[Tuxpaint-devel] Tux Paint 0.9.33-rc1 posted for beta builds

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

Hi all!  Today I tagged and cut release candidates of Tux Paint 0.9.33
and friends:

 * Tux Paint 0.9.33-rc1
   https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxpaint/files/tuxpaint/0.9.33-beta/tuxpaint-0.9.33-rc1.tar.gz/download

 * Tux Paint Config 0.0.24-rc1
   https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxpaint/files/tuxpaint-config/0.0.24-beta/tuxpaint-config-0.0.24-rc1.tar.gz/download

 * Tux Paint Stamps 2024-07-XX-rc1
   https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxpaint/files/tuxpaint-stamps/2024-07-XX-beta/tuxpaint-stamps-2024.07.06.tar.gz/download

When you have time, please build versions based on these for your favorite
platform, so we can have people beta test them.

Tux Paint includes a number of changes and bugfixes since the last
release, back in January:

 * A pair of new "Dither" magic tools
 * New "Filled Polygon" magic tool
 * New magic tool API call to retract an undo snapshot
   (utilized by "Filled Polygon")
 * Update to "3D Glasses" magic tool
 * Option to un-group (one big list, no pagination) Magic tools
 * Some new, transparent, erasers
 * A few new brushes (Paint & Line tools)
 * Brushes can have descriptions
 * Font face/size shown when choosing/changing a font (Text & Label tools)
 * Click-and-release (no drag) with rotating brush would not draw anything;
   now it draws as if you dragged "up"
 * Labels on UI buttons will now also word-wrap on dashes ("-"),
   and support Unicode soft hyphens to hint where words may be broken
 * When exporting a drawing (via "Open" dialog), the name of the file
   is shown, AND is placed in your Copy/Paste buffer
 * OS Trashcan support ("Erase" in "Open" dialog) on Haiku now, too
 * Snappier screen refresh on macOS
 * Workaround for bash-completion (newer versions) bug in some locales
   (was due to Tux Paint's file being read before bash-completion's own
   "000_bash_completion_compat.bash")
 * Some work towards supporting OS/2 builds
 * Universal bundling simplification for macOS
 * Appdate metadata updates for Appstream 1.0
 * Remove final coupla of RSVG library warnings during compliation
 * Removed some unused text rendering code
 * Updated Troubleshooting Guide to cover macOS, Haiku, and Linux
 * Docs made more consistent, re: where files go
 * Added process to run `indent` on "tp_magic_example.c" regularly
 * Doc styling modernization in FAQ, Env. Vars., & Advanced Stamp Howto.
 * Doc corrections re: old usage of "--fullscreen" (with no parameter)
 * Localization updates
 * Bugfix: Avoid invalid memory access in Linear Gradient (Fill tool)

WHEW!  It's a lot!  Despite feeling like I haven't done anything with
Tux Paint for a few months, I guess the truth is we were REALLY busy
in the beginning of the year. :-)


Tux Paint Config. adds a new checkbox (in "Simplification") for the
magic tool ungrouping feature.  Otherwise, both Config. Tux Paint Stamps
only had some localization updates since their last releases
(also back in January).

Thanks in advance!  For others up here in the northern hemisphere,
I hope you're staying safe & cool!

-bill!