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GIMP 2.8.20

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    Mac OS X 10.9 or later

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What's new in this version:

Core:
- Avoid D-Bus error message when built without D-Bus support
- fix OS X min required conditional in gimpimagewindow.c
- Saving to existing .xcf.bz and .xcf.gz files didn't truncate them and could lead to unnecessarily large files
- Text layer created by gimp-text-fontname doesn't respect border when resized
- avoid seeking when saving XCF files to prevent corruption with file network shares (fixed since 2014, but not mentioned in NEWS yet)

GUI:
- Flow on Paint Dynamics editor dialog: the 'y' axis is indicating 'Rate' instead 'Flow'
- Vertical ruler shows artifacts if the status bar isn't showing
- Tablet stylus misbehaves when crossing the edge of a dock in multi-window-mode
- Disable the new "automatic window tabbing" feature introduced on macOS Sierra
- Improve the visibility of slider handles with dark themes
- Make it harder to switch to renaming if selecting already selected items in resource lists

Tools:
- make toggling to color picker mode of paint tools more robust

Libgimp:
- call gimp_file_entry_set_filename() with filename encoding

macOS DMG:
- Ship the Tango icon theme with the DMG for a complete set of icons
- fix the way mime data is copied into the bundle
- no longer copy Pango modules into the bundle
- prevent a crash caused by drag&drop on OSX by patching the included GTK+
- ship a patch for gettext to make sure the preferred UI language will be used

Plug-ins:
- Prevent the Python console from closing by the Escape key
- Help browser does not launch on OS X
- Filter 'Edge Detect/Difference of Gaussians' returns empty image
- only use -xobjective-c for compile commands
- mkgen.pl: fix calls to write_file() routine to write to current directory
- When printing, the images are composed onto a white background to prevent printing a black box instead of a transparent image
- Fix color vision deficiency display filters to apply gamma correction directly

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- Spanish
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General:
- Bug fixes

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