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                   GNU Image Manipulation Program
                          2.8 Stable Branch
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This is the stable branch of GIMP. No new features are being added
here, just bug-fixes.


Changes in GIMP 2.8.0
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Core:

 - Add our own GimpOperationBrightnessContrast because GEGL one is different


Plug-ins:

 - Fix some GFig rendering issues


Source and build system:

 - Depend on Babl 0.1.10, GEGL 0.2.0 and some other new library versions


General:

 - Bug fixes
 - Translation updates


Changes in GIMP 2.7.5
=====================


UI:

 - Minor application menu fixes on the Mac
 - Make the toolbox arbitrarily resizable again
 - Add axis labels to the dynamics curves to make them more obvious
 - Fix dockable showing to do the right thing in both MWM and SWM
 - Fix some glitches in the tool preset UI, like proper sensitivity


Core:

 - Restore autoshrink functionality in the rectangle tools
 - Allow smudge to work with dynamic brushes
 - Make sure tool presets and tool options are consistent after loading
 - Add automatic tags for the folders a file lives in
 - Make the default Quick Mask color configurable
 - Fix Color Balance so the "range" setting actually makes a difference


Plug-ins:

 - Proper toplevel item sorting in the help browser
 - Use libraries instead of launching programs in file-compressor
 - Use the Ghostscript library instead of launching ghostscript
 - Allow to switch off antialiasing when importing from PDF
 - Embed the page setup in the main print dialog
 - Port Gfig to cairo


Libgimp:

 - Add PDB API to modify a lot of paint and ink options


Data:

 - Add a new set of default brushes and tool presets from Ramon Miranda


Developer documentation:

 - Update everything including app/ so all functions appear again


Source and build system:

 - Remove the unmaintained makefile.msc build system
 - Explicitly link plug-ins to -lm when needed
 - Also create .xz tarballs


General:

 - Lots of bug fixes
 - Tons and tons of translation updates


Changes in GIMP 2.7.4
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UI:

 - Add a close button to image tabs in single-window mode
 - Improve the transform tools' undo strings to be more descriptive
 - Render the layer's "eye" icon in inconsistent state if the layer is
   visible, but one of its parents isn't
 - Add proper stacking for canvas items, so things don't hide each other
 - Make sure single-window-mode and multi-window-mode are always saved
   consistently in sessionrc


Core:

 - Fix "render_image_tile_fault: assertion `tile[4] != NULL' failed"
   warnings that occurred for some image sizes
 - Fix attachment of the floating selection when the gegl projection
   is enabled
 - Replace heal algorithm with a new one by Jean-Yves Couleaud that
   works much better
 - Make resource sub-folders show up in UI as tags, allowing users
   to easily locate resource collections they may have installed
 - Fix graphics tablet canvas interaction by moving from
   gdk_pointer_grab() to gtk_grab_add() for most grabs
 - Stop using motion hints, they are a concept from the dark ages


Libgimp:

 - Add a basic paint dynamics PDB interface


Plug-ins:

 - Make writing color space information to BMP files optional
 - PSD loader now reads and imports working paths


Script-Fu:

 - Lots and lots of undeprecations


Developer documentation:

 - Add devel-docs/gegl-porting-plan.txt


Source and build system:

 - Make git-version.h generation work in shallow git clones
 - Modernize use of autotools a bit, maintainer-mode and pdbgen
   are now enabled by default


General:

 - Make gimptool install scripts in the correct system-wide directory
 - Fix lots and lots of stuff found by static code analysis


Changes in GIMP 2.7.3
=====================


UI:

 - Use GimpSpinScales instead of scale entries in all dockable widgets
 - Allow the spin scale to control a range larger than its scale's range
 - Implement RTL mode in GimpSpinScale
 - Add lots of tooltips to tool options
 - Allow to drop more things to the empty image window, and simply
   create new images from them
 - Cage tool: allow to add handle to the cage when clicking on an edge
 - Cage tool: allow to remove selected handles from the cage by hitting delete
 - Remember column widths in multi-column dock windows
 - Support starting GIMP in single-window mode
 - When the brush is shared among paint tools, also share all
   brush-modifying paint options
 - Use ALT+number and ALT+Tab shortcuts to navigate between images
   in both single- and multi-window mode
 - Make 'Export to' always activatable and fall back to 'Export...' if
   no export target has been set yet
 - In single-window mode, add new dockable dialogs to the image window
   instead of in a new window
 - When switching on single-window mode, put docks in the image window
   depending on what side of the window they originally had
 - When switching off single-window mode, distribute dock windows
   better
 - Add a canvas item for the transform grid, fixing a major speed
   regression, and add the same guides options as in the rectangle tools
 - Don't unmaximize the single-window mode image window when closing
   images
 - Resurrect the "You can drop dockable dialogs here" help string
   below the toolbox
 - Make pick-and-move with the Move Tool work for layers in a layer
   group


Core:

 - Add GimpMotionBuffer which abstracts away stroke smoothing behind
   a simple API and takes it out of GimpDisplayShell
 - Add a GimpIdTable utility class
 - Add a GimpDockContainer interface
 - Add a GimpSessionManaged interface
 - Add GimpCanvasRectangleGuides which makes the rectangle tool's
   guides draw properly


Libgimp:

 - Make libgimp depend on GdkPixbuf
 - Add API to create layers from cairo surfaces
 - Make it impossible to include individual files from any GIMP
   library. This was always forbidden and designed so it most
   probably breaks, but now it reliably breaks using #error
 - Deprecate the "set_sensitive" logic and use g_object_bind_property()


Plug-ins:

 - Use poppler's cairo API to load PDFs, the pixbuf API is removed
 - Port screenshot from GdkPixbuf to cairo
 - Fix the annoying parser build warnings in imagemap
 - Add a check-for-deprecated-procedures-in-script-fu make target
 - Update libpng code to not use deprecated API (file-mng and file-png)
 - Add an Item class to pygimp
 - Correct/update some labels and defaults in the JPEG plug-in's save dialog UI
 - Fix "Bug 596410 - gimp-image-get-filename returns NULL for imported files"


Developer documentation:

 - Many updates


Source and build system:

 - Make cairo a global dependency, starting at libgimpcolor
 - Require poppler >= 0.12.4
 - Remove gimp-remote for good, it has been disabled for years


General:

 - Some more undeprecations now that we use GTK+ 2.24
 - Fix lots of warnings that are new in -Wall in GCC 4.6
 - Lots of bug fixes and cleanup
 - Lots of translation updates


Changes in GIMP 2.7.2
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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,
   this is a huge change that touches all tools and almost all display
   code, and which finally gets rid of XOR drawing altogether
 - Switch from purely idle-rendering the display to something that ensures
   a minimum framerate, so we don't fail to update under heavy load
 - Make the text tool handle RTL mode better
 - Change GimpColorMapEditor to use the newly added proxy GimpPalette
 - Replace the brush scale control in tool options by a brush size
   one that works in pixels, and does the right thing when the brush
   changes
 - Add new widget GimpSpinScale which is a scale with number entry,
   and use it in all tool options
 - Make the brush, pattern etc. selectors in tool options more
   compact and allow to directly jump to the editor dialogs
 - Make handle sizes in tools consistent
 - Add an on-canvas progress and use it for tool progress instead of
   the statusbar
 - Add a new GimpToolPalette class with lots of code that was
   in GimpToolBox
 - Allow to properly drop into and after a layer group