Software Update: The Gimp 1.2.3

Blaasvis threw a message in the submitqueue that a new stable version of The Gimp, the popular cross-platform photo editing/drawing package, has been released. The changelog associated with this is the following:

• Many improvements to the documentation and help pages. Updated translations.
• The binaries and manpages are now installed with a -1.2 suffix. By default, symbolic links are installed for unversioned files so the default “gimp” executable is still available as before. This allows both 1.2.x and 1.3.x to be installed in the same prefix directory.
• Never prompt for stack traces by default. This prevents lock-ups while the pointer is grabbed (bug #68977).
• An improved Export function prevents incorrect data from being saved in a file when a layer mask or channel is active, or when the layer offset, opacity and size must be taken into account (bug #51114 and many duplicates).
• Various improvements to the build system and to the installation process, especially for Windows (among others, bug #64491).
• Several bugs fixed in the file load/save plug-ins: TGA (bug #53278), TIFF (bug #69129), JPEG (bug #69127), gz (bug #67135), xbm, xpm.
• Several other bugs causing potential crashes have been fixed as well: #33802, #61418, #61894, #64835, #70344.