[gimp-web] Kickstart the news for GIMP 2.10.24.

[Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>]

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Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 19:05:12 2021 +0100

    Kickstart the news for GIMP 2.10.24.

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+Title: GIMP 2.10.24 Released
+Date: 2021-03-07
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber
+Slug: gimp-2-10-24-released
+Summary: "Stability, consolidation"
+
+GIMP 2.10.24 is mostly a bug fix release, which once again comes mostly
+with file format support improvements.
+
+Release highlights:
+
+- Off-canvas point snapping
+- GeoTIFF metadata support (georeferencing information embedded within a
+  TIFF file used by map makers)
+- Many improvements in the metadata viewer and editor
+- Many file format supports improved: HEIF, PSP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF,
+  DDS, BMP, PSD
+- The RAW image import now handles darktable 3.6 and over
+- New Kabyle translation
+
+<figure>
+<img src="{attach}202010-wilber-and-co.jpg" alt="Wilber Learning never stops! - Wilber and co. comics 
strip"/>
+<figcaption>
+<em>"TODO" by <a href="https://film.zemarmot.net";>Aryeom</a>, Creative Commons by-sa 4.0</em>
+</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+# Core improvements
+## Off-canvas point snapping
+
+Though there are various fixes in core code, this change is probably the
+only one worth mentionning. Ever since GIMP 2.10.14, we are now able to
+see the [out-of-canvas
+area](https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/10/31/gimp-2-10-14-released/#out-of-canvas-viewing-and-editing).
+Consequently, many features can now work outside the canvas, yet not all
+features yet. This change is the continuation of this work, allowing you
+to snap various tools to guides, grids or vectors, even outside the
+canvas.
+
+# Metadata support
+
+A lot of work has been going on in the metadata area, mostly
+consolidating our support and fixing many issues.
+
+The metadata viewer and editor also received a lot of love, making them
+more robust to various edge cases, such as duplicate tags, but also
+mapping equivalency between similar IPTC and XMP tags, better encoding
+handling, and so on.
+
+The GPS data is also handled a bit better with more precision, tooltips
+and better formatting.
+
+There are still a lot of improvements to be made in the metadata area
+though we are probably on the right path.
+
+# File formats
+## GeoTIFF
+
+A fun story which started with a [conference by Adam Cox of Louisiana
+State University](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1G0qyETCow) about
+using GIMP for enhancing historic maps, with the issue that GeoTIFF
+metadata tags were lost and made the workflow a bit more cumbersome.
+
+It prompted a bug report then later a patch by the passing contributor
+Ruthra Kumar and a review by the core team. All this within 2 months.
+
+And now GIMP is able to import and export back the GeoTIFF tags. Note
+that no semantic logics is implemented, i.e. that GIMP can only export
+what it imported. It will not tweak the metadata contents for you. In
+particular since it contains georeferencing data, some type of image
+transform could make the data meaningless. This is up to you to know
+what the data references and how to keep its meaning.
+
+This nice little story shows once again a power of Free Software, which
+is before all a software made by yourself. Anyone who contributes is
+part of the GIMP team! 🤗
+
+## Improved support for many image formats
+
+Similarly to our [previous stable
+release](https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/10/07/gimp-2-10-22-released/),
+our file format plug-ins received a lot of love.
+
+* **TIFF** got various improvements when handling multi-page files, but also
+  many edge cases, such as 2 or 4-bit TIFF images, opening some types of
+  non-conformant TIFF files and so on.
+* **HEIF** got some visually lossless export support when libheif 1.10 or
+  later is used. We also detect separately HEIC and AVIF support at
+  runtime, allowing to build the plug-in with only support of one
+  encoding.
+* **PNG** now ignores useless layer offset of 0, a metadata which some
+  third-party software are always storing, hence getting rid of
+  unecessary dialog prompts.
+* **JPEG** will better warn the user when some metadata saving failed.
+* **BMP** in more bit depth can now be loaded, in particular 24bpp BMP
+  images; moreover GIMP is now able to rescue some non-conformant BMP
+  with wrong compression noted in header.
+* **PDF** import now proposes an option to reverse order of layers (same as
+  we already had on export) and now support fractional DPI import.
+* **DDS** in BC5 format benefited from some fixes. Moreover as we are
+  able to detect some images with errors previously created by GIMP, the
+  software will also automatically fix these errors upon loading them.
+* **Raw** image formats are still forwarded through [featureful raw
+  developers](https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html#digital-photography-improvements)
+  such as [darktable](https://www.darktable.org/) or
+  [RawTherapee](https://www.rawtherapee.com/). The former is undergoing
+  some API changes, and while darktable 3.6 is not even out yet, GIMP
+  already has support for this upcoming version. Therefore GIMP 2.10.24
+  will work with future darktable.
+
+# New translation
+
+GIMP is now available in one more language: Kabyle. This is still an
+early translation as only [18% of the stable branch is
+translated](https://l10n.gnome.org/languages/kab/gnome-gimp/ui/) so far
+(and 32% of the development branch!) yet we can already thank these new
+translators to bring GIMP to even more people.
+
+This makes GIMP available to 82 languages other than default English!
+
+The translators are also contributors doing an incredible work. Thanks
+to all of them!
+
+# GEGL and babl
+
+TODO
+
+# What's next
+
+The development continues very strong on the development branch and we
+can clearly see the shift towards more work on GIMP 3 as 2.10.x release
+become more about robustness and less about new features (though we
+still continue to backport features when it can be done without too much
+additional work).
+We will give more details on this side of development when we will
+release the upcoming 2.99.6 development version.
+
+Finally, please don't forget you can [donate to the project and personally
+fund several GIMP developers](https://www.gimp.org/donating/), as a way to
+give back and accelerate the development of GIMP.