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Composa 0.2.0

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@dvdstelt dvdstelt released this 23 Sep 06:59
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v0.2.0
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The first release with downloadable packages. Composa has been buildable from source for a while; this is the first version you can simply install.

Added

  • Downloads for Linux on x86-64 and arm64, in four formats: an AppImage that runs on any distribution, a .deb, an .rpm, and a portable tarball with a per-user install script. Every release is published with a sha256sums.txt.
  • The .deb and .rpm install a launcher, icons and the .cmps file type, and recommend ImageMagick rather than requiring it: it is needed only to open HEIC, AVIF, TIFF and camera RAW files.
  • The version is shown in the About dialog. It is derived from the git tag, so a build can always be identified.
  • An icon set covering the Linux hicolor sizes, Windows and macOS.
  • AppStream metadata, so the application appears properly in GNOME Software and KDE Discover.

Changed

  • The project is now called Composa. It was Compositor for Linux, a name that no longer fits now that Windows and macOS builds are planned, and one that invited confusion with the macOS app it reimplements.
  • Projects are saved as .cmps rather than .compositor. Existing files still open, because the reader looks at the archive manifest rather than the file extension.
  • Preferences and crash-recovery files moved from ~/.config/compositor and ~/.cache/compositor to ~/.config/composa and ~/.cache/composa. Settings from before the rename are not carried over.

Fixed

  • Camera RAW and HEIC files could report a misleading error instead of saying that ImageMagick was missing. ImageMagick is now located once and asked to identify itself rather than trusted for its name.

Downloads below cover Linux on x86-64 and arm64. Verify one against sha256sums.txt:

sha256sum -c sha256sums.txt --ignore-missing
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