Autoconf is now used by default, although the old Imakefile mechanism is still included. Some minor issues that could have led to segfaults in some rare circumstances were fixed. The libxaw3dxft library is required but is now a separate project.
This is a much enhanced release that comes after more than 2 years of development, with support for alpha channel images, TrueType fonts, UTF-8 text, a modernized GUI, new image formats (JPEG2000 and PGF), vector image import (SVG, PDF, etc.), multi-page documents, anti-aliased painting/drawing through sub-pixel resampling, and more.
This release introduces more consistent behaviour for the region operators and implements the use of the Escape key in all relevant operations. Several minor bugs were fixed.
This release has been enriched with a collection of new tools,
including regions with spline curve bordure, boxes with round
corners, regular and starlike polygons, arrows, etc. Several
important bugs have also been corrected. Compilation with
Athena widget variants, e.g. Xaw3d, has been fixed.
