July 2010 archive


IrfanPaint 0.4.13.70 released

This release fixes a bug in the previous one which made selections not working correctly with the current IV version.

It also includes some hacks to make IrfanPaint work better with the new IV selections handling.

Note: it's strongly advised to update from .67 and .69 to this release, since the former includes a serious memory leak bug, and the latter makes working with selections almost impossible.

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Posted by Matteo Italia on Fri, 30 Jul 2010
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IrfanPaint 0.4.13.69 released

Note (30/07/2010): this release contains a bug that make working with selections almost impossible. It's strongly advised to install a more recent version.

This release just fixes a memory leak in the advanced eraser tool; if the Paint palette was kept open while browsing several images, the advanced eraser tool didn't deallocate the memory for the old backup DIBs; this lead to memory exhaustion, general system slowdown (on old machines) and to instability of IrfanView and IrfanPaint (thanks to Leo Breuss, Homer Seywerd and Irfan Skiljan for reporting and testing).

Why did the release number jumped from 67 to 69? Because I got it wrong, and when I noticed it I had already committed the changes in the SVN. :P

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Posted by Matteo Italia on Wed, 28 Jul 2010
tags: release , stablerelease , releasenotes .