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GIMP 2.8 released

GIMP 2.8 released

Posted May 7, 2012 18:45 UTC (Mon) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: GIMP 2.8 released by tajyrink
Parent article: GIMP 2.8 released

Now that the move to GEGL has been unexpectedly successful I hope you're thinking about a quick 2.10 release to get that improvement out to users ASAP. It seems to me that it's just too big an improvement to keep under wraps for long.


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GIMP 2.8 released

Posted May 7, 2012 21:40 UTC (Mon) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

I'm not involved with GIMP except for doing translations, so I'm just spreading the information. From a casual view contributing to GIMP has been made much easier/modern in the recent year or so, and they've worked to document and visualize things a lot. GIMP needs contributions, it's very under-resourced for the importance it has and compared to some others (like Blender for example), and probably the reasons have been the long development history and culture from there. But now those seem resolved. GIMP has become much more "fresh", the 2.8 is finally out, GEGL has indeed gotten up to speed so hopefully new developers will join!

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