From 6249fda2c8ca2eb136b880c77a911eccc8206c21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Nordholts <martinn@src.gnome.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:37:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Start updating NEWS for 2.7.0

Update NEWS with changes up to and including 2009-02-28.
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                    GNU Image Manipulation Program
                           Development Branch
                    ------------------------------
+
+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 **