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ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

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ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released Michael Natterer 12 Dec 22:41
  ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released Tom Williams 13 Dec 06:18
   ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released Øyvind Kolås 16 Dec 02:09
    ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released Tom Williams 17 Dec 18:59
  ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released Shlomi Fish 13 Dec 08:51
Michael Natterer
2017-12-12 22:41:41 UTC (over 6 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

Hi,

finally, a new development snapshot!

We just released the fourth development snapshot in the GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.

This is an unstable development preview and might crash or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your images more often.

For a complete list of changes since 2.9.6 please see the "Changes" section below.

There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org with screenshots and some videos:

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/12/gimp-2-9-8-released/

Happy GIMPing, --Mitch

Download
========

GIMP 2.9.8 is available from:

https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/

and from the mirrors listed at:

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors

The checksum of the tarball is:

bade4163fb5b7a2063e1db570f27242f gimp-2.9.8.tar.bz2

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.6 to GIMP 2.9.8 =================================================

Core:

- The default brush is now "Hardness 050". - Verbose version (command line: gimp -v) now displays C compiler information.
- Transform tools don't commit identity transformation anymore. - Manual language can now be selected amongst all installed manuals, which is particularly interesting when no GIMP manuals are available in your GUI language. This will be proposed by default when a manual is not installed for the GUI language (alongside the possibility to read online) and the choice can be edited in preferences.
- The statusbar now blinks on warnings and errors. - Paste in Place, available for regular clipboard and named buffers, allows pasting contents of either the clipboard a named buffer at the exact coordinates it was copied from. - Color Picker should now work on KDE/Wayland. - Color Picker now reads values under cursor in local windows making it work at least inside GIMP Windows on Wayland platforms with no color-picking capabilities (for instance GNOME/Wayland) yet. - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy". - Now possible to open a locally-installed manual different from the GUI localization. The manual language choice can be customized through preferences when several manuals are installed. If no manual language has been selected already and no manual for current GUI localization is available, choice of help language will be proposed at first call to the manual.

Configurability:

- Keybindings now possible for previous/next/top/bottom channel.

Usability:

- The spinscale widget now highlights vertical parts of the slider section differently to hint that position of cursor above the widget matters. When changing values in the lower step section, the pointer will be wrapped around the screen so that you could continue adjusting the value without interruptions. - Canvas rotation and flip information is now visible in the status bar (as angle value and flip icon). Clicking on these canvas status will respectively raise the "Select Rotation Angle" dialog or unflip the canvas.
- Use abbreviated versions for long layer mode names. In particular, replace the "(legacy)" suffixes with "(l)" in the abbreviated versions, still showing the unabbreviated names in the full list.

Tools:

- Blend tool now features on-canvas gradient editing: adding, shifting, removing color stops, shifting midpoints and converting them to color stops, assignging colors to color stops, changing blending type for midpoints. Additional options: 'Instant mode' (active before you start blending) to support the old workflow where you can't edit color stops before applying the gradient fill, and 'Modify active gradient' which allows changing user- writable gradients directly rather than creating copies of them. Moreover, custom gradient is now saved and restored across sessions.
- All transform tools: it makes no difference now whether a modifier is pressed before of after mouse button press/release. - Free Select tool selection can now be committed with double click as well (only through Enter key before). This allows smoother workflows on some setups, and in particular when no keyboard is available (e.g. tablet-like computers). - Layer group children now inherit the color tags of the parent by default, unless specific color tags are assigned. Inherited color tags show in a less saturated color than assigned ones.

Painting:

- When copying a generated brush, GIMP now copies its 'Spacing' property.
- Rename "Wheel" dynamics labels as "Wheel/Rotation". It turns out that Wacom Art Pen and Airbrush pen use the same axis for barrel rotation and wheel scrolling respectively. Therefore they already work in GIMP. "Unhide" the feature with more obvious labels.

Color management:

- Use babl to convert between profiles if possible.

Display filters:

- New 'Clip Warning' display filter to show underexposed and overexposed values. Target values below 0 and above 1.0, hence it only works on 16/32 bit per channel float images (such as EXR and TIFF).
- Display filters now operate in unbounded sRGB rather than in monitor color space.

Plug-ins:

- Fix finding raw loaders on Windows/macOS. - Screenshot for KDE/Wayland has been implemented (full-screen and window screenshots only; rectangular area screenshots need implementation on the KDE side). - Screenshot can now add a delay between window pick/rectangular area selection and the actual shot, but only in platforms supporting the feature.

File formats:

- PSD: - Fix mask position when opening/exporting. - Fix active layer selection during loading. - Fix potential group-layer naming conflict during loading. - Fix missing some attributes loading empty layers. - Fix reading files with deeply nested layer groups. - Load and save layer group expanded state. - Improve layer opacity loading/saving. - PDF: password-protected files can now be imported. - HGT: Digital Elevation Model data from NASA/NIMA can now be loaded, both SRTM-1 (1 arc-second) and SRTM-3 (3 arc-seconds).

Filters:

- Update GEGL-based filter Wavelet Decompose: - Add an option to keep the decomposition in a layer group. - Add an option to add layer mask to each scales layers. - Do not use 'New from visible' because it produces unexpected results; replaced by succession of layer copy and merge down.

PDB:

- Add file-pdf-load2 API to load password-protected and/or multi-page PDF files.
- Add file-hgt-load to load HGT files, with aan rgument to select between SRTM-1 and SRTM-3 types.

Translations:

- Updated: Catalan, Croatian, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish.

Building:

- Require LittleCMS >= 2.8. - Initial docker-based build environment for GIMP now available. - Warn against use of GCC 7.2 which has a bug breaking GIMP. - An official flatpak stable package is now available on flathub.

Contributors ============

Mario Blättermann, Hanno Boeck, Joao S O Bueno, Marco Ciampa, Fran Dieguez, Piotr Drąg, Tobias Ellinghaus, Ell, Sveinn í Felli, gogo, Luis Angel Gonzo, Anders Jonsson, Christian Kirbach, Øyvind Kolås, Thomas Manni, Jordi Mas, Balázs Meskó, Lionel N, Michael Natterer, Jehan Pagès, Juan Palacios, Alexandre Prokoudine, Christopher Rogers, Michael Schumacher, shark0r, Dimitris Spingos, Tobias Stoeckmann, Andika Triwidada, Massimo Valentini

Translators ===========

Alexandre Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson, Ask Hjorth Larsen, Balázs Meskó, Balázs Úr, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov, Ben Touchette, Benoit Touchette, Björn Kautler, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Christian Kirbach, Claude Paroz, Cédric Valmary, Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος), Dušan Kazik, GNOME Translation Robot, Gábor Kelemen, Göran Uddeborg, Hartmut Kuhse, Jehan, Jiri Grönroos, Jordi Mas, Julien Hardelin, Khaled Hosny, Kristjan SCHMIDT, Marco Ciampa, Marek Černocký, Mario Blättermann, Martin Srebotnjak, Michael Natterer, Michael Schumacher, Miroslav Talasek, Pawan Chitrakar, Piotr Drąg, Sebastian Rasmussen, Sveinn í Felli, Tiago Santos, Yolanda Álvarez Pérez, draekko, gogo, klausstaedtler, Милош Поповић

Tom Williams
2017-12-13 06:18:31 UTC (over 6 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

On 12/12/2017 02:41 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:

Hi,

finally, a new development snapshot!

We just released the fourth development snapshot in the GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.

This is an unstable development preview and might crash or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your images more often.

For a complete list of changes since 2.9.6 please see the "Changes" section below.

There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org with screenshots and some videos:

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/12/gimp-2-9-8-released/

Happy GIMPing, --Mitch

Wow!!! I'm impressed with all the work that's been going on! I'm totally looking forward to GIMP 2.10!!!!! :)

Download
========

GIMP 2.9.8 is available from:

https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/

and from the mirrors listed at:

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors

The checksum of the tarball is:

bade4163fb5b7a2063e1db570f27242f gimp-2.9.8.tar.bz2

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.6 to GIMP 2.9.8 =================================================

Core:

- The default brush is now "Hardness 050". - Verbose version (command line: gimp -v) now displays C compiler information.
- Transform tools don't commit identity transformation anymore. - Manual language can now be selected amongst all installed manuals, which is particularly interesting when no GIMP manuals are available in your GUI language. This will be proposed by default when a manual is not installed for the GUI language (alongside the possibility to read online) and the choice can be edited in preferences.
- The statusbar now blinks on warnings and errors. - Paste in Place, available for regular clipboard and named buffers, allows pasting contents of either the clipboard a named buffer at the exact coordinates it was copied from. - Color Picker should now work on KDE/Wayland. - Color Picker now reads values under cursor in local windows making it work at least inside GIMP Windows on Wayland platforms with no color-picking capabilities (for instance GNOME/Wayland) yet. - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy". - Now possible to open a locally-installed manual different from the GUI localization. The manual language choice can be customized through preferences when several manuals are installed. If no manual language has been selected already and no manual for current GUI localization is available, choice of help language will be proposed at first call to the manual.

I do have a question about OpenCL support. If it's disabled by default, how does one enable it?

Peace...

Tom

/When we dance, you have a way with me,
Stay with me... Sway with me.../
Shlomi Fish
2017-12-13 08:51:27 UTC (over 6 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

Hi!

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 23:41:41 +0100 Michael Natterer wrote:

Hi,

finally, a new development snapshot!

We just released the fourth development snapshot in the GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.

Many thanks for that!

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Øyvind Kolås
2017-12-16 02:09:17 UTC (over 6 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Tom Williams wrote:

- OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy".

I do have a question about OpenCL support. If it's disabled by default, how does one enable it?

There is a check-box in preferences under the 'System Resources' category, where the number of threads used can also be overriden.

/pippin - https://pippin.gimp.org/

Tom Williams
2017-12-17 18:59:21 UTC (over 6 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

On 12/15/2017 06:09 PM, Øyvind Kolås wrote:

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Tom Williams wrote:

- OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy".

I do have a question about OpenCL support. If it's disabled by default, how does one enable it?

There is a check-box in preferences under the 'System Resources' category, where the number of threads used can also be overriden.

/pippin - https://pippin.gimp.org/

Great! Thanks!

Peace...

Tom

/When we dance, you have a way with me,
Stay with me... Sway with me.../