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GNU Image Manipulation Program
2.8 Stable Branch
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This is the stable branch of GIMP. No new features are being added
here, just bug-fixes.
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.8 to GIMP 2.8.10
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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
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.6 to GIMP 2.8.8
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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
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.4 to GIMP 2.8.6
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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
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.2 to GIMP 2.8.4
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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
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.0 to GIMP 2.8.2
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Core:
- Make tag matching always case-insensitive
- Let the tile-cache-size default to half the physical memory
GUI:
- Mention that the image was exported in the close warning dialog
- Make sure popup windows appear on top on OSX
- Allow file opening by dropping to the OSX dock
- Fix the visibility logic of the export/overwrite menu items
- Remove all "Use GEGL" menu items, they only add bugs and zero function
- Improve performance of display filters, especially color management
- Fix the image window title to comply with the save/export spec
and use the same image name everywhere, not only in the title
- Fix positioning of pasted/dropped stuff to be more reasonable
Libgimp:
- Move gimpdir and thumbnails to proper locations on OSX
- Implement relocation on OSX
- Allow to use $(gimp_installation_dir) in config files
Plug-ins:
- Fix remembering of JPEG load/save defaults
- Revive the page setup dialog on Windows
Source and build system:
- Add Windows installer infrastructure
- Add infrastructure to build GIMP.app on OSX
General:
- Lots of bug fixes
- List of translation updates
