Download GIMP 2.99.16

Version 2.99.16 of the open source photo editing program GIMP has been released, a development version that will eventually lead to version 3.0. 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. However, due to a lack of manpower, the development of the macOS version is lagging behind. Version 3.0 will see the move to GTK3, xcf files can now be larger than 4GB, and can use multicore processors more efficiently. The release notes for this release can be found below.

Development version: GIMP 2.99.16 Released

Closer than ever to a release candidate for GIMP 3.0, we introduce the latest development version: GIMP 2.99.16! This news covers some of the more noteworthy or interesting parts of this update and we are very happy to be able to showcase these.

• GTK+3 port officially done
  • GimpAction infrastructure
  • Multiple shortcuts per action
  • Action Search improvements
• Improved GEGL operations’ GUI integration
• Tools
  • Text tool
  • Align and Distribute tool
  • Unified Transform tool
• Space Invasion
• Graphical User Interface
  • New option “Merge menu and title bar”
  • Themes
• Fill and Stroke selection/path improvements
• “Middle Gray (CIELAB)” layer fill option
• File Formats
  • FITS
  • PSD (and a bit of TIFF and JPEG)
  • JPEG
  • JPEG-XL
  • DDS
  • New image format supports: PAM, QOI, Amiga IFF/ILBM, DCX
• Plugin API
  • Resources data get their own class
  • Plugin localization improved
  • More specialized plug-in argument types
  • And more…
• GEGL, babl
• Release stats
• Team news and release process
• Around GIMP
  • Mirror news
  • Book news
• Downloading GIMP 2.99.16
• What’s next

This news lists the most notable and visible changes. In particular, we do not list here bug fixes or smaller improvements. To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the NEWS file or look at the commit history.