I have extracted the following list of changes from the GIT log and am presenting it here in case it might facilitate the efforts to announce the 2.6.8 release. I have tried to follow the format used on the 2.6 NEWS page (http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.6). Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.7 to GIMP 2.6.8 ================================================= * Bugs fixed: 470698 - MapObject cannot modify highlight 601891 - gimp_image_get_selection returns None 604508 - gimp-layer-new-from-visible should work from updated projection 594998 - Keyboard shortcuts does not work for first image when dock is focused 594651 - layer.scale() raises RuntimeError 563770 - Layer border visibility don't work with masks 593848 - FG color changed to black when FG-BG Editor tab created 599765 - F1 key on gimp-tool-align in menu have wrong link and it open gimp-tool-move 602761 - plug-in-grid: Parameters Horizontal/Vertical Spacing and Horizontal/Vertical Offset are reversed 604078 - Crash when pressing Backspace with Free Select Tool * Added sanity and hardening checks for the SGI, PCX, PSD and BMP file importing functions; as well as for GIMP patterns (PAT) and brushes (GBR). * Fixed a width/height confusion in the healing tool algorithm (referenced in the comments of bug #519503) * Fixed call to deprecated gimp_dock_get_context() (introduced during fixing of bug #594998) * Fixed updating of the layer preview's border after removing a mask * Fixed filling of regions which don't have alpha channel (fixed problem with drag-n-drop to indexed images) * Fixed global storing of image-specific settings (such as resolution and print offsets) * Updated configure scripts to check for proper automake version * Updated and new translations: British English (en_GB) Czech (cs) Greek (el) Polish (pl) Italian (it) Basque (eu) Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) Romanian (ro) French (fr) Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) Catalan (ca) Russian (ru) _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
