Rusting

What's new

Rusting 0.1.7

Released November 11, 2026 · GitHub release

Adds draw order for brushes, shapes and fills, an eraser that works on fills, an eyedropper, and the Rusting logo as the app icon.

New

  • Draw order: brush, rectangle, ellipse and paint bucket can draw behind, normally, or in front of everything else in the frame. Drawing tools
  • Eraser on fills: whole mode removes fills it touches; partial mode cuts holes in fills or splits them, keeping their colour and gradient. Drawing tools
  • Eyedropper: pick a colour from the canvas. Drawing tools

Improved

  • App icon: the Rusting logo is now the window, taskbar and Dock icon, and appears on the start menu. Start menu

Rusting 0.1.6

Released November 10, 2026 · GitHub release

  • Timeline: clear frame, insert/delete frame shortcuts, move frame selection (#14)
  • feat: paint behind with brush (#15)
  • Straight brush lines, rectangle and ellipse tools with gradient fill (#16)

Rusting 0.1.5

Released November 3, 2026 · GitHub release

  • Add CLAUDE.md, remove stray fill-bucket screenshot (#8)
  • Export video as MOV as well as MP4 (#9)
  • Timeline key actions as icon buttons (#10)
  • Select frame ranges in the timeline (#11)
  • Frame tags with tag looping and sprite sheet export (#12)
  • Use the website's colour palette in the editor (#13)

Rusting 0.1.0

Released November 2, 2026 · GitHub release

  • Lasso tool, and box-select from anywhere with the select tool (#1)
  • Select and lasso: keep the drag alive while the box is empty (#2)
  • Duplicate layers and select several layers in the timeline (#3)
  • Move tool settings to a toggleable panel on the right (#4)
  • Set gradient fill start and end with two clicks (#5)
  • Layer modes (#6)
  • Release setup (#7)