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    New: 4-bit saving is now supported for PNG, BMP, and TIFF
    New: The palette selection menu will now indicate which palette is currently active (thanks @null54 for the implementation!)
    Improved: Startup performance has been further optimized, especially for quad-core (or more) CPUs
    Updated: @null54's bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin has been updated to version 1.9.6.0

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    Improved: Changed maximum image size from 65,535 x 65,535 pixels to 262,144 x 262,144 pixels. This is mostly for accommodating very tall or very wide images.
    Improved app startup time when many custom shapes are installed, and/or when opening many images
    Fixed a crash when manually typing in a very large number for the zoom level in the status bar

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    New: AV1 (*.avif) images can now be opened (saving is not supported). Windows 10 v1809+ and Microsoft’s AV1 Codec are required (download: https://www.microsoft.com/p/av1-video-extension-beta/9mvzqvxjbq9v)
    New: DirectDraw Surface (*.dds) support has been greatly improved due to bundling @null54‘s DDSFileTypePlus v1.9.6.0 plugin. All DX10/DX11 formats should now be supported (e.g. BC4, BC5, BC6H, BC7), and encoding (saving) will make use of the GPU to greatly improve performance. Note that it’s no longer necessary to use the ".dds2" file extension.
    New: 4-bit saving is now supported for PNG, BMP, and TIFF
    New: The palette selection menu will now indicate which palette is currently active (thanks @null54 for the implementation!)
    Improved: The maximum image size is now 262,144 x 262,144 pixels, up from 65,535 x 65,535 pixels. This is mostly for accommodating very tall or very wide images.
    Improved: Startup performance has been improved for multi-core CPUs
    Improved: Startup performance has been improved when a lot of custom shapes are installed
    Fixed: EXIF metadata of type Float and Double are now supported. This ensures GeoTIFF metadata is preserved.
    Fixed: Opening an image should no longer flicker due to the transparency checkerboard being drawn first
    Fixed: TGA images that are 16-bit with 1-bit alpha with a zero’d out alpha channel are now treated as opaque. This allows images from 5CC Map Maker (for Close Combat modding) to work. Thanks @null54 for the fix!
    Fixed: JPEG XR’s file extensions (*.jxr, *.wdp, *.wmp) are now registered with Explorer
    Fixed: Pasting images that use RGB pixel ordering should now work (this affects PaintTool SAI)
    Fixed a crash when manually typing in a very large number for the zoom level in the status bar

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Fixed: A missing DLL, vcomp140.dll, was preventing the bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin from loading on some systems

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    Fixed a hang, which sometimes also resulted in a crash, when saving DDS images in certain formats (e.g. BC1/DXT1)
    Improved: Reduced CPU usage in the COM interop system, which should help reduce overall power consumption

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    New: WebP images are now supported due to bundling @null54‘s excellent WebPFileType plugin (v1.3.0.0)
    Fixed: Pasting images from Firefox’s "Take a Screenshot" feature was resulting in swapped red and blue channels due to mishandling of DIB_V5 clipboard data using the BI_RGB value for bV5Compression (thanks @null54 for the fix!)
    Fixed crash at startup (for both app and installer) on Windows "N" editions due to missing mfplat.dll (Media Foundation Platform)
    Updated bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to v1.9.7.0

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    Fixed: The ability to drag a selection while drawing it was not working. (Click-and-drag with the left button to draw, but before releasing the left button you may click-and-drag with the right button to move it around.) (This was a regression in 4.2.6.)
    Improved: The image list at the top can now be scrolled by clicking the arrow buttons and holding the mouse down, just like a regular scroll bar button. (Previously you had to click repeatedly). This improves usability, but was also noted as being important for accessibility.
    Improved: Smooth scrolling animations have been removed from the image list and layers list due to them just not working very well.

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This update is focusing on some important fixes and performance improvements, and getting some infrastructure ready for future releases so that pens and tablets with pressure sensitivity can be fully supported (planned for v4.3).

    Improved the input handling systems to use WM_POINTER, which enables glitch-free drawing when using a pen or stylus (e.g. Surface Pen, Wacom/Ugee tablet) (see here: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/113173-the-first-5mm-of-a-freehand-line-are-straight-when-using-a-tablet/ ). This will also be the basis for adding pressure sensitivity in a future release (v4.3).
    Added a "Native pointer input" setting if a "pointer" device is available (pen, tablet, touch screen). Disabling this will cause any pointer device to be emulated as a mouse, which may be more compatible but at the cost of smoothness. Pointer devices are listed in Settings -> Diagnostics.
    Removed the "Fluid mouse input" setting because the use of GetMouseMovePointsEx() has been removed (it's a very buggy and broken API). This finally fixes a number of weird issues related to erratic or "scribbly" drawing.
    Improved performance of Move Selected Pixels, Shapes, and Gradient tools when releasing the mouse button at the end of drag-and-drop gesture. Previously, anything rendered between the last mouse "move" and "up" events was re-rendered, resulting in the appearance of a delay/lag.
    Greatly improved performance of layer thumbnails when switching between images
    Improved: The image list at the top can now be scrolled by clicking the arrow buttons and holding the mouse down, just like a regular scroll bar button. (Previously you had to click repeatedly). This improves usability, but was also noted as being important for accessibility.
    Improved: Smooth scrolling animations have been removed from the image list and layers list due to them just not working very well.
    Improved window chrome/theming when the app is running in Remote Desktop on Windows 10
    Changed: The size of the default/initial image ("Untitled") is now scaled exactly by system DPI setting (previously scaled by integer/floor of DPI setting). So at 150% DPI scaling this image will now be 1200x900 instead of 800x600.
    Fixed some high-DPI layout bugs with the Layer Properties dialog, while also preparing this UI for future additions
    Fixed a crash (OutOfVideoMemoryException) on systems with hybrid GPU setups that are configured wrong. This seems to be a bug in Windows and DirectX. A "hybrid GPU" setup is an Intel iGPU or AMD APU paired with a discrete GPU in a laptop.
    Improved handling of the dreaded "NoHardwareDeviceException" crash: The user will be notified of how to fix this. It happens only on 2nd generation Intel Core systems with NVIDIA "Optimus" GPUs (GeForce or Quadro) when the NVIDIA Control Panel is set to force apps (or just Paint.NET) to use the NVIDIA GPU. This is a bug in the NVIDIA driver and/or in DirectX.
    Fixed images being pasted incorrectly from Outlook 2016/365. This is actually a bug in Outlook: it puts PNGs on the clipboard that are arbitrarily cropped and scaled for some reason, and specifies they are the preferred format to use when pasting. This completely boggles my mind, it's just really weird, I can't imagine why it's done this way.
    Fixed some clipboard image handling for plugins (regular Copy/Paste is unaffected)
    Changed: SSE2 is now required for 32-bit/x86 systems (prevously, only SSE was required). See blog post: https://blog.getpaint.net/2019/10/14/paint-net-v4-2-6-will-require-sse2-on-32-bit-x86/
    Updated bundled WebPFileType plugin to v1.3.1.0 (thanks @null54!)
    Updated bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to v1.9.8.0 (thanks @null54!)

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Fixed a crash at startup (FileLoadException) due to 1) the stub for System.Runtime.dll not being updated, and 2) the rigid version binding policy that prevented the older version from working in its stead (which would've been fine in this case).

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    Fixed: Pinch-to-zoom was not working when using a touch screen (regression in 4.2.6)
    Fixed: Spacebar panning was not working when using a pen/stylus (regression in 4.2.6)
    Fixed: EXIF metadata with non-ASCII characters is now preserved correctly
    Fixed a crash that can happen when the Microsoft Store version of the app is closed for an update
    Added /repair command-line argument, which will run PdnRepair.exe. This makes it easy to use Start -> Run -> paintdotnet:/repair so you don't have to go fishing for the installation directory.

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    Reduced overall memory usage (commit size) by up to 1/3rd by eliminating the per-image scratch buffer
    Greatly improved performance when finishing actions of most tools by employing a shared cache between the render and commit code paths
    Reduced memory usage when working with many tools by consolidating homogenous tiles (those that are comprised of a single color value)
    Significantly improved performance of most history actions (commit, undo, redo) by switching from NTFS compression to multithreaded LZ4 compression for history files
    Significantly improved performance of undo/redo with very complex selections (e.g. from the Magic Wand tool)
    Improved performance of Image -> Flatten (also affects flattening when saving)
    Improved performance of the Invert Colors and Desaturate adjustments by disabling hardware acceleration for them (too much overhead in copying tiles to the GPU for such trivial rendering kernels)
    Improved performance when saving by moving thumbnail rendering for the File -> Open Recent menu to a background thread
    Reduced memory usage when printing, and removed a rare crash that was related to its use of the (now removed) scratch buffer
    Improved performance of effect rendering when a complex selection is active (improved caching)
    New: Added a "busy spinner" to the canvas when using the Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tools
    New translation: Hebrew (HE)
    New translation: Slovak (SK)
    Fixed a really goofy crash that required drawing with the paintbrush and, without letting go of the mouse button, moving the mouse into the toolbar and then using the mouse wheel to change the brush width
    Fixed a layout bug with the image list button
    Fixed an error that prevented saving some images as JPEGs if they had EXIF Interop metadata (PropertyNotFoundException)
    Fixed a crash when running on a CPU that supports AVX but with an OS that is configured to not support it (via bcdedit /set xsavedisable 1)
    Fixed a crash when pressing the spacebar after switching to a tool but before it has received any mouse input events
    Fixed a rare crash when opening the Levels adjustments with certain types of selections
    Fixed a crash when checking for updates with an expired alpha/beta build
    Fixed a crash (FileLoadException) when DLLs are not updated correctly by the updater
    Updated WebPFileType plugin to version 1.3.2 (thanks @null54!)
    Updated DDSFileTypePlus plugin to version 1.9.9. This adds support for X8B8G8R8 and R8G8B8 formats, and fixes a visual glitch when previewing cube maps in some formats. (thanks @null54!)

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    Fixed: Installations that directly use the MSI (e.g. AD/GPO deployments) no longer need to run the repair process immediately after installation. Some important DLLs were not being updated because while their assembly version was different, their file version was unchanged, so Windows Installer incorrectly skipped over them. Click here for more information.
    Fixed: Loading an image with an enormous photoshop:DocumentAncestors node in the XMP metadata will no longer hang the app
    Fixed a rare crash in the auto-updater UI related to font initialization
    Improved performance when clicking OK on an effect or adjustment dialog that has already completed part of its rendering

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    New: XMP metadata is now preserved for supported file types (PDN, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG XR, HEIC, AVIF, WEBP)
    New: Belarusian (be) translation
    New: Greek (el) translation
    New: Slovenian (sl) translation
    New: Added a right-click context menu to the image thumbnail/tab. It contains commands for Copy Path, Open Containing Folder, Save, Save As, and Close.
    New: The items in the File -> Open Recent menu now have a tooltip with the full file path for the image
    Changed: The selection outline animation is now smoother (2x the framerate)
    Fixed: Saving with the HEIC file type is no longer limited to a max Quality value of 90. This limitation was in place because of a crash due to heap corruption, which no longer happens.
    Fixed: The NVIDIA sharpening setting will no longer cause trippy distortions in the canvas area
    Fixed an issue with loading very small TGA images, first reported here: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/116100-tga-rle-truecolor-1x1-image-failed-to-load/. Thanks @null54 for the fix!
    Fixed: Error dialogs when opening images now consistently show the file path
    Fixed a PropertyNotFoundException error message when saving JPEG images with a particular ordering of metadata. This was due to a bug in Windows 7's WIC JPEG codec. First reported here: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/116079-jpg-cant-save-some-file/
    Fixed clipped text rendering in the Curves adjustment dialog in some non-English translations.
    Fixed a crash when running the app with a DPI scaling setting of 500%
    Fixed a crash that would sometimes happen when running effects with very small selections
    Fixed some IndirectUI controls not honoring their default values if also initialized in read only (disabled) mode. Thanks @BoltBait for the fix!
    Fixed a memory leak in the effect system that was causing 1 orphaned thread per effect invocation
    Changed: Removed the use of NTFS Transactions, which was causing trouble with OneDrive. Microsoft has also deprecated this technology.
    New: Added /openCrashLogFolder command-line argument. This is intended for simplifying troubleshooting workflows.
    New: Added /forceUpdateCheck command-line argument. This is intended for troubleshooting scenarios to simplify acquiring the latest version, e.g. "just run paintdotnet:/forceUpdateCheck" instead giving a longer list of buttons to click on.
    Updated WebPFileType plugin to version 1.3.4.0, which adds XMP metadata support. Thanks @null54!
    Updated DDSFileTypePlus plugin to version 1.10.3. This fixes an issue with saving in the A1R5G5B5, A4R4G4B4, and R5G6B5 formats, and adds support for reading files that use a 'BC7\0' FourCC. Thanks @null54!

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    Fixed an error that was preventing some old PDN images from loading (reported here: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/116501-error-opening-older-pdn-files/)
    Fixed a crash in the new selection outline renderer (due to misaligned Push/PopAxisAlignedClip calls)
    Changed saving to use the ReplaceFile Win32 API, which improves its compatibility
    Fixed an EndOfStreamException error that prevented some JPEGs from opening (thanks @null54 for the fix!)

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    New: Added 2-bit per pixel support when saving as PNG
    New: Added 1-bit per pixel support when saving as PNG, BMP, and TIFF
    Fixed low-bit-depth saving quality (8-bit, etc.), as it would sometimes produce very bad results (e.g. only using 64 colors instead of 256)
    Fixed: Resizing an image at very large sizes (e.g. 32K pixels to 64K pixels) would fail due to an arithmetic overflow
    Fixed: Sometimes recently saved images would not have an updated thumbnail in File Explorer unless/until its window was manually refreshed
    Fixed: Sometimes saving an image to a network share would not work
    Updated bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to version 1.10.4.0, which fixes an issue when loading and saving images using the sRGB color space.

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