MyPaint v1.2.0-beta.4 (2016-01-01)
“I think you’ll find it's more complicated than that.”
This is hopefully the last pre-release before MyPaint 1.2.0.
Changes since the last prerelease
- Many, many translation updates.
- Descriptions for brushes: #533
- Windows: Tweaked the event masks - seems to remove a source lag for some Windows systems (#516, #514 hopefully)
- Windows: Reverted some deglitching code that was causing issues elsewhere: #537, #500.
- Windows: Workaround for an upstream regession when opening vector layers externally: #531.
- File→New now resets the background to the default, like you'd expect: #520
- Windows: fix an autosave recovery exception: ad19153
- Fix a potential for overwriting your data after manual autosave recovery when you cancel the suggested save dialog: #508
- Improved textarea layout for the brush import summary dialog: 441c04d
Source code
The official source tarball for this release is mypaint-1.2.0-beta.4.tar.xz, and it contains libmypaint. The Windows and Ubuntu test binaries are built from this source.
Windows testing binaries
Download the appropriate -setup.exe and open it in Explorer. Note that the "w32" build can be more compatible with some tablet drivers, and the "w64" one can be more compatible with other brands. If you get glitches, please try both.
Technical info: this Windows build of MyPaint 1.2.0-beta.4 is bundled with libgtk-3-0.dll 3.18.6 and libglib-2.0-0.dll 2.46.2.0
Ubuntu testing binaries
Available from the MyPaint-testing PPA: https://launchpad.net/~achadwick/+archive/ubuntu/mypaint-testing. This build covers trusty, vivid, wily, and xenial.
Known issues
- Some Windows devices suffer from enough lag to make these builds unusable.
- For the final release, we're working on a good compromise between usability and having up to date GTK libraries here: #390.