Milton Changelog

What's new in Milton 1.9.0

Sep 29, 2019
  • Smooth brushes
  • Pressure-to-opacity
  • Rotation (alt to rotate)
  • Canvas-relative brush sizes

New in Milton 1.6.2 (Jun 6, 2019)

  • Hotfix: Fix for tab binding

New in Milton 1.6.1 (May 29, 2019)

  • Fixed bug where Milton wouldn't run in Windows 7
  • Fixed bug where Milton would hang on mouse input with wintab.dll loaded
  • Fixed render bug where bounding rect test for stroke clipping was incorrect
  • New features
  • New settings window, where key bindings can be set! (File->Settings)
  • Peek out. Press backquote (by default) to toggle zoom out.

New in Milton 1.6.0 (Apr 1, 2019)

  • New feature: Lines
  • Better GL compatibility.
  • Performance improvements to renderer
  • Auto save saves less often, depending on file size.
  • Huion tablet support

New in Milton 1.5.1 (Oct 5, 2017)

  • Small bugfix release: crash when Wacom driver was not present.

New in Milton 1.5.0 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • HiDPI support.
  • Fix for a long standing handmade hero bug.

New in Milton 1.4.3 (Jul 17, 2017)

  • Small fix to the wacom event handler.

New in Milton 1.4.2 (Jun 5, 2017)

  • Fixed Wacom issues. Rewrote the DPI scaling code.

New in Milton 1.4.1 (May 29, 2017)

  • This release features asynchronous saving to avoid slowdowns when working with large .mlt files.

New in Milton 1.4.0 (May 17, 2017)

  • New look:
  • New color scheme that is a lot prettier IMO.
  • 64-bit canvas:
  • This version has switched to a 64-bit canvas. The previous versions provided about 300 screens or so of actual canvas when fully zoomed-out. Switching to 64-bit is enough for Milton's canvas to really be infinite for any practical purpose.
  • Blur:
  • There is a new layer effects window which currently supports one new effect - Gaussian Blur.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Bugs were squashed.

New in Milton 1.2.8 (Jan 30, 2017)

  • What's new:
  • Export to bitmap with transparent background
  • Lower GPU requirements
  • Increased compatibility
  • Interpolation of new strokes to make them smoother
  • Support for Wacom pen eraser
  • Various bug fixes

New in Milton 1.2.7 (Jan 20, 2017)

  • What's new:
  • This is a bug fix release for the new renderer. There are still some kinks to iron out, but it should work on many more machines now.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Anti-aliasing should work on non-Nvidia cards.
  • Milton tried to bake the whole canvas on load, which was a Very Bad Idea for very large canvases.
  • Workaround for a window-focusing issue with

New in Milton 1.2.6 (Oct 6, 2016)

  • New renderer!. Milton can now handle much more complex paintings.
  • This new version needs a machine that supports OpenGL 3.2. If you are on an older integrated card, or if for any reason your machine does not have support, Milton will tell you and exit.
  • There are a bunch of bugfixes. All of them should be in the github issue tracker under the 1.2.6 label.
  • Since the new renderer is OpenGL-based and this is its first time in the wild, things might explode / not work correctly. Please report issues!

New in Milton 1.2.5 (Jul 7, 2016)

  • Note: High DPI display owners, please skip on using Milton for now. There is a problem with Wacom support and Windows scaling.
  • What's new:
  • GUI Performance improvement
  • Option to disable or enable stroke smoothing
  • Bug fix:
  • Packets were being skipped when buffering input.

New in Milton 1.2.4 (Jul 7, 2016)

  • Important! This build has a color management bugfix. Milton files created with older versions will look more saturated in this version.
  • New features:
  • Stroke smoothing for Wacom input
  • Faster clipping for software renderer, although it will be replaced by a hardware renderer.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Wacom mapping of sub-areas for input and output.
  • Support for Unicode paths and file names. (Non-ASCII usernames now work..)
  • Gamma "correction" in older versions was stupid and limited gamut. Removed.
  • (Related). Background color now matches the selection in the GUI.
  • Better handling of Wacom packets to handle queue overflow.
  • Failed to delete temp files in %appdata% when copies failed on save. Milton now cleans up for previous versions.
  • Fix crash that happened when loading a file and then loading a smaller file. Memory allocation bug

New in Milton 1.2.3 (Jul 7, 2016)

  • This is a bugfix release
  • Milton was not handling Wacom tablet area portion and screen area portions (issue #8). I will be submitting a PR upstream to EasyTab
  • Milton always tried to re-load corrupt files in case of a crash. There have been no reports of this but it would have been a problem
  • This installer gets a false positive with at least two virus scanners :(
  • If you are having problems downloading the installer, you may be able to open it by going to Windows Defender, History, View Details, and then Recover.
  • Otherwise, you can always use the Standalone Zip.

New in Milton 1.2.2 (Jul 7, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Hardware cursor: Less perceived lag.
  • Better brush handling.
  • Bug fixes and improvements:
  • Version 1.2.1 had a bug where it made files bigger each time it reloaded. This version fixes corrupted files.
  • Single point strokes sometimes didn't render, depending on zoom level
  • Tapping on title bar with with wacom pen counted as stroke input
  • Milton remembers when it was maximized.
  • For the first 6 hours this release did not save files properly, this was fixed. Sorry!
  • Problems with anti-virus There were complaints with the last couple of releases. Some people couldn't download the installer because Windows thinks it is a virus :(. It is not! There is a zip file in case you are having this issue, but hopefully it is gone now. Here is a link to virustotal.com examining this installer, whereas the previous one did have a false positive.
  • If you can't download the installer (or you don't want to), download Milton_1.2.2_Standalone.zip.
  • The next release will be mostly a performance release. There's a bunch of places where Milton needs to be faster for usability reasons.

New in Milton 1.2.1 (Jul 7, 2016)

  • Major changes and new features:
  • Small change to the file format. MLT files now include information about the state of the pen and the eraser - the size opacity and, in the case of the pen, color. Milton is backwards compatible. Everything done with version 1.1.0 should work with 1.2.1.
  • Milton now remembers its last screen size.
  • Shows the file name and the last save time in the menu bar.
  • If Milton is having problems saving, it will prompt when quitting to try saving somewhere else.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Milton reported phantom "MOUSE_UP" events on tablets that not always give pressure data when the pen is down.
  • Milton didn't behave properly on displays smaller than the default window size. The new default behavior is to maximize.

New in Milton PreAlpha 003 (Jul 7, 2016)

  • Graphical User Interface, using dear imgui,
  • Feature parity in Windows, Mac, Linux.
  • Wacom support everywhere (some features, like buttons and eraser needed)
  • Export to file. (Very new. No GUI feedback, just spews out a file called out.png)

New in Milton PreAlpha 002 (Jul 7, 2016)

  • Wacom support in Windows and Linux
  • Finished Color Picker
  • Linux and OSX support. (Build from source)
  • Many performance and memory footprint improvements.
  • Added standard keyboard bindings for brush control.
  • 'Downgrade' GL requirement to 1.4 and GLSL 120. Most machines should run it.