GIMP 2.10.28 is now released. This is a bugfix release, because we are giving most of our time and efforts to the development version (2.99.x).
Note: you may have noticed we skipped GIMP 2.10.26. A build bug has been discovered just after tagging the release. GIMP 2.10.28 is the same without the bug. We recommend against building and using GIMP 2.10.26.
Dashboard dockable now has memory support in OpenBSD.(dir-make) enables to create directories
from scripts.To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the NEWS file or look at the commit history.
Code contributors: bootchk, Des McGuinness, Ian Martins, Jacob Boerema, Jehan, Lloyd Konneker, Luca Bacci, Marc Espie, Massimo Valentini, Michael Bazzinotti, Michael McLaughlin, Øyvind Kolås, saul, Simon McVittie and Stanislav Grinkov.
Theme contributors: Kevin Payne and Stanislav Grinkov.
Build contributors: Marco Spiess and Mario Daniel Ruiz Saavedra.
Jacob Boerema got appointed a new co-maintainer of the manual
repository (gimp-help) after porting its scripts to Python 3 and
improving them.
Stanislav Grinkov is now a new core developer.
Des McGuinness and Lloyd Konneker were given “reporter” access which allows them to help triaging on the bugtracker: labelling, closing, reopening, and moving reports…
nmat was given “reporter” access on the website project (gimp-web),
for his tremendous help with website maintenance.
Among the 82 languages for which GIMP is available, 14 translations were updated: Catalan, Chinese (China), Croatian, Dutch, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
The Windows installer now contains Vietnamese and Lithuanian translations, making it available in 34 languages.
Translators on GIMP 2.10.26/28: Alexandre Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson, Aurimas Černius, Boyuan Yang, Daniel Mustieles, Hannie Dumoleyn, Jordi Mas, Luna Jernberg, Marco Ciampa, Milo Ivir, Ngọc Quân Trần, Matej Urbančič, Philipp Kiemle, Piotr Drąg, Rodrigo Lledó, Tim Sabsch and Yuri Chornoivan.
More work than ever is happening around Windows lately, both within GIMP and the libraries it depends on. Which is how several long-standing issues with GIMP on Windows finally got fixed:
GLib was using
an inappropriate Windows API to get some information about drives.
This has been fixed!
(#913,
glib!2020)GLib had a buggy watcher on the registry.
(#6780,
glib!2205,
glib!2210)GTK was outputting the wrong character on some keyboard input using
Input Engines (e.g. alphanumeric characters were interpreted as
half-width katakana when using the Japanese IME).
(#1603,
gtk!3741)Explorer.exe would acquire a lock on the file
and never release it). Since Microsoft doesn’t seem to want to fix this
long-standing bug, we decided to switch to another way of creating
thumbnails by adding a “reduced-resolution image” as the second page
of the TIFF, as proposed in the TIFF specification, instead of adding a
subifd thumbnail. This takes care of the lock issue in a nice way,
bypassing Explorer‘s bug. Of course, it means that programs that can’t
reads tags properly might try opening thumbnails as additional pages,
even though it is explicitly annotated as “reduced-resolution image”.
If you ever run into this very issue, please report it to developers
of such programs. What they need to check is the SubFile type of the pages
their software opens (as per TIFF
specification).
(#3740)GLib was reading directory
with inappropriate access rights. Actually, this fix has been available
since GIMP 2.10.24.
(#4594,
glib!1976)GTK software and
break some mouse interactions. We have had a patch for this, by Ell,
since 2017, which we used for all GIMP 2.10.x
releases. Unfortunately, with GTK2 maintenance stopped, our patch
was only available in the bugtracker and in our binaries, while it was
beneficial to other GTK software, even in GTK3 or newer. It has only
recently been reworked and improved by Luca Bacci so that this problem
is now officially fixed in GTK3 too!
(#1082,
gtk!2767)In particular, we would like to thank Luca Bacci, Jacob Boerema, LRN, Ell, and all the contributors who stayed on top of Windows issues for this progress to happen, sometimes taking years of patience.
On macOS side, the activity is still slow, if not non-existent.
We remind that GIMP is made by you. Yes, you 👆 reading this right now. Windows developers used to be very few too. As you can see, this is clearly changing. Therefore, if anyone cares about GIMP for macOS, please step forward.
You may have noticed that GIMP 2.10.24’s macOS DMG was released months late. Even this only happened because Jehan spent days to fix the build on the remote build server, bit by bit, without any local access to a macOS machine, nor any ways to run and test himself. If the packagers are still unavailable, we may try to do the same for this release, though we can’t set a deadline.
It is obviously not a sustainable release model. It is even worse for the development versions: we haven’t had a single build for GIMP 2.99.x on macOS yet.
So if you want this to change, please join us! 🤗
As usual, this release is supplemented with the releases of babl 0.1.88, early July, and GEGL 0.4.32 the same day as GIMP 2.10.26.
In GEGL in particular, the following operations were improved:
edge_handling parameter allows users to
choose whether areas outside the input are to be treated as above
threshold or below threshold (i.e. infinitely white or black
respectively) for calculating distance. (by woob)The test system got also some nice improvements by John Marshall.
As usual GIMP 2.10.28 is available on GIMP official website (gimp.org):
The Linux flatpak has already been published so that anyone who
installed it previously should have an update proposed by their
software manager (or from terminal: flatpak update org.gimp.GIMP//stable).
The Windows installer is already available. Most mirrors have picked
it up, but some still haven’t. So if the download fails, just try to
click the Download button again.
The macOS DMG package will hopefully be published soonish.
Though we may likely get again exciting new features in further 2.10.x versions, nowadays most feature development happen in the development version for future GIMP 3. You may have seen some of it, if you follow our work on social networks, or if you test nightlies of GIMP.
Otherwise, you will have more surprises when we will release GIMP 2.99.8 development version!
Don’t forget you can donate to the project and personally fund several GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. As you know, the maintainers of GEGL and GIMP are crowdfunding to be able to work full-time on free software. 🥳
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