MyPaint v2.0.0 (2020-02-15)
After a bit of a lull in development, MyPaint 2.0 has arrived at
last! Many have already tried out the new features in the new
automated continuous appimage releases, but for those who prefer
to use stable releases, this is the time to pester your distro's
package maintainers (or better yet, package and take a maintainer
role yourself).
Why is this 2.0 and not 1.3?
MyPaint 2.0 adds a new layer mode and uses a different compositing
method than before (by default, this is configurable), which means
that you can create files in 2.0 that will not look the same when
opened in earlier versions. Additionally, changes to the brush
parameters means that you can create stroke data in 2.0 that cannot
be safely used in earlier versions.
Major New Features
Linear compositing and spectral blending (pigment). Layer
views. Brush strokes dependent on view rotation and view zoom.
Additional symmetry modes: vertical, vertical+horizontal,
rotational, snowflake. Expanded flood fill functionality:
offset, feather, gap detection and more. New brush settings:
offsets, gridmap, additional smudge settings, posterize, pigment.
New brush inputs: barrel rotation, base radius, zoom level,
gridmap x/y, direction 360, attack angle.
Changelog:
Version 1.2.1:
* Fix failure to start under GLib 2.48.
* Fix failure to start when config and user data dirs are missing.
* GNOME: Update mypaint.appdata.xml.
* Fix failure to start when no translations are present.
* Fix pure-black being duplicated in the colour history.
* Fix glitch stroke when Inking is exited & the default tool entered.
* OSX: fix exception if AppKit isn't installed.
* Fix mispositioned windows in multi-monitor setups.
* Windows: fix inability to paste more than the 1st copied image.
* Fix exception when pasting into a layer group.
* Fix incorrect numeric range check on x-axis tilts.
* Fix layers blinking when selected in layer-solo mode.
* Fix palette drag issues with GTK 3.19.8+.
* Fix exception in the colours tab of the background chooser dialog.
* Fix UI glitch: mark cloned layer as selected after duplicate.
* Fix a potential exception with the brush and colur history features.
* About box: report versions better un Windows.
* Make sure layer clones get selected immediately.
* Fix hypersensitive tab drags.
* Fix allelerator mapping sort order.
* Fix exceptions when loading a corrupt thumbnail during thumb updates.
* Fix GTK removing the main canvas widget.
* BrushManager: use UUIDs for device brush names, backwards-compatibly.
* Fix repeated pixbuflist redraws.
* Windows: drop support for floating windows till upstream support's OK.
* Wayland: remove references to cursors that don't exist.
Version 1.2.0:
* New intuitive Inking tool for smooth strokes.
* New Flood Fill tool.
* Automated backups of your working docs, with recovery on startup.
* Improved symmetry-setting and frame-setting modes.
* New workspace UI: two sidebars, with dockable tabbed panels.
* Smoother scrolling and panning.
* New brush pack.
* New brush and color history panel.
* New layer trimming command in frame options.
* Added layer groups.
* New layer modes: several masking modes added.
* Add display filters: greyscale, simulate dichromacy for trichromats.
* New color wheel options: Red/Yellow/Blue, Red-Green/Blue-Yellow.
* Uses dark theme variant by default.
* Clearer icons, prettier freehand cursors.
* Device prefs allow glitchy devices to be restricted.
* Eraser mode no longer changes the size of the brush.
* New vector layers, editable in an external app (Inkscape recommended).
* New fallback layer types: non-PNG image, data.
* More kinds of images now work as backgrounds.
* Improved Windows support
* Ported to GTK3.
* Accelerator map editor has moved to preferences.
* Many other bugfixes, translations, and code quality improvements.
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.
* Newer GCC requires swig2.
Changelog:
Version 1.1.0:
- geometry tools: sequence of lines, curved lines, ellipses
- new brush and layer blending modes; different layer merging
- new color dialog: palette and gamut mapping
- improved document frame, can be resized on canvas
- symmetric drawing mode
- old color changer ("washed") from 0.6 is available again
- toolbar improvements, e.g. move layer mode, pan/zoom
- revised cursor and on-canvas color picker
- better separation of mypaint's brush library; json brush file format
- translations, performance improvements, bugfixes, and more
Changelog:
Version 1.0.0:
- toolbar with color, brush selector and brush settings dropdown
- tool windows can be docked instead of floating
- locked alpha brush mode
- basic layer compositing modes
- new scratchpad area
- lots of other improvements (about 500 commits)
* Delete unnecessary SUBST line.
* patch-aa is already included in tar ball.
Changes:
This is a bugfix release without any new features. Several problems
with non-ASCII file names, directory names, and layer names have
been fixed, as well as a number of other minor issues. Integration
with the Windows platform has been improved.
MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for
digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the
program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing
up the interface only when you need it.
