This build fixes some issues reported with the previous build, namely with pasting or loading images of certain types (e.g., 8-bit PNGs) or with certain types of color profiles (XYB/LUT). Input latency for the canvas has also been further reduced a little.

Change Log

Changes since 5.1 beta (build 9063):

• Fixed: Clicking in the color wheel was not setting the active color
  
• Fixed: Retrieving an 8-bit bitmap from the clipboard with IClipboardService.TryGetImageBgra32() was not working

Changes since 5.1 beta (build 9056):

• Fixed: Right-clicking in the Colors window’s palette will now correctly set the inactive color (regression from 5.0)
  
• Improved input latency further by using a dedicated per-Control thread for asynchronously calling IDXGISwapChain[1]::Present[1]() instead of using the shared thread pool. This also fixes some weirdness at startup with canvas redrawing when a lot of plugins are installed, especially if the antivirus decides to do a more in-depth security scan.
  
• Fixed: Could not copy 8-bit-or-less bit-depth images from Explorer into Paint.NET.
  
• Fixed: Copying a 4-bit PNG from Explorer into Paint.NET would have extremely bad performance.
  
• Fixed: Images with XYB LUT color profiles were not loading or were loading incorrectly
  
• Fixed: GPU effect plugins will not default to Float32 precision when using IDeviceContext.CreateImageFromBitmap(). This was otherwise resulting in inconsistent rendering output or analysis results.
  
• Fixed: IImagingFactory.CreateColorTransformedBitmap() and IBitmapSource.CreateColorTransformer() is now available for plugins to make use of for color management purposes.
  
• New: Plugins may now use PixelFormat.[Try]CreateDefaultColorContext(), IImagingFactory.[Try]CreateDefaultColorContext(), and IDeviceContext.[Try]CreateDefaultColorContext() extension methods. These will create the default color context (color profile) for the given PixelFormat.
  
• New: Plugins may now use the PixelFormat.GetInfo() extension method to retrieve the corresponding IPixelFormatInfo object
  
• New: Plugins may now implement the managed ITextRenderer interface (corresponds to the native IDWriteTextRenderer1 interface) and use it when calling ITextLayout::Draw(…)
  
• New: Added ITextLayout methods Get/SetCharacterSpacing and Get/SetPairKerning
  
• New: Added ITextFormat properties LastLineWrapping, OpticalAlignment, and VerticalGlyphOrientation

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