The GIMP team have just released version 2.7. This version is a 'development' version, or a snapshot of the current version in their development tree. While it's not stable or final, it contains a lot of new goodness that may be useful to you.
- Development snapshots. We now have a separate page for development versions of GIMP. Want to check out the GIMP 2.99.4 development release? Get it on our development.
- GIMP for Unix-like systems. If available, the official package from your Unix-like distribution is the recommended method of installing GIMP! The flatpak build is new and has known limitations, though it will likely provide faster updates, following GIMP releases closely. Development snapshots. We now have a separate page for development.
This project was originally started due to long-standing disagreements between the GNU Image Manipulation Program developers and some of the software’s users about who the target audience is, the priority of usability/accessibility changes, and whether it is still appropriate to call a 25 year old software program “the Gimp” as a joke.
LightningIsMyName wrote:
GIMP has always been the ideal companion for blender in texturing, post-processing and other 2D tasks. The GIMP team is proud to announce the new development release - GIMP 2.7.0
Some of the new features include:
- Resource tagging - you can now tag your GIMP resources
- Improved Brush dynamics - new features were added to the brush dynamics, such as controlling the brush aspect-ratio
- Brushes can now be rotated in the same way they can be scaled - no more need to create copies of brushes
- JPEG 2000 support was added
As part of being a development release, it is unstable. If you use it, make sure to save often =) If you found a bug in the development release, make sure you submit a bug report to the GIMP bugzilla (Check if it wasn't already reported!)
Pay attention to the warning about the stability of this version:
This is an unstable development version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Please realize that this is just a snapshot of the development tree. We are working hard towards GIMP 2.8, the next stable release. GIMP 2.7 is in no way a final product. A lot of new features are incomplete and some things may even be completely broken. If you need to get work done, please use the stable version, GIMP 2.6.
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A few hours ago, the GIMP development team released a new development version towards GIMP 2.10, the next major update of the popular free and open-source image manipulation software coming later in the year.
GIMP 2.9.4 is here approximately eight months since the previous development snapshot, GIMP 2.9.2, bringing a huge number of changes, including improvements to existing components, fixes for some of the most annoying issues reported by users, as well as many new features.
Gimp Development Snapshot Download
To get an overview of the changes that have been implemented in GIMP 2.9.4 since the release of GIMP 2.9.2, we recommend that you take a look at the full changelog attached at the end of the article, which we've obtained from the source archive that was made available just a few hours ago on the official channels.
GIMP 2.10 gets closers and closer
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Looking at the new features and improvements introduced in today's GIMP 2.9.4 development release, we can honestly say that GIMP 2.10 will be the best release ever of the open-source and cross-platform image editor software for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Gimp Development Snapshot Free
There are tons of changes in many areas, including color management, the GUI (Graphical User Interface), most of the Tools (Fuzzy Select, Align, Bucket Fill, Paths, Posterize, Foreground Select, Cage Transform, Unified Transform, Text, Desaturate, MyPaint, Ink, and Smudge), as well as many of the plug-ins and GEGL filters.
Again, please check the changelog below to see what exactly has been changed, and if you want to take this version for a test drive on your GNU/Linux operating system, do not hesitate to download the GIMP 2.9.4 sources right now via our website. Just please try to keep in mind that it's an unstable version, not ready for production use.