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Daniel Baumann 554424e00a
Adding upstream version 3.0.4.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
2025-06-23 00:14:50 +02:00

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GNU Image Manipulation Program
Development Branch
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This is the development branch of GIMP.
Overview of Changes from GIMP 3.0.2 to GIMP 3.0.4
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Core:
- Make maximum radius for generated brushes consistent across
codebase.
- Use NDE filter name for undo history.
- Module loading improved to be better cross-platform (in particular
on macOS both .so and .dylib modules are supported).
- Code compliant with GCC 15 (C23).
- Filter size updated when its drawable is rotated.
- Font loading (at startup) optimized.
- Set the proper program name for KDE/Wayland to map the process to
the correct desktop file.
- "windows-display-*" are hidden from the Shortcuts dialog (they are
not meant to be remapped).
- Editing non-destructive effects now triggers undo steps.
- When migrating from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3, shortcuts for actions
"edit-paste-as-new-layer*" are now converted to "edit-paste-merged*"
(and not "edit-paste*" anymore which was confusing and
counter-productive).
Graphical User Interface:
- Highlight selected device in GimpDeviceStatus.
- Various theme leak fixes.
- UX improvement: GimpViewableDialog (e.g. Fill/Stroke path and more)
now has "OK" as default response.
- Icon size settings now also applying to Move and Transform icon
boxes.
- Commit hash is now shown in About dialog in all non-release builds
(i.e. even in stable series, when we are in-between releases).
- Hide Force slider for Pencil Tool (rather than just making it
insensitive).
- Define merged titlebar icon colors.
- Keep menubar color consistent when out of focus.
- We don't show Fx icon for tool-based filters.
- Updated splash without micro version in it.
- Removed size restrictions on Display Filters.
- Don't show hidden tools on toolbox tooltips.
- Fix "Keep above" Window Manager hint.
- Multi-Window mode on Windows: dock windows' title bars now adapt to
the Windows system theme colors too.
- Show palette name in Palette Color Selector.
Tools:
- MyPaint Brush: have consistent options layout compared to other
paint tools.
- Scissors Select Tool: close the curve on Enter, similar to the Path
tool.
- Path Tool: connect path on click in design mode.
Plug-ins:
- Restore GUI to Difference Clouds script. This had been lost since
GIMP 2.8!
- Fixes in various file format support, such as: DDS, SVG, TIFF, PSD,
BMP, ICO…
- Screenshot dropdowns replaced by radio buttons, as part of a new UX
decision that choice settings with 2 or 3 choices should be dropdown
(faster 1-click access), unless there are a lot more settings making
the dialog too crowded already.
PDB:
- Make "gimp-plug-ins-query" public again (yet still not available in
libgimp).
Build:
- Windows Installer:
* Make the installer aware of Install, Reinstall and Update modes.
* Add Repair mode to Windows installer: in particular we can now fix
installations when the previous install directory cannot be
accessed anymore.
* The feature to delete the config folder on Windows uninstall will
now make a backup on the Desktop first (allowing people to delete
it themselves, move it, or even restore it later if needed).
* Uninstalling while GIMP is running is made impossible (among other
issues, it was causing partial uninstallation).
* Downgrading is only possible by uninstalling first.
* Development warning is shown in dev build of stable series too.
* Add fractional scaling support to Installer welcome image.
* Restore points now have a timeout to prevent stuckness.
- Our AppImage won't ship debug symbols anymore. Better debugging can
be set with: export DEBUGINFOD_URLS="https://debuginfod.debian.net"
- Windows builds:
* Ship babl/GEGL and libgimp headers, static libs and pkg-config
files for plug-in developers.
* Dedicated file icon for XCF files.
* Generate native .pdb CodeView symbols on Windows (smaller debug
data files, usable by MSIX and better debugging ability), except
on x86 (32-bit).
- Crossbuilds are dropped from CI.
- Shell scripts used in the meson build are ported to Python (more
portable and much faster on some platforms, in particular Windows).
- Some build scripts were moved around for reorganization.
- Depency requirement bumped:
* babl 0.1.114
* GEGL 0.4.62
- New "Inputs" feature for simpler Gitlab pipelines running.
- Some in-repository documentation was cleaned up.
Overview of Changes from GIMP 3.0.0 to GIMP 3.0.2
=================================================
This is a bug-fix only release.
Core:
- Mark some strings translatable.
- Fix crash when choosing a brush in grid view.
- Windows: temporary revert of some Input Device handling code which
was breaking pressure sensitivity for some graphics tablets (though
this revert may make issues with the eraser tip).
- Fix crash when choosing a non-existing font in text tool options.
Tools:
- Reorder Line Art Detection options per design decision.
Graphical User Interface:
- Keep headerbar color consistent when out of focus.
- Histogram uses the luminance value of the foreground color as a
threshold to lighten or darken the border color for contrast with
the histogram itself.
- Improve separation between panels in dark theme.
- Add default response for GimpQueryBox dialogues.
- Spacing between toolbox widgets improved.
- GimpSpinScale slider colors inverted.
- New icons: "gimp-toggle-on" and "gimp-toggle-off" and using them in
the Search Action's list as icons for toggle actions.
Plug-ins:
- Python Console uses the luminance of the background color for error
text.
- Metadata Editor: fix buffer overflow.
- Gradient Flare: fix crash when setting the size to 0.
- Screenshot: X11 implementation is bypassed (in favor of portals)
when running on XWayland.
Build:
- Various packaging fixes and cleanup.
- The Windows installer now prompts (only in user installation) about
deleting GIMP config files when uninstalling.
- GEGL 0.4.58 is now our minimum requirement.
- Windows installer: create Restore Point on system-wide install.