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- <project_license>GPL-3.0+ AND LGPL-3.0+</project_license>
- <developer_name>The GIMP team</developer_name>
- <name>GNU Image Manipulation Program</name>
- <summary>Create images and edit photographs</summary>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a
- freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching,
- image composition and image authoring.
- </p>
- <p>
- It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint
- program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online
- batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an
- image format converter, etc.
- </p>
- <p>
- GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be
- augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about
- anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything
- from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation
- procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is available for Linux,
- Microsoft Windows and OS X.
- </p>
- </description>
- <url type="bugtracker">@BUG_REPORT_URL@</url>
- <url type="donation">https://www.gimp.org/donating/</url>
- <url type="help">https://www.gimp.org/docs/</url>
- <url type="homepage">https://www.gimp.org/</url>
- <url type="vcs-browser">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/</url>
- <url type="contribute">https://www.gimp.org/develop/</url>
- <screenshots>
- <screenshot type="default">
- <image>https://www.gimp.org/screenshots/Screenshot-gimp-2.10-painting.jpg</image>
- <caption>Painting in GIMP</caption>
- </screenshot>
- <screenshot type="default">
- <image>https://www.gimp.org/screenshots/Screenshot-gimp-2.10-photo-editing.jpg</image>
- <caption>Photo editing in GIMP</caption>
- </screenshot>
- </screenshots>
- <update_contact>gimp-developer-list_at_gnome.org</update_contact>
- <keywords>
- <keyword>GIMP</keyword>
- <keyword>Photoshop</keyword>
- </keywords>
- <kudos>
- <kudo>HiDpiIcon</kudo>
- <kudo>HighContrast</kudo>
- <kudo>ModernToolkit</kudo>
- <kudo>UserDocs</kudo>
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- <launchable type="desktop-id">gimp.desktop</launchable>
- <provides>
- <binary>@GIMP_COMMAND@</binary>
- <!-- Fix the ID renaming, and things like past reviews made on the
- older ID in software installers. -->
- <id>gimp.desktop</id>
- </provides>
- <releases>
- <release version="2.99.18" date="2024-02-17" type="development">
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.99.18 may be the last development version before release candidates, since we entered
- GUI feature freeze.
- This release contains huge core logic updates on several areas so we are really welcoming
- feedbacks and reports to reach stability state sooner.
- Here are some of the more visible improvements:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li demo="layer-list,
- layer-list:item-effect-header-icon">
- Initial UI for non-destructive layer effects
- </li>
- <li>Pervasize update on color correctness</li>
- <li demo="toolbox:paintbrush,
- tool-options:expand-use">
- Paint tools now have an "Expand Layers" option and sub-options to auto-expand layers when painting over their boundaries
- </li>
- <li>Better font handling</li>
- <li>New snapping options</li>
- <li>New image format supports: Farbfeld (import and export), Esm Software PIX (import only), HEJ2 (import only)</li>
- <li>Improved image format supports: DDS, GIF, HEIF, JPEG-XL, OpenEXR, PDF, PNG, PSD, PSP.</li>
- <li>New palette format support: Swatchbooker</li>
- <li>On Windows, the title bar will use light or dark mode depending on the current theme</li>
- <li>On Wayland, pad buttons can be mapped to actions</li>
- <li>Major API updates</li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.99.16" date="2023-07-05" type="development">
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.99.16 marks the end of the GTK+3 port as there is no massive usage of deprecated GTK API anymore.
- We are therefore getting extremely close to release candidates!
- Apart from internal work on the codebase, here are some of the more visible improvements:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Action search now displays the menu path for actions and a help icon</li>
- <li>An action is generated for every third-party GEGL operation</li>
- <li>GEGL operations can register a menu item through the "gimp:menu-path" key</li>
- <li>Log-off and shutdown can be inhibited when images are not saved</li>
- <li>New option "Merge menu and title bar" for client-side decorations on image windows</li>
- <li>New "Middle Gray (CIELAB)" fill option (new image or new layer)</li>
- <li>The Stroke Selection dialog has been reorganized</li>
- <li>New "Grayscale (%)" view in Color Picker tool's info window and sample points</li>
- <li>Better ACO color palettes support, ported to babl, including CIELAB palettes</li>
- <li>Themes are still being worked on</li>
- <li>JPEG-XL: initial support for CMYK/A export</li>
- <li>PSD: support of clipping path import and export</li>
- <li>PSD: compatibility warning dialogs raised on import and export, when relevant</li>
- <li>TIFF: PSD metadata and IBM PC layers now supported on import</li>
- <li>JPEG: PSD metadata and clipping paths now supported on import</li>
- <li>DDS: OpenMP support enabled when available</li>
- <li>FITS: import and export code ported to cfitsio, resulting in much better coverage</li>
- <li>Newly added support for import and export: PAM and QOI</li>
- <li>Newly added import-only support: Amiga IFF/ILBM and DCX</li>
- <li>Script-Fu: new type 'byte' to handle binary data</li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.99.14" date="2022-11-13" type="development">
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.99.14 was released with the following noteworthy improvements:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li demo="toolbox:align,
- tool-options">
- Align and Distribute tool: completely reworked usage
- </li>
- <li demo="toolbox:text,
- tool-options:outline=2,
- tool-options:text-outline-settings">
- Text tool: new "Outlined" and "Outlined and filled" options
- </li>
- <li>Floating selections not created anymore when pasting new layers</li>
- <li>New "Gray" theme based on a 18.42% luminance middle-gray background</li>
- <li>Icon sizes can be overriden in Preferences > Themes</li>
- <li>Faster save of XCF files</li>
- <li>XCF file format improved with a proper structure for path items</li>
- <li>PDF export: new "Root layers only" sub-option for "Layers as pages"</li>
- <li>AVIF export: improved compatibility with various browsers' implementations</li>
- <li>PSD export: CMYK support added</li>
- <li>JPEG-XL: metadata are now imported and exported</li>
- <li>ICNS: initial import/export support</li>
- <li>TIFF import: new option "Show reduced images"</li>
- <li>More progression for the GTK+3 port</li>
- <li>New and modified functions or classes for the upcoming 3.0 API</li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.99.12" date="2022-08-21" type="development">
- <description>
- <p>
- One step further towards GIMP 3.0, GIMP 2.99.12 comes along with the following noteworthy improvements:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li demo="toolbox:bucket-fill,
- tool-options:fill-area=2,
- tool-options:line-art-stroke-border=1">
- New "Stroke borders" option in Bucket Fill tool's "Fill by line art detection"
- </li>
- <li demo="toolbox:bucket-fill,
- tool-options:fill-area=2,
- tool-options:line-art-settings">
- Redesigned and reorganized "Fill by line art detection" settings
- </li>
- <li>New "Default" and "Compact" themes with dark and light variants</li>
- <li>New "Drag-to-zoom" behavior and speed settings in Preferences</li>
- <li>On-canvas modifiers are now customizable</li>
- <li>Tool pointer settings reorganized and moved from "Image Windows" to "Input Devices" tabs in Preferences</li>
- <li>Improved handling of unchecked "Show pointer for paint tools" option</li>
- <li>Touchpad gesture rotation (2-finger pinch) on canvas</li>
- <li>Preview size in item dockables now settable with Ctrl+wheel and pinch gesture</li>
- <li>Gradient editor can be zoomed with pinch gesture</li>
- <li>New soft-proofing toggle in the status bar, with pop-over settings on right click</li>
- <li>CMYK export implemented and import improved for JPEG, using the soft-proofing profile</li>
- <li>CMYK(A) import and export support for 8 and 16-bit TIFF files, using the soft-proofing profile</li>
- <li>Improved CMYK import support for PSD files, using the soft-proofing profile</li>
- <li>The CMYK color selector is now simulation-space (soft-proofing) aware</li>
- <li>Added support for the BigTIFF file format</li>
- <li>Minimal support of Duotone PSD files</li>
- <li>SVG import can now disable size parsing (with security implications)</li>
- <li>New option "Number of repeats" in GIF export</li>
- <li>PNG export has a new settings to optimize the palette size of indexed images</li>
- <li>New "Flip image" option in DDS export, as needed by some game engines</li>
- <li>Various improvements to DDS support, in particular for 16-bit channels</li>
- <li>Various improvements to FLI support</li>
- <li>Various improvements to RAW data support</li>
- <li>New WBMP format initial support</li>
- <li>New ANI format initial support</li>
- <li>Huge internal work on script-fu</li>
- <li>New command line option --quit to quit GIMP immediately after running batch commands, propagating script failure in exit code</li>
- <li>The command line option --batch-interpreter is now mandatory for --batch as there is no default interpreter anymore</li>
- <li>Many plug-in API improvements</li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.99.10" date="2022-02-22" type="development">
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.99.10 is a notable development release in the 2.99 series, featuring many changes.
- Let's mention in particular:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- "Linked layers" concept superseded by new "Layer set" concept
- </li>
- <li>
- Lock icons in item dockables (Layers, Channels, Paths) moved next to the visibility (eye) icon
- </li>
- <li>
- Alt-click on visibility and lock icons in item dockables massively toggles visibility and locks among selected items
- </li>
- <li>
- Item dockables now display icon headers for visibility and locks column
- </li>
- <li>
- Our System theme shows visible hints around unset visibility and locks icons when hovering them in item dockables
- </li>
- <li>
- New checkbox to enable or disable dynamics in paint tools' options (replacing "Dynamics Off" dynamics)
- </li>
- <li>
- Improved support for Wayland and macOS Big Sur (and newer)
- </li>
- <li>
- "Fill by line art detection" in Bucket Fill tool has a new option
- </li>
- <li>
- Channels and paths multi-selectable with part of relevant actions working
- </li>
- <li>
- Various file format support improvements, in particular to PSD, JPEG-XL and HEIF
- </li>
- <li>
- New support of Microsoft Windows Cursor file format (.cur files)
- </li>
- <li>
- Removed KDE and GNOME screenshot portals in favor of Freedesktop one
- </li>
- <li>
- Windows screenshot implementation now has an "Include mouse pointer" option
- </li>
- <li>
- New and modified libgimp API for plug-in developers
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.99.8" date="2021-10-17" type="development">
- <description>
- <p>
- While during this fourth cycle of development, many efforts were devoted to
- infrastructure, GIMP 2.99.8 still received many welcome improvements, notably:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- New modes in Clone, Heal and Perspective Clone tools when multiple layers are selected
- </li>
- <li>
- Windows Ink support for input devices on Windows
- </li>
- <li>
- Clicking on toolbox or Wilber's drop area actively focuses the canvas
- </li>
- <li>
- Marching ants display ported to Wayland and macOS Big Sur logics
- </li>
- <li>
- Initial implementation of config folder migration for GIMP 3
- </li>
- <li>
- Action "view-rotate-reset" renamed to "view-reset" and new "view-rotate-reset" and "view-flip-rotate" actions
- </li>
- <li>
- PSD: bigger-than-4GiB file support and up to 99 channels
- </li>
- <li>
- PSB: new support (loading only)
- </li>
- <li>
- SGI: 16-bit images support
- </li>
- <li>
- JPEG XL: new support (loading and exporting)
- </li>
- <li>
- New API functions gimp_display_present() and gimp_procedure_dialog_fill_expander()
- </li>
- <li>
- Much porting to newer API, code cleanup and bug fixing done
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.99.6" date="2021-04-26" type="development">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/04/29/gimp-2-99-6-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- For this third development release, more development effort has been shifted towards the API.
- Many functions were renamed for consistent naming scheme, some
- new functions appeared, some had signature changes, fixes were
- made to improve introspection binding of others, and so on.
- More API updates are to be expected on further development releases where stability is not guaranteed.
- </p>
- <p>
- Regarding end-creator changes, some notable improvements are:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Canvas Size dialog now displays a template selector
- </li>
- <li>
- Off-canvas guides are now allowed
- </li>
- <li>
- The experimental Paint Select tool got various improvements
- </li>
- <li>
- More fixes for Wayland support
- </li>
- <li>
- Dialog dropped for the Freedesktop portal implementation of the screenshot plug-in
- </li>
- <li>
- PNG import creates an ICC profile out of the gAMA and/or cHRM chunks
- </li>
- <li>
- TIFF export stores the ICC profile and comment on each layer to prevent ambiguous files
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.99.4" date="2020-12-22" type="development">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/12/25/gimp-2-99-4-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- This second development release contains various usability and API updates.
- A new experimental tool makes an entrance in the playground.
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Many usability improvements on the slider widget
- </li>
- <li>
- Usability cleaning in the Layers dockable
- </li>
- <li>
- The action search now shows all actions even inactive ones (yet pushed below)
- </li>
- <li>
- Fonts targeted for Korean and Japanese language show appropriate characters
- </li>
- <li>
- Different default tools depending on pointer device type
- </li>
- <li>
- Default dynamics is now "Pressure Size"
- </li>
- <li>
- Various usability improvements in the Input Device editor
- </li>
- <li>
- New "Paint Select" experimental tool in the playground
- </li>
- <li>
- Plug-in API now provides many dialog generation utilities
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.99.2" date="2020-10-25" type="development">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/10/25/gimp-2-99-2-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- This is the first development release for GIMP 3.0, whose focus
- was the port to the GTK+3 toolkit. Noteworthy improvements
- (though some are still work-in-progress) include:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Multi-selection of layers in the Layers dockable
- </li>
- <li>
- Proper high pixel density display support
- </li>
- <li>
- Improved input device support
- </li>
- <li>
- Major plug-in API rewrite
- </li>
- <li>
- Plug-in API now available in C/C++, Python 3, Javascript, Lua and Vala
- </li>
- <li>
- New manageable extension format
- </li>
- <li>
- CSS-based themes and actual symbolic icon theme support
- </li>
- <li>
- Wayland support
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.36" date="2023-11-05">
- <description>
- <p>
- This new version of GIMP comes with many fixes, including
- vulnerability corrections. It is highly recommended to update. It
- also provides a few interesting changes, such as:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Adobe ACB and ASE palette support
- </li>
- <li>
- New gradient: FG to Transparent (Hardedge)
- </li>
- <li>
- Some text tool algorithm enhancement when replacing formatted text
- </li>
- <li>
- Better theming of item locks (when hovering them or setting them active)
- </li>
- <li>
- Improvements in handling a few specific metadata
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.34" date="2023-02-21">
- <description>
- <p>
- A new stable releases with a lot of bug fixes and a few enhancements:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- New template selector in "Canvas Size" dialog
- </li>
- <li>
- "Change Color" dialogs: color scale (0..255/0..100) and models (LCh/HSV) settings remembered across sessions
- </li>
- <li>
- New header with "visible" and "link" icons in item dockables
- </li>
- <li>
- Clipping layers better supported when importing PSD files
- </li>
- <li>
- Paths are now exported to PSD
- </li>
- <li>
- JPEG XL export added
- </li>
- <li>
- Metadata in JPEG XL import
- </li>
- <li>
- New option "Show reduced images" when loading TIFF images
- </li>
- <li>
- 16-bit per channel export for raw image data
- </li>
- <li>
- More plug-ins got bug-fixes: DDS, WebP, Flame, Animation Playback, HEIF, Dicom and Help
- </li>
- <li>
- Color picking on X11 will ignore the Wayland portal; new implementation for color picking on Windows
- </li>
- <li>
- Check for updates fixed on macOS
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.32" date="2022-06-12">
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP continues strengthening its bases with this new version 2.10.32 fixing many bugs and improving format support.
- Notable changes:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- 8 and 16-bit CMYK(A) TIFF files import is now supported
- </li>
- <li>
- BIGTIFF import and export are now supported
- </li>
- <li>
- JPEG XL files import is now supported
- </li>
- <li>
- DDS export has new "Flip" (useful for some game engine) and "Visible layers" options
- </li>
- <li>
- Other improved format supports: BMP, DICOM, EPS, RAW, TGA, WebP
- </li>
- <li>
- The screenshot plug-in on Windows has now an option to capture the cursor
- </li>
- <li>
- Several usability improvements in official themes and icons
- </li>
- <li>
- New support for localized glyphs ('locl') in Text tool
- depending on the value of the "Language" tool option
- </li>
- <li>
- More robust XCF import
- </li>
- <li>
- Several metadata handling improvements
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.30" date="2021-12-19">
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.30 fixes many bugs, updates backend implementations
- to follow OS evolutions, improves metadata support as well as
- support of several formats, such as PSD and AVIF.
- </p>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.28" date="2021-09-14">
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.28 fixes a build issue of GIMP 2.10.26, where some
- theme data was not properly installed.
- </p>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.26" date="2021-09-05">
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.26 is a bug fix release, containing dozens of
- fixes, both in core, scripts and plug-in code.
- </p>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.24" date="2021-03-28">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/03/29/gimp-2-10-24-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.24 is again mostly a bug fix release. Notable changes:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- GeoTIFF metadata support added
- </li>
- <li>
- PDF import now proposes an option to load layers in reverse
- orders and allows fractional pixel density
- </li>
- <li>
- Raw image import updated to handle API changes in darktable 3.6 and over
- </li>
- <li>
- File format improved support: HEIF, PSP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, DDS, BMP, PSD
- </li>
- <li>
- Many fixes and improvements to the metadata viewer and editor
- </li>
- <li>
- New Kabyle translation
- </li>
- <li>
- Off-canvas point snapping (to grid, guides, paths) made possible
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.22" date="2020-10-04">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/10/04/gimp-2-10-22-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.22 is mainly a bug fix release. Notable changes:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- HEIF support improvements: optional exporting with high bit depth,
- AVIF importing and exporting
- </li>
- <li>
- Multiple improvements in Corel PaintShop Pro support
- </li>
- <li>
- "Sample merged" now available in GEGL operation tool options
- </li>
- <li>
- "Sample merged" is now enabled by default for color picking
- </li>
- <li>
- The option enabling OpenCL support has been moved to the
- Playground tab in Preferences
- </li>
- <li>
- Matting Levin is now the default engine of Foreground Select
- tool as it performs a lot better
- </li>
- <li>
- New progressive performance logs and dashboard updates
- </li>
- <li>
- Verbose debug now shows Flatpak info when relevant
- </li>
- <li>
- Various bug fixes
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.20" date="2020-06-07">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/06/07/gimp-2-10-20-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.
- Notable changes:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Tool groups now expand on hover rather than click by default
- </li>
- <li>
- Non-destructive cropping now available by cropping the canvas rather
- than actual pixels
- </li>
- <li>
- Better PSD support: exporting of 16-bit files now available,
- reading/writing channels in the right order
- </li>
- <li>
- On-canvas controls for the Vignette filter
- </li>
- <li>
- New filters: Bloom, Focus Blur, Lens Blur, Variable Blur
- </li>
- <li>
- Over 30 bugfixes
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.18" date="2020-02-23">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/02/24/gimp-2-10-18-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.18 fixes some critical bugs, introduces naive support for CMYK PSD files,
- and adds a higher-contrast variation of the symbolic icon theme.
- </p>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.16" date="2020-02-19">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/02/24/gimp-2-10-18-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.16 delivers several major usability improvements, a new tool
- for transformations in 3D space, new release checker, and the usual amount
- of bug fixes. Notable improvements:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Tools are now grouped in the toolbox by default
- </li>
- <li>
- Sliders now use a compact style with improved user interaction
- </li>
- <li>
- Vastly improved user experience for the transformation preview
- </li>
- <li>
- Dockable areas now highlighted when a dockable dialog is being dragged
- </li>
- <li>
- New 3D Transform tool to rotate and pan items
- </li>
- <li>
- Much smoother brush outline motion on the canvas
- </li>
- <li>
- Consolidated user interface for merging down and anchoring layers
- </li>
- <li>
- Update check to notify users that a new release/installer is available
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.14" date="2019-10-27">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/10/27/gimp-2-10-14-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.14 is again mostly a bug fix release, making GIMP rock-solid.
- Furthermore many old filters got finally ported to GEGL.
- Of course it also has a few noteworthy improvements:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- View menu: new "Show All" option to reveal pixels outside the canvas boundary
- </li>
- <li>
- Filters: new "Clipping" option to allow layer resize when relevant
- </li>
- <li>
- Foreground Select tool: new "Grayscale" Preview Mode
- </li>
- <li>
- Foreground Select tool: color/opacity selector for "Color" preview
- </li>
- <li>
- Free Select tool: improved copy-paste interaction
- </li>
- <li>
- Transform tools: new Image transform type to transform the whole image
- </li>
- <li>
- Preferences: new "Allow editing on non-visible layers" setting
- </li>
- <li>
- HEIF import/export: color profile support
- </li>
- <li>
- PDF export: text layers in layer groups now exported as texts
- </li>
- <li>
- TIFF import: now asks how to process unspecified TIFF channels
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.12" date="2019-06-12">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/06/12/gimp-2-10-12-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.12 is a significant bug fix release, which is to be expected
- after a 2.10.10 with so many changes!
- Still, very cool improvements are also available, in particular for
- curves editing:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Improved curves interaction overall
- </li>
- <li>
- A few enhancements specific to the Curves tool
- </li>
- <li>
- Layer support in TIFF
- </li>
- <li>
- Discovery of user-installed fonts in Windows
- </li>
- <li>
- Incremental mode in the Dodge/Burn tool
- </li>
- <li>
- Free Select tool creates preliminary selection
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.10" date="2019-04-07">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.10 is quite a big update with many new features and
- bug fixes. Notable improvements include:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Bucket Fill tool: new "Fill by line art detection" for not
- perfectly closed line art zones
- </li>
- <li>
- Bucket Fill tool can now quickly color-pick with Ctrl+click
- </li>
- <li>
- Bucket Fill tool allows holding the mouse when filling
- "similar colors" and "by line art detection"
- </li>
- <li>
- Scale tool scales around center even when using numeric input
- </li>
- <li>
- Unified Transform tool now defaults to preserving aspect ratio
- when scaling up or down
- </li>
- <li>
- Add "Constrain handles" and "Around center" options to the
- perspective-transform tool's GUI
- </li>
- <li>
- New generic canvas modifier 'Alt + middle click' to pick
- layers
- </li>
- <li>
- Parametric brushes now 32-bit float to avoid posterization
- </li>
- <li>
- Clipboard brushes and pattern can now be duplicated
- </li>
- <li>
- Failure to edit locked layers will blink to shift attention to
- the cause of the error
- </li>
- <li>
- New on-canvas GUI (simple lines) for circular, linear, and
- zoom motion blur
- </li>
- <li>
- Several optimizations including faster layer group rendering
- </li>
- <li>
- Swap and cache files are not saved in the configuration
- directory anymore
- </li>
- <li>
- Various file saving/exporting made more robust to error by not
- saving partial files
- </li>
- <li>
- HiDPI support improvements
- </li>
- <li>
- New preference to choose the default export file type
- </li>
- <li>
- New option to export PNG, JPEG and TIFF with a color profile;
- always export PSD with a color profile
- </li>
- <li>
- New DDS format loading/exporting plug-in
- </li>
- <li>
- Full rewrite of the Spyrogimp plug-in with more options and
- better interaction
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.8" date="2018-11-07">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/11/08/gimp-2-10-8-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.8 is mostly a bug fix and optimization release. In
- particular, it includes:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Adaptative chunk size when rendering projections, improving
- responsiveness dynamically
- </li>
- <li>
- Detection of RawTherapee (version 5.5 and above) improved on
- Windows
- </li>
- <li>
- XCF compatibility information in the Save dialog more
- understandable and discoverable
- </li>
- <li>
- Various performance log tools added and log recording made
- available in the Dashboard dock
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.6" date="2018-08-19">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/08/19/gimp-2-10-6-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.6 comes with a lot of bug fixes, optimizations and
- features. Most notable changes are:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Text layers can now represent vertical texts (with various
- character orientations and line directions)
- </li>
- <li>
- New "Little Planet" (gegl:stereographic-projection) filter
- </li>
- <li>
- New "Long Shadow" filter
- </li>
- <li>
- The "Straighten" option of the Measure Tool now allows
- vertical straightening
- </li>
- <li>
- Drawable previews are now rendered asynchronously and layer
- group previews can be disabled in Preferences
- </li>
- <li>
- New "async" field in the Dashboard "misc" group, showing the
- number of async operations currently running
- </li>
- <li>
- File format filtering in Open/Save/Export dialogs made less
- confusing
- </li>
- <li>
- New language (having GIMP translated in 81 languages now):
- Marathi
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.4" date="2018-07-04">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/07/04/gimp-2-10-4-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.4 includes a lot of bug fixes as well as various
- optimizations. Most notable changes are:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Straightening in Measurement tool: layers can be rotated using
- the measurement line as horizon
- </li>
- <li>
- Fast startup: fonts loading is not blocking startup anymore
- </li>
- <li>
- Fonts Tagging with the same user interface as for brushes,
- patterns, and gradients
- </li>
- <li>
- PSD support: a pre-composited version of a PSD image can be
- imported
- </li>
- <li>
- Dashboard update: new "Memory" group and improved "Swap"
- group showing various metrics
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.2" date="2018-05-20">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/05/20/gimp-2-10-2-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- This second release in the GIMP 2.10 series, so soon after
- 2.10.0, is mostly the usual bug-fixing version after a major
- release, with a few dozen bugs fixed.
- </p>
- <p>
- It also features a new plug-in for the support of the HEIF
- format, both for importing and exporting, as well as 2 new
- filters: "Spherize" and "Recursive Transform". These are
- nice examples of our relaxed feature policy in stable micro
- releases.
- </p>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.0" date="2018-04-27">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/27/gimp-2-10-0-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- First release of the 2.10 series which prominently features
- the port to a new image processing engine, GEGL.
- The most outstanding changes are:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- High bit depth color processing (16/32-bit per color channel)
- </li>
- <li>
- Color management is a core feature now, most widgets
- and preview areas are color-managed
- </li>
- <li>
- On-canvas effect preview, with split view for before/after
- processing pixels
- </li>
- <li>
- Multi-threaded and hardware-accelerated rendering,
- processing and painting
- </li>
- <li>
- Most tools improved, several new transformation tools
- </li>
- <li>
- Improved support for many image formats, in particular better
- PSD importing
- </li>
- <li>
- Newly supported image formats: OpenEXR, RGBE, WebP, HGT…
- </li>
- <li>
- Improved digital painting: canvas rotation and
- flipping, symmetry painting, MyPaint brushes…
- </li>
- <li>
- Metadata viewing and editing for Exif, XMP, IPTC, and DICOM
- </li>
- <li>
- Basic HiDPI support: automatically or user-selected icon size
- </li>
- <li>
- New themes for GIMP: Light, Gray, Dark, and System
- </li>
- <li>
- And much, much more…
- </li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.0~rc2" date="2018-04-17" type="development">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/17/gimp-2-10-0-rc2-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- In this second release candidate before GIMP 2.10.0, while
- debugging is still a prime target, a new focus has been put on
- speed and optimization in order to provide a smoother painting
- experience. Bigger changes are:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Major core optimizations for painting and display,
- including parallelized painting code</li>
- <li>Symmetries are now preserved in XCF files (saved as image
- parasites)</li>
- <li>"Light" and "Dark" themes rewritten from scratch to get
- rid of various usability issues. "Lighter" and "Darker" themes
- removed.</li>
- <li> New GimpToolGyroscope on-canvas control, currently used
- for the Panorama Projection filter. The widget provides
- on-canvas interaction for 3D rotation (yaw, pitch, roll).</li>
- <li>Plug-in debugging improved to output stack traces from
- plug-ins with --stack-trace-mode command line option not only
- on receiving signals but also on warnings and critical errors
- when "fatal-warnings" debug key is set</li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.10.0~rc1" date="2018-03-26" type="development">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/03/26/gimp-2-10-0-rc1-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>
- GIMP 2.10.0-RC1 is the first release candidate before GIMP
- 2.10.0 stable release, with a focus on debugging and stability.
- Other than the many bug fixes, most notable improvements are:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>New dashboard dockable to monitor GIMP resource usage</li>
- <li>New debug dialog to produce back traces and other debug
- data, encouraging to report bugs</li>
- <li>Unsaved images can now be recovered after a crash</li>
- <li>Layer masks on layer groups</li>
- <li>JPEG 2000 support improved for high bit depth and various
- color spaces</li>
- <li>Screenshot and color picking improved on various platforms</li>
- <li>Metadata defaults preferences now available</li>
- <li>Various GUI polishing</li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
- <release version="2.9.8" date="2017-12-12" type="development">
- <url type="details">https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/12/gimp-2-9-8-released/</url>
- <description>
- <p>GIMP 2.9.8 introduces on-canvas gradient
- editing and various enhancements while focusing on bugfixing
- and stability.</p>
- <ul>
- <li>On-canvas gradient editing</li>
- <li>Notification when an image is over/underexposed</li>
- <li>Better and faster color management</li>
- <li>Support for color picker and screenshots in Wayland on KDE Plasma</li>
- <li>Paste in place feature</li>
- <li>Many usability improvements</li>
- <li>Manual can be displayed in the user's preferred language</li>
- <li>Improvements for the Wavelet Decompose filter</li>
- <li>Improved compatibility with Photoshop .psd files</li>
- <li>New support for password-protected PDF</li>
- <li>New support for HGT format (Digital Elevation Model data)</li>
- </ul>
- </description>
- </release>
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