Download The GIMP 2.2.11 and 2.3.8

The developers behind the GNU Image Manipulation Program have released new versions of the GIMP. In the stable branch it is about version 2.2.11 and the so-called development build has arrived at 2.3.8. The GIMP is a photo editing program and is considered by many to be the open source counterpart of Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro and is available for Windows, Unix and Mac OS X, among others. The downloads can be done at either this page are being found. Below is the changelog for both versions:

Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.2.11

• fixed handling of EXIF ​​data in JPEG plugin (bug #303383)
• let gimptool use pkg-config to determine compiler and linker flags at run-time (bug #324761)
• added GTK+ category in gimp.desktop file (bug #328012)
• fixed guides scripts to allow guides at the right and bottom (bug #328320)
• fixed icons in color picker buttons in Levels tool (bug #325745)
• fixed parameter check in Compressor plug-in
• made the internal help browser the default for all platforms (bug #329888)
• fixed handling of alpha channel in Gaussian Blur plugin (bug #331051)
• fixed incorrect bitshifts in Win Icon plugin (bug #330692)
• fixed a potential crash in the Animation Playback plugin (bug #328919)
• corrected tile cache size in Unsharp Mask plugin (bug #331344)
• fixed the import of SVG circles
• fixed rounding of resolution in BMP plugin (bug #332501)
• fixed resolution handling in PSD load plugin
• store resolution when saving in the PSD file format (bug #310426)
• fixed crash in Revert function (bug #333568)
• flush the projection before reading from it (bug #332933)
• fixed MMX instructions on Pentium II machines (bug #162778)
• fixed possible crash on closing a dockable (bug #338286)

Changes in GIMP 2.3.8

• added new tile primitive Triangle to Mosaic plugin
• speed up Gaussian Blur plugin
• suppress redundant progress updates from plugins
• changed some gimprc and sessionrc default values ​​(window hints, fullscreen mode)
• do not focus transform tool dialogs on map
• renamed Magnify tool to Zoom tool and added some missing tool shortcuts
• added a submenu with recently used plug-ins to the Filters menu
• fixed look-up table used for Contrast adjustments
• improved the user interface of the Animation Playback plug-in
• added framework for describing menu entries in the statusbar
• added lots of helpful blurbs to procedures and core actions
• remove color from the Watercolor selector if Shift is being pressed
• ported PDB internals to GParamSpec and GValue
• speedup and UI improvements for the SIOX tool
• added parasite getters and settors for vectors
• made PSD load and save plug-ins 64bit clean
• some string review
• ported ellipse select tool to the new rectangle tool
• added basic support for layer masks to the PSD save plug-in
• avoid relocations by declaring more data as const
• new application icons in more sizes and as a SVG
• provide script-specific samples instead of hard-coding “Aa” for font preview
• build the Screenshot plugin on all platforms
• allow to discard invisible layers when merging visible layers
• nicer output from gimp-procedural-db-dump
• bug fixes and code cleanup

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