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NEWS: kick start the NEWS file for GIMP 2.99 development branch.
I'm sure I missed a lot of evolution. We should have started keeping this file updated ever since the start. I added what I could think of at least.
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GNU Image Manipulation Program
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2.10 Stable Branch
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Development Branch
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This is the stable branch of GIMP. Unlike earlier stable branches,
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@@ -8,68 +8,72 @@ we do allow some new features here, if they are not too invasive.
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Otherwise, this branch is only for bug-fixes.
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Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.0 to GIMP 2.10.2
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Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.x to GIMP 2.99.2
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===================================================
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Core:
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- Discard fonts which fail to load and popup an info dialog to allow
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people debug their fonts.
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- New API to suppress updates in UI until plug-ins are done
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introducing changes.
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- New API to calculate histograms in separate threads, with possible further
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extension to handle similar cases elsewhere in GIMP.
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- Tool options are now properly saved and reloaded per-device at
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startup.
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- Improved "space invasion".
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- New extension format support (.gex a.k.a. GIMP Extension) which is
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an archive containing various supported data. So far, it can
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package: brushes, MyPaint brushes, dynamics, patterns, gradients,
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palettes, tool presets, plug-ins, splash images and themes.
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- New extension manager allowing to enable, disable or uninstall
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installed extensions, with a dialog available in `Edit > Manage
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Extensions`.
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- Multi selection of layers now possible. Various tools and features
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are now multi-selection aware.
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- XCF format bumped to version 14 with awareness of multiple layer
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selection.
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User Interface:
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- Whole interface ported to GTK+3.
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- Proper HiDPI support, which will follow the system's scale factor
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for all widgets. This is a core toolkit support, unlike the basic
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better-than-nothing hacks from GIMP 2.10.x.
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- GTK+3 CSS-like support. All themes for former versions are therefore
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not working anymore.
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- GTK+3 themes have the concept of "dark variant", so a same theme may
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propose both a light and a dark versions. Preference for dark
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variants can now be checked in `Preferences > Themes > Use dark
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theme variant if available` checkbox, allowing for instance to use
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your system theme in its light variant everywhere except in GIMP.
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This option is checked by default as graphics software are often
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prefered in dark modes.
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- Symbolic icon themes are now recolored automatically according to
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the theme colors (no theme and icon theme tweaking anymore to end up
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with dark on dark or light on light interfaces), except for color
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elements whose SVG style is marked as "!important".
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- Image display rendered faster with a render cache that keeps the
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result of scaling, color management, display filters and shell mask
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(for tools like fuzzy select).
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Devices:
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- Device hotplug supported. In particular, you don't need to have your
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tablets and other devices plugged before you start GIMP anymore, and
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enabling your devices in the "Configure Input Devices" dialog is not
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needed anymore. Tablets will work out-of-the box.
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Plug-ins:
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- New plug-in for importing and exporting HEIF images.
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- Enable visibility of rasterized vector layer from PSD.
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- Single-window screenshots in Windows fixed to correctly snap a
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window even when it is partly off-screen or covered by another
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window or when display scaling is not set to 100%.
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Filters:
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- New Spherize filter to wrap an image around a spherical cap
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- New Recursive Transform filter to create Droste effect.
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Usability:
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- Warn users, when alpha-only painting has no effect. E.g. when target
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drawable doesn't have an alpha channel, or the alpha channel is locked.
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- Make the splash texts dynamic, so they are larger on larger splashes.
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- Mention pressing Enter to complete Foreground selection in the status bar.
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- Make sure that clicking outside any selection prevents Rectangle Select
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and Ellipse Select tools from creating empty selections.
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- Improve mouse wheel zooming behavior to keep the same point
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centered under the pointer even if the image is completely visible
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in the canvas.
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- Add "View -> Center Image in Window" (Shift+J) as a quick way to
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center the image at any zoom level.
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Translations:
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- Updated translations: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek,
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Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Spanish,
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Swedish, Ukrainian.
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- New translation of Windows installer: Chinese (Taiwan)
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Build:
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- Add a --with-bug-report-url configure option allowing packagers to
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set the address of their own bug tracker. This address will be the
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one opened by the debug dialog for reporting bugs.
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- Add a flatpak manifest for the gtk3-port branch.
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- Remove the possibility to disable script-fu.
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- Add a --with-icc-directory configure option to customize the color
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profile directory. By default, it is set to the common path
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/usr/share/color/icc.
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- Major rewrite of the API. So GIMP 2.10.x plug-ins and below must be
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ported to the new API.
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- Various objects are now proper GObject in the plug-in API, and not
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just ID integers.
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- The API is GObject Introspected, which means plug-ins can be written
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in various non-C languages. So far the following languages have been
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tested and work well: Python 3, Lua and Javascript (Note: Python 2
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is also still working, but considering that this language is
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end-of-life since 2020, we don't really care).
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- Every introspected binding which we test comes with a "Goat
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Exercise", which is a demo plug-in popping a dialog and showing its
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own source code. It processes a simple "gegl:invert" operation on a
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drawable. All "Goat Exercises" must do the same thing in the same
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way, simply in their respective languages, as documentation code for
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a language binding.
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Documentation:
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- Updating the description of the XCF format "devel-docs/xcf.txt", for
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third-party readers wishing to support GIMP 2.10 XCF files.
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- Add documentation skeletons for all enums in libgimpbase/, there is
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much room for improvement.
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- devel-docs/xcf.txt updated to handle XCF 14.
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