LightBurn 2.3.00 and MillMage 1.0.00 betas are now open to everyone
LightBurn now offers public Beta builds ahead of its Release Candidates. LightBurn 2.3.00 Beta 2 adds freehand drawing, an eraser, Shape Maker and Pattern Fill, and MillMage 1.0.00 Beta 5 adds V-carve inlays and linked operations.
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LightBurn announced on November 11 that anyone can now download Beta builds of LightBurn and MillMage. Until now, the public could only try Release Candidates, which come later in the cycle. If you like testing new tools early and don’t mind features that may still change, this is for you. Everyone else can wait for the regular release.
LightBurn says Betas will arrive before Release Candidates and will change more: new features and feature changes show up as they’re ready. Release Candidates will be limited to bug fixes. LightBurn wants feedback on how new tools should work, not only bug reports, and asks people to send bugs to its support email.
LightBurn 2.3.00 Beta 2
The headline additions LightBurn lists are:
- Native Windows on Arm builds
- A freehand drawing tool
- An eraser tool for shapes and images
- Shape Maker, which builds shapes from overlapping areas
- Pattern Fill, which engraves a repeating SVG motif inside a shape
The full changelog also lists a new nesting algorithm called FullNest, EPS file import, Braille shape insertion, a searchable settings dialog, a live preview for the material test, and a set of fixes since 2.2.01.
MillMage 1.0.00 Beta 5
MillMage gets the same new LightBurn tools except Pattern Fill. It also adds V-carve inlays, linked operations, and profile offsets for open paths, plus a long list of fixes since MillMage 0.9.02.
Both downloads and the full changelogs are linked from LightBurn’s announcement and its Early Access page.