August Bug Accelerator 2026

Sept. 1, 2026, 4:06 p.m.

Now that we're in first month of the second round of the BAP, we've been getting settled into our new rhythm, figuring out our direction for this round of the program, and helping Martin (@doctormo) get the new renderer in shape.

As of the end of last month, we said goodbye to one of our developers, Seán de Búrca (@leftmostcat), leaving Mike to carry things alone for some time until we could get confirmation of the vote to bring in another developer to the program. As of (date), we welcomed Tav (@tavmjong), after the vote to bring him on as our second developer successfully passed.

As for what we've been up to, Mike has been working tirelessly alongside Martin to refine the merge request that will ultimately become Inkscape's new renderer, bringing much awaited colorspace support (including native CMYK), better handling of image formats and bit depths (through the use of Glycin), and other improvements both under the hood and in user-facing features.

Simultaneously, both Mike and Tav have continued landing critical fixes and improvements across multiple areas, such as the Unified Font Browser (which will be default in 1.5, no longer experimental), Page handling, and others.

Volunteer + Community Contributions

Another bit of exciting news this month, is that we've been able to recruit some help from the community in knocking more 1.5 bugs off the board. While not officially part of the BAP, I'd still like to highlight the work of our volunteer contributors and even those who just help to confirm fixes (and bugs alike). Your work helps us to make Inkscape 1.5 even stronger.

Michael Terry

• Total time tracked: 84h 36m

• In progress and open items (37h 54m):

  • #6354 Fill and Stroke changes when you apply a text change - (50m)
  • #5142 Text tool's font dropdown not loading fonts until mouse hover - (55m)
  • #6325 Mismatch of gradients when copy and paste from one file to another - (1h 20m)
  • #5620 Inkscape master: Sometimes panels load rolled up - (1h 28m)
  • #6334 Change image in Object Properties doesn't use native dialog - (26m)
  • !7767 Draft: New Rendering Engine (CMYK etc) - (32h 55m)

• Merged 3 merge requests (57m):

  • !8124 Rm redundant call to finishItem in RectTool destructor - (4m)
  • !8125 Speed up Objects dialog when selecting many objects in dialog - (33m)
  • !8122 Fix Wide Screen state after interlace mode changes - (20m)

• Fixed 22 issues (38h 58m):

  • #6363 Unified Font Browser: Remove the random "text" label at the bottom of the Features tab - (10m)
  • #6372 Unified Font Browser: Sliders don't merge changes into a single undo step - (10m)
  • #6386 Unified Font Browser: preview text is displaying both list and grid versions - (26m)
  • #6365 Unified Font Browser: Changing the preview sizes causes a massive performance hit - (52m)
  • #6381 Unified Font Browser: scrolling gets jittery near odd-height fonts - (3h 17m)
  • #6361 Unified Font Browser: Scrolling fonts is slow (can lock up) with many fonts installed - (49m)
  • #6315 Default font size in the Font and Text dialog should mirror the text toolbar's default - (40m)
  • #6362 Unified Font Browser: Feature settings don't have proper strings - (1h 13m)
  • #6360 Unified Font Browser: Sorting causes Inkscape to lock up - (2h 22m)
  • #6377 Unified Font Browser: "Text" tab shouldn't exceed the visible height of the dialog - (28m)
  • #6375 1.5-dev: crash when loading a pile of fonts - (2h 56m)
  • #6333 No indicator for where layers will land when dragging and dropping - (2h 18m)
  • #5614 Changing the font size in Unified Font Browser changes the font family - (1h 44m)
  • #631 1.5-dev: Extension Manager: Cannot install extensions nor view details on "Orphan Extensions" - (3h 28m)
  • #6281 Can't change gradient using dropdown in certain file - (3h 51m)
  • #6371 Unified Font Browser: Remove the font size slider - (8m)
  • #6359 1.5-dev: Split the Text and Font Dialog and Unified Font Browser (no toggle needed; can co-exist) (29m)
  • #6355 Unified Font Browser: "Dialog options" missing icon, misleading tooltip - (1h 29m)
  • #6238 1.5-dev: The preferences dialog size is not restored when reopened - (2h 23m)
  • #6289 Can unselect individual objects when layer is selected - (24m)
  • #6279 If nothing is selected Esc should escape the selected group (not layer!) - (5m)
  • #6253 Congested and unstable font collection labels in the new Font and Text dialog - (2m)

• Other project tasks (6h 47m):

  • Triage, testing, project discussions and chats, meetings, coordination, and related meta work (6h 45m)
  • Additional development work (2m)

Tavmjong Bah

• Total time tracked: 38h

• In progress and open items (13h 25m):

  • #6356 Gradient Editor not tracking on-canvas gradient selection - (7h)
  • #6343 1.5-dev: Certain spinbuttons (partially) ignore numlock on the numpad (Linux) - (25m)
  • #6354 Fill and Stroke changes when you apply a text change - (4h)
  • #6352 1.5-dev: Objects deform randomly when moving individual nodes - (1h 30m)
  • #6145 1.5-dev: About Screen crashes on 6th entry - (30m)

• Merged 4 merge requests (16h 35m):

  • !8128 Replace Gtk::ComboBox by Gtk::DropDown for Page selection - (10h 30m)
  • !8126 Fix a test to not accidentally be a no-op - (15m)
  • !8125 Speed up Objects dialog when selecting many objects in dialog - (5h 30m)
  • !8113 Fix unified font browser preview text options for grid view - (20m)

• Fixed 1 issues (6h 45m):

  • #6340 The Page list at in the status bar unfolds outside the window (down as opposed to up) - (6h 45m)
  • #6391 Selecting a range of items in layer list takes minutes (via (!8125))
• Investigated 1 issue (30m):
  • #4734 Straight line on start when I try to draw a curve with pen tool in Spiro option - (30m)

• Other project tasks (45m):

  • Code review and related activity not tracked in GitLab, including review of !8106.

Roland Taylor

• Total time tracked: 65h 4m

• New issue reporting and investigation - (3h 30m):

• Testing and verification - (1h 15m):

• Other issue tasks (inbox and tracker management, review, labelling, triage, prioritisation, research, and coordination) - (12h 29m):

• Non-issue tasks (47h 50m):

  • Meetings & meeting prep - (2h 22m)

  • Milestone review & follow-up - (15h 25m)

  • MR follow-up, review, testing, and management - (8h 54m)

  • Admin duties (spreadsheet management, correspondence, managing assignments, reporting, and other administrative tasks) - (21h 9m)