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GIMP 3.0.4, the second update for the major 3.0 release series of this popular image editor, is out!
The official release note is not ready at the moment of writing, though it should be available in next few days. According to the NEWS file in source code, GIMP 3.0.4 features bug-fixes, tools/plug-ins updates, and various improvements.
This is step by step guide shows how to install the G’MIC plugin for GIMP 3.0 series in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 24.10, and higher.
GREYC’s Magic for Image Computing, G’MIC short, is a popular free open-source image processing software. It can work as plugin for GIMP, Krita, Photoshop, etc. with more than 600 filters to alter the appearance of an image.
G’MIC for GIMP 3.0
Just a week after the 3.0.0 major release, GIMP announced the first maintenance update for the 3.0 series on this Sunday.
The new image editor release fixed more than a dozen of bugs, improved the official installers, updated translations, and introduced 2 new download mirrors for users from India.
To help users switching from Adobe PhotoShop, PhotoGIMP project updated today with support for the new GIMP 3.0 image editor.
PhotoGIMP is a free open-source project that optimizes GIMP for AdobeShop users. By changing the local app data, it organised the tools and their options to be PhotoShop style, assigned keyboard shortcuts to similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe’s Documentation, and added new default settings to maximize space on the canvas.
After more than 4 years of development, GIMP image editor 3.0 finally goes stable!
GIMP 3.0 is a new major release! Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users in 3 different ways:
.deb package.
GIMP image editor announced the third release candidate for the next major 3.0 series yesterday, with dozens of bug-fixes, requests, and translation updates.
The new release fixed crash and stability issues when working on Wayland. The new GIMP running with most recent GTK 3.24.48 fixed freeze with certain actions on KDE/Wayland, and crash when dragging layers and text glitches in certain widgets with Right-To-Left languages.
GIMP image editor announced the second release candidate for the next major 3.0 release a day ago on Friday!
The new GIMP 3.0 RC2 fixed the issue migrating user’s 2.10 settings to GIMP 3.0. However, if you already used 3.0 RC1, then you need to delete those configurations first (backup of course), as otherwise RC2 won’t try to import the 2.10 preferences.
GIMP, the popular free open-source image editor, finally released new 3.0 stable version. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu using PPA.
So, what exactly is a “release candidate” (RC)? A release candidate is something that might be ready to be GIMP 3.0, but we want the larger community to test it first and report any problems they find.
According to the announcement, it’s time to try it out for those who are interested in the new release.
GIMP image editor announced the new 2.99.18 development release today. It’s marked as the last dev release for the next major 3.0 version.
The new release has a new welcome dialog, with Personalize tab to set your favorite theme, icon and font scaling, and select program language, Contribute tab with a few links for who want to contribute to GIMP, and Create tab with quick buttons to create, open, open recent images. It as well has an option to enable on every start.
GIMP image editor announced a new development release for next major 3.0 this Sunday!
It’s GIMP 2.99.16, the last release in the 2.99.x series. The release has finished the GTK+3 port. It adds ability to assign several shortcuts for a single action. And, the action search dialog also shows results’ own menu positions.
The GEGL engine has implemented filters as separate modules called “operations”, allowing 3rd party developers added their own filters to menu. And, custom filters (whether or not added to menu) will appear in the action search dialog.
The release also added new ‘Merge menu and title bar‘ option in ‘Preferences -> Image Windows’. This enable Gnome’s Client Side Decoration style that save vertical space.
Other changes in GIMP 2.99.16 include:
GIMP offers official Linux package through universal Flatpak that runs in sandbox.
For Ubuntu, first press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one to get it.
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/beta-repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref
Once installed, either search for and launch it from ‘Activities’ overview.
Or run command flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//beta to start it from terminal.
In addition for those who don’t like sandbox applications, keep an eye on this third-party Ubuntu PPA.
To remove the GIMP development package installed as Flatpak, open terminal and run command:
flatpak uninstall org.gimp.GIMP//beta
You may also run flatpak uninstall --unused to uninstall useless runtime libraries to free up disk space.
