GIMP 3.0.6 (stable) / 3.1.4 (dev)

Core

• Many false-positive build warnings have been cleaned out (and proper issues fixed).
• Various crashes fixed.
• When creating a layer mask from the layer's alpha, but the layer has no alpha, simply fill the mask with complete opacity instead of a completely transparent layer.
• Various core infrastructure code reviewed, cleaned up, refactored and improved, in drawable, layer and filter handling code, tree view code, and more.
• GIMP_ICONS_LIKE_A_BOSS environment variable is not working anymore (because "gtk-menu-images" and "gtk-button-images" have been deprecated in GTK3 and removed in GTK4) and was therefore removed.
• Lock Content now shows as an undo step.
• Add alpha channel for certain transforms.
• Add alpha channel on filter merge, when necessary.
• Filters can now be applied non-destructively on channels.
• Improved Photoshop brush support.
• After deleting a palette entry, the next entry is automatically selected. This allows easily deleting several entries in a row, among other usage.
• Resize image to layers irrespective to selections.
• Improved in-GUI release notes' demo script language:
  • We can now set a button value to click it: "toolbox:text, tool-options:outline=1, tool-options:outline-direction".
  • Color selector's module names can be used as identifiers: "color-editor,color-editor:CMYK=1,color-editor:total-ink-coverage".
• Fixed Alpha to Selection on single layers with no transparency.
• Various code is slowly ported to newer code, preparing for GTK4 port (in an unplanned future step):
  • Using g_set_str() (optionally redefining it in our core code to avoid bumping the GLib minimum requirement).
  • Start using GListModel in various pieces of code, in particular getting rid of more and more usage of GtkTreeView when possible (as it will be deprecated with GTK4).
  • New GimpRow class for all future row widgets.
  • Use more of G_DECLARE_DERIVABLE_TYPE and G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE where relevant.
  • New GimpContainerListView using a GtkListBox.
  • New GimpRowSeparator, GimpRowSettings, GimpRowFilter and GimpRowDrawableFilter widgets.
• (Experimental) GEX Format was updated.
• Palette import:
  • Set alpha value for image palette imports.
  • Fix Lab & CMYK ACB palette import.
  • Add palette format filters to import dialog, making it more apparent what palette formats are supported, and giving the ability to hide irrelevant files.
• Improved filter actions' sensitivity to make sure they are set insensitive when relevant. In particular filters which cannot be run non-destructively (e.g. filters with aux inputs, non-interactive filters and GEGL Graph) must be insensitive when trying to run them on group layers.
• Fix bad axis centering on zoom out.
• Export better SVG when exporting paths.

Tools

• Text tool: make sure the default color is only changed when the user confirms the color change.
• Foreground Selection tool: do not create a selection when no strokes have been made, removing unnecessary delay when switching tools.
• All Transform tools: transform boundaries for preview are now multi-layer aware.
• (Experimental) Seamless Clone tool: made to work again, though it is still too slow to get out of Playground.

Graphical User Interface

• Various improvements to window management:
  • Keep-Above windows are set with the Utility hint.
  • Utility windows are not made transient to a parent.
  • Transient factory dialogs follow the active display, ensuring that new image windows would not hide your toolbox and dock windows.
• Various CSS improvements for styling of the interface; some theme leaks were also fixed.
• New toggle button in Brushes and Fonts dockable, allowing brush and font previews to optionally follow the color theme. For instance, when using a dark theme, the previews can be drawn on the theme background using theme foreground colors.
• Palette grid is now drawn with the theme's background color.
• Consistent naming patterns on human-facing options (first word only capitalized).
• About dialog:
  • Displays "Up to date as of <date> at <time>" when GIMP is current, and "Last checked on <date> at <time>" when an update is available.
  • Respects the system time/date format on macOS and Windows.
• The search popup won't appear without an image.
• Better zoom step algorithm for data previews in container popups (e.g. the brush popup in Paint Tool Options).
• Disable animations in Input Controller, Preferences and Welcome dialogs when system animations are disabled.
• Fixed crosshair hotspot on Windows when using non-100% display scale.
• Debug/CRITICAL dialog:
  • Made non-modal.
  • Follows theme mode under Windows.
• While loading images, all widgets in the file dialog are made insensitive except the Cancel button and progress bar.
• Both grid and list views now support zooming via scroll and pinch gestures.
• Pop an error message on startup when HTTPS GIO modules are missing, explaining how to install them (notably for AppImage users).
• Welcome dialog:
  • "Community Tutorials" link now appears after "Documentation".
  • "Learn more" link in Release Notes leads to the version’s news page.

Plug-ins

• PDF export: do not draw disabled layer masks.
• Jigsaw: the plug-in can now draw on transparent layers.
• Various file format fixes and improvements: JPEG 2000 import, TIFF import, DDS import, SVG import, PSP import, FITS export, ICNS import, Dicom import, WBMP import, Farbfeld import, XWD import, ILBM import.
• Sphere Designer: use spin scale instead of spin entries.
• Animation Play: frames are shown again in the playback progress bar.
• Vala Goat Exercise: ignore C warnings in generated Vala code.
• file-gih: brush pipe selection modes now have translatable names.
• Metadata viewer: ported from GtkTreeView to GtkListBox.
• File Raw Data: reduced dialog height by switching to 2-column layout.
• SVG import: can now break aspect ratio when specific width/height arguments are passed non-interactively.
• Print: when using a portal print dialog, the "Image Settings" appear as a secondary dialog instead of a tab (restoring usability in sandboxed environments).
• Recompose: fixed for YCbCr decomposed images.
• Fixed vulnerabilities: ZDI-CAN-27684, ZDI-CAN-27863, ZDI-CAN-27878, ZDI-CAN-27836, ZDI-CAN-27823, ZDI-CAN-27793.
• C Source and HTML export can now run non-interactively (from other plug-ins).
• Map Object: fixed missing spin boxes.
• Small Tiles: fixed display lag.

API

• libgimpui:
  • New function: gimp_prop_toggle_new().
  • Updated widget default for GimpChoice: radio frame for <3 choices, combo box otherwise.
  • GimpExportProcedureDialog: comment text area sensitivity depends on "Save Comment" option.
  • Use arrows for GimpSpinScale cursors.
  • GimpColorScales: no decimals for u8 RGB color selector.
  • Internal color drags now use "application/x-geglcolor" instead of the standard "application/x-color".
• libgimp:
  • New enum type: GimpTRCType.
  • gimp_file_save() sets XCF or exported files accordingly.
  • Metadata improvements: favor existing image comments, fix charset handling, improve heuristics for exported comments, fix XMP/Exif date formats with timezone.
• PDB/libgimp:
  • Allow nullable sample points and guide types.
  • GeglParamFilePath can be passed across the wire.
• macOS: improved dock icon flashing behavior.

Build

• AppImage now based on Debian Trixie.
• CI scripts synced to latest master state.
• Windows file format association list generated at build time.
• Build scripts are POSIX-compliant for better portability.
• New nightly Snap and Aarch64 Flatpak builds.
• Core code ported from appstream-glib to libappstream.
• Windows installer now uses latest InnoSetup again.
• New option -Dwin-debugging=dwarf to generate DWARF symbols on Windows (default is CodeView).
• Compilation works again with pre-Rust librsvg.
• release-stats.sh updated to generate text ready for release news.
• CI:
  • Linux builds ported from Kaniko to Buildah.
  • Colored output and .pdb support for CMake dependency builds.
  • Ability to apply remote patches to dependencies.
  • New job "branches-check" to detect dead branches.
  • Debian jobs built with GCC again (Clang builds switched to weekly).
• Cleaned out deprecation warnings on GLib/GTK using GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED and related macros.
• Windows: build Exiv2 internally as workaround for issue #12626.
• Improved Flatpak binary caching with ORAS.

Notes de version de GIMP 3.0.6