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1. v1.0.8 2 October 2026
   • Signing out of Designer Shortcuts now locks open panels within a few seconds, instead of at the next Illustrator restart.
2. v1.0.7 27 September 2026
   • If you're signed out, the panel asks you to sign in, and unlocks by itself as soon as you do.
   • Fixes from our latest round of testing.
3. v1.0.6 22 August 2026 ### Colours now match the original Exported files kept the colour numbers you drew with. Previously the export ran through a document on Illustrator's default colour profile, so anything on a different profile shifted — most visibly in CMYK, where blacks and saturated colours moved. The export now carries your document's own profile. If a document has never been saved there is no profile to read, and the panel says so rather than shifting quietly. ### Clipping masks crop to the mask The exported file matches the mask you drew, not the artwork inside it. Masks nested inside masks, masks with holes, and masks cut from text outlines are all handled, and a leftover unfilled path in the group no longer stretches the export around empty space. Strokes and effects stay inside the crop instead of being sliced down the middle. ### Files are named after your artwork Named artwork keeps its name, so the Links folder reads as your artwork instead of a wall of identical names with timestamps. The panel's File Name covers anything unnamed. Nothing is overwritten — a name already taken gets a number. ### You can see how far along an export is A progress bar and a running count replace the old "this may look frozen" notice. Illustrator still pauses while each file is written, but the panel now shows which item it is on. ### Smaller fixes - Exports no longer add steps to your undo history, so Ctrl+Z undoes your work rather than the plugin's. - The panel no longer shows a red error just because no document is open. - The action button sits at the bottom of the panel instead of leaving a gap. - Panel captions trimmed to one line each.
4. v1.0.5 15 August 2026 Republished so the licence check finds the token after the desktop app was renamed in 1.0.26. The app's user-data folder moved from plugin-console to designer-shortcuts. The licence check injected into this plugin read the old path, found nothing, and showed its sign-in wall to customers who were signed in. It now accepts either name, for the token and for locating the app.
5. v1.0.4 11 August 2026 Panels now sit at the top of the dock. The action bar follows the last control instead of being pushed to the panel's bottom edge, so a short panel no longer shows a band of empty space above its buttons. Command-key shortcuts now work in panel text fields on macOS. Cmd+C, Cmd+V, Cmd+X, Cmd+A and Cmd+Z were being taken by Illustrator before the panel could see them, so pasting into a field did nothing. Windows is unaffected. Added a FEATURES.txt summary of what the plugin does inside the extension.