Version history for GIMP for Windows (32/64-bit)
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Changes for v2.8.10 - v2.4.18
- 2.8.12 release had broken library versioning, so we had to roll out GIMP 2.8.14 today. The only change is the fixed libtool versioning.
Changes for v2.8.6 - v2.8.8
- Core:
- - Make sure indexed images always have a colormap
- - Fix language selection via preferences on Windows
- - Don't crash on setting a large text size
- GUI:
- - Keep the same image active when switching between MWM and SWM
- - Make sure all dockables are properly resizable (particularly shrinkable)
- - Add links to jump directly to Save/Export from the Export/Save
- file extension warning dialogs
- Libgimp:
- - Fix GimpPickButton on OSX
- Plug-ins:
- - Properly document plug-in-autocrop-layer's PDB interface
- - Fix importing of indexed BMPs
- General:
- - Fix lots of places to use GIO to get proper file sizes and times on windows
- - Add an AppData file for GIMP
- - Backport lcms2 support from master, because lcms1 is not getting
- bug fixes any longer
- - Lots of bug fixes
- - Lots of translation updates
Changes for v2.8.4 - v2.8.6
- Core:
- - Fix saving to URIs, it was broken to only allow exporting, and fix
- save/export of compressed files
- - Fix brush spacing for drawing in any direction
- - Increase the maximum size of clipboard brushes and patterns to 1024x1024
- - Make sure data objects are saved when only their name was changed
- GUI:
- - Don't allow single-window docks to shrink smaller than their requisition
- - Make sure a single-window's right docks keep their size across sessions
- - Allow to change the spacing of non-generated brushes again
- - In single-window mode, make Escape move the focus to the canvas,
- and beep if the focus is already there
- - Be smarter about unavailable fonts, and don't crash
- - Make clicking the single-window's close button quit GIMP
- - Make view-close (Ctrl+W) only close image windows and tabs, not docks
- Libgimp:
- - Add SIGNED_ROUND() which also rounds negative values correctly
- Plug-ins:
- - Make GIMP_PLUGIN_DEBUG work again after GLib changed logging
- - Fix zealous crop for transparent borders
- Installer:
- - Add Hungarian translation
- Data:
- - Add a default "Color from Gradient" dynamics and tool preset
- General:
- - Lots of bug fixes
- - Lots of translation updates
Changes for v2.8.0 - v2.8.2
- Core:
- - Make tag matching always case-insensitive
- - Let the tile-cache-size default to half the physical memory
- GUI:
- - Mention that the image was exported in the close warning dialog
- - Make sure popup windows appear on top on OSX
- - Allow file opening by dropping to the OSX dock
- - Fix the visibility logic of the export/overwrite menu items
- - Remove all "Use GEGL" menu items, they only add bugs and zero function
- - Improve performance of display filters, especially color management
- - Fix the image window title to comply with the save/export spec
- and use the same image name everywhere, not only in the title
- - Fix positioning of pasted/dropped stuff to be more reasonable
- Libgimp:
- - Move gimpdir and thumbnails to proper locations on OSX
- - Implement relocation on OSX
- - Allow to use $(gimp_installation_dir) in config files
- Plug-ins:
- - Fix remembering of JPEG load/save defaults
- - Revive the page setup dialog on Windows
- Source and build system:
- - Add Windows installer infrastructure
- - Add infrastructure to build GIMP.app on OSX
- General:
- - Lots of bug fixes
- - List of translation updates
Changes for v2.6.5 - v2.6.6
- Bugs fixed:
- 571117 lcms plug-in crashes on broken profile
- 575154 changing the help browser preference may not work
- 573542 blur plugin: bug in the first line
- 572403 gimp-2.6 crashed with SIGSEGV in IA__g_object_get()
- 573695 1-bit white background saved as PBM becomes all black
- 573488 Small bug in Filter>Distorts>Ripple
- 572156 top left pixel position/coordinate is not 0,0 but 1,1
- 472644 Rotate with clipping crops the whole layer
- Updated translations:
- German (de)
- Spanish (es)
- Estonian (et)
- Basque (eu)
- French (fr)
- Italian (it)
- Portuguese (pt)
- Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
Changes for v2.6.4 - v2.6.5
- 571628 Scaling image to 25% turn background from white to grey
- 567840 GIMP's GtkScaleButton conflicts with GTK's
- 569043 GEGL tool - missing Operation Settings for all sub-tools
- 568890 don't rely on GtkAction implementation details
- 568909 wrong RGB values for color names in libgimpcolor/gimprgb-parse.c
- 568839 wrong hex RGB value for the color names slategrey and slategray
- 559408 - Brushes dragged to the image window look strange
- 563337 Rectangle Select Tool does not allow 1:1 fixed ratio
- 568016 Black pullout parameter of plug-in-newsprint has no effect
- 562818 First image opened in GIMP offset
- 562213 Align Tool doesn't work properly if it is the active tool at startup
- Updated translations:
- Spanish (es)
- Estonian (et)
- Hindi (hi)
- Italian (it)
- Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
- Romanian (ro)
- Russian (ru)
- Serbian (sr)
- Tamil (ta)
- Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
Changes for v2.6.3 - v2.6.4
- 565223 Perspective transformation jagged edges / comb effect
- 563985 jpg save dialog: "cancel" is treated like "commit" for settings
- 564087 Using clone tool on a layer with a part out of canvas causes crashes
- 564593 crash when the drawable is changed while a color tool is active
- 564869 GIMP crashes on selecting Tools->GEGL operation
- 565138 python-fu-foggify does not check if image is in rgb mode
- 563130 Hue selection mode does not cross the 0-360 degrees line
- 563179 Scrollbars not resized when we extend the canvas size
- 562459 PF_PALETTE: 'TypeError' when used in a plugin that is registered in
- 562427 Compilation with --as-needed
- 562386 PF_SLIDER and PF_SPINNER 'Step' values do not change consistently...
- 562366 Default image dimensions are not correctly transferred in the file/new dialog box
- 561899 GIMP can't save to mounted filesystem if file exists
- Updated translations:
- Greek (el)
- Hindi (hi)
- Hungarian (hu)
- Italian (it)
- Japanese (ja)
- Korean (ko)
- Slovenian (sl)
- Swedish (sv)
- Tamil (ta)
- Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
Changes for v2.6.2 - v2.6.3
- Bugs fixed:
- 558454 Plugin Map Color Range disappears from GIMP
- 559239 Error while loading psd-data
- 560903 Explicit zooming with e.g. '1' should handle zoom-focus better
- 560245 Zoom selection always centered in the Navigation tab
- 559490 Wrong lang tags for 'no'
- 559292 SOTA Chrome cannot accept different textures
- 560375 Clearing an already empty document history crashes GIMP
- 559580 Image windows need better default locations
- 560283 "Scale image..." causes distortion around edges
- 559716 Changing crop size in Crop Tool Options can make UI unresponsive
- 558549 Stroking a single-point path with a paint tool crashes GIMP
- 559015 Move tool gives bad information about px moved
- 558660 help behavior for locales without manual translation
- Updated translations:
- Belarusian (be)
- Dutch (nl)
- German (de)
- Japanese (ja)
- Lithuanian (lt)
- Norwegian Bokmεl (nb)
- Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
- Polish (pl)
- Romanian (ro)
Changes for v2.6.1 - v2.6.2
- Bugs fixed:
- Scaling in Gimp 2.6 is much slower than in Gimp 2.4
- unit and zoom entries in Statusbar not visible
- Cannot build GIMP using Sun CC on Solaris 2.8
- projection incorrect with alpha-less layers
- Zoom region always zooms in center of image
- "Qmask" message popping up here and there
- compatibility with GEGL > 0.0.20
- Scaling gives 'jagged' edges
- Zoom drop down doesn't update
- Print not to scale
- gimp crashes when a file is opened while a preview is generating
- Alpha layer automatically added (in psd format)
- Could you please explain a few strings [I18N]
- build fails if configured with --without-libjpeg
- Curves tool doesn't save free curves
- Updated translations:
- Czech (cs)
- Danish (da)
- Finnish (fi)
- French (fr)
- Japanese (ja)
- Polish (pl)
- Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
- Swedish (sv)
- Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
Changes for v2.6.0 - v2.6.1
- 555587 PSD file crashes PSD plug-in
- 555222 PSD Load Plugin: unsupported compression mode
- 555362 gimp-remote is not working properly
- 555280 some gif files will not be open
- 554890 JPEG Save Options Dialog does not remember
- 554966 Gimp crashes creating a new image using a template
- 554785 Compile failure on uri-backend-libcurl
- 554646 Opening Help crashes GIMP with lqr-plugin installed
- 553534 centering issues after image scaling and setting zoom
- 554898 Compile failure on uri-backend-wget.c
Changes for v2.4.6 - v2.4.7
- fixed issue in GIF load plug-in (bug #535888)
- fixed event handling in MIDI controller (bug #537960)
- fixed handling of the 'Highlight' tool option in Crop and Rectangle Select tools (bug #536582)
- various fixes to the Python bindings:
- fixed crash with Python 2.5 on 64 bit systems (bug #540629)
- added missing validity checks (bug #536403)
- allow to pass None for PDB_DISPLAY
- plugged a memory leak in gimp-text-get-extents-fontname PDB call
- fixed potential timeout issues in org.gimp.GIMP.UI D-Bus service
- fixed endianness issue in the ICO save plug-in (bug #529629)
- translation fixes and updates (be, it, lt, nn, vi)
Changes for v2.4.5 - v2.4.6
- fixed handling of the "antialias" tool option (bug #521069)
- when loading a TIFF image, always set a filename on it (bug #521436)
- fixed initial state of curve type in Curves tool (bug #523873)
- fixed potential crash in the Dicom load plug-in
- respect the brush mask in the Heal tool (bug #521433)
- plugged some minor memory leaks
- fixed a glitch in the DND code (bug #317992)
- gimp-image-convert() must not accept palettes with > 256 colors (bug #525471)
- fixed parameter description in the Map Object plug-in (bug #526679)
- fixed compilation of unit tests on Mac OS X (bug #528160)
- fixed handling of "argc-lower-val-y" PDB parameter in Curve Bend plug-in
- fixed overlap problem in Hue-Saturation tool (bug #527085)
- fixed asymmetry in Unsharp Mask plug-in (bug #530077)
- don't show non-existant color profiles in the selector (bug #528958)
- fixed issues with default aspect ratio in the Crop tool (bug #532057)
- fixed compilation of the PDF import plug-in with libpoppler 0.8
- fixed bug in clipboard brush code (bug #532886)
- corrected layer mask flag in PSD save plug-in (bug #526811)
- fixed an issue with tablets and newer X.Org releases
- keep the JPEG save plug-in from writing an empty EXIF tag (bug #529469)
- fixed crash in Selective Gaussion Blur plug-in (bug #529280)
- added new translations (Belarusian, Catalan, Norwegian Nynorsk)
- translation fixes and updates (ar, ca, de, el, es, fi, fr, hu, it, ko, pl, pt_BR, ro, sv)
Changes for v2.4.4 - v2.4.5
- fixed a regression introduced by the brush cursor optimization (bug #514309)
- fixed bug in transform tool preview (bug #340965)
- fixed PSD export of images with layer masks
- fixed base64 encoding routine of the Mail plug-in
- use the correct background color when creating a new image (bug #514082)
- explicitly link libgimpthumb with GLib (bug #515566)
- improved selection of the font sample string (bug #514021)
- unified handling of "Enter" and "Space" keysyms (bug #516544)
- fixed bug in the Glossy script when used with a pattern (bug #517285)
- correctly record dimensions in Exif data when saving as JPEG (bug #517077)
- fixed sensitivity of plug-in menu items (bug #517683)
- fixed potential crashes in Wind, Warp, Small Tiles and Apply Canvas plug-ins (bug #516369)
- added default keyboard shortcut for "Paste As New Image" (Ctrl-Shift-V)
- added default keyboard shortcut for "Copy Visible" (Ctrl-Shift-C)
- fixed missing preview update in Curves tool (bug #518012)
- fixed a bug in the Frosty Logo script (bug #472316)
- fixed backward transformations using the PDB (bug #518910)
- translation fixes and updates (de, eu, eo, fr, he, hu, it, ja, ko)
Changes for v2.4.3 - v2.4.4
- Changes:
- fixed typo in stock icon name
- fixed handling of PSD files with empty layer names (bug #504149)
- merged TinyScheme bug-fixes
- removed duplicate entry from Tango palette
- corrected parameter range in Chip Away script (bug #506110)
- reduced redraw priority and speed of the marching ants (bug #479875)
- fixed out-of-bounds array access in Convolution Matrix plug-in
- reduced rounding errors in Convolution Matrix plug-in (bug #508114)
- fixed potential crash on missing CMYK color profile
- fixed crash in Bumpmap plug-in when called from some scripts (bug #509608)
- Equalize should not equalise the alpha channel (bug #510210)
- increased the number of points the ImageMap plug-in can handle (bug #511072)
- adjusted the priority of the projection renderer (bug #511214)
- smooth the brush mask to get a simpler cursor boundary (bug #304798)
- show the selection even if the image window is invisible (bug #505758)
- allow to commit a pending rectangular selection using Enter (bug #511599)
- fixed bug in image dirty state logic (bug #509822)
- improved GIMPressionist preformance and reduced startup time (bug #512126)
- fixed a crash in the Convert to Color Profile plug-in (bug #512529)
- merged some other minor fixes from trunk
- translation updates (de, it, lt, ru, sv, uk)
- Contributors:
- Sven Neumann, Michael Natterer, Kevin Cozens, Hans Breuer, Bill Skaggs, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Martin Nordholts
Changes for v2.4.2 - v2.4.3
- avoid filename encoding problems in the WMF import plug-in (bug #499329)
- fixed horizontal flipping of linked layers (bug #499161)
- raised the priority of the display idle renderer to improve performance on Win32 (bug #499150)
- fixed a missing update in the Lighting plug-in UI (bug #500317)
- fixed a potential crash in the projection code (bug #500178)
- fixed a minor Makefile issue (bug #500826)
- removed some pointless warnings from the JPEG and TIFF load plug-ins
- fixed size calculation for the image size warning dialog (bug #329468)
- fixed loading of tool options for the rectangle tools (bug #498948)
- push/pop a context in the Fog filter
- fixed potential crashes in the Python binding
- corrected grid drawing with non-integer spacing (bug #502374)
- fixed grid snapping for coordinates less than the grid offset
- made the healing brush work properly when dragged (bug #492575)
- update tool state when a device change happens (bug #493176)
- improved validation of strings sent over the wire (bug #498207)
- fixed integer check in Script-Fu (bug #498207)
- fixed potential out-of-memory problem in Script-Fu
- fixed compilation on msys/mingw (bug #503124)
- fixed localisation of Python plug-ins on Win32 (bug #502506)
- translation updates (ca, cs, de, gl, it, ko, lt, sv, uk)
Changes for v2.4.1 - v2.4.2
- removed broken and useless HSV Graph script (bug #491311)
- update the histogram when a color correction tool is cancelled (bug #493639)
- fixed a crash with certain plug-in or script descriptions (bug #492718)
- corrected a tooltip (bug #495564)
- fixed a crash when GIMP is run without any modules (bug #495863)
- fixed error handling in the TIFF plug-in
- fixed a problem with Sample points
- fixed a crash when merging layers in indexed image (bug #495990)
- update the histogram when painting (bug #494049)
- fixed another problem with merge operations on indexed images (bug #496437)
- fixed crash in TIFF plug-in when saving indexed images (bug #497103)
- changed defaults so that a system monitor profile is only used when the user explicitely enabled this feature (bug #496890)
- fixed endless loop when running equalize on transparent areas (bug #497291)
- fixed heap corruption in GimpColorScale widget that caused a crash in the Compose plug-in (bug #399484)
- fixed use of background color in Particle Trace script (bug #498282)
- set the image menu insensitive when there's no image opened (bug #498511)
- translation updates (ca, et, it, lt, pt, pt_BR, sr, sv)
Changes for v2.4.0 RC 3 - v2.4.1
- fixed a minor display rendering problem
- improved the workaround for broken graphics card drivers (bug #421466)
- fixed a crash with broken scripts and plug-ins (bug #490055)
- fixed potential syntax error in configure script (bug #490068)
- fixed parsing of floating point numbers in Script-Fu (bug #490198)
- fixed potential crash when converting an indexed image to RGB (bug #490048)
- update the histogram while doing color corrections (bug #490182)
- fixed another crash with broken plug-ins (bug #490617)
- fixed problems on Win32 when GIMP is installed into a non-ASCII path
- fixed handling of truncated ASCII PNM files (bug #490827)
- make sure that there's always a cursor, even for small brushes (bug #491272)
- fixed line-drawing with a tablet and the Shift key (bug #164240)
- added code to use the system monitor profile on OS X (bug #488170)
- show changes to the rounded corners in the Rectangle Select tool (bug #418284)
- reduced rounding errors in the display render routines (bug #490785)
- translation updates (ca, de, et, lt, mk, pa, sv)
Changes for v2.4.0 RC 2 - v2.4.0 RC 3
- use the new format for storing recently used files
- added conversion options to the color profile conversion plug-in
- allow to disable the toolbox menu on all platforms
- further improved handling of the JPEG settings
- switch tabs when hovering over them
- added a PDB function to remove the alpha channel from a layer
- plug-in previews remember the state of the Preview checkbox (bug #478657)
- bug fixes
Changes for v2.4.0 RC 1 - v2.4.0 RC 2
- more improvements and bug fixes in the rectangle tools
- antialias the display for zoom levels between 100% and 200%
- fix zoomed-out display problems
- improve handling of JPEG settings
- fix script-fu error reporting
- on OS X, get rid of menubars in windows and use the global menubar
- fix plug-ins using GimpZoomPreview
- throw properly catchable exceptions from foreign script-fu function (like PDB wrappers)
- bug fixes
Changes for v2.3.18 Beta - v2.4.0 RC 1
- further improvement to the Print plug-in
- - completed the color management functionality for 2.4
- - store JPEG setting with the image and use them when saving as JPEG
- - further improved the rectangle tools, in particular handling of the
- fixed aspect ratio
- - added color profile selector widget
- - further improved the display quality for zoomed-out views
Changes for v2.2.15 - v2.3.18 Beta
- temporarily show the hidden image statusbar while the progress is active
- added support for loading .abr v6 Photoshop brushes
- improved usability of color scales
- improved display quality of zoomed-out image view
- bug fixes and code cleanup
Changes for v2.2.15 - v2.2.16
- improved input value validation in several file plug-ins (bug #453973)
- improved handling of corrupt or invalid XCF files
- guard against integer overflows in several file plug-ins (bug #451379)
- fixed handling of background alpha channel in XCF files (bug #443097)
- improved forward compatibility of the config parser
- fixed crash when previewing some animated brushes (bug #446005)
Changes for v2.2.14 - v2.2.15
- fixed parsing of GFig files with CRLF line endings (bug #346988)
- guard against a possible stack overflow in the Sunras loader (bug #433902)
- fixed definition of datarootdir in gimptool-2.0 (bug #436386)
- fixed Perspective tool crash on Mac OS X (bug #349483)
- fixed area resizing in the Image Map plug-in (bug #439222)
- added missing library in gimptool-2.0 --libs output
- added new localizations: Occitan and Persian
Changes for v2.3.12 - v2.3.14 Beta
- added actions to control brush spacing
- polished appearance of image window
- scale the brush's spacing when scaling the brush
- save tool presets when they are changed
- improved handling of vectors in the Python bindings
- allow for auto-cropping the result of the transform tools
- added GimpRatioEntry widget and use it in the rectangle tool options
- added functions to transform between preview and image coordinates
- added PDB functions to validate display, drawable, image and vectors IDs
- added HSL color model to Decompose and Compose plug-ins
- further improved status bar messages for tools
- on systems with D-Bus build gimp-remote functionality into gimp executable
- bug fixes and code cleanup
