Hi,

a new development snapshot of GIMP 2.1 is now available from ftp.gimp.org and it's mirrors:

http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors

Actually we wanted to have the first pre-release for 2.2 out by now but there are still a couple of minor API and UI changes that need to be done. So this is another development snapshot on the road to GIMP 2.2. Hopefully the next release will be called 2.2-pre1 then.

This also means that we need to freeze the UI, translatable strings and the APIs very soon now. So if you have any patches pending, make sure you tell us about it. We will soon have to reject further changes for 2.2. I still hope that we will at least be very close to the 2.2 release by the end of this month.

Please note that you cannot install gimp-2.1 side-by-side with gimp-2.0 into the same prefix. A number of files will clash, so please use a separate prefix to install this development version! For details, please read the file INSTALL.

Here's an overview of the changes since 2.1.6 was released:

Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.6 =================================

- Added more drawable previews (Color Exchange, DOG, Deinterlace, Engrave, Oilify, Ripple, Shift).

- Added new preview widget that shows a scaled view of the full drawable. Use it for Apply Lens, Blinds, Channel Mixer, Destripe, Emboss, Illusion, Map Color, Max RGB, Plasma, Polar, Solid Noise, Supernova, Whirl and Pinch.

- Added "Open as Layer" functionality to the menus.

- Implemented the recent-file-spec for shared storage of a list of recently used files (really URIs).

- Cleaned up plug-in procedure handling. Added the possibility to let plug-ins and scripts run using a private GimpContext.

- Added multi-line text entries for Script-Fu and Gimp-Python.

- Cleaned up PDB API for brushes, gradients, palettes and patterns. Deprecated lots of functions and added saner replacements. Added gimp-context-* PDB namespace with replacements for some of the deprecated stuff.

- Let GimpView handle pixbuf previews. Added a (themable) drop shadow to image-file previews.

- Cleaned up the dbbrowser and plugindetails code and GUI and factored out common code. Renamed both executables and menu entries.

- Made tools cancelable with .

- Let GimpDialog add a help button to give easier access to the help pages.

Contributors:

Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Maurits Rijk, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Robert Oegren, Kevin Cozens, Kevin Turner, Dov Grobgeld, Joao S. O. Bueno, Michael Schumacher, Jonathan Levi, Daniel Egger

Happy GIMPing

Hi,

Sven Neumann writes:

Here's an overview of the changes since 2.1.6 was released:

That should read "since 2.1.5 was released", of course.

Sven

Hi,

a new development snapshot of GIMP 2.1 is now available from ftp.gimp.org and it's mirrors:

http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors

This is not yet the awaited pre-release since we haven't yet sorted out the last changes we will need to do. We are however feature and string frozen now. Or at least we will try to keep string changes and new features to a minimum so that we can get out the first pre-release for 2.2 out by the end of this month.

Please note that you cannot install gimp-2.1 side-by-side with gimp-2.0 into the same prefix. A number of files will clash, so please use a separate prefix to install this development version! For details, please read the file INSTALL.

Please help us to get 2.2 out soon by testing this release. Please also have a look at the documentation files we distribute with the tarball, read the man-pages and let us know what needs updating for 2.2. We need your contributions to make 2.2 happen soon and to make it a success.

Here's an overview of the changes since 2.1.6 was released:

Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.7 =================================

- Added even more plug-in previews (Value Propagate, Cubism, Colorify) and ported existing previews to the new widgets (AlienMap2, FlareFX, Jigsaw, NL Filter, Waves, Scatter HSV).

- More PDB API cleanups.

- Allow to specify the batch interpreter on the command-line.

- Improved selection-round script and moved it to the Select menu.

- Don't switch the active layer when using the Move tool.

- Updated libgimpthumb to support local thumbnails as introduced by version 0.7 of the thumbnail spec.

- Automatically create thumbnails from the Open dialog.

- Added entries next to most viewable buttons.

- Added a bunch of scripts to manipulate guides.

- Improved confirmation and warning dialogs.

- Lots of bug fixes.

Contributors:

Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Manish Singh, Kevin Cozens, Alan Horkan, Jakub Steiner

Happy GIMPing, Sven