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 <mi...@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. > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
