Software Update: GIMP 2.99.14

Version 2.99.14 of the open source photo editing program GIMP has been released, a development version that will eventually lead to version 3.0. The name GIMP is an abbreviation for ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’. The software is available for various operating systems, including Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Solaris. However, due to a lack of manpower, the development of the macOS version is lagging behind. Version 3.0 will see the move to GTK3, xcf files can now be larger than 4GB, and can use multicore processors more efficiently. The release notes for this release can be found below.

Development version: GIMP 2.99.14 Released

The GIMP team is happy to release GIMP 2.99.14 with a lot of nice milestones on the route to GIMP 3.0. We are getting into deep changes, so we hope you will all test thoroughly and we remind you that it is an unstable version meant for testing and reporting issues.

• Tools
  • Align and Distribute tool: fully reworked interaction
  • Text tool: new outline options
  • Transform tools activated automatically
• Usability and User Interface
  • Floating selection concept reviewed
  • Copy-paste re-specified
  • New “Gray” theme
  • Theme override icon size settings
• Core changes
  • Much faster XCF save
  • Vectors (paths) structure in XCF
  • Moving to GApplication and GtkApplication
• File format support
  • PDF
  • AVIF
  • PSD
  • JPEG-XL
  • ICNS
  • TIFF
• API
• macOS
  • Pointer click bug with macOS Ventura
  • GIMP has an Apple Silicon package!
  • MacPorts based builds
  • HTTPS for the update check
• Build and documentation
  • meson (message to packagers)
  • API reference tarball
• babl and GEGL
• Team news
• Mirror news
• Book news
• Release stats
• Downloading GIMP 2.99.14
• What’s next

To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the NEWS file or look at the commit history.