GIMP

GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released

GIMP Team — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Release news for version GIMP 3.0 RC1

Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate

GIMP Team — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Update on 3.0 RC1 Development

Experiments with AppImage

Bruno — Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Dev report about AppImage bundling

GIMP at LGM 2024 (Rennes, France)

GIMP Team — Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP team will be at LGM 2024, in Rennes, France

GIMP 2.10.38 Released

GIMP Team — Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Release news for version GIMP 2.10.38

GIMP 2.99.18 Released: The Last Development Preview Before 3.0!

Wilber — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Release news for version GIMP 2.99.18

GIMP 2.10.36 Released

Jehan — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Release news for version GIMP 2.10.36

GIMP now on Windows for ARM (experimental)

Jehan — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP’s Windows installer now supports ARM 64-bit architecture.

GIMP 2.99.16 Released: Wilber Week 2023 edition!

Jehan — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Release news for version GIMP 2.99.16

Wilber Week 2023: report

Jehan — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

The meeting of GIMP developers is back!

GIMP in GSoC 2023

Jehan — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100

GIMP is again a Google Summer of Code mentor organization in 2023

GIMP Help Manual 2.10.34 Released

Jacob Boerema — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Release news for GIMP Help Manual version 2.10.34

GIMP 2.10.34 Released

Jehan — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Release news for version GIMP 2.10.34

2022 annual report

Jehan — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

What happened in 2022?

GIMP 2.10.32 on Apple Silicon

Jehan — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

The first package of a stable version of GIMP for Apple Silicon is available!

Happy 27!

Jehan — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Happy 27th birthday to the GNU Image Manipulation Program

Development version: GIMP 2.99.14 Released

Jehan — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Release news for development version GIMP 2.99.14

Conference “GIMP and ZeMarmot” in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (France)

Jehan — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Talk about GIMP and the sister project ZeMarmot in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy

Revival of the GIMP developer website

Wilber — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Revival of the GIMP developer website

Development version: GIMP 2.99.12 Released

Wilber — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Release news for development version GIMP 2.99.12

GIMP 2.10.32 is on the Microsoft Store!

Wilber — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP is officially distributed on the Microsoft Store

GIMP 2.10.32 Released

Wilber — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Release news for version GIMP 2.10.32

GSoC 2022 project announced: CMYK features

Wilber — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200

CMYK features will be added to GIMP as part of the Google Summer of Code 2022 program

GIMP is a GSoC 2022 mentor organization

Wilber — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100

GIMP has been accepted as Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization

Development version: GIMP 2.99.10 Released

Wilber — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Release news for development version GIMP 2.99.10

2021 annual report

Jehan — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

What happened in 2021?

GIMP 2.10.30 Released

Wilber — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

A release of bug fixes and backend evolutions.

GIMP is not affected by the log4j vulnerability

Wilber — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

GIMP is not vulnerable to log4shell.

GIMP 2.99.8 macOS package now available

Wilber — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

The current development version of GIMP is finally available as a macOS package!

Development version: GIMP 2.99.8 Released

Wilber — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Release news for development version GIMP 2.99.8

GIMP’s official mirrors and mirror policy

Wilber — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200

“Support GIMP with a mirror”

GIMP 2.10.28 Released

Wilber — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200

“More bug fixes”

Funding GIMP developers for sustainable development

Wilber — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP is developed by its community - support the humans behind

Development version: GIMP 2.99.6 Released

Wilber — Sat, 08 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200

“Don’t worry, be h-API”

GIMP 2.10.24 Released

Wilber — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0200

“The geographer release, stability and consolidation”

🎄 Development release GIMP 2.99.4 is out 🎁

Wilber — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:30:00 +0100

GIMP 2.99.4 is out with bug fixes and usability improvements

GIMP 2.10.22 Released for macOS

Wilber — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 19:00:00 +0100

“GIMP 2.10.22 available for macOS - and what is going on with Big Sur”

This is 25

Wilber — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Exactly 25 years ago, Peter Mattis wrote a message to several newsgroups announcing a new image editor called GIMP.

Development release GIMP 2.99.2 is out

Wilber — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0100

GIMP 2.99.2 marks the first step towards GIMP 3 based on GTK3.

GIMP 2.10.22 Released

Wilber — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0200

“The file formats release!”

GIMP 2.10.20 Released

Wilber — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

“GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.”

GIMP 2.10.18 Released

Wilber — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0100

“We skipped announcing 2.10.16 due to a critical bug. Together, the two updates deliver several major usability improvements, a new tool for transformations in 3D space, new release checker, and the usual amount of bug fixes.”

GIMP and GEGL in 2019

Wilber — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Here is what we did in 2019 and what we are planning to do in 2020.

GIMP 2.10.14 Released

Wilber — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

GIMP 2.10.14 is now released with major enhancements and 45 bugfixes.

GIMP 2.10.12 Released

Wilber — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP 2.10.12 released: free the bugs!

GIMP 2.10.10 Released

Wilber — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP 2.10.10 released: colors are hard!

GIMP and GEGL in 2018

Wilber — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0100

In this post, we are looking back at 2018 and then forward to outline future work on GIMP, GEGL, and babl.

GIMP 2.10.8 Released

Wilber — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0100

GIMP 2.10.8 released: bug fixes and optimizations

GIMP receives a $100K donation

Wilber — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0200

Handshake and GNOME Foundation donated $100,000 to GIMP.

GIMP 2.10.6 Released

Wilber — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP 2.10.6 released with vertical text layers, faster previews, Marathi translation, and more!

GIMP 2.10.4 Released

Alexandre Prokoudine — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0200

The latest update of the stable series delivers bugfixes, simple horizon straightening, async fonts loading, fonts tagging, and more new features.

GIMP has moved to Gitlab

Alexandre Prokoudine — Thu, 31 May 2018 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP has moved to new Gitlab-based infrastructure provided by GNOME.

GIMP 2.10.2 Released

Jehan Pagès — Sun, 20 May 2018 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP 2.10.2 released (bug fixes, HEIF support and new filters)

GIMP 2.10.0 Released

Wilber — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP 2.10.0 is now out with a boom!

GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 2 Released

Wilber — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP 2.10.0-rc2: so close…

Fun at SCaLE 2018

Pat David — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0200

On a Libre Graphics track at the Southern California Linux Expo

GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

Wilber — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0200

GIMP 2.10.0-rc1: bugfixes, stability and polish

Libre Graphics Meeting + SCaLE 2018

Pat David — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:51:30 -0600

This year is starting off great with not one, but two libre graphics oriented events (one in Europe and the other in North America - for even better coverage)!

GIMP and GEGL in 2017

Wilber — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0100

When you say you mostly do bugfixing now, seven kinds of new features will crawl under your bed and bite your silly toes off. If we were to come up with a short summary for 2017, it would be along those very lines.

Strings Freeze For GIMP 2.10 Is Now On

Alexandre Prokoudine — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0100

GIMP’s master branch is now entering a tentative strings freeze phase in preparation for 2.10 release.

GIMP 2.9.8 Released

Alexandre Prokoudine — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0100

GIMP 2.9.8 introduces on-canvas gradient editing and various enhancements while focusing on bugfixing and stability.

GIMP 2.9.6 Released

Alexandre Prokoudine — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0200

After more than a year of hard work we are excited to release GIMP 2.9.6 featuring many improvements, some new features, translation updates for 23 languages, and 204 bug fixes.

An Interview with Michael Schumacher, GIMP administrator

Jehan — Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0200

Michael Schumacher gets interviewed by other GIMP developers

GIMP 2.8.22 Released

Wilber — Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0200

We are releasing GIMP 2.8.22 with various bug fixes.

An Interview with Michael Natterer, GIMP maintainer

Jehan — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Michael Natterer gets interviewed by other GIMP developers

GIMP 2.8.20 Packages for macOS and Microsoft Windows are available

Wilber — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0100

GIMP 2.8.20 packages for macOS and Microsoft Windows are available now.

GIMP 2.10 blockers and the road to 3.0

Alexandre Prokoudine — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0100

During Wilber Week 2017 in Barcelona, the GEGL/GIMP team discussed further development plans.

GIMP 2.8.20 Released

Wilber — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0100

We are releasing GIMP 2.8.20 with various bug fixes.

WilberWeek 2017

Alexandre Prokoudine — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

On January 27 - February 5, the team is meeting in Barcelona for WilberWeek—a week of project planning and vicious hacking.

Community-supported development of GEGL now live

Alexandre Prokoudine — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Almost every new major feature people have been asking us for, be it high bit depth support, or full CMYK support, or layer effects, would be impossible without having a robust, capable image processing core. You can help us fund further development of GEGL now.

2016 in review

Alexandre Prokoudine — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

When we released GIMP 2.9.2 in late 2015 and stepped over into 2016, we already knew that we’d be doing mostly polishing. This turned out to be true to a larger extent, but quite a few new features slipped in. So, what are the big changes for GIMP in 2016?

Making settings persistent in GIMP

Alexandre Prokoudine — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0200

Until fairly recently GIMP didn’t do a very good job of remembering all the types of possible customizations. Upcoming v2.10 has some major improvements in that department.

GIMP 2.8.18 Released

Wilber — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0200

We are releasing GIMP 2.8.18 to fix a vulnerability in the XCF loading code (CVE-2016-4994).

GIMP 2.9.4 Released

Wilber — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0200

We have just released the second development version of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. GIMP 2.9.4 features revamped look and feel, major improvements in color management, as well as production-ready MyPaint Brush tool, symmetric painting, and split preview for GEGL-based filters.

GIMPers at Texas Linux Fest 2016

Pat David — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 08:00:00 -0500

If you happen to be anywhere near Austin, TX next weekend (July 8-9) then mosey on down to [Texas Linux Fest 2016][txlf] and meet some of your friendly neighborhood GIMP crew!

GEGL 0.3.8 and babl 0.1.18 Released

Alexandre Prokoudine — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0200

New version of GEGL and babl are out with new features, minor improvements, and fixes to accomodate upcoming GIMP 2.9.4.

Updated 2.8.16 Installer with a Major Bugfix Released

Michael Schumacher — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0200

With the past few releases, users on the 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows platforms were plagued by an annoying bug — resizing a window crashed GIMP. We believe this to be fixed, and have released an updated installer.

Call for GIMP 2.10 Documentation Update

Alexandre Prokoudine — Mon, 23 May 2016 00:00:00 +0200

For the past several months we’ve been working on GIMP mostly in the bugfix mode. It’s time to start updating the user manual for the upcoming release.

Revamping Tutorials

Pat David — Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00:00 +0200

As part of building a new GIMP website we had to sort through all of the legacy pages in order to migrate content properly. A nice side effect of this sorting included addressing tutorials that were out of date (or in some cases, really out of date). This gave us …

Updated Windows Installer Signature

Michael Schumacher — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0100

The Windows installer packages for GIMP 2.8.16 were reported as corrupt when downloaded with the Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer 11 browsers. The current installer package fixes this.

Corrupt Windows Installer Warnings

Michael Schumacher — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0100

The Windows installer packages for GIMP 2.8.16 are reported as corrupt when downloaded with the Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer 11 browsers. This is due to a policy by Microsoft.

GEGL 0.3.6 Released

Alexandre Prokoudine — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Last weekend, we released a new version of GEGL, graph based image processing framework used by GIMP and other free/libre graphics applications.

StreamComputing launches GEGL-OpenCL project

Alexandre Prokoudine — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0100

This week, StreamComputing launches an educational initiative that aims to get more developers to study and use OpenCL in their projects. Within this project, up to 20 collaborators will port as many GEGL operations to OpenCL as possible.

Libre Graphics Meeting 2016

Pat David — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Join us April 15-18 at the 11th annual Libre Graphics Meeting being hosted by Westminster School of Media Arts and Design in London, UK! Come and meet developers of free graphics software, participate in a workshop, and collaborate with other visual artists who choose to work in free software.

GIMP and GEGL in 2015

Alexandre Prokoudine — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0100

We hope you are having great holidays. Here is our annual report about project activities in 2015.

Libre Graphics Meeting 2016 Calls For Participation

Alexandre Prokoudine — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0100

On April 15—18, Libre Graphics Meeting 2016 conference is taking place in London. We invite you to attend it and meet developers of free graphics software, lead a workshop, or participate in one.

GIMP 2.9.2 Released

Alexandre Prokoudine — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0100

We are excited to announce the first development release of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. It is another major milestone towards making GIMP a state-of-the art image editing application for graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, and scientists.

20 Years of GIMP, release of GIMP 2.8.16

Wilber — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 09:32:24 -0500

This week the GIMP project celebrates its 20th anniversary. To celebrate it, we released an update of the current stable version of GIMP.

GEGL 0.3.0, babl 0.1.12 Released

Alexandre Prokoudine — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0200

We have just released new versions of GEGL and babl, the libraries that take all the heavy lifting for color space conversion and image processing in GIMP.

GIMP Project’s Official Statement on SourceForge’s Actions

Wilber — Wed, 27 May 2015 00:00:00 +0200

This is the GIMP project’s official statement on SourceForge’s actions in regard to “abandoned” projects on their service.

SourceForge, What the…?

Wilber — Wed, 27 May 2015 00:00:00 +0200

We are receiving reports that people who get to SourceForge for GIMP installers for Windows receive small installers that include additional software.

ZeMarmot, Libre Movie to be Made with GIMP, Blender, Ardour

Alexandre Prokoudine — Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 +0200

During Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 last week in Toronto our very own Jehan Pagès announced a new open animated movie project, ZeMarmot.

Libre Graphics Meeting 2015

Michael Schumacher — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0100

Two months to go till Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 happens in Toronto, Canada. This conference is a great place to meet the people who make and use free and open source graphics software.

gimpguru.org — R.I.P.

Wilber — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0100

We noticed that gimpguru.org, once the host of GIMP tutorials, has been abandoned by its original owner and is redirecting visitors to some very suspicious downloads—don’t go there.

GIMP and GEGL in 2014

Alexandre Prokoudine — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0100

In 2014, we spent most of the time on improving GIMP’s usability and finalizing the GEGL port of GIMP to lay the foundation for various advanced features in demand by professionals.

The Price of Being Popular

Michael Schumacher — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0100

When software is popular, then there are elements out there who seek to profit from it by less ethical means. GIMP is being attacked in that manner as well.

GIMP Magazine Issue #6 Released

Wilber Gimp — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0100

The newly released issue #6 of GIMP Magazine features a “Using GIMP for portrait and fashion photography” master class by Aaron Tyree who uses GIMP professionally, and a gallery of other artworks and photos made or processed with GIMP.

The team is planning to switch to monthly releases, however they …

Updated 2.8.14 Installer for Microsoft Windows

Wilber Gimp — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0200

We have released an updated 2.8.14 installer (http) for Microsoft Windows. This one fixes the crash on window resize and the missing icons bugs - all by updating the included GTK+ library to 2.24.24.

Still unsolved are the missing spacing character in the zoom drop down and …

GIMP 2.8.14 Released

Wilber Gimp — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0200

Yesterday’s 2.8.12 release had broken library versioning, so we had to roll out GIMP 2.8.14 today. The only change is the fixed libtool versioning. Please do not distribute any binaries of yesterday’s broken 2.8.12 release, and get GIMP 2.8.14 using …

GIMP Manual 2.8.2 released

Wilber Gimp — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0200

A new version of the user manual has been released. Changes include:

complete translation to Brazilian Portuguese
many, many, many bugfixes

You can click here to download the 2.8.2 release package. This release provides only the sources to build the help used by the GIMP Help browser. Find …