[Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.8.4 released

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

Hi,

GIMP 2.8.4 has been released. This is a bugfix release
in the stable 2.8 series, no new features were added.

For a complete list of changes since 2.8.2 please see the "Changes"
section below. Also see the release notes of the 2.8 series at
http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html

Happy GIMPing,
--Mitch


Download
========

  GIMP 2.8.4 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:

  392592e8755d046317878d226145900f  gimp-2.8.4.tar.bz2


Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.2 to GIMP 2.8.4
=================================================


Core:

 - Move the OSX gimpdir to "~/Library/Application Support"


GUI:

 - Better names for the default filters in save and export
 - Make tool drawing (esp. the brush outline) much more responsive
 - Remember the "maximized" state across sessions
 - Simplify the splash image code a lot, makes it appear immediately
again
 - Allow the text tool to start on an image without layers
 - Various fixes for text style attribute handling
 - Set unconfigured input devices to eraser if GTK+ says they are
erasers
 - Make language selectable in Preferences on OSX


Libgimp:

 - Make libgimp drawable combo boxes aware of layer groups
 - Make sure plug-in windows appear on top on OSX
 - Fix item width in GimpPageSelector (used e.g. in PDF import)


Plug-ins:

 - Better default values in the Drop Shadow script
 - Fix a whole bunch of bugs in the BMP plug-in
 - On OSX, use the system's screenshot utility


Installer:

 - Add Brazilian-Portuguese translation to the Windows installer


Source and build system:

 - Many improvements to the OSX bundle build system
 - Support automake 1.13


General:

 - Lots of bug fixes
 - Lots of translation updates


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

  Alexandre Prokoudine, Clayton Walker, Jehan, Jernej Simončič, João
  S. O. Bueno, Liam Quin, Ludovic Rousseau, Massimo Valentini, Michael
  Henning, Michael Natterer, Mike Gran, Mukund Sivaraman, Nils
  Philippsen, Piotr Drąg, Simone Karin Lehmann, Sven Claussner, Ville
  Pätsi, Ville Skyttä


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

  Alexandre Prokoudine, Andika Triwidada, Bruce Cowan, Christian
  Kirbach, Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos, Khaled Hosny, Marco
  Ciampa, Marek Černocký, Martin Srebotnjak, Peter Mráz, Piotr Drąg,
  Rafael Ferreira, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Seong-ho Cho, Taijuin, Timo Jyrinki,
  taijuin