[Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.10.2 released

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

Hi,

We just released GIMP 2.10.2, the first bugfix release in
the stable 2.10 series.

As announced before, stable GIMP 2.10.x is open for new
features that are not too invasive or change the API,
and we indeed included new stuff!

For a complete list of changes since 2.10.0 please see the
"Changes" section below.

There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org:

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/05/20/gimp-2-10-2-released/

Happy GIMPing,
--Mitch


Download
========

  GIMP 2.10.2 is available from:

  https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.10/

  and from the mirrors listed at:

  https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors

  The sha256 and sha512 checksums of the tarball are:

1cb0baaecdefe44d371a15f2739a1bcbce4682336b4ccf8eb7b587ce52c333eb  gimp-
2.10.2.tar.bz2

6e351294e018a9f879993700355bdf5f10bccc6862604ae1950c4d235d32cdfcd6a0195
b37377819adeef53ab3d24f32ed1de60cba6bafe58608ed0906a6fbcf  gimp-
2.10.2.tar.bz2


Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.0 to GIMP 2.10.2
===================================================

Core:

  - Discard fonts which fail to load and popup an info dialog to allow
    people debug their fonts.
  - New API to suppress updates in UI until plug-ins are done
    introducing changes.
  - New API to calculate histograms in separate threads, with possible
    further extension to handle similar cases elsewhere in GIMP.
  - Tool options are now properly saved and reloaded per-device at
    startup.

Plug-ins:

  - New plug-in for importing and exporting HEIF images.
  - Enable visibility of rasterized vector layer from PSD.
  - Single-window screenshots in Windows fixed to correctly snap a
    window even when it is partly off-screen or covered by another
    window or when display scaling is not set to 100%.

Filters:

  - New Spherize filter to wrap an image around a spherical cap
  - New Recursive Transform filter to create Droste effect.

Usability:

  - Warn users, when alpha-only painting has no effect. E.g. when 
    target drawable doesn't have an alpha channel, or the alpha 
    channel is locked.
  - Make the splash texts dynamic, so they are larger on larger
    splashes.
  - Mention pressing Enter to complete Foreground selection in the
    status bar.
  - Make sure that clicking outside any selection prevents Rectangle
    Select
    and Ellipse Select tools from creating empty selections.
  - Improve mouse wheel zooming behavior to keep the same point
    centered under the pointer even if the image is completely visible
    in the canvas.
  - Add "View -> Center Image in Window" (Shift+J) as a quick way to
    center the image at any zoom level.

Translations:

  - Updated translations: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German,
    Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Russian,
    Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
  - New translation of Windows installer: Chinese (Taiwan)

Build:

  - Add a --with-bug-report-url configure option allowing packagers to
    set the address of their own bug tracker. This address will be the
    one opened by the debug dialog for reporting bugs.
  - Add a flatpak manifest for the gtk3-port branch.
  - Remove the possibility to disable script-fu.
  - Add a --with-icc-directory configure option to customize the color
    profile directory. By default, it is set to the common path
    /usr/share/color/icc.

Documentation:

  - Updating the description of the XCF format "devel-docs/xcf.txt",
    for third-party readers wishing to support GIMP 2.10 XCF files.
  - Add documentation skeletons for all enums in libgimpbase/, there is
    much room for improvement.


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

  Alexandre Prokoudine, Ell, Gil Eliyahu, Jan Tojnar, Jehan, Jernej
  Simončič, Michael Natterer, Simon Budig, Thomas Manni, Ting-Wei Lan,
  luz.paz, Øyvind Kolås,

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

  Alan Mortensen, Alexandre Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson, Balázs Meskó,
  Chao-Hsiung Liao, Claude Paroz, Daniel Korostil, Daniel Mustieles,
  Danylo Korostil, Dimitris Spingos (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος), Ell, Hannie
  Dumoleyn, Jordi Mas, Marco Ciampa, Mario Blättermann, Michael
  Natterer, Nathan Follens, Piotr Drąg, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Sveinn í
  Felli.