Download Gimp 2.6.2

Last Thursday, The Gimp Team released version 2.6.2 of the open source photo editing program Gimp. The name Gimp is an abbreviation for ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’. The software is available for various operating systems, including Freebsd, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. Although it is not officially supported by The Gimp Team, one Jernej Simoncic is working on a installer that can be used under Windows. In version 2.6.0, the user interface in particular has been overhauled, which was often criticized by opening the many screens. Furthermore, the first tentative steps have also been taken with regard to the integration of gl, which should offer higher color depth and improved editing capabilities in the future. Versions 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 contain several bug fixes and further translations have been updated. Below you will find all the improvements made to Gimp since version 2.6.0:

Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.6.2:

• Scaling in Gimp 2.6 is much slower than in Gimp 2.4
• unit and zoom entries in Statusbar not visible
• Cannot build GIMP using Sun CC on Solaris 2.8
• projection incorrect with alpha-less layers
• Zoom region always zooms in center of image
• “Qmask” message popping up here and there
• compatibility with GEGL > 0.0.20
• Scaling gives ‘jagged’ edges
• Zoom drop down doesn’t update
• Print not to scale
• gimp crashes when a file is opened while a preview is generating
• Alpha layer automatically added (in psd format)
• Could you please explain a few strings [I18N]
• build fails if configured with –without-libjpeg
• Curves tool doesn’t save free curves
• Updated translations:
  • Czech (cs)
  • danish (da)
  • Finnish (fi)
  • French (fr)
  • Japanese (yes)
  • polish (pl)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
  • Swedish (sv)
  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.6.1:

• PSD file crashes PSD plug-in
• PSD Load Plugin: unsupported compression mode
• gimp-remote is not working properly
• some gif files will not be open
• JPEG Save Options Dialog does not remember
• Gimp crashes creating a new image using a template
• Compile failure on uri-backend-libcurl
• Opening Help crashes GIMP with lqr plugin installed
• centering issues after image scaling and setting zoom
• Compile failure on uri-backend-wget.c
• Updated translations:
  • Belarusian (be)
  • Catalan (approx.)
  • Finnish (fi)
  • French (fr)
  • Japanese (yes)
  • Macedonian (mk)
  • Punjab (dad)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
  • Romanian (ro)
  • Slovenian (sl)
  • Swedish (sv)

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GIMP 2.6.0 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.