nightly build 2025-12-11

Merge pull request #6310 from andeon/refactor/modern-cpp-qt

refactor: C++ improvements, RAII, Qt modernization

OT v1.7.1.1-portable (20251123)

Want to preview what is coming in Opentoonz verison 1.8?
This portable release for Windows represents all changes, enhancements and bug fixes up to and including the most recent nightly release as of 23 November 2025. No need to install, just download, unzip and run the program.

Can't upgrade now from that older release of Opentoonz?
No need. Run this portable alongside your currently installed version of OT.

This release represents over two years of bug fixes, feature updates and enhancements.
New tools, new fx and so much more.

It is the same release as what you get when downloading the 23 November nightly build but as a portable program. Move it to what ever drive you want and even to run Opentoonz from a USB stick.

Look for the release date in the title bar to confirm release date.
Windows only for now.

OpenToonz V1.7.1

This is an urgent patch release fixing the bug "Import / Load Dialogue not working" (#4877)

OpenToonz V1.7

Release Notes

New Features

• Enabled pasting external clipboard images (#4681)
• Preproduction Board panel (#4611)
• Custom Panels
• Main Window See Through Mode (#4542)
• Added Haiku support (#4770)
• Export Camera Track (#4742)
• Export Open Cel Animation (OCA) format (#4483)
• Export Scene (#4707)
• Convert TZP to TLV in folder (#4570)
• New Fx: Floor Bump Fx Iwa (#4602)
• New Fxs: Flow Fx series (#4633)

Audio

• Added additional support for audio formats
• Audio in Fast Render to MP4 Extremely Boosted (#4779)

Tools

• Added Straight line mode on Brush tool (#4680)
• Added OpenToonz vector logo brush (#4601)
• Added Gimp (Mypaint) Brushes (#4600)
• Added Flip and rotate toolbar options to Animate tool (#4698)
• Added Pick + Freehand mode to Fill tool (#4590)
• Added Triangle Brush Cursors (#4709)
• Enabled to use MyPaint styles with Geometric tool (#4859)

Checks

• Improve Transparency Check suitable for Japanese animation industry (#4760 #4769)

Function Editor/Curve Editor

• Enabled to stretch function curve keys with Alt+drag (#4752)
• Bigger Handles & Improved Contrast (#4628)

Histogram

• Enhanced histogram popup (#4557)

Image formats/ffmpeg:

• Added support for MOV, APNG and other formats

Rendering

• Supported floating point & Linear color space rendering (#4700)
• Enhanced viewer preview (#4712)

Schematic

• Enabled to snap schematic node (#4567)

Xsheet/Timeline

• Timeline/Xsheet navigation tags (#4646)
• Customizable column color filters (#4756)
• Thicken Xsheet marker lines (#4545)
• Paste cells command behavior option (#4777)
• Delete cells command behavior (#4775)
• Selection aware command name (#4776)
• Modified the "Reframe with Empty Inbetweens" command behavior (#4774)

Cache

• Extended the coverage of the "Default TLV Caching Behavior" option to all raster levels on any loading (#4751)

.. And tons of bug fixes!

OpenToonz V1.7 Release Candidate

Please see V1.7 for the Release Notes.

OpenToonz V1.6

Release Notes

Audio

• Improved Audio Recording

Cleanup

• Enabled to Cleanup Without Line Processing

Flipbook / Viewers

• (new) Zoom in/out and fit floating panel geometry commands
• Enhanced Flipbook playback
• (new) 30bit display feature

Xsheet / Timeline

• (new) "Implicit hold" move by Shift+dragging cells
• (new) Cell Mark feature
• Allowed changing parent of column from XSheet (Tahoma2D port)
• (new) Xsheet Minimum Layout
• (new) Xsheet zoom control
• Enhanced Note level column

Xsheet (Export)

• (new) Export Xsheet to PDF
• (new) TVPaint JSON export

Image Levels / Rendering / FFMPEG

• Enabled to set Raster level frame number format
• Enabled to use PNG for new Raster level
• (new) Multi-Thread FFMPEG option
• Enhanced FFMPEG GIF export
• (new) OpenEXR I/O

Palettes / Style Editor

• (new) Raster Lock Alpha tool setting
• (new) Hex editbox in Style Editor
• (new) Hex color names editor
• Enabled to paste style's color into a color field

File Browser

• Enabled To view palette files from the File Browser

Effects / Schematic

• (new) Conical Transform option for Fractal Noise Fx Iwa
• (new) "Image Size" option for the Input Size parameter for Tile Fx Iwa
• Allowed Renaming Pass Through Nodes (Tahoma2D port)
• (new) Shader Fx: HSL Blend GPU
• (new) Fx Global Controls parameter
• Redesigned Pass Through Fx Node
• (new) Bokeh Advanced Iwa Fx
• (new) Compass Gadget for Radial and Spin Blur Fxs
• (new) Linear color space option for all Layer Blending Ino fxs

File I/O

• (new) File Path Processing Using Regular Expression

Camera Capture / Stop Motion

• (new) Camera calibration for the Camera Capture feature
• Enabled inputting frame with suffix in Camera Capture
• Enhanced Stop motion feature

... with many additional bug fixes, typo corrections, enhancements and more!

See the change log and Opentoonz github pulse for more information.

OpenToonz V1.6 Release Candidate

Please see V1.6 for the Release Notes.

OpenToonz V1.5

Please make sure to uninstall all the previous versions of OpenToonz before installing V1.5.

Release Notes

Animate Tool

• Ease Regulations for the Use of Animate Tool

Audio

• Fix - Crash on Recording Audio (Mac, Windows)

Build / Github

• Custom Qt with Wintab support
• New - Support for Github Actions
• New - CI builds for Windows, Mac and Linux (via Github Actions)
• Updated - Github Issue Templates

Brushes

• New - Aotz MyPaint brush set (Sketch, Ink, Fill, Clouds, Water, Grass, Leaves, Fur, Eraser, etc.)
• Fix vector custom styles

Color Model

• Fix color model pick mode

Color Separation

• New - Save/Reload Color Separation Colors Parameters

Control Point Editor Tool

• New - Add snap option to control point editor tool
• New - Freehand mode in control point editor tool

Conversion

• New - Convert To Vector : Align Boundary Strokes Direction Option

Cutter Tool

• New - Snap at intersection in cutter tool

Effects

• New - Bloom Iwa Fx
• New - Fractal Noise Iwa Fx
• New - Glare Iwa Fx
• New - Search bar in New Fx browser
• New - Linear color space option for Add Fx Ino
• New - Logarithmic option for Spiral fx
• New - Particle FX Preset: Flock fx

Eraser Tool

• New Segment Erase
• New Frame range for segment mode of eraser tool

Expressions

• New - (Optional/Experimental) Expression Reference Manager
• New - Expression Function: Periodic Random
• New - Copy expression object address directly from UI

Geometry Tool

• New - multi arc shape in geometric tool
• Fix - Geometric tool / Type tool first point offset

Image formats

• Enhance - Premultiply on Loading PNG images

Keyframing

• Fix - Fix copy/paste keyframe causing bad data

Level Strip

• New - Horizontal Level Strip option

Monitors / Screens

• Fix icon rendering for HDPI
• Fix for Duplicate Window Title (Mac)
• Fix for Full Screen on Multiple Monitors (WIndows)

Palette

• New - (Optional) Toolbar location
• New - Color Keys Global Palette

Plastic Tool

• Fix - OpenGL Line Smoothing

Plugins

• Updated Dwango plugins (separate download)

Rendering

• Fix Batch Rendering on Mac
• Updated Output Settings Dialogue

Scenes

• Fix incorrect xml in tnz file

Scene Cast

• Fix - Scene Cast Update on Pasting

Selector Tool

• Enhancement - Improved target area for Transform selection

Style Editor

• New - (Optional) Create New Style Command Button

Tape Tool

• Fix - Fix Vector Tape Tool on Joining Points at the Same Position

Translation

• Updated Languages ( )
• New - Initial support for Norwegian Bokmal
• New - Weblate widget
• New - Generation of translation projects now optional in cmake

UI / Preferences

• New - All New Icons (GUI Cleanup)
• New - Live update for 3DLuts via Preferences
• New - Additional UI Style Sheet customizations via Preferences
• New - Icons for all commands
• Update Default Room set

Operating Systems

• New - FreeBSD support

Xsheet

• New - Paste as Copy Command for XSheet
• Fix - Fix Crash When Drawing on Absent Level

Shortcuts

• New - More shapes for Adobe Animate keyboard shortcuts
• New - Shortcut keypress length option

Undo

• New - Undo: Reset Undo when Saving Levels Preference Option

... with many additional bug fixes, typo corrections, enhancements and more!

See the Opentoonz github pulse for more information: LINK

OpenToonz V1.5 Release Candidate 2

Please make sure to uninstall all the previous versions of OpenToonz before installing V1.5RC2.

Please see V1.5 for the Release Notes.

OpenToonz V1.5 Release Candidate

Please make sure to uninstall all the previous versions of OpenToonz before installing V1.5RC.

Please see V1.5 for the Release Notes.