2.4.5 is out
Sven Neumann published this on the GIMP lists:
The source for GIMP 2.4.5 is now available from ftp.gimp.org. This is a
bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. Binary packages should become
available soon; please check the Downloads section on www.gimp.org.Changes in GIMP 2.4.5
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- fixed a regression introduced by the brush cursor optimization
(bug #514309)
- fixed bug in transform tool preview (bug #340965)
- fixed PSD export of images with layer masks
- fixed base64 encoding routine of the Mail plug-in
- use the correct background color when creating a new image
(bug #514082)
- explicitly link libgimpthumb with GLib (bug #515566)
- improved selection of the font sample string (bug #514021)
- unified handling of “Enter” and “Space” keysyms (bug #516544)
- fixed bug in the Glossy script when used with a pattern (bug #517285)
- correctly record dimensions in Exif data when saving as JPEG
(bug #517077)
- fixed sensitivity of plug-in menu items (bug #517683)
- fixed potential crashes in Wind, Warp, Small Tiles and Apply Canvas
plug-ins (bug #516369)
- added default keyboard shortcut for “Paste As New Image”
(Ctrl-Shift-V)
- added default keyboard shortcut for “Copy Visible” (Ctrl-Shift-C)
- fixed missing preview update in Curves tool (bug #518012)
- fixed a bug in the Frosty Logo script (bug #472316)
- fixed backward transformations using the PDB (bug #518910)
- translation fixes and updates (de, eu, eo, fr, he, hu, it, ja, ko)Contributors:
Sven Neumann, Michael Natterer, Bill Skaggs, Kevin Cozens,
Ulf-D. Ehlert, Giuliano Pochini, LightningIsMyName
Some things sound quite important or nice, like the new keyboard shortcuts. So I’ll upgrade as soon as the binaries are out.
Update: You can find the binaries for *Ubuntu at GetDeb in the next days or install an additional repository like I did. See the next posting.
March 1st, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Just today I’ve reinstalled my kubuntu, I had feisty, I’ve upgraded to gutsy. Upgrade I wanted to do, but I can’t understand why, everytime I’ve tried to upgrade anything went wrong and I had to reinstall… In my laptop with ubuntu that wasn’t the case as I could upgrade 100% smoothely…
Anyways, I’ve upgraded mainly because the gimp, which was ’stuck’ in 2.2 for feisty; the last day someone at irc.kubuntu told me that latest packages for gimp are not going to be prepared anytime soon for feisty, because of gtk+ libraries and dependencies and all. Wasn’t able to compile it, either, for the same reasons. Same for cinepaint.
So, brand new 2.4.2 in my kubuntu machine! I hope that they are going to work on gutsy packages for the next few gimp versions!
March 1st, 2008 at 7:40 pm
There are packages around from other people. And I installed 2.4.4 from there. I’ll look into that and post a way to do that.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Jaim; go to http://www.getdeb.net/ , they have lots of new pacakges for *Ubuntu, also a new version of Gimp. Just download and install(like an exe file).
Its also not hard to install from sourch, check out this guide http://www.monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
March 1st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Well, I randomly found a few days ago http://www.getdeb.net , where one can find the 2.4.4… but nor for feisty :-), so I decided that I was upgrading anyways.
But in fact I’ll have to take a deeper look at the site, looks like it offers lot of possibilities, apart of the standard ubuntu repos
I’ll also check the monkeyblog.org site.
Thank you Steffen and Rolf
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I use PCLinuxOS and I just checked their upgrade system Synaptic and Gimp 2.4.5 was there for me to install YAY
Rock on PCLinuxOS