* Buildlink iso-codes and libheif.
Changelog:
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.20 to GIMP 2.10.22
=====================================================
Core:
- Verbose version information (`gimp-2.10 -v` on command line, or
debug output) now displays Flatpak related information when
available. This is especially useful for debugging (such as the
exact Flatpak build hash, the runtime version, the installed
Flatpak extensions, permissions, etc.).
- OpenCL settings has now been moved to the Playground tab in
Preferences.
- On stable builds, "Playground" tab is now visible in Preferences if
any of the experimental features has been enabled, even without the
CLI option `--show-playground`.
Tools:
- "gegl:matting-levin" now the default engine of Foreground Select
tool (when present, as it is an optional feature) as it performs a
lot better.
- GEGL operations now display a "Sample merged" checkbox in Tool
Options. This will be used when the operation allows to pick a color
(hence one can pick from the edited layer or from visible data).
- "Sample merged" now defaults to being activated in Color Picker and
GEGL tools as it seems the less confusing for beginners who don't
know of the option yet (according to a small poll we ran).
User interface:
- In GimpSpinButton, don't propagate Enter key-press events if
updating the spin-button's value in response changes the entered
text. This prevents confirming dialogs when hitting Enter after
entering a math expression in size entries, updating their value
instead.
Likewise, don't propagate Escape key-press events if a new value was
entered, and restore the original value instead.
- GimpMemSizeEntry improved to show appropriate binary prefixes
(kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte) instead of decimal ones, to round
properly when using higher units, and to not lose accuracy when
possible when displaying in higher units.
- Several of the biggest pages of the Preferences dialog are now
scrollable, allowing the dialog to fit on smaller displays.
Plug-ins:
- Add a new GIMP_EXPORT_NEEDS_CROP export capability, which causes
gimp_export_image() to crop the exported image content to the image
bounds; this is useful for formats that support layers, but have no
concept of global image bounds, hence cropping is the only way to
enforce the image bounds.
When showing the export dialog, give an option to either crop the
layers to the image bounds, or to resize the image to fit the
layers.
- Content type `image/webp` is now recognized (and not only
`image/x-webp` as both seem to be in used and this format is
unfortunately not yet listed in IANA media types (so various content
types are in use, no clear standard apparently).
- DDS import is now a bit more permissive, allowing to load some files
with invalid header flags regarding compression, while we are able
to know the right compression from other flags. This allows to
recover invalid DDS files exported by other software.
- JPEG detection improved to be more generic and reliable.
- HEIF support improvements:
- AVIF importing and exporting added (requires libheif 1.8.0+)
- 10/12-bit importing and exporting now available for HEIC/AVIF
- NCLX color profile import (link with LittleCMS)
- Metadata support when importing
- "Lossless" option is now called "Nearly lossless (YUV420 format)"
because this is actually what it is, hence previous naming was
misleading.
- TIFF support improvements:
- Add an option to crop the layers to the image bounds when exporting
individual layers (using GIMP_EXPORT_NEEDS_CROP), since TIFF has no
concept of global image bounds otherwise. Cropping is enabled
by default.
- TIFF export will not override "DocumentName" metadata tag anymore.
- Stop writing file paths into TIFF DocumentNames as file paths can
contain confidential information such as usernames and directory
structures, making the previous behaviour a potential privacy and
security risk.
- Fix a file descriptor leak case which may have prevented a file
from being opened on Windows.
- Multiple improvements in the PSP import plug-in:
- support reading raster layers of PSP version > 6,
- support reading 16-bit integer PSP files,
- support reading grayscale and indexed PSP files,
- support PSP images with zero-length layer names,
- fix wrong layer offset of layers,
- fix reading layer names with high bit ASCII characters,
- fix incorrect loading of PSP images with uncompressed channel data,
- fix reading of creator block data of PSP images,
- better error messages describing yet unsupported features,
- improve reader stability by always using the block/chunk length.
- Spyrogimp now works on Grayscale images and clutters less the undo
history.
- "Orientation" metadata is now reset whether you accepted to rotate
the image or not when importing an image.
- XPM does not export a "None" (transparent) color when unused.
- BMP always include color masks when exporting BMP with color space
info, as mandated by BITMAPV5HEADER specification.
Debugging:
- Add progressive performance logs: progressive logs contain complete
information after each recorded sample, by writing partial address
maps at each sample, containing all new addresses introduced by the
sample.
This allows recording complete logs even in cases where they can't
be properly terminated, such as when GIMP crashes or freezes in the
middle of the log.
Progressive logs are disabled by default, since they potentially
increase the sampling cost. They can be enabled through a toggle
in the log file-dialog, or through GIMP_PERFORMANCE_LOG_PROGRESSIVE
environment variable.
Performance log viewer can now process progressive performance logs
too.
- Allow controlling performance-log parameters through the UI.
Build:
- new `distcheck` step in Continuous Integration.
Bug fixes:
#2275, #2668, #2874, #3481, #3868, #4061, #4155, #4328, #4505, #4536,
#4560, #4816, #5043, #5069, #5208, #5219, #5226, #5232, #5274, #5275,
#5357, #5358, #5472, #5530, #5584, #5592, #5623, #5630, #5651
Translation updates:
- Basque, Catalan, Chinese (China), Croatian, Danish, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
Ukrainian
Changelog:
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.18 to GIMP 2.10.20
=====================================================
Tools:
- Crop tool now has a "Delete cropped pixels" option active only in
image crop mode, allowing to choose whether to crop layers or only
the canvas (cropped pixels will be made invisible as out-of-canvas
but would still be present). The option is unchecked by default,
as it is the non-destructive behavior, which also means the
default behavior is changed.
- Crop tool in image crop mode will not crop layers with "Lock
pixels" on, anymore, even if "Delete cropped pixels" is checked.
- Painting tools can now restore opacity and blend mode from
presets.
User interface:
- Image / Precision renamed to Image > Encoding
- Tool groups can now display their tool list on hover rather than
on click. This can be set in Preferences, in the Toolbox tab.
- Improved update notification GUI in About dialog, and now also
showing an update comment when one was set in gimp_versions.json.
- Palette Editor dockable: the color index in the current palette is
now shown in front of the color name.
Plugins:
- In file-psd, make the data_start and data_len fields of the
PSDimageres and PSDlayerres structs unsigned, to avoid potential
overflow/sign-extension
- file-raw: Canon CR3 files are now properly recognized by GIMP and
sent to your raw developer software of choice.
- PNG and TIFF export: "Save color values from transparent pixels"
defaults now to not saving color values (i.e. channels set to 0)
when alpha channel is present and 0 itself.
- PDF import: multi-pages are now imported in bottom-first order,
similar to animated formats, and also similar to defaults for PDF
export. This brings consistency but break existing behavior, hence
needs to be noted.
- Added support for exporting 16-bit PSDs, read and write channels
from/to PSd in the right order
Filters:
- The 'Vignette' filter now has on-canvas controls
- New 'Filters -> Blur -> Focus Blur' filter with on-canvas controls
to emulate out-of-focus blurring
- New 'Filters -> Blur -> Variable Blur' filter that uses an aux
mask input to blur an image with variable intensity
- New 'Filters -> Light and Shadow -> Bloom' filter
Updated translations:
- British English, Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, Finnish,
German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian,
Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Icons:
- Replace fileicon.ico with version contain 24x24, 64x64, 128x128,
and 256x256 sizes for Windows icon
- Replace wilber.ico with version containing 128x128 size of Windows
icon
Bug fixes:
- #189, #354, #872, #1439, #3405, #3533, #3558, #3777, #3841, #4094,
#4328, #4363, #4487, #4618, #4641, #4663, #4696, #4734, #4745,
##4793, 4827, #4846, #4858, #4871, #4895, #4904, #4919, #4967,
##4968, #4992, 4996, #5009, #5010, #5033
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.16 to GIMP 2.10.18
=====================================================
Core:
- In gimp:replace, when compositing the same content over itself,
i.e., when the input and aux buffers share the same storage and
same tile alignment, pass the input buffer directly as output,
instead of doing actual processing. In particular, this happens
when processing a pass-through group outside of its actual bounds.
User interface:
- Add new Symbolic-High-Contrast and Symbolic-Inverted-High-Contrast
themes, which are automatically-generated high-contrast variants
of the (original) Symbolic theme. The contrast factor is settable
in the makefile, and is currently at 1.5 for both themes.
- Rename tools/invert-svg to tools/svg-contrast, which now takes a
contrast-factor argument, and adjusts the input SVG contrast,
instead of just inverting it. Note that we can still use the tool
to invert icons, using a contrast of -1.
- Allow horizontal scrollbars in all the Preferences dialog tree-
views, so that they don't limit the minimal width of the dialog
(in particular, the UI- and icon-theme tree-views may contain
arbitrarily-long paths).
- Draw a border around the color FG/BG color areas as a pair of
black and white rectangles instead of letting GTK do this. This
imporoves the legibility of borders, especially in dark themes.
Tools:
- In GimpPaintTool, when not snapping brush outline to stroke, make
sure to properly snap the cursor position to 15-degree angle
multiples in line mode, not only when painting the line, but also
during motion.
Plug-ins:
- Add naive support for CMYK 8-bit PSD files
Updated translations:
- Basque, Catalan, Danish, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
Bug fixes:
- #4643, #4634
Developers:
- Ell, Massimo Valentini
Translators:
- Alan Mortensen, Anders Jonsson, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Daniel
Korostil, Jordi Mas, Piotr Drąg, Rodrigo Lledó Milanca
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.14 to GIMP 2.10.16
=====================================================
Core:
- In gimp_gegl_apply_cached_operation(), use gint64 for storing the
total and processed pixel counts used for reporting progress, to
avoid overflowing when applying an operation to a large image.
- In GimpFilterTool and gimp_drawable_apply_operation(), use
gimp_drawable_filter_set_add_alpha() to add an alpha channel when
applying an operation that specifies "needs-alpha" to a drawable
that can have alpha.
- In GimpFilterTool, move all the drawable-filter option setup to a
new gimp_filter_tool_update_filter() function, and call it
whenever the drawable-filter's options need to be updated. This
avoids duplicating logic in various places.
- Improve the efficiency of decoding RLE data when loading ABR
brushes, by reading entire scanlines into a buffer all-at-once,
instead of reading the stream byte-by-byte.
- GIMP now optionally phones home to find out if there's a new
version available and then tells the user if there is one
indeed. It also keeps track of the installer revision and then
warns if there's a newer installer available. This can be disabled
in Preferences. In that case, users still have the option to
manually check for an update via the About dialog. The feature can
be disabled entirely with the '--disable-check-update' configure
switch.
Tools:
- New 3D Transform tool where you can set vanishing point, camera's
focal length, and the move and rotate layer, selection, path, or
image in 2.5 space. With the "Unified interaction" option enabled,
all three interaction modes of the grid (camera, move, and rotate)
are available simultaneously. In this mode, the inner and outer
regions of the item are used for moving and rotation, respectively,
and the vanishing point is controlled through through a handle.
- Transform tools now respect the Clip option and update the canvas
preview accordingly.
- New "Composited preview" option allows respecting layer's blending
mode and position in the layer stack rather than rendering it as
an overlay on top of the overall layer stack. This simplifies
creating complex layer compositions greatly. The option requires
mipmaps to be used and thus is disabled by default. It also comes
with an experimental "Synchronous preview" suboption to render the
composited preview synchronously. This reduces the lag for
painting the preview, but can harm responsiveness for bigger
images, where rendering the preview is slow.
- Add a new "Preview linked items" option to the transform-grid
tools. When this option is enabled, together with composited
previews, the transform preview includes all linked layers and
channels when transforming a layer/channel. Paths are currently
unsupported.
- New widget called GimpPivotSelector, a 3x3 grid of toggle buttons,
is now used for selecting a natural pivot position (e.g. for a
transform) relative to an item: its center, its corners, and the
midpoints of its edges. Currently used in Rotate and 3D Transform
tools.
- Add "Show all" support to the Bucket Fill tool in line-art mode
- Color picker and sample points now support displaying vlaues in
Yu'v' (CIE 1976 UCS) color space.
- The Symmetry Painting dock now has an "Enable reflection" option
that allows painting patterns resembling a kaleidoscope.
- Transform clipping is temporarily disabled for layer groups. No
preview other than 'Adjust' works anyway. This will be fixed later
on.
- Construct a box-filtered mipmap hierarchy for the original brush
on-demand, and the closest mipmap is used as the resampling source
for downscaled brushes, significantly improving the output
quality.
- Now that painting is done in a separate thread, the display update
rate has a far smaller impact on it. Increase the GimpDisplay
update rate, which handles image updates, to 60 FPS, and the
GimpDrawTool update rate to 120 FPS. In particular, the latter
change makes the brush outline motion much smoother.
- In the Airbrush tool, increase the maximal stamp FPS from 15 to
60, and change the corresponding maximal Rate value from 150 to
100. This technically affects tool presets, but we'll live.
- Add a new "Snap brush outline to stroke" toggle to the "Image
Windows" preferences page. When enabled, the brush outline in
paint tools snaps to the individual dabs while painting, which is
how it worked before version 2.10.16. Disable the option by
default. This seems to be what most other programs are doing, and
it does give paitning a smoother feel.
- The Warp Transform tool now respects settings for painting tools:
showing the brush outline, snapping to dabs, and showing the paint
tool cursor.
UI:
- Tools are now logically grouped in the toolbox by default. Users
can customize the groups to their liking or disable this feature
altogether in the Preferences dialog (Interface / Toolbox page).
- New opt-out compact style for sliders with revamped interaction.
The widget uses a narrower layout, and the different
upper/lower-half behavior is gone. Instead, the behavior depends
on the mouse button and modifier used:
- left-click is used for absolute adjustment,
- Shift + left-click + drag changes value in small increments,
- Ctrl + left-click + drag changes value in large increments,
- middle-click enables numeric input mode;
- right-click enables numeric input mode and selects the value.
- The "You can drop dockable dialogs here" message is gone from the
toolbox for good. Instead, highlight dockable areas when a user
starts dragging a dockable dialog, and intensify the highlight as
the dialog goes over a dockable area.
- Consolidate UI for merging down and anchoring layers:
As they are both mutually exclusive and serve an almost identical
purpose, the "Merge down" and "Anchor Layer" are given mutually
exclusive visibility in menus, and the anchor button is replaced
with a merge down button in the Layers dockable whenever there is
no active floating selection. Modifier keys are available:
- Shift: merge layer group
- Ctrl: merge visible layers
- Ctrl + Shift: merge visible layers from last used values
Plugins:
- In plug_in_compat.pdb, when wrapping an op node inside a graph,
set the op node as the graph node's underlying operation. This
allows gimp_gegl_apply_operation() to perform certain
optimizations.
- The Spyrogimp plugin now features a Visual tab where the inner
mechanics of a spirograph is abstracted away, and you operate on
amount of petals etc. The plugin now also allows saving a pattern
as a path rather than rendering it to a layer as a bitmap.
- Improve the loading speed for PSD files, mostly by eliminating
excessive copies.
Filters:
- Don't disable gegl:color-to-alpha (which has "needs-alpha")
when the drawable doesn't have an alpha channel, if one can be
added.
- Don't disable color-to-alpha for grayscale drawable, since the
operation is applicable to grayscale images (in particular, it
doesn't add color where there was none), and since GIMP no longer
distinguishes between layers and channels according to the
drawable format when updating the filters actions.
Windows:
- Installer: unofficial languages, ghostscript 9.50.
- Installer: skip .debug files when they don't exist.
- Installer: properly remove old icons on 32-bit installs and
per-user installs.
macOS:
- Set required variables if it is running from Apple application
bundle.
- The macOS build now ships with the dashboard dock for displaying
perfomance graphs.
Updated translations:
- British English, Catalan, Danish, French, German, Hungarian,
Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish,
Turkish, Ukrainian.
Bugfixes:
- #4172, #4194, #4205, #4218, #2543, #4185, #4246, #2794, #4209,
#4278, #4372, #4187, #4392, #2674, #4338, #2862, #4203, #4204,
#4354, #1266, #4584, #4174, #4285, #4366, #1975, #4605
Developers:
- Alex Samorukov, Cyril Richard, Elad Shahar, Ell, Elle Stone,
Jehan, Jernej Simončič, lillolollo, Massimo Valentini, Michael
Natterer, Pascal Terjan, woob.
Translators:
- Alan Mortensen, Alexandre Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson, Balázs
Meskó, Balázs Úr, Bruce Cowan, Daniel Korostil, Jordi Mas, Julien
Hardelin, Marco Ciampa, Piotr Drąg, Rodrigo Lledó Milanca, Ryuta
Fujii, Sabri Ünal, sicklylife, Sveinn í Felli, Tim Sabsch, Zander
Brown.
Apparently the installed location for gimp-debug-tool differs for Darwin
versus other platforms. The Makefile included logic to define the location,
but was not used in PLIST. This just adds the appropriate substitution
into PLIST.
Highlights:
Basic out-of-canvas pixels viewing and editing
Optional editing of layers with disabled visibility
Foreground Select tool: new Grayscale Preview Mode
Newly added Normal Map filter
27 old filters ported to use GEGL buffers
HEIF, TIFF, and PDF support improvements
Better loading of corrupted XCF files
Grayscale workflows order of magnitude faster
macOS Catalina compatibility
45 bugfixes, 22 translation updates
Changelog:
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.10 to GIMP 2.10.12
=====================================================
Core:
- Add an "Incremental" option to the Dodge/Burn tool, which,
similarly to the Paintbrush, Pencil, and Eraser tools, applies the
effect incrementally as the pointer moves.
- Curves now have a concept of smooth vs corner points: smooth
points produce a smooth curve, while corner points produce a sharp
curve (previously, all points were smooth).
- Search the user font directory path on Windows (since Windows 10,
non-admin users have the ability to install fonts). This is only a
temporary hack until fontconfig adds proper upstream support:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/144
- In gimp_brush_core_get_paint_buffer(), when allocating a new paint
buffer, clear the old buffer *before* allocating the new one, to
reduce the amount of simultaneously allocated memory.
- In GimpPaintbrush, avoid refilling the paint buffer at each dab if
the paint color/pixmap hasn't changed, hence allowing faster
painting in some specific cases.
- Add hygon cpu detection and enable MMX/SSE support.
- Add a GimpSymmetry::get_transform() virtual function and a
corresponding gimp_symmetry_get_transform() function which return
the brush transform corresponding to a given symmetry stroke in
terms of the rotation angle and reflection flag (in contrast to
gimp_symmetry_get_operation() which returns the same transforation
in terms of a GeglNode). This allows us to simplify, fix (artifact
bugs, etc.), and improve the painting-code performance for several
symmetry painting cases.
- New gimp-brush-pipe-spacing parasite set by core code to preserve
GIH brush's spacing across reloads.
- Add a new Offset filter tool, as a front-end to gimp:offset. The
tool replaces, and provides the same interface as the drawable-
offset dialog while also providing live preview and on-canvas
interaction.
Plug-ins:
- Exported profile and data format strategy updated in several file
plug-ins.
* When not saving a profile, we always export as sRGB data, as most
viewers would not display the image properly otherwise.
* When saving a profile:
* If a profile was manually assigned, we always export to the
assigned format, hence pixel data is converted accordingly,
whatever the work format.
* If no profile was assigned:
* If the export format support high-bit depth, we export the
work format as-is.
* If the export format is 8-bit max, we convert the work
format to sRGB, except if the work format is 8-bit linear.
The following plug-ins were updated: JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WebP.
- TIFF plug-in now supports layer export.
- Add accelerator on "Save color _profile" item in JPEG export so
that all items in the dialog have keyboard accelerators.
- Add a "Save color profile" checkbox in WebP export and remove the
"Advanced Options" expander (all metadata and profile writing
options are now directly visible).
- Process cases of non-conformant TIFF file with extra channels
while ExtraSamples is not set by assuming the first extra channel
is a non-premultiplied alpha channel and outputting a warning. In
the future, this should be updated further by a dialog asking what
to do with the non-defined dialog (consider as premultiplied or
non-premultiplied alpha channel, or just save as extra channels).
Tools:
- Add input/output spin-buttons to the Curves tool, which allow
setting the selected point's coordinates numerically. When the image
precision is greater than 8-bpc, use a 0.00-100.00 range for the
point-coordinate spin-buttons instead of a 0-255 range.
- In the Curves tool, allow changing the curve's point types (cf. new
curve corner points in Core section). Corner points are displayed
with a diamond shape instead of a circle.
- Free Select tool now creates a selection as soon as the polygon is
closed. This selection is updated when the polygon, or the relevant
tool-options, change, similarly to GimpRectangleSelectTool.
- Derive GimpEraser from GimpPaintbrush, instead of directly from
GimpBrushCore.
This allows GimpEraser to reuse the paint-buffer content across
dabs, improving performance.
- Allow moving an intersecting pair of guides with the Move tool.
User interface:
- In GimpCurveView, when dragging an existing curve point, don't
immediately move the point to the cursor position upon button
press, but rather move it relative to its current position as the
cursor moves. This allows selecting a point without moving it, and
adjusting its position more easily.
- when the cursor hovers above a point in GimpCurveView, or when
dragging a point, have the coordinate indicator show the point's
position, rather than the cursor's.
- In GimpCurveView, when holding down Ctrl while adding/dragging a
point, snap the y-coordinate to the original curve (at the start
of the drag). This is particularly useful for adding points along
the curve.
- In GimpDashboard, don't show legend for groups with no meter.
- Add a tile-alloc-total variable to the dashboard's memory and misc
groups, showing the total amount of memory used by the tile
allocator.
- Add a "Save Keyboard Shortcuts Now" button to the Configure
Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.
Installers:
- Windows: enable InnoSetup "unofficial" translations. Otherwise we
had a bunch of wasted work from our translators of several
languages whose translations were never used in the installer.
Translations:
- 12 translations were updated: Catalan, Chinese, French, German,
Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
and Turkish.
Changelog:
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.8 to GIMP 2.10.10
====================================================
Core:
- Add gimp-scratch allocator, a fast memory allocator (on the order of
magnitude of alloca()), suitable for small (up to a few megabytes),
short-lived (usually, bound to the current stack-frame) allocations.
Unlike alloca(), gimp-scratch doesn't use the stack, and is therefore
safer, and will also serve bigger requests, by falling-back to malloc().
- In gimp_drawable_transform_buffer_affine(), avoid modifying the
clipping mode when transforming layer masks, since this function
is used (among other things) to transform layer masks together with
their layer, in which case they should use the same clipping mode
as the layer. This fixes a regression introduced by commit 2ae823ba,
causing layer masks to be transformed with a mismatched clipping mode
during layer transforms, leading to discrepencies between the
transformed layer and the transformed mask.
- Moved swap/cache and temporary files out the GIMP user config dir and
added new config file substitutions ${gimp_cache_dir} and
${gimp_temp_dir}.
- Pass the GEGL tile-cache size, swap path, and thread-count to plug-ins
as part of their config, and have libgimp set the plug-in's GeglConfig
accordingly upon initialization.
- Layer groups are now rendered in bigger chunks rather than tile-by-tile
(which used to pretty much eliminate multithreading for groups), which
improves the rendering speed.
- Make saving/exporting files more robust to errors. In particular if
an error occurs during the process (be it a bug, a memory error, or
anything else), GIMP won't overwrite anymore any existing file with
incomplete contents, so that you won't end up with no valid files at
all.
- Fix a regression on support of various graphics tablet.
- Remove the "Edit -> Fade..." feature: it makes GIMP use two buffers
instead of one (east into system resources), it's broken in 2.10, and
we can make the UX better for filters.
- New generic canvas modifier 'Alt + middle click' allowing to pick
layers by clicking on pixels. The available layers will be looped
through (starting from the upper one) while Alt key is hold and the
picked layer name will be temporarily displayed in the status bar.
- When clearing a channel, do nothing if the channel is already empty;
otherwise, align the cleared rectangle to the channel buffer's tile
grid, so that all affected tiles are dropped, rather than zeroed.
Furthermore, only update the affected region of the channel.
- Brush and pattern saving logics has been moved to core code (instead
of plug-in).
- Clipboard brushes and pattern can now be duplicated.
- Parametric brushes are now 32-bit float to avoid posterization on
large brushes.
Note: raster brushes are still 8-bit and plug-ins only have access
to 8-bit versions of high-precision brushes/patterns. New API will
be required to handle high-precision data.
- On-canvas preview while editing a color in the colormap of an
indexed image.
User interface:
- Enabled HiDPI/Retina support for the GTK2/OSX build, fixes blurry icons.
- Add a tooltip to the "better compression" checkbox in save dialog to
make it clearer it does not mean that the file size is necessarily
smaller in every cases. In particular some best/worst case are
possible when an algorithm less efficient in general may end up
better on a particular image.
- Add basic support for cursors with a scale factor of 2 for HiDPI
(artwork to be updated).
- Foreground and background color icons, as well as color history will
now display out-of-gamut warning on indexed images for colors
outside of the palette, as well as on grayscale images, for non-gray
colors.
- Pack color picker and hexadecimal entry on same line in Color dock.
- Add an "Open as Image" button to the brushes dialog.
Usability:
- Attempting to transform locked layers or paint on them now results in
blinking around the status bar (where the warning message is displayed)
and around the toolbar where lock toggles are. The same applies to
attempting to move a selection where there is none — GIMP will blink
around the toolbar where the moving target (layer, selection, path)
is chosen.
- GIMP now allows selecting default export file type for new projects.
The choice is limited to PNG, JPEG, WebP, PSD, ORA, TIFF, BMP.
- GimpSpinScale widget now has an optional feature to constrain the
value to integer when dragging with a pointer (even if the scale
allows for fractional numbers), set with new function
gimp_spin_scale_set_constrain_drag().
This is useful for settings where fractional numbers are technically
possible, yet most common use case are with integers (such as pixel
sizes, angles in degrees, etc.) so you want the easy interface to be
constrained. Fractional numbers are still settable, for instance by
keyboard edit; and arrow incrementation won't drop fraction parts.
This is currently only activated for brush options in paint tools.
Tools:
- In scale tool, scale around center even when using numeric input.
- New algorithm in the Bucket Fill tool when selecting the affected
area "Fill by line art detection", based off the G'Mic algorithm for
"smart colorization": https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01891876
In a few words, it identifies painted pixels (either based on
grayscale or opacity values) and tries to close line arts to allow
filling even with not perfectly closed zones; the second step of the
algorithm will flood the colors under line art pixels to prevent
"holes" in the filling.
It is possible to control a max size (in pixels) for the flooding,
as well as max length of closing segments and splines.
- The Bucket Fill tool got new interaction allowing to hold the click
and move the mouse to fill based on several seed zones (for "Fill
by line art detection" as well as "Fill similar colors"). You can
now cancel the fill in progress with right click as in other tools.
- The Bucket Fill tool now allows color picking with ctrl-click, same
as every painting tool. It will pick either the foreground or
background color depending on the selected Fill Type. The ctrl-alt
modifier combination is also possible to pick the non-Fill Type
color.
- In the Bucket Fill tool, the Alt modifier will now switch to
"FG color fill" when "Pattern fill" was set (instead of doing
nothing).
- In the Unified Transform tool, default to preserving aspect ratio
when scaling up or down.
- In the Healing tool, "Sample merged" now also work for the target
pixels, allowing to draw in empty layers.
- Selection by color is now parallelized, hence improving speed of the
Select by Color tool (and any other processing which may share this
piece of code now or in the future).
- Add "Constrain handles" and "Around center" options to the
perspective-transform tool's GUI, which are similar to the
corresponding options of the unified-transform tool.
- Improve color picking on indexed image to always select an indexed
color corresponding to the picked pixel in the colormap.
Plug-ins:
- file-pdf-save GUI now clearly indicates the order the layers will be
used to make multi-page PDFs.
- Add DDS loading/exporting plug-in originally developed by Shawn Kirst
and Arne Reuter.
- Rename the Guillotine plug-in to Slice Using Guides.
- Add a new option saving a color profile when exporting PNG, JPEG, TIFF.
Always save it when exporting to PSD.
- Remove the "Advanced" expanders from the PNG and TIFF export dialogs.
- Full rewrite of the Spyrogimp plug-in with much more options and
better interaction.
- Indexed TIFF with alpha channel now supported.
Filters:
- Add on-canvas GUI (simple lines) for circular, linear, and zoom motion
blur.
Help:
- Link to the bugtracker directly from the Help menu, also link to the
wiki and the roadmap. Remove the link to currently disabled
registry.gimp.org.
Installers:
- Windows: proper fix for libthai to stop GIMP from crashing in the
Thai locale.
Translations:
- Czech, Danish, French, Italian, Japanese, Marathi, Polish, Russian,
Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
Build:
- Bumping GTK+ dependency to the micro update GTK+ 2.24.32 to handle
several bugs on Windows (broken shortcuts on non-latin layouts and
broken vector icons).
Changelog:
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.6 to GIMP 2.10.8
===================================================
Core:
- Use adaptive chunk size in GimpProjection when rendering the
projection asynchronously, rather than using a fixed chunk size.
This provides a better trade-off between throughput and
responsiveness dynamically, based on how fast the processing is.
Tools:
- In all selection tools, show error on attempt to
subtract-from/intersect-with empty selection.
- Fix text along path not working with vertical text.
- Fix Text tool's frame position when undoing a move operation.
- Streamline Text tool's drawing blocking/unblocking logic.
- When moving a text layer using the text tool (through alt+drag),
don't change the layer's box mode to "fixed", which is unnecessary,
since the layer's size isn't affected.
- Transform and deformation operations now maintain color for fully
transparent pixels, making unerase and curves manipulation of alpha
channel more reliable.
- All transform tools now apply changes when you save or export/overwrite
an image without pressing Enter first to confirm changes.
- Heal, Dodge/Burn, Smudge, and Convolve tools now adjust the processed
buffer and mask_buffer regions according to the changes made to the
application region, as calculated by intersecting it with the
drawable and mask extents. This fixes wrong application position
when painting on a drawable whose origin is above/to the left of the
image's origin, and there's a selection active.
Plug-ins:
- Port all plug-ins to the new iterator API in GEGL.
- Improve automatic detection of HEIC/HEIF files.
- Improve RawTherapee discovery by looking up registry key (should
become useful with RawTherapee 5.5 and more).
Usability:
- Compatibility information in the Save dialog is now more understandable.
The minimum GIMP version for the XCF file is always written down when it
is GIMP 2.8 or over. The list of features warranting the minimum version
is now listed in an expander container rather than as tooltip, which
makes it more discoverable. The warning on compression is now displayed
as its own text under the checkbox and not as additional text to the
minimum GIMP version label.
CLI:
- New self-explanatory --enable-win32-debug-console CLI option
Debugging:
- New GimpBacktrace API provides an interface for creating and
traversing multi-threaded backtraces, as well as querying symbol
information. Backends are available for Linux and Windows.
- Performance log recording now available in the Dashboard dock.
The log contains a series of samples of the dashboard variables,
as well as the full program backtrace, when available. As such,
it essentially acts as a built-in profiler, which allows us to
correlate program execution with the information available
through the Dashboard.
- New performance-log-expand.py tool decodes a delta-encoded
performance log by expanding the deltas, producing a log where
each sample (and other relevant elements) contain complete
information. The structure of expanded logs is identical to that
of delta-encoded logs, the expanded log simply has no deltas.
- New performance-log-resolve.py tool resolves symbol information
in backtraces. The logs produced by GIMP only specify the program
counter at each stack frame, providing an address-map to map
program-counter addresses to actual symbols separately. This tool
looks up each program-counter address in the address map,
incorporating the relevant symbol information directly into the
backtrace.
- New performance-log-deduce.py tool that statistically deduces the
correct thread states based on backtrace address frequency, fixing
local inaccuracies.
- New performance-log-viewer.py tool that is a viewer for GIMP
performance logs, with a sample-selection area at the top and an
information area at the bottom. The sample-selection area visualizes
the sampled variables and markers using a simultaneous set of plots,
and displays the currently selected samples. The information area
shows global information stored in the log, as well as information
specific to the currently selected samples, including variable listing
and statistics, full backtrace, and profile/call-graph information.
Translations:
- Updated translations: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian,
Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
Changelog:
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.4 to GIMP 2.10.6
===================================================
Core:
- Render drawable previews asynchronously.
- Merge the file view filter and file format lists in GimpFileDialog.
The presence of 2 lists was very confusing.
- DLL search priority is now updated before running a plug-in on
Windows, depending on the executable bitness. This gets rid of one
of the last remnant of DLL hell in GIMP, which was when running
32-bit plug-ins from a 64-bit build of GIMP.
Filters:
- New "Little Planet" (gegl:stereographic-projection) filter.
- New "Long Shadow" (gegl:long-shadow) filter.
Tools:
- Halt the Measure tool after straightening.
- Add an "orientation" option to the measure tool, corresponding to
the "orientation" property of GimpToolCompass (i.e., it controls the
orientation against which the angle is measured, when not in 3-
point mode.) The orientation is "auto" by default, so that the
angle is always <= 45 deg. Note that the "orientation" option
affects the tool's "straighten" function, so that the layer is
rotated toward the current orientation.
- Text layers can now represent vertical texts, with 4 variants:
left-to-right and right-to-left lines, and forcing all characters to
be upright or following Unicode's vertical orientation property.
See also:
* https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr50/
* http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/VerticalOrientation.txt
User Interface:
- The Dashboard dockable dialog now has an "async" field to the
dashboard's "misc" group, showing the number of async operations
currently in the "running" state.
- New Preferences option to enable/disable layer-group previews, since
these can get quite time-expensive.
Translations:
- New language: Marathi
- 12 translations were updated: Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French,
German, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian,
Spanish, Swedish.
Build:
- Add --with-win32-32bit-dll-folder configuration option to override
the folder where 32-bit versions of DLL will be installed (default:
32/bin/).
- Install all plug-ins in their own directories. Unlike on master,
this is not mandatory to do so, but it would protect our core
plug-ins against any DLL installed directly under plug-ins/ by
third-party plug-ins (cf. Windows DLL hell).
