The Gimp, which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a photo editing program and is considered by many to be the open source counterpart to Adobe Photoshop and Corel Paint Shop Pro. The program is available for various operating systems such as Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The developers released two new versions over the weekend, one in the stable branch with 2.2.15 as the version number and one in the development branch with 2.3.17 as the version number. The list of changes for the different versions is as follows:
Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.2.15:
- fixed parsing of GFig files with CRLF line endings (bug #346988)
- guard against a possible stack overflow in the Sunras loader (bug #433902)
- fixed definition of datarootdir in gimptool-2.0 (bug #436386)
- fixed Perspective tool crash on Mac OS X (bug #349483)
- fixed area resizing in the Image Map plugin (bug #439222)
- added missing library in gimptool-2.0 –libs output
- added new localizations: Occitan and Persian
Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.2.14:
- avoid crashing on newer versions of the winicon format (bug #352899)
- fixed crash in Postscript plugin (bug #353381)
- fixed handling of TABs in the text tool (bug #353132)
- fixed bug in Depth Merge plugin (bug #355219)
- fixed bug in GimpDrawablePreview widget (bug #353639)
- fixed bug in Line Nove script (bug #357433)
- fixed bug in Ripple plugin (bug #357431)
- save locale independent files from Fractal Explorer plugin (bug #360095)
- fixed bug in Super Nova plugin (bug #340073)
- be more robust against broken XCF files (bug #357809)
- fixed drawing issues in Image Map plugin (bug #311621)
- fixed smoothing option in Fractal Explorer plugin (bug #372671)
- load channels in the proper order when opening an XCF file (bug #378003)
- deal with floating selections in the Burn-In Animation script (bug #384096)
- fixed clipping in the GimpPreviewArea widget (bug #392692)
- fixed a potential crash in gimp-remote (bug #392111)
- work around a file-chooser problem on Windows (bug #398726)
- fixed markup of the gimp(1) manual page (bug #401145)
- fixed the fix for the right-to-left layout in layers dialog (bug #348347)
- fixed PSD save plugin on 64bit architectures (bug #335130)
- added missing dependency in gimpui-2.0.pc file (bug #356394)
- fixed a crash in the PSD save plugin (bug #395385)
- improved robustness of transform tool preview code (bug #420595)
- improved forward compatibility of XCF loader (bug #316207)
- don’t crash in the Compressor plug-in if files can’t be opened (bug #422444)
- fixed sensitivity of input fields in the Lighting plugin (bug #359833)
[break][/break]Changes in GIMP 2.3.17:
- improved import of multi-page TIFF files
- reduced rounding errors in Blur routines (core and plug-ins)
- further improved parameter checks in the PDB
- added support for loading .abr v2 Photoshop brushes
- improved border behavior of the Blur tool
- show the brush outline at the Clone tool’s source position
- added libgimpbase API to retrieve the user’s Pictures folder
- add a shortcut to the user’s Pictures folder to the file-chooser dialog
- improved the quality of the Motion Blur filter
- save paths in TIFF files
- let the Screenshot plug-in name the new layer after the window
- use memory slices to reduce memory fragmentation
- some code cleanup
- lots of bug fixes
Changes in GIMP 2.3.16:
- make the XOR color configurable as a workaround for broken drivers
- allow to assign keyboard shortcuts to procedures without menu entry
- allow to configure the height of the preview area in data editors
- improved file detection in TGA plug-in
- improved brush scaling code, now also scales up
- converted standard pixmap brushes to parametric ones
- improved zoom tool behavior
- D-Bus methods now have a return value indicating success or failure
- added more menu tooltips
- allow procedures to request the display ID they are being called from
- depend on GTK+ >= 2.10.6 and use some of the new functions in GTK+ 2.10
- allow filename passed on the command-line to be opened as new images
- various optimizations
- bug fixes and code cleanup
Changes in GIMP 2.3.15:
- added keyboard control to rectangle tools and improved their tool options
- improved console handling on Win32
- support large XCF files (> 2GB) on Win32 also
- cleanup of the internal undo system
- ask before overwriting files, not only for image files
- added “Revert Zoom” functionality
- added GimpStringComboBox widget to libgimpwidgets
- added HAL support for hotplug of Linux Input devices
- added support for shaped windows to the Screenshot plug-in
- improved handling of incomplete PNG files
- categorize contributors into active and inactive
- added controller module for DirectInput controllers on Win32
- speed up transform tools
- improved tool cancellation framework
- fixed Select -> Border behavior and added option for ‘sticky image edges’
- bug fixes and code cleanup
[break]The following two files can be downloaded:
Source 2.2.15
Source 2.3.17
| Version number | 2.2.15 / 2.3.17 |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris |
| Website | GIMP |
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| License type | GPL |