Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.10.0 released

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:44:32 +0200
Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After 6 years of development...
>
> We just released GIMP 2.10.0 \o/

thanks!

> This is the first release of the new stable 2.10 series.
>
> For a complete list of changes since 2.10.0-RC2 please see the
> "Changes" section below.
>
> There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org:
>
> https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/27/gimp-2-10-0-released/
>
> Detailed release notes for 2.10, including many
> screenshots and videos of new features, can be found here:
>
> https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html
>
> Also, we're going to have some beers now...
>
> Happy GIMPing,
> --Mitch
>
>
> Download
> ========
>
>   GIMP 2.10.0 is available from:
>
>   https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.10/
>
>   and from the mirrors listed at:
>
>   https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors
>
>   The checksum of the tarball is:
>
>   5e91357ede5a5d5cb0db981ff8f9726c  gimp-2.10.0.tar.bz2
>
>
> Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.0 RC2 to GIMP 2.10.0
> =======================================================
>
> Core:
>
>   - CLI option --show-playground visible in --help.
>   - Sample point dockable now works with more than 4 sample points.
>   - Various warnings removed, multi-threading officially not
>     "experimental" anymore…
>   - Various fill and fade operations now use the current paint
>     composite mode, allowing for instance filling to paint over
>     transparent areas.
>   - Default layer and paint modes are now Normal (instead of Legacy).
>   - Be smarter about layer modes for new layers.
>   - Get rid of the remaining places that were using the NORMAL_LEGACY
>     mode by default (painting, some more).
>   - Improve painting speed even more by even more evil C++.
>   - Flipping drawables is much faster because it's now working
>     tile-by-tile.
>   - Gradient rendering is now much faster, using a cache.
>
> Plug-ins:
>
>   - Ripple plugin removed, compat PDB-API "plug-in-ripple" added
>     instead.
>
> PDB:
>
>   - New procedure: gimp-item-transform-translate.
>   - Make gimp-item-transform-* transform linked items too.
>   - Deprecate gimp-color-balance and gimp-layer-translate.
>
> Assets / Resources:
>
>   - New "Fun" category for brushes (moving the "Pepper" there, which
>     also gets improved resolution), and adding Wilber and GEGL brushes.
>   - "Structure" brush obsoleted.
>   - 5 new and more serious brushes.
>
> Translations:
>
>   - 6 translations were updated: Catalan, Danish, Finnish, Korean,
>     Polish, Swedish.
>
>
> Contributors
> ============
>
>   Aryeom Han, Ell, Jehan, Matt Kraai, Michael Natterer, Pat David,
>   Simon Budig, Ville Pätsi, luz.paz, Øyvind Kolås.
>
>
> Translators
> ===========
>
>   Alan Mortensen, Anders Jonsson, Aryeom Han, Jordi Mas, Michael
>   Natterer, Piotr Drąg, Simon Budig, Timo Jyrinki.
>
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