Archive for the 'GIMP Announcements' Category

GIMP 2.8 has a schedule, mostly

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Martin Nordholts has published a tentative (and very fluid) schedule for GIMP 2.8.  The schedule currently calls for the first 2.8 release candidate on April 2, 2011.  Some of the items of interest that are under development for 2.8 include

Resource tagging – allowing searches for brushes, for example, by tags similar to social networking tags
Layer [...]

Developer release: GIMP 2.7.0

Monday, August 17th, 2009

We are pleased to announce the release of GIMP 2.7.0 which is the first step towards GIMP 2.8, the next stable release. Even though GEGL related work has been made, the primary focus for GIMP 2.8 is to get work not related to GEGL done. This will enable us to fully focus on GEGL once [...]

GIMP 2.6.7 released

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

GIMP 2.6.7 comes with lots of bug-fixes and it contains an important fix for using GIMP with the latest GEGL and babl releases. The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors. Binary packages are already available for many platforms; please check the Downloads section at www.gimp.org.
We [...]

GIMP 2.6.5

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

GIMP 2.6.5 is another bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.  The source can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon; please check the Downloads section on www.gimp.org.
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.4 to GIMP 2.6.5
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* Bugs [...]

GIMP Paint Studio Collection

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Ramón Miranda has released GIMP Paint Studio (GPS), a highly polished collection of brushes and palettes along with configuration files that will change the way you use the GIMP.  The collection includes nearly 100 new brushes and 15 palettes.  The brushes include a large number of high quality animated brushes which, for the first time, [...]

Announcement: GIMP 2.6.4

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Happy New Year!
The GIMP developers welcome you in the new year with the fourth bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. The source can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon; please check at http://gimp.org/downloads/
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.3 to GIMP 2.6.4
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* Bugs fixed:

565223 – [...]

GIMP 2.4.6

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

GIMP 2.4.6 is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. The source can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages should become available soon; please check the Downloads section on www.gimp.org.
Changes in GIMP 2.4.6
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- fixed handling of the “antialias” tool option (bug #521069)
- when loading a TIFF image, always set a filename on it (bug [...]

User Manual 2.4.1- Special Release

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

After four months of hard work we are proud to announce a special release of the user manual for GIMP. This release features a significant change in the internationalization strategy of the user manual.
This manual is entirely written in Esperanto, including all screenshots.
The releases for the manual became too large. In particular the [...]

ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.4.5

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

The source for GIMP 2.4.5 is now available from ftp.gimp.org. This is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. Binary packages should become available soon; please check the Downloads section on www.gimp.org.
Changes in GIMP 2.4.5 =====================
– fixed a regression introduced by the brush cursor optimization   [...]

Announce: GIMP 2.4.4

Friday, February 1st, 2008

GIMP 2.4.4 is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages for the various supported platforms are expected to become available soon.
Changes in GIMP 2.4.4 =====================
– fixed typo in stock icon name – fixed handling of PSD files with empty layer names (bug [...]