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Release Notes: August 2020
Your InVision experience is improving as we work to squash bugs and release new features. Here’s an account of the improvements you’ll find in the latest releases.
Craft
During August, you may have noticed accessibility improvements in Craft. Check out the details below.
Or see all our Craft updates and fixes now: Release Notes: Craft
What’s fixed or improved in Craft?
In August, the Craft team addressed two bugs and improved contrast for better accessibility:
- Contrast corrections: If you have the Increase contrast checkbox selected in your macOS Accessibility (
) settings, all Craft plugins will now respect the intended behavior. Previously, a couple of bugs were preventing these Craft plugins from increasing contrast as expected:
- Inspecting exported symbols: You should now be able to inspect symbols that have been exported from Sketch to InVision.
- Pasting hotspots from Symbols Page: Now you can copy hotspots applied on the Symbols Page in your Sketch file and paste them across other pages and files as expected.
Version changes
The version numbers for these Craft tools were updated with this release:
- Craft Manager: version 1.0.100 (Sketch and Photoshop)
Remember, Craft Manager is a separate tool that you use to manage the Craft plugin tool suite; therefore, the version number is different than what you see when clicking Manage plugins in the Sketch Plugins menu. - Craft Sync + Prototype: 2.3.167
Current versions
Craft tools for Sketch
Here are the latest Craft tool versions for Sketch—at the time of publication:
- Craft Manager: 1.0.100
Remember, Craft Manager is a separate tool that you use to manage the Craft plugin suite; therefore, the version number is different than what you see when clicking Manage plugins in the Sketch Plugins menu. - Sync + Prototype: 2.3.167
- New Design System Manager: 1.0.0
- Legacy Design System Manager: 1.1.40
- Freehand: 1.0.39
- Stock: 1.0.46
- Duplicate: 1.0.24
- Data: 1.0.47
Craft tools for Photoshop
Here are the latest Craft tool versions for Photoshop—at the time of publication:
- Craft Manager: 1.0.100
- Sync: 2.0.88 (If using Windows, please see the section below.)
- Freehand: 1.0.34
- Stock: 1.0.15
- Duplicate: 1.0.5
- Data: 1.0.12
Craft Sync for Windows
The latest version of Craft Sync for Windows is 2.0.71—at the time of publication.
Design System Manager (DSM)
There was a lot happening with DSM during August. Check out the details for each of the five DSM August releases.
Or see all our DSM updates and fixes now: Release Notes: DSM
What's new in the new DSM? (August 18th release)
The new DSM Sketch plugin has been updated to include accessibility enhancements.
Current versions
Here are the version numbers for each DSM plugin after the August 18th release:
- New Design System Manager: version 0.6.17
- Legacy Design System Manager: version 1.1.40
What's new in the new DSM? (August 17th release)
DSM now supports adding missing fonts so text style samples in Foundations are rendered correctly. With this enhancement, editors can ensure viewers see the correct text style samples, even if the needed custom fonts are not installed on the viewers' local machines.
What’s fixed in Legacy DSM? (August 12th release)
Hotfix here! Get your hotfix!
- What a drag: If you updated to Sketch version 68 (released August 11th) and then began having trouble dragging icons from the Legacy DSM grid, this hotfix release (Legacy DSM version 1.1.40) should solve the issue.
Current versions
Here are the version numbers for each DSM plugin after the August 12th release:
- New Design System Manager: version 0.6.16
- Legacy Design System Manager: version 1.1.40
What’s new in the new DSM? (August 10th release)
Check out the latest way to work with symbols in the new DSM:
- Iconic documentation: You can now add symbols from your Sketch library to the Icons category in the Foundations section of your DSM site. When you add icons, logos, or illustrations to the Icons category, viewers of your DSM site will be able to download these items as SVGs.
To take advantage of this feature, you'll need to use version 0.6.15 (or later) of the DSM Sketch plugin. As always, we recommend updating to the newest version—0.6.16 at the time of publication.
Current versions
Here are the version numbers for each DSM tool after the August 10th release:
- New Design System Manager: version 0.6.16
- Legacy Design System Manager: version 1.1.39
What’s fixed in the new DSM? (August 5th release)
The latest release for the new DSM, version 0.6.16, includes a single fix:
- Library upload blocker: You should now be able to upload libraries to the new DSM without encountering an error, including if you previously couldn't due to certain proxy settings that were causing DSM to throw an upload error.
Current versions
Here are the version numbers for each DSM tool after the August 5th release:
- New Design System Manager: version 0.6.16
- Legacy Design System Manager: version 1.1.38
Freehand
What's new in Freehand?
Create a still life.
The August 3rd Freehand release included a picture-perfect new feature:
- Exporting to an image: You can now export an entire freehand as a still image—as a PNG file, specifically—by clicking the More menu icon (•••) and then clicking Export to image.
See all our Freehand updates and fixes: Release Notes: Freehand
InVision V6
What's improved in InVision V6?
You may have noticed a couple of improvements to InVision V6 during August:
- Improved color contrast: You'll notice a lot of color changes throughout InVision V6. These changes addressed accessibility concerns by improving the color contrast within UI elements.
- Accessing archived prototypes: Now Enterprise admins and managers can preview and unarchive any archived document that belongs to the Enterprise.
InVision security
What's improved or fixed?
These platform updates were made during August:
- Platform stability and security: To maintain and continually improve the stability and security of InVision, we implemented additional security measures.