Version 2.0.0 rc 1

• rc1
  • Remove node specific code #4470
  • Improved Canvas.dispose code to leak less memory #4471
  • Remove extra padding of cache when upper limited #4467
  • Solved 2 perfomances problems with textbox #4466 #4465
  • Added justify-left justify-right and justify-center #4437
  • Fix Group fromObject and subTargetCheck #4454
  • Fix regression on IMG from SVG #4450
  • Remove cache dimensions together with canvas #4453
  • Fixed some fuzzyness cases for cache #4452
  • Fixed resize filter for webgl #4426
  • Stop searching target during a mouse move with a transform #4442
  • safeguard shaders for non supported precisions #4433
  • fix insert and remove style for edge cases #4420
  • Fix object.move when in active selection #4394
  • Memoize calcTransformMatrix function #4418
  • Make _set flag object as dirty just when a real change happen #4415
  • Add browserShadowBlurConstant to adjust shadowBlur value #4413
  • Fix set element not clearing the cacheTexture. #4410
  • Multi selection key can be configured with an array of keys. #4363
  • fix fast type in text loosing some style. #4339
  • fixed division by zero with lockscaling flip.
  • added paintFirst ( paint-order with svg support ) #4303

Version 1.7.20

Group from object and subTargetCheck
cache canvas deletion
cache fuzzyness
free drawing and direction of start/end points
noScaleCache from stop refreshing cache of not transforming objects

Version 2.0.0 beta 7

added a build flag for not attaching fabric to window #4199
removed .active property from objects #4200
Normalize Api for getSelectionStyles, setSelectionStyles #4202
Fix shader for convolute filter #4207
Better mouse support for lockscaling flip #4225
Fix toDataUrl getting a blank canvas #4229
Ouput version to json Objects #4251
Use backstoreOnly for toDataUrl resize #4254
Fix safari svg whitespace #4294
Fix Gradient export for paths #4274
Move mouseout/over in mousemove events #4283
Fix detection of click at the end of line #4295
added new event selection:updated #4311
Fixed free drawing path displacement #4311
Fixed scale equally and flipping not happening #4313
Select by drag makes the object fires 'selected' #4314

Version 1.7.19

Fixed drawing path displacement #4318
Fixed the flip of images with scale equally #4313
Improved touch detection #4302

Version 1.7.18

• Fixed doubling of subtargets for preserveObjectStacking = true #4297
• Added a dirty set to objects in group destroy.

Version 2.0.0 beta 6

Since Beta 5:

Fixed svg import to respect originX/Y set by prototype
Fixed Text styling issues on Textbox and on copy paste
Added a Hue rotation filter for webgl and canvas2d
Breaking: removed setAngle, renamed to rotate
Breaking: removed Object.remove(). Use Canvas.remove(Object) instead
Fixed Text Patterns and Gradients display.

Version 2.0.0 beta 4

Re added blend image filter
Removed activeGroup
some other fixes.

Version 1.7.17

Change: swapped style white-space:nowrap with attribute wrap="off" since the style rule was creating problems in browsers like ie11 and safari. #4119
Fix: Remove an object from activeGroup if removed from canvas #4120
Fix: avoid bringFroward, sendBackwards to swap objects in active selections #4119
Fix: avoid disposing canvas on mouse event to throw error #4119
Fix: make svg respect white spaces #4119
Fix: avoid exporting bgImage and overlayImage if excludeFromExport = true #4119
Fix: Avoid group fromObject mutating original data #4111

Version 1.7.16

Improvement: Add information to onChange and onComplete animation function #4068
Improvement: avoid multiplying identity matrices in calcTransformMatrix function
Fix: ativeGroup did not destroy correctly if a toObject was happening
Improvement: Pass the event to object:modified when available. #4061

Version 2.0.0 beta 3

• incompat: New filter system with WEBGL.
• incompat: New Text/IText/Textbox code. Multibyte compatible, more accurate.
• incompat: RequestAnimationFrame is used for the automatic render calls.
• incompat: Named setter/getter are optional now.
• incompat: Removed PathGroup class
• incompat: Paths cannot be restored anymore from strings #3713
• incompat: bumped node version to 4+ and jsdom to 9. #3717
• incompat: removed the es5 / JSON shim support #3722
• fix/incompat: IText setSelectionStyles does not change anymore style if no selection is present #3765
• skipOffscreen default to true
• Text.setSelectionStyle does not change anything if there is no selection #3765
• Switch to canvas-prebuilt as dependency. Added parameter to choose the canvas package #3757
• improvement: renderControls can now be called on its own. Added parameter styleOverride to allow for overriding current properties #3887
• removed hasMoved and saveCoords from Group class #3910
• forced all fromObject and fromElement to be async, normalized api. #3996
• improvement: added support for request animation frame in mouse events #3997
• added dblclick support for all objects #3998
• textbox scale as a normal object #4052
• Removed image meetOrSlice, alignX, alignY, introduced cropX, cropY #4055
• Added Text.cleanStyle, Text.removeStyle #4060
• change: lockRotation will not hide the mtr control anymore. introduced notAllowedCursor for canvas. #4064
• improvement: added 2 percentage values to fabric.util.animate. #4068