Hi,

GIMP 2.8.6 has been released. This is a bugfix release in the stable 2.8 series, no new features were added.

For a complete list of changes since 2.8.4 please see the "Changes" section below. Also see the release notes of the 2.8 series at http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html

Happy GIMPing, --Mitch

Download
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GIMP 2.8.6 is available from:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/

and from the mirrors listed at:

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors

The checksum of the tarball is:

12b3fdf33d1f07ae79b412a9e38b9693 gimp-2.8.6.tar.bz2

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.4 to GIMP 2.8.6 =================================================

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 1024x1024
- 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

Plug-ins:

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

Installer:

- Add Hungarian translation

Data:

- Add a default "Color from Gradient" dynamics and tool preset

General:

- Lots of bug fixes - Lots of translation updates

Contributors ============

Daniel Sabo, Dov Grobgeld, Gabor Kelemen, Jehan, Kevin Cozens, Martin Husemann, Massimo Valentini, Michael Henning, Michael Natterer, Mikael Magnusson, Mukund Sivaraman, Nils Philippsen, Pedro Gimeno Fortea, Petr Kubiznak, Sven Claussner, Téo Mazars

Translators ===========

Aurimas Černius, Balázs Úr, Christian Kirbach, Daniel Mustieles, Daniel Winzen, Dimitris Spingos, Enrico Nicoletto, Javier Silva Ortiz, Marco Ciampa, Martin Srebotnjak, Michael Natterer, Piotr Drąg, Rafael Ferreira, Stanislav Petrek, Милош Поповић

Hi Mitch,
It just keeps getting better an better.... It is a exciting development that will really push GIMP forward. Thanks for all the hard work on the project. Keep up the good work guys!