Is development of Dia (diagram software) permanently halted?

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As far as I can tell there hasn't been any releases in 5+ years. Is it a dead project, or is there a fork of it somewhere with ongoing development?

It's a decent piece of software, but it's still missing at least one must have (to me) feature: the ability to rotate objects.

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argentum2f · Answer 1 · 2020-01-23T16:22:44.747

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There have been no updates for years, and the developers haven't responded to inquiries, so the project does appear dead.

I haven't found any forks or any true open source alternatives. Inkscape can be used to accomplish anything that Dia can or should do, but it's a bit like using c++ to write and format a word document.

Edit: draw.io seems to be a decent alternative

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answered Jun 18 '18 at 19:31

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 14 '21 at 16:48

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No, the Dia development is not halted.

The Dia editor has been overtaken by GNOME. Its hosted at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia and during first half of 2021 it had cca 20 commits from cca 10 different people.

Thus, Dia is still much alive.

answered Jun 14 '21 at 16:48

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Is development of Dia (diagram software) permanently halted?

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