Aseprite 0.9.6-beta2 Feb 3, 2014

Hello! Today I’m glad to announce a beta version for Aseprite 0.9.6. It includes more than a year of work, a lot of bug fixes, and new features. It needs some testing and there are some issues to solve yet (mainly about user experience with the new timeline), but anyway I really want your feedback. The list of visible changes:

• New Timeline, it’s a work in progress of issue 293 (it replaces the Animation Editor):
•  Issue 110 : Configurable onionskin settings.
•  Issue 182 : Select/delete/edit properties of multiple frames/layers.
• New context bar with useful options for the current drawing tool ( issue 132 ).
• Added (optional) scroll-bars to sprite editor ( issue 260 ).
• Added option for Eye Dropper to grab alpha value ( issue 134 ).
• Export to JSON format from command line (issue 17). (A next version should contain the export feature from the UI.)
• Live animation preview in mini editor ( issue 105 ).
• Add RotSprite algorithm as a possibility to scale/rotate the selection ( issue 121 ).
• Added pixel-perfect drawing algorithm for pencil tool ( issue 315 )
• Fixed  issue 46  and  issue 150 : Unicode support on Windows for file names.
• Fixed  issue 46  and  issue 294 : Added Cyrillic script (Russian) and missing German Unicode characters.
• Fixed  issue 185 : Fix crash when editing the color palette.
• Fixed  issue 212 : Remove frame doesn’t displace frame durations.
• Fixed  issue 239 : Some performance improvements.
• Fixed  issue 277 : Now you can change the default palette.
• Fixed  issue 279 ,  issue 280 ,  issue 284  and  issue 285 .

Download it from: http://www.aseprite.org/beta/