Download GIMP 2.8.16

Version 2.8.16 of The Gimp has been released, which coincides with the twentieth birthday of the open source photo editing program. 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. The main changes and improvements made in this release are as follows:

core:

• Seek much less when writing XCF
• Don’t seek past the end of the file when writing XCF
• Windows: call SetDLLDirectory() for less DLL hell
• Fix velocity parameter on .GIH brushes
• Fix brokenness while transforming certain sets of linked layers

GUI:

• Always show image tabs in single window mode
• Fix switching of dock tabs by DND hovering
• Don’t make the scroll area for tags too small
• Fixed a crash in the save dialog
• Fix issue where ruler updates made things very slow on Windows

Plugins:

• Fix several issues in the BMP plugin
• Make Gfig work with the new brush size behavior again
• Fix font export in the PDF plug-in
• Support layer groups in OpenRaster files
• Fix loading of PSD files with layer groups

General:

• OSX build system fixes
• Bug fixes
• Translation updates