GIMP 2.7.1 released
GIMP 2.7.1 has been released. It is a new development version and not intended for production use. The new features are tested for GIMP 2.8 – have a look into our preview of GIMP 2.8.
You can get the sources here: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.7/
Windows binary: GIMP 2.7.1 Installer for Windows
Changes in GIMP 2.7.1, taken from http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/NEWS?id=GIMP_2_7_1
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UI:
- Add “lock content” button to the layers, channels and paths dialogs, make the lock buttons more compact - Refuse to edit locked items - Add support for layer groups - Improve internals and GUI of the save/export functionality - Move the shortcut dialog’s “clear” button into the entry - Clean up UI code by introducing GimpDockWindow and GimpImageWindow classes - Support multi-column dock windows - Get rid of docking bars, use highlights in existing widget hierarchy instead - Remove toolbox-window-hint gimprc setting and use dock-window-hint for both toolbox and docks instead - Move GimpDock::default-height style property to GimpDockWindow - Polish save+export path-part precedence rules - Merge the GSoC 2009 Advanced GUI for Brush Dynamics project - Default to non-fixed-aspect in Canvas Size dialog - Add a still incomplete and Single-window mode - Have an Export button, not Save, in export dialogs - Improve Free Select Tool handle highlightning - Support changing user interface language from preferences - Update ps-menurc with PS CS4 keyboard shortcuts - Reduce spacing around canvas and use it for the canvas itself - Put name of active dockables in dock window titles - Don’t have Toolbox in list of Recently Closed Docks, handle that directly in the Windows menu - Support selecting and tagging multiple objects in resource lists - Improve on-canvas text editing and text attribute setting - Add GimpContainerTreeStore and use it in all GtkTreeStore based views - Add a new default “automatic” tab style that makes sure dockable tabs always show as much detail as possible - Remove the dockable title bar and add the menu arrow button next to the notebook tabs - Add an icon for the desaturate tool - Add ‘Rule of fifths’ crop guide overlay - Make Alt+Click on layers not affecting active layerCore:
- Make all GimpItems lockable so their contents can’t be changed - Make more sense when naming imported layers - Make group layers work except for layer masks and save them in the XCF - Change GimpProjectable::update to GimpProjectable:invalidate - Make sure we don’t mix font backends (and crash) by explicitely asking for FT/Fontconfig backends - Move members of GimpObject to a private struct - gimp_object_get_name() takes a gconstpointer now, remove casts from all callers - Let drawables connect to their floating selection’s “update” signal instead of letting the image do this job - Fix brush rotation artifacts at even 90 degree rotation - Don’t leak shared tile memory on Solaris - Add a PDB procedure to access a text layer’s markup - Remove legacy cruft from pdbgen and make sure number ranges are correct - Move all image creation functions to a common file - Add translation context to all undo descriptionsGEGL:
- Make sure all nodes are added to their resp. graphs - Use GEGL for layer scaling if use-gegl is TRUEPlug-ins:
- Updated script-fu’s scheme to latest upstream fixes - Don’t store image-specific print settings globally - Add fundamental OpenRaster (.ora) import and export support - Add RGB565 support to the csource plug-inData:
- Add texture/grunge brushes made by Johannes EngelhardtDeveloper documentation:
- Explain GimpContext - Add SVG graphic with GIMP application core module dependencies - Add a schedule for 2.8 developmentSource and build system:
- Add more code documentation - Clean up subsystem linking dependencies in app/ - Add unit testing framework in app/tests/ and some basic tests, including basic UI tests and XCF tests - Tentatively introduce usage of using Glade + GtkBuilder - Depend on GLib 2.24.0 and GTK+ 2.20.0 - Add git commit hash in —verbose —version output - Don’t version control gtk-doc.m4, get it from gtkdocize - Add GimpObject tracking code - Plug memory leaks - Lots of bug fixes and cleanup - Lots of translation updates
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