Mesh Gradient (including PDF support and SVG import)
Stitching function (Filter > Digital Camera > Stitch)
Focus Stacking (Filter > Digital Camera > Focus Stacking)
Uncolored patterns (including PDF support)
New Animate dialog (View > Panels > Animate)
WebP and PNG: Can now read and write animations
PDF export: It is now possible to export PDF/X-4 with and without CMYK conversion.
PDF export: PDF/A-1b and PDF/A-2u can now be exported.
FITS and SER import
"JPEG XL" import and export
New filter: Filter > Others > Minimum Round
Clipping with vector layers: Can now optionally clip with outline and brightness.
Layout > Text to Picture: Can now also display assigned names from XMP data.
Improvements:
PDF import: Clipping layers without effect are better deleted.
PDF export: Missing fonts are displayed after export.
Raw import: DHT interpolation
Raw import: X Trans decoding is faster.
PNG: Now supports EXIF import and export
SVG: Various detail improvements
PSD: Various detail improvements
OpenEXR import: Images with long channel names are combined to a single image.
Import via GhostScript, Windows: Now supports filenames with Unicode characters.
Web > Export Single Frames: All frames of an animation are exported in one go as separate files.
Browse: Can now show multiple files in Explorer/Finder.
Browse, Locate in Browser Map: Can now display multiple positions on a map and shows the preview of the associated image when clicking on a marker.
Filter and adjustment layer dialogs: Color picker can now read out color regions (dragging with Ctrl/Command).
Color Editor: Color picker can now read out color regions (dragging with Ctrl/Command).
"Select Colors" dialog: Color list is adjusted when scaling the dialog.
Move vector points numerically: Now with preview and fix positions.
Curve Creation tool: Lines can be aligned at 45° via automatic guides.
Edit Vector Points tool: Shift moves line points along the original line.
Edit Vector Points and Curve Creation tool: In the Tool Settings now with icons for the options to move auxiliary points
Painting tools: Shift+click paints from the last to the current position.
Icon bars in Tool Settings (for example Circle tool): During dragging, the effect of additional keys is displayed (e.g. shift key for proportional dragging).
Text layers: Manually enlarged text layers can be switched back to dynamic text (via the Tool Settings).
Dynamic text layers: Keep their position relative to the formatting when typing.
Curve editor: Alt snaps to grid when moving, Shift fixes x-position.
Curves: With sliders for upper and lower limit
Adjustment Layer dialog: The layer subdialog remembers whether it was minimized.
Adjustment Layer dialog: "New adjustment layer" now displays icons in the menu, if desired.
Tool > Color > Hue Editor: Better curve interpolation
Layout > Vector > Vector Outline: Takes into account the line alignment (inside/outside)
Layer Attributes, layer distortions: The order of the path effects can now be changed in the Layer Attributes.
Layer handles: Non-moveable adjustment layers, layer masks, and Dynamic Filters in document size and image mode no longer display layer handles.
Layer List: Dynamic filters with replace mode show this in the cell.
Layout List, selection field: Per default, the selection field is hidden (can be reeanbled via "Preferences > Working > Special")
Layer Style dialog: Dialog preview is scaled appropriately for large effects.
Full screen mode, macOS: The status bar is hidden when entering full screen mode.
Moving Hand tool: Double-click zooms the clicked location to 100%, double-click a second time to restore the previous state.
Standard filters, Filter Brush tool: The labeling of additional parameters is adjusted and the values are changed to angle if applicable.
Bug fixes:
WebP export: Fixed problem with alpha images with ICC profile.
Rounded rectangle: Scaling and then undo distorted roundness.
Dynamic Animation: If a dynamic animation was to be saved as a GIF, there was an error message.
Dynamic Animation: The vertical zoom of the tracks (Ctrl/Cmd+mouse wheel) did not work properly.
Reduce Colors: Always forgot the setting to not reduce colors.
Standard RGB profile: With Wide Gamut, various UI elements were output incorrectly.
Edit vector shape, Undo: Undo did not restore that it was a vector shape.
Text layer, distorted in perspective: Ruler and flow rectangles were output sometimes mirrored in case of perspectively distorted layers.
Raw files, imported as placeholder, macOS: Editing the placeholder created adjustment layers.
Remove Brush: For horizontal/vertical lines the result was worse.
Hue Editor: With "Reset" the gradient image of the curve editor was not rebuilt.
Text layer, path text: Font scaling greater than 100% could result in redraw errors when changing the font size.
Layer distortions, edit: During editing, the redraw might be incomplete.
Text fields, automatic completion: Completion list was a bit too narrow.
Edit vector layers: Changing multiple auxiliary points of a line-curve combination did not work because only one auxiliary point existed.
Text layers, fixed line distance: The spacing between lines specified by the font was used, which meant that the line spacing was again dependent on the font size in some circumstances.
View > Fit to Selection Width: If all windows were adjusted, the layer boundaries of the active window were used nevertheless.
View > Full View: Additional keys of the keyboard shortcut influenced the behavior.
PDF export, placeholder with distortions: The PDF export used the original data for the distortion. As a result, the PDF and the document display may have been different.
Bend Image: Curve editor did not work correctly.
Auto Mask: Incorrect redraw corrected.
Painting: Soft, rotated and compressed brushes could leave residues on the screen during painting (disappeared after redrawing).
Brush outline, Roundness of 0%: At 0% compression, the brush outline was invisible
Layer List: The "Next Blend Mode"/"Previous Blend Mode" shortcuts now modify all selected layers.
Browse, macOS: HEIC images were not displayed even if "Quicktime import" was allowed in the settings under "Browse > Creation".
Browse > Open as Layers: All files are rotated according to their EXIF data.
Automatic Lasso: If a vector layer was the active layer, there was a crash.
Printing, Windows: Fixed possible crash with vector layers.
Vector Drawing tool: If the line style or color was not visible, you could not see what you were drawing.
Vectorizing: Did not work with 32 bit
XMP, JPEG: With an unchanged JPEG image, the XMP data could not be changed.
Mosaic: Flattening did not work properly.
Distributing layers horizontally/vertically with equal spacing didn't always work correctly.
Alignment: Virtual copies now behave like their original.
Color Lookup: DeviceLink profiles didn't work correctly
Line styles, variable width: Extremely thick lines with variable width look better now.