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|                    GNU Image Manipulation Program
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|                       2.10 Development Branch
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|                    ------------------------------
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| 
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| This used to be the development branch that lead to GIMP 2.10.
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| 
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| 
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| Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.0 RC2 to GIMP 2.10.0
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| =======================================================
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| 
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| Core:
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| 
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|   - CLI option --show-playground visible in --help.
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|   - Sample point dockable now works with more than 4 sample points.
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|   - Various warnings removed, multi-threading officially not
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|     "experimental" anymore…
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|   - Various fill and fade operations now use the current paint composite
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|     mode, allowing for instance filling to paint over transparent areas.
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|   - Default layer and paint modes are now Normal (instead of Legacy).
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|   - Be smarter about layer modes for new layers.
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|   - Get rid of the remaining places that were using the NORMAL_LEGACY
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|     mode by default (painting, some more).
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|   - Improve painting speed even more by even more evil C++.
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|   - Flipping drawables is much faster because it's now working
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|     tile-by-tile.
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|   - Gradient rendering is now much faster, using a cache.
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| 
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| Plug-ins:
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| 
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|   - Ripple plugin removed, compat PDB-API "plug-in-ripple" added
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|     instead.
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| 
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| PDB:
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| 
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|   - New procedure: gimp-item-transform-translate.
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|   - Make gimp-item-transform-* transform linked items too.
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|   - Deprecate gimp-color-balance and gimp-layer-translate.
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| 
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| Assets / Resources:
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| 
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|   - New "Fun" category for brushes (moving the "Pepper" there, which
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|     also gets improved resolution), and adding Wilber and GEGL brushes.
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|   - "Structure" brush obsoleted.
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|   - 5 new and more serious brushes.
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| 
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| Translations:
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| 
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|   - 6 translations were updated: Catalan, Danish, Finnish, Korean,
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|     Polish, Swedish.
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| 
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| 
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| Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.0 RC1 to GIMP 2.10.0 RC2
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| ===========================================================
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| 
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| Core:
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| 
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|   - Symmetries are now preserved in XCF files (saved as image parasites).
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|   - New runtime option --show-debug-menu in order to make the File >
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|     Debug menu visible.
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|   - Do not show invisible actions in search dialog.
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|   - Do not dither image mask and channels for imported images.
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|   - Various optimizations for painting and display (WIP), including
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|     parallelized painting code.
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|   - New "Misc" group to the Dashboard dock, with currently only a
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|     "Mipmapped" field showing the total size of processed mipmapped
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|     data.
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|   - Plug-ins debugging on crashes through --stack-trace-mode CLI option
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|     improved to handle more case.
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|   - Fix selection -> channel -> selection roundtrips by never doing
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|     any gamma conversion when converting between an image's selection,
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|     channels, masks. Also, make all channels linear in all images with
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|     >8bit.
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| 
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| Libgimp:
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| 
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|   - New group "drawable_edit" which contains all functions from "edit"
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|     that are not cut/copy/paste. The new functions have much less
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|     arguments and take them from the context instead. The respective
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|     functions in "edit" have been deprecated.
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|   - New functions in "context" to configure aspects of gradient
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|     drawing, and to set the built-in gradients (the new gradient
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|     function in "drawable_edit" doesn't have a parameter for the
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|     gradient type any longer).
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| 
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| User interface:
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| 
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|   - Lighter and Darker themes removed for now, Light and Dark themes
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|     rewritten from scratch to get rid of various usability issues and
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|     glitches. Only Gray theme from previous set kept as-is.
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|   - New GimpToolGyroscope on-canvas control, currently used for
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|     the Panorama Projection filter. The widget provides on-canvas
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|     interaction for 3D rotation (yaw, pitch, roll).
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| 
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| Configurability:
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| 
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|   - In Preferences > Dialog Defaults, new section "Filter Dialogs"
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|     created to customize various common features of filters, such as
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|     recent settings and advanced color options.
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|   - Do not default to last used filter settings, but allow this behavior
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|     in Preferences > Dialog Defaults, with checkbox "Default to the last
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|     used settings".
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| 
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| Tools:
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| 
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|   - Color used in the Smudge tool is now added to the color history.
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|   - "Blend" tool renamed to much more consistent "Gradient" tool.
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|     Also it can now work in linear RGB matching capabilities CSS/SVG
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|     specification without gamma-errors in color blending and CIE Lab
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|     which in addition keeps a perceptual graylevel.
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| 
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| Assets / Resources:
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| 
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|   - Adding 4K UHD in document templates (and fixing 4K DCI).
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| 
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| Building:
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| 
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|   - New --enable-bundled-mypaint-brushes option in configure to decide
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|     whether to use the configure-time installation path of MyPaint
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|     brushes, or use a path relative to GIMP installation prefix
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|     (typically for bundled binaries, such as on Windows or macOS).
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|   - Detect freetype2 using pkg-config (`freetype-config` is on its way
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|     out in various distributions apparently).
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|   - Appdata now installed to $PREFIX/share/metainfo/
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| 
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| Translations:
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| 
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|   - 8 translations were updated: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, French, Italian,
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|     Polish, Russian, Swedish.
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| 
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| 
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| Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.8 to GIMP 2.10.0 RC1
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| ======================================================
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| 
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| Core:
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| 
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|   - New dashboard dockable: shows the current GEGL cache and swap sizes
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|     and CPU usage and active time, and their recent history. It has
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|     options to control the update rate and history duration of the data,
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|     and an option to warn (by raising/blinking the dialog) when the swap
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|     size approaches its limit.
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|   - Make the selection boundary detection the same as 2.8.
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|   - The environment variable GIMP_DEBUG can now be set to "list-all" to
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|     display available debug domains. Non-recognized flags will also
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|     trigger the debug flag list output.
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|   - Improve migration from 2.8 to 2.10 by recursively migrating
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|     configuration files (up to 5 levels, to protect from recursive
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|     symbolic links).
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|   - Mark legacy plug-ins and scripts in menus.
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|   - Enable "save-tool-options" and "save-device-status" by default,
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|     it's the expected behavior these days.
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|   - GIMP doesn't warn any more for unknown darktable XMP metadata. We now
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|     register the corresponding namespace.
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|   - Adding settings for metadata export handling in "Image Import &
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|     Export" page of Preferences. By default, the settings are checked,
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|     but you can uncheck them (in particular since metadata can often
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|     contain a lot of sensitive information).
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|   - Splash image now scaled down to maximum 1/2 of the screen area. This
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|     will allow to ship a big splash image which will be visible on all
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|     type of screens, whichever low or high resolution. Vector splash
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|     images are scaled both up or down to have them always at ideal size.
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|   - Brightness-Contrast, Curves, Levels and Threshold are now available
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|     in "Repeat last" history.
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|   - Improve action history to not show newly excluded actions (which
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|     were already in our history from before the exclusion).
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|   - Use GEGL for transform-tools preview, allowing faster and more
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|     accurate previews.
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|   - Re-arrange color models in the Color dock (WIP).
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|   - New debug tool and infrastructure to handle WARNING and CRITICAL
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|     errors, as well as fatal errors (crashes), raising a pop-up with all
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|     version information on GIMP and its main dependencies, as well as
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|     the error message and backtraces, and encouraging people to make bug
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|     reports.
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|   - Support layer masks on layer groups.
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|   - GIMP now attempts to backup unsaved images when it crashes. Then at
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|     next startup, it will suggest to recover the salvaged images. Image
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|     recovery is not 100% guaranteed.
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|   - New gimp_spawn_async() function uses vfork() to help avoid hanging
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|     during a fork process, currently used for plug-ins.
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|   - Dock color picker is now color-managed on macOS.
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| 
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| Libgimp:
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| 
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|    - New gimp_export_exif(), gimp_export_xmp() and gimp_export_iptc()
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|      functions returning the creator choice regarding default handling
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|      for metadata export (as set in the Preferences).
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|    - GIMP Protocol version incremented.
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|    - New gimp_get_pdb_status() to return the status of the last PDB
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|      call. This is needed for plug-ins which depend on other plug-ins'
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|      procedures. If for instance, a second-level plug-in is interrupted
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|      interactively, we don't want to process this as an error but as a
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|      cancellation.
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|    - New gimp_stack_trace_available(), gimp_stack_trace_print() and
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|      gimp_stack_trace_query() for debugging.
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|    - Use gegl:distance-transform in gimp_edit_blend() implementation
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|      making it much faster for all GRADIENT_SHAPEBURST_* gradient types.
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|      Legacy gimp:shapeburst operation has been deleted.
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|    - New gimp_context_get_distance_metric() and
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|      gimp_context_set_distance_metric() for distance metric used in
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|      gimp_edit_blend() (and future usage).
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| 
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| GUI and Usability:
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| 
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|   - New icons: "gimp-attach", "gimp-color-space-linear",
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|     "gimp-color-space-perceptual", "gimp-color-temperature",
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|     "gimp-dashboard", "gimp-detach", "gimp-tool-desaturate",
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|     "gimp-tool-exposure", "gimp-tool-shadows-highlights".
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|   - Switching between linear and perceptual (gamma-corrected) spaces
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|     in the Histogram dialog is easier now: two buttons instead of one
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|     two-way button where current state was difficult to understand.
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|   - Shorten color channel labels in the color frame (color picker tool,
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|     sample point editor…) with conventional 1 or 2-letter abbreviations,
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|     and split coordinates on 2 lines.
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|   - We now switch to "Huge" icons by default when the display pixel
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|     density is over 250 PPI (used to be 300 PPI).
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|   - Improve action history sorting: items climb up the list faster,
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|     while top items retain their relative position longer.
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|   - Extend action search "initialism": Extend initialism-based search
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|     (e.g.: "gb" for "Gaussian Blur"), by matching arbitrarily-long
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|     initialisms, and by allowing partial matches (with lesser priority).
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|   - Values in the GimpNumberPairEntry widgets can now be cleared by clicking
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|     an icon.
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|   - Transform Grid controller is now available for custom UIs of GEGL
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|     operations (currently used for Recursive Transform op).
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|   - New GimpHighlightableButton widget is used to draw attention to buttons
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|     in certain cases. Currently used for anchoring and removing floating
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|     selections.
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|   - Composite modes were renamed to be more descriptive, as follows:
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|     Source Over       =>  Union
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|     Source Atop       =>  Clip to Backdrop
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|     Destination Atop  =>  Clip to Layer
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|     Source In         =>  Intersection
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| 
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| Configurability:
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| 
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|   - Wilber logo in the toolbox can now be disabled via Preferences
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|     (the Toolbox page).
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| 
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| Tools:
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| 
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|   - "Link brush size with canvas zoom" paint option becomes "Lock brush
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|     to view" to make a brush invariant in display space whichever
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|     scaling, rotation, and reflection.
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|   - Blend tool now displays the line length (in current shell unit and
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|     with ideal digit accuracy) and angle in the status bar.
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|   - Constrain line angles in display space: all tools which have a line
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|     constraint feature (for instance blend tool, paint tools in line
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|     mode, etc.) will now do so relatively to the display, allowing you
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|     to rotate the canvas in order to constrain to any arbitrary angle.
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|   - Levels and Curves can now work on linear light data, the toggles are
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|     at the top of respective dialogs, right next to linear/log toggles
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|     for the histogram.
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|   - Blend tool now has a distance metric option to determine how
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|     distances are computed (Euclidean, Manhattan or Chebyshev
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|     distances).
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| 
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| Filters:
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| 
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|   - New GEGL-based Shadows-Highlights filter now available in the Colors
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|     menu. The implementation is based on the code from darktable.
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| 
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| Plug-ins:
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| 
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|   - Screenshot with the generic Freedesktop API has been implemented. It
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|     is meant to replace all desktop environment specific APIs eventually
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|     but needs to get reasonable features first. Therefore currently
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|     GNOME/KDE and X11 implementations still have priority.
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|   - qbist ported to GEGL and float.
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|   - Colors for the standard output and standard error texts in the
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|     Python console are now themeable, mapping respectively to normal
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|     text and insensitive text colors for the "python-fu-console" widget.
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|     We updated the default colors a bit for our themes. If this is not
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|     good enough (for instance, if one has a specific type of color
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|     blindness), at least it is now possible to create a custom theme
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|     adapted to one's needs.
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|   - PSD export now happens with progress bar update for feedback.
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|   - Win32 Screenshot improved to handle hardware-rendered software and
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|     multi-monitor displays.
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| 
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| File formats:
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| 
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|   - Fix various vulnerabilities in file plug-ins: GBR (CVE-2017-17784),
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|     PSP (CVE-2017-17787 and CVE-2017-17789), TGA (CVE-2017-17786) and
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|     FLI (CVE-2017-17785).
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|   - Fix WebP export under Windows.
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|   - No more max dimension limitation for X cursors. We still warn when
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|     cursor size is over a max limit for X bitmap cursors, but we don't
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|     clamp anymore on export.
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|   - JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WebP export plug-ins updated to honor creator's
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|     default choice regarding metadata handling.
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|   - Fix GIH brushes using different-sized layers.
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|   - RGBE (Radiance HDR) format files can now be imported and exported.
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|   - JPEG2000 loading now done via OpenJPEG library and supports any bit
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|     depth (over 32-bit per channel will be clamped to 32-bit and
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|     non-multiple of 8-bit will be promoted, for instance 12-bit will end
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|     up as 16-bit per channel in GIMP). JPEG 2000 codestream also
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|     supported and displays a dialog asking for the color space (whereas
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|     JPEG 2000 image color space are auto-detected).
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|     JPEG 2000 images or codestream in YCbCr, xvYCC and CMYK color spaces
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|     are converted to sRGB images upon loading.
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| 
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| Building:
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| 
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|   - poppler and poppler-data now hard dependencies. PDF import is
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|     considered a granted feature nowadays and fallbacking to the
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|     Postscript plug-in was bad experience.
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|   - move PDB generation and sources to toplevel/pdb.
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|   - New configure option `--enable-windows-installer` to generate the
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|     necessary files for the installer translations during the build.
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|   - Improve POTFILES generation for po-*/ directories.
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|   - Require glib >= 2.54.2.
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|   - New dependency to mypaint-brushes-1.0 for stable MyPaint brushes
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|     available at installation.
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|   - AppStream ID renamed from gimp.desktop to org.gimp.GIMP following
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|     current convention.
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|   - Require fontconfig >= 2.12.4. Lower versions are particularly a
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|     problem on Win32, where many cache update failure were reported to
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|     us, resulting in very slow startup and close-up (and not only the
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|     first time, but every time).
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| 
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| Translations:
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| 
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|   - Windows installer now localized with gettext.
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|   - String freeze has started and GIMP received updates from:
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|     Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Danish,
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|     Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian,
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|     Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish,
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|     Swedish, Turkish.
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| 
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| 
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| Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.6 to GIMP 2.9.8
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| =================================================
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| 
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| Core:
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| 
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|   - The default brush is now "Hardness 050".
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|   - Verbose version (command line: gimp -v) now displays C compiler
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|     information.
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|   - Transform tools don't commit identity transformation anymore.
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|   - Manual language can now be selected amongst all installed manuals,
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|     which is particularly interesting when no GIMP manuals are available
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|     in your GUI language. This will be proposed by default when a manual
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|     is not installed for the GUI language (alongside the possibility to
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|     read online) and the choice can be edited in preferences.
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|   - The statusbar now blinks on warnings and errors.
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|   - Paste in Place, available for regular clipboard and named buffers,
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|     allows pasting contents of either the clipboard a named buffer at the
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|     exact coordinates it was copied from.
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|   - Color Picker should now work on KDE/Wayland.
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|   - Color Picker now reads values under cursor in local windows making
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|     it work at least inside GIMP Windows on Wayland platforms with no
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|     color-picking capabilities (for instance GNOME/Wayland) yet.
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|   - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and
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|     drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded
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|     implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy".
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|   - Now possible to open a locally-installed manual different from the
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|     GUI localization. The manual language choice can be customized
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|     through preferences when several manuals are installed. If no manual
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|     language has been selected already and no manual for current GUI
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|     localization is available, choice of help language will be proposed
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|     at first call to the manual.
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| 
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| Configurability:
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| 
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|   - Keybindings now possible for previous/next/top/bottom channel.
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| 
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| Usability:
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| 
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|   - The spinscale widget now highlights vertical parts of the slider
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|     section differently to hint that position of cursor above the widget
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|     matters. When changing values in the lower step section, the pointer
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|     will be wrapped around the screen so that you could continue adjusting
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|     the value without interruptions.
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|   - Canvas rotation and flip information is now visible in the status
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|     bar (as angle value and flip icon). Clicking on these canvas status
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|     will respectively raise the "Select Rotation Angle" dialog or unflip
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|     the canvas.
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|   - Use abbreviated versions for long layer mode names. In particular,
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|     replace the "(legacy)" suffixes with "(l)" in the abbreviated
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|     versions, still showing the unabbreviated names in the full list.
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| 
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| Tools:
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| 
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|   - Blend tool now features on-canvas gradient editing: adding, shifting,
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|     removing color stops, shifting midpoints and converting them to color
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|     stops, assignging colors to color stops, changing blending type
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|     for midpoints. Additional options: 'Instant mode' (active before you
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|     start blending) to support the old workflow where you can't edit color
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|     stops before applying the gradient fill, and 'Modify active gradient'
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|     which allows changing user-writable gradients directly rather than
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|     creating copies of them. Moreover, custom gradient is now saved
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|     and restored across sessions.
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|   - All transform tools: it makes no difference now whether a modifier is
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|     pressed before of after mouse button press/release.
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|   - Free Select tool selection can now be committed with double click as
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|     well (only through Enter key before). This allows smoother workflows
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|     on some setups, and in particular when no keyboard is available
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|     (e.g. tablet-like computers).
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|   - Layer group children now inherit the color tags of the parent by
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|     default, unless specific color tags are assigned. Inherited color
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|     tags show in a less saturated color than assigned ones.
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| 
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| Painting:
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| 
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|   - When copying a generated brush, GIMP now copies its 'Spacing' property.
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|   - Rename "Wheel" dynamics labels as "Wheel/Rotation". It turns out
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|     that Wacom Art Pen and Airbrush pen use the same axis for barrel rotation
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|     and wheel scrolling respectively. Therefore they already work in GIMP.
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|     "Unhide" the feature with more obvious labels.
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| 
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| Color management:
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| 
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|   - Use babl to convert between profiles if possible.
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| 
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| Display filters:
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| 
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|   - New 'Clip Warning' display filter to show underexposed and overexposed
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|     values. Target values below 0 and above 1.0, hence it only works on
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|     16/32 bit per channel float images (such as EXR and TIFF).
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|   - Display filters now operate in unbounded sRGB rather than in monitor
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|     color space.
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| 
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| Plug-ins:
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| 
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|   - Fix finding raw loaders on Windows/macOS.
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|   - Screenshot for KDE/Wayland has been implemented (full-screen and
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|     window screenshots only; rectangular area screenshots need
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|     implementation on the KDE side).
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|   - Screenshot can now add a delay between window pick/rectangular
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|     area selection and the actual shot, but only in platforms supporting
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|     the feature.
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| 
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| File formats:
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| 
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|   - PSD:
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|     - Fix mask position when opening/exporting.
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|     - Fix active layer selection during loading.
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|     - Fix potential group-layer naming conflict during loading.
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|     - Fix missing some attributes loading empty layers.
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|     - Fix reading files with deeply nested layer groups.
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|     - Load and save layer group expanded state.
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|     - Improve layer opacity loading/saving.
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|   - PDF: password-protected files can now be imported.
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|   - HGT: Digital Elevation Model data from NASA/NIMA can now be loaded,
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|     both SRTM-1 (1 arc-second) and SRTM-3 (3 arc-seconds).
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| 
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| Filters:
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| 
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|   - Update GEGL-based filter Wavelet Decompose:
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|     - Add an option to keep the decomposition in a layer group.
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|     - Add an option to add layer mask to each scales layers.
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|     - Do not use 'New from visible' because it produces unexpected
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|       results; replaced by succession of layer copy and merge down.
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| 
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| PDB:
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| 
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|   - Add file-pdf-load2 API to load password-protected and/or multi-page
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|     PDF files.
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|   - Add file-hgt-load to load HGT files, with an argument to select between
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|     SRTM-1 and SRTM-3 types.
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| 
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| Translations:
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| 
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|   - Updated: Catalan, Croatian, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian,
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|     Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish.
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| 
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| Building:
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| 
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|   - Require LittleCMS >= 2.8.
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|   - Initial docker-based build environment for GIMP now available.
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|   - Warn against use of GCC 7.2 which has a bug breaking GIMP.
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|   - An official flatpak stable package is now available on flathub.
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| 
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| Contributors:
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| 
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| Mario Blättermann, Hanno Boeck, Joao S O Bueno, Marco Ciampa,
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| Fran Dieguez, Piotr Drąg, Tobias Ellinghaus, Ell, Sveinn í Felli,
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| gogo, Luis Angel Gonzo, Anders Jonsson, Christian Kirbach,
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| Øyvind Kolås, Thomas Manni, Jordi Mas, Balázs Meskó, Lionel N,
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| Michael Natterer, Jehan Pagès, Juan Palacios, Alexandre Prokoudine,
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| Christopher Rogers, Michael Schumacher, shark0r, Dimitris Spingos,
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| Tobias Stoeckmann, Andika Triwidada, Massimo Valentini.
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| 
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| 
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| Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.4 to GIMP 2.9.6
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| =================================================
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| 
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| Core:
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| 
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|   - Make it possible to use multithreading in GEGL and raise max amount
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|     of threads to 64. Given how unstable this feature is, any value
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|     above 1 should be currently treated as a step inside an industrial
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|     microwave oven with the on/off switch on the outside.
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|   - New clipboard implementation allows copying/pasting layers and
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|     layer groups.
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|   - Color tags simplify managing large projects with a lot of layers
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|     and layer groups.
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|   - The Mouse Pointer dialog and colors applied to images are now
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|     color-managed.
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|   - Gamma and precision selectors for newly created images.
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|   - Never dither when converting to a higher bit depth, or to anything
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|     more than 16 bits; don't offer dithering options in these cases.
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|   - Default to linear TRC when converting to 16-bit float.
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|   - Pre-initialize some babl-based pixel format conversion routines
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|     at start-up to decrease the initial lazy initialization cost for
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|     some interactions.
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|   - Remove max size limitation of 4GB for XCF files.
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|   - Support clipboard images in the clipboard brush and pattern.
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|   - libgimp calls are now thread-safe.
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| 
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| Layers and compositing:
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| 
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|   - Layer modes' code is now refactored to separate gamma-corrected
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|     variations from the linear light ones, legacy modes have been
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|     preserved to support older XCF files. UI to switch between the two
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|     is experimental and should be treated as a temporary design.
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|   - Blending and compositing of layers are configurable separately for
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|     more flexibility now, compositing can be linear TRC, perceptual TRC
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|     or CIE LAB.
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|   - Layer blending color space and compositing color space are
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|     configurable now.
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|   - Layers created from the GUI and from plug-ins now default to
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|     normal mode (not normal-legacy), unless all the existing layers
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|     in the image are also in legacy mode.
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|   - New layer modes: linear burn, vivid light, linear light, pin light,
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|     hard mix, exclusion, merge, split, luminance (rgb), pass-through
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|     (for layer groups only).
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|   - Make erase mode an ordinary layer/paint mode.
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|   - Better performance of HSV-based layer modes.
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|   - Rename "Color (HSV)" mode to "Color (HSL)" to indicate the actual
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|     color space being used.
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| 
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| On-canvas interaction changes:
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| 
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|   - Refactor on-canvas interaction code out of some of the tools and
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|     make it reusable.
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|   - Update tools accordingly.
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|   - Make on-canvas interaction accessible to GEGL-based filters and
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|     use it in the Spiral and Supernova filters as a test case.
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| 
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| GUI and usability:
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| 
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|   - Easily add or remove layer masks by clicking either the layer
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|     preview or a new button in the Layers dialog.
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|   - Enhance the Layer Attributes dialog to provide the single UI for
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|     setting layer's name, blending mode, opacity, and offset,
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|     toggling visibility, link status, various locks, color tags.
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|   - Add a Save As button to the “Quit GIMP” dialog and raise images
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|     on click for easy checks.
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|   - Allow to choose fill color when resizing layers and images.
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|   - Quick Mask and Channel Attributes dialogs use the new spinscale
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|     widget for the  mask opacity slider.
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|   - Enable grid views of dynamics and tool presets.
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|   - Allow to zoom with middle mouse button + control + drag up/down.
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|   - For all paint tools, when switching to the color picker mode,
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|     don't rely on the exact modifier being pressed or released. Instead,
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|     check if only the right modifier is pressed after *each* modifier
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|     change, and switch to color picking if it is.
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|   - On startup, GIMP checks for duplicate accelerators in menus, and
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|     removes duplicates.
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|   - Standard (Freedesktop) and GTK+ icons can now be set by the icon
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|     theme for a fully consistent style.
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|   - Many new icons.
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|   - Toolbox buttons do not grab focus anymore, which used to break
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|     usage of the Tab key and other canvas-related shortcuts after
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|     changing tools with a pointing device click.
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|   - Delete Layer/Channel/Path are consistently the last option in
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|     respective dialogs now.
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|   - Extend the text along the tangent of the last path stroke, when
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|     the length of the path is shorter than the width of the text to be
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|     warped.
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|   - Allow to toggle the histogram dialog between gamma and linear.
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|   - New 'Colors -> Linear Invert' command to provide radiometrically
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|     correct color inversion.
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|   - Quit dialog now exits when all the images in the list have been
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|     saved.
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|   - The built-in error dialog now displays errors outputted by GEGL.
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|   - Shift-clicking the visibility icon of a layer in a layer group now
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|     toggles its exclusive visibility within this layer group.
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| 
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| Color selection and management:
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| 
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|   - Add the profile import policy to Preferences -> Import.
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|   - Color management for GEGL-based filters is expensive, so it's off
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|     by default for now, and options are hidden by default too.
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|   - Add LCH color selector, with support for gamut checking.
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|   - Default to magenta for out-of-gamut color.
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|   - Make all script-fu color buttons color-managed.
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| 
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| Configurability:
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| 
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|   - Remember settings of many dialogs across sessions.
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|   - New Interface / Dialog Defaults page in the Preferences dialog to
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|     control defaults values of various dialogs.
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|   - Settings on some individual pages of the Preferences dialog can be
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|     reset separately now.
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|   - Vertical scrollbar added to keep the height of the Preferences
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|     dialog fitting small displays.
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|   - Allow mouse to optionally configure tablet devices
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|   - Allow creating shortcuts containing the Cmd key + mouse wheel events.
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|   - Default to 300ppi and 1920x1080px for new documents.
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|   - Default to 62px font size.
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|   - Do not allow Alt+[0-9] shortcuts, they are typically reserved for
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|     display switching.
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|   - Icons size is now a configurable option, not a theme feature.
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|     The icon size is also auto-guessed from monitor resolution now.
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|   - It is now possible to have keybindings for previous/next/top/bottom
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|     vectors.
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| 
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| Tools:
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| 
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|   - Complete the Handle Transform tool and make it available by default.
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|   - Add Hue-Chroma operation/tool that operates in CIE LCH color space.
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|   - Replace Color Balance, Colorize and Hue-Saturation with GEGL-based
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|     filters with a custom user interface to ease future transition to
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|     non-destructive editing planned for v3.2. Remove the "Image -> 
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|     Tools -> Color Tools" submenu.
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|   - The Move tool now shows relative coordinates when moving guides
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|     and sample points.
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|   - The Measure tool has better digit precision now (before that, at
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|     4000 PPI, up to 7 pixels would show up as 0 mm, then at 0.1 mm from
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|     the 8th pixel etc.).
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|   - All paint tools now display the angle (relatively to the horizontal
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|     line, centered on previously drawn position) alongside distance in
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|     status bar when straight line constraining (holding shift when
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|     painting).
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|   - Performance of the Fuzzy Select and the Bucket Fill tool has been
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|     improved.
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|   - The Fuzzy Select and the Bucket Fill tool now can select colors by
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|     CIE L, C, and H.
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|   - Unclutter transform tools: default to "no grid", hide the original
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|     layer during the interactive transform (except for the Flip tool).
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|   - Make the Warp Transform tool faster, add more options, use
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|     the linear sampler to ensure crisp lines after an erase.
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|   - Select by Color and Color Picker tools work now correctly in color
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|     spaces other than sRGB.
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|   - Free Select tool now waits for Enter being pressed to confirm
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|     selection, which enables you to tweak positions of polygonal selection.
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|   - Color Picker doesn't snap to anything when picking colors anymore,
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|     always draws the outline of the averaged region (not only while the
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|     mouse is being pressed), and supports arbitrary range of values
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|     regardless of the actual image color precision.
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|   - Color Picker now displays pick position (also visible in the
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|     Sample Points dialog now), as well as values in CIE LAB and CIE LCH.
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|   - Uncommitted selection by the Intelligent Scissors tool is not
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|     discarded on tool change anymore.
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|   - For Intelligent Scissors, GIMP now checks whether the first and the
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|     last isegments are distinct before closing the curve.
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|   - Flip tool: add Clipping option to the flip tool. Add support for
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|     reflecting across guides: when clicking on a guide while using the
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|     Flip tool, reflect the active item across the guide, rather than
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|     around its center.
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| 
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| Painting:
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| 
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|   - The Smudge tool now has a Flow control that allows mixing in both
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|     constant and gradient color while smudging. There's another new
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|     option to never decrease alpha of existing pixels while smudging
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|     in the tools options now as well.
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|   - Rulers, scrollbars, and the Navigation dialog follow canvas
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|     rotation now.
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|   - Canvas rotation is now snappier in certain cases.
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|   - For bitmap brushes, GIMP now caches hardness and disables dynamic
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|     change of hardness to improve painting performance. Bitmap brushes
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|     also don't get clipped anymore, when hardness is less than 100.
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|   - Allow painting on transparent layers with modes other than normal.
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|   - Add a specialized convolution algorithm for the hardness blur
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|     to make it faster.
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|   - Make the Force option insensitive for the Pencil tool.
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|   - Add new "Pressure Size" dynamics.
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| 
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| File Formats:
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| 
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|   - Make the default raw (DSLR) image importer configurable.
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|   - Add RawTherapee plug-in to pre-process various raw (DSLR) images,
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|     RawTherapee v5.2 is the minimum requirement.
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|   - Add new file-raw-placeholder plug-in that registers itself for
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|     loading all raw formats from file-raw/file-formats.h, but does
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|     nothing except returning an error message pointing to darktable
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|     and RawTherapee.
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|   - Add native WebP loader/exporter with support for ICC profiles,
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|     animation, metadata.
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|   - The TIFF loader will not generate warnings about private tags
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|     anymore.
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|   - Handle linear gamma PNG files correctly, provide a combo box for
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|     specifying PNG bit depth / variant at exporting time.
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|   - Add support for linear burn, linear light, vivid light, pin light,
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|     and hard mix layer modes in PSD (importing and exporting).
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|   - Load PSD files with layers which contain additional information
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|     with a length that is not divisible by 4.
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|   - Add support to import/export layer color tags from/to PSD files.
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|   - Optionally convert all imported (not XCF) images to 32-bit linear
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|     floating point, and optionally add a little noise in order to
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|     distribute the colors minimally.
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|   - Optionally add alpha channel to layers of imported images
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|     (configurable in Preferences > Import).
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|   - Support writing PNM files with 16-bit image precision.
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|   - Improve support for PCX files:
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|     * saving 1bpp and 4bpp images (according to palette size).
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|     * loading 2bpp, 2 planes/1bpp, 3 planes/1bpp and 4bpp images.
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|     * non-Black&White monochrome PCX files (any 2 colors according to
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|       the palette).
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|   - Add support for exporting multi-page PDF from image layers, with
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|     optional reversed order.
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|   - Add RLE support for RGB565 in file-csource.
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| 
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| Metadata:
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| 
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|   - Add new metadata viewer that uses Exiv2 to display Exif, XMP, IPTC,
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|     and DICOM metadata (the latter is displayed on the XMP tab).
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|   - Add metadata editor that supports adding/editing writing XMP, IPTC,
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|     DICOM, and GPS/Exif metadata, as well as loading/exporting metadata
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|     from/to XMP files.
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| 
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| Printing:
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| 
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|   - Print resolution can now be reset to defaults, new values for the
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|     same image is actually used now without reloading the image.
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| 
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| Plug-ins:
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| 
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|   - The Screenshot plug-in now assigns either monitors profile or
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|     converts to sRGB.
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|   - The Screenshot plug-in can now take screenshots of a single window
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|     and include the mouse pointer in the same time (if the desktop/OS
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|     allows it).
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|   - Port smooth-palette to GEGL.
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|   - Enhance the raw (not the digital negative) files plugin:
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|     introduce exporting settings and remember them across sessions,
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|     make the plugin invokable non-interactively, and more.
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|   - Plug-ins can now be installed into first level directories of a
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|     plug-ins/ folder. This is in particular to avoid the "DLL hell"
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|     with shared libraries installed by a plug-in, interfering with other
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|     unrelated plug-ins. The entry point file has to be named the same as
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|     the directory (minus extension).
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| 
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| Filters:
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| 
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|   - Add GEGL-based filters: Neon (Edge detection), Wavelet Decompose,
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|     Image Gradient, Symmetric Nearest Neighbor, Extract Component,
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|     RGB Clip, Simple Linear Iterative Clustering, Waterpixels, Spiral.
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|   - Add rotate/flip buttons to the Convolution Matrix filter's GUI
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|     to rotate/flip the matrix.
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|   - For GEGL-based filters, use a new metadata language to dynamically
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|     control UI attributes based on context (e.g. auto-disable
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|     unapplicable options).
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|   - Allow filter actions to have hardcoded default operation settings
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|     by encoding them directly in the string attached to all filter
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|     actions.
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| 
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| Color Palettes:
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| 
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|   - Merge Palettes command is available for multiple selected color
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|     palettes now.
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| 
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| Assets / Resources:
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| 
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|   - Some basic presets are available for the Crop tool now: 2x3,
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|     3x4, 16:10, 16x9, and square.
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|   - Documents templates have been updated and now feature popular,
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|     contemporary document presets for both print and digital media.
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| 
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| PDB:
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| 
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|   - Rename *-paste-as-new to *-paste-as-new-image.
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|   - Add PDB API for layer blend space, compositing space, and
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|     compositing mode.
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| 
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| Build:
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| 
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|   - Depend on LCMS2.7+ now, because earlier LCMS2 releases caused
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|     problems with certain GIMP blend modes.
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|   - Depend on libpng 1.6.25+ to avoid warnings about known incorrect
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|     sRGB profiles, also avoid various vulnerabilities.
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|   - Depend on glib-networking now for HTTPS support.
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|   - Depend on librsvg 2.40.6 which fixes rendering bugs.
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|   - Add a flatpak-builder manifest.
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| 
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| OS-specific changes:
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| 
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|   - Help browser launches on macOS now.
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| 
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| Bugs:
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| 
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|   - Overall 204 bugs have been fixed or partially addressed since
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|     GIMP 2.9.4.
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| 
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| Translations:
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| 
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|   - Updated: Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish,
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|     Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian,
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|     Kazakh, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic,
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|     Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.
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| 
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| 
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| Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.2 to GIMP 2.9.4
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| =================================================
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| 
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| Core:
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| 
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|   Color Management:
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|   - add new GimpColorTransform object to create abstraction from LittleCMS
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|   - now color-managed:
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|     - layer/image/color palette/gradient/pattern previews
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|     - Color Picker tool
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|     - color buttons of GimpColorHistory
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|     - GimpFgBgEditor, as used e.g. in the toolbox
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|     - color selectors
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|     - DND widget
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|     - painting tools
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|     - copying layers/paste buffer between images
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|     - Colors applied to images
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|     - GimpColorPanel and its color dialog (color widgets in dialogs)
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|     - color areas created from menu actions
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|   - color management for grayscale images, including setting preferred
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|     ICC profile
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|   - add fast switching between color managed display and soft-proofing
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|   - add a per-image "is color managed" switch and show the image's
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|     "is color managed" state in the window title string
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|   - add basic support for creating images with color profiles
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|   - add "Optimize" options for display and soft-proofing to optionally
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|     speed-up rendering at the cost of color fidelity
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|   - add Image -> Color Management -> Save Color Profile to File...
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|   - improve the naming of generated ICC profiles
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|   - add a shortcut to the profile chooser dialog on OS X too
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|   - don't let display color management settings affect file import
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|   - enable color management when a profile is assigned to the image
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|   - enable color management when the image is converted from/to grayscale
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|   - pass the right color profile around in gimp_selection_float()
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|   - hardcode the CMYK selector's conversion parameters, as well as NTSC
 | |
|     parameters in babl/GEGL/GIMP
 | |
|   - have all previews track the monitor they are on
 | |
| 
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|   Core:
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|   - add "Select -> Flood" select action
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|   - add "Select -> Remove Holes" action
 | |
|   - add "Border style" combo to the "Select -> Border..." dialog
 | |
|   - do not request xcf compat mode when compat_toggle not sensitive
 | |
|   - initialize fontconfig in the background to be able to show a pulsing
 | |
|     progress bar when rebuilding the list of fonts (typically, the first
 | |
|     time GIMP runs)
 | |
|   - fix the Behind blending mode
 | |
|   - make Burn mode output match Gimp 2.8 (partial revert of bug 744265)
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|   - improve file magic matching
 | |
|   - add a custom guide concept
 | |
|   - improve updating the statusbar messages and icons
 | |
| 
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| 
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| GUI:
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| 
 | |
|   Menus:
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|   - move the image-duplicate action next to image-new
 | |
|   - add Image -> Color Management -> Color Management Enabled
 | |
|   - change "Select _Custom Color..." to "_Custom Color..."
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|   - change "Export" to "Export..." in the File menu
 | |
| 
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|   Dialogs:
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|   - include recently used colors in the Dockable Colors dialog
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|   - add RGB-based Luminance channel to the Histogram dialog
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|   - fix remembering the order of dockable dialogs
 | |
| 
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|   Preferences:
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|   - reorder the prefs categories tree and rename some pages
 | |
|   - move "Snap Distance" to the prefs dialog's "Snapping" page
 | |
|   - add configuration for undo preview size
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|   - clean-up Preferences -> Color Management
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|   - add "Shortcut [some modifier] + Mousewheel" for changing pen size
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Themes:
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|   - rename theme "Default" into "System"
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|   - add new GUI themes: Lighter, Light, Gray, Dark, Darker
 | |
| 
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|   Icons:
 | |
|   - add icon theme selection and make the icon theme path configurable in prefs
 | |
|   - preserve 2.8 pixel-perfect icon theme under the name "Legacy"
 | |
|   - add new symbolic icon theme for GIMP
 | |
|   - add a scalable icon theme and a configure option --enable-vector-icons
 | |
| 
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|   Widgets:
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|   - add new GimpBufferSourceBox widget and use it in GimpOperationTool
 | |
| 
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|   View/Display:
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|   - fix various bugs related to rotated canvas
 | |
|   - make GIMP not ignore 'Maximized' hints on startup in Windows
 | |
|   - enable a pulsing progress bar in the splash
 | |
|   - make new images jump around much less
 | |
|   - fix image position when entering/leaving fullscreen mode
 | |
|   - make layer boundary re-drawn correctly on scrolling
 | |
|   - make images not appear completely black when images dockable is visible
 | |
|   - have all previews track the monitor they are on
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| 
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| 
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| Tools:
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| 
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|   Fuzzy Select:
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|   - add "Diagonal neighbors" option
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| 
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|   Foreground Select:
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|   - fix ghost brush outline
 | |
| 
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|   Bucket Fill:
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|   - add "Diagonal neighbors" option
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| 
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|   Posterize:
 | |
|   - turn the posterize tool into an ordinary GEGL filter
 | |
|   - remove posterize from Tools -> Colors
 | |
| 
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|   Desaturate:
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|   - turn the Desaturate tool into a normal GEGL filter
 | |
|   - move "Desaturate" to Colors -> Desaturate
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| 
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|   Align:
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|   - add vertical offset to distribution options
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Paths:
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|   - improve performance
 | |
| 
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|   Flip:
 | |
|   - rename options to "Transform" and "Direction"
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Cage Transform:
 | |
|   - fix a few performance issue
 | |
| 
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|   Unified Transform:
 | |
|   - make the tool not fail when currently selected layer is hidden
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Text:
 | |
|   - fix text input methods to work in-place (not in an overlayed box)
 | |
|   - add background colors setting, only exposed for advanced input methods
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Blend:
 | |
|   - use gegl:distance-transform in the blend tool, it has a progress now
 | |
|   - make shapeburst work with the new interactive gradient code
 | |
| 
 | |
|   All Painting Tools:
 | |
|   - add mirror symmetry
 | |
|   - remove artifacts from painting tools in Burn blending mode
 | |
|   - add shortcut actions for changing spacing, hardness, and force
 | |
| 
 | |
|   MyPaint:
 | |
|   - dramatically improve performance of the tool and enable it by default
 | |
|   - add Colorize mode
 | |
|   - add a toggle to change between erase & paint mode
 | |
|   - add a brush selector to the MyPaint brush options
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|   - add a dockable dialog to choose a brush, with tagging
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|   - read tags from MyPaint brushes
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|   - improve blend math
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|   - allow plug-ins to register procedures in the <MyPaintBrushes> menu
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| 
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|   Smudge:
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|   - fix the clipping of out-of-gamut channel values
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|   - fix the handling of layers with alpha channels
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| 
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|   Ink:
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|   - the range of angle is now [-PI..PI]
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| 
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| 
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| Plug-ins/GEGL Filters:
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| 
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|   Preview:
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|   - add a "split preview" feature to GEGL ops
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|   - allow to switch the split preview between horizontal and vertical
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|   - allow to swap the before/after position
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| 
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|   Filters:
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|   - update the "Recently used" menu with GEGL filters
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|   - replace Selective Gaussian Blur with the GEGL version
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|   - add gegl:saturation as Colors -> Saturation
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|   - add gegl:high-pass as Filters > Enhance > High Pass
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|   - add new gegl:gegl filter that executes a custom processing chain
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|   - port Tile and Pagecurl plug-ins to GEGL
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|   - refactor the screenshot plug-in into backend and front-ends, one
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|     per X.org, Wayland, Windows, OS X
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|   - add Monochrome option to the GEGL version of Channel Mixer
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|   - bring dialog titles and help IDs to GEGL filter dialogs
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| 
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|   File Plug-Ins:
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|   - add darktable plug-in to pre-process various raw images
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|   - port file-gif-save and file-tiff to GIO
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|   - TIFF support:
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|     - make libtiff a hard dependency
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|     - merge the file-tiff-load and file-tiff-save plug-ins
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|     - fix various tiff exporting bugs
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|   - EXR support:
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|     - read comment, Exif, and XMP data from EXR files
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|     - use GIMP's internal profile when loading EXR
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|   - PSD support:
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|     - fix the loading of files with adjustment or fill layers
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|     - fix the reading of layer group structure
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|   - fix the raw image loader
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|   - fix the layer groups support in OpenRaster
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|   - code cleanup in file-bmp
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|   - fix the exporting of KISS - CELL (*.cel) images
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|   - resurrect the email plugin
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|   - use GIO to figure if a file is hidden
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| 
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|   PyGimp:
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|   - update pyconsole code
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|   - add binding for GimpImageType
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|   - add GimpColorConfig object
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|   - add type definition for GimpColorManaged
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|   - make GimpParasite type known to the code generator
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|   - require Pycairo in configure, link gimpui against pycairo
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|   - fix the application of paintbrush size in Python scripts
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| 
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|   Script-Fu:
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|   - make regex matching return character indexes
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|   - fix the hanging of Script-fu on machines with 64-bit longs
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|   - update tinyscheme code from upstream
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| 
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| 
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| PDB:
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| 
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|   - Bug 759104 - Allow coordinates of sample points to be accessed from scripts
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| 
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| 
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| Build:
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| 
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|   build/win:
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|   - Start building libmypaint.
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|   - Add pcre and upgrade glib2 to 2.48.1
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|   - Upgrade exiv2 to 0.25
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|   - Clear DISPLAY before building
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|   - Disable webkitgtk
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| 
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| 
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| OS-specific changes:
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| 
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|   Windows:
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|   - Add support for generating crash backtraces using Dr. MingW
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| 
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| 
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| Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.0 to GIMP 2.9.2
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| =================================================
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| 
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| 
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| Core:
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| 
 | |
|   The core got completely ported to GEGL, listing all changes involved
 | |
|   would be too much, therefore we summarize the changes in app/ per
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|   source subdirectory:
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| 
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|   base
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|   composite
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|   paint-funcs:
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|   - Remove these directories, they contained the old pixel
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|     manipulation functions
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| 
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|   config:
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|   - Remove GimpBaseConfig, add GimpGeglConfig
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|   - Add config options for new features
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| 
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|   core:
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|   - Add some things that used to live in base/, like the temp-buf,
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|     boundary and histogram code
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|   - Port all functions to GEGL and higher bit depths
 | |
|   - Keep the image around as GEGL graph, all other compositing is gone
 | |
|   - Add non-destructive drawable filters, but use them only for previews
 | |
|   - Implement the floating selection as drawable filter
 | |
|   - Implement GimpImageMap using drawable filters
 | |
|   - Move batch processing to gimp-batch.[ch]
 | |
|   - Run batch commands in an already running GIMP instance
 | |
|   - Ported almost everything from filenames/FILE/fd to GFile/GIO
 | |
|   - Be smarter about migrating old user config files
 | |
|   - Move many object struct members to private structs
 | |
| 
 | |
|   file:
 | |
|   - Support GIO-ported file load/save procs, handle remote files generically
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Add content locking to items to prevent them from being edited
 | |
|   - Add position locking to items to prevent them from being translated
 | |
|   - Implement all color management in the core
 | |
|   - Add an automatic palette of recently used colors
 | |
|   - Implement metadata handling in the core
 | |
| 
 | |
|   gegl:
 | |
|   - Now contains utility functions and abstractions to work with
 | |
|     GEGL more easily
 | |
|   - Move all operations to the new operations/ directory
 | |
| 
 | |
|   operations:
 | |
|   - New directory containing all GIMP-internal GEGL operations
 | |
|     and their config objects (if any)
 | |
|   - Add a correct version of the overlay layer mode
 | |
|   - Add LCH layer modes
 | |
| 
 | |
|   paint:
 | |
|   - Port all paint cores to Gegl
 | |
|   - Add MyPaint brush paint core
 | |
| 
 | |
|   pdb:
 | |
|   - Add compat procedures that work like the removed plug-ins
 | |
|   - Use the new GimpValueArray, GValueArray got deprecated
 | |
| 
 | |
|   plug-in:
 | |
|   - Allow plug-ins to access image data at full bit depth
 | |
|   - Add a compat mode so unported plug-ins always get 8-bit data
 | |
| 
 | |
|   text:
 | |
|   - Port text rendering to GEGL
 | |
|   - Use HarfBuzz to inspect fonts for creating an example string
 | |
| 
 | |
|   xcf:
 | |
|   - Add zlib compression to XCF loading/saving
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| GUI:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Add GUI to handle the new high bit depths and conversion between them
 | |
|   - Add new action group "filters" which can run arbitrary GEGL ops
 | |
|   - Add lots of actions invoking GEGL ops that replace removed plug-ins
 | |
|   - Preview all GEGL ops live on the canvas, using drawable filters
 | |
|   - Mostly switch from using stock-ids to icon-names
 | |
|   - Turn all stock icons into named icons and add an icon theme
 | |
|   - Allow selecting colors from an image's colormap
 | |
|   - Add "Show in file manager" to everything that has a filename
 | |
|   - Add an action search dialog to find actions by keyword and execute them
 | |
|   - Split the save dialog into subclasses for load, save and export
 | |
|   - Implement various color management dialogs that were in the lcms plug-in
 | |
|   - Make sure windows appear on the correct monitor
 | |
|   - Simplify and reduce the actions that modify paint tool behavior
 | |
|   - Add canvas rotation and flipping
 | |
|   - Allow zooming to the selection
 | |
|   - Make the image tab position configurable in single window mode
 | |
|   - Add separate snapping settings for fullscreen mode
 | |
|   - Remove bitmaps cursors and only support RGBA cursors
 | |
|   - Color manage drawable and image thumbnails
 | |
|   - Add more format string options for the image title
 | |
|   - Use the external gtkosxapplication package instead of included code
 | |
|   - Add a generic GimpPopup class and use it instead of duplicating code
 | |
|   - Make the generated GUI of GEGL ops much better
 | |
|   - Allow to implement custom GUI for gegl ops, and do that in some cases
 | |
|   - Add GimpDial, GimpPolar and GimpCircle to be used for angle and hue picking
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Tools:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Add an "experimental playground" for unfinished tools
 | |
|   - (experimental) Add a tool that paints with MyPaint brushes
 | |
|   - (experimental) Add an n-point deformation tool
 | |
|   - (experimental) Add a transform tool with a variable # of handles
 | |
|   - (experimental) Add a seamless clone tool
 | |
|   - Add a unified transform tool that allows rotating, scaling, perspective
 | |
|   - Add a warp tool as replacement for the IWarp plug-in
 | |
|   - Allow tool dialogs to be embedded on the canvas generically
 | |
|   - Add much more options to painting, like the ability to lock
 | |
|     tool options to brush defaults, and to zoom the brush with the canvas
 | |
|   - Make the blend tool work interactively in realtime
 | |
|   - Add undo/redo to many tools (using the normal shortcuts)
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Libgimp:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Deprecate the entire old pixel manipulation API
 | |
|   - Add API to get a drawable's buffer, the rest can be done with GEGL
 | |
|   - Add high bit depth support when using the new buffer API
 | |
|   - Make many enum value names sane and deprecate the old names
 | |
|   - Many core enums moved here instead of proxying them via PDB generation
 | |
|   - Add API to stroke vector outlines, with all core properties
 | |
|   - Add more context API that affects other procedures
 | |
|   - Deprecate API with weird names, and add new API with less arguments
 | |
|   - Add metadata and color management API, utility functions and widgets
 | |
|   - Split GimpPickButton into per-platform backends and fix it on OS X
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Plug-ins:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Remove lots of plug-ins that are now implemented as GEGL ops
 | |
|   - Remove the lcms plug-in, this is now done in the core/libgimp
 | |
|   - Remove the metadata plug-ins, this is now done in the core/libgimp
 | |
|   - Remove the file-uri plug-in, this is now done in the core using GIO
 | |
|   - Port many file plug-ins to GIO
 | |
|   - Port many plug-ins that are not strictly filters to GEGL
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Source and build system:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Don't use INCLUDES in Makefile.am, use AM_CPPFLAGS instead
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| General:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Lots and lots of bug fixes
 | |
|   - Translation updates
 |