GIMP 3.0 released [LWN.net]

The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release is now available. Major changes in 3.0 include non‑destructive editing for most commonly‑used filters, improved text creation, better color space management, and an update to GTK 3.

This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members (for reference, GIMP 2.10 was first published in 2018 and the initial development version of GIMP 3.0 was released in 2020).

See the release notes and NEWS file for more details about this release. LWN covered a near-final release of GIMP 3.0 in November last year.

Wrong NEWS link

Posted Mar 18, 2025 8:38 UTC (Tue) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

The Gimp people replaced their NEWS file with something almost-empty, presumably to collect release notes for 3.1.

You want https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/GIMP_3_0_0/NEWS

Wayland

Posted Mar 18, 2025 9:58 UTC (Tue) by witurnpled (subscriber, #156452) [Link]

With update to GTK 3, GIMP 3.0 now runs natively on wayland desktops. Looking forward to finally disable xwayland!

Congratulations

Posted Mar 18, 2025 16:15 UTC (Tue) by chris_se (subscriber, #99706) [Link]

Congratulations to the GIMP developers on making it to version 3.0! This must have been quite a daunting task (especially if it took multiple people 7 years), and I'm sure they're glad it's finally done.

And they even made it in time for Debian 13 and Ubuntu 25.04. :-)

GTK version

Posted Mar 18, 2025 19:41 UTC (Tue) by fman (subscriber, #121579) [Link] (1 responses)

Congratulations, truly.

Now we are just waiting to see if GIMP endeavours on a GTK4 port in time before the GTK (yes, GIMP ToolKit) folks moves on to GTK5 ..

GTK version

Posted Mar 19, 2025 21:26 UTC (Wed) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

With the non-GNOME GTK desktops all sticking with GTK3, I think we will have GTK3 for a long time.

GIMP 3.0 released

Well done GIMP team

Wrong NEWS link

Wayland

Congratulations

GTK version

GTK version