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The GIMP 2.0pre4

Hello everybody,

If you were stuck for something to do with your evening (or morning or night, depending on your timezone), you could do worse than download the latest pre-release of the GIMP 2.0 from

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.0/testing/

or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/download.html

The GIMP (for those who don't know) is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Since it's been a little while since the last pre-release, quite a few bugs have been fixed, and some small user interface changes have also been made, so it is well worth the upgrade.

Happy GIMPing,
Dave.

Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.0pre4

• 128825: Improved misleading debug output and hide it in the stable branch (Raphael)
• 133467: Fixed autoshrink selection (Mitch)
• 131634: Fixed text-circle script-fu (David Odin)
• 133532: Quit the imagemap plug-in when it is finished (Sven)
• 133456: Disallow editing of data objects which have no save functionality (Mitch)
• 113142: Don't attempt to render the display out of bounds (Mitch)
• 133763: Fix use of EXEEXT in tiff checks (Yosh)
• 131044: Attempt to read layer names from TIFF files (Pablo d'Angelo)
• 133490: Fixed handling of missing pluginrc file (Sven)
• 121074: Suppress some harmless warnings in the stable branch (Sven)
• 132351: Fixed harmless iscissors tool warnings (Sven)
• 97999: Indicate progress when scaling a drawable (Sven)
• 133244: Fixed crash in Curve Bend plug-in (Wolfgang Hofer)
• 133818: Added a runtime check for fontconfig >= 2.2.0 (Mitch)
• 130636: Fixed undo handling in Add Bevel script (Simon)
• 133067: Connect the text tool font with the global font selector (Sven)
• 133958: Made color values in color picker selectable (Mariano Suarez-Alvarez)
• 125283: Have configure warn when gimp-print is older than 4.2.6 (Sven)
• 112012: Use default preview if none can be generated (Mitch)
• 124969: Improve text tool logic (Sven)
• 121033: Ensure that non-indexed images cannot have a colormap (Mitch)
• 132356: Curves tool trapped the mouse (Mitch)
• 123321: UTF-8 and zero-size layer bug (Adam Moss, Daniel Rogers, Piotr Krysiuk)
• 134274: Behave correctly for edit and delete functions for data files (Mitch)
• 134285: Improve snap behaviour for grid and guides (Simon)
• 134274: Fix data file initialisation routine (Mitch)
• 134423: Fix GIF plug-in when used without display (Sven)
• 134419: Fix undo button behaviour in GFig plug-in (Sven)
• 134562: Ensure tile cache cannot write to freed memory (Mitch)
• 134512: Exclude undo stack from size of memory in an image when scaling (Sven)
• 134694: Fix bug in Preferences (Mitch)
• 134410: Make drawing of straight lines better for fuzzy brushes (Simon)
• 125303: Remove per-channel gray point picker from levels dialog (Dave Neary)
• 134752: Improve clipboard buffer detection between different images in the same GIMP instance (Mitch)
• 122049: Validate numerical input in pygimp plug-ins, and fix the Sphere plug-in (Dave Neary, Florian Traverse)
• 130568: Mostly fix Van Gogh (LIC) plug-in (Simon)
• 70673: Let Curves and Levels widgets scale with the dialog (Sven)
• 135059: Remember the preview setting for all ImageMap tools (Sven)
• 135630: Don't make the resolution calibration dialog modal (Sven, Pedro)
• 133266: Saner max. value for the blend tool's supersampling (Sven, Pedro)
• 135866: Fix displacement handling in bumpmap plug-in (Pedro, Joao)
• 135994: Fix offsets when scaling or resizing vectors (Simon)
• 133453: Experiments with global shortcuts (Mitch, Simon)

Other contributions:

Manish Singh, Michael Naterrer, Sven Neumann, Henrik Brix Andersen, Jakub Steiner, Simon Budig

--
Dave Neary
bolsh@gimp.org