Tiled 1.9.0

[bjorn]

Changelog

• Added option to ignore transparent pixels when selecting tile objects (Ignore transparent pixels when selecting objects #1477)
• Added support for sub-images in image collection tilesets (Tile sheet with different sized tiles #1008)
• Added "Class" field to all data types, referring to a custom class
• Added Tile Render Size and Fill Mode options to Tileset
• Added %worldfile variable for custom commands (by Pixel-Nori, %worldfile as variable in command.cpp #3352)
• Added 'New Project' action, replacing 'Save Project As' (Unintuitive project creation workflow #3279)
• Added ability to load .tiled-session files from command-line
• Merged Object Types with Property Types
• Don't scale point objects with the zoom level (Zoom independent point object size #3356)
• Take into account image layer content when determining visual map size (Several Image Layer and Offset related frustrations #3386)
• Scripting: Added Dialog API for building custom UI (by tileboydog, Add Dialog class for use in scripting #3384)
• Scripting: Added -e,--evaluate to run a script from command-line
• Scripting: Added Tool.toolBarActions property (Allow scripts to extend the tool bars #3318)
• Scripting: Added Tileset.columnCount property
• Scripting: Added ImageLayer.image property
• Scripting: Added access to selected terrain in tileset editor
• AutoMapping: Applying rules is now 10-30x faster
• AutoMapping: Explicit "regions" layers are no longer needed and have been deprecated (Automapping: derive input/output regions from input/output #1918)
• AutoMapping: "AutoMap While Drawing" no longer creates separate undo steps (Automapping creates too many undo events #2166)
• AutoMapping: Custom tiles can now match "Empty", "Non-Empty" and "Other" tiles through a "MatchType" property (Automap: Allow explicitly specifying Empty and Wildcard tiles #3100)
• AutoMapping: A custom tile with "MatchType" set to "Negate" can be used instead of "inputnot" layers
• AutoMapping: Added built-in tileset with these custom rule tiles
• AutoMapping: Added a number of per-rule options which can be set using rectangle objects
• AutoMapping: Erase tiles by placing tiles with "MatchType" set to "Empty" on output layers (Automap: Allow explicitly specifying Empty and Wildcard tiles #3100)
• AutoMapping: Accumulate touched layers in AutoMap While Drawing (Automap While Drawing doesn't apply all relevant rules #3313)
• AutoMapping: Support map name filters in rules.txt (Automapping: Restricting rules.txt rules by map name #3014)
• AutoMapping: Show relevant custom properties when a rules map is detected
• Optimized rendering of tinted layers by caching tinted images
• tmxrasterizer: Added options to hide certain layer types (TMX Rasterizer - disable objectgroup rendering #3343)
• Raised minimum supported Qt version from 5.6 to 5.12 (drops Windows XP support)
• Raised minimum C++ version to C++17
• Removed qmake project files (only Qbs supported now)
• macOS: Fixed layout of Custom Types Editor when using native style
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.4.18
• Python plugin: Now built against Python 3.8 on Windows and Linux
• Updated Bulgarian, Czech, French and Russian translations

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This discussion was created from the release Tiled 1.9.0.

[bjorn]

Unfortunately, some problems were found in the initial release, so I've re-published it, now still using Qt 5, as with Tiled 1.8.

Evidently doing the releases against Qt 6 will have to wait a bit, until all issues have been addressed. The latest problems identified were menus appearing on the wrong screen on Windows with Qt 6.2.4 and an invisible tilesets tab bar with Tiled built against Qt 6.3.1.

I hope you all can enjoy the new release now!