synfig releases
- 0.61.08 (SVN 1???) - February ??, 2008 - Bug fixes
-
- * Synfig is now translatable using gettext. Currently only a Spanish
- translation exists.
-
- * Build
- -----
- Removed the 'bootstrap' script for building. Use autoreconf
- instead.
-
- Fixed errors and warnings detected by a pre-release version of
- g++ 4.3.
-
- * Layers
- ------
- New layer, 'Duplicate'. This is an experimental feature, but
- seems to work quite well. It can be used to clone the layers
- under it multiple times. ( http://synfig.org/Duplicate_Layer )
-
- * PasteCanvas
- -----------
- Prevent a "bad_alloc" error in the 'PasteCanvas' layer
- caused by the bounding boxes changing when the user
- changes parameters while rendering.
-
- Allow zooming furter in to nested PasteCanvas
- layers.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1809480
-
- * Plant Layer
- -----------
- New parameter "reverse" in the Plant layer allows
- plants to be rendered back-to-front.
-
- Fix: Use the 'width' of each blinepoint in the plant
- layer to affect the velocities. Patch from
- genete.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1831897
-
- Add the 'offset' parameter to the Plant layer.
-
- Don't let 'select all' select the green ducks of a
- plant layer.
-
- Do some sanity checking on Plant layer parameters.
-
- * Stretch
- -------
- Prevent a crash when rendering a 'Stretch' layer with
- zero x or y amount.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1823082
-
- Make the 'Stretch' layer's "amount" duck be relative
- to the center duck.
-
- * Text
- ----
- Allow multibyte characters in the Text layer. Patch by
- Niki W. Waibel.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1852208
-
- First step towards fixing the problem of distorted
- 'Text' layers not rendering correctly at tile borders.
-
- * Misc
- ----
- Shade: Make the quality of the 'Shade' layer worse at
- quality 10 than it is at quality 9!
-
- Shape: Rename the 'Position' parameter to 'Offset' for
- all the 'Shape' layers.
-
- Spherize: Fix clipping for tile-based rendering in
- Spherize layer.
-
- Star: New parameter "regular polygon" in the 'Star'
- layer allows regular polygons to be drawn.
-
- Time Loop: New version 0.2 of the 'Time Loop'
- layer. It uses the same parameters as the newly added
- Time Loop ValueNode.
-
- Warp: Fix a problem with the 'Warp' layer where some
- tiles weren't being rendered.
-
- * ValueNodes
- ----------
- Add new type: 'Cos', to calculate cosines.
- ( http://wiki.synfig.com/Convert#Cos )
-
- Add new type: 'Duplicate', only used by the Duplicate layer.
- ( http://synfig.org/Convert#Duplicate )
-
- Add new type: 'From Integer', to convert integers to other
- types for linking to. Currently disabled.
- ( http://synfig.org/Convert#From_Integer )
-
- Add new type: 'Random', to generate pseudo-random values.
- ( http://synfig.org/Convert#Random )
-
- Add new type: 'Reciprocal', to calculate reciprocals.
- ( http://synfig.org/Convert#Reciprocal )
-
- Add new type: 'Reverse Tangent', to reverse the direction of
- tangents. ( http://synfig.org/Convert#Reverse_Tangent )
-
- Add new type: 'Switch', to switch between two alternative
- values. ( http://synfig.org/Convert#Switch )
-
- Add new type: 'Time Loop', to allow individual parameters to
- be time looped, like the Time Loop layer, but for individual
- parameters. ( http://synfig.org/Convert#Time_Loop )
-
- Add new type: 'aTan2', to calculate inverse tangents.
- ( http://synfig.org/Convert#aTan2 )
-
- Extended types: 'Add' and 'Subtract' now work with gradients.
-
- * Targets
- -------
- Fix one memory leak and one filehandle leak in target 'png'..
-
- Fix the ffmpeg/dv/imagemagick targets/importers on Windows.
-
- Improved the 'imagemagick' target so it can create a series of
- numbered images.
-
- Fixed the 'mng' and 'yuv420p' targets.
-
- Security fixes: arbitrary code execution when rendering
- specially crafted .sif files.
-
- Show which output target is used if it has been chosen
- automatically, not specified by the user.
-
- * Blend Methods
- -------------
- Don't accept illegal values for 'blend_method'. Use
- 'Composite' instead.
-
- Re-enable the 'alpha brighten' and 'alpha darken' blend
- methods.
-
- Fix the 'straight', 'straight onto' and 'alpha brighten' blend
- methods. Even completely transparent pixels in the top layer
- should affect the result of these blends. Existing .sif files
- which relied on the previously broken behavior should still
- render correctly for the most part.
-
- * Canvases
- --------
- Fix a crash that was happening if we had 2 exported canvases
- in a .sif file where the 2nd contained a pastecanvas that used
- the 1st as its canvas. The canvases are destructed in the
- order in which they appear in the .sif file, so by the time
- the 2nd is destroyed, the pastecanvas it contains no longer
- has a valid canvas parameter. The fix is to clear the canvas
- parameter of any pastecanvases using a canvas when the canvas
- itself is destroyed.
-
- Encapsulations containing imported images fail to clone
- properly
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1838132
-
- * SIF Files
- ---------
- Refer the user to 'http://synfig.org/Convert#Compatibility' if
- we try to load a .sif file that uses a not-yet-implemented
- ValueNode type, or that tries using a ValueNode with a type
- which it doesn't yet support.
-
- Changed the .sif file format. 'Composite' and 'Radial
- Composite' ValueNodes used to be saved with obscure XML
- element names <c1>, <c2>, etc. Now we use more readable names
- <point>, <width>, etc. The old version is still accepted, and
- can still be written by selecting the old version from the
- "Save As..." dialog. The new format will not be accepted by
- previous releases of Synfig.
-
- New Feature: Allow saving .sif files in formats that can be
- read by versions 0.61.07 and older.
-
- Add information about which valuenode types were added in
- which release. Don't save new types in old format files.
-
- Fix: Prevent a crash when loading a .sif file with 'use=""' in
- it.
-
- Fix: Prevent studio crashing when loading a document that
- contains an unknown valuenode type from a newer version of
- synfig. Simply refuse to load the document instead.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1811250
-
- * Misc
- ----
- Don't render feathering of circles or shapes (ie. outlines,
- regions, stars, polygons, etc), or motion blur, blur, or
- radial blur layers when the quality is 10.
-
- New feature: allow importing of lipsynced voice animations
- from Papagayo
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1879688
-
- Fix: Inserting a new item into a list in animation mode caused
- unpredicatable renders before the time of
- insertion.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1841280
-
- Fix: The hex color code parser is much more forgiving now.
- Previously spaces before or after the color code would cause
- it to fail.
-
- Fix: Don't treat the required values of command line flags as
- flags themselves.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1695735
-
- Fix: Initialise the 'time_last_changed' when creating a Node.
- Previously it was being left at a random value.
+More detailed notes are available on the releases page:
+
+http://synfig.org/Releases
+
+ 0.61.08 (SVN 1???) - March ??, 2008 - Bug fixes, features
+
+ * Update the website URL to synfig.org instead of synfig.com
+ * Synfig is now translatable using gettext
+ * Removed the 'bootstrap' script for building. Use autoreconf instead
+ * Fixed errors and warnings detected by a pre-release version of GCC 4.3
+ * New Duplicate layer. This is an experimental feature, but works well
+ * New reverse, offset parameters and misc fixes for the Plant layer.
+ * Fix a crash and use relative ducks with the Stretch layer
+ * Allow multibyte characters in the Text layer
+ * Misc fixes & features on Shade, Shape, Spherize, Star, Time Loop, Warp layers
+ * Add aTan2, Cos, Duplicate, From Integer, Random, Reciprocal, Reverse Tangent,
+ Switch, Time Loop convert types
+ * Add and Subtract convert types now work with gradients
+ * Security fixes for ffmpeg/dv/imagemagick targets/importers (except on Win32)
+ * Add new magick++ target that does better gif rendering with libmagick++ 7.3
+ * Misc fixes for the rendering targets, blend methods and canvases
+ * Allow importing of lipsynced voice animations from Papagayo
+ * Various changes to related to SIF file compatibility
+ * Fix typos, several crashes and other issues
0.61.07 (SVN 878) - October 10, 2007 - Bug fixes
synfigstudio releases
- 0.61.08 (SVN 1???) - February ??, 2008 - Bug fixes
-
- * Synfig Studio is now translatable using gettext. Currently French
- and Spanish translations exist.
-
- * Build
- -----
- Fixed errors and warnings detected by a pre-release version
- of g++ 4.3.
-
- Fixes to allow sigc++ 2.1 and newer to be used.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1859663
-
- Removed the 'bootstrap' script for building. Use autoreconf
- instead.
-
- * Settings
- --------
- Added the option to run everything in the same thread. It
- doesn't work very well, and seems to cause more problems than
- it solves.
-
- Default 'end time' for new canvases to 5s instead of 0.
- That's one less thing a new user then needs to edit to start
- making his first animation. Also, don't show the intimidating
- canvas properties dialog when a new composition is created,
- just use the defaults. Set environment variable
- "SYNFIG_ENABLE_NEW_CANVAS_EDIT_PROPERTIES" to revert this
- change locally.
-
- If no documents are specified to be loaded on the command line
- at start-up, create a new empty document so the novice user
- can get started straight away. If environment variable
- SYNFIG_DISABLE_AUTOMATIC_DOCUMENT_CREATION is set, don't
- create a blank document on startup, even if no documents were
- specified on the command line. I'll add proper configuration
- items within the gui for this and other recent changes soon.
-
- Add a setting in the gui for the auto-backup interval.
-
- * Draw Tool
- ---------
- Fixed the 'fill last stroke' button in the drawing tool.
-
- Rearrange the drawing tool options a little. Instead of
- 'region only' have checkboxes for 'region' and 'fill', like in
- the bline tool, so now it's possible to draw regions and
- outlines together.
-
- Fix: When drawing an outline and a region at the same time,
- put the outline just on top of the region.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1829172
-
- Fix: Always leave only the newly created layers
- selected.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1830245
-
- * About
- -----
- Fix: Change the about dialog to a splash screen and implement
- a new about dialog based on Gtk::AboutDialog. Still need to
- connect it up to configure.ac though.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1678554
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1741220
-
- Fix: Show the correct SVN revision id in the about
- dialog.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1797745
-
- * Linking
- -------
- When linking simple values, use the value from the topmost layer.
-
- Attempting to link a duck from the Children panel with other ducks
- was causing an error. Now it isn't.
-
- * Quality
- -------
- Change the default quality to 8. It makes shade layers render
- better without much impact on speed.
-
- Label the preview qualities "best" and "fastest" because it's
- not clear that higher numbers mean lower qualities.
-
- * Files
- -----
- When doing a 'Save As', default to saving in the same
- directory that the file was loaded from, if any.
-
- Remember separate default directories for opening and writing
- each of animations, images, sketches, rendered output, and
- "miscellaneous".
-
- * BLine Tool
- ----------
- Allow the bline tool to draw plants as well as outlines,
- regions, and curvegradients.
-
- When the bline tool is creating new layers, arrange the new
- layers in the order: Outline - Region - Plant - Gradient, so
- that each layer is at least somewhat visible. Rename the
- "*layer_bline*" variables to "*layer_outline*" since they
- represent outlines specifically.
-
- * Waypoints
- ---------
- Fix ugly waypoint drawing by rounding to integer values
- symmetrically. The improvement can be seen in
- http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/waypoint-symmetry.png .
-
- Improve the waypoint context menus. Now it's possible to
- delete and duplicate complete trees of waypoints at once. The
- 'change interp' functionality has been extended too, so now
- it's possible to set the interpolation type for the whole
- waypoint from the context menu as well as just the side that
- was clicked on, and it's possible for single waypoints as
- well.
-
- Fix a crash when editing a waypoint with a non-static value.
-
- Attach the "(Non-static value)" label into the waypoint
- dialog.
-
- Experimental: "export SYNFIG_SHOW_CANVAS_PARAM_WAYPOINTS=1" to
- see canvas parameter waypoints, not canvas content waypoints
- in PasteCanvas layers. Doesn't work too well - dragging the
- waypoints doesn't work, for instance.
-
- When a PasteCanvas' "time offset" parameter shifts the timing
- of its sub-canvas, the waypoints of that subcanvas are now
- displayed shifted accordingly.
-
- * Time
- ----
- Allow manual editing of the current time in the workarea
- window.
-
- Don't expand time fields to their full format (eg. "1s" -> "0h
- 0m 1s 0f") when they get keyboard focus. export
- SYNFIG_SHOW_FULL_TIME_ON_FOCUS=1 will restore the old
- behaviour.
-
- Make sure the time entry box shows the correct time - rounded
- to an integer number of frames.
-
- Improve the range of different scales used on the timeslider.
- Previously 3 fps animations were having the timeslider
- labelled "0.75f, 1.5f, ..." rather than "1f, 2f, ...".
-
- Subdivide the space between labels on the timeslider sensibly.
- Don't divide a 5 second gap into 4 parts of 1.25 seconds each,
- for instance.
-
- Set minimum and maximum zoom levels for the timescroller.
-
- Allow the use of horizontal scrolling to adjust the current
- time in timeslider widgets.
-
- Improve the algorithm for determining the number of tick marks
- to put between pairs of labels in the timeslider widgets.
- It's better to divide 5 minutes into 5 tics of 1 minute each
- than 6 ticks of 50 seconds each, for example.
-
- Added a new icon for values of type "Time", thanks to
- genete.
-
- * Windows
- -------
- Rename "Dialogs" to "Panels" for the dockable windows.
-
- My panels were drifting one or two pixels each time I started
- studio. This seems to be window-manager dependent. I've
- added environment variables to allow adjusting the drift to
- stop it. SYNFIG_WINDOW_POSITION_X_OFFSET and
- SYNFIG_WINDOW_POSITION_Y_OFFSET. Setting them both to 1 stops
- the drift for me in xfwm4.
-
- Remember the position and size of the color and gradient
- dialogs even if they're not displayed when studio exits.
-
- Applied patch from IL'dar AKHmetgaleev aka AkhIL to allow
- different pixel sizes in the workarea window. control-'(' and
- control-')' make the pixels bigger and smller.
-
- Fix: If the window positions and sizes seem to be corrupted, give
- them sensible values to prevent them being created
- offscreen.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1836848
-
- * Console Window
- --------------
- Show a very simple message in the console on start-up so as
- not to scare people when they see an empty terminal window
- 'doing nothing'.
-
- Show a similar message in the console on start-up if
- Studio is already running, to let the user know what
- is happening.
-
- * Toolbox Window
- --------------
- Allow adjustment of the default brush size using
- horizontal scrolling over the preview graphic.
-
- With the re-enabling of 'Alpha Brighten', the toolbox
- has become a little wider. Some foreign translations
- of the blend method could also push it wider. And
- since we have 15 tool icons by default, I've made the
- toolbox 5 icons wide instead of 4, and rearranged them
- slightly. The top row is now all for "moving ducks",
- the middle row for "drawing stuff", and the bottom row
- is more drawing on the left and looking at stuff
- (eyedrop, zoom) on the right.
-
- * Workarea Window
- ---------------
- Added environment variable SYNFIG_DISABLE_TILE_RENDER
- which when set will prevent the tile renderer from
- being used.
-
- If environment variable "SYNFIG_SHOW_TILE_OUTLINES" is
- defined, draw red outlines around tiles as they are
- rendered. For debugging purposes.
-
- Indicate that a canvas is unsaved by putting a '*' in
- front of its name.
-
- The popup caret menu was disabled for some tools. New
- environment variable
- SYNFIG_ENABLE_POPUP_MENU_IN_ALL_TOOLS re-enables the
- popup menu when set. Should this be the default?
- Comments please to the bug report.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1829182
-
- Fix: Studio was crashing sometimes when closing a
- document.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1850637
-
- Fix: Studio occasionally renders the tiles in the
- wrong places. This was happening when the canvas was
- one pixel greater than an integer number of tiles
- wide, and low-resolution rendering (the default) was
- enabled.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1824437
-
- Don't hide and reshow the workarea window when the
- user clicks the 'X' button to close it.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1682008
-
- Add checkboxes to the toggleable entries in the view
- menu.
-
- Add 'new', 'open' and 'quit' to the caret>file menu.
-
- Change the default 'toggle onion skin' keyboard
- shortcut from control-o (which is the stock binding
- for 'open') to alt-o.
-
- * Preview Window
- --------------
- Fix: Crash closing preview window before using
- it.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1835429
-
- * Canvas Properties Dialog
- ------------------------
- New environment variable:
- 'SYNFIG_DISABLE_NEW_CANVAS_EDIT_PROPERTIES'. When
- set, don't pop up the canvas properties dialog when
- creating a new document.
-
- Fix a problem with the canvas properties dialog. It
- wasn't possible to edit both the 'name' and the
- renddesc parameters at the same time before.
-
- By default, set "use current frame" in the render
- dialog to off. When "use current frame" is on,
- disable the Time tab's frame.
-
- Disable the 'Time' tab when "use current frame" is
- checked.
-
- Don't allow the user to set the 'ID' of exported
- canvases to be empty.
-
- * Layers Panel
- ------------
- Allow the layer panel to be sorted by layer name.
- Resize the layer name column to fit the layer names.
- Rename the "Layer" column to "Name".
-
- * Groups Panel
- ------------
- Allow layers to be removed from groups without the
- user having to type the name of the group they are in.
-
- * Params Panel
- ------------
- Added a 'Type' column to the parameter dialog so it's
- possible to tell an 'Add' from a 'Subtract' convert
- for example.
-
- * Children Panel
- --------------
- Renaming exported ValueNodes no longer causes a
- crash.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1823053
-
- * History Panel
- -------------
- The entries that appear in the History panel are now
- more explicit; they mostly now give details of the
- operation rather than just a generic fixed string,
- making it easier to navigate through the history. For
- example "Remove Layer 'left leg'" will show up rather
- than just "Remove Layer".
-
- When the user types in the History dialog, search for
- any text in the 'name' column that matches the text.
- Previously it was only searching for names matching at
- the beginning.
-
- * Targets
- -------
- Fix the 'auto' render target selection, so it automatically
- choses the target type each time based on the filename.
-
- Added new target 'magick++' for rendering multiple images to a
- single file using Magick++.
-
- * Ducks
- -----
- Always draw 'real' ducks on the right hand side of the circle
- they define. Previously, canvases with a negative horizontal
- pixel width were drawing it on the left.
-
- Add an option to restrict 'radius' ducks to the top right
- corner of the plane. This allows us to easily set their value
- to zero by dragging down and left. Thanks to Zelgadis on IRC
- for the suggestion. See "Toolbox > File > Setup > Misc >
- Restrict Real-Valued Ducks...".
-
- Show the size of circles as they are drawn using the draw
- tool.
-
- Give slight priority to radius ducks. That way, it's possible
- to select the radius duck for a circle with radius zero.
- Previously the position duck would usually be selected
- instead.
-
- * Misc
- ----
- New feature: Angles are not wrapped modulo 360 degrees. It's
- possible to animate from 0 to 361 degrees and see a full
- rotation, rather than seeing it shortcutting as it was
- previously. It's also now possible to drag angle ducks around
- their origin multiple times and have the rotations
- count.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1827966
-
- Fix: Exported canvases weren't being deleted on shutdown, due
- to a handle never being released.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1868911
-
- Fix: Use the 'C' locale when loading and saving
- sketches. Not doing so was causing load/save failures in
- Spanish locales.
- http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1830670
-
- 0.61.07 (SVN 878) - October 10, 2007 - Bug fixes
+More detailed notes are available on the releases page:
+
+http://synfig.org/Releases
+
+ 0.61.08 (SVN 1???) - March ??, 2008 - Bug fixes, features
+
+ * Update the website URL to synfig.org instead of synfig.com
+ * Synfig is now translatable using gettext
+ * Removed the 'bootstrap' script for building. Use autoreconf instead
+ * Fixed errors and warnings detected by a pre-release version of GCC 4.3
+ * Fixes to allow sigc++ 2.1 and newer to be used.
+ * Add a new bog-standard about dialog and a new splash screen
+ * Add a new icons for rename, encapsulate, show child layers and time
+ * Usability enhancements for new users, env vars to control them
+ * Improvements to the draw, bline and sketch tools
+ * Improvements for linking, quality menu, save dialog, render dialog
+ * Cut down on the console output and output a user-friendly message
+ * Don't wrap angles at 360 degrees, allows better rotations
+ * Settings for auto-backup interval, run everything in one thread
+ * Fix waypoint issues; drawing, menus, crash, label and others
+ * Fix time issues; time field expansion & editing, ticks and others
+ * Fix ducks issues; prioritise & restrict radius, show circle size, others
+ * Allow horizontal scrolling the time field and the default brush size
+ * Allow different pixel sizes in the workarea window
+ * Remember window locations and ignore corrupted values
+ * Widen the toolbox to 5 icons instead of 4 icons
+ * Tile renderer changes: disable with env var, fix wrong placing
+ * Improves the details in the history dialog quite a bit
+ * Fix typos, several crashes, usability and other issues
+
+0.61.07 (SVN 878) - October 10, 2007 - Bug fixes
* Fix some tooltips and menu stuff (#1787437)
* Allow left-right scrolling in canvas window with shift + mouse-wheel
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