GIMP News

Release news for version GIMP 2.99.18

https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/

Release news for version GIMP 2.10.36

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/11/07/gimp-2-10-36-released/

GIMP’s Windows installer now supports ARM 64-bit architecture.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/08/13/experimental-windows-arm-installer/

Release news for version GIMP 2.99.16

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/07/09/gimp-2-99-16-released/

The meeting of GIMP developers is back!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/06/29/wilber-week-2023/

GIMP is again a Google Summer of Code mentor organization in 2023

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/03/20/gimp-in-gsoc-2023/

Release news for GIMP Help Manual version 2.10.34

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/03/05/gimp-help-manual-2-10-34-released/

Release news for version GIMP 2.10.34

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/02/27/gimp-2-10-34-released/

What happened in 2022?

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/01/29/2022-annual-report/

The first package of a stable version of GIMP for Apple Silicon is available!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/12/02/gimp-2.10.32-apple-silicon/

Happy 27th birthday to the GNU Image Manipulation Program

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/11/21/gimp-27-birthday/

Release news for development version GIMP 2.99.14

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/11/18/gimp-2-99-14-released/

Talk about GIMP and the sister project ZeMarmot in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/10/28/conference-zemarmot-fccl/

Revival of the GIMP developer website

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/10/16/gimp-developer-website-rewrite/

Release news for development version GIMP 2.99.12

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/08/27/gimp-2-99-12-released/

GIMP is officially distributed on the Microsoft Store

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/06/18/gimp-2-10-32-on-microsoft-store/

Release news for version GIMP 2.10.32

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/06/14/gimp-2-10-32-released/

CMYK features will be added to GIMP as part of the Google Summer of Code 2022 program

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/06/03/cmyk-in-gsoc-2022/

GIMP has been accepted as Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/03/08/gimp-in-gsoc-2022/

Release news for development version GIMP 2.99.10

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/02/25/gimp-2-99-10-released/

What happened in 2021?

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/12/31/gimp-2021-annual-report/

A release of bug fixes and backend evolutions.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/12/21/gimp-2-10-30-released/

GIMP is not vulnerable to log4shell.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/12/17/no-log4j-vulnerability/

The current development version of GIMP is finally available as a macOS package!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/12/06/gimp-2-99-8-for-macos/

Release news for development version GIMP 2.99.8

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/10/20/gimp-2-99-8-released/

“Support GIMP with a mirror”

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/10/06/official-mirror-policy/

“More bug fixes”

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/09/18/gimp-2-10-28-released/

GIMP is developed by its community - support the humans behind

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers-sustainable-development/

“Don’t worry, be h-API”

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/

“The geographer release, stability and consolidation”

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/03/29/gimp-2-10-24-released/

GIMP 2.99.4 is out with bug fixes and usability improvements

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/12/25/gimp-2-99-4-released/

“GIMP 2.10.22 available for macOS - and what is going on with Big Sur”

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/12/25/gimp-2-10-22-released-macos/

Exactly 25 years ago, Peter Mattis wrote a message to several newsgroups announcing a new image editor called GIMP.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/21/25-years-of-gimp/

GIMP 2.99.2 marks the first step towards GIMP 3 based on GTK3.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/06/gimp-2-99-2-released/

“The file formats release!”

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/10/07/gimp-2-10-22-released/

“GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.”

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/06/11/gimp-2-10-20-released/

“We skipped announcing 2.10.16 due to a critical bug. Together, the two updates deliver several major usability improvements, a new tool for transformations in 3D space, new release checker, an...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/02/24/gimp-2-10-18-released/

Here is what we did in 2019 and what we are planning to do in 2020.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/01/04/gimp-and-gegl-in-2019/

GIMP 2.10.14 is now released with major enhancements and 45 bugfixes.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/10/31/gimp-2-10-14-released/

GIMP 2.10.12 released: free the bugs!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/06/12/gimp-2-10-12-released/

GIMP 2.10.10 released: colors are hard!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/

In this post, we are looking back at 2018 and then forward to outline future work on GIMP, GEGL, and babl.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/01/02/gimp-and-gegl-in-2018/

GIMP 2.10.8 released: bug fixes and optimizations

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/11/08/gimp-2-10-8-released/

Handshake and GNOME Foundation donated $100,000 to GIMP.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/08/30/handshake-gnome-donation/

GIMP 2.10.6 released with vertical text layers, faster previews, Marathi translation, and more!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/08/19/gimp-2-10-6-released/

The latest update of the stable series delivers bugfixes, simple horizon straightening, async fonts loading, fonts tagging, and more new features.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/07/04/gimp-2-10-4-released/

GIMP has moved to new Gitlab-based infrastructure provided by GNOME.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/05/31/gimp-has-moved-to-gitlab/

GIMP 2.10.2 released (bug fixes, HEIF support and new filters)

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/05/20/gimp-2-10-2-released/

GIMP 2.10.0 is now out with a boom!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/27/gimp-2-10-0-released/

GIMP 2.10.0-rc2: so close…

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/17/gimp-2-10-0-rc2-released/

On a Libre Graphics track at the Southern California Linux Expo

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/03/fun-at-scale-2018/

GIMP 2.10.0-rc1: bugfixes, stability and polish

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/03/26/gimp-2-10-0-rc1-released/

This year is starting off great with not one, but two libre graphics oriented events (one in Europe and the other in North America - for even better coverage)!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/01/09/libre-graphics-meeting-scale-2018/

When you say you mostly do bugfixing now, seven kinds of new features will crawl under your bed and bite your silly toes off. If we were to come up with a short summary for 2017, it would be alon...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/31/gimp-and-gegl-in-2017/

GIMP’s master branch is now entering a tentative strings freeze phase in preparation for 2.10 release.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/21/gimp-2-10-strings-freeze/

GIMP 2.9.8 introduces on-canvas gradient editing and various enhancements while focusing on bugfixing and stability.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/12/gimp-2-9-8-released/

After more than a year of hard work we are excited to release GIMP 2.9.6 featuring many improvements, some new features, translation updates for 23 languages, and 204 bug fixes.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/08/24/gimp-2-9-6-released/

Michael Schumacher gets interviewed by other GIMP developers

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/05/15/an-interview-with-michael-schumacher-gimp-administrator/

We are releasing GIMP 2.8.22 with various bug fixes.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/05/11/gimp-2-8-22-released/

Michael Natterer gets interviewed by other GIMP developers

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/03/01/an-interview-with-michael-natterer-gimp-maintainer/

GIMP 2.8.20 packages for macOS and Microsoft Windows are available now.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/02/07/gimp-2-8-20-packages-macos-and-microsoft-windows/

During Wilber Week 2017 in Barcelona, the GEGL/GIMP team discussed further development plans.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/02/02/gimp-2-10-blockers/

We are releasing GIMP 2.8.20 with various bug fixes.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/02/01/gimp-2-8-20-released/

On January 27 - February 5, the team is meeting in Barcelona for WilberWeek—a week of project planning and vicious hacking.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/01/18/wilberweek-2017-announced/

Almost every new major feature people have been asking us for, be it high bit depth support, or full CMYK support, or layer effects, would be impossible without having a robust, capable image pro...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/01/16/pippin-patreon-fundraising-started/

When we released GIMP 2.9.2 in late 2015 and stepped over into 2016, we already knew that we’d be doing mostly polishing. This turned out to be true to a larger extent, but quite a few new feat...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/01/15/2016-in-review/

Until fairly recently GIMP didn’t do a very good job of remembering all the types of possible customizations. Upcoming v2.10 has some major improvements in that department.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/10/06/making-settings-persistent/

We are releasing GIMP 2.8.18 to fix a vulnerability in the XCF loading code (CVE-2016-4994).

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/07/14/gimp-2-8-18-released/

We have just released the second development version of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. GIMP 2.9.4 features revamped look and feel, major improvements in color management, as well as production-ready M...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/07/13/gimp-2-9-4-released/

If you happen to be anywhere near Austin, TX next weekend (July 8-9) then mosey on down to and meet some of your friendly neighborhood GIMP crew!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/07/04/gimpers-at-texas-linux-fest-2016/

New version of GEGL and babl are out with new features, minor improvements, and fixes to accomodate upcoming GIMP 2.9.4.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/06/14/gegl-0-3-8-babl-0-1-18-released/

With the past few releases, users on the 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows platforms were plagued by an annoying bug — resizing a window crashed GIMP. We believe this to be fixed, and have r...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/06/05/updated-windows-installer-libpixman-crash/

For the past several months we’ve been working on GIMP mostly in the bugfix mode. It’s time to start updating the user manual for the upcoming release.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/05/23/gimp-2-10-docs-update-call/

As part of building a new GIMP website we had to sort through all of the legacy pages in order to migrate content properly. A nice side effect of this sorting included addressing tutorials that ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/05/05/revamping-tutorials/

The Windows installer packages for GIMP 2.8.16 were reported as corrupt when downloaded with the Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer 11 browsers. The current installer package fixes this.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/03/27/updated-windows-installer-signature/

The Windows installer packages for GIMP 2.8.16 are reported as corrupt when downloaded with the Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer 11 browsers. This is due to a policy by Microsoft.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/03/17/corrupt-windows-installer-warnings/

Last weekend, we released a new version of GEGL, graph based image processing framework used by GIMP and other free/libre graphics applications.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/03/15/gegl-0-3-6-released/

This week, StreamComputing launches an educational initiative that aims to get more developers to study and use OpenCL in their projects. Within this project, up to 20 collaborators will port as ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/01/28/gegl-opencl-streamcomputing/

Join us April 15-18 at the 11th annual Libre Graphics Meeting being hosted by Westminster School of Media Arts and Design in London, UK! Come and meet developers of free graphics software, partic...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/01/12/libre-graphics-meeting-2016/

We hope you are having great holidays. Here is our annual report about project activities in 2015.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/12/31/2015-report/

On April 15—18, Libre Graphics Meeting 2016 conference is taking place in London. We invite you to attend it and meet developers of free graphics software, lead a workshop, or participate in o...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/12/03/lgm-2016-call-for-participation/

We are excited to announce the first development release of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. It is another major milestone towards making GIMP a state-of-the art image editing application for graphic de...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/27/gimp-2-9-2-released/

This week the GIMP project celebrates its 20th anniversary. To celebrate it, we released an update of the current stable version of GIMP.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/22/20-years-of-gimp-release-of-gimp-2816/

We have just released new versions of GEGL and babl, the libraries that take all the heavy lifting for color space conversion and image processing in GIMP.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/06/04/gegl-030-babl-0112-released/

We are receiving reports that people who get to SourceForge for GIMP installers for Windows receive small installers that include additional software.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/05/27/sourceforge-what-the/

This is the GIMP project’s official statement on SourceForge’s actions in regard to “abandoned” projects on their service.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/05/27/gimp-projects-official-statement-on-sourceforges-actions/

During Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 last week in Toronto our very own Jehan Pagès announced a new open animated movie project, ZeMarmot.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/05/05/zemarmot-libre-movie-to-be-made-with-gimp-blender-ardour/

Two months to go till Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 happens in Toronto, Canada. This conference is a great place to meet the people who make and use free and open source graphics software.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/02/27/libre-graphics-meeting-2015/

We noticed that gimpguru.org, once the host of GIMP tutorials, has been abandoned by its original owner and is redirecting visitors to some very suspicious downloads—don’t go there.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/01/22/gimpguruorg-rip/

In 2014, we spent most of the time on improving GIMP’s usability and finalizing the GEGL port of GIMP to lay the foundation for various advanced features in demand by professionals.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/01/05/gimp-and-gegl-in-2014/

When software is popular, then there are elements out there who seek to profit from it by less ethical means. GIMP is being attacked in that manner as well.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2014/12/26/the-price-of-being-popular/

The newly released issue #6 of GIMP Magazine features a “Using GIMP for portrait and fashion photography” master class by Aaron Tyree who uses GIMP professionally, and a gallery of other artw...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2014/11/19/gimp-magazine-issue-6-released/

We have released an updated 2.8.14 installer (http ) for Microsoft Windows. This one fixes the crash on window resize and the missing icons bugs - all by updating the included GTK+ library to�...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2014/09/02/updated-2814-installer-for-microsoft-windows/

Yesterday’s 2.8.12 release had broken library versioning, so we had to roll out GIMP 2.8.14 today. The only change is the fixed libtool versioning. Please do not distribute any binaries of yest...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2014/08/26/gimp-2814-released/

A new version of the user manual has been released. Changes include: complete translation to Brazilian Portuguese many, many, many bugfixes You can click here to download the 2.8.2 release ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2014/08/14/gimp-manual-282-released/

It’s been possible to use various scripting languages to automate GIMP for a long time. But until recently Perl bindings for GIMP were considerably out of date due to lack of interest from con...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2014/06/12/gimp-perl-release-candidate-ready-for-testing/

Heads-up if you are still accessing the downloads via ftp.gimp.org: The downloads server has been renamed to download.gimp.org , and it doesn’t support FTP anymore. If you have linked any fi...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2014/05/13/download-server-renamed-to-downloadgimporg-no-ftp-anymore/

The Libre Graphics Meeting is a conference where artists, users, developers, designers, contributors,… who use, plan, develop, play with, tamper with free, libre and open source graphics appl...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2014/01/23/libre-graphics-meeting-2014/

Before you leave for the holidays, we thought you’d like an overview of what we did this year to improve GIMP for you. Most of the time was spent on improving the GEGL-based version of GIMP ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/12/24/what-we-did-in-2013/

We’ve released a new version of the user manual with: Many, many, many bugfixes New (incomplete) translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Catalan The online version of the manual provides...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/11/28/gimp-manual-281-released/

We just released GIMP 2.8.10 ! This is a release in the stable GIMP 2.8 series. This release fixes a bug that prevented older GIMP versions from running on OS X Mavericks. We also did some small ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/11/28/gimp-2810-released/

GSoC2013 program is over now, and 3 out of 4 students successfully completed it. Carlos Zubieta ported 13 GEGL operations to use GPU via OpenCL, and the gegl-random module used by noise genera...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/10/04/google-summer-of-code-2013-results/

Jehan Pagès, one of our active contributors, started a personal crowdfunding campaign to sponsor his work on symmetric painting in GIMP. You can find more information in his blog , and there’...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/09/23/sponsoring-symmetric-painting-mode/

The fourth issue of GIMP Magazine is now out and available as a digital download, a printed copy, and an e-zine for iPad. In just a year the project got a huge following, and now it’d a 100 pa...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/09/05/gimp-magazine-4-published/

We just released GIMP 2.8.6! This is a release in the stable GIMP 2.8 series, featuring lots of bug fixes and translation updates. For the complete list of changes please see the NEWS  file.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/06/21/gimp-286-released/

Four students will be working on GIMP and GEGL this summer thanks to Google Summer of Code 2013 program. Ajay Ramanathan will be working on a combined selection tool ; Carlos Zubieta will be por...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/05/27/four-students-to-work-on-gimp-during-gsoc2013-program-2/

GIMP will be taking part in this year’s Google Summer of Code program as a mentoring organization. We are inviting interested students to get in touch with us and start discussing potential p...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/04/08/four-students-to-work-on-gimp-during-gsoc2013-program-1/

Yesterday Google announced Summer of Code 2013 program. Participating at GSoC has proved to be rather beneficial to us. Here are just some of the features implemented during past runs of the pro...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/02/12/four-students-to-work-on-gimp-during-gsoc2013-program/

GIMP 2.8.4 is now available as disk image for Mac OSX. Please note that with this release, we have moved GIMP’s per-user data from “~/Library” to “~/Library/Application Support”. If ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/02/10/gimp-284-for-osx-available/

GIMP 2.8.4 is out! This is a release in the stable GIMP 2.8 series, featuring lots of bug fixes and translation updates. For the complete list of changes please see the NEWS  file. Pre-built b...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2013/02/05/gimp-284-released/

As 2013 is fast approaching, we’d like to take a quick look at 2012 and what we did during the year. In May we released the long anticipated new stable version, v2.8, with many improvements ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/12/27/gimp-in-2012/

For the last few weeks GIMP has been capable of using ICC v4 color profiles thanks to a patch by Laurent Martelli who ported the color management plug-in to use LittleCMS v2. There is also an...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/11/21/gimp-gets-icc-v4-color-profiles-support/

Four out of five GIMP students successfully finished their work in the Google Summer of Code 2012 program. Unfortunately one of the students wasn’t able to complete all of the work. The code...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/09/03/google-summer-of-code-2012-is-over/

We’ve just released GIMP 2.8.2, the first update to the new stable version of GIMP. The update brings several dozens of fixes to various issues of all scales. Most notorious bugs fixed are: ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/08/24/gimp-282-released/

It’s been a long time since we last had an active Windows-based developer. Consequently, GIMP has accumulated a plethora of bugs specific for that operating system. As much as we’d like to pr...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/07/25/we-are-looking-for-windows-developers/

We are glad to announce that all of our Google Summer of Code 2012 students passed the midterm evaluation last week. All projects are coming along nicely. The unified transform is already quit...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/07/20/all-gsoc-2012-students-passed-midterm-evaluation/

Since 2006 we’ve been improving GIMP’s user interface with help from Peter Sikking and his team at man + machine interface works . Some of the best improvements in GIMP’s UI over past seve...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/05/14/new-usability-project/

Today at Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 in Vienna we announced that the development version of GIMP is now capable of processing images in 16bit and 32bit modes, integer or float at your preferenc...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/05/04/high-bit-depth-processing-available-now/

We are happy to announce immediate availability of GIMP 2.8—a new stable version of GNU Image Manipulation Program that culminates 3.5 years of exciting work. With this version we are introd...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/05/03/gimp-28-released/

We are excited to announce that we have five students to work with us on improving GIMP as part of the Google Summer of Code 2012 program. All the students will be contributing to faster transit...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/04/23/gimp-and-gegl-projects-for-gsoc2012-announced/

In late 2007 we launched smooth transition to GEGL—a new advanced image processing core incepted by a team of Rhythm & Hues developers. For v2.6 we made an optional GEGL-based implementation...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/04/17/gimps-core-getting-ported-to-gegl/

We released new versions of GEGL and babl, quickly followed by the first release candidate of GIMP 2.8. GEGL 0.2.0 has some major improvements and breaks API/ABI compatibility with earlier ver...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/04/08/gegl-and-babl-updated-gimp-28rc1-released/

GIMP has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2012 program. This is a great chance for aspiring developers to get a good understanding of remote collaborative work and coincidentally help the ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/03/21/gimp-accepted-for-gsoc2012/

We’ve just released GIMP 2.7.5, the last beta in the 2.7.x series. This version got various fixes and improvements, translation updates and a few minor features such as configurable default col...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/03/14/gimp-275-released/

On May 2–5 we are attending Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 , the annual conference for developers and users of free software for graphic design, photography and 3D modeling. The event is taking pl...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/02/27/gimp-at-libre-graphics-meeting-2012/

GIMP 2.6.12 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. Its purpose is mostly to wrap up all fixes that have piled up since 2.6.11 into a last release in the stable 2.6 series before we s...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2012/02/01/gimp-2612-released-the-final-26-release/

We released GIMP 2.7.4 with minor improvements and bugfixes. Most improvements are related to user interface and usability, see here for detailed list of changes. Depending on amount of bugs we ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/12/13/gimp-274-released-gegl-and-babl-updated/

Victor Oliveira, our GSoC2011 student, is going to continue his work on getting OpenCL support in GEGL for hardware accelerated rendering and computations. AMD got interested in the project and a...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/11/28/amd-sponsors-further-work-on-opencl-support-in-gegl/

Our mailing lists have moved to the GNOME list server. All previously subscribed users have automatically been added to the new lists. The old list mail addresses are no longer valid, please u...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/10/26/mailing-lists-moved-to-gnome-mailing-list-server/

The online docs and developer pages are available again: Online Docs (docs.gimp.org ) Developer Pages (developer.gimp.org )

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/10/21/online-docs-and-developer-pages-restored/

We managed to get FTP and Wiki back online: FTP Downloads (ftp.gimp.org ) Developer Wiki (wiki.gimp.org )

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/10/18/ftp-and-wiki-back-online/

Due to relocation onto a different server, the following services are currently not available: Mailing lists (lists.xcf.berkeley.edu) FTP Downloads (ftp.gimp.org) Documentation (docs.gimp.org...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/10/16/mailing-list-ftp-and-documentation-outage/

Google Summer of Code 2011 is over, and all of our students have successfully finished their respective projects. All of the code is available in Git repositories, but not all of it is going to b...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/09/17/gsoc2011-is-over/

We are pleased to announce availability of a new development version that brings us closer to GIMP 2.8. This version is packed with important new features and improvements. The most visible ch...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/08/22/gimp-273-released/

While GEGL gradually replaces GIMP’s old core, it’s time for us to consider long-term strategy for improving performance. The trend these days seems to be a combination of multithreading, GPU...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/08/14/on-gpu-side-rendering-and-further-development-plans/

We are glad to announce that all of our Google Summer of Code students have passed midterm evaluation. All the code is being maintained in respective Git branches of GEGL and GIMP. As a reminde...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/07/20/all-gsoc-students-passed-midterm-evaluation/

Two new books on GIMP have been published recently. “GIMP 2.6 Cookbook” , in English, by Juan Manuel Ferreyra is a collection of straightforward instructions that will help you accomplishing ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/05/06/two-new-books-on-gimp-published/

We are pleased to announce that we have five projects accepted for Google Summer of Code 2011 program: Adaptive cloning will provide means to paste an object from a different picture in a way t...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/04/26/google-summer-of-code-2011-projects-announced/

We are pleased to announce availability of a new development version that brings us closer to GIMP 2.8. This version is packed with important new features and improvements. For a complete list of...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/04/15/gimp-272-released/

One of the most common questions we keep hearing is when the next version of GIMP is released. While it’s difficult to define exact dates, it is possible to estimate how far away a new stable r...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/04/04/progress-of-gimp-development-is-now-trackable/

This year we are participating in the Google Summer of Code program again. If you are a student who is willing to improve GIMP and be financially rewarded ($5000), please have a look at the list...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/03/18/we-are-participating-in-google-summer-of-code-2011/

After a year of work new versions of GEGL, new non-destructive image processing core, and babl, a bitmap format conversion library, are out with several major changes. The new version of GEGL ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/02/13/gegl-016-and-babl-014/

Since 2006 our project has been collaborating with Peter Sikking of m+mi works to improve GIMP’s usability. Peter is behind many positive changes in GIMP’s UI, such as new selection tools in...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/02/02/two-interns-to-work-on-gimps-usability/

In the face of all sorts of rumours and interpretations about the future of the project there is a call for clarification regarding development of GIMP. Currently GIMP team is working on finali...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2011/01/11/plans-for-28-and-beyond/

We’ve released a new version of the user manual with: many, many, many bugfixes spelling fixes and new translations for: Italian, English, German, French, Japnese, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2010/12/21/gimp-manual-261-released/

This year GIMP participated in the annual Google Summer of Code program with three projects. Two out of three projects have been successful: Cage transform tool in GIMP and HDR and matting functi...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2010/10/04/google-summer-of-code-2010-results/

GIMP 2.6.11 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. Among other bug-fixes, it makes printing work with the recently released version 1.10 of the Cairo library . Please have a look at ...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2010/10/04/gimp-2611-released/

Unfortunately a rather bad bug sneaked into GIMP 2.6.9, so here’s another release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series to fix this issue. Please have a look at the NEWS file for a more detailed list...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2010/07/08/gimp-2610-released/

It is about time… For a new development snapshot on the way to the next stable version GIMP 2.8. This release brings a whole lot of new features and improvements, see the release notes and the...

https://www.gimp.org/news/2010/07/03/gimp-271-released/

It’s been a while since the last release. Quite a few bug-fixes have piled up in the stable branch, so here’s another release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2010/06/23/gimp-269-released/

GIMP 2.6.8 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/12/10/gimp-268-released/

The GIMP documentation team has been working hard and is proud to announce the availability of the first release of the user manual for GIMP 2.6.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/10/09/gimp-help-released-for-gimp-26/

The release of GIMP 2.7.0 is a first step towards GIMP 2.8, the next stable release.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/08/16/gimp-270-development-release/

GIMP 2.6.7 comes with lots of bug-fixes and it contains an important fix for using GIMP with the latest GEGL and babl releases.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/08/14/gimp-267-released/

GAP 2.6.0 is a stable release of the video menu intended for use with the GIMP 2.6.x series.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/06/05/gimp-animation-package-260-released/

Google has started to accept applications from students for Summer of Code.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/03/24/google-summer-of-code-student-application-period-has-started/

The the list of accepted organizations is published, and GIMP is one of them!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/03/19/gimp-has-been-accepted-for-google-summer-of-code/

GIMP 2.6.6 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. This release contains an important fix for compiling GIMP against the recently released GTK+ 2.16.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/03/17/gimp-266-released/

For four years, the Libre Graphics Meeting has been the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of free software graphics applications.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/03/07/libre-graphics-meeting-2009/

GIMP 2.6.5 is a bugfix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/02/15/gimp-265-released/

The GIMP developers welcome you in the new year with the fourth bugfix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2009/01/01/gimp-2-6-4-released/

GIMP 2.6.3 is another bugfix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2008/11/22/gimp-263-released/

The GIMP development team has made another bugfix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2008/10/30/gimp-262-released/

GIMP 2.6.1 is a bugfix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2008/10/09/gimp-261-released/

An update of the GIMP user manual is available. This release is still focused on GIMP 2.4. Work has started on updating the user manual for GIMP 2.6.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2008/10/06/gimp-user-manual-242-released/

The GIMP developers are proud to release GIMP 2.6.0 today.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2008/10/01/gimp-260-released/

GIMP approaches the next stable release and only a handful bugs are left to be fixed before GIMP 2.6 is ready.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2008/09/17/gimp-2-5-4-released/

GIMP 2.5.3 is a fresh snapshot from the 2.5 development series. It gives developers and interested users a preview of the upcoming GIMP 2.6 release.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2008/08/22/gimp-2-5-3-released/

The GIMP team is proud to announce that the GNU Image Manipulation Program has been chosen as the first Open Source Software project for a sponsored student project on usability.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2006/08/11/open-usability-and-gimp/