[Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.7.5 released

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

Hi,

GIMP 2.7.5 has been released. This is the last development snapshot in
the unstable 2.7 series that leads to 2.8. Only release candidates and
the 2.8 release will follow.

For a complete list of changes since 2.7.4 please see the "Changes"
section below. Also see the release notes of the 2.7 series at
http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html

Please note that the upcoming v2.8 also introduces a huge amount of
API deprecations and additions that have the potential to break
existing 3rd party scripts and plug-ins. Please file bugs for all
plug-ins and scripts that do work in v2.6, but don't work in 2.7.5. A
migration guide for developers will be provided when v2.8 is out.

Happy GIMPing,
--Mitch


Download
========

  GIMP 2.7.5 is available from:

  ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.7/

  and from the mirrors listed at:

  http://www.gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors

  The checksum of the tarball is:

  55c3ce1402890665464d9aad74ea63b6  gimp-2.7.5.tar.bz2


Changes in GIMP 2.7.5
=====================


UI:

 - Minor application menu fixes on the Mac
 - Make the toolbox arbitrarily resizable again
 - Add axis labels to the dynamics curves to make them more obvious
 - Fix dockable showing to do the right thing in both MWM and SWM
 - Fix some glitches in the tool preset UI, like proper sensitivity


Core:

 - Restore autoshrink functionality in the rectangle tools
 - Allow smudge to work with dynamic brushes
 - Make sure tool presets and tool options are consistent after loading
 - Add automatic tags for the folders a file lives in
 - Make the default Quick Mask color configurable
 - Fix Color Balance so the "range" setting actually makes a difference


Plug-ins:

 - Proper toplevel item sorting in the help browser
 - Use libraries instead of launching programs in file-compressor
 - Use the Ghostscript library instead of launching ghostscript
 - Allow to switch off antialiasing when importing from PDF
 - Embed the page setup in the main print dialog
 - Port Gfig to cairo


Libgimp:

 - Add PDB API to modify a lot of paint and ink options


Data:

 - Add a new set of default brushes and tool presets from Ramon Miranda


Developer documentation:

 - Update everything including app/ so all functions appear again


Source and build system:

 - Remove the unmaintained makefile.msc build system
 - Explicitly link plug-ins to -lm when needed
 - Also create .xz tarballs


General:

 - Lots of bug fixes
 - Tons and tons of translation updates


Contributors
============

  Alexandre Prokoudine, Alexia Death, Alexis Wilhelm, Barak Itkin,
  Christian Krippendorf, Kevin Cozens, Martin Nordholts, Martin Renold,
  Massimo Valentini, Michael Natterer, Mikael Magnusson, Mukund
  Sivaraman, Nils Philippsen, Richard Bowers, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Victor
  Oliveira, Ville Sokk, malay.keshav,


Translators
===========

  Albert F, Alexandre Prokoudine, Aurimas Černius, Bruce Cowan, Carles
  Ferrando, Christian Kirbach, Daniel Mustieles, Daniel Nylander, Daniel
  Șerbănescu, Eulàlia Pagès, Francisco Vila, Franciscos Vila, Hleb
  Valoshka, Ihar Hrachyshka, Jiro Matsuzawa, Khaled Hosny, Kiyotaka
  NISHIBORI, Kjartan Maraas, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, M. Aydin, Marco Ciampa,
  Marek Černocký, Mario Blättermann, Martin Srebotnjak, Michael
  Natterer, Miroslav Šulc, Muhammet Kara, Mukund Sivaraman, Mustafa
  AYDIN, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nils Philippsen, Nishibori Kiyotaka,
  Piotr Drąg, Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Praveen Illa, Quim Perez i
  Noguer, Rudolfs Mazurs, Seong-ho Cho, swecha, Žygimantas Beručka,