The Gimp 2.10.0

Notes:
The original installer for 2.2.15 was missing libgtkhtml-2-0.dll, this has been fixed in this version.

Changes:
Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.2.15
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- fixed parsing of GFig files with CRLF line endings (bug #346988)
- guard against a possible stack overflow in the Sunras loader (bug #433902)
- fixed definition of datarootdir in gimptool-2.0 (bug #436386)
- fixed Perspective tool crash on Mac OS X (bug #349483)
- fixed area resizing in the Image Map plug-in (bug #439222)
- added missing library in gimptool-2.0 --libs output
- added new localizations: Occitan and Persian

- avoid crashing on newer versions of the winicon format (bug #352899)
- fixed crash in Postscript plug-in (bug #353381)
- fixed handling of TABs in the text tool (bug #353132)
- fixed bug in Depth Merge plug-in (bug #355219)
- fixed bug in GimpDrawablePreview widget (bug #353639)
- fixed bug in Line Nove script (bug #357433)
- fixed bug in Ripple plug-in (bug #357431)
- save locale independent files from Fractal Explorer plug-in (bug #360095)
- fixed bug in Super Nova plug-in (bug #340073)
- be more robust against broken XCF files (bug #357809)
- fixed drawing issues in Image Map plug-in (bug #311621)
- fixed smoothing option in Fractal Explorer plug-in (bug #372671)
- load channels in the proper order when opening an XCF file (bug #378003)
- deal with floating selections in the Burn-In Animation script (bug #384096)
- fixed clipping in the GimpPreviewArea widget (bug #392692)
- fixed a potential crash in gimp-remote (bug #392111)
- work around a file-chooser problem on Windows (bug #398726)
- fixed markup of the gimp(1) manual page (bug #401145)
- fixed the fix for the right-to-left layout in layers dialog (bug #348347)
- fixed PSD save plug-in on 64bit architectures (bug #335130)
- added missing dependency in gimpui-2.0.pc file (bug #356394)
- fixed a crash in the PSD save plug-in (bug #395385)
- improved robustness of transform tool preview code (bug #420595)
- improved forward compatibility of XCF loader (bug #316207)
- don't crash in the Compressor plug-in if files can't be opened (bug #422444)
- fixed sensitivity of input fields in the Lighting plug-in (bug #359833)

- added actions to control brush spacing
- polished appearance of image window
- scale the brush's spacing when scaling the brush
- save tool presets when they are changed
- improved handling of vectors in the Python bindings
- allow for auto-cropping the result of the transform tools
- added GimpRatioEntry widget and use it in the rectangle tool options
- added functions to transform between preview and image coordinates
- added PDB functions to validate display, drawable, image and vectors IDs
- added HSL color model to Decompose and Compose plug-ins
- further improved status bar messages for tools
- on systems with D-Bus build gimp-remote functionality into gimp executable
- bug fixes and code cleanup

The installer has been pretty much rewritten. It's
recommended to uninstall previous GIMP 2.3 version before
installing this one.

GTK+ is now included in the installer.

- merged the Perspective Clone tool
- allow to pan the image view using the Space bar
- show a thumbnail in the "Rotate JPEG?" query dialog
- added file information to the Image Properties dialog
- more work on the new selection tools
- give immidiate feedback when tool modifier keys are pressed
- added Lens Distortion plug-in
- internationalize Python binding and Python plug-ins
- improved internal message infrastructure, use the statusbar for warnings
- added an URL loader backend based on libcurl
- build a color-managed CMYK color selector if lcms is available
- localize Script-Fu procedure descriptions
- lots of user interface polishing
- bug fixes and code cleanup

- avoid endless looping when loading a corrupt XCF file (bug #345802)
- fixed regression in file dialogs (bug #347544)
- fixed right-to-left layout in layers dialog (bug #348347)
- avoid a crash when loading a corrupt gradient file (bug #349996)
- fixed segfault in Warp plug-in on 64bit architectures (bug #327479)
- fixed crash in GimpDrawablePreview (bug #350760)
- fixed error in Winicon load plug-in (bug #172503)
- fixed errors in Autocrop plug-in (bug #337888)
- fixed compile errors in regression tests on OS X (bug #352221)
- fixed regression in Gaussian Blur plug-in (bug #343047)
- fixed crash when opening an RGB image in an indexed image (bug #345051)
- fixed a possible crash in the Save dialog (bug #329001)
- fixed Lighten Only layer mode on SSE2 platforms (bug #164061)
- work with newer versions of autoconf

- fixed display problem in the Animation Playback plug-in (bug #338378)
- fixed misbehaviour of the user installation dialog (bug #324254)
- make sure that session-managed windows are mapped completely inside a
monitor (bug #339099, bug #324254)
- don't use long deprecated libpng API (bug #339402)
- fixed possible segfault when closing image while saving it (bug #322978)
- halt tools when the image mode changes (bug #330083)
- fixed problem in Scale and Resize widgets (bug #336259)
- fixed wrong offset in transform PDB functions (bug #342548)
- fixed bugs in the Dicom load plug-in (bug #163256)
- make sure text widgets get all key events first (bug #301006)
- fixed problems with default values in the PNG save plug-in (bug #343284)
- fixed Save As dialog not displaying the filename (bug #343284)
- fixed compilation problem with gcc 4.1 (bug #345473)
- plugged a possible buffer overrun in the XCF parser (bug #346742)
- don't save image parasites twice in XCF files (bug #346754)

- better interpolation for "smooth" curves in the Curve tool
- added an Auto button to the Threshold tool that picks a suitable value
- simplified user installation, only display a dialog in case of an error
- added Red Eye Removal plug-in
- added thumbnail loader to GIF load plug-in
- declared even more data as const
- refactoring of the PDB and plug-in management code
- allow Merge to work on a single layer
- added a way to remove all keyboard shortcuts from the Preferences dialog
- added menu items for "Text to Path", "Text along Path" and "Text to
Selection"
- allow to initialize a new layer mask with any of the image's channels
- added clipboard brush and clipboard pattern
- added scripts to sort color palettes
- swap meanings of "dilate" and "erode" which have been wrong for a long time
- show Clone tool source location while painting
- use GtkFileChooserButton in place of GimpFileEntry
- added script to reverse the order of layers
- added "Sample merged" and "Selected Pixels only" options to Palette import
- added actions to select palette and colormap colors
- new environment variable to control which batch interpreter to use
- give plug-ins access to the CPU detection so that they can use MMX code
- speed up Selective Gaussian Blur plug-in
- improved tool cursors, added edge resizing cursors
- improved behaviour of new selection tools
- allow to reset all gimprc values from the Preferences dialog
- optionally show guides in the Crop tool
- bug fixes and code cleanup

Changes in GIMP 2.3.8
=====================

- added new tile primitive Triangle to Mosaic plug-in
- speed up Gaussian Blur plug-in
- suppress redundant progress updates from plug-ins
- changed some gimprc and sessionrc default values (window hints,
fullscreen mode)
- do not focus transform tool dialogs on map
- renamed Magnify tool to Zoom tool and added some missing tool shortcuts
- added a submenu with recently used plug-ins to the Filters menu
- fixed look-up table used for Contrast adjustments
- improved the user interface of the Animation Playback plug-in
- added framework for describing menu entries in the statusbar
- added lots of helpful blurbs to procedures and core actions
- remove color from the Watercolor selector if Shift is being pressed
- ported PDB internals to GParamSpec and GValue
- speedup and UI improvements for the SIOX tool
- added parasite getters and settors for vectors
- made PSD load and save plug-ins 64bit clean
- some string review
- ported ellipse select tool to the new rectangle tool
- added basic support for layer masks to the PSD save plug-in
- avoid relocations by declaring more data as const
- new application icons in more sizes and as a SVG
- provide script-specific samples instead of hard-coding "Aa" for font preview
- build the Screenshot plug-in on all platforms
- allow to discard invisible layers when merging visible layers
- nicer output from gimp-procedural-db-dump
- bug fixes and code cleanup

- fixed handling of EXIF data in JPEG plug-in (bug #303383)
- let gimptool use pkg-config to determine compiler and linker flags at
run-time (bug #324761)
- added GTK+ category in gimp.desktop file (bug #328012)
- fixed guides scripts to allow guides at the right and bottom (bug #328320)
- fixed icons in color picker buttons in Levels tool (bug #325745)
- fixed parameter check in Compressor plug-in
- made the internal help browser the default for all platforms (bug #329888)
- fixed handling of alpha channel in Gaussian Blur plug-in (bug #331051)
- fixed incorrect bitshifts in Win Icon plug-in (bug #330692)
- fixed a potential crash in the Animation Playback plug-in (bug #328919)
- corrected tile cache size in Unsharp Mask plug-in (bug #331344)
- fixed the import of SVG circles
- fixed rounding of resolution in BMP plug-in (bug #332501)
- fixed resolution handling in PSD load plug-in
- store resolution when saving in the PSD file format (bug #310426)
- fixed crash in Revert function (bug #333568)
- flush the projection before reading from it (bug #332933)
- fixed MMX instructions on Pentium II machines (bug #162778)
- fixed possible crash on closing a dockable (bug #338286)