INSTALL NEWS updates for the GIMP 2.2.0 release.

2004-12-11  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>

	* INSTALL
	* NEWS
	* README: updates for the GIMP 2.2.0 release.

ChangeLog

+2004-12-11  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* INSTALL
+	* NEWS
+	* README: updates for the GIMP 2.2.0 release.
+
 2004-12-11  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
 
 	* plug-ins/common/unsharp.c: got rid of a global variable.

INSTALL

 Installation instructions for GIMP 2.2
 --------------------------------------
 
-There are some basic steps to building and installing this development
-version of The GIMP.
+There are some basic steps to building and installing The GIMP.
+
+GIMP 2.2 replaces GIMP 2.0. It is advised that you uninstall GIMP 2.0
+before installing GIMP 2.2. If you want to keep GIMP 2.0 installed in
+parallel to GIMP 2.2, you have to choose a separate prefix which is
+not in your default library search path.
+
+GIMP 2.2 is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0. Plug-ins and
+scripts written for GIMP 2.0 will continue to work and don't need to
+be changed nor recompiled to be used with GIMP 2.2.
 
 Please do not install this pre-releae of GIMP 2.2 into the same prefix
 as GIMP 2.0. It would overwrite most of the GIMP 2.0 installation. To
@@ -33,10 +41,13 @@ header files installed.
      ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. GTK+-2.x and friends can be installed side
      by side with GTK+-1.2.
 
-  3. We require PangoFT2, a Pango backend that uses FreeType2. Make sure 
-     you have FreeType2 and fontconfig installed before you compile Pango.
-     FreeType2 can be downloaded from http://www.freetype.org/.
-     Fontconfig from http://x2.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig.
+  3. We require PangoFT2, a Pango backend that uses FreeType2. Make
+     sure you have FreeType2 and fontconfig installed before you
+     compile Pango.  FreeType2 can be downloaded from
+     http://www.freetype.org/.  Fontconfig from
+     http://x2.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig.  GIMP 2.2 depends
+     on freetype2 being newer than version 2.1.7. Older versions are
+     known to have bugs that seriously affect stability of The GIMP.
 
   4. We use libart2. Grab the module libart_lgpl out of GNOME CVS or
      fetch the tarball from

NEWS

 The GNU Image Manipulation Program Version 2.2
 ----------------------------------------------
 
-This is a preview release of GIMP 2.2. This is not yet the final 2.2.0
-release which will replace GIMP 2.0 as the stable GIMP version. This
-code hasn't seen a lot of testing yet so there are certainly bugs. If
-you find any, make sure you report them at bugzilla.gnome.org (after
-checking that it isn't reported already).
+This is version 2.2 of The GIMP. Version 2.2 is an update on GIMP 2.0.
+GIMP 2.2 is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0. Plug-ins and
+scripts written for GIMP 2.0 will continue to work and don't need to
+be changed nor recompiled to be used with GIMP 2.2.  We do however
+hope that plug-in authors will update their plug-ins for GIMP 2.2 and
+adapt the GUI changes we did with this version.
 
 Please follow the installation instructions in INSTALL.
 
 
+Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.2.0 (since 2.2-pre2 was released)
+=================================
+
+- More work on GFig plug-in.
+
+- Build fixes for Win32 and IRIX.
+
+- Added --no-splash command-line option for gimp-remote.
+
+- More tweaks to the migration of user settings.
+
+- Improved input controller modules, added ALSA support to the MIDI module.
+
+- Allow to transform layers with masks.
+
+- Let the histogram respect the selection.
+
+- Lots of bug fixes and some optimizations.
+
+
+Contributors: 
+
+   Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Manish Singh, Kevin Cozens,
+   Joao S. O. Bueno, Karine Proot, Tim Mooney, Wolfgang Hofer, Simon Budig,
+   Bill Skaggs, Øyvind Kolås
+
+
 Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.2-pre2
 ====================================
 

README

-THIS IS A PREVIEW RELEASE FOR TESTING PURPOSES
-==============================================
-
-This is a preview release of GIMP 2.2 which will replace GIMP 2.0 as
-the stable GIMP. This is not yet the final release but it should have
-all the features that 2.2.0 will have. This code hasn't seen a lot of
-testing yet so there are certainly bugs. If you find any, make sure
-you report them at bugzilla.gnome.org (after checking that it isn't
-reported already).
-
-Please do not install this pre-releae of GIMP 2.2 into the same prefix
-as GIMP 2.0. It would overwrite most of the GIMP 2.0 installation. To
-install in parallel to 2.0, please use a different prefix which is not
-in your default library search path. If you wish to replace GIMP 2.0
-with this pre-release, then please remove the GIMP 2.0 installation
-before installing this software.
-
-The GIMP 2.2 plug-in API is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0.
-Plug-ins for GIMP 2.0 should continue to work and don't need to be
-recompiled. We do however hope that plug-in authors will update their
-plug-ins for GIMP 2.2 and adapt the GUI changes we did with this
-version.
-
-It might turn out that we have to do some late changes to the newly
-added API before the final 2.2.0 release, so don't consider the API
-strictly frozen yet. The API is however guaranteed to be backward
-compatible (source and binary) with the GIMP 2.0 API. If you find that
-your 2.0 plug-in break when used with the GIMP 2.2 libraries, or if
-you cannot compile a GIMP 2.0 plug-in against the GIMP 2.2 header
-files, please report that as a bug.
+The GNU Image Manipulation Program Version 2.2
+----------------------------------------------
+
+This is version 2.2 of The GIMP. Version 2.2 is an update on GIMP 2.0.
+GIMP 2.2 is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0. Plug-ins and
+scripts written for GIMP 2.0 will continue to work and don't need to
+be changed nor recompiled to be used with GIMP 2.2.  We do however
+hope that plug-in authors will update their plug-ins for GIMP 2.2 and
+adapt the GUI changes we did with this version.
+
+GIMP 2.2 replaces GIMP 2.0. It is advised that you uninstall GIMP 2.0
+before installing GIMP 2.2. If you want to keep GIMP 2.0 installed in
+parallel to GIMP 2.2, you have to choose a separate prefix which is
+not in your default library search path.
+
+This code has already seen quite some testing but a lot has changed
+since version GIMP 2.0 and we could very well have introduced new
+bugs. If you find any , make sure you report them at bugzilla.gnome.org
+(after checking that it isn't reported already).
+
+The GIMP 2.2 API is guaranteed to be backward compatible (source and
+binary) with the GIMP 2.0 API. If you find that your 2.0 plug-in break
+when used with the GIMP 2.2 libraries, or if you cannot compile a GIMP
+2.0 plug-in against the GIMP 2.2 header files, please report that as a
+bug.
 
 If you want to hack on The GIMP, please read the file HACKING. For
 detailed installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.