On 4/7/19 12:21 PM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > We just released GIMP 2.10.10, the fifth bugfix release in > the stable 2.10 series. > > As announced before, stable GIMP 2.10.x is open for new > features that are not too invasive or change the API, > and we got some good new stuff for you this time, too. > > For a complete list of changes since 2.10.8 please see the > "Changes" section below. > > There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org: > > https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/ > > Happy GIMPing, > --Mitch
Awesomeness!!!! Thanks for the announcement! Thanks to the GIMP team for their effort and amazing work! Peace... Tom > > Download > ======== > > GIMP 2.10.10 is available from: > > https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.10/ > > and from the mirrors listed at: > > https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors > > The sha256 and sha512 checksums of the tarball are: > > 12d1f243265c7aee1f2c6e97883a5c90ddc0b19b4346cf822e24adbb6c998c77 gimp- > 2.10.10.tar.bz2 > > 87caab9643a018e741e5e51c61220b7b282a66ed5bb723750cdf4139950f98c9ab246f4 > d6450420531d0e878c4561150efc4063cda896f08b25669bac4d1d172 gimp- > 2.10.10.tar.bz2 > > > 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). > > > Contributors: > ============= > > Alex Samorukov, Alexandre Prokoudine, Elad Shahar, Ell, Félix > Piédallu, Harald H, Jehan, Jernej Simončič, Kevin Stoffler, Massimo > Valentini, Michael Natterer, ONO Yoshio, Oleksii Samorukov, Richard > McLean, Salamandar, Skal, Veerasamy Sevagen, gaaned92, lillolollo, > oschlueter, sabri ünal, Øyvind Kolås. > > > Translators: > ============ > > Adam Ostruszka, Alan Mortensen, Alexandre Franke, Alexandre > Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Balázs Meskó, > Balázs Úr, Bruce Cowan, Christian Kirbach, Claude Paroz, Daniel > Korostil, Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos, Elad Shahar, Ell, > Jehan, Marco Ciampa, Martin Srebotnjak, Michael Natterer, Nathan > Follens, Piotr Drąg, Rodrigo Lledó, Ryuta Fujii, Rūdolfs Mazurs, > Sabri Ünal, Sangdo Jun, Snehalata B Shirude, Sveinn í Felli, Tim > Sabsch. > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
