------------------------------ GNU Image Manipulation Program Development Branch ------------------------------ This is the development branch of GIMP. Overview of Changes from GIMP 3.2.0 RC2 to GIMP 3.2.0 RC3 ========================================================= Core: - In a Flatpak sandbox, GIMP will now show the native config directory path in relevant places. - XCF files can now only be loaded when all fonts have been loaded. Font loading happens as a background task and can continue even after the GUI is present and usable (for people with a lot of fonts). When they try to load image files in such a case now, the loading will be delayed (this also includes files loaded from command line, or from a file browser starting GIMP). - Default to 'quartz' IM on macOS for emoji keyboard support. - When dropping a color or pattern on a vector layer, their "fill" property is updated accordingly. - Link layers are now protected against color and pattern drops. - macOS logo was updated to cater to new guidelines since macOS 26 (following previous guidelines, the logo was appearing too small on latest macOS). - Not all color buttons should be fully image-contextual, in particular for indexed images. E.g. filter color buttons should usually not be limited to the palette's colors. Nor should the out-of-gamut or grid colors, etc. - When merging all filters on a drawable, the inactive filters are ignored (and therefore are kept as-is, instead of being removed). - Sample Points mode is carried over on duplicated images (not only their position). - Procreate swatches (.swatches) can now be imported as palettes. - Flipping link layers don't rasterize them anymore. Tools: - Flip tool: up/down and left/right keys can now be used to flip items respectively vertically or horizontally. - Crop tool: the tool now adds an alpha channel to a layer under the following conditions: 1) "Selected layers only" is checked 2) "Allow growing" is checked 3) "Fill with" is set to transparency 4) The crop rectangle is larger than the width or height of the layer 5) The layer does not already have an alpha channel. - Shear tool: arrow keys support to adjust the shear: left/right move the shear on the X axis, up/down move the shear on the Y axis. By default, it moves one pixel at a time. If you hold shift (similar to the move tool), it moves based on the slider's page increment setting (factoring in the current zoom). Operations: - "gimp:curves" and "gimp:levels" now properly default to Linear. Also the "linear" argument for both is now completely ignored in favor of "trc". This doesn't break API compatibility because these filters were broken enough that they were only run as linear until now. As for XCF backward compatibility, the full argument list was stored so existing XCF files will still load and render fine. Graphical User Interface: - Add conditional mask delete button on Layers dockable, shown when a layer mask is selected. - Reorder HLS to HSL in Hue Saturation GUI. - The Navigation and Selection dockables are now properly colored according to the theme (in particular, in dark mode, they won't show huge bright areas when no images are opened). - No outlines are shown anymore in the "Fx" column of item tree views. - The Welcome dialog is not shown on start anymore if GIMP was started by loading images. - Histogram Editor pixels and count are now displayed in GSize range. - New splash image for RC3. - Make styling consistent for the NDE popover. - Better wrapping and scrolling policy for the comment field of the export dialog, preventing issues when other program add extra-long comment to images. - New style defined for GimpPivotSelector, so that it can be styled through CSS. - Canvas Size options in Preferences dialog reordered to match the respective Canvas Size dialog. Command Line Interface: - Man page improved to up-to-date usage. - CLI option --no-interface is now hidden on gimp-console usage. Plug-Ins: - Fixed vulnerability ZDI-CAN-28232 in PSP import. - Fixed vulnerability ZDI-CAN-28599 in ICO import. - Fixed vulnerability ZDI-CAN-28265 in XWD import. - Fixed vulnerability ZDI-CAN-28530 in ICNS import. - WebP lossless export made more efficient. - JPEG2000 quality setting on export fixed. - XMC export updated not to modify the source image. - Curve Bend PDB procedure API is not bogus anymore. - Gradient Flare files now support also Windows line ending. - Background color restored in (script-fu-round-corners). - DDS: * Initial DDS BC7 export support. * Retains original import settings of a DDS texture (such as compression, number of mipmaps, and flags) through a parasite. On export, we default the compression format to the original to reduce the chance of choosing the wrong format for the game they're creating the texture for. The other data stored is not currently used. - Various Python plug-ins were improved to properly work in headless environments. - Image Map dialog improved so that it doesn't show too wide. API: - libgimp/PDB: + The following functions were deprecated, now recommending to directly merge or append filters on drawables with the GimpDrawableFilter API: * gimp_drawable_brightness_contrast() in favor of filter "gimp:brightness-contrast". * gimp_drawable_color_balance() in favor of filter "gimp:color-balance". * gimp_drawable_colorize_hsl() in favor of filter "gimp:colorize". * gimp_drawable_extract_component() in favor of filter "gegl:component-extract". * gimp_drawable_desaturate() in favor of filter "gimp:desaturate". * gimp_drawable_hue_saturation() in favor of filter "gimp:hue-saturation". * gimp_drawable_invert() in favor of filters "gegl:invert-linear" and "gegl:invert-gamma". * gimp_drawable_levels() in favor of filter "gimp:levels". * gimp_drawable_shadows_highlights() in favor of filter "gegl:shadows-highlights". * gimp_drawable_posterize() in favor of filter "gimp:posterize". * gimp_drawable_threshold() in favor of filter "gimp:threshold". + gimp_image_get_thumbnail() implementation updated to always return sRGB(A) 8-bit data. - libgimpconfig: + GimpConfig objects can now be given a XCF version to force the serialization to use older formats. This is used for serializing some parasites in XCF and keep them compatible with older GIMP versions. + New functions: * gimp_config_get_xcf_version() * gimp_config_set_xcf_version() - libgimpwidgets: + GIMP_ICON_TEXTURE ("gimp-texture") is not used anymore and is planned for deletion in GIMP 4. + GimpColorScales and GimpColorSelect made introspectable. + gimp_widget_get_monitor() has now a Wayland implementation. Translations: - New Cornish translation of GIMP. - Thai now has official support in InnoSetup (Windows installer's generic strings). Build: - GIMP docs is now versioned on $DATADIR/doc/gimp-$APIVER (where APIVER=3.0 right now). - Drop Force32bitInstall option in Windows installer. - Work has been started to move the macOS CI to our main Gitlab infra. We now have macOS jobs in the CI, and these can be triggered in merge requests with "Package:Macos Dmg" label. More work is needed before it can become the source for our release packages though. - The Flatpak package will now contain gimp-console as well. - Add a configure test on macOS to ensure that harfbuzz was built with libgraphite2 shaper. - New -Ddmg boolean configure option to generate files needed for our macOS DMGs. - New -Dbash-completion configure option. - CI: it is now possible to trigger packages from MR by writing package labels in MR descriptions without having special access role on Gitlab. - Some older unit tests updated to run on real GIMP; other tests were disabled because they keep getting bugs (which are not in GIMP and are just wasting our time, because they directly hack through core GIMP code, yet without being a full-fledged GIMP process). - DMG package background now uses the splash image for more consistent and fancier designs at each minor or major release. - Updated scripts to generate both the DMG background and the Windows Installer side images from the splash image, using a metadata file, along with instructions towards artists so that they have the ability to choose the explicit crop positions and dimensions. - Third-party binary plug-ins are now supported in AppImage (if compiled against the same Debian binaries used for building the AppImage). - From GIMP 3.2, the Snap package will be able to migrate config folders from non-Snap older GIMP, and will store its own config outside the sandbox too, from now on. - Add limited global menu support for Flatpak. This requires setting GIMP_GTK_MENUBAR environment variable. Overview of Changes from GIMP 3.2.0 RC1 to GIMP 3.2.0 RC2 ========================================================= Core: - Historical restriction preventing saving and exporting when no drawables are selected has been removed as moot. Our export API (and therefore export plug-ins) does not have such requirements anymore (and plug-ins are able to query the selected layers or channels if necessary). - SVG exporting now uses opaque path IDs for the 'id' attribute, and not the GUI-visible path name anymore, to match the SVG specs. The path ID has a limited character set and is not meant to be human-readable. - Clipboard brush and pattern max size limit bumped to 8192 on 64-bit (and stays 1024 on 32-bit architecture). - Path importing from SVG was updated to a copy of the latest C-based librsvg code, making it much more robust. - Proper textual warnings are added when trying to merge filters which cannot be merged. - Initial font loading was greatly sped up (not validating them through harfbuzz or freetype anymore, but checking the first bytes of every font file; a bit less robust but much faster). - A few safety checks were added when creating new link layers and when loading XCF files with link layers to prevent infinite loops with cycling links. Tools: - MyPaint Brushes: stylus barrel rotation is now supported, when relevant to the specific brush selected. - Paint Select (Playground): * Processing only happens at button release. * More events are processed. * Do not process the graph when all events are inside selection when adding to selection, or outside selection when removing from selection. * Improved local region computation. * Add progression feedback (relies on a patch on libmaxflow, waiting for review). * Reset the scribbles at every stroke. * Use the same mode box widgets as other selection tools. Graphical User Interface: - Define headerbar button colors to ensure they match our theme style. - Add more spacing between buttons in default CSS. - Keyboard shortcut dialog hint improved (broke string freeze). - New splash image. Plug-Ins: - Vulnerabilities fixed: ZDI-CAN-28311, ZDI-CAN-28273, ZDI-CAN-28158. - PSD: legacy PSD Outer Glow layer style now imported (it uses gegl:dropshadow with certain preset values to replicate the Photoshop filter). - PS/EPS: default export unit is set to millimiter instead of inch. API: - libgimpbase: * gimp_directory() will now return the correct path of the virtualized config directory on MSIX. CLI: - Added a Bash completion file our our command line interfaces. - CLI option --show-debug-menu is not hidden anymore from the --help output. I don't see a good reason to hide this option, except for making it hardly discoverable. It is enough for the debug menu to be hidden from the GUI by default and good that CLI options show a way to bypass this for advanced users and contributors. Build: - Package maintainership instructions were moved to the developer website. - Various fixes regarding versioning and RC status on several packages, to handle name clashes and inconsistencies. - Add the ability to localize strings at build time as a build requirement. Technically it implies for us that the build system is set to a locale other than C or POSIX, or that the en_US.UTF-8 is installed on the system. This was causing our list of language not to be properly self-localized in Preferences. - Current scheduled MSVC jobs will build GEGL without ctx until proper fixes are made to make it buildable for this platform. - Our C++ standard is now ISO C++ 14 (instead of GNU C++ 14) to make GIMP compile with clang-cl (wrapper to MSVC) on Windows. - Add support to MSVC's resource compiler: this allows us to support both rc.exe (MSVC) and windres.exe (GNU). - GIMP was made to be compilable on both GNU compilers and MSVC. - Automate verification of Windows signature certificate and MSIX secret. - Minimum requirement updates: babl 0.1.118 and GEGL 0.4.66. - AppImage is now using fully relocatable babl and GEGL. - AppImages and Windows official builds will now always ship the debug binaries for the hidden debug menu (which can be un-hidden with --show-debug-menu CLI option). Overview of Changes from GIMP 3.1.4 to GIMP 3.2.0 RC1 ===================================================== Core: - macOS: "Quit" from the dock's right-click menu will now follow our standard Quit procedure, by intercepting the applicationShouldTerminate signal, instead of forcing the application to close (hence losing unsaved changes). - "Add Layer Mask" will now have an "Edit mask immediately" checkbox allowing to decide whether to go into Edit Mask state or not. This setting is saved across repetitive actions, as all other settings in this dialog. - Filters on pass-through group layers will no longer be limited to its children layers' bounding box, but to the actual bounding box, which includes all lower layers. This also implies that empty pass-through group layers can have an effect which will work like "adjustment layers" in other software. Masks bounding box on empty pass-through groups should also be the size of the group's render. - New actions "layers-rasterize" and "layers-revert-rasterize" to respectively rasterize and un-rasterize text, link or vector layers (rasterizing these layers is now always revertable, though any painting edit done after the rasterization is obviously lost). - Actions "layers-link-discard", "layers-vector-discard" and "layers-text-discard" have been removed. Only the latter existed in previous stable versions so any custom shortcut associated to "layers-text-discard" will be migrated as shortcut of "layers-rasterize". - When the GUI binary is run with --no-interface (-i) CLI option, we branch on the same codebase as gimp-console. Therefore even though this GUI binary still links with GTK, it won't run any GTK code and can therefore be run on headless servers. - Action "layers-vector-fill-stroke" removed (only available since 3.1.4, not in any stable release). - Non-destructive filters on quick mask are merged (onto the selection channel) when exiting the quick mask mode. - Vector layers are now properly auto-renamed when changing their associated path (unless the layer was explicitely named). - It is not possible to "Merge Down" onto a pass-through layer group anymore. - "Merge Layer Groups" cannot be applied to pass-through groups anymore. - Multi-selection implemented in Document history in order to load or remove multiple images at once. - New "tools-swap" action (default shortcut: Shift-X) to activate the previously used tool. - When committing or canceling filters, GIMP will automatically swap back to the previously used tool. - Windows: standard output and error output are now properly redirected to the parent console in native shells, just like on Linux or macOS. As a consequence build option -Dwin32-debug-console has been removed. Ctrl-C is properly handled too, and output contains colors. - Paths attached to a vector layer cannot be deleted or merged anymore. - Text layer rendering has been made much more robust, even when with very big dimensions. - GIMP on Windows is now able to detect if it is being run from either console or shortcut, and use the python.exe interpreter in the former case, or pythonw.exe in latter case (silent output). - Fixed vulnerability: ZDI-CAN-28376 (XCF loading). Tools: - All tools drawing directly on layers are now blocked when a text, link or vector layer is selected. An error message will suggest you rasterize these layers explicitly first, in order to be able to do any "destructive" action. - Text tool: * Dialog when trying to edit a rasterized layer text has been reworded. * Support pasting unformatted text with action text-tool-paste-unformatted (shortcut Ctrl|Primary-Shift-v by default). * On-Canvas style editor now has a move area allowing to move the GUI on a different position on canvas. This position is remembered per-text layer. When the position has been manually set, a reset button will also appear in the on-canvas editor (allowing to get back to default positionning). - Path tool: * Selecting a vector layer when the Path tool is active will pop a dialog up, similar to the one which we have in Text tool when a text layer is picked. * Improved logic for the creation and selection of vector layers and paths when the tool is active. * Double clicking a vector layer would activate the Path tool on it. The setting to change the path is moved to the layer options dialog. - Transform tools are not initialized anymore when they are selected after an automatic tool swap (when a filter tool is committed or canceled; cf. Core section). Graphical User Interface: - "Rasterize" and "Revert Rasterize" menu items added to Layer menu when the selected layer is a text, link or vector layer. - The GimpColorHexEntry will now update the chosen color as you type. - Use a standard, yet extended, AppMenu on macOS. - Advertize the menu path to "Rasterize" items in error messages when trying to edit a rasterizable drawable. - Dragging a file to the image tab bar opens the file as a new image. - Additionally to status error messages, the layer blocking a "Merge Down" is now blinked on the Layers dialog to draw attention. - GimpViewableDialog header icon and view will now scale based on user custom icon size. - Color history colors can now be dragged and dropped, to fill or set colors as expected, as any other color area widgets. - It is now possible to select different objects with the same name when listed in a GimpContainerEntry (typically, 2 fonts named the same, when you are trying to select one of them in the font entry of Text tool options or of the on-canvas GUI; this was already working in the Fonts dockable, but not in the container entries). - We can now properly blink paths in the Paths dockable too (it used to only work for layers and channels). This will be used for actions, to raise awareness to reasons why an action cannot be executed. Plug-Ins: - file-compressor: add zip decompression support. This allows support for loading .hgt.zip files, as well as other formats compressed with zip. - SVG: initial export support, including support for vector, text and link layers natively. Raster layers and masks are optionally embedded as either PNG or JPEG base64-encoded data. - Gimpressionist: edit button labels to more appropriate wording. - PDF: * supporting for exporting vector layers as paths. * background fill is set on all pages for multi-page PDFs. - PVR textures: new import support. - Replacing scale entries by spin scale widgets in various plug-ins. - Animation Playback and ImageMap plug-ins can now be closed with Escape like other plug-ins. - Fixed vulnerability: ZDI-CAN-28248 (JP2 image loading). API: - libgimpbase: + New enum types: * GimpTextOutline * GimpTextOutlineDirection + Deprecated functions: * gimp_pixpipe_params_init * gimp_pixpipe_params_parse * gimp_pixpipe_params_build * gimp_pixpipe_params_free - libgimpcolor: + New functions: * gimp_cairo_surface_get_buffer + Deprecated functions: * gimp_cairo_surface_create_buffer - libgimpwidgets: + New macros: * GIMP_ICON_LAYER_LINK_LAYER * GIMP_ICON_LAYER_VECTOR_LAYER + GimpBrowser search entry ported to GtkSearchEntry. + GimpLabelEntry accepts a NULL value and will convert it to empty string. + gimp_widget_free_native_handle() implementation improved and docs updated with important information on how to use it (disregarding the new information, crashes on Wayland may happen). - libgimp: + New functions: * gimp_vector_layer_get_enable_fill * gimp_vector_layer_get_enable_stroke * gimp_vector_layer_get_fill_color * gimp_vector_layer_get_fill_pattern * gimp_vector_layer_get_path * gimp_vector_layer_get_stroke_cap_style * gimp_vector_layer_get_stroke_color * gimp_vector_layer_get_stroke_pattern * gimp_vector_layer_get_stroke_dash_offset * gimp_vector_layer_get_stroke_dash_pattern * gimp_vector_layer_get_stroke_join_style * gimp_vector_layer_get_stroke_miter_limit * gimp_vector_layer_get_stroke_width * gimp_vector_layer_get_stroke_width_unit * gimp_vector_layer_set_enable_fill * gimp_vector_layer_set_enable_stroke * gimp_vector_layer_set_fill_color * gimp_vector_layer_set_stroke_cap_style * gimp_vector_layer_set_stroke_color * gimp_vector_layer_set_stroke_dash_offset * gimp_vector_layer_set_stroke_dash_pattern * gimp_vector_layer_set_stroke_join_style * gimp_vector_layer_set_stroke_miter_limit * gimp_vector_layer_set_stroke_width * gimp_vector_layer_set_stroke_width_unit * gimp_item_is_vector_layer * gimp_item_id_is_link_layer * gimp_item_is_link_layer * gimp_link_layer_get_by_id * gimp_link_layer_get_file * gimp_link_layer_get_type * gimp_link_layer_new * gimp_link_layer_set_file * gimp_param_link_layer_get_type * gimp_param_spec_link_layer * gimp_procedure_add_link_layer_argument * gimp_procedure_add_link_layer_aux_argument * gimp_procedure_add_link_layer_return_value * gimp_link_layer_get_mime_type * gimp_text_layer_get_outline * gimp_text_layer_get_outline_antialias * gimp_text_layer_get_outline_cap_style * gimp_text_layer_get_outline_color * gimp_text_layer_get_outline_dash_offset * gimp_text_layer_get_outline_direction * gimp_text_layer_get_outline_join_style * gimp_text_layer_get_outline_miter_limit * gimp_text_layer_get_outline_width * gimp_text_layer_set_outline * gimp_text_layer_set_outline_antialias * gimp_text_layer_set_outline_cap_style * gimp_text_layer_set_outline_color * gimp_text_layer_set_outline_dash_offset * gimp_text_layer_set_outline_direction * gimp_text_layer_set_outline_join_style * gimp_text_layer_set_outline_miter_limit * gimp_text_layer_set_outline_width * gimp_param_rasterizable_get_type * gimp_param_spec_rasterizable * gimp_rasterizable_get_type * gimp_rasterizable_is_rasterized * gimp_rasterizable_rasterize * gimp_rasterizable_restore * gimp_file_procedure_get_meta * gimp_file_procedure_set_meta * gimp_images_close_popup * gimp_images_popup * gimp_images_set_popup * gimp_items_close_popup * gimp_items_popup * gimp_items_set_popup + Deprecated functions: * gimp_drawables_close_popup * gimp_drawables_popup * gimp_drawables_set_popup + Removed functions: * gimp_vector_layer_discard (since 3.1.4, but never in a stable release). + New classes: * GimpLinkLayer + New interfaces: * GimpRasterizable: GimpLinkLayer, GimpTextLayer and GimpVectorLayer now implement this interface. + gimp_item_is_is_text_layer() will now always return TRUE for a layer which is a text layer in backend, even if it has been rasterized. It used not to, probably because the "Discard Text Information" was not reversible (except by undoing), whereas now we can "Revert Rasterize". Instead you should use gimp_rasterizable_is_rasterized() to determine whether to consider a GimpTextLayer as a raster layer or as a text layer. + gimp_file_load() as well as the image returned by a GimpLoadProcedure are now always returned as "clean" and with empty undo stack. + gimp_drawable_get_thumbnail_data() and gimp_drawable_get_sub_thumbnail_data() implementations updated to always return sRGB(A) 8-bit. - libgimpui: + New functions: * gimp_image_chooser_get_image * gimp_image_chooser_get_label * gimp_image_chooser_get_type * gimp_image_chooser_new * gimp_image_chooser_set_image * gimp_prop_image_chooser_new * gimp_item_chooser_get_item * gimp_item_chooser_get_label * gimp_item_chooser_get_type * gimp_item_chooser_new * gimp_item_chooser_set_item * gimp_prop_item_chooser_new + New classes: * GimpImageChooser * GimpItemChooser + Deprecated Classes: * GimpDrawableChooser Metadata: - Making GIMP's project vision clearer in metadata description. Build: - Depends on babl 0.1.116 and GEGL 0.4.64. - The stable Snap package (on Snap Store) has been officially passed over to the GIMP team. - Cleanup done in devel-docs/ with more developer documentation moved over to the developer website. - Build option -Dwin32-debug-console removed (cf. Core section). - Windows builds: GEGL is not built anymore with Matting Levin because it is highly unstable (crashes) on this OS. - Flatpak nightly builds will now show the correct version on `flatpak list`. - Our .exe installer will now have a dark mode (with Inno Setup 6.6.0). Overview of Changes from GIMP 3.1.2 to GIMP 3.1.4 ================================================= Core: - About dialog now shows "Up to date as of " text for more clarity. - Fixed config migration when updating to GIMP 3.1/2. - Reorganizing layer search code into generic item tree view search code for further reusing into other use cases. - Internal classes, config items and actions renamed from "vectors" to "path". - Some cleanup of outdated disabled unit tests and other warnings. - Restructuration of internal GimpControllerManager and GimpContainerView API. - GimpContainerListView now uses a GtkListBox. A Playground switch was added to use the new widgets in all views that can be switched between list and grid view (brushes, patterns etc.). This won't likely get out of Playground before GIMP 4 because it is far too slow right now (and apparently we'll need GTK4 for making it fast as our current lists). - Various code have been moving away from GtkTreeView and some new internal classes were added as a preparation for GTK4 port. - GEX format updated to use standard instead of per update in the AppStream specs in the last few years. This doesn't make any compatibility issue since this format is purely internal only for now, not public. - New setting "Update metadata automatically" in Preferences > Image Import & Export > Export Policies. When enabled, add and update metadata automatically. When disabled, only the minimum necessary metadata changes are made, without changing modification date, synchronizing tags, or updating the software and change history metadata. This new setting is enabled by default. - Fix palette import to properly import colors with alpha values from palettes. - New layer types: * vector layers * link layers - Fill/Stroke editor are now live-previewing color changes for vector layer fill/stroke and text layer outlines. Tools: - MyPaint brush tool was ported to the newer MyPaintSurface2 API. A consequence is that we now depend on mypaint-brushes-2.0 instead of mypaint-brushes-1.0. - Seamless Clone (Playground): made to work again, but is still too slow to move out of Playground. - The Paths tool has updated UI to create vector layers. - Text tool: bold, italic and underline can now be applied with commonly used shortcuts (Ctrl+b, i and u respectively). - Vector and Link layers cannot be painted on, and filters cannot be merged on them. They now need to be explicitly downgraded to raster layers. Graphical User Interface: - More consistent capitalization across text in UI. - Use system colors on Windows title bar when System colors theme is set. - Make the comment text area sensitive in Export procedure dialogs depending on whether "Save Comment" checkbox is checked or not. - In various GUI using a GtkStack (Input Controller dialogue, Preferences dialogue, and Welcome dialogue), we now turn off animations when it is set OFF system-wide. - "System" color scheme now also works on macOS. - GimpSpinScale cursors now changed to "pointer" when hovering the slider area and "col-resize" when actually grabbing the cursor. - The Welcome dialog will now recognize your standard shortcuts to create a new file, open a file or open one of the 10 most recent files. Plug-Ins: - TIFF - Add support for the following features, based on unofficial documentation and user-provided sample files: * Sets the selected layer based on the image-level metadata. * Sets the visibility of the background layer based on the image level metadata. * Sets the blend mode and color tag of each layer, based on extended layer-level metadata. Legacy blend modes are used, based on user feedback and comparison with Sketchbook. * Creates group layers and stores layers in them. Layers are read from top to bottom, and layer groups are added and filled based on layer level metadata. - Animation Playback was redesigned to more closely resemble standard playback UIs. The redesign also changes the progress bar to a GtkScale, so users can more easily move to different frames on the timeline. - New GEGL Filter Browser plug-in to list and inspect all available filters for development purpose. - New import support: * PAA textures: initial import support (includes RGBA 4444, 5551, 8888, and Grayscale with Alpha channel. It does not yet cover DXT1 - 5 texture import support). * Seattle Filmworks photos (earliest format SFW93A, and the most common format SFW94A). Both formats are essentially mangled JPEGs, though mangled in different ways. * HRZ Slow Scan Television Images (restored, as it used to be implemented and removed in 2004). - Raw Image data plug-in dialog redesigned to be on a two-column layout to avoid over-high dialog. - Print: in sandboxed environments (Flatpak, Snap), the print Settings are now displayed as a second dialog after the portal print dialog. This 2-step workflow is a work-around to the inability to tweak the print dialog when the print portal is in use. API: - GimpTRCType enum type made available in libgimp and PDB. - gimp-file-save properly sets associated save or exported files. - New PDB/libgimp functions: * gimp_drawable_filter_operation_get_available() * gimp_drawable_filter_operation_get_details() * gimp_drawable_filter_operation_get_pspecs() * gimp_context_get_paint_fade_length() * gimp_context_get_paint_fade_repeat() * gimp_context_set_paint_fade_length() * gimp_context_set_paint_fade_repeat() * gimp_item_id_is_vector_layer() * gimp_param_spec_vector_layer() * gimp_procedure_add_vector_layer_argument() * gimp_procedure_add_vector_layer_aux_argument() * gimp_procedure_add_vector_layer_return_value() * gimp_vector_layer_discard() * gimp_vector_layer_get_by_id() * gimp_vector_layer_new() * gimp_vector_layer_refresh() - GimpSizeEntry (libgimpwidget) can now parse mathematical expressions in their reference value spin buttons too. - GimpColorScales (libgimpwidget) will now set its decimals to 0 when creating u8 RGB color selectors. This change will help further distinguish between the 0...00 and 0..255 views in the Color Selectors. It will also better convey to users that u8 is an integer value rather than a floating point. - Favor existing image comment instead of always loading comment from metadata. - Improve handling of comment metadata with "charset=[ascii|InvalidCharsetId]" prefixes. - New GIMP_METADATA_SAVE_UPDATE value in enum type GimpMetadataSaveFlags (libgimpbase). - Modernize setting "Exif.Image.DateTime" metadata by setting the timezone additionally. Build: - Add nightly Snap package. - Add nightly Aarch64 flatpak. - appstream-glib dependency replaced with libappstream - Installer uses latest InnoSetup now. - New configure option -Dwin-debugging allowing to choose DWARF debug symbols on Windows instead of the native (CodeView) symbols. This will be useful for people wishing to debug with GDB in particular. Overview of Changes from GIMP 3.0.4 to GIMP 3.1.2 ================================================= Core: - Layer mask created from layer's alpha when there is no alpha channel is now a fully opaque mask. - Major non-destructive filter code refactoring. - Lock Content now generates undo steps. - NDE filters are now allowed on channels. - Merging filter will now add an alpha channel to a layer if required. - Refactoring Photoshop stream loading functions. - Loading Photoshop RGB and grayscale patterns (.pat, unfortunately the same extension as our own pattern format) now supported. - The histogram editor now shows a "Compute unique colors:" checkbox which will display the unique color count in the image. - Deleting current palette entry now selects the next entry in the palette. - New paint mode: Overwrite. Note that this mode is only available for paint tools right now (in particular not for layers, neither in filters). Graphical User Interface: - Brushes and Fonts dockables: new "Use theme colors for preview" toggle button. - The Palettes and Palette Editor dockables, and the Palette tab in FB/BG Color dockable, also follow theme colors for grid display. - New "System" color scheme which will follow the system's color scheme setting (on Unix-like systems when XDG Settings portal is installed and on Windows). Tools: - Curves tool: Photoshop curves file format (.acv) can now be loaded. - Levels tool: Photoshop levels file format (.alv) can now be loaded. - Text tool: new "Outline Direction" settings. Plug-Ins: - Jigsaw: the plug-in now draws on transparent layers too. - Playstation TIM images now supported (import/export). - Palettes can now be exported as Krita .kpl palette. - Over The Air Bitmap (Nokia mobile image format) now supported for import. - PSD: * legacy Drop Shadow layer style is now imported on loading. * legacy Inner Shadow layer style is now imported on loading. - file-raw: new support for ART (Another RawTherapee, fork of the latter) as a RAW loader. - OpenEXR: support for importing multi-layer OpenEXR images. - JPEG 2000: export support added. - APNG: initial import support. - JIF: new import support for Jeff's Image Format. - ORA: support the extensions storing layer's "pixel locked" and "selected" status on import and export. - Script-Fu: new function (script-fu-register-i18n) for setting up localization of Script-Fu plug-ins. - HEIF: * new AVCI import support (requires libheif 1.19.6 with OpenH264 decoder enabled); * new HEJ2 export support (requires libheif 1.19.8 with OpenJPEG support). - New export support for PSB. Modules: - CMYK selector: Total Ink Coverage (total percentage of ink that would be needed to print a particular color) information is now shown. API: - Changes in libgimpwidgets: * New functions: + gimp_prop_toggle_new() - Changes in libgimpui: * New functions: + gimp_procedure_dialog_get_coordinates() * gimp_procedure_dialog_get_widget() will now generate a radio frame widget for GimpChoice arguments of 2 choices only (and will still default to a combo box for larger choices list). PDB: - none_ok tag now allowed on sample_point and guide PDB types. Build: - File format associations list now generated by the build system for Windows and OSes using the Desktop file. - Flatpak: verify nightly flatpak dependencies with the flatpak-external-data-checker (like we do for stable and beta flatpaks). - Various non-portable scripts were ported to be properly POSIX-compliant and to allow native builds on all OS (e.g. Windows). - Some soft checks were also added to the build system to prevent re-introduction of non-portable code. Overview of Changes from GIMP 3.0.2 to GIMP 3.0.4 ================================================= Core: - Make maximum radius for generated brushes consistent across codebase. - Use NDE filter name for undo history. - Module loading improved to be better cross-platform (in particular on macOS both .so and .dylib modules are supported). - Code compliant with GCC 15 (C23). - Filter size updated when its drawable is rotated. - Font loading (at startup) optimized. - Set the proper program name for KDE/Wayland to map the process to the correct desktop file. - "windows-display-*" are hidden from the Shortcuts dialog (they are not meant to be remapped). - Editing non-destructive effects now triggers undo steps. - When migrating from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3, shortcuts for actions "edit-paste-as-new-layer*" are now converted to "edit-paste-merged*" (and not "edit-paste*" anymore which was confusing and counter-productive). Graphical User Interface: - Highlight selected device in GimpDeviceStatus. - Various theme leak fixes. - UX improvement: GimpViewableDialog (e.g. Fill/Stroke path and more) now has "OK" as default response. - Icon size settings now also applying to Move and Transform icon boxes. - Commit hash is now shown in About dialog in all non-release builds (i.e. even in stable series, when we are in-between releases). - Hide Force slider for Pencil Tool (rather than just making it insensitive). - Define merged titlebar icon colors. - Keep menubar color consistent when out of focus. - We don't show Fx icon for tool-based filters. - Updated splash without micro version in it. - Removed size restrictions on Display Filters. - Don't show hidden tools on toolbox tooltips. - Fix "Keep above" Window Manager hint. - Multi-Window mode on Windows: dock windows' title bars now adapt to the Windows system theme colors too. - Show palette name in Palette Color Selector. Tools: - MyPaint Brush: have consistent options layout compared to other paint tools. - Scissors Select Tool: close the curve on Enter, similar to the Path tool. - Path Tool: connect path on click in design mode. Plug-ins: - Restore GUI to Difference Clouds script. This had been lost since GIMP 2.8! - Fixes in various file format support, such as: DDS, SVG, TIFF, PSD, BMP, ICO… - Screenshot dropdowns replaced by radio buttons, as part of a new UX decision that choice settings with 2 or 3 choices should be dropdown (faster 1-click access), unless there are a lot more settings making the dialog too crowded already. PDB: - Make "gimp-plug-ins-query" public again (yet still not available in libgimp). Build: - Windows Installer: * Make the installer aware of Install, Reinstall and Update modes. * Add Repair mode to Windows installer: in particular we can now fix installations when the previous install directory cannot be accessed anymore. * The feature to delete the config folder on Windows uninstall will now make a backup on the Desktop first (allowing people to delete it themselves, move it, or even restore it later if needed). * Uninstalling while GIMP is running is made impossible (among other issues, it was causing partial uninstallation). * Downgrading is only possible by uninstalling first. * Development warning is shown in dev build of stable series too. * Add fractional scaling support to Installer welcome image. * Restore points now have a timeout to prevent stuckness. - Our AppImage won't ship debug symbols anymore. Better debugging can be set with: export DEBUGINFOD_URLS="https://debuginfod.debian.net" - Windows builds: * Ship babl/GEGL and libgimp headers, static libs and pkg-config files for plug-in developers. * Dedicated file icon for XCF files. * Generate native .pdb CodeView symbols on Windows (smaller debug data files, usable by MSIX and better debugging ability), except on x86 (32-bit). - Crossbuilds are dropped from CI. - Shell scripts used in the meson build are ported to Python (more portable and much faster on some platforms, in particular Windows). - Some build scripts were moved around for reorganization. - Depency requirement bumped: * babl 0.1.114 * GEGL 0.4.62 - New "Inputs" feature for simpler Gitlab pipelines running. - Some in-repository documentation was cleaned up. Overview of Changes from GIMP 3.0.0 to GIMP 3.0.2 ================================================= This is a bug-fix only release. Core: - Mark some strings translatable. - Fix crash when choosing a brush in grid view. - Windows: temporary revert of some Input Device handling code which was breaking pressure sensitivity for some graphics tablets (though this revert may make issues with the eraser tip). - Fix crash when choosing a non-existing font in text tool options. Tools: - Reorder Line Art Detection options per design decision. Graphical User Interface: - Keep headerbar color consistent when out of focus. - Histogram uses the luminance value of the foreground color as a threshold to lighten or darken the border color for contrast with the histogram itself. - Improve separation between panels in dark theme. - Add default response for GimpQueryBox dialogues. - Spacing between toolbox widgets improved. - GimpSpinScale slider colors inverted. - New icons: "gimp-toggle-on" and "gimp-toggle-off" and using them in the Search Action's list as icons for toggle actions. Plug-ins: - Python Console uses the luminance of the background color for error text. - Metadata Editor: fix buffer overflow. - Gradient Flare: fix crash when setting the size to 0. - Screenshot: X11 implementation is bypassed (in favor of portals) when running on XWayland. Build: - Various packaging fixes and cleanup. - The Windows installer now prompts (only in user installation) about deleting GIMP config files when uninstalling. - GEGL 0.4.58 is now our minimum requirement. - Windows installer: create Restore Point on system-wide install.