Download GIMP 2.8.22

Version 2.8.22 of the open source photo editing program The Gimp has been released. The name GIMP is an abbreviation for ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’. The software is available for various operating systems, including Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Solaris. 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. The main changes and improvements made in this release are as follows:

GUI:

• improve drawing performance in single window mode, especially with pixmap themes

macOS DMG:

• Make the launcher script also set BABL_PATH
• Add patch for GTK+ Bug 743717 to the build which concerns crashes during clipboard operations with a clipboard manager active
• Add patch for GTK+ Bug 767091 to the build which concerns crashes on some drag & drop operations
• generate OSX package metadata during build

Plugins:

• Fix for CVE-2007-3126, a bug in the ICO plug-in which allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an ICO file with an InfoHeader containing a Height of zero. We couldn’t reproduce any crash in recent version, but fixed the error messages for good measure
• Avoid creating wrong layer group structure when importing PSD files (already fixed in 2.8.20, didn’t make it to the NEWS)
• Prevent a crash in PDF plug-in if images or resolution are large
• stop parsing invalid PCX files early and prevent a segmentation fault

General:

• if NOCONFIGURE is set, autogen.sh won’t run configure
• VPATH builds for win32 targets have been fixed

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