[Release] Mockups 3.5! Improved material design support, iPhone 7, macOS Sierra compatibility, and more!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another exciting release! Improved Material Design Support! We have added some controls and properties to make it easier to create designs inspired by Material Design. A new generic Smartphone control! Check it out!...
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Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another exciting release!

Improved Material Design Support!

We have added some controls and properties to make it easier to create designs inspired by Material Design.

A new generic Smartphone control!

Check it out! You'll no longer have to use an iPhone or download a stencil from Mockups To Go.

smartphone

Thanks to all the folks that requested this here and anyone else who has written in about this feature.

A new Circle Button control, with lots of options!

circlebutton

Sliders now have three thumb options, and support for color:

sliders

New iPhone 6, 7 option!

There it is!

iphone7

Thanks again bcarlson and others for requesting this.

You Can Now Use Any of Your Image Assets as Icons!

That's right. You can pick any of your image assets as an icon now. Easy and powerful!

We effectively removed the "custom icons" feature. Gone are the days of having to name your assets with the "icon_" prefix!

macOS Sierra Compatible!

We had some users report that drag+drop wasn't working in macOS Sierra, which shipped yesterday. We scrambled to find a workaround, and we did!

Thanks so much to cudatron, Niket_Anand and everyone else for the early reports!

Other Improvements and Bug Fixes

How do I update?

If you're using the Web Demo, Mockups 3 for Google Drive, Confluence Cloud or JIRA Cloud, you're already updated.

For Desktop, simply install from our download page on top of your current installation. You won't have to re-register.

As always, if you hit any snags with the new build let us know immediately and we'll fix it right up! 🙂

For posterity, today's release is build 3.5.1 3.5.2 3.5.3: we just released a fix for this regression and another reported by Andreas F. Oops!

Onward!

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Questions or feedback? Email support@balsamiq.com.

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