Before we travel to this year’s Libre Graphics Meeting, we wanted to share a new release of GIMP! The second update of the 3.2 series, GIMP 3.2.4 contains more bugfixes and UX updates.
We continue to polish GIMP 3.2 in this release. Several new contributors have provided patches this time around, which is very exciting! For more details, check out our NEWS file in our code repository.
We’ve caught more cases where tools would accidentally rasterize link, text, and vector layers. For instance, the
Edit > Fill with... menu options for colors and patterns now work the same as dragging and dropping colors onto
non-raster layers. The Crop Tool now behaves more consistently and does not attempt to resize vector layers.
New contributor anenasa both reported and fixed an issue with the Text Outline feature being cut off with vertical oriented text.
One for the record books - Jehan fixed a bug in our XCF code that’s existed since 1999! He’s also added code to correctly load XCFs made with and without this bug, as backwards compatibility with XCF project files is very important to us.
Sometimes a bug fix can create other, unrelated bugs. A fix we made in GIMP 3.2.2 caused some text layers to become uneditable after reloading them from an XCF file. Jehan found and fixed the new bug, so you should be able to edit both XCFs created in 3.2.2 and new ones.
Speaking of text, Gabriele Barbe has fixed an issue where rotating the canvas rather than the image could cause the on-canvas text editor to appear in the wrong place when moved.
New contributor balooii fixed a crash that could occur when selecting a non-existant filter tag in a plug-in like GFig.
Security contributors bb1abu, HanTul, Rakan Alotaib, JungWoo Park, and Bronson Yen studied our image import plug-ins and reported several possible issues. We appreciate their code review and mitigation suggestions! Gabriele Barbe and Alx Sa implemented their suggestions for APNG, PAA, PNG, DDS, PSP, PNM, PSD, JIF, PVR, TIM, XWD, and SFW files.
The OpenRaster format stores layers as PNGs and notes their opacity in a separate settings file. Our export plug-in saved that setting but also exported the PNG with the same opacity, resulting in higher transparency when reloaded. We’ve fixed this so now layers are saved with 100% opacity, thus ensuring they reopen correctly.
New contributor Ahmed E. Yassin fixed a bug where exporting metadata in our Metadata Viewer could result in empty files.
New contributor Kaushik B fixed a bug in the Open as Layers feature where multi-layer XCF files would have their layer
names changed on import.
Balooii also fixed an issue on Wayland where the tool cursor icon might disappear when moving it.
New contributor v4vansh resolved an issue where the image tab preview wouldn’t correctly update after switching between grayscale and RGB color modes.
Bruno Lopes added support for the macOS ScreenCaptureKit to our color picker feature. This allows us to use the newer API for macOS 12+.
In GIMP 3.2.2, we dropped support for
32bit Windows builds. Unfortunately,
our scanner plug-in was also lost since it required 32bit TWAIN drivers. We’ve now built a new Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
scanner plug-in to replace it. You can access it in the same place in the menu - File > Create > Scanner/Camera.
Note that because this plug-in uses a new Windows API, the scanning UI will likely look different than what you’re use to. You may also need to install new WIA-compatible drivers for your scanner to make it work correctly.
The Welcome Dialog now shortens long file names in the Create page to prevent the dialog window from stretching too far out. This UX feature was lost when we updated the Welcome Dialog to a new API, but it is now restored. You can still see the full name by hovering over the image preview or name.
New contributor infinity improved performance when making selections inside a large image with Intersection Mode enabled.
Their fixes allows GIMP to only consider pixels within the existing selection rather than trying to calculate across the entire
image. This can lead to a significant speed-up!
Aruius raised the maximum UI image size to 8192 pixels. This should allow the Gradient Editor dock and other docks with images to expand much further on larger displays.
When moving a floating layer or selection, the “marching ants” outline is temporarily turned off. This provides a noticable boost in performance and less lag.
An oversight when updating the GimpUnit API for 3.0 caused functions that accept units of measure to not allow setting it
to pixels. This has been fixed now. You can test this in functions like gimp_context_set_line_width_unit () and
gimp_vector_layer_set_stroke_width_unit ().
The gimp_quit () function has now been deprecated. You can continue to use it for GIMP 3.x, but it will be removed in the
eventual GIMP 4.x release. Instead, you should use a return statement with GIMP_PDB_EXECUTION_ERROR and an GError variable
with an explanation of why the plug-in needed to quit.
A new gimp_resources_loaded () function has been added by Jehan. You can use this to determine if a resource (like
brushes, patterns, fonts, etc) has been loaded in GIMP before trying to use it in your plug-in.
Several deprecated Script-fu functions (such as gimp-drawable-brightness-contrast and gimp-drawable-threshold) in our
official scripts have been converted to using GEGL filters via the gimp-drawable-merge-new-filter API. You can check out
how to use them in your own scripts by
browsing our repository.
The Libre Graphics Meeting takes place next week, April 22nd through the 25th. You can find more details in our last news post. If you’re planning to attend, feel free to come by and say hello!
We now have the beginnings of Laotian translation of GIMP! If you know the language and are interested in contributing translations, feel free to reach out to the translation team for more information.
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Mirrors help GIMP be available for download at high speeds wherever you are in the world.
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Since GIMP 3.2.2, in the main GIMP repository:
30 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 3.2.4 codebase (order is determined by number of commits; some people are in several groups):
Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):
gimp-macos-build (macOS packaging scripts) release had 5 commits by 1 contributors: Lukas Oberhuber.Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!
Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we
get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these
stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some
contributors or contributions.
You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):
Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc).
We still have a few bug fixes being working on, yet we are starting to feel more confident in the stability of the GIMP 3.2 series. Therefore we are on the verge of branching out development into stable and unstable branches. What does it mean? Well, that we will start to seriously work on the fancy new features planned for the GIMP 3.4 series while the 3.2 series will continue to receive only bug and security fixes, aiming for stability.
Exciting times ahead!
Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger!
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