Hi all,

The next release in the development series of the GIMP, version 1.3.19, is now available for download from

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.3/v1.3.19/

or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/download.html

We think this is good enough for daily use. We are now very close to a 2.0 prerelease, so we particularly appreciate testing efforts. New bugs can be reported to us at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

We at the GIMP would like to take this opportunity to thank all our sponsors for GIMPCon, which completed a couple of weeks ago. Special thanks go to the Free Software Foundation (http://fsf.org), who funded the majority of the costs incurred for the event. Thanks are also due to our other sponsors, O'Reilly and Associates, Germany (http://oreilly.de), MacGimp (http://macgimp.org) and FlamingText (http://ftgimp.com).

Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.19 ==================================
- Migration towards new gimp-help system [Mitch] - Deletion of anchor points on a path [Simon] - Path stroke moving [Simon]
- Path stroke splitting by deleting an edge (Ctrl-click while in Delete mode) [Simon]
- Drag path edges modifies curve [Simon] - DInsertion of points on path edges [Simon] - Joining two stroke paths is possible (Shift-Ctrl-Alt-Click on the second end-point) [Simon]
- Polygonal paths [Simon]
- Improved new composite functions and enabled them by default [Helvetix] - UTF-8 validate all strings coming in from the PDB [Yosh, Mitch] - Paint-core improvements and bug-fixes [Jay Cox] - Added more mnemonics [Brix]
- Lots of bug fixes

Other contributors: Adam D. Moss, Tor Lillqvist, Jakub Steiner, Alan Horkan, Avi Bercovich, S. Mukund, Maurits Rijk, Guillermo S. Romero, Seth Burgess, Wolfgang Hofer, Ville Pätsi, Sven Neumann

Happy GIMPing, Dave.

Hi all,

The next release in the development series of the GIMP, version 1.3.20, is now available for download from

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.3/v1.3.20/

or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/download.html

This release marks the start of the GIMP Bug Week. The idea of the bug week is to get as many people as possible involved in reporting, categorizing and fixing bugs in the run-up to our 2.0 releases. More information about bug week is available at

http://gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1318

and information on the kinds of jobs we would like help with is here...

http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/GettingStartedWithGimp

Have fun, help out, and happy GIMPing, Dave.

Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.20 ==================================
- Improved documentation of the app directory [Mitch, Sven] - Image update optimizations [Mitch] - font-map script improvements [Sven] - PDB API to access fonts [Sven]
- Portability fixes for x86-64 [Yosh] - Enabled SSE and SSE2 compositing code [Helvetix] - GimpSelection class added [Mitch]
- Pullout parameter added to RGB->CMYK conversions [Sven] - Basic framework for future help system in place [Mitch] - Screenshot plug-in rewritten [Brix] - Font list updates on the fly [Yosh] - Generic interface for stroking selections and paths [Mitch] - Further improvements to the path tool [Simon] - Remove libgck from public API [Mitch] - Lots of bug fixes

Other contributors: Maurits Rijk, Ville PÀtsi, Larry Ewing, Dmitry G. Mastrukov, Pedro Gimeno, Raphael Quinet, S. Mukund, Andy Wallis, Carl Adams, Tino Schwarz, Tor Lillqvist, Emmet Caulfield, Guillermo S. Romero, Dave Neary, Wolfgang Hofer