Release Notes 2.1

Released January 3rd, 2023

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!

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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