[gimp-web] 2.10.20: more text, some FIXMEs left to do yet



commit a0e1b58d170dd667b15e348131ee436f0e399946
Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Mon Jun 8 13:39:15 2020 +0300

    2.10.20: more text, some FIXMEs left to do yet

 .../2020/2020-06_GIMP-2.10.20_Released/index.md    | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/content/news/2020/2020-06_GIMP-2.10.20_Released/index.md 
b/content/news/2020/2020-06_GIMP-2.10.20_Released/index.md
index c9db838d..ac71873d 100644
--- a/content/news/2020/2020-06_GIMP-2.10.20_Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2020/2020-06_GIMP-2.10.20_Released/index.md
@@ -87,11 +87,16 @@ _Focus Blur_ provides a simple user interface to out-of-focus blurring using the
 alt="FIXME"/>
 </figure>
 
-New _Bloom_ filter FIXME.
+New _Bloom_ filter applies an effect that looks a lot like what you can get with the _Soft Glow_ filter but, 
unlike, _Soft Glow_, it doesn't decrease saturation. Technically, _Bloom_ isolates the highlights region, 
feathers it, and then recombines it with the original image.
+
+<figure>
+<img src="{attach}FIXME.jpg" 
+alt="FIXME"/>
+</figure>
 
 # Better PSD support
 
-When we released v2.10.0, we sort of forgot checking if GIMP actually exports 16-bit PSD files. This has 
been fixed now.
+When we released v2.10.20, we sort of forgot checking if GIMP actually exports 16-bit PSD files. This has 
been fixed now.
 
 In addition, we fixed the bug where GIMP would load and write channels in PSD in the wrong order.
 
@@ -101,13 +106,40 @@ FIXME
 
 # GEGL and babl
 
-FIXME
+As usual, new GIMP release is accompanied by new releases of [babl](http://gegl.org/babl/) and 
[GEGL](http://gegl.org/) libraries.
+
+The new version of babl comes mostly with bug fixes and performance improvements like the use of AVX2 
instructions to convert gamma u8 data to linear float (making those conversions between 1.25x and 2.2x 
faster). It also features VAPI file generation for Vala integration as the unstable branch of GIMP now 
supports creating new plug-ins with Vala.
+
+The most important changes in GEGL are:
+
+- New meta-data API that permits handling non-Exif metadata in different file loaders
+and savers in a generic manner
+- Faster and softer cubic interpolation.
+- GEGL now gracefully fails when running out of swap space.
+- The `hue-chroma` operation has been fixed to avoid modifying hue/chroma of neutrals
+- The `dropshadow` operation now has an option to grow the shadow. This means, with zero shift and larger 
shadow, you can stroke a text or a bitmap layer.
+
+On top of that, GEGL got several new operations, some of which we already described above. Others are:
+
+- border-align: places a buffer within the borders of another one.
+- pack: joins two buffers into one, with optional gap.
+- piecewise-blend: uses a grayscale map as index into array of buffers used as LUT (required by new blur 
filters)
+- reset-origin: moves upper left of extent to 0,0
+- band-tune: parametric band equalizer for tuning frequency bands of image.
 
 <figure>
 <img src="{attach}FIXME.jpg" 
 alt="FIXME"/>
 </figure>
 
+# Contributors
+
+Code contributors to this release are: FIXME
+
+Translators: FIXME
+
+As usual, we thank lillolollo, nmat, and Michael Schumacher for triaging bug reports, and Julien Hardelin 
for keeping the user manual up to date.
+
 # What's next
 
 We are wrapping up the development in the `master` branch for v2.99.2, the first unstable release in the 
2.99 series leading up to v3.0 some time in the future.


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