{"id":33147,"date":"2020-12-27T13:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33147"},"modified":"2020-12-27T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T13:54:24","slug":"gimp-2-99-4-released-as-new-development-version-to-gimp-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/gimp-2-99-4-released-as-new-development-version-to-gimp-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP 2.99.4 Released as New Development Version to GIMP 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gimp-icon.png\" alt=\"GIMP extra color palettes\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GIMP image editor 2.99.4 was released a few days ago as the second development release for the next major GIMP 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>Release highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Usability fixes across various parts of GIMP<\/li>\n<li>New Paint Select tool in the playground<\/li>\n<li>New generic dialog generation and metadata support API for export plug-ins<\/li>\n<li>Multi-threaded JPEG2000 decoding<\/li>\n<li>Initial documentation on porting plug-ins to 3.0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Xmas present, there&#8217;s also a comic strip in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/news\/2020\/12\/25\/gimp-2-99-4-released\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-gimp-2-99-4-xmas.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-gimp-2-99-4-xmas-336x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-gimp-2-99-4-xmas-336x600.jpg 336w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-gimp-2-99-4-xmas-252x450.jpg 252w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-gimp-2-99-4-xmas-768x1372.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-gimp-2-99-4-xmas-860x1536.jpg 860w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-gimp-2-99-4-xmas.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install GIMP 2.99.4 in Ubuntu Linux<\/h3>\n<p>The new release has been made as Flatpak package available to install via flathub beta channel. Like the previous GIMP 2.99.2, you can follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/install-gimp-2-99-2-ubuntu-20-04\/\" rel=\"noopener\">how to guide to install it in Ubuntu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/gimp2994.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/gimp2994.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/gimp2994-450x263.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIMP image editor 2.99.4 was released a few days ago as the second development release for the next major GIMP 3.0. Release highlights include: Usability fixes across various parts of GIMP New Paint Select tool in the playground New generic dialog generation and metadata support API for export plug-ins Multi-threaded JPEG2000 decoding Initial documentation on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2002],"class_list":["post-33147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gimp-3-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}