Download GIMP 2.7.3

Version 2.7.3 of the open source photo editing program GIMP has been released. The name GIMP is an abbreviation for ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’. The software is available for various operating systems, including Freebsd, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. Although not officially supported by The GIMP Team, Jernej Simoncic is working on a installer that can be used under Windows. The 2.7 series should be considered unstable and includes improvements to the user interface, among other things. Since 2.7.1 the following changes have been made:

Changes in GIMP 2.7.3

ONION:

• 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

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

GEGL:

• foo

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.

Plugins:

• 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)

Dates:

• foo

Developer documentation:

• many updates

Source and build system:

• Make cairo a global dependency, starting at libgimpcolor
• Require poppler >= 0.12.4

General:

• foo
• 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

ONION:

• 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
• Refactor and clean up the dynamics editor widget, and add colors for the curves
• Add support for F2 to rename items in lists
• Clean up GimpDeviceStatus internally and visually
• Allow to set GimpToolPreset’s icon using the new GimpIconPicker widget
• Make the text tool’s style overlay show default values ​​from the text object if there is no style active at the cursor position/selection
• Show the the text size’s unit in the text style overlay
• Make tool dialogs transient to the image window again
• Consistently add a “gimp-” prefix to all window roles
• Make the preset buttons in tool options work on the global tool presets instead of the removed per-tool preset lists
• Add GimpControllerMouse, which allows to bind extra mouse buttons to arbitrary actions

core:

• Add uniform API to turn any GimpItem’s outline into a selection
• Add support for color tags in text layers
• Remove the selection_control() stuff from GimpImage and with it maybe last piece of UI code still not properly separated
• Add more validation code for XCF loading
• Add accessors to GimpPalette and use them globally
• Keep a proxy GimpPalette around for the image’s colormap
• Don’t scale SVGs when pasting or importing them
• A lot of changes to the input device handling code, partly merged from the gtk3-port branch, add GimpDeviceManager class
• Add smoothing or paint strokes
• Fix display filters to work on a cairo surface
• Fix and enhance GimpImage’s URI/filename handling API
• Unset “removed” flag on items when they get added back to the image from the undo stack
• Change item creation to properly use GObject properties and remove item_configure() and drawable_configure()
• Refactor tool event handling and move lots of stuff into utility functions
• Clean up GimpViewRenderer API
• Implement transforms on group layers
• Clean up the transform tool a lot, and refactor away old junk
• Tool and tool event cleanup: enforce tool activate/halt invariants, consistently shutdown all tools in control(HALT), and many other tool fixes
• Remove GimpToolPresets object, this functionality got merged into the new GimpToolPreset system
• Rename GimpFilteredContainer to GimpTaggedContainer and add a new GimpFilteredContainer parent class which is a generic filter
• Remove the concept of an “offset” from TileManager and instead pass around the offsets explicitly when needed, like when transforming
• Move GimpBezier desc from vectors/ to core/ and add API to create one from sorted BoundSegs
• Change GimpBrush boundary API to return a GimpBezierDesc
• Add GimpBrushCache object and use it to cache a brush’s transformed pixels and its outline, remove the caching code from GimpBrushCore
• Add GimpBezierDesc based API to GimpScanConvert and use it

GEGL:

• Add operations and gegl infrastructure for the cage tool
• Disable View -> Use GEGL as we will not have time to finish the GEGL projection code for GIMP 2.8

Libgimp:

• Introduce an “item” type in the PDB and libgimp and deprecate lots of old API in favor of item API
• Add procedures to create, traverse and manipulate layer trees
• Add more state to the context API, and deprecate functions with too many parameters in favor of simpler ones that use context states, particularly the entire transform and selection API
• Move GimpUnitStore and GimpUnitComboBox to libgimpwidgets, and use them in GimpSizeEntry, deprecate GimpUnitMenu.
• Deprecate gimp_min_colors() and gimp_install_cmap()
• Add API that enables GimpRuler to track motion events by itself
• Add new selection API and deprecate all old selection functions
• Move around and rename all parasite functions, deprecate the old ones
• Add a generated PDB file in the “gimp” namespace and get rid of “gimpmisc”
• Add unit conversion functions to libgimpbase
• Add function to reset a plugin’s context to default values

Plugins:

• Make script-fu server IPv6 aware
• Follow libgimp deprecations in plugins and scripts
• Add PDF export plugin
• Lots of cairo porting here too
• UTF-8 fixes in script fu
• Set the progress to 1.0 when done
• Merge a lot of upstream fixes into script-fu’s Tinyscheme
• Add “New Layer” option to MapObject
• Support loading of 16-bit raw PPM files
• Add web-page, a new plug-in which renders images of web pages
• Fix some more plugins to not warn if applied on an empty region

Dates:

• Remove “Untitled” from palette names entries

Developer documentation:

• Move libgimp documentation from templates to inline comments
• Generate standard deprecated sections

Source and build system:

• Add more code documentation
• Add more unit tests and refactor existing ones to use global test utility functions
• Add a manifest to executables (app and plug-ins, Win32)
• Depend on GLib 2.28, GTK+ 2.24, Cairo 1.10
• Make WebKit available to all plugins, not just the help browser
• Run UI tests on Xvfb if available
• Check for GdkPixbuf separately because it’s now a separate library
• Allow tests to use uninstalled plug-ins from the build dir
• Remove, comment out, or build for GIMP_UNSTABLE some stuff that should not be in a stable release

General:

• Improve safety on Win32 by calling SetDllDirectory() and SetProcessDEPPolicy()
• Switch from GtkObject::destroy() to GObject::dispose() all over the place
• Various changes that make maintaining the gtk3-port branch easier, such as s/GtkAnchorType/GimpHandleAnchor/ and s/GtkObject/GtkAdjustment/
• Don’t use gtk_container_add() for adding to GtkBoxes
• Inherit from GtkBox directly, not from GtkHBox/GtkVBox
• Add namespace to the ink blob types and functions
• Remove all useless calls to gtk_range_set_update_policy()
• Use GObject::constructed() instead of GObject::constructor() all over the place
• Move more members to private and add accessors for them
• Stop using GdkNativeWindow, use guint32 instead
• Plug memory leaks
• Remove ps-menurc, we are not a PS clone
• Use the new g_[s]list_free_full() instead of foreach() and free()
• Don’t use newly deprecated GTK+ API
• Use the new GDK_KEY_foo key names
• Lots of bug fixes and cleanup
• Lots of translation updates

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