Hello Øyvind, On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:13:12 +0200 Øyvind Kolås <pippin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Packagers for linux distributions should update the recipes for babl > and GEGL, and new releases of GIMP 2.10.6 for flatpak/snap/OSX/windows > with the new babl and GEGL is desirable. > > Before in the 2.10 releases we have synchronized the releases of babl, > GEGL and GIMP. This synchronization has been a by-product of work on > finishing the GIMP release have resulted in additional commits to > GEGL; and thus coordinating the releases have been neccessary also to > have a properly building GIMP. As the 2.10 series stabilizes and > releases become less frequent we can expect having babl and GEGL > releases also in-between future stable GIMP releases. > > babl-0.1.58 and GEGL-0.4.10 have already been released this month > > Building the previous release of GIMP-2.10 with the new babl will fix > regressions the 2.10 series of GIMP has had over 2.8 in workflows > involving first transforming or deforming a layer. These operations > now maintain the color of fully transparent pixels, thus making > anti-erase mode of the paint tools and the alpha channel mode of the > curves tool. > > GEGL has an important display fix for OSX, where severe display > glitches on some zoom levels now are gone. > > These changes come In addition to performance improvements, in > particular babl is now doing (most) reference computations in 32bit > floating point rather than 64bit floating point speeding up initial > and some runtime pixel format conversions, for more complete release > note for babl-0.1.58 and GEGL-0.4.10 including internal refactoring > and new features, see their respective NEWS files. Thanks for this detailed notification, good to know. Regards, -- wwp
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