Download GIMP 2.8.6

An update to version 2.8 of the open source photo editing program 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, 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. This update mainly brings bug fixes.

core:

• Fix saving to URIs, it was broken to only allow exporting, and fix save/export of compressed files
• Fix brush spacing for drawing in any direction
• Increase the maximum size of clipboard brushes and patterns to 1024×1024
• Make sure data objects are saved when only their name was changed

GUI:

• Don’t allow single-window docks to shrink smaller than their requisition
• Make sure a single-window’s right docks keep their size across sessions
• Allow to change the spacing of non-generated brushes again
• In single-window mode, make Escape move the focus to the canvas, and beep if the focus is already there
• Be smarter about unavailable fonts, and don’t crash
• Make clicking the single-window’s close button quit GIMP
• Make view-close (Ctrl+W) only close image windows and tabs, not docks

Libgimp:

• Add SIGNED_ROUND() which also rounds negative values ​​correctly

Plugins:

• Make GIMP_PLUGIN_DEBUG work again after GLib changed logging
• Fix zealous crop for transparent borders

Installer:

• Add Hungarian translation

Dates:

• Add a default “Color from Gradient” dynamics and tool preset

General:

• Lots of bug fixes
• Lots of translation updates