Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

[Tom Williams <tomdkat comcast net>]

On 12/12/2017 02:41 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> finally, a new development snapshot!
>
> We just released the fourth 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 2.9.6 please see the
> "Changes" section below.
>
> There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org
> with screenshots and some videos:
>
> https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/12/gimp-2-9-8-released/
>
> Happy GIMPing,
> --Mitch

Wow!!! I'm impressed with all the work that's been going on!  I'm
totally looking forward to GIMP 2.10!!!!! :)
> Download
> ========
>
>   GIMP 2.9.8 is available from:
>
>   https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/
>
>   and from the mirrors listed at:
>
>   https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors
>
>   The checksum of the tarball is:
>
>   bade4163fb5b7a2063e1db570f27242f  gimp-2.9.8.tar.bz2
>
>
> Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.6 to GIMP 2.9.8
> =================================================
>
> Core:
>
>   - The default brush is now "Hardness 050".
>   - Verbose version (command line: gimp -v) now displays C compiler
>     information.
>   - Transform tools don't commit identity transformation anymore.
>   - Manual language can now be selected amongst all installed manuals,
>     which is particularly interesting when no GIMP manuals are 
>     available in your GUI language. This will be proposed by default
>     when a manual is not installed for the GUI language (alongside the
>     possibility to read online) and the choice can be edited in
>     preferences.
>   - The statusbar now blinks on warnings and errors.
>   - Paste in Place, available for regular clipboard and named buffers,
>     allows pasting contents of either the clipboard a named buffer at
>     the exact coordinates it was copied from.
>   - Color Picker should now work on KDE/Wayland.
>   - Color Picker now reads values under cursor in local windows making
>     it work at least inside GIMP Windows on Wayland platforms with no
>     color-picking capabilities (for instance GNOME/Wayland) yet.
>   - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and
>     drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded
>     implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy".
>   - Now possible to open a locally-installed manual different from the
>     GUI localization. The manual language choice can be customized
>     through preferences when several manuals are installed. If no
>     manual language has been selected already and no manual for   
>     current GUI localization is available, choice of help language
>     will be proposed at first call to the manual.
I do have a question about OpenCL support.  If it's disabled by default,
how does one enable it?

Peace...

Tom

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