GIMP 3.0.8 (stable) / 3.2.0 RC2 (dev)

Core

Font handling improvements

• Font loading on start massively sped up.
• As an exception, Skia font family (apparently quite common on macOS) is special-cased because it behaves weirdly and was not working with current font handling.
• Various other fixes related to font handling.
• We now wait for fonts to be fully loaded before loading any file.

Command Line Interface

• Option -i / --no-interface is not shown anymore on gimp-console binary (it can still be used — it does nothing there anyway —, which allows to use the same sets of option with the GUI binary, and also so that existing shell scripts don't break).
• Option --show-debug-menu is not hidden anymore for discoverability.
• The gimp-3.0 executable can now run with --no-interface even when no display is available (ex: virtual terminal with no window manager/compositor, containers, etc.). This used to only work with gimp-console-3.0 executable.

Platform Specifics

• Windows:
  • Output CLI messages to the parent console like Linux and macOS.
  • Ctrl+C signals are now correctly handled in the attached console.
  • The attached console supports color too.
  • Interpreters are run conditionally if running in console.
• macOS: Default to "quartz" Input Method for emoji keyboard support.
• Wayland: Wait before we get our first surface before listing input devices to work around a Wayland limitation and GTK bug.

General Core Fixes

• Default "Search" feature in GTK3 is now disabled in the component editor in the Channels dockable.
• Several fixes related to Quick Mask handling.
• Fixed some cases where config migration from GIMP 2 to GIMP 3 was problematic.
• Several buggy undo cases were fixed.
• Several fixes related to pass-through group layers.
• Export will now be properly triggered even if no drawables are selected (this is not a requirement anymore with GIMP 3 API).
• Path import and export respectively from and to SVG improved.
• Serialize colors in legacy GimpRGB format into a XCF when the XCF version is older than GIMP 3 for backward compatibility.

Tools

• Symmetry: fix initial stroke symmetry when using pixmap brushes.
• Move tool: fixed weird position jumps in some cases.

Graphical User Interface

• Center buttons in overlay dialogs.
• Headerbar's (when titlebar and menubar are merged) button colors now match our theme.
• Dialogs' header icon and view will now scale based on custom icon size.
• Resize dialog: Canvas Size fill combo set to insensitive if layers won't be resized.
• Navigation and Selection editor will now properly match the theme (in particular, in dark mode, they won't show large bright area).
• Do not show outlines when hovering the absent "Fx" icon anymore, which was confusing people into making it look like you could click and interact with this empty area.

Plug-ins

General Fixes & Improvements

• Fixes on: OpenRaster export, TIFF import, Map Object, PDF export, Gradient Flare, ANI export, Script-Fu, DDS export, Fractal Explorer, PSP import, ICO import, XWD import, PSD import, WebP export, ICNS import, Gimpressionist, JPEG 2000 import, Busy Dialog.
• Scale entries have been replaced by spin scale widgets in a bunch of plug-ins.
• Script-Fu improved to not initialize UI code unnecessarily (and therefore make it unusable on systems without a display).

Security Vulnerabilities Fixed

• ZDI-CAN-28376, ZDI-CAN-28311, ZDI-CAN-28273, ZDI-CAN-28158, ZDI-CAN-28232, ZDI-CAN-28265, ZDI-CAN-28530, ZDI-CAN-28248.

API

libgimp

• Fixes where made in libgimp metadata object.
• Make GExiv2Metadata as parent of GimpMetadata visible to Gobject-Introspection tools (bindings were missing this information).
• Fixes made on: gimp_drawable_get_thumbnail(), gimp_drawable_get_sub_thumbnail(), gimp_drawable_filter_new(), gimp_proc_view_new(), gimp_procedure_set_sensitivity_mask(), gimp_procedure_dialog_get_spin_scale().
• Remove thumbnail metadata before writing it on export, to make sure we don't cary on metadata written by other software in thumbnails.

libgimpconfig

• Improve error messaging on config deserialization.
• Fix gimp_config_serialize_value() when serializing file objects.
• New functions: gimp_config_get_xcf_version() and gimp_config_set_xcf_version().

libgimpcolor

• gimp_color_is_perceptually_identical() docs clarified.
• New function: gimp_cairo_surface_get_buffer()
• Deprecated function: gimp_cairo_surface_create_buffer() in favor of gimp_cairo_surface_get_buffer().Note: The function implementation was also changed so that it does not necessarily return a linear-memory backed buffer anymore.

libgimpbase

• The host config directory is now shown in MSIX and Flatpak.

libgimpwidgets

• Fixes made on: GimpLabelEntry, gimp_widget_free_native_handle().

Build

Packages & Distribution

• Snap: Third-party binary plug-in support backported; release package now created and submitted on a release pipeline.
• Flatpak: Nightly builds show a pseudo-release with proper version info; gimp-console binary now shipped.
• AppImage: Now ships with full MIDI support.
• Windows: Installer now has a dark mode; updated changelog on MS Store (MSIX) releases.
• macOS: Pipeline added in Gitlab CI; automatic file associations; harfbuzz built with libgraphite2 shaper.

Technical Build Changes

• Release URLs added to AppStream metadata.
• GEGL: Do not build with Matting Levin for Windows (crashes).
• Compatibility: Make it clearer that GExiv2 0.15.0 and over are incompatible.
• Localization: Improve build to ensure language list (in Preferences) is localized during compilation.
• Standards: We now require the generic C++14 standard (no longer the GNU variant).
• MSVC support added.
• Relocatable builds: Dropped various tweaks since babl and GEGL now have working relocatable options on Linux.
• Man pages: Updated for GIMP binaries.
• Bash completion: Added for gimp and gimp-console.

Notes de version de GIMP 3.0.8