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Update NEWS with changes up to and including 2009-02-28.
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GNU Image Manipulation Program
Development Branch
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This is the unstable development branch of GIMP. Here we are working
towards the next stable release, which will be GIMP 2.8.
Changes in GIMP 2.7.0
=====================
Core:
- Ported the projection code to GEGL, i.e. the code that composes a
single image from a stack of layers
- Arrange layer modes into more logical and useful groups
- Port layer modes to GEGL
- Rearrange leagcy layer mode code to increase maintainability
- New docks are created at the pointer position
- Allow to benchmark projectino performance with
File->Debug->Benchmark Projection
- Clean up and merge infrastructure code from the GSoC 2006 Vector
Layer branch
- Clean up and merge on-canvas text editing code from the GSoC 2008
On-Canvas Text Editing branch
- Move 'Text along path' from tool options to text context menu
- Refactor the layer stack code to more easily allow nesting of
layers aka layer groups later
- Show selection position and size in the Pointer dockable
- Merge support for tagging and tag-based selection of resources such
as brushes from the GSoC 2008 Tagging of Resources branch
- Add support for printing crop marks for images
- Smooth painting strokes with Catmull-Rom Spline based event
interpolation
- Port the floating selection code to GEGL
- Prepare better and more intuitive handling of the floating
selection
- Support rotation of brushes
- Add more capabilities to brush dynamics such as based on tilt
- Add File->Debug->Show Image Graph that show the GEGL graph of an
image
Plug-ins:
- Map the 'Linear Dodge' layer mode in PSD files to the 'Addition'
layer mode in GIMP
General:
- Changed licence to GPLv3+ and LGPLv3+
- Lots of bugfixes and cleanups...
** These are changes up to and including 2009-02-28 **