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ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.7.0

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ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.7 Sven Neumann 15 Aug 23:02
ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.7.0 Martin Nordholts 16 Aug 21:14
Sven Neumann
2009-08-15 23:02:56 UTC (over 15 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.7

GIMP 2.6.7 comes with lots of bug-fixes and it contains an important fix for using GIMP with the latest GEGL and babl releases. The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors. Binary packages are already available for many platforms; please check the Downloads section at www.gimp.org.

We recommend that you also update GEGL and babl to the latest released versions, see http://gegl.org/

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.6 to GIMP 2.6.7 =================================================

* Bugs fixed:

591017 – Tablet pan is not working as fast as it should 577581 – Crashes when using any colors tool/function on Windows 589667 – GIMP crashes when clicking GEGL Operation on Windows 569833 – file-jpeg-save erroneous with small quality values 590638 – Changing palettes from list to grid view loses "locked to dock" status
589674 – "Send by Email" does not update "Filename" 589674 – "Send by Email" does not update "Filename" 586851 – Transparent BMP files fail to load 589205 – help-browser uses deprecated (and sometimes broken) webkit call
582821 – 'Sphere Designer' does not reset correctly... 570353 – first time open of .svg file ignores the requested units 555777 – Export to MNG animation fails 577301 – Dithering with transparency is broken for "positioned" method 493778 – metadata plug-in crashes on some images 567466 – PNG comment not found if more than 1 tEXt chunks 585665 – Exporting to PSD with a blank text layer creates a corrupt file
586316 – Levels tool does not adjust output levels correctly if input levels are changed
569661 – Import from PDF throws errors when entering resolution in pixels per millimetre
567262 – Black pixels appear in "Spread" filter preview 554658 – Path Dialog: Path preview pics not to see constantly 167604 – gimp_gradient_get_color_at() may return out-of-bounds values 567393 – Rectangle select tool size shrinks to 0 if size is larger than the image and the up or down arrow is pressed 587543 – crash when invoking certain actions by keyboard shortcut 563029 - Closing maximized image doesn't restore document window size 585488 – Perspective transformation on a layer with a mask causes crash 586008 - GIMP crashes when right-click canceling a drawing action initiated outside layer boundaries 584345 – when printing, the number of copies should be reset to 1 557061 – Alpha to Logo
472644 – Rotate with clipping crops the whole layer 577575 – transform tool fills underlying extracted area wrongly 555738 – Image display is wrong after undoing canvas size 577024 – help-browser plugin crashes when used with webkit 1.1.3 555025 – Action GEGL box widgets weirdness

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Martin Nordholts
2009-08-16 21:14:41 UTC (over 15 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.7.0

We are pleased to announce the release of GIMP 2.7.0 which is the first step towards GIMP 2.8, the next stable release. Even though GEGL related work has been made, the primary focus for GIMP 2.8 is to get work not related to GEGL done. This will enable us to fully focus on GEGL once GIMP 2.8 has been released and finish the integration we have tentatively started.

You will need GEGL 0.1.0 and babl 0.1.0 found at http://www.gegl.org and http://www.gegl.org/babl to build GIMP 2.7.0. The GIMP 2.7 release notes can be read at http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html. A more complete but summarized list of changes is in the NEWS file found at http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gimp/tree/NEWS. This file is also quoted below.

/ Martin

Changes in GIMP 2.7.0 =====================

UI:

- Change the Text Tool to perform text editing on-canvas (GSoC 2008) - Add support for tagging GIMP resources such as brushes and allow filtering based on these tags (GSoC 2008) - Separate the activies of saving an image and exporting it, there is now an 'File->Export...' for example - Port file plug-ins to new export API which gets rid of many annoying export dialogs
- Add a simple parser to size entry widgets, images can be scaled to e.g. "50%" or "2 * 37px + 10in" - Arrange layer modes into more logical and useful groups - Added support for rotation of brushes - Make the Pointer dockable show information about selection position and size
- Get rid of the Tools dockable and move toolbox configuration to Preferences
- Add status bar feedback for keyboard changes to brush paramaters - Add diagonal guides to the Crop Tool - New docks are created at the pointer position - Add support for printing crop marks for images - Move 'Text along path' from tool options to text context menu - Change default shortcuts for "Shrink Wrap" and "Fit in Window" to Ctrl+R and Ctrl+Shift+R respectively since the previous shortcuts are now used for the save+export feature - Make Alt+Click on layers in Layers dockable create a selection from the layer
- Allow to specify written language in the Text Tool

Plug-ins:

- Map the 'Linear Dodge' layer mode in PSD files to the 'Addition' layer mode in GIMP
- Add JPEG2000 load plug-in
- Add X11 mouse cursor plug-in
- Add support for loading 16bit (RGB565) raw data - Add palette exporter for CSS, PHP, Python, txt and Java, accessed through palette context menu
- Add plug-in API for getting image URI, for manipulating size of text layers, for getting and setting text layer hint, and for unified export dialog appearance

Data:

- Add large variants of round brushes and remove duplicate and useless brushes
- Add "FG to BG (Hardedge)" gradient

GEGL:

- Port the projection code, the code that composes a single image from a stack of layers, to GEGL
- Port layer modes to GEGL
- Port the floating selection code to GEGL - Refactor the layer stack code to prepare for layer groups later - Prepare better and more intuitive handling of the floating selection
- Add File->Debug->Show Image Graph that show the GEGL graph of an image
- Allow to benchmark projection performance with File->Debug->Benchmark Projection - When using GEGL for the projection, use CIELCH instead of HSV/HSL for color based layer modes

Core:

- Make painting strokes Catmull-Rom Spline interpolated - Add support for arbitrary affine transforms of brushes - Add support for brush dynamics to depend on tilt - Add aspect ratio to brush dynamics - Add infrastructure to soon support vector layers (GSoC 2006) - Rearrange legacy layer mode code to increase maintainability - Drop support for the obsolete GnomeVFS file-uri backend - Allow to dump keyboard shortucts ith File->Debug->Dump Keyboard Shortcuts
- Prepare data structures for layer groups - Remove gimprc setting "menu-mnemonics", "GtkSettings:gtk-enable-mnemonics" shall be used instead - Remove "transient-docks" gimprc setting, the 'Utility window' hint and a sane window manager does a better job - Remove "web-browser" gimprc setting and use gtk_show_uri() instead

General:

- Changed licence to (L)GPLv3+ - Use the automake 1.11 feature 'silent build rules' by default - Lots of bug fixes and cleanup