Tiled 1.11.0

[bjorn]

Release Announcement

Changelog

• Added --project command-line parameter for use when exporting (CLI has no access to project information like custom types. #3797)
• Added group layer names in "Move Object to Layer" menu (Show "Move Object To Layer" context menu as a tree when Object Layers are inside Group Layers #3454)
• Added lock icon to open tabs for which the file is read-only
• Added Shift modifier to cut when capturing a tile stamp (by kdx2a, Make Stamp Brush right-click cut instead of copying when Shift is held #3961)
• Made adding "Copy" when duplicating optional and disabled by default (Made adding "Copy" when duplicating optional #3917)
• Changed default shortcut for "Save As" to Ctrl+Shift+S and removed shortcut from "Save All" (Switch keyboard shortcuts for "Save As" and "Save All" #3933)
• Layer names are now trimmed when edited in the UI, to avoid accidental whitespace
• Scripting: Added API for working with worlds (Scripting: Add API for Worlds #3539)
• Scripting: Added Object.setProperty overload for setting nested values
• Scripting: Added Tile.image for accessing a tile's image data
• Scripting: Added Image.copy overload that takes a rectangle
• Scripting: Added Tileset.imageFileName and ImageLayer.imageFileName
• Scripting: Added FilePath.localFile and FileEdit.fileName (string alternatives to Qt.QUrl properties)
• Scripting: Added tiled.color to create color values
• Scripting: Made Tileset.margin and Tileset.tileSpacing writable
• Scripting: Restored compatibility for MapObject.polygon (Setting object.polygon in script makes all points (0,0) #3845)
• Scripting: Fixed issues with editing properties after setting class values from script
• Scripting: Fixed setting/getting object reference values when nested as a class member
• TMX format: Embedded images are now also supported on tilesets and image layers
• JSON format: Fixed tile order when loading a tileset using the old format
• Godot 4 plugin: Added support for exporting objects (by Rick Yorgason, Added object support to Godot exporter #3615)
• Godot 4 plugin: Use Godot 4.2 tile transformation flags (by Rick Yorgason, Update Godot 4 exporter to use the new tile rotation/flipping system in Godot 4.2 #3895)
• Godot 4 plugin: Fixed positioning of tile collision shapes (by Ryan Petrie, Godot exporter collision fix #3862)
• GameMaker 2 plugin: Fixed positioning of objects on isometric maps
• Python plugin: Added support for implementing tileset formats (with Pablo Duboue, TileSet Python export plugins (fixes #1865) #3857)
• Python plugin: Raised minimum Python version to 3.8
• Python plugin: Now built against Python 3.12 for Windows 10+
• tmxrasterizer: Added --hide-object and --show-object arguments (by Lars Luz, Allow to hide and show objects in tmxrasterizer #3819)
• tmxrasterizer: Added --frames and --frame-duration arguments to export animated maps as multiple images (tmxrasterizer: Added --frames and --frame-duration arguments #3868)
• tmxrasterizer: Fixed --hide/show-layer to work on group layers (tmxrasterizer's --hide-layer doesn't work with group layers #3899)
• tmxviewer: Added support for viewing JSON maps (tmxviewer can't view json-based maps #3866)
• tmxrasterizer/viewer: Fixed loading of XML object templates (with Christian Schaadt, Enabled template resolution for the tmxrasterizer application. #3977)
• AutoMapping: Ignore empty outputs per-rule (Automapping: Ignore empty outputs per-rule #3523)
• Automapping: Added per-input-layer properties for ignoring flip flags (Automapping: Allow ignoring flip flags #3803)
• AutoMapping: Always apply output sets with empty index
• AutoMapping: Fixed adding of new tilesets used by applied changes
• Windows: Fixed the support for WebP images (updated to Qt 6.6.1, Error loading webp format. Version 1.10.1.  #3661)
• Fixed issues related to map and tileset reloading
• Fixed possible crash after assigning to tiled.activeAsset
• Fixed the option to resolve properties on export to also resolve class members (Resolve properties export option doesn't affect custom property types #3411, Custom Classes Member properties do not export to Lua file #3315)
• Fixed terrain tool behavior and terrain overlays after changing terrain set type (Terrain previews are hard to understand when unused Mixed labels are present #3204, Terrain tools should ignore irrelevant labels #3260)
• Fixed mouse handling issue when zooming while painting (Incorrect behavior of brushes when zooming in/out with the mouse wheel. #3863)
• Fixed possible crash after a scripted tool disappears while active
• Fixed updating of used tilesets after resizing map (Cropping map by selection leaves Tiled to think that tilesets are still in use #3884)
• Fixed alignment of shortcuts in action search
• Fixed object assignment buttons in tile collision editor (Object assignment buttons does not work in the tileset/tile collision editor. #3399)
• AppImage: Fixed ability to open paths with spaces from the CLI (Unable to open a tmx file with a space in the filename using AppImage with the shell #3914)
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.7.6

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This discussion was created from the release Tiled 1.11.0.

[kendofriendo]

Please don't force people to use AppImage, flatpak, or snap.

[bjorn]

Personally I think there are too many options actually. Why am I even bothering to maintain three wildly different packaging formats for the smallest user base? It's really only because I use Linux myself and wish more people would, and because each of these formats has at least one unique selling point.

Fortunately, Tiled is free software so you can do anything you want with it (except for making it non-free). So you can compile Tiled yourself or install is as a native package in most Linux distributions: