[Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.8.0-RC1 released

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

Hi,

GIMP 2.8.0-RC1 has been released. This is the first release candidate
of the upcoming stable 2.8 release.

Running this release for the first time will create a new 
~/.gimp-2.8 directory in your home directory, and will migrate your
GIMP 2.6 settings. Please report any issues you encounter during
settings migration, or later with the migrated settings.

For a complete list of changes since 2.7.5 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

Happy GIMPing,
--Mitch


Download
========

  GIMP 2.8.0-RC1 is available from:

  ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/

  and from the mirrors listed at:

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

  The checksum of the tarball is:

  134396e4399b7e753ffca7ba366c418f  gimp-2.8.0-RC1.tar.bz2


Changes in GIMP 2.8.0-RC1
=========================

Core:

 - Add our own GimpOperationBrightnessContrast because GEGL one is different


Plug-ins:

 - Fix some GFig rendering issues


Source and build system:

 - Depend on Babl 0.1.10, GEGL 0.2.0 and some other new library versions


General:

 - Bug fixes
 - Translation updates



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

  Alexia Death, Alexis Wilhelm, Martin Nordholts, Massimo Valentini,
  Michael Natterer, Mikael Magnusson, Mukund Sivaraman, Sebastian
  Pipping, Simon Budig, Øyvind Kolås.


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

  Albert F, Alexandre Prokoudine, Carles Ferrando, Daniel Korostil,
  Dimitris Spingos (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος), Fran Diéguez, Khaled Hosny,
  Kiyotaka NISHIBORI, Marco Ciampa, Nils Philippsen, Piotr Drąg,
  Praveen Illa, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira,