Old releases

For older operating system versions, such as macOS 10.12, Windows 7 or Ubuntu 16.04 for example, all OpenBoard releases are available on GitHub

Community Thanks

Thanks to the OpenBoard Community: many of the improvements OpenBoard benefits from have been made possible by the support of the OpenBoard community!

Special thanks to GitHub contributors: letsfindaway, Vekhir, sebojolais and many others!

Release Notes

Version 1.7.7

What's Changed

No longer forces a white background on widgets for Qt versions above 6.8.0.
Added a warning icon and message on broken documents to better inform users what to do.
Fix: enabled cookie storage by @letsfindaway in #1445.
Feature: backported document converter 1.8.0 to 1.7.x by @letsfindaway in #1443.
Build: adapted to poppler 26.02 by @letsfindaway in #1434.

Version 1.7.6

What's Changed

Fixed a crash when using the "add to document" button in Documents Mode.
Fixed a bug where the standard PDF export method would constantly fail.
Fix: rearrange board thumbnails after duplicating scene by @letsfindaway in #1430.

Version 1.7.5

What's Changed

Fixed an issue where duplicating a document and selecting the new copy would not show its thumbnail.
Improved drag & drop of multiple pages and selection behavior in the document thumbnails view.
Fixed typos in the README.

New Contributors

@CryHavoc21 made their first contribution in #853.

Version 1.7.4

What's Changed

Updated to Qt 6.9 on macOS, Debian and Windows.
Fixed glitches when rendering PDFs on screens with DPI scaling > 100%.
Fixed blurry PDFs when devicePixelRatio is not 1.0.
Fixed a bug where the view was restored to center when clearing the scene.
Unified thumbnails for Board and Document modes.
Fixed dropping a PDF URL to the board.
Copied ItemOwnZValue correctly when cloning an item.
Fixed tool usage with tablet eraser.
Fixed a bug where users could not rotate a horizontal or vertical line.
Added rotate snap indicator and allow snapping rotated items.
Fixed small scene shifts when switching pages.
Import a file only once per document.
Background loader performance improvements.
Fixed spinning message after UBZ import.
Fixed thumbnail synchronization.
Fixed incomplete ubdocument files.
Refactored UI enable/disable handling.
Checked document validity in thumbnails view.
Fixed a possible crash in UBThumbnailScene.
Fixed thumbnail size and UI buttons.
Added WebP image support.
Fixed typos.
Improved delegate handle detection with tablet pen.
Made UBPersistenceManager::createDocumentProxyStructure static.
Worked around a Windows crash where dropbar was attached to a dangling scene after a document switch.
Fixed German translation for cache.
Fixed blurry screenshots.

Version 1.7.3

Bug fixes

Tried to mitigate some audio-related issues on Debian by forcing the use of the ffmpeg backend (see Known Issues for more details on the remaining bugs).
Fixed an issue where the Windows package would not contain the correct version of OpenSSL DLLs.

Known issues

On any widget, select options (drop-down lists) won't appear in the right position. Be careful as they might sometimes appear behind the left or right palette of the Board Mode.
Reading multiple audio files, then returning to a previously played audio file within the same session, results in the audio file not being played correctly, especially with short audios.
Some use cases remain where documents at the same level can have the same name.
An unidentified issue may occur when importing a UBX, resulting in the imported documents appearing multiple times in the document tree at the same level.

Linux

In Desktop Mode, the Gnome Dock should be set to the bottom position to work around the issue with the OpenBoard left palette being unusable from above it (cf. QTBUG-81341 for more details).

Older release notes are available on GitHub.