Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.4 released

[C R <cajhne gmail com>]

Thanks to everyone for making this happen! I'm certainly looking forward to
trying out the new toys, fixes and revisions.

Cheers, and great work!
-C

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We just released the second development snapshot in the
> GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10.
>
> This is an unstable development preview and might crash
> or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your
> images more often.
>
> For a complete list of changes since 2.9.2 please see the
> "Changes" section below. We will also post more detailed
> news about GIMP 2.9 on www.gimp.org soon, stay tuned.
>
> Happy GIMPing,
> --Mitch
>
>
> Download
> ========
>
>   GIMP 2.9.4 is available from:
>
>   http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/
>
>   and from the mirrors listed at:
>
>   http://www.gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors
>
>   Please use the torrent, it distributes
>   the download bandwidth across all mirrors:
>
>   http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/gimp-2.9.4.tar.bz2.torrent
>
>   The checksum of the tarball is:
>
>   6b3d425a7949110eeb532badedf721f3  gimp-2.9.4.tar.bz2
>
>
> Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.2 to GIMP 2.9.4
> =================================================
>
> Core:
>
>   Color Management:
>   - add new GimpColorTransform object to create abstraction from
>     LittleCMS
>   - now color-managed:
>     - layer/image/color palette/gradient/pattern previews
>     - Color Picker tool
>     - color buttons of GimpColorHistory
>     - GimpFgBgEditor, as used e.g. in the toolbox
>     - color selectors
>     - DND widget
>     - painting tools
>     - copying layers/paste buffer between images
>     - Colors applied to images
>     - GimpColorPanel and its color dialog (color widgets in dialogs)
>     - color areas created from menu actions
>   - color management for grayscale images, including setting preferred
>     ICC profile
>   - add fast switching between color managed display and soft-proofing
>   - add a per-image "is color managed" switch and show the image's
>     "is color managed" state in the window title string
>   - add basic support for creating images with color profiles
>   - add "Optimize" options for display and soft-proofing to optionally
>     speed-up rendering at the cost of color fidelity
>   - add Image -> Color Management -> Save Color Profile to File...
>   - improve the naming of generated ICC profiles
>   - add a shortcut to the profile chooser dialog on OS X too
>   - don't let display color management settings affect file import
>   - enable color management when a profile is assigned to the image
>   - enable color management when the image is converted from/to
>     grayscale
>   - pass the right color profile around in gimp_selection_float()
>   - hardcode the CMYK selector's conversion parameters, as well as NTSC
>     parameters in babl/GEGL/GIMP
>   - have all previews track the monitor they are on
>
>   Core:
>   - add "Select -> Flood" select action
>   - add "Select -> Remove Holes" action
>   - add "Border style" combo to the "Select -> Border..." dialog
>   - do not request xcf compat mode when compat_toggle not sensitive
>   - initialize fontconfig in the background to be able to show a
>     pulsing progress bar when rebuilding the list of fonts (typically,
>     the first time GIMP runs)
>   - fix the Behind blending mode
>   - make Burn mode output match Gimp 2.8 (partial revert of bug 744265)
>   - improve file magic matching
>   - add a custom guide concept
>   - improve updating the statusbar messages and icons
>
>
> GUI:
>
>   Menus:
>   - move the image-duplicate action next to image-new
>   - add Image -> Color Management -> Color Management Enabled
>   - change "Select _Custom Color..." to "_Custom Color..."
>   - change "Export" to "Export..." in the File menu
>
>   Dialogs:
>   - include recently used colors in the Dockable Colors dialog
>   - add RGB-based Luminance channel to the Histogram dialog
>   - fix remembering the order of dockable dialogs
>
>   Preferences:
>   - reorder the prefs categories tree and rename some pages
>   - move "Snap Distance" to the prefs dialog's "Snapping" page
>   - add configuration for undo preview size
>   - clean-up Preferences -> Color Management
>   - add "Shortcut [some modifier] + Mousewheel" for changing pen size
>
>   Themes:
>   - rename theme "Default" into "System"
>   - add new GUI themes: Lighter, Light, Gray, Dark, Darker
>
>   Icons:
>   - add icon theme selection and make the icon theme path configurable
>     in prefs
>   - preserve 2.8 pixel-perfect icon theme under the name "Legacy"
>   - add new symbolic icon theme for GIMP
>   - add a scalable icon theme and a configure option --enable-vector-
>     icons
>
>   Widgets:
>   - add new GimpBufferSourceBox widget and use it in GimpOperationTool
>
>   View/Display:
>   - fix various bugs related to rotated canvas
>   - make GIMP not ignore 'Maximized' hints on startup in Windows
>   - enable a pulsing progress bar in the splash
>   - make new images jump around much less
>   - fix image position when entering/leaving fullscreen mode
>   - make layer boundary re-drawn correctly on scrolling
>   - make images not appear completely black when images dockable is
>     visible
>   - have all previews track the monitor they are on
>
>
> Tools:
>
>   Fuzzy Select:
>   - add "Diagonal neighbors" option
>
>   Foreground Select:
>   - fix ghost brush outline
>
>   Bucket Fill:
>   - add "Diagonal neighbors" option
>
>   Posterize:
>   - turn the posterize tool into an ordinary GEGL filter
>   - remove posterize from Tools -> Colors
>
>   Desaturate:
>   - turn the Desaturate tool into a normal GEGL filter
>   - move "Desaturate" to Colors -> Desaturate
>
>   Align:
>   - add vertical offset to distribution options
>
>   Paths:
>   - improve performance
>
>   Flip:
>   - rename options to "Transform" and "Direction"
>
>   Cage Transform:
>   - fix a few performance issue
>
>   Unified Transform:
>   - make the tool not fail when currently selected layer is hidden
>
>   Text:
>   - fix text input methods to work in-place (not in an overlayed box)
>   - add background colors setting, only exposed for advanced input
>     methods
>
>   Blend:
>   - use gegl:distance-transform in the blend tool, it has a progress
>     now
>   - make shapeburst work with the new interactive gradient code
>
>   All Painting Tools:
>   - add mirror symmetry
>   - remove artifacts from painting tools in Burn blending mode
>   - add shortcut actions for changing spacing, hardness, and force
>
>   MyPaint:
>   - dramatically improve performance of the tool and enable it by
>     default
>   - add Colorize mode
>   - add a toggle to change between erase & paint mode
>   - add a brush selector to the MyPaint brush options
>   - add a dockable dialog to choose a brush, with tagging
>   - read tags from MyPaint brushes
>   - improve blend math
>   - allow plug-ins to register procedures in the <MyPaintBrushes> menu
>
>   Smudge:
>   - fix the clipping of out-of-gamut channel values
>   - fix the handling of layers with alpha channels
>
>   Ink:
>   - the range of angle is now [-PI..PI]
>
>
> Plug-ins/GEGL Filters:
>
>   Preview:
>   - add a "split preview" feature to GEGL ops
>   - allow to switch the split preview between horizontal and vertical
>   - allow to swap the before/after position
>
>   Filters:
>   - update the "Recently used" menu with GEGL filters
>   - replace Selective Gaussian Blur with the GEGL version
>   - add gegl:saturation as Colors -> Saturation
>   - add gegl:high-pass as Filters > Enhance > High Pass
>   - add new gegl:gegl filter that executes a custom processing chain
>   - port Tile and Pagecurl plug-ins to GEGL
>   - refactor the screenshot plug-in into backend and front-ends, one
>     per X.org, Wayland, Windows, OS X
>   - add Monochrome option to the GEGL version of Channel Mixer
>   - bring dialog titles and help IDs to GEGL filter dialogs
>
>   File Plug-Ins:
>   - add darktable plug-in to pre-process varios raw images
>   - port file-gif-save and file-tiff to GIO
>   - TIFF support:
>     - make libtiff a hard dependency
>     - merge the file-tiff-load and file-tiff-save plug-ins
>     - fix various tiff exporting bugs
>   - EXR support:
>     - read comment, Exif, and XMP data from EXR files
>     - use GIMP's internal profile when loading EXR
>   - PSD support:
>     - fix the loading of files with adjustment or fill layers
>     - fix the reading of layer group structure
>   - fix the raw image loader
>   - fix the layer groups support in OpenRaster
>   - code cleanup in file-bmp
>   - fix the exporting of KISS - CELL (*.cel) images
>   - resurrect the email plugin
>   - use GIO to figure if a file is hidden
>
>   PyGimp:
>   - update pyconsole code
>   - add binding for GimpImageType
>   - add GimpColorConfig object
>   - add type definition for GimpColorManaged
>   - make GimpParasite type known to the code generator
>   - require Pycairo in configure, link gimpui against pycairo
>   - fix the application of paintbrush size in Python scripts
>
>   Script-Fu:
>   - make regex matching return character indexes
>   - fix the hanging of Script-fu on machines with 64-bit longs
>   - update tinyscheme code from upstream
>
>
> PDB:
>
>   - Bug 759104 - Allow coordinates of sample points to be accessed from
>     scripts
>
>
> Build:
>
>   build/win:
>   - Start building libmypaint.
>   - Add pcre and upgrade glib2 to 2.48.1
>   - Upgrade exiv2 to 0.25
>   - Clear DISPLAY before building
>   - Disable webkitgtk
>
>
> OS-specific changes:
>
>   Windows:
>   - Add support for generating crash backtraces using Dr. MingW
>
>
> Contributors
> ============
>
>   Adrian Likins, Alexandre Prokoudine, Alexia Death, Andrew Worsley,
>   Benoit Touchette, Carol Spears, Daniel Sabo, Ell, Elle Stone,
>   Hartmut Kuhse, Jasper Krijgsman, Jehan, Jonathan Tait, João
>   S. O. Bueno, Kevin Cozens, Kristian Rietveld, Massimo Valentini,
>   Michael Henning, Michael Natterer, Michael Schumacher, Mukund
>   Sivaraman, Pedro Gimeno, Piotr Drąg, Richard Hughes, Richard
>   Kreckel, Shmuel H, Simon Budig, Sven Claussner, Thomas Manni,
>   Tobias Ellinghaus, draekko, klausstaedtler, nmat, saul, Øyvind
>   Kolås.
>
>
> Translators
> ===========
>
>   A S Alam, Alexandre Prokoudine, Ask Hjorth Larsen, Balázs Meskó,
>   Balázs Úr, Christian Kirbach, Cédric Valmary, Daniel Korostil,
>   Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos, Dušan Kazik, Eugene Kuligin,
>   Gábor Kelemen, Hartmut Kuhse, J.M. Ruetter, Jehan, Jordi Mas,
>   Khaled Hosny, Marco Ciampa, Mario Blättermann, Martin Srebotnjak,
>   Michael Natterer, Mónica Canizo, Necdet Yücel, Pedro Albuquerque,
>   Piotr Drąg, Richard Kreckel, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Sebastian Rasmussen,
>   Sveinn í Felli, Tiago Santos, Tobias Ellinghaus, Yolanda Álvarez
>   Pérez, klausstaedtler, kolbjoern, Милош Поповић.
>
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