[gimp-web/testing] 2.10.8: amended by pippin's suggestions



commit b579fb5fceb8dc60ae0acf0434dbc7c0d7d08ee4
Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Fri Nov 9 03:02:21 2018 +0300

    2.10.8: amended by pippin's suggestions

 content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md 
b/content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md
index c5889ea1..dfc53739 100644
--- a/content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ very visible when e.g. renaming a layer.
 
 Thanks to Elle Stone, GIMP now features initial support for color readouts
 in the CIE xyY color space. You can see these values in the *Info* window
-of the **Color Picker** tool and in the *Sample Points* dock.
+of the **Color Picker** tool and in the *Sample Points* dock. Most of the
+related code went into the babl library.
 
 Much like CIE LAB, this color space is a derivative of CIE XYZ. The *Y* channel
 separates luminance information from chromaticity information in the *x* and
@@ -97,11 +98,13 @@ and the [commit history][] for even more details.
 ### GEGL and babl
 
 The babl library got an important fix that directly affects GIMP users:
-the color of transparent pixels is now preserved during conversion
+the color of transparent pixels is now [preserved][] during conversion
 to premultiplied alpha. This means all transform and deformation operations
 now maintain color for fully transparent pixels, making unerase and curves
 manipulation of alpha channel more reliable.
 
+[preserved]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/premultiplied-in-21014115
+
 On the GEGL side, a new buffer iterator API was added (GIMP code has been
 ported to this improved interface as well). Additionally, new GEGL_TILE_COPY
 command was added to backends to make buffer duplication/copies more efficient.
@@ -146,14 +149,13 @@ means](https://film.zemarmot.net/en/donate)!
 ### Improving GIMP experience on macOS
 
 Our new macOS contributor, Alex Samorukov, has been very hard at work
-improving the macOS/OSX package, debugging and patching both GIMP and the
-[gtk-osx project](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx/merge_requests/1).
+improving the macOS/OSX package, debugging and patching both GIMP, GEGL,
+and the [gtk-osx project](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx/merge_requests/1).
 
 Some of the macOS specific bugs he fixed are artifacts while zooming,
 the windows focus bug in plug-ins, and a non-functional support for some
-non-Wacom tablets. A few more bugs in the macOS version were fixed by
-[Jehan](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1924) and
-[Ell](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl/issues/104).
+non-Wacom tablets. Jehan, Ell, and Øyvind actively participated in fixing these
+and other macOS issues.
 
 We also thank CircleCI for providing their infrastructure to us free of charge.
 This helps us automatically building GIMP for macOS.


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