Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.16 to GIMP 2.8.18
===================================================
Core:
- Initialize fontconfig cache in separate thread to keep GUI
responsive on first startup
- Properly recognize layer masks as deactivated, e.g. for moving layers
- Create $XDG_DATA_HOME if it doesn't exist
- (CVE-2016-4994) Multiple Use-After-Free when parsing XCF channel
and layer properties
- Fix progress access to prevent crash on rapid sequence of commands
- Fix crash in gimp-gradient-segment-range-move
GUI:
- Disable color picker buttons on OS X to prevent a GUI lockup
- Disable "new-style" full-screen mode on OS X to prevent a crash
- Pulsing progress bar in splash screen to indicate unknown durations
- Fix gamut warning color for lcms display filter
- Fix unbolding of bold font on edit
- Prevent accidental renaming of wrong adjacent item
Installer:
- Change compression settings to decrease size by 20%
- Add Catalan, Danish, French, Dutch
Plug-ins:
- Fix crash on sRGB JPEG image drag & drop
- Fix ambiguous octal-escaped output of c-source
- Fix KISS CEL export
- Fix progress bar for file-compressor
- Make Script-Fu regex match return proper character indexes for
Unicode characters
- Fix Script-Fu modulo for large numbers
General:
- Documentation updates
- Bug fixes
- Translation updates
Core:
- Seek much less when writing XCF
- Don't seek past the end of the file when writing XCF
- Windows: call SetDLLDirectory() for less DLL hell
- Fix velocity parameter on .GIH brushes
- Fix brokenness while transforming certain sets of linked layers
GUI:
- Always show image tabs in single window mode
- Fix switching of dock tabs by DND hovering
- Don't make the scroll area for tags too small
- Fixed a crash in the save dialog
- Fix issue where ruler updates made things very slow on Windows
Plug-ins:
- Fix several issues in the BMP plug-in
- Make Gfig work with the new brush size behavior again
- Fix font export in the PDF plug-in
- Support layer groups in OpenRaster files
- Fix loading of PSD files with layer groups
General:
- OSX build system fixes
- Bug fixes
- Translation updates
Problems found with existing digests:
Package fotoxx distfile fotoxx-14.03.1.tar.gz
ac2033f87de2c23941261f7c50160cddf872c110 [recorded]
118e98a8cc0414676b3c4d37b8df407c28a1407c [calculated]
Package ploticus-examples distfile ploticus-2.00/plnode200.tar.gz
34274a03d0c41fae5690633663e3d4114b9d7a6d [recorded]
da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 [calculated]
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package AfterShotPro: missing distfile AfterShotPro-1.1.0.30/AfterShotPro_i386.deb
Package pgraf: missing distfile pgraf-20010131.tar.gz
Package qvplay: missing distfile qvplay-0.95.tar.gz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
- Fix libtool versioning (forgot to bump gimp_interface_age)
Changes 2.8.12:
Core:
- OSX: Fix migration code for old GIMP directories
- Fix brush sizes when used from plug-ins
- Windows: Allow to Explorer-open files with UTF-8 characters in the filename
- Make XCF loading more robust against broken files
GUI:
- Make sure the widget direction matches the GUI language
- Remove the option to disable the warning when closing a modified image
- Fix canvas overlay widgets (like the text options) for tablets
- Make DND work between images in one dockable
Libgimp:
- Make gimp_image_get_name() return the string used for the image title
Plug-ins:
- Make script-fu-server more secure by listening to 127.0.0.1 by
default and add a warning about changing that IP. This breaks the
procedure's API, but for security reasons.
- Bring back proper script-fu translations
General:
- Massively clean up and fix the OSX build and bundle
- Add Jenkins tutorial
- Documentation updates
- Bug fixes
- Translation updates
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
Core:
- Set manifest as Windows 8 compatible
GUI:
- Indicate if a file was exported in the Quit dialog
- Add shortcuts and hint labels to the close and quit dialogs
that make closing and quitting easier and more consistent
- Rename the File->Export menu labels to match Save/Save as
- Fix keyboard shortcuts on OSX Mavericks
- Don't open lots of progress popups when opening many files
- Correctly restore the hidden state of docks in single window mode
Libgimp:
- Fix exporting an image consisting of a single layer group
- Don't attempt to pick transparent colors
Plug-ins:
- Fix crash in LCMS plugin if RGB profile was missing
General:
- Fix compile on NetBSD (missing -lexecinfo)
- Bug fixes
- Translation updates
Core:
- Make sure indexed images always have a colormap
- Fix language selection via preferences on Windows
- Don't crash on setting a large text size
GUI:
- Keep the same image active when switching between MWM and SWM
- Make sure all dockables are properly resizable (particularly shrinkable)
- Add links to jump directly to Save/Export from the Export/Save
file extension warning dialogs
Libgimp:
- Fix GimpPickButton on OSX
Plug-ins:
- Properly document plug-in-autocrop-layer's PDB interface
- Fix importing of indexed BMPs
General:
- Fix lots of places to use GIO to get proper file sizes and times on windows
- Add an AppData file for GIMP
- Backport lcms2 support from master, because lcms1 is not getting
bug fixes any longer
- Lots of bug fixes
- Lots of translation updates
Core:
- Fix saving to URIs, it was broken to only allow exporting, and fix
save/export of compressed files
- Fix brush spacing for drawing in any direction
- Increase the maximum size of clipboard brushes and patterns to 1024x1024
- Make sure data objects are saved when only their name was changed
GUI:
- Don't allow single-window docks to shrink smaller than their requisition
- Make sure a single-window's right docks keep their size across sessions
- Allow to change the spacing of non-generated brushes again
- In single-window mode, make Escape move the focus to the canvas,
and beep if the focus is already there
- Be smarter about unavailable fonts, and don't crash
- Make clicking the single-window's close button quit GIMP
- Make view-close (Ctrl+W) only close image windows and tabs, not docks
Libgimp:
- Add SIGNED_ROUND() which also rounds negative values correctly
Plug-ins:
- Make GIMP_PLUGIN_DEBUG work again after GLib changed logging
- Fix zealous crop for transparent borders
Installer:
- Add Hungarian translation
Data:
- Add a default "Color from Gradient" dynamics and tool preset
General:
- Lots of bug fixes
- Lots of translation updates
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
a) refer 'perl' in their Makefile, or
b) have a directory name of p5-*, or
c) have any dependency on any p5-* package
Like last time, where this caused no complaints.
Core:
- Move the OSX gimpdir to "~/Library/Application Support"
GUI:
- Better names for the default filters in save and export
- Make tool drawing (esp. the brush outline) much more responsive
- Remember the "maximized" state across sessions
- Simplify the splash image code a lot, makes it appear immediately again
- Allow the text tool to start on an image without layers
- Various fixes for text style attribute handling
- Set unconfigured input devices to eraser if GTK+ says they are erasers
- Make language selectable in Preferences on OSX
Libgimp:
- Make libgimp drawable combo boxes aware of layer groups
- Make sure plug-in windows appear on top on OSX
- Fix item width in GimpPageSelector (used e.g. in PDF import)
Plug-ins:
- Better default values in the Drop Shadow script
- Fix a whole bunch of bugs in the BMP plug-in
- On OSX, use the system's screenshot utility
Installer:
- Add Brazilian-Portuguese translation to the Windows installer
Source and build system:
- Many improvements to the OSX bundle build system
- Support automake 1.13
General:
- Lots of bug fixes
- Lots of translation updates
