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GIMP 1.3.17 Released

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2003-07-24 23:25. GIMP

Lots of new features are being added while the GIMP developers are preparing for camp and GIMP is approaching feature freze. Time for you to try the latest development version which should also be available from a mirror close to you.

developer.gimp.org gets a faceliftBorrowing the look from mmmaybe.gimp.org, developer.gimp.org
has been redesigned. Content still needs to be added but there's hope
that the new site will allow to provide more information about GIMP
development and eventually attract more developers.

Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.17
==================================
- Changed all(?) references to GIMP-1.4 to GIMP-2.0 [Sven]
- Allow to transform paths using the transform tools [Mitch]
- Added a simple CMYK color selector [Sven]
- Added naive RGB CMYK conversion routines [Sven]
- Generalized paint tools [Mitch]
- Finally a brush-shaped cursor for all paint tools [Mitch]
- Started to integrate new composite functions [Helvetix]
- Made the style for dockable tabs configurable [Mitch]
- Some preparations for text transformations and vectors from text [Sven]
- Store grid settings in XCF [Brix]
- Redone assembly checks and run-time checks for CPU features [Sven]
- Added lots of mnemonics to the menus [Jimmac]
- Support for comments in PNG files [Sven]
- Constified the libgimp API and adapted all plug-ins [Yosh, Sven]
- Cleaned up the brush/font/gradient/pattern selector API [Mitch]
- Support for patterns with alpha channel [Bolsh]
- Lots of bug fixes

Other contributors:
Eric Pierce, Joao S. O. Bueno, Alastair M. Robinson, Tor Lillqvist

Re: GIMP 1.3.17 Released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2003-07-28 01:24.

>The fact is that 1.3.17 contains way more features, polish and under-the-hood architectural changes than the old roadmap had planned for 1.4.

Please feel free to list these "way more" features. The only user-visible and important changes in the gimp 1.3 are the GTK2 port, the new text tool and the new vector tool. There are no new big features apart from these.

A web site dedicated to gimp wrote "nothing more than what was announced for 1.4" about the changelog (this was before 1.3.17, and I do not agree this this quotation, but I wanted to show the opinion of a sample of the gimp community).

Well, there will be the "no gimp perl any more" feature, but I personally call this a regression. ;)

About you "Let's quote some more", I appreciate that you just confirm what I had written (see the (*) note in my message).

Please take into account that these stats are from the CVS access. Some commits done by Sven are actually coming from people external to the project. The changelog is usually very accurate for this, and it relativise the stats. Finally, Gimp is not just the code. Some people spend time helping newbies and writing tutorials and books, their contribution is very underestimated by CVS commits.

You do not need to feel the urge to defend Gimp against me. I have been member of the gimp community for years, being on newsgroup and ML, and writing bug reports. I (and many others) do not agree with Sven on this version naming stuff, but we all respect his decision and trust him for the development of Gimp.

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