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The Gimp Team has released version 2.6.12 of the open source photo editing program Gimp. The name Gimp is an abbreviation of GNU Image Manipulation Program. The software is available for various operating systems, including FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. While not officially supported by The Gimp Team, Jernej Simoncic is working on a installer that can be used under Windows.

In version 2.6, especially the user interface has been improved. It was often criticized for opening so many windows. Furthermore, the first steps have been taken for the integration of gl, which should offer greater color depth and improved editing capabilities in the future. In addition to the stable 2.6 branch, there is also a development branch, in which 2.7.4 is in mid-December appeared. Version 2.6.12 is a maintenance release; it fixes some issues and has updated translations on board.

Bug fixed:

  • 627328 – GIMP 2.6.10 segfaults when CTRL-left click on a layer mask
  • 631885 – GIMP fails to import a path from SVG
  • 631728 – Crash or Gtk-CRITICAL on File->Open
  • 641259 – [abrt] gimp-2:2.6.11-1.fc14: py-slice.py:172:slice:TypeError: integer argument expected, got float
  • 640219 – gimp(1) man page fixes
  • 640612 – Sample Colorize does not function non-interactively
  • 646947 – file-pdf-load: Don’t use deprecated API
  • 639203 – file-psp: fix for bogus input data
  • 639203 – Fixes for some buffer overflow problems
  • 652280 – Guard against crash due to quitting while DND is processed
  • 660305 – fails to build with -Werror=format-security
  • 623045 – script-fu: make server IPv6 aware
  • … plus a ton of others.

Updated translations:

  • Asturian (ast)
  • Catalan (Valencian) (ca@valencia)
  • danish (da)
  • Greek (el)
  • Esperanto (eo)
  • Spanish (es)
  • Italian (it)
  • Japanese (yes)
  • Kazakh (kk)
  • Latvian (la)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
  • polish (pl)
  • Portuguese (pt)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
  • Russian (ru)
  • Turkish (tr)
  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

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Version number 2.6.12
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Windows 2000, Linux, BSD, Windows XP, macOS, Solaris, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
Website The Gimp Team
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License type Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.)
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