As Sven Neumann just announced in the official mailing lists, there is a new Bugfix-Release in the GIMP 2.4 series. Gimp 2.4.4. is even more stable and has lots of bugfixes and cleanup included. So update now!

The list of changes are:

- fixed typo in stock icon name
- fixed handling of PSD files with empty layer names (bug #504149)
- merged TinyScheme bug-fixes
- removed duplicate entry from Tango palette
- corrected parameter range in Chip Away script (bug #506110)
- reduced redraw priority and speed of the marching ants (bug #479875)
- fixed out-of-bounds array access in Convolution Matrix plug-in
- reduced rounding errors in Convolution Matrix plug-in (bug #508114)
- fixed potential crash on missing CMYK color profile
- fixed crash in Bumpmap plug-in when called from scripts (bug #509608)
- Equalize should not equalise the alpha channel (bug #510210)
- increased number of points handled by ImageMap plug-in (bug #511072)
- adjusted the priority of the projection renderer (bug #511214)
- smooth the brush mask to get a simpler cursor boundary (bug #304798)
- show the selection even if the image window is invisible (bug #505758)
- allow to commit a pending selection using Enter (bug #511599)
- fixed bug in image dirty state logic (bug #509822)
- improved GIMPressionist preformance and startup time (bug #512126)
- fixed a crash in the Convert to Color Profile plug-in (bug #512529)
- merged some other minor fixes from trunk
- translation updates (de, it, lt, ru, sv, uk)

Thanks to Sven Neumann, Michael Natterer, Kevin Cozens, Hans Breuer,
Bill Skaggs, Ulf-D. Ehlert and Martin Nordholts. They have worked on this new release!

We’ve updated our downloads page, which now offers a direct link to the new version (sourcecode). Binary versions for (i.e.) Windows users are about to follow in the next days/weeks. We’ll keep you informed on that!

Have fun with this new, even more stable, release of GIMP 2.4 ;)