GIMP 2.2.0

What's new in this version:

- More work on GFig (still more to come here).
- Improvements and fixes to the migration of user settings.
- Final touches to the new PDB APIs.
- Ported some more item factories to GtkUIManager.
- Added new PDB function gimp_layer_from_mask().
- User interface cleanup in IFS Fractal plug-in (former IfsCompose).
- Allow file plug-ins to provide a way to access an image thumbnail if the file format provides one or can be rendered at small sizes.
- Load and save EXIF thumbnails in JPEG files.
- Render in small resolution when creating a thumbnail for a Postscript or PDF document or from an SVG or WMF image file.
- Allow to import Photoshop (.act) palette files.
- Added a Print Size dialog to bring back missing functionality from 2.0
- Several improvements to the GIMP Python bindins.
- Guard the core better against misbehaving scripts and plug-ins.
- Changed the way that Script-Fu scripts register their menus (in a backward compatible way).
- Added ALSA support for the MIDI controller module.
- Resurrected the glob plug-in.
- Lots of bug fixes and some optimizations.
- Added more plug-in previews (Displace, Color To Alpha, Newsprint) and ported existing previews to the new widgets (Glass Tiles).
- Added preview to WMF loader plug-in.
- Added Retinex plug-in for color normalization.
- Added plug-in to load and save raw image data (_not_ the raw format used by some digital cameras)
- Added a GUI to configure controller modules.
- Let lots of core dialogs remember their last values and add shortcuts to run with the last values w/o opening the dialog.
- Added new PDB API for drawable tranformations.
- Register all libgimp enums to allow language bindings such as Script-Fu to access them using GType introspection.
- Improved how we attach user-visible strings to enums registered with the type system. Added API to access these strings to libgimpbase.
- Cleanups to the new GFig GUI (still work in progress).
- HIGification of the ImageMap plug-in.
- Cleaned up dialogs code.
- Added Auto Whitebalance menu item.
- Redid Scale and Resize dialogs.
- Added code to migrate user settings from ~/.gimp-2.0.
- Lots of bug fixes.