Tiled 1.9.0

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Changelog

• Added option to ignore transparent pixels when selecting tile objects (#1477)
• Added support for sub-images in image collection tilesets (#1008)
• Added "Class" field to all data types, referring to a custom class
• Added Tile Render Size and Fill Mode options to Tileset
• Added %worldfile variable for custom commands (by Pixel-Nori, #3352)
• Added 'New Project' action, replacing 'Save Project As' (#3279)
• Added ability to load .tiled-session files from command-line
• Merged Object Types with Property Types
• Don't scale point objects with the zoom level (#3356)
• Take into account image layer content when determining visual map size (#3386)
• Scripting: Added Dialog API for building custom UI (by tileboydog, #3384)
• Scripting: Added -e,--evaluate to run a script from command-line
• Scripting: Added Tool.toolBarActions property (#3318)
• Scripting: Added Tileset.columnCount property
• Scripting: Added ImageLayer.image property
• Scripting: Added access to selected terrain in tileset editor
• AutoMapping: Applying rules is now 10-30x faster
• AutoMapping: Explicit "regions" layers are no longer needed and have been deprecated (#1918)
• AutoMapping: "AutoMap While Drawing" no longer creates separate undo steps (#2166)
• AutoMapping: Custom tiles can now match "Empty", "Non-Empty" and "Other" tiles through a "MatchType" property (#3100)
• AutoMapping: A custom tile with "MatchType" set to "Negate" can be used instead of "inputnot" layers
• AutoMapping: Added built-in tileset with these custom rule tiles
• AutoMapping: Added a number of per-rule options which can be set using rectangle objects
• AutoMapping: Erase tiles by placing tiles with "MatchType" set to "Empty" on output layers (#3100)
• AutoMapping: Accumulate touched layers in AutoMap While Drawing (#3313)
• AutoMapping: Support map name filters in rules.txt (#3014)
• AutoMapping: Show relevant custom properties when a rules map is detected
• Optimized rendering of tinted layers by caching tinted images
• tmxrasterizer: Added options to hide certain layer types (#3343)
• Raised minimum supported Qt version from 5.6 to 5.12 (drops Windows XP support)
• Raised minimum C++ version to C++17
• Removed qmake project files (only Qbs supported now)
• macOS: Fixed layout of Custom Types Editor when using native style
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.4.18
• Python plugin: Now built against Python 3.8 on Windows and Linux
• Updated Bulgarian, Czech, French and Russian translations