GEGL 0.0.18
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GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a graph based image processing framework.

GEGL provides infrastructure to do demand based cached non destructive image editing on larger than RAM buffers. Through babl it provides support for a wide range of color models and pixel storage formats for input and output.

This development release will include optimizations for the cpu capabilities of the host system. Pass --disable-mmx and --disable-sse to configure to disable these when building packages that should work on a wider range of hardware. Making GEGL adapt at runtime is a blocker for the next release.

There is no new API in this release thus bindings do not need to be updated.

Changes in this release ???????????????????????
• Configuration both from commandline arguments and at runtime. • GeglBuffer
• New raw tiled raster file format, used both as swap and stored buffers. • Sharing between processes through synced swap. • Babl powered scan iteration infrastructure for efficient access. • Cubic and lanczos samplers re-enabled. • Operations
• Use scan iterator for point-filter, point-composer and point-render base classes internally for minimal amount of copies. • Optimized variants of some point and compositing operations reimplemented using a new data type /g4float/ that allows writing cpu agnostic vectorized code for GCC. • New temporal filter base class, for operations operating on color values from neighbouring frames in a video stream. • Autogenerated operation reference installed for use with devhelp. • New operations: write-buffer, v4l, color-temperature.

A new release of babl is also available for the quickest operations GEGL work best with babl-0.0.22 or newer.

This release appears due to contributions from:

Øyvind Kolås, Kevin Cozens, Sven Neumann, Manish Singh, Martin Nordholts, Étienne Bersac, Hans Petter Jansson, Jan Heller, dmacks at netspace.org, Sven Anders, Hubert Figuiere and Geert Jordaens.

Where to get GEGL ?????????????????
GEGL and it's dependencies babl and glib can be fetched from:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/babl/0.0/babl-0.0.22.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gegl/0.0/gegl-0.0.18.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/glib/2.14/glib-2.14.5.tar.bz2

The integrity of the tarballs can be verified with:

sha1sum *.bz2 9de50fb5833f41691f50f6e735d6422aad52ea94 babl-0.0.22.tar.bz2 f8113ad33161337eb107ad84c0ac968dca1d02d2 gegl-0.0.18.tar.bz2 d8ae9dcb744ebfcb23809c3c552f4d724cb2458c glib-2.14.5.tar.bz2

Where to get more information about GEGL ???????????????????????????????????????? Information about GEGL can be found at the GEGL website http://www.gegl.org/