New Aseprite v1.1.8 and v1.2-beta2 are available:



Aseprite v1.1.8 includes:

• New option to put the Timeline at the left/right sides
• New buttons in context bar to change zoom/scroll and fit sprite on screen
• Make Foreground/Background color selector dialogs resizable and save its position/pinned status between sessions
• F key is the new keyboard shortcut to switch between the normal mode and fullscreen mode.
• Added two new palettes EDG16 and EDG32 by ENDESGA Studios
• Added support to load/save palette from a list of hexadecimal values (.hex format)
• Windows and OS X: New mouse cursor options
• Windows and OS X: Use custom native cursor to improve mouse cursor movement
• Windows: Fixed issues copying-and-pasting 16bpp and 24bpp image in specific cases (e.g. from/to Photoshop)
• OS X: Popup animation options menu with Ctrl+click on “Play” buttons
• OS X: Fixed right-click on Wacom tablets using the pen buttons (this problem might be related to a specific Wacom driver version)
• OS X: Fixed mouse wheel issues with USB mouse devices.
• OS X: General performance improvement
• Fixed invalid selection after removing frames
• Fixed exporting JSON data of frame tags when empty frames are ignored
• Fixed cryptic error message using File > Repeat Sprite Sheet in some special cases
• Fixed problem merging selected area when we use the “Hand” tool

Aseprite v1.2-beta2 is available in the Steam beta branch:

• Added layer groups
• Timeline: Select multiple non-adjacent layers or frames with Ctrl+click on Windows/Linux or Shift+click on OS X
• Export (Save Copy As) selected frames or frame tags
• CLI improvements:
• Now we can use –palette CLI option to change the sprite palette
• Add support to use multiple times –layer to specify multiple layers

More information in Aseprite blog announcement.