Hi, I installed 2.9.6 then proceeded to get my Tools Configuration set up the way I was used to, but I find that some of my trusty old functions can no longer be put in the Toolbox. I seldom use Threshold, but often can be seen fiddling with Hue and Saturation, but sadly the latter seems to have dropped of the list of possible selections. Any chance it will come back, or better still, any chance that ultimately we will be able to put there whatever we want to be at our fingertips? Thanks, Marijke >Hi, > >It took a while, but... > >We just released the third 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 2.9.4 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/2017/08/24/gimp-2-9-6-released/ > >Happy GIMPing, >--Mitch > > >Download >======== > > GIMP 2.9.6 is available from: > > https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/ > > and from the mirrors listed at: > > https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors > > Please use the torrent, it distributes > the download bandwidth across all mirrors: > > https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/gimp-2.9.6.tar.bz2.torrent > > The checksum of the tarball is: > > b2d5b5619630288c882a35118e2241e5 gimp-2.9.6.tar.bz2 > > >Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.4 to GIMP 2.9.6 >================================================= > >Core: > > - Make it possible to use multithreading in GEGL and raise max >amount > of threads to 64. Given how unstable this feature is, any value > above 1 should be currently treated as a step inside an industrial > microwave oven with the on/off switch on the outside. > - New clipboard implementation allows copying/pasting layers and > layer groups. > - Color tags simplify managing large projects with a lot of layers > and layer groups. > - The Mouse Pointer dialog and colors applied to images are now > color-managed. > - Gamma and precision selectors for newly created images. > - Never dither when converting to a higher bit depth, or to anything > more than 16 bits; don't offer dithering options in these cases. > - Default to linear TRC when converting to 16-bit float. > - Pre-initialize some babl-based pixel format conversion routines > at start-up to decrease the initial lazy intialization cost for > some interactions. > - Remove max size limitation of 4GB for XCF files. > - Support clipboard images in the clipboard brush and pattern. > - libgimp calls are now thread-safe. > >Layers and compositing: > > - Layer modes' code is now refactored to separate gamma-corrected > variations from the linear light ones, legacy modes have been > preserved to support older XCF files. UI to switch between the two > is experimental and should be treated as a temporary design. > - Blending and compositing of layers are configurable separately for > more flexibility now, compositing can be linear TRC, perceptual >TRC > or CIE LAB. > - Layer blending color space and compositing color space are > configurable now. > - Layers created from the GUI and from plug-ins now default to > normal mode (not normal-legacy), unless all the existing layers > in the image are also in legacy mode. > - New layer modes: linear burn, vivid light, linear light, pin >light, > hard mix, exclusion, merge, split, luminance (rgb), pass-through > (for layer groups only). > - Make erase mode an ordinary layer/paint mode. > - Better performance of HSV-based layer modes. > - Rename "Color (HSV)" mode to "Color (HSL)" to indicate the actual > color space being used. > >On-canvas interaction changes: > > - Refactor on-canvas interaction code out of some of the tools and > make it reusable. > - Update tools accordingly. > - Make on-canvas interaction accessible to GEGL-based filters and > use it in the Spiral and Supernova filters as a test case. > >GUI and usability: > > - Easily add or remove layer masks by clicking either the layer > preview or a new button in the Layers dialog. > - Enhance the Layer Attributes dialog to provide the single UI for > setting layer's name, blending mode, opacity, and offset, > toggling visibility, link status, various locks, color tags. > - Add a Save As button to the “Quit GIMP” dialog and raise images > on click for easy checks. > - Allow to choose fill color when resizing layers and images. > - Quick Mask and Channel Attributes dialogs use the new spinscale > widget for the mask opacity slider. > - Enable grid views of dynamics and tool presets. > - Allow to zoom with middle mouse button + control + drag up/down. > - For all paint tools, when switching to the color picker mode, > don't rely on the exact modifier being pressed or released. > Instead, check if only the right modifier is pressed after *each* > modifier change, and switch to color picking if it is. > - On startup, GIMP checks for duplicate accelerators in menus, and > removes duplicates. > - Standard (Freedesktop) and GTK+ icons can now be set by the icon > theme for a fully consistent style. > - Many new icons. > - Toolbox buttons do not grab focus anymore, which used to break > usage of the Tab key and other canvas-related shortcuts after > changing tools with a pointing device click. > - Delete Layer/Channel/Path are consistently the last option in > respective dialogs now. > - Extend the text along the tangent of the last path stroke, when > the length of the path is shorter than the width of the text to be > warped. > - Allow to toggle the histogram dialog between gamma and linear. > - New 'Colors -> Linear Invert' command to provide radiometrically > correct color inversion. > - Quit dialog now exits when all the images in the list have been > saved. > - The built-in error dialog now displays errors outputted by GEGL. > - Shift-clicking the visibility icon of a layer in a layer group now > toggles its exclusive visibility within this layer group. > >Color selection and management: > > - Add the profile import policy to Preferences -> Import. > - Color management for GEGL-based filters is expensive, so it's off > by default for now, and options are hidden by default too. > - Add LCH color selector, with support for gamut checking. > - Default to magenta for out-of-gamut color. > - Make all script-fu color buttons color-managed. > >Configurability: > > - Remember settings of many dialogs across sessions. > - New Interface / Dialog Defaults page in the Preferences dialog to > control defaults values of various dialogs. > - Settings on some individual pages of the Preferences dialog can be > reset separately now. > - Vertical scrollbar added to keep the height of the Preferences > dialog fitting small displays. > - Allow mouse to optionally configure tablet devices > - Allow creating shortcuts containing the Cmd key + mouse wheel > events. > - Default to 300ppi and 1920x1080px for new documents. > - Default to 62px font size. > - Do not allow Alt+[0-9] shortcuts, they are typically reserved for > display switching. > - Icons size is now a configurable option, not a theme feature. > The icon size is also auto-guessed from monitor resolution now. > - It is now possible to have keybindings for >previous/next/top/bottom > vectors. > >Tools: > > - Complete the Handle Transform tool and make it available by > default. > - Add Hue-Chroma operation/tool that operates in CIE LCH color >space. > - Replace Color Balance, Colorize and Hue-Saturation with GEGL-based > filters with a custom user interface to ease future transition to > non-destructive editing planned for v3.2. Remove the "Image -> > Tools -> Color Tools" submenu. > - The Move tool now shows relative coordinates when moving guides > and sample points. > - The Measure tool has better digit precision now (before that, at > 4000 PPI, up to 7 pixels would show up as 0 mm, then at 0.1 mm >from > the 8th pixel etc.). > - All paint tools now display the angle (relatively to the >horizontal > line, centered on previously drawn position) alongside distance in > status bar when straight line constraining (holding shift when > painting). > - Performance of the Fuzzy Select and the Bucket Fill tool has been > improved. > - The Fuzzy Select and the Bucket Fill tool now can select colors by > CIE L, C, and H. > - Unclutter transform tools: default to "no grid", hide the original > layer during the interactive transform (except for the Flip tool). > - Make the Warp Transform tool faster, add more options, use > the linear sampler to ensure crisp lines after an erase. > - Select by Color and Color Picker tools work now correctly in color > spaces other than sRGB. > - Free Select tool now waits for Enter being pressed to confirm > selection, which enables you to tweak positions of polygonal > selection. > - Color Picker doesn't snap to anything when picking colors anymore, > always draws the outline of the averaged region (not only while >the > mouse is being pressed), and supports arbitrary range of values > regardless of the actual image color precision. > - Color Picker now displays pick position (also visible in the > Sample Points dialog now), as well as values in CIE LAB and > CIE LCH. > - Uncommitted selection by the Intelligent Scissors tool is not > discarded on tool change anymore. > - For Intelligent Scissors, GIMP now checks whether the first and >the > last isegments are distinct before closing the curve. > - Flip tool: add Clipping option to the flip tool. Add support for > reflecting across guides: when clicking on a guide while using the > Flip tool, reflect the active item across the guide, rather than > around its center. > >Painting: > > - The Smudge tool now has a Flow control that allows mixing in both > constant and gradient color while smudging. There's another new > option to never decrease alpha of existing pixels while smudging > in the tools options now as well. > - Rulers, scrollbars, and the Navigation dialog follow canvas > rotation now. > - Canvas rotation is now snappier in certain cases. > - For bitmap brushes, GIMP now caches hardness and disables dynamic > change of hardness to improve painting performance. Bitmap brushes > also don't get clipped anymore, when hardness is less than 100. > - Allow painting on transparent layers with modes other than normal. > - Add a specialized convolution algorithm for the hardness blur > to make it faster. > - Make the Force option insensitive for the Pencil tool. > - Add new "Pressure Size" dynamics. > >File Formats: > > - Make the default raw (DSLR) image importer configurable. > - Add RawTherapee plug-in to pre-process various raw (DSLR) images, > RawTherapee v5.2 is the minimum requirement. > - Add new file-raw-placeholder plug-in that registers itself for > loading all raw formats from file-raw/file-formats.h, but does > nothing except returning an error message pointing to darktable > and RawTherapee. > - Add native WebP loader/exporter with support for ICC profiles, > animation, metadata. > - The TIFF loader will not generate warnings about private tags > anymore. > - Handle linear gamma PNG files correctly, provide a combo box for > specifying PNG bit depth / variant at exporting time. > - Add support for linear burn, linear light, vivid light, pin light, > and hard mix layer modes in PSD (importing and exporting). > - Load PSD files with layers which contain additional information > with a length that is not divisible by 4. > - Add support to import/export layer color tags from/to PSD files. > - Optionally convert all imported (not XCF) images to 32-bit linear > floating point, and optionally add a little noise in order to > distribute the colors minimally. > - Optionally add alpha channel to layers of imported images > (configurable in Preferences > Import). > - Support writing PNM files with 16-bit image precision. > - Improve support for PCX files: > * saving 1bpp and 4bpp images (according to palette size). > * loading 2bpp, 2 planes/1bpp, 3 planes/1bpp and 4bpp images. > * non-Black&White monochrome PCX files (any 2 colors according to > the palette). > - Add support for exporting multi-page PDF from image layers, with > optional reversed order. > - Add RLE support for RGB565 to in file-csource. > >Metadata: > > - Add new metadata viewer that uses Exiv2 to display Exif, XMP, >IPTC, > and DICOM metadata (the latter is displayed on the XMP tab). > - Add metadata editor that supports adding/editing writing XMP, >IPTC, > DICOM, and GPS/Exif metadata, as well as loading/exporting >metadata > from/to XMP files. > >Printing: > > - Print resolution can now be reset to defaults, new values for the > same image is actually used now without reloading the image. > >Plug-ins: > > - The Screenshot plug-in now assigns either monitors profile or > converts to sRGB. > - The Screenshot plug-in can now take screenshots of a single window > and include the mouse pointer in the same time (if the desktop/OS > allows it). > - Port smooth-palette to GEGL. > - Enhance the raw (not the digital negative) files plugin: > introduce exporting settings and remember them across sessions, > make the plugin invokable non-interactively, and more. > - Plug-ins can now be installed into first level directories of a > plug-ins/ folder. This is in particular to avoid the "DLL hell" > with shared libraries installed by a plug-in, interfering with > other unrelated plug-ins. The entry point file has to be named the > same as the directory (minus extension). > >Filters: > > - Add GEGL-based filters: Neon (Edge detection), Wavelet Decompose, > Image Gradient, Symmetric Nearest Neighbor, Extract Component, > RGB Clip, Simple Linear Iterative Clustering, Waterpixels, Spiral. > - Add rotate/flip buttons to the Convolution Matrix filter's GUI > to rotate/flip the matrix. > - For GEGL-based filters, use a new metadata language to dynamically > control UI attributes based on context (e.g. auto-disable > unapplicable options). > - Allow filter actions to have hardcoded default operation settings > by encoding them directly in the string attached to all filter > actions. > >Color Palettes: > > - Merge Palettes command is available for multiple selected color > palettes now. > >Assets / Resources: > > - Some basic presets are available for the Crop tool now: 2x3, > 3x4, 16:10, 16x9, and square. > - Documents templates have been updated and now feature popular, > contemporary document presets for both print and digital media. > >PDB: > > - Rename *-paste-as-new to *-paste-as-new-image. > - Add PDB API for layer blend space, compositing space, and > compositing mode. > >Build: > > - Depend on LCMS2.7+ now, because earlier LCMS2 releases caused > problems with certain GIMP blend modes. > - Depend on libpng 1.6.25+ to avoid warnings about known incorrect > sRGB profiles, also avoid various vulnerabilities. > - Depend on glib-networking now for HTTPS support. > - Depend on librsvg 2.40.6 which fixes rendering bugs. > - Add a flatpak-builder manifest. > >OS-specific changes: > > - Help browser launches on macOS now. > >Bugs: > > - Overall 204 bugs have been fixed or partially addressed since > GIMP 2.9.4. > >Translations: > > - Updated: Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, > Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, > Kazakh, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, > Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish. > > >Contributors >============ > > Akkana Peck, Alberto Griggio, Alexandre Prokoudine, Alexia Death, > Alexis Wilhelm, Anders Jonsson, Aryeom Han, Ben Touchette, Benoit > Touchette, Björn Kautler, Cameron Gregory, Daniel P. Berrange, > Debarshi Ray, Edward E, Ell, Elle Stone, HJ Imbens, Hartmut Kuhse, > Jehan, Jeremiah Darais, Jernej Simončič, Jiri Eischmann, Joao > S. O. Bueno, Juan Palacios, Kristian Rietveld, Lionel N, Marco > Ciampa, Massimo Valentini, Matthias Junker-Petschick, Michael > Henning, Michael Natterer, Michael Schumacher, Mihail Zenkov, Mikael > Magnusson, Miroslav Talasek, Nikc M, Nils Philippsen, Pascal > Massimino, Piotr Drąg, Richard Gitschlag, Richard McLean, > SimaMoto,RyōTa, Simen Heggestøyl, Simon Budig, Thomas Manni, Timm > Bäder, Tobias Ellinghaus, Tobias Stoeckmann, draekko, skal, Éric > Hoffman, Øyvind Kolås > >Translators >=========== > > Alexandre Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson, Ask Hjorth Larsen, Balázs > Meskó, Balázs Úr, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov, Ben Touchette, Benoit > Touchette, Björn Kautler, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Christian Kirbach, > Claude Paroz, Cédric Valmary, Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos > (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος), Dušan Kazik, GNOME Translation Robot, Gábor > Kelemen, Göran Uddeborg, Hartmut Kuhse, Jehan, Jiri Grönroos, Jordi > Mas, Julien Hardelin, Khaled Hosny, Kristjan SCHMIDT, Marco Ciampa, > Marek Černocký, Mario Blättermann, Martin Srebotnjak, Michael > Natterer, Michael Schumacher, Miroslav Talasek, Pawan Chitrakar, > Piotr Drąg, Sebastian Rasmussen, Sveinn í Felli, Tiago Santos, > Yolanda Álvarez Pérez, draekko, gogo, klausstaedtler, Милош Поповић
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