Thanks to everyone for making this happen! I'm certainly looking forward to trying out the new toys, fixes and revisions.

Cheers, and great work! -C

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:

Hi,

We just released the second 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 2.9.2 please see the "Changes" section below. We will also post more detailed news about GIMP 2.9 on www.gimp.org soon, stay tuned.

Happy GIMPing, --Mitch

Download
========

GIMP 2.9.4 is available from:

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

and from the mirrors listed at:

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

Please use the torrent, it distributes the download bandwidth across all mirrors:

http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/gimp-2.9.4.tar.bz2.torrent

The checksum of the tarball is:

6b3d425a7949110eeb532badedf721f3 gimp-2.9.4.tar.bz2

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.2 to GIMP 2.9.4 =================================================

Core:

Color Management: - add new GimpColorTransform object to create abstraction from LittleCMS
- now color-managed:
- layer/image/color palette/gradient/pattern previews - Color Picker tool
- color buttons of GimpColorHistory - GimpFgBgEditor, as used e.g. in the toolbox - color selectors
- DND widget
- painting tools
- copying layers/paste buffer between images - Colors applied to images
- GimpColorPanel and its color dialog (color widgets in dialogs) - color areas created from menu actions - color management for grayscale images, including setting preferred ICC profile
- add fast switching between color managed display and soft-proofing - add a per-image "is color managed" switch and show the image's "is color managed" state in the window title string - add basic support for creating images with color profiles - add "Optimize" options for display and soft-proofing to optionally speed-up rendering at the cost of color fidelity - add Image -> Color Management -> Save Color Profile to File... - improve the naming of generated ICC profiles - add a shortcut to the profile chooser dialog on OS X too - don't let display color management settings affect file import - enable color management when a profile is assigned to the image - enable color management when the image is converted from/to grayscale
- pass the right color profile around in gimp_selection_float() - hardcode the CMYK selector's conversion parameters, as well as NTSC parameters in babl/GEGL/GIMP
- have all previews track the monitor they are on

Core: - add "Select -> Flood" select action - add "Select -> Remove Holes" action - add "Border style" combo to the "Select -> Border..." dialog - do not request xcf compat mode when compat_toggle not sensitive - initialize fontconfig in the background to be able to show a pulsing progress bar when rebuilding the list of fonts (typically, the first time GIMP runs)
- fix the Behind blending mode
- make Burn mode output match Gimp 2.8 (partial revert of bug 744265) - improve file magic matching
- add a custom guide concept
- improve updating the statusbar messages and icons

GUI:

Menus: - move the image-duplicate action next to image-new - add Image -> Color Management -> Color Management Enabled - change "Select _Custom Color..." to "_Custom Color..." - change "Export" to "Export..." in the File menu

Dialogs: - include recently used colors in the Dockable Colors dialog - add RGB-based Luminance channel to the Histogram dialog - fix remembering the order of dockable dialogs

Preferences: - reorder the prefs categories tree and rename some pages - move "Snap Distance" to the prefs dialog's "Snapping" page - add configuration for undo preview size - clean-up Preferences -> Color Management - add "Shortcut [some modifier] + Mousewheel" for changing pen size

Themes: - rename theme "Default" into "System" - add new GUI themes: Lighter, Light, Gray, Dark, Darker

Icons: - add icon theme selection and make the icon theme path configurable in prefs
- preserve 2.8 pixel-perfect icon theme under the name "Legacy" - add new symbolic icon theme for GIMP - add a scalable icon theme and a configure option --enable-vector- icons

Widgets:
- add new GimpBufferSourceBox widget and use it in GimpOperationTool

View/Display: - fix various bugs related to rotated canvas - make GIMP not ignore 'Maximized' hints on startup in Windows - enable a pulsing progress bar in the splash - make new images jump around much less - fix image position when entering/leaving fullscreen mode - make layer boundary re-drawn correctly on scrolling - make images not appear completely black when images dockable is visible
- have all previews track the monitor they are on

Tools:

Fuzzy Select: - add "Diagonal neighbors" option

Foreground Select: - fix ghost brush outline

Bucket Fill: - add "Diagonal neighbors" option

Posterize: - turn the posterize tool into an ordinary GEGL filter - remove posterize from Tools -> Colors

Desaturate: - turn the Desaturate tool into a normal GEGL filter - move "Desaturate" to Colors -> Desaturate

Align: - add vertical offset to distribution options

Paths: - improve performance

Flip: - rename options to "Transform" and "Direction"

Cage Transform: - fix a few performance issue

Unified Transform: - make the tool not fail when currently selected layer is hidden

Text: - fix text input methods to work in-place (not in an overlayed box) - add background colors setting, only exposed for advanced input methods

Blend:
- use gegl:distance-transform in the blend tool, it has a progress now
- make shapeburst work with the new interactive gradient code

All Painting Tools: - add mirror symmetry
- remove artifacts from painting tools in Burn blending mode - add shortcut actions for changing spacing, hardness, and force

MyPaint: - dramatically improve performance of the tool and enable it by default
- add Colorize mode
- add a toggle to change between erase & paint mode - add a brush selector to the MyPaint brush options - add a dockable dialog to choose a brush, with tagging - read tags from MyPaint brushes
- improve blend math
- allow plug-ins to register procedures in the menu

Smudge: - fix the clipping of out-of-gamut channel values - fix the handling of layers with alpha channels

Ink: - the range of angle is now [-PI..PI]

Plug-ins/GEGL Filters:

Preview: - add a "split preview" feature to GEGL ops - allow to switch the split preview between horizontal and vertical - allow to swap the before/after position

Filters: - update the "Recently used" menu with GEGL filters - replace Selective Gaussian Blur with the GEGL version - add gegl:saturation as Colors -> Saturation - add gegl:high-pass as Filters > Enhance > High Pass - add new gegl:gegl filter that executes a custom processing chain - port Tile and Pagecurl plug-ins to GEGL - refactor the screenshot plug-in into backend and front-ends, one per X.org, Wayland, Windows, OS X - add Monochrome option to the GEGL version of Channel Mixer - bring dialog titles and help IDs to GEGL filter dialogs

File Plug-Ins: - add darktable plug-in to pre-process varios raw images - port file-gif-save and file-tiff to GIO - TIFF support:
- make libtiff a hard dependency - merge the file-tiff-load and file-tiff-save plug-ins - fix various tiff exporting bugs - EXR support:
- read comment, Exif, and XMP data from EXR files - use GIMP's internal profile when loading EXR - PSD support:
- fix the loading of files with adjustment or fill layers - fix the reading of layer group structure - fix the raw image loader
- fix the layer groups support in OpenRaster - code cleanup in file-bmp
- fix the exporting of KISS - CELL (*.cel) images - resurrect the email plugin
- use GIO to figure if a file is hidden

PyGimp: - update pyconsole code
- add binding for GimpImageType
- add GimpColorConfig object
- add type definition for GimpColorManaged - make GimpParasite type known to the code generator - require Pycairo in configure, link gimpui against pycairo - fix the application of paintbrush size in Python scripts

Script-Fu: - make regex matching return character indexes - fix the hanging of Script-fu on machines with 64-bit longs - update tinyscheme code from upstream

PDB:

- Bug 759104 - Allow coordinates of sample points to be accessed from scripts

Build:

build/win: - Start building libmypaint.
- Add pcre and upgrade glib2 to 2.48.1 - Upgrade exiv2 to 0.25
- Clear DISPLAY before building
- Disable webkitgtk

OS-specific changes:

Windows: - Add support for generating crash backtraces using Dr. MingW

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

Adrian Likins, Alexandre Prokoudine, Alexia Death, Andrew Worsley, Benoit Touchette, Carol Spears, Daniel Sabo, Ell, Elle Stone, Hartmut Kuhse, Jasper Krijgsman, Jehan, Jonathan Tait, João S. O. Bueno, Kevin Cozens, Kristian Rietveld, Massimo Valentini, Michael Henning, Michael Natterer, Michael Schumacher, Mukund Sivaraman, Pedro Gimeno, Piotr Drąg, Richard Hughes, Richard Kreckel, Shmuel H, Simon Budig, Sven Claussner, Thomas Manni, Tobias Ellinghaus, draekko, klausstaedtler, nmat, saul, Øyvind Kolås.

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

A S Alam, Alexandre Prokoudine, Ask Hjorth Larsen, Balázs Meskó, Balázs Úr, Christian Kirbach, Cédric Valmary, Daniel Korostil, Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos, Dušan Kazik, Eugene Kuligin, Gábor Kelemen, Hartmut Kuhse, J.M. Ruetter, Jehan, Jordi Mas, Khaled Hosny, Marco Ciampa, Mario Blättermann, Martin Srebotnjak, Michael Natterer, Mónica Canizo, Necdet Yücel, Pedro Albuquerque, Piotr Drąg, Richard Kreckel, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Sebastian Rasmussen, Sveinn í Felli, Tiago Santos, Tobias Ellinghaus, Yolanda Álvarez Pérez, klausstaedtler, kolbjoern, Милош Поповић.

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Wow! That's quite a list of changes. Kudos to all involved. Rick Strong

-----Original Message----- From: Michael Natterer
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 4:12 PM To: GIMP Developer ; GIMP User
Subject: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.4 released

Hi,

We just released the second 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 2.9.2 please see the "Changes" section below. We will also post more detailed news about GIMP 2.9 on www.gimp.org soon, stay tuned.

Happy GIMPing, --Mitch

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