Download The GIMP 2.4.0 rc1

The Gimp, an acronym 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 have released the first release candidate of version 2.4.0 with the following announcement and list of changes:

The next stable GIMP release is close. The developers made available a first release candidate for GIMP 2.4.0. This marks the end of the development cycle towards GIMP 2.4. All new features should be complete and the API is now frozen. There are however still a few bugs to fix and some minor changes pending in some places.

Changes in GIMP 2.4.0 rc1:

• further improvement to the Print plug-in
• completed the color management functionality for 2.4
• store JPEG setting with the image and use them when saving as JPEG
• further improved the rectangle tools, in particular handling of the fixed aspect ratio
• added color profile selector widget
• further improved the display quality for zoomed-out views

Changes in GIMP 2.3.19:

• support long layer names in PSD files
• improved EXIF ​​handling in the JPEG file plug-in
• added control for the playback speed in the Animation Playback plug-in
• avoid unnecessary image preview invalidation
• allow to edit the image comment in the Image Properties dialog
• further improved rectangle tools
• made JPEG save parameters user-configurable
• avoid color conversions between identical ICC color profiles
• improved Print plug-in
• improved loading and saving of indexed TGA images
• bug fixes and code cleanup