Version 2.10 for Linux - 14 Batch Commands, Explorer Workflow, and 166 MCP Tools

Axialis IconVectors 2.10 is now available for Linux x64, as a DEB package for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or later with GTK3. It completes the 2.10 rollout after Windows on October 6 and macOS on October 13, with the same feature set: the Icon Explorer grows from three Batch Processing commands to 14, the Explorer-to-Editor workflow is greatly improved with New Icon and Auto Save Icons, the Element Library gets search, the Editor receives many fixes and enhancements, and the MCP server exposes 166 tools.

To update, download the latest DEB from the download page and install it over your current version; sign in again if the application asks you to. New users install the same package. Version 2.10 is now available on all three platforms.

Installing and updating on Linux

Download the DEB and install it with sudo apt install ./Axialis-IconVectors.deb, or open it in your software manager, then launch IconVectors from the applications menu. The same package installation moves an existing 2.00 installation to 2.10, and it is the process to use for future updates as well. The package targets Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or later with GTK3; the download page has the full steps and the uninstall command.

What's new in 2.10 for Linux

• 14 batch commands - Add Badge Overlays, Adjust Icon Colors, Apply Auto Gradient, Apply Palette, Center and Fit, Change Line Stroke, Convert to currentColor, Make Icon Versions, Make PNG, ICO Bitmap Icons, Optimize SVG Files, Outline Strokes, Replace Colors, Resize Icons and Rotate / Flip, from the Explorer menu, the context menu or the toolbar. Each one is listed below.
• Batch options that stay out of your way - Settings are remembered as soon as you enter them, previews have a Back button, suffixes can be empty when paths stay safe, and diagnostics say why a file was skipped instead of hiding it.
• Greatly improved Explorer-to-Editor workflow - Move between browsing and editing with fewer interruptions. New Icon remembers the current Explorer folder as the save destination, the optional Auto Save Icons setting saves the edited icon when you open the next one, and closing an icon opened from the Explorer takes you straight back to the folder view.
• Keyboard and wheel shortcuts - Escape closes an idle document, the wheel zooms or scrolls horizontally with a modifier held, and Bring Up and Send Down have keyboard shortcuts.
• Colors panel gestures - Picking a color in the field, the hue strip or the swatches applies it at once: left-click to Fill, right-click to Stroke. The screen eyedropper introduced on Windows and macOS is not part of the Linux build yet; the panel's eyedropper button explains this rather than returning a wrong color.
• Element Library search - Type to filter the current tab by name or filename. The popup stays on screen, and the folder button opens the library in the built-in Explorer.
• Many Editor fixes and enhancements - More reliable path editing (hidden and zero-size paths, Bezier handles, seam corners, corner rounding, anchor selection, released compound paths keep their curves), improved paste and selection behavior, badge cutout and shadow that undo as one step, better SVG import and rendering (gradients, currentColor inheritance, group opacity, oversized canvases), and fixes for bitmap export into new folders.
• MCP: 166 tools - Up from 155. All 14 batch commands run through the same plan-then-apply protocol as the UI, and ICO export accepts chosen pixel sizes with 32-bit transparency.
• Bridge diagnostics and safe targeting - A busy port is detected and a loopback fallback discovered (default stays 61337), app_ping is the real health check, and duplicate element IDs are reported instead of silently picked.

14 batch commands

Each command runs the Editor's own transformation on every selected SVG file. Three of them write new files and leave the sources alone; the others modify the selection after a preview you confirm.

• Add Badge Overlays - Combines every selected base icon with every badge you add, with position, size, margin and an optional cutout, one new file per pair.
• Adjust Icon Colors - Applies one brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, levels, desaturate or invert setting to all selected icons.
• Apply Auto Gradient - Turns each flat paint into a light-to-dark gradient of its own color; existing gradients and currentColor are kept unless you say otherwise.
• Apply Palette - Maps every color to the nearest color of an installed palette.
• Center and Fit - Centers the artwork on its canvas, or fits it to the canvas.
• Change Line Stroke - Sets width, cap, join and color, or currentColor, on existing strokes.
• Convert to currentColor - Replaces solid fills and strokes with the symbolic keyword, all of them or one chosen color.
• Make Icon Versions - Writes Hot, Disabled and Dark Theme variants next to the originals, with the suffixes you choose.
• Make PNG, ICO Bitmap Icons - Renders PNG files at the sizes you list and one multi-size 32-bit ICO per icon.
• Optimize SVG Files - Compacts markup, hex colors and path numbers, and only rewrites a file when the result is smaller.
• Outline Strokes - Converts strokes to filled paths, in place or as copies.
• Replace Colors - Swaps one exact RGB color, chosen from the colors detected in the selection, for another.
• Resize Icons - Resizes every icon the way the Editor's resize command does.
• Rotate / Flip - Rotates by a preset or free angle, or mirrors horizontally or vertically.

Working between Explorer and Editor has never been easier

Version 2.10 greatly improves the workflow between the two workspaces. Browse your collection, open an icon, make your changes, and move on to the next file with fewer interruptions. New Icon starts a document that already knows its folder, so Save goes where you expect. With Auto Save Icons on, a review pass through a folder becomes open, edit, open the next. Closing an icon opened from the Explorer returns you to the Explorer with its folder, filter and selection intact, so you stay focused on the icons rather than on managing files.

Many fixes and enhancements throughout the Editor

Beyond the new features, 2.10 makes everyday icon work more predictable. Path editing handles curves, corners and anchor selections more reliably, pasted elements stay selected together for easier positioning, and badge cutout and shadow operations each undo as a single action. SVG import and rendering have been improved too, including gradients, currentColor inheritance and group opacity, and bitmap export benefits from fixes to output-folder creation.

A faster workflow for colors

The panel keeps one defined color of its own, independent of the selection: dial it in with the field, the hue strip or a typed HEX, RGB or HSL value, then click through as many elements as you like. The Recent row collects the swatches you used, and the PALETTES page keeps the palette commands you already know. The screen eyedropper that arrived with 2.10 on Windows and macOS needs its own capture and permission support on Linux and is not in this build yet.

MCP: 166 tools

The MCP helper is installed as /usr/bin/IconVectorsMcp, so the setup for the eight documented clients is unchanged on Linux. An MCP client can now run every batch command, on explicit file paths or the current Explorer selection, with the same preview and safeguards as the UI. Start each session with app_ping, which now reports the requested and actual ports, and expect an ambiguous_element_id error with candidates when an id is not unique.

Learn more

• The 2.10 for Windows announcement
• The 2.10 for macOS announcement
• Complete changelog
• IconVectors feature overview
• Batch Processing: selection, preview and safety
• Working between Explorer and Editor (New Icon, Auto Save Icons)
• Tutorial: batch process SVG icons with the Icon Explorer
• Tutorial: add badge overlays to a whole icon set
• Tutorial: make Hot, Disabled and Dark Theme icon versions
• Tutorial: export PNG and ICO from a folder of SVG icons
• Tutorial: review a folder of icons with New Icon and Auto Save
• MCP integration overview (166 tools)