Hi, a new development snapshot of GIMP 2.1 is now available from ftp.gimp.org and it's mirrors: http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors This is an unstable development release. It certainly has bugs and there are a number of unfinished hacks. We are nevertheless interested in your feedback and would like you to file bug reports for crashes and non-obvious problems. Please note that you cannot install gimp-2.1 side-by-side with gimp-2.0 into the same prefix. A number of files will clash, so please use a separate prefix to install this development version! For details, please read the file INSTALL. Here's an overview of the changes since 2.1.3 was released: - Rewritten internal handling of progress indicators. Embed progress bars to the File Open dialog to reduce annoying dialogs popping up. - Added an API for plug-ins to embed a progress bar. Let the Script-Fu dialog swallow the progress bars created by running the script. - Ported remaining plug-ins and modules to GimpPreviewArea and removed GimpOldPreview. - Show progress while converting from RGB to Indexed Colors. - Added new plug-ins Cartoon, Neon, Photocopy and Softglow. - Let color selectors adapt to the given size. - Import basic SVG shapes as paths. - Improved GIH and guillotine plug-ins. - Added GimpMessageBox widget. Collect error messages in a single dialog to reduce popups. - Renamed the core GimpPreview widget to GimpView. - Added a GimpPreview widget to libgimpwidgets. This is an abstract class that combines a GimpPreviewArea with scrollbars and a "Preview" toggle button. - Added GimpDrawablePreview derived from GimpPreview. - Improved previews in Unsharp Mask, Scatter RGB, Sharpen, Spread and Grid plug-ins. - Added previews to Edge, Gaussian Blur, Neon, Soft Glow, Sobel and Selective Gaussian Blur. - Added a logarithmic mode for the slider in a GimpScaleEntry. - Script-Fu code cleanups. - Fixed composite assembly code. - Pass user settings for the checkerboard to plug-ins. - Image comment, if any, is now shown within the info window. - New function "Fit Canvas to Layers" (gimp_image_resize_to_layers) Contributors: Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Shlomi Fish, Bill Skaggs, Simon Budig, Ari Pollak, Spencer Kimball, Michael Schumacher, Joao S. O. Bueno, Manish Singh, Helvetix Victorinox, Kevin Cozens Happy GIMPing
