14 DAY TRIAL // A new release for the stable branch of GIMP, version 2.4.4, was released along with the GIMP Animation Package 2.4.0. You should know that this version of GIMP is a bugfix release and no new features were added.
Let's see what's new in GIMP 2.4.4:
￭ A typo in stock icon name was fixed; ￭ The handling of PSD files with empty layer names now works normally; ￭ Merged TinyScheme bug-fixes; ￭ Removed duplicate entry from Tango palette; ￭ Corrected parameter range in Chip Away script; ￭ Reduced redraw priority and speed of the marching ants; ￭ Fixed out-of-bounds array access in Convolution Matrix plug-in; ￭ Reduced rounding errors in Convolution Matrix plug-in; ￭ Fixed potential crash on missing CMYK color profile; ￭ Fixed crash in Bumpmap plug-in when called from some scripts; ￭ Equalize should not equalize the alpha channel; ￭ Increased the number of points the ImageMap plug-in can handle; ￭ Adjusted the priority of the projection renderer; ￭ Smooth the brush mask to get a simpler cursor boundary; ￭ Show the selection even if the image window is invisible; ￭ Allow to commit a pending rectangular selection using Enter; ￭ Fixed bug in image dirty state logic; ￭ Improved GIMPressionist performance and reduced startup time; ￭ Fixed a crash in the Convert to Color Profile plug-in; ￭ Merged some other minor fixes from trunk; ￭ Translation updates (de, it, lt, ru, sv, uk).
The GIMP Animation Package, or GAP, is a collection of plug-ins that extend GIMP with capabilities to create and edit animations. The 2.4.0 version of the GIMP Animation Package contains the following new features:
￭ Modify frames support to expand layer to image size; ￭ Make Filter all Layers feature compatible to GIMP 2.4. (Updated Iterator procedures to match structures of the supported plug ins that are part of the GIMP 2.4.x distribution)
...and the following bugs were fixed:
￭ Fixed crashes of the VCR Navigator plug-in; ￭ Fixed crashes when using GIMP-GAP frames in other image formats than XCF; ￭ Fixed lots of warnings about using invalid image/drawable id's; ￭ Master Videoencoder did not recognize the registered encoder plug-ins; ￭ Enable/disable tooltips now compatible with GIMP 2.4 preferences; ￭ Replaced deprecated gimp-path-* PDB calls.
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