rodlie released this

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉

We’re ending 2025 on a high note with the release of Friction 1.0.0 RC3.

This release introduces highly requested features, including gizmos, snapping, and grid systems, alongside several critical bug fixes.

As our final release candidate, this marks the last step before the stable v1.0 release in early January. Thank you for your support and feedback throughout the year!

https://friction.graphics/releases/friction-100-rc3.html

Pre-release

rodlie released this

Pre-release

rodlie released this

Friction 1.0.0 beta 2 is now available 🥳

https://friction.graphics/releases/friction-100-beta2.html

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Pre-release

rodlie released this

Friction 1.0.0 beta 1 is now available 🥳

This version includes several new features and improvements.

https://friction.graphics/releases/friction-100-beta1.html

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rodlie released this

The first maintenance release for 0.9.6 is now available.

This release marks the end of development for the 0.9 series. The 0.9 series is now in maintenance mode, receiving only important bug fixes until the upcoming 1.0 release later this year.

See release notes for more information.

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rodlie released this

Introducing Friction 0.9.6. See release notes for more information.

Pre-release

rodlie released this

Friction 0.9.6 Release Candidate 2 is now available.

Changes

• Fixed performance regression introduced in RC 1 #152
• Fixed menu state on project load #158
• Fixed menu item disabled style #168
• Fixed path keyTimes when exporting SVG #165
• Renamed "Web Animation (SVG + SMIL)" to "Export SVG"
• Allow modifications on the timeline/graph during playback #161
• Updated to Qt 5.15.14 #140

See RC 1 for additional information.

Pre-release

rodlie released this

Friction 0.9.6 Release Candidate is now available.

UI/UX

This release includes several UI/UX changes.

• Improved viewer and timeline UI
• Don't wrap item labels
• Improved "Fill and Stroke" widgets
• New UI layout handler (more flexible)
• Render Queue: Fix missing labels (-none-) on project load
• Added shortcut for bookmark color (B)
• Added shortcut for Pivot local/global (P)
• Don't allow group link to be dropped on it's target
• Render queue state fixes
• Various minor tweaks/fixes
• Updated icon theme
• Removed legacy icon code
• Icon fixes for HiDPI
• Check that recent file exists before adding to menu
• Added "Clear Recent Files" in edit menu
• Timeline settings menu renamed to "filters"

Renderer

The renderer now supports profiles on selected codecs.

• H264 (baseline/main/high)
• ProRes (proxy/lt/standard/hq/4444/xq)
• AV1 (main/high/professional)
• VP9 (0/1/2/3)
• MPEG4 (simple/core/main)
• VC1 (simple/main/complex/advanced)

Effects

• Effects can now be renamed

Windows

• Support window title bar dark/light theme
• Remove dependency on Windows Media Foundation (Support for Windows N)

Linux

• Removed Ubuntu native packages
  • We won't ship distro specific packages anymore, see universal build
• Removed Flatpak package
• Fixed broken RPM package
• Bundle xcb libraries for better compatibility
• Portable now includes a desktop integration script

Other

• Major improvements to the build process
• Started moving GUI code to frictionui library
• Moved more code to the frictioncore library
• Removed a lot of unused code
• Upgraded from Qt 5.12.12 to Qt 5.15.13
  • Should fix several UI issues on Windows
  • Might also introduce new issues
• Downgraded to known good (for us) FFmpeg version
• QtSvg and Qt image formats is not needed anymore

Full Changelog.

Known Issues

• Friction is beta quality software, expect issues and missing/broken features
• CSS style sheets are not supported when importing an SVG
  • SVG's from Adobe Illustrator (and others?) may have issues due to this
  • In some circumstances this might result in an invalid undo state after import
• SVG gradients may not import correctly
  • In general gradients needs some work
• There are still some minor issues with HiDPI
• Shader effects are still experimental and may introduce issues

And more, see our issue tracker for more information.

Support

• If you find an issue with the application please report it on our issue tracker (requires a GitHub account).
• For general discussion, feature requests etc use our forum (requires a GitHub account).

For other inquiries use support at friction dot graphics.

System Requirements

Minimum hardware

• 4GB RAM available
• AVX x86_64 compatible dual core CPU
  • Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3/i5/i7
  • AMD Bulldozer
• OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU and driver
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8 series (G8x/Tesla)
  • AMD Radeon HD 2000 series (R600/TeraScale 1)
  • Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge)
• Audio device supporting WASAPI on Windows and PulseAudio on Linux

Recommended hardware

• 32GB RAM
• CPU
  • Intel Kaby Lake Core i5/i7 or newer
  • AMD Ryzen/Threadripper 1000 series or newer
• GPU
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or newer
  • AMD Radeon RX 560 or newer
  • Intel UHD Graphics 620 or newer

Supported systems

• Microsoft Windows (N) 10/11 x64
  • Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 or higher is needed on Windows 10
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9/8.x/9.x x86_64 and compatible
  • Generic Linux with X11 and glibc 2.17+ should work

Pre-release

rodlie released this

Introducing Friction 0.9.6 Beta 1. This release includes several changes to the user interface and some additional new features.

We are now in feature freeze, please report any regressions or other issues introduced in this release.

WARNING! Project files saved with 0.9.6 are not compatible with older versions.

Final release is scheduled for early May.

UI/UX

• Improved viewer and timeline UI
• Don't wrap item labels
• Improved "Fill and Stroke" widgets
• New UI layout handler
• Render Queue: Fix missing labels (-none-) on project load
• Added shortcut for bookmark color (B)
• Added shortcut for Pivot local/global (P)
• Don't allow group link to be dropped on it's target
• Render queue state fixes
• Various minor tweaks
• Updated some icons

Renderer

Added support for profiles on selected codecs:

• H264 (baseline/main/high)
• ProRes (proxy/lt/standard/hq/4444/xq)
• AV1 (main/high/professional)
• VP9 (0/1/2/3)
• MPEG4 (simple/core/main)
• VC1 (simple/main/complex/advanced)

Effects

• Effects can now be renamed

Windows

• Support window title bar dark/light theme
• Removed dependency on Windows Media Foundation (Adds support for Windows N)

Linux

• Removed Ubuntu Lunar (23.04) native package
• Added Ubuntu Noble (24.04) native package
• Removed Flatpak package, will submit to flathub at some point
• Fixed broken RPM package

Other

• Source tarball (friction-VERSION.tar.bz2) is now available for releases
• Major improvements to the build process
• Started moving GUI code to frictionui library
• Moved more code to the frictioncore library
• Removed a lot of unused code
• Upgraded from Qt 5.12.12 to Qt 5.15.13
  • Should fix several UI issues on Windows

Full Changelog.

Known Issues

• Friction is beta quality software, expect issues and missing/broken features
• CSS style sheets are not supported when importing an SVG
  • SVG's from Adobe Illustrator (and others?) may have issues due to this
  • In some circumstances this might result in an invalid undo state after import
• SVG gradients may not import correctly
  • In general gradients needs some work
• There are still some minor issues with HiDPI
• Shader effects are still experimental and may introduce issues

And more, see our issue tracker for more information.

Support

• If you find an issue with the application please report it on our issue tracker (requires a GitHub account).
• For general discussion, feature requests etc use our forum (requires a GitHub account).

For other inquiries use support at friction dot graphics.

System Requirements

Minimum hardware

• 4GB RAM available
• AVX x86_64 compatible dual core CPU
  • Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3/i5/i7
  • AMD Bulldozer
• OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU and driver
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8 series (G8x/Tesla)
  • AMD Radeon HD 2000 series (R600/TeraScale 1)
  • Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge)
• Audio device supporting WASAPI on Windows and PulseAudio on Linux

Recommended hardware

• 32GB RAM
• CPU
  • Intel Kaby Lake Core i5/i7 or newer
  • AMD Ryzen/Threadripper 1000 series or newer
• GPU
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or newer
  • AMD Radeon RX 560 or newer
  • Intel UHD Graphics 620 or newer

Supported systems

• Microsoft Windows (N) 10/11
  • Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 or higher is needed on Windows 10
• Ubuntu 22.04/23.10/24.04 and compatible
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9/8.x/9.x and compatible
• Generic Linux (glibc 2.17+/libgcc 4.8.5+)

Linux notes

We have a universal Linux build recommended for most users. It's provided as a portable tarball, RPM and AppImage.

• They are all identical, only the package format differs
• Third-party dependencies are kept in sync with the Windows build, only the compilers differ

Ubuntu packages are built against system dependencies and differs from our universal build.

Native Wayland is currently not supported.

Checksums

Checksums for source and binaries for this release (Public key).

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That's it for now... Download Friction and make something awesome! :-)