[Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.8.8 released

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

Hi,

GIMP 2.8.8 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 2.8.4 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 2.8.8 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:

  ef2547c3514a1096931637bd6250635a  gimp-2.8.8.tar.bz2


Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.6 to GIMP 2.8.8
=================================================


Core:

 - Make sure indexed images always have a colormap
 - Fix language selection via preferences on Windows
 - Don't crash on setting a large text size


GUI:

 - Keep the same image active when switching between MWM and SWM
 - Make sure all dockables are properly resizable (particularly
shrinkable)
 - Add links to jump directly to Save/Export from the Export/Save
   file extension warning dialogs


Libgimp:

 - Fix GimpPickButton on OSX


Plug-ins:

 - Properly document plug-in-autocrop-layer's PDB interface
 - Fix importing of indexed BMPs


General:

 - Fix lots of places to use GIO to get proper file sizes and times on
windows
 - Add an AppData file for GIMP
 - Backport lcms2 support from master, because lcms1 is not getting
   bug fixes any longer
 - Lots of bug fixes
 - Lots of translation updates


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

  Alexandre Prokoudine, Clayton Walker, Daniel Sabo, Jehan, Jernej
  Simončič, Massimo Valentini, Michael Henning, Michael Natterer,
  Nils Philippsen, Piotr Drąg, Richard Hughes, Simon Budig, Sven
  Claussner, Téo Mazars


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

  A S Alam, Alexandre Prokoudine, Aurimas Černius, Balázs Úr,
  Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos, Enrico Nicoletto, Inaki Larranaga
  Murgoitio, Jehan, Marco Ciampa, Martin Srebotnjak, Matej Urbančič,
  Piotr Drąg, Seong-ho Cho, Sven Claussner, Timo Jyrinki