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Summary

It has been almost a whole year since the last release. There have been a lot of changes since then. I'll try to summarize the key changes here.

Migration to new host.

The domain synfig.org and the virtual private server (vps) that hosts it, is funded by the original developer, darco. Due to the absence of donations to help him with the costs of the vps and that, from time to time, the vps runs out of memory and it is not possible to login remotely or access to the wiki or forum, we decided to start the migration to a host provided by Sourceforge.

Synfig code is now at sourceforge in git.

Also, for better collaboration between coders, for greater simplicity on the commits and to allow more development in separate branches, the code is now maintained in a git source control system. It is hosted at sourceforge (like the svn repository before it). Wiki reloading and new website.

As part of the migration, the wiki is being split into two parts - Synfig documentation and 'everything else'. The non-Synfig-documentation from the wiki is being moved into the Synfig website (this site). The old wiki (stored in the vps) is locked to prevent any change. All new changes are being done in the new wiki (www.synfig.com/wiki). It has a new method of translation, with better macros, and is easier to maintain. The wiki will have only documentation about how Synfig works. In effect, it will become an online manual.

Zelgadis has done a great job on the wiki macros and Yaco is working now on a new website layout and skin.

New features

There have been a lot of new features and bug fixes. Here are the main ones:

• SVG import module. It is a basic import and only supports SVG 1.0, but is a great step.
• Keyframe widget: This allows drag and drop of individual keyframes and altering keyframe length using the mouse.
• New toggle buttons in the canvas window: ducks, quality, grid, onion skin toggles are now exposed and not hidden under a menu or shortcut.
• Onion skin past and future are selectable individually up to four in total.
• New Curve Warp Layer.
• Updated options for Polygon, Circle and Star Tools.
• New Value Nodes: Greyed, Power, And, Not, Compare.
• Enabled Example module: Filled Rectangle, Simple Circle and Metaballs.
• Reverse manipulation for Scale Value Nodes.
• Input Device configuration can be saved/loaded now
• New icons, new translation (Russian), lots of bugs fixed, and much more....

Enjoy this new release!

Detailed Changes

ETL

Version: 0.04.13 (git tag: "ETL-0.04.13") - October 12, 2009 - Bug fixes.

• Deleted generated ETL/etl_profile_.h.in file.
• Improved the rendering of curve gradient layers near vertices with 0-length tangents.
• Fixed a division by zero when calculating the distance to a bezier.
• Fixed the pthread and kernel32 library check to not check for main.
• Don't enable the use of mutexes on platforms other than windows unless pthread is available.
• Removed ancient trunk folder from svn repository.
• Several compiler warnings fixed.

Synfig Core

Version: 0.62.00 (git tag: "synfig-0.62.00") - October 12, 2009 - Bug fixes, features.

• Bugs fixed: #2195749, #1968248, #2250533, #2116947, launchpad.net/ubuntu/#195447
• Bugs fixed: #1993098, #1730067, #2353248, #2037732, #2412072, #2458112
• Bugs fixed: #2502818.
• Improved messages for failed open file commands.
• Fixed crash when unsetting import layer filename after using PNG or JPEG importers.
• Improved the rendering of curve gradient layers near vertices with 0-length tangents.
• Fixed previous bug that produced bad render to the star layer.
• Enabled use of ffmpeg importer.
• Set four modules as essential: gradient, geometry, particle, freetype.
• Improved message when initialize synfig fails.
• New environment variables for options.
• Added support for alpha in paletted PNG files.
• New option: Scale New imported Images to Fit Canvas.
• Better errors when attempting to open a file that doesn't exist.
• Enabled Example module: Metaballs, Simple Circle, Filled Rectangle.
• New Value Nodes: Greyed, Power, And, Not, Compare.
• Added 'Loop' parameter to the Random Value Node.
• Reverse manipulation for Scale Value Nodes.
• Removed ancient trunk folder from svn repository.
• New Import SVG files module. Basic SVG import, see release notes.
• Disabled crop imported images by default.
• Updated translations.
• First time Russian translation.
• Several compiler warnings fixed.

Synfig Studio

Version: 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.

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