synfig releases
More detailed notes are available on the releases page:
http://synfig.org/wiki/Releases
0.62.01 (git tag: "synfig-0.62.01") - May 31, 2010 - Bug fixes, features.
* Enable reverse manipulation to range value nodes. Fix bug in value node range.
* Resolve issues with libtool 1.5.26 and 2.2.4.
* Improve SVG import support. Better support for gradients and some bug fixes.
* Add code to make possible pass parameters to the renderers. Implementation for ffmpeg.
* New Italian and German translations.
* Automatic build script for linux system. Please report success of usage.
* New parameters for Motion Blur layer. Now allows linear and constant interpolation too.
* Updated Russian, French and Spanish translation
0.62.00 (git tag: "synfig-0.62.00") - October 12, 2009 - Bug fixes, features.
* Migration to git repository.
* 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.
0.61.09 (SVN 2113) - October 21, 2008 - Bug fixes, features.
* Segment and Blines tangents are calculated more accurately
* Don't allow feather to be negative in any layer
* New Logarithm, Int String, Angle String, Joined List, Real String,
Time String, Dot Product, Gradient Colour, Vector X, Vector Y,
Vector Length, Vector Angle convert types
* Remove TENSION from TCB modes as it is the same as TEMPORAL TENSION
* Unless OpenEXR half mode is used, don't ask synfigstudio to depend on it
* Added "Link to Bline" feature
* Fix several bugs: plant layer, libavformat, time format FFf, libswscale
straight onto method, eyedrop tool and straight blend method for shape type layers
* Fix some compiler warnings
* Rename 'offset' and 'pos' to 'origin'
* Add French and Spanish translations
* Update the Windows builds to use OpenEXR 1.6.1
* The JPEG target can be switched on/off now
* Fix typos and other issues
0.61.08 (SVN 1839) - March 3, 2008 - Bug fixes, features
* Update the website URL to synfig.org instead of synfig.com
* Synfig is now translatable using gettext
* Removed the 'bootstrap' script for building. Use autoreconf instead
* Fixed errors and warnings detected by a pre-release version of GCC 4.3
* New Duplicate layer. This is an experimental feature, but works well
* New reverse, offset parameters and misc fixes for the Plant layer.
* Fix a crash and use relative ducks with the Stretch layer
* Allow multibyte characters in the Text layer
* Misc fixes & features on Shade, Shape, Spherize, Star, Time Loop, Warp layers
* Add aTan2, Bline Width, Cos, Duplicate, From Integer, Random,
Reciprocal, Reverse Tangent, Step, Switch, Time Loop convert types
* Add and Subtract convert types now work with gradients
* Security fixes for ffmpeg/dv/imagemagick targets/importers (except on Win32)
* Add new magick++ target that does better gif rendering with libmagick++ 7.3
* Misc fixes for the rendering targets, blend methods and canvases
* Allow importing of lipsynced voice animations from Papagayo
* Various changes to related to SIF file compatibility
* Fix typos, several crashes and other issues
0.61.07 (SVN 878) - October 10, 2007 - Bug fixes
* Fix importing on amd64 (#1692825)
* Fixes for the PasteCanvas layer (#1356449)
* Clean up Layer menu and displayed layer names
* Allow exported canvases to be used in more than one place within a canvas (#1785296)
* Fix, extend, and enable the 'XOR Pattern' layer
* Fix and extend the 'Plant' layer (#1790903)
* Turn on plant layer (gunsmoke) in macwolfen.sifz example
* Use 'fast gaussian' rather than 'gaussian' for blurs in pirates.sifz - it's faster!
* Fix and enable the 'Timed Swap' valuenode conversion
* Extend the 'Linear' valuenode conversion to work with colors and integers.
* Enable basic motion blur display at all qualities
* Fix an artifact on the curve gradient layer (#1792063, r663)
* Add the 'Range', 'Repeat Gradient', 'Add', 'Exponent' valuenode conversions
* Add the 'BLine Vector', and 'BLine Tangent' valuenode conversions (#1781903)
* Fix problems with valuenode conversion (#1794374, #1795913, #1795922, #1796068, #1797488)
* Allow gradients to be animated (#1568818, #1795802)
* Stop TCB angle waypoints changing to type Linear on load (#1778930)
* Use compression when saving to files with .sifz extension
* Compressed example .sif files to .sifz to save space
* Fixed Motion Blur layer (#1800783)
* Allow building studio with gcc -O2 (#1509627)
* Allow encapsulated layers to animate their z-depth, even when time-shifted (#1806852)
* Fixed the Radial Blur layer when zooming in on the canvas (#1807709)
* Fix several other bugs and crashes
0.61.06 (SVN 536) - June 20, 2007 - Bug fixes
* Add fontconfig support
* Fix amd64 issue
* Fix ffmpeg, gif, libav targets
* Include more target modules in the Win32 package
* Fix some crashes in synfigstudio
* Fix some render artifacts
* Fix some doxygen warnings
* Some MacOS fixes
* Misc bug fixes
* Fix random number generation for 64 bit CPUs (#1698604)
* Add parameter 'fast' to curve gradients to choose fast or accurate rendering (#1672033)
* Add new odd/even winding style for regions
0.61.05 (SVN 126) - February 27, 2005 - Misc fixes
* Use system libltdl when available (#1423944)
* Update doxygen config file (#1402909)
* Fix fontconfig/xft FTBFS
* Misc fix (#1414370)
0.61.04 (SVN 102) - January 10, 2005 - Misc fixes
* Check for imagemagick at build time
* Clarify mod_openexr copyright
* Fix mod_openexr building
* Don't add 'Copyright Voria' to PNG output
* Don't write localised numbers when generating SIF files
0.61.03 - December 8, 2005 - Copyright update
* Update more old copyright and licence notices
* Remove broken walk example
* Misc code fixes
0.61.02 - November 26, 2005 - Misc fixes
* Small cygwin/optimization/code fixes
0.61.01 - November 3, 2005 - Copyright update
* Update old copyright and licence notices
* Fix some GCC 4.0 build issues
* Include errno.h where needed
* Add ./configure options for debug, warnings, optimisation, profiling
* Add about_dialog.sif as another example
* Remove SFAutomaton.ttf due to licence issues
* Fix BMP rendering target
0.61.00-39 - November 1, 2005 - Developer preview
* First public release!