Glyphs deletes instance user data

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Glyphs seems to be deleting instance userData whenever it opens an existing font project.

I tested with Glyphs 3.1 (3133) and 3.1.1 (3140) in safe mode and with various projects. I ran the code below, saved the font project, and confirmed that the user data was saved by opening the project file in a text editor and searching for it. But as soon as I reopen the project in Glyphs, the user data is gone. I can’t access it via the Python API and if I save the project again I can confirm that the user data is not longer in the file. This doesn’t seem to be an issue the first time a new font project is reopened, but it seems to happen on all subsequent opens.

Here’s a screen recording.

This userData deletion bug is quite urgent for my project. Can this be fixed?

firstInstance = Glyphs.font.instances[0]

print( firstInstance.userData['myCustomKey'] )
firstInstance.userData['myCustomKey'] = "ABCXYZ"
print( firstInstance.userData['myCustomKey'] )

Single Glyph Project.glyphs (857 Bytes)

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Thanks for the report. I fixed it.

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Best news of the day! Thanks, @GeorgSeifert!

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This should work in the latest cutting-edge release.

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Thanks, Florian. I can confirm that it seems to be working. Any idea when this version will be released? It looks like it’s a release candidate, so I’m hoping quite soon.

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We plan to release it any day. It should be fine to use already. So you don’t need to wait for the full release.

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