Download The GIMP 2.2.6

A new version of the image editing software can be downloaded from The GIMP’s site. It concerns version number 2.2.6 which can be downloaded from here as a bzip2 archive. Windows users can from this location download version 2.2.6. The GIMP is short for The GNU Image Manipulation Program and is considered by many to be the open source counterpart of Adobe Photoshop. What changes have been made since version 2.2.4 can be read below:

Changes in GIMP 2.2.6

• reverted change to the print plugin (see bug #169909)

Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.2.5

• fixed double-click behavior of GimpButton
• properly handle 302 redirect output from wget in URL plugin (bug #168322)
• fixed loading of layer masks in PSD plugin (bug #166976)
• fixed bugs in PSD save plugin (bugs #167139 and #121871)
• fixed Reset in Scale and Resize dialogs (bug #169011)
• fixed filename encoding issues when loading Script-Fu scripts (bug #165002)
• fixed i18n build quirks (bug #169274)
• improve autoscrolling with tablets in Windows (bug #167960)
• fixed setup or size entries in tool options (bug #169066)
• when opening images as layers, do it interactively (bug #168936)
• fixed precondition checks in gimp_drawable_transform_scale (bug #170195)
• fixed handling of resolution unit in Print Size dialog (bug #170200)
• disable “gtk-alternative-button-order” setting because our code doesn’t honor it (bug #170543)
• fixed behavior of selection tool when dragging from top-right (bug #143887)
• speed up conversion of grayscale images to indexed colors (bug #170801)
• fixed bug in grayscale to indexed color conversion (bug #170825)
• don’t offer empty palettes for conversion to indexed color (bug #170973)
• disable search in container tree-views since it interferes with global accelerators (bug #169339)
• corrected mousewheel section of default controllerrc (bug #171083)
• fixed build on amd64/gcc-4.0 (bug #300227)
• unset Keep Transparency from Color to Alpha plugin.
• fixed crash caused by Histogram dockable in RGB mode (bug #170116)
• fixed statusbar display for negative moves (bug #171497)
• fixed a couple of problems in the BMP plug-in (bug #171306, bug #171453 and bug #171562)
• fixed bug in Resize dialog if previews are turned off (bug #171827)
• fixed disappearing previews in Rotate Colormap plugin (bug #172284)
• fixed deletion of fractals in Fractal Explorer plugin (bug #172347)
• fixed preview in Deinterlace plugin (bug #172589)
• fixed crashes on exit in some locales (bug #172581)
• fixed installation directories for message catalogs (bug #169274)
• handle deletion of layers and channels that have a floating selection attached (bug #168582)
• plugged some smaller memory leaks
• fixed preview in Gaussian Blur plugin for zero radii (bug #173039)
• fixed a couple of problems in the Winicon plug-in
• fixed bug in GIF loader that was triggered with a broken GIF (bug #173119)
• fixed crash in Ink tool (bug #164272)
• let the text tool remember the last-used font (bug #171024)
• quote the print command used in the Print plugin (bug #169909)

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