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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 2.8.20 to GIMP 2.8.22
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GUI:
- improve drawing performance in single window mode, especially with
pixmap themes
macOS DMG:
- Make the launcher script also set BABL_PATH
- Add patch for GTK+ Bug 743717 to the build which concerns crashes
during clipboard operations with a clipboard manager active
- Add patch for GTK+ Bug 767091 to the build which concerns crashes
on some drag & drop operations
- generate OSX package metadata during build
Plug-ins:
- Fix for CVE-2007-3126, a bug in the ICO plug-in which allowed
context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
via an ICO file with an InfoHeader containing a Height of zero.
We couldn't reproduce any crash in recent version, but fixed the
error messages for good measure
- Avoid creating wrong layer group structure when importing PSD
files (already fixed in 2.8.20, didn't make it to the NEWS)
- Prevent a crash in PDF plug-in if images or resolution are large
- stop parsing invalid PCX files early and prevent a segmentation fault
General:
- if NOCONFIGURE is set, autogen.sh won't run configure
- VPATH builds for win32 targets have been fixed
Updated Translations:
- Basque
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Catalan
- Chinese (PRC)
- Finnish
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Kazakh
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.18 to GIMP 2.8.20
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Core:
- Avoid D-Bus error message when built without D-Bus support
- fix OS X min required conditional in gimpimagewindow.c
- Saving to existing .xcf.bz and .xcf.gz files didn't truncate them
and could lead to unnecessarily large files
- Text layer created by gimp-text-fontname doesn't respect border
when resized
- Avoid seeking when saving XCF files to prevent corruption with
file network shares (fixed since 2014, but not mentioned in NEWS yet)
GUI:
- Flow on Paint Dynamics editor dialog: the 'y' axis is indicating
'Rate' instead 'Flow'
- Vertical ruler shows artifacts if the status bar isn't showing
- Tablet stylus misbehaves when crossing the edge of a dock in
multi-window-mode
- Disable the new "automatic window tabbing" feature introduced on macOS
Sierra
- Improve the visibility of slider handles with dark themes
- Make it harder to switch to renaming if selecting already selected
items in resource lists
Tools:
- make toggling to color picker mode of paint tools more robust
Libgimp:
- call gimp_file_entry_set_filename() with filename encoding
Windows Installer:
- Reduce the memory requirement when running the installer (has
already been shipped in a 2.8.18 installer-only update)
- Ship an updated libcairo to fix GTK+ UI rendering problems, like
missing palette border/bevel and shadows under tab labels
macOS DMG:
- Ship the Tango icon theme with the DMG for a complete set of icons
- fix the way mime data is copied into the bundle
- no longer copy Pango modules into the bundle
- prevent a crash caused by drag&drop on OSX by patching the included
GTK+
- ship a patch for gettext to make sure the preferred UI language
will be used
Plug-ins:
- Prevent the Python console from closing by the Escape key
- Help browser does not launch on OS X
- Filter 'Edge Detect/Difference of Gaussians' returns empty image
- only use -xobjective-c for compile commands
- mkgen.pl: fix calls to write_file() routine to write to current
directory
- When printing, the images are composed onto a white background to
prevent printing a black box instead of a transparent image
- Fix color vision deficiency display filters to apply gamma
correction directly
Updated Translations:
- Catalan
- Czech
- Danish
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Scottish Gaelic
- Spanish
- Swedish
General:
- Bug fixes
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.16 to GIMP 2.8.18
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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
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.14 to GIMP 2.8.16
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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
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.12 to GIMP 2.8.14
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General:
- Fix libtool versioning (forgot to bump gimp_interface_age)
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.10 to GIMP 2.8.12
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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
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
