Download The Gimp 2.5.3 / 2.4.7

The Gimp, an acronym for “GNU Image Manipulation Program,” is a photo editing program and is considered by many to be the open source counterpart to Adobe Photoshop and Corel Paint Shop Pro. The program is available for various operating systems such as Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The developers have released a new development version in the 2.5 series with 2.5.3 as the version number and in addition, a bug fix release in the 2.4 series has appeared with 2.4.7 as the version number. The corresponding lists of changes from both versions are as follows:

Changes in GIMP 2.4.7:

• fixed issue in GIF load plugin (bug #535888)
• fixed event handling in MIDI controller (bug #537960)
• fixed handling of the ‘Highlight’ tool option in Crop and Rectangle Select tools (bug #536582)
• various fixes to the Python bindings:
  • fixed crash with Python 2.5 on 64 bit systems (bug #540629)
  • added missing validity checks (bug #536403)
  • allow to pass None for PDB_DISPLAY

  plugged a memory leak in gimp-text-get-extents-fontname PDB call

• fixed potential timeout issues in org.gimp.GIMP.UI D-Bus service
• fixed endianness issue in the ICO save plugin (bug #529629)
• translation fixes and updates (be, it, lt, nn, vi)

Changes in GIMP 2.5.3:

• some fixes for the 64-bit Windows platform
• optionally emulate brush dynamics when stroking a path or selection
• further work on the scroll-beyond-image-borders feature, improving the behavior of the image display when zooming or when the image size changes
• added links to the user manual to the Tips dialog
• largely rewritten scaling code improves scaling quality, in particular when scaling down
• allow to copy-on-write from the image projection
• added “Paste as new layer” to Edit menu
• added “New from visible” to the Layer menu allowing to create a new layer from the image projection
• added new procedure ‘gimp-layer-new-from-visible’.
• renamed all file plug-in executables to a have a file prefix
• changed the HSV color selector to use the GtkHSV widget
• changed the default for the ‘trust-dirty-flag’ gimprc property
• dropped the “Starburst” logo script
• improved the behavior of the zoom button in the upper right corner of the image window
• allow PDB procedures to pass an error message with their return values
• changed all file plug-ins to pass their error messages with the return values ​​instead of raising an error dialog
• adapt the display of the pointer position in the statusbar to the pointer precision of the active tool
• bug fixes and code cleanup

Changes in GIMP 2.5.2:

• final touches on the combined Freehand/Polygon Select tool
• added a dialog for managing Color tool settings
• prepared the code for changes in the upcoming GTK+ release
• improved popup scale button
• mark the center of rectangles/bounding rectangles during moves
• added dialog to query for using the online user manual
• allow to map dynamics to hardness for the Eraser tool
• provide gimp-remote functionality on Windows
• disable the build and install of the gimp-remote tool by default
• allow to scroll beyond the image borders
• added new PDB data type for transferring color arrays
• added new PDB function gimp-palette-get-colors
• added text search to the Help Browser plug-in
• bug fixes and code cleanup

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