Offspring 0.5.4

Offspring 0.5.4

A smaller release, all about GIFs.

New in 0.5.4

GIF loop modes. GIF presets (and the Custom dialog) now have a Loop dropdown:

• Loop forever — the default, and exactly what every previous version did.
• Play once — plays through a single time and holds on the last frame.
• Ping-pong — plays forward, then backward, forever. Great for clips that would otherwise jump-cut back to the start. The reversed frames are baked into the file, so expect roughly double the file size.

Faster palettes, with a real progress bar. The "Generating palette" stage used to sit silently with no percentage — on long clips it looked hung. It now reports live progress, and it samples ~120 frames spread across the clip instead of scanning every frame. On a 60-second 1080p clip that stage went from 37s to about 4.5s, with no visible difference in the result.

Fixed: the "Open download page" button in the update banner did nothing in packaged builds. It now opens the release page, and tells you if it can't.

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Install notes: Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run ("Windows protected your PC") — click More info → Run anyway. We sign releases with minisign rather than an Authenticode certificate; the in-app updater verifies every download's signature before installing.

Full changelog: v0.5.3...v0.5.4