GIMP 2.5.3 development snapshot released
Today the GIMP developers released the (probably) last version in den 2.5-development branch: 2.5.3 offer lots of new features and improvements.
After 2.5.3. the developers want to publish their first release candidate of GIMP 2.6. This should be probably somewhen in late September hopefully.
Meanwhile try to compile 2.5.3 yourself and help the developers find some bugs. The changes can be seen here (directly from the developers-news):
Changes in GIMP 2.5.3
=====================
- some fixes for the 64-bit Windows platform
- optionally emulate brush dynamics when stroking a path or selection
- further work on the scroll-beyond-image-borders feature, improving the
behavior of the image display when zooming or when the image size changes
- added links to the user manual to the Tips dialog
- largely rewritten scaling code improves scaling quality, in particular
when scaling down
- allow to copy-on-write from the image projection
- added "Paste as new layer" to Edit menu
- added "New from visible" to the Layer menu allowing to create a new
layer from the image projection
- added new procedure 'gimp-layer-new-from-visible'.
- renamed all file plug-in executables to a have a file prefix
- changed the HSV color selector to use the GtkHSV widget
- changed the default for the 'trust-dirty-flag' gimprc property
- dropped the "Starburst" logo script
- improved the behavior of the zoom button in the upper right corner of
the image window
- allow PDB procedures to pass an error message with their return values
- changed all file plug-ins to pass their error messages with the
return values instead of raising an error dialog
- adapt the display of the pointer position in the statusbar to the
pointer precision of the active tool
- bug fixes and code cleanup
Contributors:
Sven Neumann, Michael Natterer, Martin Nordholts, Alexia Death,
Tor Lillqvist, Geert Jordaens, Daniel Eddeland, Aurimas Juška,
Róman Joost, Luidnel Maignan, LightningIsMyName, Aurore Derriennic
We've added the sourcecode to our downloads page! Some help for compiling can be found here: http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.5.html
After 2.5.3. the developers want to publish their first release candidate of GIMP 2.6. This should be probably somewhen in late September hopefully.
Meanwhile try to compile 2.5.3 yourself and help the developers find some bugs. The changes can be seen here (directly from the developers-news):
Changes in GIMP 2.5.3
=====================
- some fixes for the 64-bit Windows platform
- optionally emulate brush dynamics when stroking a path or selection
- further work on the scroll-beyond-image-borders feature, improving the
behavior of the image display when zooming or when the image size changes
- added links to the user manual to the Tips dialog
- largely rewritten scaling code improves scaling quality, in particular
when scaling down
- allow to copy-on-write from the image projection
- added "Paste as new layer" to Edit menu
- added "New from visible" to the Layer menu allowing to create a new
layer from the image projection
- added new procedure 'gimp-layer-new-from-visible'.
- renamed all file plug-in executables to a have a file prefix
- changed the HSV color selector to use the GtkHSV widget
- changed the default for the 'trust-dirty-flag' gimprc property
- dropped the "Starburst" logo script
- improved the behavior of the zoom button in the upper right corner of
the image window
- allow PDB procedures to pass an error message with their return values
- changed all file plug-ins to pass their error messages with the
return values instead of raising an error dialog
- adapt the display of the pointer position in the statusbar to the
pointer precision of the active tool
- bug fixes and code cleanup
Contributors:
Sven Neumann, Michael Natterer, Martin Nordholts, Alexia Death,
Tor Lillqvist, Geert Jordaens, Daniel Eddeland, Aurimas Juška,
Róman Joost, Luidnel Maignan, LightningIsMyName, Aurore Derriennic
We've added the sourcecode to our downloads page! Some help for compiling can be found here: http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.5.html
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