Release Digest: GNU, January 20, 2004 | Linux Today

Release Digest: GNU, January 20, 2004

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 21, 2004

The GIMP 2.0pre2

Hi,

The most recent installment from the GIMP production line,
version 2.0pre2, is available now for perusal, downloading,
evaluation, testing and use from

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

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

Since the last release, nearly 40 known bugs have been killed,
and many other small changes have been made during code
reviews.

Given the relatively small number of bugs reported against our
past pre-release, we expect this to be the final pre-release before
2.0, so we extra-appreciate the time you spend testing and breaking
it.

Happy GIMPing,
Dave.

Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.0pre2

  • 130828: Compile error with gcc 2.95 (Adrian Bunk)
  • 35335: Curve tool doesn’t conserve black (Simon)
  • 130866: Remove multiple PNG entries in file type dropdown
    (Brix)
  • 106991: Add mnemonics for all menu items (finished by
    Mitch)
  • 130869: Add smaller image templates (Dave Neary)
  • 130916: Handle multiline texts better (Mitch)
  • 120424: Add dirty flag to default image title (Brix)
  • 130912: Fix rounding errors in JPEG plug-in (keith@goatman.me.uk)
  • 131016: Add support for layer offsets in multipage tiff loading
    (Pablo d’Angelo)
  • 124073: Modify behaviour of zoom tool to avoid funny fractions
    (Dave Neary, Simon)
  • 131088: fix select-to-pattern script-fu (Mitch)
  • 82478: Fix zoom handling in fractal explorer (Pedro
    Gimeno)
  • 115793: Make thumbnail preview of indexed images match display
    (Pedro Gimeno)
  • 130471: Handle RGBA images correctly in the CEL plug-in (Dov
    Grobgeld)
  • 131109: Remove EMX specific code (Sven)
  • 130118: Handle GIMP2_DIRECTORY with non-UTF-8 characters
    correctly (Tor Lillqvist, Sven)
  • 82465: Make preview match image when image is greyscale
    (Sven)
  • 92586: Force SF_IMAGE value to reflect the selected image
    (Sven)
  • 116765: Fix selection artifacts while moving selections (Pedro
    Gimeno, Mitch)
  • 131215: Only call bind_textdomain_codeset when available
    (Reinhard Geissler)
  • 125141: Resolve API issues with GimpPixelFetcher and
    GimpRegionIterator (David Odin, Maurits Rijk)
  • 109078: Fix histogram for graylevel images (Pedro Gimeno,
    Mitch)
  • 131146: Fix drag & drop of patterns to layer masks (Dave
    Neary, Mitch)
  • 128112: Use a better error message if help files are not
    present (Mitch)
  • 78732: Don’t paste outside the visible screen, if possible
    (Mitch)
  • 131561: Make “Condensed” fonts available for use (Manish
    Singh)
  • 71922: Fix SuperNova preview for Alpha channel (David
    Odin)
  • 82464: Fix SuperNova preview for greyscale images (David
    Odin)
  • 121966: Fix SuperNova plug-in (David Odin)
  • 110610: Allow user to choose file formats even if the current
    image type is not supported by them (Pedro Gimeno)
  • 131980: Fix crash in crop tool (David Odin, Sven)
  • 131030: Allow saving data without pre-multiplying by alpha
    channel in tiff plug-in (Pablo d’Angelo, Dave Neary)
  • 125864: Guides behave correctly when spacing is set to 1px
    (Brix)
  • 131721: Fix handling of alpha channels across undo steps
    (Mitch)
  • 128025: Fix behaviour when there is a floating selection
    (Mitch)
  • 131076: Make fuzzy select tool respect alpha channel in indexed
    mode (Mitch)
  • 131779: Improve indexed scaling dialog (Mitch)
  • 127673: Overlapping widgets in gradient editor {Mitch)

Other contributions:

David Odin, Manish Singh, Simon Budig, Michael Natterer, Sven
Neumann, Tor Lillqvist, Henrik Brix Andersen


Dave Neary
bolsh@gimp.org

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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