3 More detailed notes are available on the releases page:
5 http://synfig.org/Releases
7 0.62.0 (git master branch) - October 3, 2009 - Bug fixes, major features.
9 * Migration to git repository.
10 * Bugs fixed: #2205700, #2112320, #2116947, #1814151, launchpad.net/ubuntu/#195447
11 * Bugs fixed: #2256600, #2119775, #1826376, #1848018, #1901753, #1829182
12 * Bugs fixed: #2315706, #2321845, #2350636, #1501383, #2378787, #2435346
13 * Bugs fixed: #2579838, #2652974, #1677510, #2175043.
14 * Build rectangular blines using the rectangle tool.
15 * Updated time ruler properly when modified the start or end time.
16 * New layer Curve Warp.
17 * Updated options for Polygon, Circle and Star Tools.
18 * New option: Scale New imported Images to Fit Canvas.
19 * Fixed the rendered position of a polygon under a transform layers.
20 * Fixed zoom to fit button result. Now border is visible.
21 * Better errors when opening a file that doesn't exist.
22 * Paste canvases now update when the canvas parameter changes.
23 * Paste canvas with unset canvas parameter can be exported now.
24 * If holding control in the zoom tool when releasing the mouse button to
25 complete a drawing, a box will zoom out such that the currently displayed
26 area is zoomed out to fill the drawn box.
27 * Enabled the Focus Point parameter in the Paste canvas layer.
28 * Reordered ducks render stack and preferences from mouse interaction.
29 * Fixed crash with LC_ALL=fr@euro
30 * Improved Color Dialog.
31 * Input Device configuration can be saved/loaded now.
32 * Fill/Outline instead of Background/Foreground.
33 * Additions to the Canvas Window: Update Zoom Dial, Frame Dial, Keyframe Dial
34 Toogle Ducks Dial, Resolution Dial, Quality Butons, Show/Snap to Grid,
35 Onion Skinning buttons.
36 * Past and future onion skins enabled and selectable.
37 * Improved UI on crash recovery dialog.
38 * Added Preferred and Predefined FPS in the Setup Dialog.
39 * Keyframes are shown now in the Curves dialog too.
40 * Keyframe Set Delta enabled and fixed.
41 * New Keyframe Widget. Allows dragging of keyframes with mouse.
42 * Synfigstudio cph-monitor.
43 * Adapted About Dialog to git repository.
44 * Removed ancient trunk folder from svn repository.
45 * New Import SVG files module.
47 * Updated translations.
48 * First time Russian translation.
49 * Several compiler warnings fixed.
51 0.61.09 (SVN 2114) - October 21, 2008 - Bug fixes, features
53 * Fix building synfigstudio in the fink distribution
54 * Improved plant layer
55 * Added new options for Circle and Rectangle tools
56 * Added Text and Star tools.
57 * Added new plant, text, star and polygon icons
58 * Added Spanish, French and Catalan translations
59 * Added "Link to Bline" feature
60 * Improved main window zoom behaviour and added new zoom icons
61 * Several fixes and improvements on timetrack slider and waypoints drawing
62 * Depreciate Manual as interpolation type
63 * Added new icons for reset and swap FG and BG colors. Re-arrange them
64 to show properly in all GTK themes
65 * Added some improvements in the Render Description
66 * Improved GUI for the sound selection dialog
67 * When adding layers leave the previously selected layer selected
68 * Button tools are arranged in the Tool box
69 * Added and fixed some keyboard shortcuts
70 * Show only shared compatible parameters when more than one layer is selected
71 * Added more functionality to colour and time sliders
72 * Added new 'Document' tab in Setup dialog for more user preferences
73 * Fixed some crashes and errors
74 * Width tool returned to the Tool Box by default.
76 0.61.08 (SVN 1839) - March 3, 2008 - Bug fixes, features
78 * Update the website URL to synfig.org instead of synfig.com
79 * Synfig is now translatable using gettext
80 * Removed the 'bootstrap' script for building. Use autoreconf instead
81 * Fixed errors and warnings detected by a pre-release version of GCC 4.3
82 * Fixes to allow sigc++ 2.1 and newer to be used.
83 * Add a new bog-standard about dialog and a new splash screen
84 * Add a new icons for rename, encapsulate, show child layers and time
85 * Usability enhancements for new users, env vars to control them
86 * Improvements to the draw, bline and sketch tools
87 * Improvements for linking, quality menu, save dialog, render dialog
88 * Cut down on the console output and output a user-friendly message
89 * Don't wrap angles at 360 degrees, allows better rotations
90 * Settings for auto-backup interval, run everything in one thread
91 * Fix waypoint issues; drawing, menus, crash, label and others
92 * Fix time issues; time field expansion & editing, ticks and others
93 * Fix ducks issues; prioritise & restrict radius, show circle size, others
94 * Allow horizontal scrolling the time field and the default brush size
95 * Allow different pixel sizes in the workarea window
96 * Remember window locations and ignore corrupted values
97 * Widen the toolbox to 5 icons instead of 4 icons
98 * Tile renderer changes: disable with env var, fix wrong placing
99 * Improves the details in the history dialog quite a bit
100 * Fix typos, several crashes, usability and other issues
102 0.61.07 (SVN 878) - October 10, 2007 - Bug fixes
104 * Fix some tooltips and menu stuff (#1787437)
105 * Allow left-right scrolling in canvas window with shift + mouse-wheel
106 * Rework mouse interaction with ducks and tangents
107 * Move icons to a subdir
108 * Fix some typos, several crashes (#1780016, #1785598) and other bugs
109 * Re-enable sketch, draw, polygon by default
110 * Add keyboard shortcuts for all tools ( http://synfig.org/Keyboard_Shortcuts )
111 * Fix crash when setting canvas resolution to zero (#1779616)
112 * Add 'auto-export' checkbox and layer name box to the draw tool
113 * Various GUI fixes (#1794006, #1796110)
114 * File-selector fixes (#1383736)
115 * Fix the View>Play menu entry to allow playback inside the workarea, shortcut Ctrl-P
116 * Save to .sifz (compressed) format by default if no extension is given
117 * Remember the path used when saving a document and default to it in future
118 * Call new documents "Synfig Animation <n>" by default, rather than "untitled0"
119 * Don't quit until the user clearly answers "do you want to save?" (#1799722)
120 * Remember the filename the animation was last rendered to, and default to it (#1799250)
121 * Improved the 'Groups' function a little (#1368694). It's still quite broken
122 * Fixed the colors displayed on the sliders in the Color Editor dialog
123 * Added option to Bline Tool to allow positions to be automatically linked (#1776156)
124 * Added menu entry to restore all dialogs to their default positions
125 * Fix red "Animate Editing Mode" frame so it shows up in all themes (#1801220)
126 * Allow user to "export SYNFIG_DISABLE_POPUP_WINDOWS=1" to make splash screen etc. less obtrusive
127 * Fixed the logic used to decide which value to use when linking values together
128 * Update child canvas time sliders when parent time slider is moved
129 * Prevent the caret menu entries from being disabled when another canvas is closed
130 * Show the correct initial quality level in the View > Preview Quality menu
132 0.61.06 (SVN 543) - June 20, 2007 - Bug fixes
135 * Fix corruption of gamma settings
136 * Fix manipulating layers in the layer dialog
137 * Disable the timebar instead of hiding it
138 * Fix File -> Close & input devices close button
139 * Fix targets that crash in synfigstudio
140 * Fix some doxygen warnings
141 * Fixes in the sketch tool
142 * Fixes in the draw tool
143 * Fix several crashes
146 * Add optional GNOME thumbnailer
147 * Rework several dialogs to use GNOME HIG
148 * Disable several tools, see FAQ to re-enable
149 * Disable the empty Palette Browser dialog
150 * Add mousewheel support in canvas windows
151 * Add tooltips to preview window & give it a default size
152 * Display HTML values in the colour dialog
153 * Add an icon for the curves dialog
154 * New Tango ArtLibreSet styled icons by PXEGeek
156 0.61.05 (SVN 128) - February 27, 2006 - build issues
158 * Fixed building with gtkmm 2.8 (#1373933, #1358304)
159 * Allow the toolbox to come to the front (#1367916)
160 * Make the user prefs dir configurable at build time
161 * Fixed minor build issues
163 0.61.04 (SVN 103) - January 10, 2006 - MacOS X packaging
165 * Fixes for the MacOS X packaging
167 0.61.03 - December 8, 2005 - Build & copyright fixes
169 * Update more old copyright and licence notices
170 * Fully fix building with GCC 4
172 0.61.02 - November 26, 2005 - Build fixes
174 * Better Win32 / MacOS X packaging
175 * Use new GTK+ file chooser
176 * Adds some GCC 4 tweaks
177 * Fixes crash on layer reorder
178 * Include errno.h where needed
181 0.61.01 - November 6, 2005 - Copyright updates
183 * Update old copyright and licence notices
184 * Add ./configure options for debug, warnings, optimisation, profiling
185 * Uses per-os directory separator
188 0.61.00-39 - November 1, 2005 - Developer preview
190 * First public release!