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[Hans Joachim Desserud <478508@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  [new upstream]gimp 2.7.0

Status in “gimp” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gimp

  upstream is available the 2.7.0 version.
  here's the complete changelog:

  Changes in GIMP 2.7.0
  =====================

  UI:

   - Change the Text Tool to perform text editing on-canvas (GSoC 2008)
   - Add support for tagging GIMP resources such as brushes and allow
     filtering based on these tags (GSoC 2008)
   - Separate the activies of saving an image and exporting it, there is
     now an 'File->Export...' for example
   - Port file plug-ins to new export API which gets rid of many
     annoying export dialogs
   - Add a simple parser to size entry widgets, images can be scaled
     to e.g. "50%" or "2 * 37px + 10in"
   - Arrange layer modes into more logical and useful groups
   - Added support for rotation of brushes
   - Make the Pointer dockable show information about selection position
     and size
   - Get rid of the Tools dockable and move toolbox configuration to
     Preferences
   - Add status bar feedback for keyboard changes to brush paramaters
   - Add diagonal guides to the Crop Tool
   - New docks are created at the pointer position
   - Add support for printing crop marks for images
   - Move 'Text along path' from tool options to text context menu
   - Change default shortcuts for "Shrink Wrap" and "Fit in Window" to
     Ctrl+R and Ctrl+Shift+R respectively since the previous shortcuts
     are now used for the save+export feature
   - Make Alt+Click on layers in Layers dockable create a selection from
     the layer
   - Allow to specify written language in the Text Tool

  
  Plug-ins:

   - Map the 'Linear Dodge' layer mode in PSD files to the 'Addition'
     layer mode in GIMP
   - Add JPEG2000 load plug-in
   - Add X11 mouse cursor plug-in
   - Add support for loading 16bit (RGB565) raw data
   - Add palette exporter for CSS, PHP, Python, txt and Java, accessed
     through palette context menu
   - Add plug-in API for getting image URI, for manipulating size of
     text layers, for getting and setting text layer hint, and for
     unified export dialog appearance

  
  Data:

   - Add large variants of round brushes and remove duplicate and
     useless brushes
   - Add "FG to BG (Hardedge)" gradient

  
  GEGL:

   - Port the projection code, the code that composes a single image
     from a stack of layers, to GEGL
   - Port layer modes to GEGL
   - Port the floating selection code to GEGL
   - Refactor the layer stack code to prepare for layer groups later
   - Prepare better and more intuitive handling of the floating
     selection
   - Add File->Debug->Show Image Graph that show the GEGL graph of an
     image
   - Allow to benchmark projection performance with
     File->Debug->Benchmark Projection
   - When using GEGL for the projection, use CIELCH instead of HSV/HSL
     for color based layer modes

  
  Core:

   - Make painting strokes Catmull-Rom Spline interpolated
   - Add support for arbitrary affine transforms of brushes
   - Add support for brush dynamics to depend on tilt
   - Add aspect ratio to brush dynamics
   - Add infrastructure to soon support vector layers (GSoC 2006)
   - Rearrange legacy layer mode code to increase maintainability
   - Drop support for the obsolete GnomeVFS file-uri backend
   - Allow to dump keyboard shortucts ith File->Debug->Dump Keyboard
     Shortcuts
   - Prepare data structures for layer groups
   - Remove gimprc setting "menu-mnemonics",
     "GtkSettings:gtk-enable-mnemonics" shall be used instead
   - Remove "transient-docks" gimprc setting, the 'Utility window' hint
     and a sane window manager does a better job
   - Remove "web-browser" gimprc setting and use gtk_show_uri() instead

  
  General:

   - Changed licence to (L)GPLv3+
   - Use the automake 1.11 feature 'silent build rules' by default
   - Lots of bug fixes and cleanup

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