Incscape is a powerful, free and open source tool plannings. Whether you're 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 introduces a new feature called PowerPencil that allows the Pencil tool to be used with a pressure-dependent width. You can also create a closed path and draw line drawings.
The tool has also been improvedtreatments PDF and now supports links and metadata clickable, while other notable improvements are variable font support, new templates, grid gradients that work in the browser, and new line height settings.
There are also customizable ones themeicons 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 on the official website.
See also the following video presentation of the new version: