Hi,
GIMP 2.8.8 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 2.8.8 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:
ef2547c3514a1096931637bd6250635a gimp-2.8.8.tar.bz2
Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.6 to GIMP 2.8.8
=================================================
Core:
- Make sure indexed images always have a colormap
- Fix language selection via preferences on Windows
- Don't crash on setting a large text size
GUI:
- Keep the same image active when switching between MWM and SWM
- Make sure all dockables are properly resizable (particularly
shrinkable)
- Add links to jump directly to Save/Export from the Export/Save
file extension warning dialogs
Libgimp:
- Fix GimpPickButton on OSX
Plug-ins:
- Properly document plug-in-autocrop-layer's PDB interface
- Fix importing of indexed BMPs
General:
- Fix lots of places to use GIO to get proper file sizes and times on
windows
- Add an AppData file for GIMP
- Backport lcms2 support from master, because lcms1 is not getting
bug fixes any longer
- Lots of bug fixes
- Lots of translation updates
Contributors
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Alexandre Prokoudine, Clayton Walker, Daniel Sabo, Jehan, Jernej
Simončič, Massimo Valentini, Michael Henning, Michael Natterer,
Nils Philippsen, Piotr Drąg, Richard Hughes, Simon Budig, Sven
Claussner, Téo Mazars
Translators
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A S Alam, Alexandre Prokoudine, Aurimas Černius, Balázs Úr,
Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos, Enrico Nicoletto, Inaki Larranaga
Murgoitio, Jehan, Marco Ciampa, Martin Srebotnjak, Matej Urbančič,
Piotr Drąg, Seong-ho Cho, Sven Claussner, Timo Jyrinki
