Arabic ligatures. They are aligned correctly RTL, now.
First version of Dimension panel for other scripts (only Arabic for now).
Improvements to arabic glyph data – decomposition and ligature sorting (thanks Pascal and iSkyFalConS).
Changes automatic alignment for Arabic ligatures. They are aligned correctly RTL, now.
First version of Dimension panel for other scripts (only Arabic for now).
Improvements to arabic glyph data – decomposition and ligature sorting (thanks Pascal and iSkyFalConS).
Improvements to the Japanese CID mapping file.
Fixed CID font export, add more Adobe-Japan1 GSUB resources.
Multiple insets for CJK glyphs.
Set initial width of new CJK glyphs equal to UPM.
Multiple Master:
Implemented third dimension for interpolation (thanks Tim).
Implemented intermediate master with Brace trick.
Added option to Layer panel: Re-Interploate the current layer (useful for brace layers).
Improved the compatibility checker. It will check 'Brace' layers and look for anchors.
Properly interpolate the vertical metrics of brace layers.
Copy extra layers if master is duplicated
Fixed drawing of none Master layers in preview.
Better interpolate exceptions if not present in all masters.
Added 'Correct Path Direction for all Masters'.
Improved repositioning of the edit view after switching masters.
In Layer panel: put the alternate layers next to the masters.
Hinting:
Implement hint replacement for manually set PS hints.
Exported TTF fonts can be ttfAutohinted now.
Implemented manual TT instructions for DW.
Font View:
Added regex option to search field in font view, and the Search and Replace in glyph names.
Added option to invert selection in font view.
Fixed several undo problems in Font View.
Improved display of glyph names in glyph info box in font view.
Added option do negate filter option in sidebar filters.
Allow unicode chars in list filters.
Update the sidebar of all open fonts after adding a custom filter.
Added a few options to smart filters.
Added 'Has Unicode' smart filter option.
Fixed selection in list mode.
Largely improved Paste Special options.
Added new options to contextual menu item Copy Glyph Names.
Fixed the gray glyphs (changed) after opening a font.
Enable context menu from list mode (thanks Tim).
Improved ordering of circled numbers.
Edit View and Tools:
Reworked the gray info boxes (thanks Thomas).
Line break on space in edit view.
Option drag to duplicate selection.
Now the 'Delete glyphs' command works in the edit view (thanks Tim).
Implement 'invert selection' for edit view
Improved the Knife tool.
Improved the Rotate and Scale tools (thanks Jan, DTF).
Increase precision of transform values
Implemented Lock of Guides.
Fixed typing in textfield if a nonlatin keyboard is selected.
Added small threshold before the draw tool makes curves.
Better arrow key movement for Grid Size other than 1.
Change drawing of end nodes of open paths.
Draw mask path more clearly before dark background.
Improved scrolling and zooming behavior especially for vertical mode.
Improved path direction calculation (thanks Matteo).
Fixed the handle mirror (by holding ctrl+opt while dragging).
Fixed default position of preview in edit view.
Improved restoration and default preview size.
Fixed problems with manual input of scaling values for components and images.
Option to change edit view colors in Preferences.
Palette:
New layout for the transformation panel.
Reworked origin selector in Transformation panel (thanks Thomas).
Fixed Tab order in Transform Panel.
Added Remove overlap, Subtract and Intersect buttons to the transform panel.
Font Info and Features:
Updated the font info a bit.
Show custom family names in instance list.
Improved support for localized font names (add a dialog and supported languages).
Tweak layout of feature view, textview width and indentation.
Allow groups in feature list sidebar to be collapsed.
Added code for automatic update of classes 'All' and 'AllLetters'.
Added more glyphs with .tf suffix to the tnum feature.
Added a few more features (pcap, c2pc, hlig etc.) to feature generator.
Check for disabled classes and prefixes.
Don’t add mgrk, cpsp feature automatically, Add option to add them and some classes manually from the add button.
Fixed generation of the LanguageSystems tag.
Fixed calculation of dlig feature.
Fixed problem with empty kerning kern feature.
Improved kerning feature generator.
Fixed languages in Feature popup.
Try to keep feature order for non automatic features on updating.
Prevent duplicate substitutions.
Updated pres feature on export. This gives better results for MM fonts.
Fixed import of underline position.
Fixed export of ssXX names with very short names.
Glyph Data and Glyph Handling:
Allow glyph ranges in 'Generate Glyphs' command (uni1234:uni1238 or ⿈:⿕ or Α:Ω)(thanks Ben).
The 'Generate Glyphs' command only add glyphs that are not in the font yet (thanks Jan).
Added copy/paste in Generate Missing Glyphs popup.
Automatically set new glyphs to not export if name starts with '_'.
Better preserve names for generated glyphs if nice names are disabled.
Reworked the glyphData that supports more alternative naming schemes.
Allow multiple selections in Glyph Info window.
Added option to search for the character in Glyph Info window
Fixed some overlapping alternative names in Glyph Data (thanks Tosche).
Fixed loading of legacy names from custom Glyph Data.
Improved anchor and accent definition in Glyph Data.
Improvements to polytonic Greek glyph data.
Internals and Troubleshooting:
Fixed reading of SVG code.
Change the lastChange value in the .glyphs file to always store in GMT.
Prevent empty export path.
Improved error reporting on export to OTF.
Added new Filter 'Rounded Font', esp. for CJK.
Fixed and improved precision of Offset Paths filter.
Added reconnect Nodes command to the menu.
Improved handling of .narrow (or .i) accents for i-glyphs (thanks Tim).
Use the destination path also in the generateFont.command.
General:
Added Plugin Manager to preferences. It will tell alert if new versions of installed plugins are available.
Many performance improvements
Fixed precision of floating point coordinates.
Split the Layer menu in a Glyph and a Path menu.
Updated localizations.
A lot of small fixes and improvements.

New in Glyphs 2.0.1 Build 749 Beta (May 18, 2015)

New in Glyphs 1.4.5 Build 614 (Jan 16, 2015)

New in Glyphs 1.4.4 Build 611 (Dec 27, 2014)

New in Glyphs 1.4.4 Build 610 (Nov 24, 2014)

New in Glyphs 1.4.3 (Mar 13, 2014)

Fix a rounding problem on export (thanks james)
Fix the import of the italic angle (thanks james)
Fix crash CJK text input (thanks tosche)
Fix the crash after export in the background
Improve the handling of the glyphOrder on exporting TrueType
Fix reading of fonts with fractional coordinates (thanks linda)
Add ruble sign to glyph data
Add Georgian glyphs to glyph order
Fix thai mkmk feature
Fix some smaller issues with the python wrapper
Add color selector to context menu of the text tool
Fix some small issues with language groups in the sidebar
Fix tabbing in dialogs
Fix sorting of glyphs with suffixes
Fix sorting order for arabic and display of mark cloud (thanks pascal)
Fix legacy names of comb accents (thanks christoph)
Fix problems with none ASCII chars in feature code
Fix space bar issues with Wacom attached
Improve error reporting for loading plugins
Increase the distance to select paths with double click (closes #0000073)
Sync content of background if LSB is changed
Generate a titl-feature for glyphs with a ".titl" suffix. (closes #0000277)
Add lines spaces ("\n") to sample texts.
Use better icon for the arabic section in the sidebar (thanks pascal)
Do not deselect the paths on moving an open path (fixes #0000128)
Add "italicAngle" and "Grid Spacing" custom parameter (closes #0000301, #0000281)
Fix export of fonts with disablesAutomaticAlignment (thanks christoph).
Add alternate code for Ldot (ligatures L_periodcentered_L.loclCAT) (closes #0000295)
Fix some other issues with the feature code generator.
Fix when generating instances, some of the new fonts present a "Do you want to save" window on close. (fixes #000096 )
Fix calculation in metrics keys
Fix master switching (by cmd+1..x) for Czech keyboards.
Improve do component from selection. Now all masters are processed.
Fix issues with background images, including the "jumping problem"
Fix the drag drop reordering of layers in the layer panel
Fixed a small problem with the Offset Paths filter.
Fix "Add missing symbol glyphs" problem with euro/Euro
Fix glyph order if production names are not used
Reduce the threshold to detect flat paths. This preserves more details at small structures.
Improve the handling of custom parameters in instances and masters.
Improve the glyph definition of tcaron, lcaron and gcommaacent.
Fix some undo problems with global guidelines (thanks claus)
Fix several crashes
Fixed some memory problems.
Fix several issues with UFO files:
Fix export of kerning and classes to .ufo
Use ufo3 glif name algorithm
Allow names anchors
Fix several problems with the content of the lib
Fix export of kerning classes to .ufo
Fix problem with locked .ufo
Fixed a small problem with data saved to .ufo files.
Fix .ufo export of flipped and rotated components

New in Glyphs 1.4.2 (Nov 12, 2013)

New in Glyphs 1.4.1 (Nov 12, 2013)

New in Glyphs 1.4 (Oct 11, 2013)

GENERAL:
Fixed and improved import and export of OTF, TTF, and UFO
Improved error reporting with interpolation, instance generating and exporting
Added basic import of Mac Type1 fonts (no kerning and almost no font info)
Improved export of CID fonts
Accidental overwriting of an opened font file is prevented
Fixed and improved QuickLook display (UFO and VFB)
New: System Services for conversion from production names to nice names and back
Improved the help files and added more help buttons
New: incompatibility warning (red triangle or bar) is suppressed if all instances match a master
Fixed many undo problems
New: Support for the iOS Glyphs Viewer (needs an external plugin)
Many performance and stability improvements, and many small fixes (thanks craig, jan, claus, jeff, rob, and many others)
PALETTE:
New: layer panel is resizable
Fixed some issues with the Dimensions and the Layer panel (thanks claus)
FONT INFO:
New: grid can be smaller than one (when subdivision is bigger than grid step)
Fixed duplicating of Masters by option key+dragging in the master list
CUSTOM PARAMETERS:
New: Custom Parameter "Compatible Name Table" exports a legacy name table as expected by some Mac apps (e.g. Quark XPress, FontExplorerX)
New: "EditView Line Height" Font Custom Parameter
New: Instance Custom Parameters "Keep Overlapping Components", "Remove Features", "CompatibleNameTable", "Add Extremes", "fileName", "Save as TrueType"
New: Instance filters have an include/exclude parameter now; add "include:" or "exclude:" and space or comma separated glyph names
New: the Transformations filter is partially available as a Custom Parameter: RSB, LSB and width (e.g. "Transformations;LSB:-20;RSB:+20;include:A" )
Improved: "RemoveOverlap" can now handle a larger number of paths
Fixed interpolation of Master Parameters (#0000216)
FONT VIEW:
Fixed and improved copying and pasting of glyphs
New: Annotated glyphs now show a little icon
EDIT VIEW:
Fixed Offset Paths preview in the Edit View
Fixed and improved the handling and display of guidelines (thanks eliason, DTF)
Fixed jumping of images and the grig after zooming
New: drag the measurement tool and press 'G' to make a new guideline
New: center alignment for guidelines
New: context menu "Show all glyphs that contain this glyph as component"
New: "Clear Background" command (open the Layer menu and press the Opt key)
New: Edit > Show all Masters
METRICS & KERNING:
New: Metrics keys are now a per layer setting.
New: "=|" metrics key for opposite site of the same layer
Fixed calculation of metrics keys with minus sign (thanks tim)
Fixed the deletion of filtered kerning pairs
New: Kerning panel filter option "Selected Glyphs" (in Font View)
Fix crash with removing multiple kerning pairs from the kerning panel
COMPONENTS:
Fixed and improved auto align (thanks opentype and jan)
Fixed a rounding issue with components (thanks ralph)
New: option to disable automatic alignment of components in Font Info > Other Settings and in Preferences.
Improved the handling of rotated and mirrored components
HINTING:
Improved handling of hints and anchors (thanks ralf, jan)
New: Add an "origin" anchor to a component if you need to align it to a node
SCRIPTS AND GLYPH SORTING:
Improvements for Cyrillic, Devanagari and Japanese
Huge improvements to the Arabic support: improved Glyph Info, automatic features, font export (thanks ralph, peter, iSkyFalConS, andreu)
Improved RTL and vertical layout, and cursive attachment (thanks aayel)
Fixed sorting of small caps with another suffix (e.g. i.sc.ss01)
Fixed decomposition of tcaron (use caron.alt) and Dcroat
SCRIPTING:
Improved the Python wrapper and documentation (thanks jan)
New: layer.cutBetweenPoints(P1, P2) to Python wrapper, equivalent to the scissors tool
New: scripting wrapper for custom parameters (thanks jan)
New: folder aliases in the Scripts folder

New in Glyphs 1.3.25 (Sep 16, 2013)

New in Glyphs 1.3.24 (Sep 16, 2013)

Fix zooming by keyboard in Font View.
When adding a new feature, the name field is active for editing.
Fix typing in new features.
Fix error reporting with instance generating and exporting.
Fix some interpolation problems (thanks jan)
Fix calculation of metrics key maths with minus sign. (thanks tim)
Fix the QuickLook plugin.
Add =| metics key for opposite site of the same layer.
Increase the number of paths that removeOverlap can handle.
Improve performance with many components in a glyph.
Fix problem in TTF export
Add custom parameter "Compatible Name Table". This exports the name table like makeOTF did a few years ago. Some Mac apps (Quark, FontExplorerX) expect it that way.
The preview Offset Paths previews all glyphs in the edit view.
Make the layer panel resizable.
Add context menu "Show all glyphs that contain this glyph as component"
Improve the handling of global guidelines
New: drag the measurement tool and hit 'g' to make a new guideline
Add "EditView Line Height" font custom parameter
Add the option to add aliases of folders to the Script menu. This helps keeping them under version control.
Fixed the deletion of filtered kerning pairs
Fix ttf export of transformed components
Fix problem with spaces in custom parameter filters
Fix a crash on export. (thanks craig)
Finally fix the empty filter dialog problem
Performance improvements for the Preview with bracket layers and filters (thanks jan)
The Transformations filter is partially available as a custom parameter filter. It supports RSB, LSB and width. (e.g. Transformations;LSB:-20;RSB:+20;include:A )
Fix crash in the feature generator (thanks jeff)
Prevent the overwriting of opened font file that could happen in some cases
Instance filter have a include/exclude parameter now. Add "include:" or "exclude:" plus space or comma separated glyphs names
Fix crash on export (thanks claus)
Basic import of MacT1 fonts (no kerning and almost no font info)
Improve export of CID fonts (still some issues)
Improve type to select in font view (thanks thomas)
Add idotaccent to language group
Fix tcaron decomposition (use caron.alt)
Add "Clear Background" command (open the Layer menu and press the option key)
Add "select Next/Previous Sample string" to the menu. Add shortcuts in System Preferences if needed.
The incompatibility warning (red triangle or bar) is not shown if all instances match a master
Draw open paths from components in the Preview
Show font name in the title of the Font Info window
Several improvements to arabic glyph info
Fix small rounding issue with components (thanks ralph)
Fix sorting of small caps with another suffix (e.g. i.sc.ss01)
Tab key should work in Offset Paths dialog now
Performance improvements in the QuickLook plugin
Huge improvements to the arabic support. Improved Glyph Info, Feature generator and font export. (Thanks ralph, peter, iSkyFalConS)
Fix a bug writing to .glyphs files. None Ascii letters where not properly escaped and to many quotes where used. This will change files quite a lot.
Improvements of the .ttf export. More components are preserved.
Add Custom Instance Parameter "Keep Overlapping Components". This preserves components in Glyphs like Ccedilla.
Add Custom Instance Parameter "Save as TrueType" to always export instance as TrueType regardless what is selected in the export dialog.
Add system services for conversion from production names to nice names and back (glyphsapp.com/blog/system-services/)
Improved handling of hints and anchors. (thanks ralf)
Metrics keys are now a per layer setting.
Fix measurement tool. It did show wrong intersections.
Fix typo in documentation (interpolationWeightY > InterpolationWeightY) (thanks jakob)
Add layer.cutBetweenPoints(P1, P2) to python wrapper. This is using the scissors tool to cut a line in the layer.
Fix open paths in .ufo files
A lot smaller bug fixes and improvements