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Released October XX 2008

General

• Forum use now phpBB3.
• We have migrated from voira server to a new VPS server.
• We moved our subversion repository to sourceforge
• We are testing Review Board for patches in synfig. http://patches.synfig.org

ETL

• Improved the derivative class for hermites.

Layers

• Don't let feather be negative for any Shape layers or Circle layers.
• Fix handling of segments so that the examples/walk/walk.sifz file will load correctly.
• Use 0 for the index if the closest point is on the segment which closes the loop. This keeps the final 'amount' value in the range 0..1.
• Fix a bug in the plant layer: when the plant is so small that we can't calculate the perpendicular to its bline, skip trying to branch it.
• Improve a warning message when we find an unknown layer parameter.
• Rename all 'pos' and 'offset' parameters to 'origin'.
• Add parameter 'add_width' to the plant layer. It's on by default, and means to scale the velocity of a plant's shoot by the width of the bline at that point.

Value Nodes

• Add new types:
  • Logarithm: To convert to a natural logarithm
  • Int String: To convert to a string form an integer
  • Angle String : To convert to a string form an angle
  • Joined List: Join two strings
  • Real String: To convert to a string form a real
  • Time String: To convert to a string form a time
  • Dot Product: Convert to a real from the dot product of two vectors
  • Gradient Color: Convert to a color from a gradient
  • Vector X: Convert to a real from a vector (get its X)
  • Vector Y: Convert to a real from a vector (get its Y)
  • Vector Length: Convert to a real from a vector (get its length)
  • Vector Angle: Convert to an angle from a vector (get its angle)

• Add "Loop" link to the "Gradient Color" ValueNode.

Targets

• Unless OpenEXR half mode is used, don't ask synfigstudio to depend on it.
• Fix build problem with newer versions of libavformat due to the pb member of AVFormatContext changing from a structure to a pointer. 11877061
• Fix Debian 487639: for mod_libav, allow the use of libswscale instead of the depreciated img_convert function. Apply 2036627
• Fix the libjpeg configure test to look for the right function.
• Windows builds now include OpenEXR version 1.6.

Linking

Added new feature Link to Bline: allow the user link vertexes, tangents and widths to a parametrized position of a bline. Also inverse manipulation is allowed. This makes easier to build complex figures without need to have a vertex on the joining point.

Waypoints

• TENSION and TEMPORAL TENSION were the same; use the 'temporal' version everywhere.

Windows

Canvas Properties Dialog

• When calculating the start and end frames, round to the nearest integer rather than always rounding down.

Tools

• Text, Plant, Polyline and Star have new icons.
• Circle tool allows now make Blined circles too. Regions, Outlines, Gradients and Plants are included.
• Rectangle tool now does the same.
• New Text tool has been added to the ToolBox.
• New Star Tool has been added to the tool palette. It allows now make blined stars too. Regions, Outlines, Gradients and Plants are included.

Miscellaneous

• Improve Segment Tangent and Bline Tangent calculations. Now they give more accurate results.
• If only one of -w and -h is specified on the command line, calculate the other in order to keep the aspect ratio fixed.

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