Portable Inkscape full changelog

Inkscape 1.4.3 is maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features.
It is also a bridge release in the sense that it can be used to convert the planned Inkscape 1.5 multipage file format to the pre-1.5 multipage format. Versions lower than Inkscape 1.4.3 will not be able to interpret pages created in Inkscape versions 1.5 and upwards. Opening a document in Inkscape 1.4.3 and saving it will convert it to the current ('old') page format (MR #7608).
Background: While the 'old' format of pages in Inkscape is a custom addition that only works in Inkscape, the new format will make use of the svg:view element, which is standardized and can work in other SVG viewers, too. Find more information about this in MR #7525.
The most important fixes and changes in this release are:
24 crash/freeze fixes many of which prevented users from opening certain files or exporting certain objects with Inkscape 1.4.2
almost 100 bug fixes and small improvements, among them:
JPEG/JPG export works again on Windows.
The problem with user interface text showing up as rectangles ('tofu') instead of letters if certain fonts are installed on macOS is finally resolved.
Ungrouping big groups is faster again.
All pasting options ('on page', 'width'/'height'/'size'/…) are now accessible from the right-click menu on canvas.
The Measure tool snaps again at its end point, so you can make accurate measurements again.
The LPE dialog now offers to convert Line, Polyline or Polygon SVG objects to paths before applying a path effect to them
When resizing the Inkscape window, the buttons in the Commands bar (copy, paste, open, dialog shortcuts) show up one by one instead of waiting for the window to get big enough to show the second half at once.
When converting strokes to paths, patterns and gradients are no longer lost.
Aligning on a circle or arc now works more reliably.
Text on Path now also works with rectangles.
Many improvements hav

New Features:
Zooming by middle mouse button click (pressing scroll wheel) can now be deactivated in Edit ? Preferences ? Behavior ? Steps: Zoom with middle mouse click (Commit 186736)
Canvas rotation by Ctrl + middle mouse drag / Ctrl + Shift + Scroll can be prevented in two ways:
temporarily for the current document from View ? Canvas Orientation ? Lock Rotation (Commit 5eb7c5)
for all new Inkscape windows in Edit ? Preferences ? Interface: Lock canvas rotation by default (Commit e8c10d)
Bug fixes
General
Copy-Paste:
A long-standing, very annoying bug where, when copying an object to the clipboard while also running certain other programs on Linux desktops (mainly clipboard managers), caused multiple export extension dialogs to open, has been fixed, so you can now again use your favorite clipboard manager while also using Inkscape (Commit fe7c68, Bug #575)