Incscape is a powerful, free and open source design tool. Whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create images from scratch, Inkscape is for you.
What's new in this update is that Inkscape is introducing a new one mode called PowerPencil, which allows the Pencil tool to be used with a pressure-dependent width. You can also create a closed path and draw line drawings.
The PDF exporter has also been improved and now supports clickable links and metadata, other notable improvements are variable support fonts, new templates, grid gradients that work in the browser, and new line height settings.
There are also customizable themes, icons and fonts and users can save the current file as a template.
A closer look at what's new in this update you can see in the official by clicking here.
See also the following video presentation of the new version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlS0zKXsdvo Download the application