Hi all, The latest pre-release of the upcoming 2.0 GIMP is hot off the presses and available for download now at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.0/testing/ or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/download.html Screenshots of some of the features available in the shiny new GIMP are at http://developer.gimp.org/screenshots.html We fixed a bunch of bugs, and we have another bunch to fix, and we're sure we haven't found them all yet. If you find any for us, please report them to http://bugzilla.gnome.org, against the GIMP product. We really do appreciate it. A special mention goes out to the GIMP Animation Package from Wolfgang Hofer, available here ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.0/gap/testing/ The plug-in has recently had a 2.0 pre-release of its own. This plug-in is the best thing sinced sliced cheese. Screenshots are available (in French) at http://gimp-fr.org/html/mongimpfr/gap/gap2.html Happy GIMPing, Dave. Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.0pre3 ========================== - 127451: Anchor floating selection when creating a text layer (Mitch) - 50649: Allow to call script-fu scripts from plug-ins (Mitch) - 132617: Improved gimp-remote behaviour (Sven) - 132036: Fixed issues with libart scan conversion (Simon) - 132041: Made info window not grab the focus (Mitch) - 132077: Redraw layer boundary when using transform tools (Mitch) - 132089: Flip tool misbehaviours (Mitch) - 132032: User interface issues with Plugin Details (David Odin) - 132145: Use default values when stroking from the PDB (Mitch) - 132162: Anchoring a floating selection on a channel (Mitch) - 132271: Mosaic filter on selections (Simon) - 132322: gimp-levels on grayscale images (Mitch) - 132329: Info window doesn't show inital values (Shlomi Fish) - 118084: Info window not updated in automatic mode (Shlomi Fish) - 132495: Positioning of glyphs that extend the logical rectangle (Sven) - 108659: Use g_spawn in postscript plug-in (Peter Kirchgessner) - 132508: Problems with path tool in Edit mode (Simon) - 132504: Fixed unsharp mask script (Mitch) - 132595: Don't draw the selection if it's hidden (Sven) - 132027: Crash in gimpressionist (Sven) - 132596: Use default values for color DND (Mitch) - 132493: Tuned Comic Logo script (Pedro Gimeno) - 132649: Allow to fill the whole selection using bucket-fill (Mitch) - 131902: Improved handling of missing tags in TIFF loader (Andrey Kiselev) - 93806: Validate script-fu input (Yosh) - 132214: Differentiate writable and readonly data directories (Mitch) - 131964: Zoom ratio problem (Simon) - 132969: Set help-id for tool on tool options dock (Mitch) - 132999: Make assembler code PIC safe (Yosh) - 119878: Use the same keyboard shortcuts in all GIMP windows (except the toolbox window) (Mitch) - 131975 & - 132297: Disable some warnings while loading TIFFs (Raphael) - 129529: Add a "randomize" toggle to random number widget (Dave Neary) - 133099: Duplicate PDB entries problem (Mitch) - 133122: Disallow renaming of layer masks and some floating selections (Mitch) - 130118: Allow non-UTF8 characters in the GIMP home directory (Mitch) - 122026: Workaround a bug in gdk_draw_segments() (David Odin) - 133280: Remove deleted scripts from the menu (Mitch) - 133270: Replace deprecated enum values in scripts (Kevin Cozens) - 133180: Sort menu entries for save and load procedures (Mitch) - 131563: Use percentages for zoom ratios (Simon, Sven) Other contributions: Manish Singh, Tor Lillqvist, Jakub Steiner, Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, Kevin Cozens