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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 2.8.4 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
