Download GIMP 2.8.14

Two updates to version 2.8 of the open source photo editing program GIMP have been released in quick succession. The name GIMP is an abbreviation for ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’. The software is available for various operating systems, including Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, OS X and Solaris. The source code is already available for download, binaries for the different operating systems will follow soon. Version 2.8 includes improvements to the user interface, layers can now be grouped, the text tool has been greatly improved and gl is almost completely integrated. Since version 2.8.10, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

GIMP 2.8.14

General:

• Fix libtool versioning (forgot to bump gimp_interface_age)

GIMP 2.8.12

core:

• OSX: Fix migration code for old GIMP directories
• Fix brush sizes when used from plugins
• Windows: Allow to Explorer-open files with UTF-8 characters in the filename
• Make XCF loading more robust against broken files

GUI:

• Make sure the widget direction matches the GUI language
• Remove the option to disable the warning when closing a modified image
• Fix canvas overlay widgets (like the text options) for tablets
• Make DND work between images in one dockable

Libgimp:

• Make gimp_image_get_name() return the string used for the image title

Plugins:

• Make script-fu-server more secure by listening to 127.0.0.1 by default and add a warning about changing that IP. This breaks the procedure’s API, but for security reasons.
• Bring back proper script-fu translations

General:

• Massively clean up and fix the OSX build and bundle
• Add Jenkins tutorial
• Documentation updates
• Bug fixes
• Translation updates