Release Notes

What's new in every version of Dotti.

1.0.4 LATEST RELEASE June 12, 2026
  • Bugfix: Coordinate space for drawn pixels was not immutable
  • Improved tab UX/UI
  • More robust close dialogs
  • UI polish
  • New tool: Slice tool
  • Improved window management
  • Zoom and window resize improvements
  • General performance improvements
  • Text tool polish
  • Dotti Light theme added
  • New effect: Dynamic Light (WIP)
  • Selections now run as a Metal shader, increased performance at scale
  • Multiple bugfixes
1.0.3 June 5, 2026
  • Pixel-perfect eraser
  • Tiled mode improvements
  • Improvements to Timelapse export
  • History export improvements
  • Pencil tool: Shift+click to create a straight line between last stroke and new stroke
1.0.2 June 2, 2026
  • Temporary brush slots
  • Better brushes UI
  • Improvements to tile mode
  • Fixes for crop to selection, canvas size anchoring
  • Gradient and Gradient by other means within a swatch range
  • Palette swatches can be dragged into empty spaces in the palette panel for visual clarity and user organization purposese.
  • Helpful hints in the bottom toolbar for each mode.
  • Fixed issues with slow movement around the viewport in the preview panel when drag mode is enabled
  • Matched effects panel to real effects offering
  • Added "Detach as Preview"; this allows for in-editor preview via the preview panel as well as in a fully separate window
  • Timeline UX improvements
1.0.1 June 1, 2026
  • Dialog UX fixes
  • Brush settings improvements
  • Temporary brush settings
  • Improved icon UX
  • Help buttons for dialogs and effect dialogs added
1.0.0 May 31, 2026
  • New options for the ramp panel
  • Increases performance in tilemaps
  • Shine and polish
  • Ready for release!
0.9.4 May 19, 2026
  • Spritesheet import improvements:
  • Option to ignore empty cells in sprite sheet import
  • Import as Animation, Layers, or Tileset
  • UI improvements:
  • Buttons given enhanced borders and consistent styling
  • Cohesive icon set in the Layers Panel
0.9.3 May 18, 2026
  • Improved split screen
  • Rewrote quantization effect, introduced dithering options
  • Optimized animation playback by only rendering pixel data as opposed to full trace data
  • Panel and tool hints now available in their top right
  • Palette and Indexed Mode now support up to 2048 colors
  • Better UX on progress bars
  • Improved document switching speed
  • Improved iconography
  • And more!
0.9.23 May 15, 2026
  • More performance improvements
  • Panel layout fixes
  • More granular per-tool instructions
0.9.22 May 11, 2026
  • Improved timelapse recording
  • Panel dragging performance improvements
  • Timelapses: Full per-action fidelity regardless of history length, scrubbable frame rate, overlay text truncation
  • Transform: Fixed RotSprite rotation, handles persist across algorithm changes
  • Unified swatch selection styling & fixed top-row clipping in palette panel
  • Tool cursors now anchor to their actual sample pixel
  • Bugfix: WebKit Cursor SVG rasterization was causing runtime crashing, changed to PNG cursors
  • Added text tool
  • Vast performance improvements on large canvases
0.9.21 April 17, 2026
  • Performance fixes for drawing tools.
  • Support for more in-depth audio layer options
  • Document UX handling improvements
  • Brush tip improvements; new dither brushes
  • Support for tablets
  • Cursor visual updates
  • Mirror effect
  • Improved history timelapse GIF generation
0.9 April 5, 2026
  • Continuous animation playback
  • Audio track support with trim & reorder
  • Gradient browser persistence fix
  • Ramp panel rewrite with fuzzy matching
  • Brush jitter, rotation & custom tips