Download GIMP 2.8.4

An update to version 2.8 of the open source photo editing program GIMP has been released. The name GIMP is an abbreviation for ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’. The software is available for various operating systems, including Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, OS X and Solaris. The source code is already available for download, binaries for the different operating systems will follow soon. Version 2.8 includes improvements to the user interface, layers can now be grouped, the text tool has been greatly improved and gl is almost completely integrated. This update mainly brings mainly bug fixes.

core:

• Move the OSX gimpdir to “~/Library/Application Support”

GUI:

• Better names for the default filters in save and export
• Make tool drawing (esp. the brush outline) much more responsive
• Remember the “maximized” state across sessions
• Simplify the splash image code a lot, makes it appear immediately again
• Allow the text tool to start on an image without layers
• Various fixes for text style attribute handling
• Set unconfigured input devices to eraser if GTK+ says they are erasers
• Make language selectable in Preferences on OSX

Libgimp:

• Make libgimp drawable combo boxes aware of layer groups
• Make sure plug-in windows appear on top on OSX
• Fix item width in GimpPageSelector (used eg in PDF import)

Plugins:

• Better default values ​​in the Drop Shadow script
• Fix a whole bunch of bugs in the BMP plugin
• On OSX, use the system’s screenshot utility

Installer:

• Add Brazilian-Portuguese translation to the Windows installer

Source and build system:

• Many improvements to the OSX bundle build system
• Support automake 1.13

General:

• Lots of bug fixes
• Lots of translation updates