Affinity Designer versions

v1.9 [Feb 14, 2021]
• Powerful contour tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves
• Select Same to efficiently match attributes such as fill color, stroke color, stroke weight, transparency, blend mode or shape type
• Select Object to select all objects of a certain type within your document to make editing even easier
• Studio presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks
• Linked images and resource manager
• Divide blend mode
• PDF passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed
• Package feature to collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder
• Path text improvements
• Configurable margin guide colors
• Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100%
• Curves numeric field controls
• Snap to pixel selection bounds
• Blend modes for mask layers
• Create brushes from current pixel selection
• Elliptical marquee automatically creates from center
• Content sync of store purchases
• Hierarchical control of antialiasing
• Many other improvements and fixes

v1.8 [Feb 27, 2020]
- Various stability and performance improvements.

v1.1 [Oct 4, 2014]
- Improved performance with:
- Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow)
- Placed images
- Text
- Embedded documents
- Low-memory conditions.
- New Selection options Parent, Top, & Bottom.
- Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages.
- Improved SVG import/export.
- Added support for most emoji.
- Resource Manager:
- New "Relink" option for missing resources
- Added "File Type" column
- EPS files can be linked.
- Assorted other small fixes.
- Help & localisation improvements.