Gimp 2.4.6 released

Posted on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | stored in Releases

The new version of Gimp has been release, Gimp 2.4.6

The changes in Gimp 2.4.6 are as follows:

  • fixed handling of the “antialias” tool option (bug #521069)
  • when loading a TIFF image, always set a filename on it (bug #521436)
  • fixed initial state of curve type in Curves tool (bug #523873)
  • fixed potential crash in the Dicom load plug-in
  • respect the brush mask in the Heal tool (bug #521433)
  • plugged some minor memory leaks
  • fixed a glitch in the DND code (bug #317992)
  • gimp-image-convert() must not accept palettes with > 256 colors (bug #525471)
  • fixed parameter description in the Map Object plug-in (bug #526679)
  • fixed compilation of unit tests on Mac OS X (bug #528160)
  • fixed handling of “argc-lower-val-y” PDB parameter in Curve Bend plug-in
  • fixed overlap problem in Hue-Saturation tool (bug #527085)
  • fixed asymmetry in Unsharp Mask plug-in (bug #530077)
  • don’t show non-existant color profiles in the selector (bug #528958)
  • fixed issues with default aspect ratio in the Crop tool (bug #532057)
  • fixed compilation of the PDF import plug-in with libpoppler 0.8
  • fixed bug in clipboard brush code (bug #532886)
  • corrected layer mask flag in PSD save plug-in (bug #526811)
  • fixed an issue with tablets and newer X.Org releases
  • keep the JPEG save plug-in from writing an empty EXIF tag (bug #529469)
  • fixed crash in Selective Gaussion Blur plug-in (bug #529280)
  • added new translations (Belarusian, Catalan, Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • translation fixes and updates (ar, ca, de, el, es, fi, fr, hu, it, ko, pl, pt_BR, ro, sv)

Quite a hefty list if you ask me. You can download the new version here, so you have no excuse to upgrade.



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