We've made the element dimensions, angle, and font size editable from the stats panel (Alt+/) if you need the extra precision or set values for multiple elements at once. You can also collapse the General stats if that's something you don't care about! Added by Ryan Di 💜

We've shipped new fonts! Revitalized our handdrawn font, swapped sans and monospace fonts, and added a heading font. Many thanks to Marcel Mraz! 💜

Introducing Elbow arrows! 🚀 Many thanks to Mark Tolmacs for implementation, and Preet Shihn for initial prototyping! 💜

Flowcharts! Keyboard shortcuts to create flowcharts more easily! Use Cmd/Ctrl+Arrow to create nodes. Hold Cmd/Ctrl while pressing Arrow repeatedly to create multiple nodes at once. Implemented by Ryan Di 💜

We've made improvements to performance, especially while creating new shapes, which is particularly notable when using the freedraw tool. The shape you're creating is drawn on its own layer so other shapes on canvas don't much affect it (unless someone else is drawing at the

You can now link canvas elements together, or share a link to specific content with others! You can link elements from the hyperlink popup. To copy a link instead, use the context menu or the command palette. Implemented by Ryan Di 💜

ingenious!

Need more arrowhead types to create your fancy UML diagrams? Added by Ryan Di 💜

State of the Union, round five! plus.excalidraw.com/blog/excalidra…

Murphy would've approved.

We're now supporting manual elbow arrow editing! If the default auto-routing algorithm doesn't work for your diagram, you can create new segments and position them where you want. Implemented by Mark Tolmacs 💜

We've released 0.18 of the Excalidraw npm package! 🎉 pnpm i @excalidraw/excalidraw@latest

Introducing lasso selection! A more freeform selection method when you need the extra precision, or the versatility. Pick from the toolbar, or use Option/Alt+Drag. Added by Ryan Di 💜

Did you choose the wrong shapes for your diagram? Now you don't have to trash your work and start again! Use the Tab key to change between basic shapes. 🔁 Thanks Ryan Di 💜

Small improvement for elbow arrows: you can now easily bind to diamond midpoints. Via Mark Tolmacs

Alright alright, unlocking things used to be hard... This should make it easier: a single click on previously locked shapes now shows a contextual unlock button. By Ryan Di.

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Periodic reminder we have a YouTube channel. <3 In our latest video we showcase the recently added features and review some of our keyboard shortcut workflows. Don't miss it! youtube.com/watch?v=gkGMXY…

Local library search landed! You can search both from the sidebar and the command palette. Feat by Archie Sengupta 💜