All releases tagged Major feature enhancements


Release Notes: This release adds multithreadeding multicore CPUs, tools for image segmentation and for approximating gradients, dynamic previews in color selectors, a dock area, a color chooser popup, autoscrolling, auto-resizing toolbars, support for the PBM/PGM/PPM/PAM, PCX, and SVG image formats and for color profiles in images, loading of animated GIFs and multipage TIFFs into layers, palette extraction from images, "snap to grid", some new keyboard shortcuts, and numerus speedups and improvements. New Hungarian and Tagalog translations have been added, most other translations updated, and many bugs fixed.


Release Notes: This release adds system clipboard import/export, support for tracing images, "smart grid" and tile grid, a new file selector and color selector, image skewing, an edge-preserving blur effect, seven new edge detection filters, 12 new blend modes, angular, conical, and shapeburst gradients, paste-and-swap operation, better undo memory management for layers, and numerous other improvements and new features. New Dutch, Italian, and Swedish translations have been added, most other translations updated, and several bugs fixed.


Release Notes: This release adds an improved text paste tool, the ability to save and load TGA files, support for XPM files with more than 256 colors, two new image quantizers, a tile-based undo system which uses less memory, and many other new features. Several bugs have been fixed.


Release Notes: This release adds gradient drawing mode, palette shifting, gamma correction, and numerous other new features. Image dithering and image saving and loading have been greatly improved. Several bugs have been fixed.


Release Notes: This is a major new release which offers many new features and bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release adds animation facilities for layers. Animated GIFs can be loaded, edited, saved, and viewed if you have Gifsicle installed. Image scaling has been improved and extended. A new tint painting mode has been introduced. Several bugs have been fixed.


Release Notes: This release adds support for pressure sensitive graphics tablets. The palette quantizing methods have been improved. The information window now has a color histogram. A Brazilian Portuguese translation has been added. Several bugs have been fixed.


Release Notes: This release adds layer facilities, a clone tool, polygon functions, and a few other minor improvements.


Release Notes: This release adds a text tool, brush presets, a view window, screenshot grabbing facilities, several minor improvements, and a few bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release adds internationalization via gettext, a Spanish translation, a Czech translation, a man page, visual feedback for semi opaque pasting, various minor improvements, and several bugfixes.