Next release is Beta 8

24 May 2007

Since there is some heavy discussion regarding delayed Beta 7, I would like to inform you that because of endless troubles with this release it was skipped and I will directly release Beta 8 in near future. It will be called Beta 8 mostly because there were still few critical unresolved troubles in Beta 7 and meanwhile I made other changes and added few new internal features.

For now I’m not reading/replying any threads in forum because I’m way too busy with this release. I’m sure moderators are doing great job and answering most of questions adressed to me, since we’re in contact by instant messaging.

I’m sorry if this caused any inconvenience, but Beta 9 will be last release before final version so I would like to solve all stability issues and other critical issues and make sure all customers are satisfied with this update.

Update: I forgot to upload latest screenshot, so here is one from Mac OS X, since Mac is my main development machine right now (after hdd crash on Linux laptop). Anyway this is the new look for Beta 8 used on all platforms as default.

34 Responses to Next release is Beta 8

Josh

May 24th, 2007 at 5:43 pm

Thanks for the update, Pavel. Looking forward to Beta 8!

tboloo

May 24th, 2007 at 6:05 pm

Great news. I _really_ hope that beta8 will arrive on time, without any problems and delays. Keep us informed Pavel, and keep on coding.

Jmanis

May 24th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

Agreed, any news is better than nothing.

alecks

May 24th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

yay!!!

thomas

May 26th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

yes, this is better!

Jattil

May 27th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

Pavel, you don’t want to prepare a software like after effects?

rob

May 30th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

I’ll believe it when I see it.

luc

June 2nd, 2007 at 3:09 am

Nice screenshot, very elegant

Kyle James

June 6th, 2007 at 8:17 am

I love how this program is turning out. Even the current beta is very much like Photoshop. I can’t wait for even some of the simple features, like Bicubic Image resizing. In all seriousness, once this is released this program will be a very good product.

Best of luck with version 8, man! I want to see this program become a real competitor!

Jacek Brzezowski

June 14th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

I’m waiting for new beta and I’m glad you’re developing now on OS X since I found it veeeeery crashy at the moment and I really like the app looks and offers. I hope that stability issues on OS X will be solved in Beta 8 and I’ll purchase my copy then.

jon spain

June 20th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

Around a whole month later, it would be so nice to see it…or be told somrthing

Ricardo

June 21st, 2007 at 10:10 pm

Any news on the new version ??

Pavel Kanzelsberger

June 24th, 2007 at 11:10 am

Sorry I was on vacation and wasn’t able to connect to internet there (small island). Now I’m back in full power and working on release…

Christoph

June 25th, 2007 at 12:38 am

Good news

June 25th, 2007 at 3:19 am

YAY!

ddd

June 26th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

Hi Pavel,

please could you in future create something like really bugfix release? It’s nice that you add features, but it would be very nice to create non-buggy basic first, then add features.

wojtek79

June 28th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

Yes, I agree – final release is more important than new features.

Marcos

June 28th, 2007 at 6:57 pm

Will there be a Ubuntu 7.04 AMD64 .deb ?

eimi

June 29th, 2007 at 12:34 am

Hello Pavel,
Like ddd said, stability is much more important than a new features. In the current form Pixel Beta 6 is too capricious for real work. Sad, especially when many people had paid for it.

sfninja

July 2nd, 2007 at 6:20 pm

I agree with eimi. I’d rather have a slightly underfeatured image editor that I can actually use than a buggy one that I can’t, which is basically what Beta 6 is at the moment…

Any idea when Beta 8 will be out?

July 5th, 2007 at 7:36 am

I’d rather have anything, not only promises. I really hope that beta 8 will be out _this year_

Hesperaux

July 10th, 2007 at 2:55 am

sfninja:

“Any idea when Beta 8 will be out?”

Never.

Huncut

July 13th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

Beta 8, that means released will be 2008

holiday

July 17th, 2007 at 8:42 am

Hesperaux, you’re negative. It’s summer, and it’s quite a hot summer in Slovakia. http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?celcius=true&locCode=LZIB&zipCode=292685828666
Why should Pavel bother with a damn piece of software in a hot office? It’s the time to go to a lake or to a sea. This may explain why May is the last item in the Storage section and why there’s not a word about progress from Pavel. Look into yourself, and choose: Would you brainfuck yourself in a hot office, or would you enjoy the waves?

Anyway, the present “customers” have paid partial, symbolic price for a developers’ preview version, on an “AS IS” base. There’s no place for crying about statutory rights here and claiming a new version or an update.

July 23rd, 2007 at 8:04 am

Almost two weeks since the last comment on the news item almost two months old…Any updates? Thanks!

Charles

July 24th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

Are we there yet? (when is beta 8 going to be out?)

August 10th, 2007 at 6:12 am

Weee! Another two weeks and change. Any news for us? Puh…puh…puh…pretty please? Thanks!

Leguan

August 14th, 2007 at 9:27 am

It’s summer time. Pavel is sure on Bahams and then on Tahiti, resting a little. Not even bugs confirmed. But maybe in September, he comes back a goes on with Beta 8.

Sweet Karl

August 14th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

Good to hear, Pavel.

Robin

August 16th, 2007 at 7:31 am

No news?

okapi

August 16th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

IMHO, it doesn’t make any sense to aks for news, release dates, state of development etc. There are huge threads at the forum related to that subject, and none of them answered any of those questions. i think we simply have to wait until a new version is released.

August 22nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm

Any chance to get my money back……?

August 24th, 2007 at 10:09 am

As I bought 7 years ago in good faith, and I have no reason to think it will ever be finalised, I would like a refund as well