[gimp-web/testing] Add the draft of GEGL 0.3.8 / babl 0.1.18 news story

[Alexandre Prokoudine <aprokoudine src gnome org>]

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Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Wed Jun 15 01:16:04 2016 +0300

    Add the draft of GEGL 0.3.8 / babl 0.1.18 news story

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+Title: GEGL 0.3.8 and babl 0.1.18 Released
+Date: 2016-06-14
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+Slug: gegl-0-3-8-babl-0-1-18-released
+Status: draft
+Summary: New version of GEGL and babl are out with new features, minor improvements, and fixes to accomodate 
upcoming GIMP 2.9.4.
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+New version of [GEGL](http://gegl.org/) and [babl](http://gegl.org/babl/) are out with new features, minor 
improvements, and fixes. These releases in particular are intended to accomodate upcoming GIMP 2.9.4 that 
depends on several important bugfixes from both babl and GEGL. However there have been some interesting new 
features.
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+First of all, now GEGL operations can report processing progress so that e.g. GIMP or some other 
applications like GNOME Photos could correctly render progress indication. So far this is only used in two 
operations, gegl:cartoon and gegl:distance-transform. We expect to propagate this to more operations in the 
coming releases.
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+Secondly, linear and cubic resamplers provide better default image quality at downscaling now. In terms of 
quality, the output is comparable to that of NoHalo and LoHalo samplers, but processing time is shorter.
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+Additionally, file handlers finally register MIME types for loaders and try to guess file types by analyzing 
file content before falling back to file extension detection. This makes the file loading routine a littl 
smarter.
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+Finally, the 'gegl' binary keep getting more features like simple video filtering and encoding audio 
alongside video.
+
+For the first time in quite a while a new GEGL release contains no new ports of existing GIMP filters. This 
is because there have been no related contributions within the last few months. There is still a lot of work 
to do, and we greatly appreciate your help with getting more filters ready for non-destructive workflows.
+
+The complete list of changes is available in the [NEWS](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/tree/NEWS) file. 
Tarballs are up at [download.gimp.org/](http://download.gimp.org/).
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