I noticed that with various filters it says 'last updated:" with a date in the QT interface, but it remains on an old date even when they seem to be clearly updated, as I see from David’s comments and commits for instance.
Bit of a beauty issue, although sometimes it’s informative to see the date I suppose
And while I’m commenting, I can confirm I also can’t move the dots in some interactive filters like the warp plugin in the QT version, and I can’t remove the dots and can’t make them disappear with the space bar.
I thought it was an issue with my setup, but seeing it was reported in the bugreport system by ‘micmacuser’ I thought I’d mention it anyway.
All of this the same on v 3.6.3 and 3.6.2 on (a tweaked) windows.
I’m not an expert, but I’m guessing that the regular updates to a new ‘version’ of G’MIC are more to do with improving the core functionality of the plugin itself, whereas the individual filters are only occasionally updated by their respective authors (if and when deemed necessary), hence the ‘Last updated on…’ dates.
Well the thing is David for example updated the CNN upscale filter in such a way that it temporarily broke when it was accidentally rolled out in an 2.6.2 update. Now he soon after released GMIC 3.6.3 and that fixed it, but you also had to 'update the neural network (by pressing the button on the interface) to make it work.
And in the release note he mentions updates to the neural network framework, so I would think that was a real update to the filter then, yet the ‘last updated’ date is 2024.
Same for some other filters that I know had updates but where the last update date is seemingly stuck in the past.
Now if the GUI said 'introduced on:" it would make sense, but I think the original idea was to give some indication each time an update was sent out, but somehow the plan was forgotten or the system broke and nobody noticed? Anyway it’s not super important, as I said it’s more a beauty thing, optics you know.
You are right @Whatnot .
The fact is I re-train and updated the two CNNs for the filters Denoise [CNN] and Upscale [CNN2x], but I had no need to change the filter code by itself, that’s why I forgot to update the date. I will change that.