PintaProject/Pinta 2.1

Pinta 2.1

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Thanks to the following contributors who worked on this release: @cameronwhite, @jpobst, @JanDeDinoMan, @MrCarroll, @supershadoe, @Zekiah-A, @Zeti123

Thanks to everyone who contributed translations, filed bugs, made packages, and everything else!

For Linux users, updated Flatpak and Snap packages should be available shortly after the release.

New Features / Improvements

• Updated icons to symbolic SVG icons, which are more usable for dark themes and high-res screens (#204, #207, #1738106, #1909573)
• Added "Transparency Mode" to the Gradient tool
• The selection move handles and shape control point handles are now much easier to use when working on zoomed in or small images (#211, #223, #1173756, #1958924, #1958920)
• The File -> New Screenshot command now uses the XDG screenshot portal if available. This fixes issues with taking screenshots under Wayland (#218, #1955841)
• Improved canvas rendering performance (#209, #210)
• Added support for loading files from virtual filesystems such as Google Drive mounts (#215, #1958763)
• Improved support for .ora files
  • Hidden layers are now round-tripped correctly for .ora files (#1377566)
  • When saving a .ora file, a flattened image (mergedimage.png) is now included in the archive. This is required by the spec to accomodate viewer software (#1377566)
• Image or palette files that have an unknown extension but have valid contents can now be loaded (#1679570)
  • The file dialog also now uses MIME types on Linux and macOS, allowing valid image files with unknown extensions to be included in the image file filter (#216)
• Updated the application icon (#220)
• WebP support
  • For Linux users, webp-pixbuf-loader is now a suggested dependency to enable WebP support in Pinta
  • webp-pixbuf-loader is now included with the macOS package for WebP support. This is not yet included with other packages, such as Snap, Flatpak, and the Windows installer.
• Upgraded to .NET 7
  • Building against .NET 6 (LTS) is still supported. When building from the tarball, .NET 6 will be used if .NET 7 is unavailable

Changes

• Pinta now uses the standard GTK about dialog
• The Line / Curve tool no longer requires pressing Ctrl to start drawing a shape when the mouse is outside the canvas (#1999997)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the default linear gradient was reflected rather than clamped
• The gradient tool now updates correctly when drawing transparent colors. Previously, old results were visible under the transparent color (#1937942)
• The history panel is now more readable when a dark theme is used (#207)
• Fixed an issue where the Cairo surface for live effect previews was not always disposed (#206)
• Fixed errors that could occur if a selection existed but had zero area (e.g. after inverting a full selection) (#1754440)
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the ruler's text did not render correctly (#212)
• Fixed a regression from Pinta 2.0 where the rulers did not draw a marker for the current mouse position (#214)
• Improved the zoom tool's rectangle zoom when working with smaller images
• Fixed a potential crash when opening / adding an image after actions in the layer list panel (#1959598)
• Fixed an issue where the "All Files" filter in the Open File dialog ignored files with no extension, and did not work in the macOS native file chooser (#1958670, #1679570)
• Fixed a crash in the text tool when pressing Ctrl+X without a selection (#219, #1964398)
• The application icon now appears correctly on KDE Wayland sessions #1967687
• Fixed an issue where the selection could be invalid after undoing a rotation #1975864
• Fixed a bug where the selected layer could be changed while updating the layer list widget #1965101
• Fixed a bug in the shape tools where changing the shape type did not always take effect (#235, #238, #1993332, #1635902)
• Fixed an issue on macOS where toolbar drop down button menus items could not be selected properly
• Pinta now always saves files to the exact file name chosen by the native file dialog, without e.g. appending a default extension. This fixes issues where files saved through desktop portals could be lost (#1958670)
• Fixed a bug where an empty dash pattern resulted in nothing being drawn (#1973706)
• Fixed issues where certain dash patterns did not draw correctly (#1959032)
• Fixed a bug where pasting into a new image could occasionally zoom the new image to 1% (#1959673)

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