v. 2024.1.0 (Jan, 2024) changelog

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There was a bug in 2023.9 that affects the GIMP plugin and command line host applications. It prevented the RIOT plugin from properly loading or saving images. This was fixed in 2023.9.1. Download from here

The new version 2023.9 contains a lot of bugfixes v. 2023.9 (Sep, 13 2023) – fixed update check and made non-blocking again– fixed saving of AskToResizeLargeImages from Options– fixed hide file type options when changing file type– fixed image not…

The long awaited new version of RIOT has arrived with very exciting features. WebP is a new image format developed by Google that promises better compression ratio for the same perceived picture quality. WebP was designed to replace all three…

WebP is a new image format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, GIF and PNG. It supports both lossy and lossless compression and can contain alpha transparency too, which was only possible using PNGs and not JPEGs.…

The 64 bit version of the plugin is available for GIMP and XNViewMP. Note that you need the 64bit version of the host applications too.XNViewMP comes as 64bit and 32bit, so technically the 32bit version should work with the 32bit…

Not sure how many machines still run the 32 bit version of Windows, but I still released the 32 bit version of RIOT for them. Depending on the stats, I will decide if the percentage is worth the effort to…

The first release of RIOT 1.x contained code compiled with an enhanced instruction set (AVX2). It seems that there are still some older CPUs out there which do not support this.If you got a crash at program startup or at…

The JPEG compression was substantially improved, providing smaller images at the same visual quality. The reduction varies between 10 – 30%. In addition, RIOT can now open JPEG images encoded using arithmetic coding and will support such encoding in future versions.…