3 More detailed notes are available on the releases page:
5 http://synfig.org/Releases
7 0.61.09 (SVN 2113) - October 21, 2008 - Bug fixes, features.
9 * Segment and Blines tangents are calculated more accurately
10 * Don't allow feather to be negative in any layer
11 * New Logarithm, Int String, Angle String, Joined List, Real String,
12 Time String, Dot Product, Gradient Colour, Vector X, Vector Y,
13 Vector Length, Vector Angle convert types
14 * Remove TENSION from TCB modes as it is the same as TEMPORAL TENSION
15 * Unless OpenEXR half mode is used, don't ask synfigstudio to depend on it
16 * Added "Link to Bline" feature
17 * Fix several bugs: plant layer, libavformat, time format FFf, libswscale
18 straight onto method, eyedrop tool and straight blend method for shape type layers
19 * Fix some compiler warnings
20 * Rename 'offset' and 'pos' to 'origin'
21 * Add French and Spanish translations
22 * Update the Windows builds to use OpenEXR 1.6.1
23 * The JPEG target can be switched on/off now
24 * Fix typos and other issues
26 0.61.08 (SVN 1839) - March 3, 2008 - Bug fixes, features
28 * Update the website URL to synfig.org instead of synfig.com
29 * Synfig is now translatable using gettext
30 * Removed the 'bootstrap' script for building. Use autoreconf instead
31 * Fixed errors and warnings detected by a pre-release version of GCC 4.3
32 * New Duplicate layer. This is an experimental feature, but works well
33 * New reverse, offset parameters and misc fixes for the Plant layer.
34 * Fix a crash and use relative ducks with the Stretch layer
35 * Allow multibyte characters in the Text layer
36 * Misc fixes & features on Shade, Shape, Spherize, Star, Time Loop, Warp layers
37 * Add aTan2, Bline Width, Cos, Duplicate, From Integer, Random,
38 Reciprocal, Reverse Tangent, Step, Switch, Time Loop convert types
39 * Add and Subtract convert types now work with gradients
40 * Security fixes for ffmpeg/dv/imagemagick targets/importers (except on Win32)
41 * Add new magick++ target that does better gif rendering with libmagick++ 7.3
42 * Misc fixes for the rendering targets, blend methods and canvases
43 * Allow importing of lipsynced voice animations from Papagayo
44 * Various changes to related to SIF file compatibility
45 * Fix typos, several crashes and other issues
47 0.61.07 (SVN 878) - October 10, 2007 - Bug fixes
49 * Fix importing on amd64 (#1692825)
50 * Fixes for the PasteCanvas layer (#1356449)
51 * Clean up Layer menu and displayed layer names
52 * Allow exported canvases to be used in more than one place within a canvas (#1785296)
53 * Fix, extend, and enable the 'XOR Pattern' layer
54 * Fix and extend the 'Plant' layer (#1790903)
55 * Turn on plant layer (gunsmoke) in macwolfen.sifz example
56 * Use 'fast gaussian' rather than 'gaussian' for blurs in pirates.sifz - it's faster!
57 * Fix and enable the 'Timed Swap' valuenode conversion
58 * Extend the 'Linear' valuenode conversion to work with colors and integers.
59 * Enable basic motion blur display at all qualities
60 * Fix an artifact on the curve gradient layer (#1792063, r663)
61 * Add the 'Range', 'Repeat Gradient', 'Add', 'Exponent' valuenode conversions
62 * Add the 'BLine Vector', and 'BLine Tangent' valuenode conversions (#1781903)
63 * Fix problems with valuenode conversion (#1794374, #1795913, #1795922, #1796068, #1797488)
64 * Allow gradients to be animated (#1568818, #1795802)
65 * Stop TCB angle waypoints changing to type Linear on load (#1778930)
66 * Use compression when saving to files with .sifz extension
67 * Compressed example .sif files to .sifz to save space
68 * Fixed Motion Blur layer (#1800783)
69 * Allow building studio with gcc -O2 (#1509627)
70 * Allow encapsulated layers to animate their z-depth, even when time-shifted (#1806852)
71 * Fixed the Radial Blur layer when zooming in on the canvas (#1807709)
72 * Fix several other bugs and crashes
74 0.61.06 (SVN 536) - June 20, 2007 - Bug fixes
76 * Add fontconfig support
78 * Fix ffmpeg, gif, libav targets
79 * Include more target modules in the Win32 package
80 * Fix some crashes in synfigstudio
81 * Fix some render artifacts
82 * Fix some doxygen warnings
85 * Fix random number generation for 64 bit CPUs (#1698604)
86 * Add parameter 'fast' to curve gradients to choose fast or accurate rendering (#1672033)
87 * Add new odd/even winding style for regions
89 0.61.05 (SVN 126) - February 27, 2005 - Misc fixes
91 * Use system libltdl when available (#1423944)
92 * Update doxygen config file (#1402909)
93 * Fix fontconfig/xft FTBFS
96 0.61.04 (SVN 102) - January 10, 2005 - Misc fixes
98 * Check for imagemagick at build time
99 * Clarify mod_openexr copyright
100 * Fix mod_openexr building
101 * Don't add 'Copyright Voria' to PNG output
102 * Don't write localised numbers when generating SIF files
104 0.61.03 - December 8, 2005 - Copyright update
106 * Update more old copyright and licence notices
107 * Remove broken walk example
110 0.61.02 - November 26, 2005 - Misc fixes
112 * Small cygwin/optimization/code fixes
114 0.61.01 - November 3, 2005 - Copyright update
116 * Update old copyright and licence notices
117 * Fix some GCC 4.0 build issues
118 * Include errno.h where needed
119 * Add ./configure options for debug, warnings, optimisation, profiling
120 * Add about_dialog.sif as another example
121 * Remove SFAutomaton.ttf due to licence issues
122 * Fix BMP rendering target
124 0.61.00-39 - November 1, 2005 - Developer preview
126 * First public release!