Gimp 2.6 is coming

Posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

GimpUsers have reported that Gimp 2.6 is going to be launched soon and has produced a great post about what’s new in the new Gimp, you can check it out here: http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp-2-6-new-features.html

It is definately worthy of a look so check it out if you get chance.

Gimp 2.4.6 released

Posted on Sunday, June 1st, 2008

The new version of Gimp has been release, Gimp 2.4.6

The changes in Gimp 2.4.6 are as follows:

  • fixed handling of the “antialias” tool option (bug #521069)
  • when loading a TIFF image, always set a filename on it (bug #521436)
  • fixed initial state of curve type in Curves tool (bug #523873)
  • fixed potential crash in the Dicom load plug-in
  • respect the brush mask in the Heal tool (bug #521433)
  • plugged some minor memory leaks
  • fixed a glitch in the DND code (bug #317992)
  • gimp-image-convert() must not accept palettes with > 256 colors (bug #525471)
  • fixed parameter description in the Map Object plug-in (bug #526679)
  • fixed compilation of unit tests on Mac OS X (bug #528160)
  • fixed handling of “argc-lower-val-y” PDB parameter in Curve Bend plug-in
  • fixed overlap problem in Hue-Saturation tool (bug #527085)
  • fixed asymmetry in Unsharp Mask plug-in (bug #530077)
  • don’t show non-existant color profiles in the selector (bug #528958)
  • fixed issues with default aspect ratio in the Crop tool (bug #532057)
  • fixed compilation of the PDF import plug-in with libpoppler 0.8
  • fixed bug in clipboard brush code (bug #532886)
  • corrected layer mask flag in PSD save plug-in (bug #526811)
  • fixed an issue with tablets and newer X.Org releases
  • keep the JPEG save plug-in from writing an empty EXIF tag (bug #529469)
  • fixed crash in Selective Gaussion Blur plug-in (bug #529280)
  • added new translations (Belarusian, Catalan, Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • translation fixes and updates (ar, ca, de, el, es, fi, fr, hu, it, ko, pl, pt_BR, ro, sv)

Quite a hefty list if you ask me. You can download the new version here, so you have no excuse to upgrade.

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