ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.3.12

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

it took a little longer as expected but good things take time and we
hope you will like the new development release available from:

  ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.3/v1.3.12/


Here's the list of changes for this release:

Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.12
==================================

- Improved and cleaned up undo system [Mitch]
- Added hooks for plug-in debugging [Yosh]
- Redesigned the tool options code [Mitch]
- Converted the API reference to DocBook XML [Sven]
- Lots of text tool changes [Sven]
- Factored common code out of a number of plug-ins [Maurits]
- Cleaned up and improved the code that handles the plug-ins [Mitch]
- Finished colorblindness display filter using the algorithm contributed
  by Alex Wade and Robert Dougherty. 
- Updated the gimprc man-page, or actually, wrote a tool that does it [Sven]
- Improved the code that handles all the menus [Mitch]
- Added new PSD save plug-in [Bolsh]
- Added back SphereDesigner plug-in [Sven]
- More plug-ins cleaned up [Maurits, Sven]
- Reorganized startup code [Yosh]
- Portability fixes for 64bit platforms [Yosh, Sven]
- Handle large swap files (>2GB) [Sven]
- Updates to the Win32 build system [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
- More work on the vectors tool [Simon, Mitch]
- Lots of bug fixes

Other contributors:
  Garry R. Osgood, Jakub Steiner, Simon Budig, Henrik Brix Andersen,
  Akkana, Carol Spears, Seth Burgess, Nathan Summers, David Necas,
  Cameron Gregory, Larry Ewing


Thanks to everyone who contributed.

  Sven