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GNU Image Manipulation Program
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2.10 Stable Branch
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This is the stable branch of GIMP. Unlike earlier stable branches,
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we do allow some new features here, if they are not too invasive.
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Otherwise, this branch is only for bug-fixes.
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Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.2 to GIMP 2.10.4
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===================================================
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Core:
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- Remove gimp_display_shell_draw_background() and all clipping hacks
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for drawing the canvas background. This optimizes away one entire
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step of drawing of image size, for each expose.
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- Font loading does not block startup anymore. Only consequence is
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that the Text tool may not be usable immediately if fonts are not
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fully loaded yet (and will output an appropriate error if you do
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so). All non-text related activities can be performed right away.
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- Change of the URL from bugzilla to gitlab where appropriate.
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User Interface:
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- The Dashboard dockable dialog now has a 'Memory' group that shows
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memory-usage information: the currently used memory size, the
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available physical memory size, and the total physical memory size.
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It can also show the tile-cache size, for comparison against the
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other memory stats. Note that the upper-bound of the meter is the
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physical memory size, so the memory usage may be over 100% when GIMP
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uses the swap.
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- The Dashboard dockable dialog now has "read" and "written" fields
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in the dashboard swap group, which report the total amount of data
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read-from/written-to the tile swap, respetively. Additionally, the
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swap busy indicator (used as the meter's LED) has been improved, so
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that it's active whenever data has been read-from/written-to the swap
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during the last sampling interval, rather than at the point of sampling.
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- Fonts can now be tagged. The user interface is the same as for brushes,
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patterns etc.
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- Some icons fixed: larger spacing between broken chains and
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gimp-tool-ellipse-select made symmetrical.
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Usability:
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- When a plug-in cannot be applied to an image because of mismatch in image
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types (e.g. layer has no alpha or image is greyscale), GIMP now displays
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a message listing supported image types for this plug-in.
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Tools:
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- The Measurement tool now has an "Auto straighten" option allowing to
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rotate the active drawable (layer, channel…) so that the measurement
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line is used as horizon. As other transform tools, the feature will
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work on linked drawables as well.
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- The Smudge tool now paints correctly on images with a color profile
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other than the GIMP's built-in one.
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Build:
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- Installer: set compatibility options to run Python plugins
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in HiDPI-aware mode.
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- Put back compatibility DLLs for really old plugins.
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- Install binary tool `gimp-test-clipboard` on the system to allow
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people to help us debug clipboard bugs.
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- --enable-bundled-mypaint-brushes renamed --enable-relocatable-bundle
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and also make WMF fonts looked up on the runtime prefix of GIMP
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(instead of the build-time path) when this build option was set.
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Plug-ins:
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- gimptool-2.0 binary now accepts source files with non-standard
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extensions if it can try to guess appropriate language from the
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compiler being used. It will also properly quote arguments for
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shell usage.
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- Run explicitly Python 2 as Python plug-in interpreter to prevent
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breakage on systems where Python 3 is the default.
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- raw_input()'s argument in Python console is now optional, and
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input() support has been added.
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File Formats:
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- The PSD loader now provides an option to load "merged",
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pre-composited version of the images that becomes available when
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a PSD file was saved with "Maximize Compatibility" option enabled
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in Photoshop. This is useful when loading PSD files that use features
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that GIMP doesn't currently support, and therefore can't render
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correctly, such as adjustment layers. When loading the merged image
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version, we avoid loading certain additional data from the file, such
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as channels, paths, and guides, while still loading metadata. This
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option is currently exposed as an additional file type
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("Photoshop image (merged)"), which has to be explicitly selected from
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the file-type list when opening the image.
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- Embedding GIMP's built-in sRGB color profile to exported files is now
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optional. The default choice can be set in the Preferences dialog.
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Translations:
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- Updated translations: Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek,
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Italian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish.
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Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.0 to GIMP 2.10.2
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===================================================
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Core:
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- Discard fonts which fail to load and popup an info dialog to allow
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people debug their fonts.
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- New API to suppress updates in UI until plug-ins are done
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introducing changes.
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- New API to calculate histograms in separate threads, with possible further
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extension to handle similar cases elsewhere in GIMP.
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- Tool options are now properly saved and reloaded per-device at
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startup.
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Plug-ins:
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- New plug-in for importing and exporting HEIF images.
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- Enable visibility of rasterized vector layer from PSD.
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- Single-window screenshots in Windows fixed to correctly snap a
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window even when it is partly off-screen or covered by another
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window or when display scaling is not set to 100%.
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Filters:
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- New Spherize filter to wrap an image around a spherical cap
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- New Recursive Transform filter to create Droste effect.
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Usability:
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- Warn users, when alpha-only painting has no effect. E.g. when target
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drawable doesn't have an alpha channel, or the alpha channel is locked.
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- Make the splash texts dynamic, so they are larger on larger splashes.
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- Mention pressing Enter to complete Foreground selection in the status bar.
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- Make sure that clicking outside any selection prevents Rectangle Select
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and Ellipse Select tools from creating empty selections.
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- Improve mouse wheel zooming behavior to keep the same point
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centered under the pointer even if the image is completely visible
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in the canvas.
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- Add "View -> Center Image in Window" (Shift+J) as a quick way to
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center the image at any zoom level.
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Translations:
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- Updated translations: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek,
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Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Spanish,
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Swedish, Ukrainian.
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- New translation of Windows installer: Chinese (Taiwan)
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Build:
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- Add a --with-bug-report-url configure option allowing packagers to
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set the address of their own bug tracker. This address will be the
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one opened by the debug dialog for reporting bugs.
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- Add a flatpak manifest for the gtk3-port branch.
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- Remove the possibility to disable script-fu.
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- Add a --with-icc-directory configure option to customize the color
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profile directory. By default, it is set to the common path
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/usr/share/color/icc.
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Documentation:
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- Updating the description of the XCF format "devel-docs/xcf.txt", for
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third-party readers wishing to support GIMP 2.10 XCF files.
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- Add documentation skeletons for all enums in libgimpbase/, there is
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much room for improvement.
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