diff --git a/src/object/sp-item.h b/src/object/sp-item.h
index 2db03b477bdd6bc15d4f394ee859476df568c285..d913f18f5b49fd8602c2f7d7e23507332770d845 100644
--- a/src/object/sp-item.h
+++ b/src/object/sp-item.h
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ public:
      * Sets item private transform (not propagated to repr), without compensating stroke widths,
      * gradients, patterns as sp_item_write_transform does.
      */
-    void set_item_transform(Geom::Affine const &transform_matrix);
+    virtual void set_item_transform(Geom::Affine const &transform_matrix);
 
     /**
      * Return the arenaitem corresponding to the given item in the display
diff --git a/src/object/sp-shape.cpp b/src/object/sp-shape.cpp
index 68317e1979e3e6824813922be58d9b34e94847c7..9807a5783457419df5665109262e1dbb5465704a 100644
--- a/src/object/sp-shape.cpp
+++ b/src/object/sp-shape.cpp
@@ -122,16 +122,25 @@ Inkscape::XML::Node* SPShape::write(Inkscape::XML::Document *xml_doc, Inkscape::
 	return repr;
 }
 
+void SPShape::set_item_transform(Geom::Affine const &transform_matrix)
+{
+    // when we release the mouse still have transform as affine 
+    // we check the affine is empty to allow recheck the bbox cache
+    cache_bbox_valid = !Geom::are_near(transform_matrix, Geom::Affine());
+    SPItem::set_item_transform(transform_matrix);
+}
+
 void SPShape::update(SPCtx* ctx, guint flags) {
     // Any update can change the bounding box,
     // so the cached version can no longer be used.
     // But the idle checker usually is just moving the objects around.
-    bbox_vis_cache_is_valid = false;
-    bbox_geom_cache_is_valid = false;
-
+    if (!cache_bbox_valid) {
+        bbox_vis_cache_is_valid = false;
+        bbox_geom_cache_is_valid = false;
+    }
+    cache_bbox_valid = false;
     // std::cout << "SPShape::update(): " << (getId()?getId():"null") << std::endl;
     SPLPEItem::update(ctx, flags);
-
     /* This stanza checks that an object's marker style agrees with
      * the marker objects it has allocated.  sp_shape_set_marker ensures
      * that the appropriate marker objects are present (or absent) to
@@ -543,7 +552,7 @@ Geom::OptRect SPShape::either_bbox(Geom::Affine const &transform, SPItem::BBoxTy
     // Return the cache if possible.
     auto delta = transform_cache.inverse() * transform;
     if (cache_is_valid && bbox_cache && delta.isTranslation()) {
-
+        std::cerr << "using cache bbox" << std::endl;
         // Don't re-adjust the cache if we haven't moved
         if (!delta.isNonzeroTranslation()) {
             return bbox_cache;
@@ -551,7 +560,7 @@ Geom::OptRect SPShape::either_bbox(Geom::Affine const &transform, SPItem::BBoxTy
         // delta is pure translation so it's safe to use it as is
         return *bbox_cache * delta;
     }
-
+    std::cerr << "not using cache bbox" << std::endl;
     if (!this->_curve || this->_curve->get_pathvector().empty()) {
     	return bbox;
     }
diff --git a/src/object/sp-shape.h b/src/object/sp-shape.h
index 9d257290a1499ec6af39232218ab5181440c6e75..5170b0a14fd804d4a3d2f01e6535e2a1ced965ad 100644
--- a/src/object/sp-shape.h
+++ b/src/object/sp-shape.h
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ public:
     int numberOfMarkers (int type) const;
 
     // bbox cache
+    mutable bool cache_bbox_valid = false;
     mutable bool bbox_geom_cache_is_valid = false;
     mutable bool bbox_vis_cache_is_valid = false;
     mutable Geom::Affine bbox_geom_cache_transform;
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ public:
 	void release() override;
 	void update(SPCtx* ctx, unsigned int flags) override;
 	void modified(unsigned int flags) override;
+    void set_item_transform(Geom::Affine const &transform_matrix) override;
 
 	void set(SPAttr key, char const* value) override;
 	Inkscape::XML::Node* write(Inkscape::XML::Document *xml_doc, Inkscape::XML::Node *repr, unsigned int flags) override;