GIMP is a community-developed software. You could think of everyone who contributed to this release as of friendly elves from all over the world who helped making this holiday present happen. Oh, and one last thing. We are well aware that GTK 4.0 is out now, we have no plans switching over to it before GIMP 3.0 is released. Plus, there is a big community behind GIMP, and many members are constantly creating interesting program additions. That way, you don’t have to wait for the GIMP team to release the next update; you can use community members’ programming to enhance your own GIMP software. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2003 Vinyl release of Release The Gimp on Discogs. Using Ctrl + Shift together can do a variety of things, depending on which tool is used. Common to all selection tools is that the selection mode will be switched to intersection, so that after the operation is finished, the selection will consist of the intersection of the region traced out with the pre-existing selection.
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- 2Microsoft Windows release
- 3OSX Release
Source Releases
There are release howtos in both the gimp-2-8 and the master branch:
They are currently different, for the sole reason that the most recent editor of the file is pretending to be the 2.8 release manager and doesn't care that much about 2.9 development releases :)
Minecraft heaven and hell mod. Following these howtos is important for getting consistent and complete release tarballs.
Important: making a release is a process, not an instantaneous event.
- plan ahead
- announce planned releases a few weeks in advance to the gnome-i18n list to get translations updated
- make changes before you do the release
- for example, update the NEWS
- prepare a local branch for the website changes
- familiarize yourself with the tools
Microsoft Windows release
Current release maintainers: Ender (stable) and Drawoc (nightly).
Procedure
Release The Gimp
The stable release procedure uses some scripts available there and some files in `build/windows/` in GIMP repository.But the exact procedure and how to use these scripts seems to be unknown to all but Ender.
There exists also a nightly build system maintained by Drawoc, using jhbuild and files in `build/windows/jhbuild/` in GIMP repository.
NOTES
1) Two fontconfig configuration issues specific to the Windows build must be taken care of in the release:
- The conf.d path bug: fixed either with a patch in the repo (`build/windows/jhbuild/patches/fontconfig-fix-config-dir.patch`) or by using fontconfig >= 2.11.0.
- Better fontconfig cache directory: still in discussion upstream, but if we feel this is the way, we should already apply the patch available on Freedesktop bug tracker.
2) Make sure the following Windows registry keys are set/updated to the right value:
It seems to be a common problem that the 'Open with GIMP' right click menu gets lost on some update. Let's make sure this is not the case (see bug 752759).
3) There is a known GTK+ bug where shortcuts don't work on non-latin locales (Windows-only). This has been fixed for 2.24.32. Our official release should contain thi version of GTK+ or above (see bug 769550).
TODO
- Sync the nightly and the stable release procedures.
- Write down the exact procedure (both on this wiki and in the repo, for instance, it could be in `build/windows/README.release`), so that anyone could be able to build one's own non-official release (whether for testing, development, or simply to pass down the information).
- All the files necessary for the release should be available in the repo. There should not be files available spread out on third-party servers.
OSX Release
Current release maintainers: ?
Release The Gimp
There are at least four people working on an OS X release: Clayton Walker, Simone Karin Lehmann, Partha Bagchi and David Evans (Macports), not to mention the (still active?) maintainer of the outdated Fink build.
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Procedure
TODO
Notes
Clayton Walker proposed to update the fontconfig cache directory for the OSX build, but it has been rejected upstream.
Well maybe all the OSX package maintainers and developers in our team could discuss this, and if they all agreed a change in fontconfig cache was in order for the OSX build, well you can configure it appropriately. Even though a change upstream is nicer, that's still only a configuration change, so we should do it.
TODO
- All maintainers struggle alone with the special build issues of GIMP on OS X, its dependencies and the API incompatibilities between the various OS X versions.
Can you guys and girls please find a way to work together?Ideally there would be only one GIMP release. Nevertheless if API/dependency incompatibilities were to force us to make several OSX releases, we should still have a common procedure to facilitate the work.
- If we manage to sync all the OSX releases, the chosen procedure should be written down (both on this wiki and in the repo, for instance, it could be in `build/osx/README.release`).
- All release scripts and other necessary files should be added to the repository at `build/osx/`.
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