synfigstudio releases More detailed notes are available on the releases page: http://synfig.org/wiki/Releases 0.62.xx (git tag: "synfigstudio-0.62.xx") - Month day, 2010 * Code restructure into folders grouping common files for easy coding, and cleaning dead code. Use of Makefile inserts for each folder. * Add load and save palette buttons. File extension is spal 0.62.01 (git tag: "synfigstudio-0.62.01") - May 31, 2010 - Bug fixes, features. * Enable reverse manipulation to range value nodes. Fix bug in value node range. * Add new functionalities to the Normal tool. It can rotate (CTRL), scale, (ALT) as well as translate. Using SHIFT constraints the three operations. * Update Mirror tool to allow use SHIFT to alternate between horizontal and vertical mirrors. * Enable single threaded renderer for windows version. It increases stability. * Fix file chooser label to fit into button size. * Stop button now works properly. * By default disable extended input devices. Fix a previous introduced bug. * Suit custom mouse cursors for some tools. * Add code to make possible pass parameters to the renderers. Implementation for ffmpeg. * Repack rulers and caret menu to get less space. * New italian and German translations. * New parameters for Motion Blur layer. Now allows linear and constant interpolation too. * New icons for actions and layers. Thanks to several authors. * Fixed feature that reset windows docks to default size and position. * Separate the reset setup values to original values feature in a new menu entry. * Updated Russian, French and Spanish translation. * Automatic build script for linux system. Please report success of usage. * Update Help menu entries according to new website. 0.62.00 (git tag: "synfigstudio-0.62.00") - October 12, 2009 - Bug fixes, major features. * Migration to git repository. * Bugs fixed: #2205700, #2112320, #2116947, #1814151, launchpad.net/ubuntu/#195447 * Bugs fixed: #2256600, #2119775, #1826376, #1848018, #1901753, #1829182 * Bugs fixed: #2315706, #2321845, #2350636, #1501383, #2378787, #2435346 * Bugs fixed: #2579838, #2652974, #1677510, #2175043. * Build rectangular blines using the rectangle tool. * Updated time ruler properly when modified the start or end time. * New layer Curve Warp. * Updated options for Polygon, Circle and Star Tools. * New option: Scale New imported Images to Fit Canvas. * Fixed the rendered position of a polygon under a transform layers. * Fixed zoom to fit button result. Now border is visible. * Better errors when opening a file that doesn't exist. * Paste canvases now update when the canvas parameter changes. * Paste canvas with unset canvas parameter can be exported now. * If holding control in the zoom tool when releasing the mouse button to complete a drawing, a box will zoom out such that the currently displayed area is zoomed out to fill the drawn box. * Enabled the Focus Point parameter in the Paste canvas layer. * Reordered ducks render stack and preferences from mouse interaction. * Fixed crash with LC_ALL=fr@euro * Improved Color Dialog. * Input Device configuration can be saved/loaded now. * Fill/Outline instead of Background/Foreground. * Additions to the Canvas Window: Update Zoom Dial, Frame Dial, Keyframe Dial Toogle Ducks Dial, Resolution Dial, Quality Butons, Show/Snap to Grid, Onion Skinning buttons. * Past and future onion skins enabled and selectable. * Improved UI on crash recovery dialog. * Added Preferred and Predefined FPS in the Setup Dialog. * Keyframes are shown now in the Curves dialog too. * Keyframe Set Delta enabled and fixed. * New Keyframe Widget. Allows dragging of keyframes with mouse. * Synfigstudio cph-monitor. * Adapted About Dialog to git repository. * Removed ancient trunk folder from svn repository. * New Import SVG files module. Basic SVG import, see release notes. * Some new icons. * Updated translations. * First time Russian translation. * Several compiler warnings fixed. 0.61.09 (SVN 2114) - October 21, 2008 - Bug fixes, features * Fix building synfigstudio in the fink distribution * Improved plant layer * Added new options for Circle and Rectangle tools * Added Text and Star tools. * Added new plant, text, star and polygon icons * Added Spanish, French and Catalan translations * Added "Link to Bline" feature * Improved main window zoom behaviour and added new zoom icons * Several fixes and improvements on timetrack slider and waypoints drawing * Depreciate Manual as interpolation type * Added new icons for reset and swap FG and BG colors. Re-arrange them to show properly in all GTK themes * Added some improvements in the Render Description * Improved GUI for the sound selection dialog * When adding layers leave the previously selected layer selected * Button tools are arranged in the Tool box * Added and fixed some keyboard shortcuts * Show only shared compatible parameters when more than one layer is selected * Added more functionality to colour and time sliders * Added new 'Document' tab in Setup dialog for more user preferences * Fixed some crashes and errors * Width tool returned to the Tool Box by default. 0.61.08 (SVN 1839) - March 3, 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 * Rework mouse interaction with ducks and tangents * Move icons to a subdir * Fix some typos, several crashes (#1780016, #1785598) and other bugs * Re-enable sketch, draw, polygon by default * Add keyboard shortcuts for all tools ( http://synfig.org/Keyboard_Shortcuts ) * Fix crash when setting canvas resolution to zero (#1779616) * Add 'auto-export' checkbox and layer name box to the draw tool * Various GUI fixes (#1794006, #1796110) * File-selector fixes (#1383736) * Fix the View>Play menu entry to allow playback inside the workarea, shortcut Ctrl-P * Save to .sifz (compressed) format by default if no extension is given * Remember the path used when saving a document and default to it in future * Call new documents "Synfig Animation " by default, rather than "untitled0" * Don't quit until the user clearly answers "do you want to save?" (#1799722) * Remember the filename the animation was last rendered to, and default to it (#1799250) * Improved the 'Groups' function a little (#1368694). It's still quite broken * Fixed the colors displayed on the sliders in the Color Editor dialog * Added option to Bline Tool to allow positions to be automatically linked (#1776156) * Added menu entry to restore all dialogs to their default positions * Fix red "Animate Editing Mode" frame so it shows up in all themes (#1801220) * Allow user to "export SYNFIG_DISABLE_POPUP_WINDOWS=1" to make splash screen etc. less obtrusive * Fixed the logic used to decide which value to use when linking values together * Update child canvas time sliders when parent time slider is moved * Prevent the caret menu entries from being disabled when another canvas is closed * Show the correct initial quality level in the View > Preview Quality menu 0.61.06 (SVN 543) - June 20, 2007 - Bug fixes * Fix amd64 issues * Fix corruption of gamma settings * Fix manipulating layers in the layer dialog * Disable the timebar instead of hiding it * Fix File -> Close & input devices close button * Fix targets that crash in synfigstudio * Fix some doxygen warnings * Fixes in the sketch tool * Fixes in the draw tool * Fix several crashes * Fix bline looping * Misc Win32 fixes * Add optional GNOME thumbnailer * Rework several dialogs to use GNOME HIG * Disable several tools, see FAQ to re-enable * Disable the empty Palette Browser dialog * Add mousewheel support in canvas windows * Add tooltips to preview window & give it a default size * Display HTML values in the colour dialog * Add an icon for the curves dialog * New Tango ArtLibreSet styled icons by PXEGeek 0.61.05 (SVN 128) - February 27, 2006 - build issues * Fixed building with gtkmm 2.8 (#1373933, #1358304) * Allow the toolbox to come to the front (#1367916) * Make the user prefs dir configurable at build time * Fixed minor build issues 0.61.04 (SVN 103) - January 10, 2006 - MacOS X packaging * Fixes for the MacOS X packaging 0.61.03 - December 8, 2005 - Build & copyright fixes * Update more old copyright and licence notices * Fully fix building with GCC 4 0.61.02 - November 26, 2005 - Build fixes * Better Win32 / MacOS X packaging * Use new GTK+ file chooser * Adds some GCC 4 tweaks * Fixes crash on layer reorder * Include errno.h where needed * Other tweaks 0.61.01 - November 6, 2005 - Copyright updates * Update old copyright and licence notices * Add ./configure options for debug, warnings, optimisation, profiling * Uses per-os directory separator * Add TODO file 0.61.00-39 - November 1, 2005 - Developer preview * First public release!