[gimp-web] content: first draft for GIMP 2.10.32 news.

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+Title: GIMP 2.10.32 Released
+Date: 2022-06-13
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber
+Slug: gimp-2-10-32-released
+Summary: Release news for version GIMP 2.10.32
+
+GIMP continues strengthening its bases as this new version 2.10.32 is
+quite heavy on bug fixes and improves our support for many image file
+formats.
+
+[TOC]
+
+*This news lists the most notable and visible changes. In particular, we
+do not list here the bug fixes.
+To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the
+[NEWS](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/2ea287125f6af3cf9d35ea607071e648dcf4465e/NEWS#L11)
+file or look at the [commit
+history](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/commits/master).*
+
+## File Formats
+### TIFF and BigTIFF
+
+GIMP now supports **8 and 16-bit CMYK(A) TIFF** files on import. This is
+one of the first consequences (already!) of the [GSoC
+project](https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/06/03/cmyk-in-gsoc-2022/)
+by NikcDC under mentorship of Jehan.
+
+Moreover the **BigTIFF format is now supported**, both for import and
+export. BigTIFF is an evolution of the original TIFF format allowing
+files bigger than 4GiB by using 64-bit internal offsets.
+
+The TIFF export dialog exposes a checkbox to enable this format variant.
+Moreover, if you try to export as a TIFF file and if it fails because of
+the maximum file size being exceeded, it will propose you to retry
+either as BigTIFF or with another compression algorithm.
+
+Finally additional special cases in TIFF format are now taken into
+account, making loading TIFF files more robust.
+
+### JPEG XL
+
+JPEG XL file format has been supported in development code ever since
+[GIMP
+2.99.8](https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/10/20/gimp-2-99-8-released/#improved-file-formats-support-jpeg-xl-psdpsb-and-more).
+
+Daniel Novomeský **backported the import** code to the stable branch.
+
+We remind that a [third-party
+plug-in](https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/tree/main/plugins/gimp)
+already exists, by developers of the `libjxl` library. It is a different
+codebase and should still work with GIMP 2.10.32. The main advantage of
+the third-party plug-in is that it has also export capabilities (which
+our stable plug-in doesn't have yet), though with some unsolved issues
+causing some images to fail to load or export correctly.
+
+You are welcome to continue using the third-party plug-in if you prefer.
+For instance the `MSYS2` project now has it built-in within the `libjxl`
+package. If you install it, it will take precedence over our new core
+plug-in.
+
+### DDS
+
+Some game engines require DDS images to be flipped vertically. Until
+now, asset creators had to flip the image in GIMP, export, then undo,
+which was not a very practical workflow.
+
+This is why NikcDC added a **new "*Flip*" option** allowing you to flip
+your image at export time.
+
+Similarly, there is now a **"*Visible layers*" option** (additionally to
+"*Selected layer*", "*As cube map*"…) allowing you to export the whole
+image render, not a single layer. So depending on your work usage, you
+won't have to flatten your image (to later undo this action) anymore
+before export.
+
+### Metadata handling (PSD…)
+
+Several metadata handling improvements were made. One of the most
+important changes is that GIMP will start dropping
+`Xmp.photoshop.DocumentAncestors` tags if more than a thousands of them
+are found.
+
+This case is very likely due to a bug in some versions of Photoshop or
+other software creating `PSD` files as we encountered over 100,000 such
+tags in some files (it probably makes no sense that a document could
+have that many ancestor documents), which was seriously slowing down
+GIMP to the point it looked frozen.
+
+### XCF
+
+XCF import code also received various improvements, making the software
+more robust to invalid files. In some cases, it allows to salvage more
+data from corrupted XCF files, hence protecting your work.
+
+### Other formats
+
+More format handling were improved:
+
+BMP
+: A new `PDB` procedure `file-bmp-save2` was added for plug-in
+  developers. It supports all the options available interactively.
+
+DICOM
+: Fixed endian conversion for photometric interpretation `MONOCHROME1`.
+
+EPS
+: Loading transparent EPS files is now supported.
+
+RAW
+: "*RGB Save Type*" confusing dialog label renamed to "*Palette Type*"
+  as on the main dev branch.
+
+TGA
+: Improved support of indexed images with alpha channel (both import
+  and export).
+
+WebP
+: Export has a new IPTC checkbox (saved through XMP) as well as a
+  thumbnail checkbox. (backported from dev branch, since 2.99.8)
+
+## Text tool: localized glyph variants
+
+The Text tool now supports localized glyphs (`locl`) depending on the
+value of the "Language" tool option.
+
+It is useful if you write in languages with regional variant forms (e.g.
+Serbian or Ukrainian use the same Cyrillic alphabet yet with 5 letters
+having regional variants).
+
+*If your chosen font supports several variants*, you can now
+tell the internal formatting system through the "Language" settings
+which one needs to be used.
+
+## Usability: themes and icons
+
+* All official themes now have on-hover indicator around the eye 👁️ and
+  link 🔗 toggles in Layer/Channel/Path Dialog tree-views.
+* In the Dark theme, a new on-hover effect on radio menu items was added
+  to improve readability.
+* In the Color icon theme, thin contrast borders were added to the
+  'close' and 'detach' icons to improve their readability against dark
+  backgrounds on mouse-hover.
+* In the Color icon theme, horizontal and vertical chain ⛓️ icons are
+  more distinguishable between their broken and not-broken variants.
+
+All these changes are works by Stanislav Grinkov.
+
+## Improved Screenshot on Windows
+
+The Screenshot plug-in was missing the "*Include mouse pointer*" option
+on Windows.
+
+This long missing feature, which was available on other platforms, such
+as Linux X11/Wayland, \*BSD or macOS) is now implemented on Windows as
+well!
+
+## GEGL, babl
+
+This time, no synced releases of [babl](https://gegl.org/babl/) or
+[GEGL](https://gegl.org/) come together. Yet `babl` 0.1.92 had been
+released in March, fixing in particular SIMD discovery ability, which
+was misbehaving on Windows.
+
+GIMP 2.10.32 is therefore the first stable release with the nice
+optimizations brought in [babl 0.1.90 and GEGL
+0.4.36](https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/02/25/gimp-2-99-10-released/#babl-and-gegl),
+now that they have been battle-tested and debugged within the
+development release GIMP 2.99.10.
+
+## Team news
+
+lukaso was already considered co-maintainer of the macOS build
+repository of GIMP (`gimp-macos-build`) since they have done most heavy
+lifting on GIMP for macOS for many months. This has been officially
+acted by flaging their account `maintainer` on this build repository.
+
+Lloyd Konneker has been given developer git access to the main GIMP
+repository, in particular for their nice work so far on script-fu (which
+was in a state where dropping script-fu for GIMP 3.0 would have been
+considered otherwise).
+
+Kevin Cozens, a long term GIMP contributor and script-fu maintainer got
+back recently and was given git access again to the repository. He will
+help co-maintain script-fu with Lloyd.
+
+Ondřej Míchal has been given "Reporter" rights on the main GIMP
+repository (allowing to triage reports: labelling, closing,
+reopening, and moving reports…).
+
+After being given "Reporter" rights initially, NikcDC has eventually
+been given developer git access in order to facilitate the work on
+feature branches for their [GSoC
+project](https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/06/03/cmyk-in-gsoc-2022/).
+
+## Release stats
+
+10 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 2.10.32 codebase:
+
+* 3 people contributed several code changes or fixes: Jacob Boerema (24
+  commits), Jehan (19 commits) and Nikc (13 commits).
+* 1 person contributed several theme and icon improvements: Stanislav
+  Grinkov (4 commits).
+* 6 people contributed single commits: Sabri Ünal, Daniel Novomeský,
+  Lukas Oberhuber, Rafał Mikrut, smlu and Øyvind Kolås.
+
+About translations of GIMP itself:
+
+* 24 translators contributed: Anders Jonsson, Sveinn í Felli, Alan
+  Mortensen, Aleksandr Melman, Yuri Chornoivan, Hugo Carvalho, Luming
+  Zh, Rodrigo Lledó, Jordi Mas, Martin, Piotr Drąg, Balázs Úr, Jiri
+  Grönroos, Zurab Kargareteli, Boyuan Yang, Marco Ciampa, Matej
+  Urbančič, Milo Ivir, Sabri Ünal, Tim Sabsch, Balázs Meskó, Charles
+  Monzat, Fran Dieguez, Hannie Dumoleyn.
+* 20 translations were updated: Catalan, Chinese (China), Croatian,
+  Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian,
+  Icelandic, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish,
+  Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
+* GIMP 2.10.32 includes a new Georgian translation, incrementing the
+  number of available languages for the stable version to 83.
+* GIMP was already localized in Galician, but not the Windows
+  installer… until this version!
+
+Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse:
+
+* 1 contributor to `babl` 0.1.92: Øyvind Kolås (10 commits).
+* 2 contributors to `gimp-macos-build` (macOS build scripts): Lukas
+  Oberhuber (67 commits) and Jehan (1 commit).
+* 4 contributors to `org.gimp.GIMP` (stable flatpak): Hubert Figuière (6
+  commits), Ondřej Míchal (5 commits), Jehan (3 commits) and Rebecca
+  Wallander (1 commit).
+* Contributors to `gimp-help` (GIMP manual) since [last
+  stats](https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/02/25/gimp-2-99-10-released/#release-stats):
+    - 2 technical contributors (build scripts, continuous
+      integrations…): Jacob Boerema (93 commits) and Jehan (28 commits).
+    - Documenters (contributors to original English text): Jacob
+      Boerema, Anders Jonsson, Andre Klapper, Jehan and Marco Ciampa.
+    - Translators: Rodrigo Lledó, Jordi Mas, Nathan Follens, Yuri
+      Chornoivan, Anders Jonsson, Hugo Carvalho, Marco Ciampa, Tim
+      Sabsch, dimspingos, Claude Paroz, Kjartan Maraas, Ulf-D. Ehlert.
+* 6 contributors to `gimp-web` (website) since last stats: Jehan,
+  Alexandre Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson, Tom Gooding, Alberto Garcia
+  Briz, Babs Keeley.
+
+*Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, errors may
+slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or
+mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.*
+
+## Around GIMP
+### Mirror news
+
+Ever since our new [official mirror
+procedure](https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/10/06/official-mirror-policy/),
+the following mirrors have been added to our rotation scripts:
+
+* Get Hosted Online (Rothwell, United Kingdom)
+* Aceldama Systems (Montreal, Canada)
+* Open Computing Facility (Berkeley, CA, United States)
+* Freedif (Singapore)
+
+One mirror from the previous list had to be removed because of
+performance issues, and a mirror acceptance is still on-hold because of
+the conflict and unstability in East Europe.
+
+As a fun note, GIMP is now back to Berkeley through the *Open Computing
+Facility* (student organization for *all University of California,
+Berkeley students, faculty, and staff*). For anyone wondering why it's
+fun, you may read with interest the [birth
+story](https://www.gimp.org/about/prehistory.html) of the GNU
+Image Manipulation Program.
+
+<abbr title="Too Long; Didn't Read">TLDR;</abbr> GIMP was originally
+born in the University of California. I guess it's good to be home,
+right?
+
+### Book news
+
+Our [books page](https://www.gimp.org/books/) was in a badly maintained
+state. 4 books in Spanish were added to the list recently:
+
+* [*Blanco y Negro con GIMP* (2 ed.), by Alberto Garcia Briz
+  (2022)](https://testing.gimp.org/books/#blanco-y-negro-con-gimp-2-ed)
+* [*Niveles y Curvas con GIMP* (2 ed.), by Alberto Garcia Briz
+  (2013)](https://testing.gimp.org/books/#niveles-y-curvas-con-gimp-2-ed)
+* [*Domine GIMP. Manual práctico*, by Laura Raya González and José Luis
+  Raya Cabrera
+  (2013)](https://testing.gimp.org/books/#domine-gimp-manual-practico)
+* [*Aprende GIMP*, by Jan Smith and Roman Joost
+  (2012)](https://testing.gimp.org/books/#aprende-gimp)
+
+We took the opportunity to restructure the page with per-language
+section.
+
+This is also a good time to remind that it is up to everyone to help us
+keep this page updated. We know many more books have been published
+about GIMP across the years so the list is very incomplete. Therefore if
+you wrote or know of a book absent from the page, please feel free to
+[report the same information as other books on the
+page](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gimp-web/-/issues/new) so
+that we can add them. Thanks!
+
+## Downloading GIMP 2.10.32
+
+As usual, GIMP 2.10.32 is available on [GIMP official website
+(gimp.org)](https://www.gimp.org/downloads/) in 3 package formats:
+
+* Linux development flatpak
+* Windows installer
+* macOS DMG package
+
+Other packages made by third-party are obviously expected to follow
+(Linux or \*BSD distributions' packages, etc.).
+
+## What's next
+
+You may notice that stable releases are slowing down (GIMP 2.10.30
+happened 6 months ago) as we are reaching a good stability overall on
+this branch, despite being hold back by our very old toolkit.
+Nowadays most of our focus is on the development branch. Yet we will
+continue to provide updates and bug fixes to the 2.10 branch until GIMP
+3.0 is out.
+
+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. As you know, the [maintainers of
+GEGL and GIMP are crowdfunding to be able to work full-time on free
+software](https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers-sustainable-development/). 🥳