From 1b520fe35592da26e163aa92155dbd944d64f1bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Natterer Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:28:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: updated until end of september, need a break now... --- NEWS | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 846c772b6f..31204ac9ae 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,72 @@ Changes in GIMP 2.7.1 ===================== +UI: + + - A lot of undeprecations due to GTK+ 2.22 and 2.24 + - Lots and lots of cairo porting, calls to gdk_draw_* are gone + - Merge the cage transform tool from GSoC + - Remove the old bitmap cursors completely and always use RGBA cursors + also for compat cursors for old X servers + - Add new GimpCanvasItem infrastructure with subclasses for everything + that needs to be drawn on the canvas and port all tools to canvas items + +Core: + + - Add uniform API to turn any GimpItem's outline into a selection + - Add operators and gegl infrastructure for the cage tool + - Add support for color tags in text layers + + +GEGL: + + - + + +Libgimp: + + - Introduce an "item" type in the PDB and libgimp and deprecate + lots of old API in favor of item API + - Add procedures to create, traverse and manipulate layer trees + - Add more state to the context API, and deprecate functions with + too many parameters in favor of simpler ones that use context states + + +Plug-ins: + + - Make script-fu server IPv6 aware + - Follow libgimp deprecations in plug-ins and scripts + - Add PDF export plugin + - Lots of cairo porting here too + - UTF-8 fixes in script-fu + + +Data: + + - Remove "Untitled" from palette names entries + + +Developer documentation: + + - Move libgimp documentation from templates to inline comments + - Generate standard deprecated sections + + +Source and build system: + + - Add more code documentation + - Add more unit tests + - Add a manifest to executables (app and plug-ins, Win32) + - Depend on GLib 2.28.0 + - Plug memory leaks + - Lots of bug fixes and cleanup + - Lots of translation updates + + +Changes in GIMP 2.7.1 +===================== + + UI: - Add "lock content" button to the layers, channels and paths dialogs,