[gimp-web] content: some news updates/fixes.
- From: Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-web] content: some news updates/fixes.
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:21:52 +0000 (UTC)
commit b49ba3640bcc4e4000736639d240024d05511740
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date: Wed Oct 20 11:21:13 2021 +0200
content: some news updates/fixes.
.../2021/2021-10_GIMP-2.99.8_Released/index.md | 37 ++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/content/news/2021/2021-10_GIMP-2.99.8_Released/index.md
b/content/news/2021/2021-10_GIMP-2.99.8_Released/index.md
index bf771ba1..db3c55c8 100644
--- a/content/news/2021/2021-10_GIMP-2.99.8_Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2021/2021-10_GIMP-2.99.8_Released/index.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Date: 2021-10-20
Category: News
Authors: Wilber
Slug: gimp-2-99-8-released
-Summary: "Many fancy updates for GIMP 2.99.8"
+Summary: Release news for development version GIMP 2.99.8
Image: gimp-2-99-8-20211017-work-in-progress-2.jpg
GIMP 2.99.8 is our new development version, once again coming with a
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ huge set of improvements.
[TOC]
To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the
-[NEWS](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/master/NEWS)
+[NEWS](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/3e58204908b6301501d7ccd09936fd3d8f7baa94/NEWS#L9)
file or look at the [commit
history](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/commits/master).
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ layers are selected. There are 2 new modes in particular:
heal several layers exactly the same way, for instance when working on
textures and various texture mappings.
-Development of this feature was requested and financially supported
-by [Creative Shrimp](https://www.creativeshrimp.com/): Gleb Alexandrov
-and Aidy Burrows, the well-known Blender educators. Here's an excerpt
-from a new course where multi-layer cloning is already used:
+Development of this feature was proposed and financially supported by
+[Creative Shrimp](https://www.creativeshrimp.com/): Gleb Alexandrov and
+Aidy Burrows, well-known Blender educators. Here's an excerpt from a new
+course where multi-layer cloning is already used:
<div class='fluid-video'>
<video width="1280" height="720" controls>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Windows Pointer Input Stack (Windows Ink) support was recently added
to GTK3 by Luca Bacci, who also made it available in GIMP and added a
new option in the _Preferences_ dialog to switch between Wintab (older
API) and Windows Ink. You can find this option on the _Input Devices_
-page of the dialog.
+page.
<figure>
<img src="{attach}gimp-2-99-8-windows-ink-option.png" alt="Pointer input API selection — GIMP 2.99.8"/>
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ page of the dialog.
</figcaption>
</figure>
-This is a huge milestone since more graphics tablet or touch devices come
-with Ink support as a default whereas the legacy Wintab interface requires
-specific drivers.
+This is a huge milestone for artists using Windows since more graphics
+tablets or touch devices come with Ink support as a default whereas the
+legacy Wintab interface requires specific drivers.
This is even more the case with Windows 8 and newer, for which most
tablets should work out-of-the-box with Windows Ink.
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ who also previously contributed to HEIC/AVIF support.
GIMP can load and export JPEG-XL files (`.jxl`) in grayscale and
RGB, with color profiles support. Our exporting code also provides
-a "*lossless*" option and several "*speed*" encoding values.
+a "*lossless*" option and several "*Effort/Speed*" encoding values.
<figure>
<img src="{attach}gimp-2-99-8-jxl-exporting.jpg" alt="JPEG-XL exporting options — GIMP 2.99.8"/>
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ more channels).
Additionally, now you can also load **PSB** files which are essentially
PSD files with support for width and height of up to 300,000 pixels.
-There have been even more changes to file formats support:
+There have been even more changes to file formats support and plug-ins:
* 16-bit SGI images are now supported (until now, they were loaded as
8-bit).
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ As usual, GIMP 2.99.8 is available on [GIMP official website
org.gimp.GIMP//beta`).
* The Windows installer is already available too, very quickly thanks to
- the [new installer release process](#release-installer-automated).
+ the [new installer release process](#automated-release-installers).
* The macOS DMG package will hopefully be published [*soonish*](#macos).
@@ -384,9 +384,14 @@ You might have noticed that a lot of effort has been done to improve the
infrastructure these last few months (whether for continuous
integration, testing, automating releases,
[mirrors](https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/10/06/official-mirror-policy/)…)
-and more has to be done as this was highly needed for the long run. This
-release is nonetheless a big one with more than 50 reports closed, 25
-merge requests accepted and over 500 commits.
+and more has to be done as this was highly needed for the long run. As a
+consequence of these infrastructure improvements, this release was
+published in a single-day after actual source release, which is a new
+record for us (it usually takes days to generate the Windows installer
+then to have all mirrors synced)!
+Apart from infrastructure, this release is nonetheless a big one with
+more than 50 reports closed, 25 merge requests accepted and over 500
+commits.
We are still working hard to finalize the GTK3 port as well as the new
plug-in API. Taking care of technology changes (Wayland on Linux and
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