Roadmap

This is a general view of what you can expect in next releases. This roadmap is not complete and can be modified in the future, but you should expect all these features in the whole v1.x series anyway.

Aseprite v1.0 - Release Notes

• Visible timeline mockup
• Implement RotSprite RotSprite
• Live animation preview
• New folder button (issue 233)
• Mouse wheel for vertical scroll or zoom
• New settings UI
• Mac OS X cursor (issue 75)
• Fix drop in last layer and/or frame
• Fix RGB -> indexed conversion when save .gif files (issue 158 and issue 210)
• Mac OS X shortcuts cmd+x (issue 135)
• Issue 217: Difficult to modify selections
• Milestone issues

Aseprite v1.1 - Release Notes

• Home tab (issue 380)
• Simplify multi-sprite editors handling: You should be able to drag & drop editors' tabs to split them horizontally or vertically (issue 118)
• Auto crash recovery function (issue 151)
• Create tags in Timeline (issue 153, issue 416, issue 500, issue 557)
• Palette operations: Drag-and-drop colors, sort colors, reorder colors, remap colors automatically, cut/copy/paste operations.
• Custom brushes from selection (issue 154)
• Layers blending modes (issue 318)
• Proper RGBA support (issue 286)
• Shade drawing mode (issue 85)
• Texture atlases generation using command line (issue 17)
• Continue improving the color bar: issues
• Auto crash recovery function (issue 151)
• Symmetry painting (issue 208)
• Milestone issues

Aseprite v1.2 - Release Notes

• Layer groups (issue 454)
• Hotspots, slices, and sprite sheet region marking (issue 30)
• Gradient fill (issue 418)
• Mac OS X menus (issue 135)
• Milestone issues

Aseprite v1.3 - Release Notes

• Tile map editor (issue 977)
  • External tilesets
  • Better UI to select/define groups of tiles
• Customizable UI layout (issue 518)
• Slice changes in timeline (issue 721)
• More brush options (issue 175)
• Interactive Text tool (issue 28)
  • Bitmap fonts (possible format)
• Mask layer (issue 459)
• Audio support (issue 70)
• Milestone issues

Aseprite v1.4

• Mask layer (moved to v1.3)
• Palette changes in timeline (issue 1067)
• Undo for each transformation phase (rotation/scale) (issue 424)
• Continue improving the timeline and color bar
• New layers:
  • Text layer
  • Path/vector layer (issue 814 / issue 2704)
  • FX layers (real-time effects)
• Tweening (issue 96)
• Projects management: settings per file, grid size, automatic sprite sheets import/export, etc. (issue 26)
  • Texture atlases generation from UI (issue 17)
• Batch processing. E.g. Projects with several automated post-production process (e.g. automated build process to generate sprite sheets and texture atlases). (related to issue 138)
• Macros/recordable actions (issue 475)
• Milestone issues

Aseprite v1.5

• Options to export CSS Sprite Sheets
• Feature to test parallax scrolling
• Milestone issues

Aseprite v1.6

• Tile map editor (moved to v1.3)
• Direct manipulation of sprite sheets (issue 64)
• Milestone issues

Aseprite v1.7~v1.9

• Not planned, available for future features.