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, features.
9 * Migration to git repository.
10 * Bugs fixed: #2195749, #1968248, #2250533, #2116947, launchpad.net/ubuntu/#195447
11 * Bugs fixed: #1993098, #1730067, #2353248, #2037732, #2412072, #2458112
12 * Bugs fixed: #2502818.
13 * Improved messages for failed open file commands.
14 * Fixed crash when unsetting import layer filename after using PNG or JPEG importers.
15 * Improved the rendering of curve gradient layers near vertices with 0-length tangents.
16 * Fixed previous bug that produced bad render to the star layer.
17 * Enabled use of ffmpeg importer.
18 * Set four modules as essential: gradient, geometry, particle, freetype.
19 * Improved message when initialize synfig fails.
20 * New environment variables for options.
21 * Added support for alpha in paletted PNG files.
22 * New option: Scale New imported Images to Fit Canvas.
23 * Better errors when attempting to open a file that doesn't exist.
24 * Enabled Example module: Metaballs, Simple Circle, Filled Rectangle.
25 * New Value Nodes: Greyed, Power, And, Not, Compare.
26 * Added 'Loop' parameter to the Random Value Node.
27 * Reverse manipulation for Scale Value Nodes.
28 * Removed ancient trunk folder from svn repository.
29 * New Import SVG files module.
30 * Disabled crop imported images by default.
31 * Updated translations.
32 * First time Russian translation.
33 * Several compiler warnings fixed.
35 0.61.09 (SVN 2113) - October 21, 2008 - Bug fixes, features.
37 * Segment and Blines tangents are calculated more accurately
38 * Don't allow feather to be negative in any layer
39 * New Logarithm, Int String, Angle String, Joined List, Real String,
40 Time String, Dot Product, Gradient Colour, Vector X, Vector Y,
41 Vector Length, Vector Angle convert types
42 * Remove TENSION from TCB modes as it is the same as TEMPORAL TENSION
43 * Unless OpenEXR half mode is used, don't ask synfigstudio to depend on it
44 * Added "Link to Bline" feature
45 * Fix several bugs: plant layer, libavformat, time format FFf, libswscale
46 straight onto method, eyedrop tool and straight blend method for shape type layers
47 * Fix some compiler warnings
48 * Rename 'offset' and 'pos' to 'origin'
49 * Add French and Spanish translations
50 * Update the Windows builds to use OpenEXR 1.6.1
51 * The JPEG target can be switched on/off now
52 * Fix typos and other issues
54 0.61.08 (SVN 1839) - March 3, 2008 - Bug fixes, features
56 * Update the website URL to synfig.org instead of synfig.com
57 * Synfig is now translatable using gettext
58 * Removed the 'bootstrap' script for building. Use autoreconf instead
59 * Fixed errors and warnings detected by a pre-release version of GCC 4.3
60 * New Duplicate layer. This is an experimental feature, but works well
61 * New reverse, offset parameters and misc fixes for the Plant layer.
62 * Fix a crash and use relative ducks with the Stretch layer
63 * Allow multibyte characters in the Text layer
64 * Misc fixes & features on Shade, Shape, Spherize, Star, Time Loop, Warp layers
65 * Add aTan2, Bline Width, Cos, Duplicate, From Integer, Random,
66 Reciprocal, Reverse Tangent, Step, Switch, Time Loop convert types
67 * Add and Subtract convert types now work with gradients
68 * Security fixes for ffmpeg/dv/imagemagick targets/importers (except on Win32)
69 * Add new magick++ target that does better gif rendering with libmagick++ 7.3
70 * Misc fixes for the rendering targets, blend methods and canvases
71 * Allow importing of lipsynced voice animations from Papagayo
72 * Various changes to related to SIF file compatibility
73 * Fix typos, several crashes and other issues
75 0.61.07 (SVN 878) - October 10, 2007 - Bug fixes
77 * Fix importing on amd64 (#1692825)
78 * Fixes for the PasteCanvas layer (#1356449)
79 * Clean up Layer menu and displayed layer names
80 * Allow exported canvases to be used in more than one place within a canvas (#1785296)
81 * Fix, extend, and enable the 'XOR Pattern' layer
82 * Fix and extend the 'Plant' layer (#1790903)
83 * Turn on plant layer (gunsmoke) in macwolfen.sifz example
84 * Use 'fast gaussian' rather than 'gaussian' for blurs in pirates.sifz - it's faster!
85 * Fix and enable the 'Timed Swap' valuenode conversion
86 * Extend the 'Linear' valuenode conversion to work with colors and integers.
87 * Enable basic motion blur display at all qualities
88 * Fix an artifact on the curve gradient layer (#1792063, r663)
89 * Add the 'Range', 'Repeat Gradient', 'Add', 'Exponent' valuenode conversions
90 * Add the 'BLine Vector', and 'BLine Tangent' valuenode conversions (#1781903)
91 * Fix problems with valuenode conversion (#1794374, #1795913, #1795922, #1796068, #1797488)
92 * Allow gradients to be animated (#1568818, #1795802)
93 * Stop TCB angle waypoints changing to type Linear on load (#1778930)
94 * Use compression when saving to files with .sifz extension
95 * Compressed example .sif files to .sifz to save space
96 * Fixed Motion Blur layer (#1800783)
97 * Allow building studio with gcc -O2 (#1509627)
98 * Allow encapsulated layers to animate their z-depth, even when time-shifted (#1806852)
99 * Fixed the Radial Blur layer when zooming in on the canvas (#1807709)
100 * Fix several other bugs and crashes
102 0.61.06 (SVN 536) - June 20, 2007 - Bug fixes
104 * Add fontconfig support
106 * Fix ffmpeg, gif, libav targets
107 * Include more target modules in the Win32 package
108 * Fix some crashes in synfigstudio
109 * Fix some render artifacts
110 * Fix some doxygen warnings
113 * Fix random number generation for 64 bit CPUs (#1698604)
114 * Add parameter 'fast' to curve gradients to choose fast or accurate rendering (#1672033)
115 * Add new odd/even winding style for regions
117 0.61.05 (SVN 126) - February 27, 2005 - Misc fixes
119 * Use system libltdl when available (#1423944)
120 * Update doxygen config file (#1402909)
121 * Fix fontconfig/xft FTBFS
122 * Misc fix (#1414370)
124 0.61.04 (SVN 102) - January 10, 2005 - Misc fixes
126 * Check for imagemagick at build time
127 * Clarify mod_openexr copyright
128 * Fix mod_openexr building
129 * Don't add 'Copyright Voria' to PNG output
130 * Don't write localised numbers when generating SIF files
132 0.61.03 - December 8, 2005 - Copyright update
134 * Update more old copyright and licence notices
135 * Remove broken walk example
138 0.61.02 - November 26, 2005 - Misc fixes
140 * Small cygwin/optimization/code fixes
142 0.61.01 - November 3, 2005 - Copyright update
144 * Update old copyright and licence notices
145 * Fix some GCC 4.0 build issues
146 * Include errno.h where needed
147 * Add ./configure options for debug, warnings, optimisation, profiling
148 * Add about_dialog.sif as another example
149 * Remove SFAutomaton.ttf due to licence issues
150 * Fix BMP rendering target
152 0.61.00-39 - November 1, 2005 - Developer preview
154 * First public release!