:Inkscape 0.47 Released With a Batch of Cool Improvements
Inkscape 0.47 Released With a Batch of Cool Improvements Nov 28, 2009, 23 :04 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5785 reads) (Other stories by Lisa Hoover)
"Some of the biggies include timed autosave to keep you from losing your work, a spell checker for text objects, and a huge batch of preset filters.
"According to the project's developers, the focus of Inkscape 0.47 is "to clean up legacy code and push forward the migration to clean object-oriented C++. The goal of this effort was to increase reliability and maintainability of Inkscape. In the long run, it will mean fewer bugs and more new features, because it will be easier to develop and find bugs in Inkscape."