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The second beta release of version 3.5 of the photo-editing program Paint.NET was released on Thursday. Paint.NET requires at least version 3.5 SP1 of the .NET Framework and therefore only works on Windows XP or higher, including the soon-to-be-released Windows 7. In version 3.5, the user interface has been refreshed. For example, there are new icons and it can use Aero on Windows Vista and 7. There are also several new effects, the program starts up faster and the text tool has been completely rewritten. Below is what has changed in the program since beta 1:

Changes/fixes since version 3.5 Beta 1:

• The menu bar was rendering incorrectly for certain themes (Windows 7/Vista).
• Some items were not showing up in the ‘Recent Items’ jump list (Windows 7).
• Clicking on the canvas straight from the menu would cause the paintbrush to draw a long streak.
• Copy+Paste would sometimes miss a pixel edge on the right/bottom sides, when using Fixed Ratio / Fixed Size modes.
• Fixed a crash when moving pixels off-canvas, switching tools, then trying to move the pixels back onto the canvas.
• Fixed some messed up rendering for IndirectUI effect dialogs (Windows XP).
• Performance is improved when switching between images that have lots of layers.
• Aero ‘snap’ wasn’t working when dragging part of the glassy area of ​​the toolbar (Windows 7).
• Added a new menu item, Window -> Glass Dialog Buttons. You can use this to disable the “glass footers” for dialogs (Windows 7/Vista).
• Glass Dialog Buttons are now disabled when font smoothing is disabled.
• If an e-mail program isn’t installed, the error message for Help->Send Feedback is more informative.
• “Centimeters” was being truncated in the toolbar.
• The shape tools were not using pixel snapping.
• Layer names with ampersands were not showing up correctly.
• Updated the internal list of incompatible and unstable plugins, which are then blocked from loading.
• Fixed a crash with the Rectangle Select tool if “Fixed Size” mode was used and negative numbers were entered.
• Fixed an access violation due to a race condition in finalizing effect rendering versus un-write protecting the layer’s pixels.
• Fixed an access violation in the renderer for the background transparency “checkers”.
• Fixed a crash when you would resize a selection to 0-width and/or 0-height, then expand it.
• Fixed a crash due to an overflow that prevented very large images from working (64-bit only).
• Fixed a crash with scanning/printing.
• Fixed the status bar’s progress bar showing up and doing nothing for codecs that don’t report saving progress, such as JPEG.
• Fixed a major issue with the readability of the “update is available” dialog in any non-English language.
• Fixed a crash with the Zoom tool.
• Fixed some really weird scroll flickering with the Text tool.