Building GIMP 2.7.x from source

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I’m preparing to update my GIMP book and decided it would be best to work from the source repository.  A long time ago that repository was in CVS and you needed to download a bunch of GTK related packages as prerequisites.  This was actually pretty easy.  Then things moved to SVN and things were still [...]

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.
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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 Deep Color: patch for 16-bit support of PNG

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

For those who don’t read the GIMP-Developer mailing list, the long wait for 16-bit channel support may have just started to inch it’s way to a close.  Martin Nordholts posted the following back at the end of January:
I have attached a patch to Bug 74224 – Add support for 16 bits per channel that makes [...]