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GIMP 3.0.6, the third maintenance update for 3.0 release series, is out today!<\/p>\n
The new GIMP release fixed various bugs and regressions, improved flatpak support, added security updates, and back-ported some changes from the 3.1.2 and 3.1.4 DEV releases.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>new brush preview toggle button<\/p><\/div>\n
Previously, the brush previews and font previews are always rendered with light background. In the new release, it added a new toggle button (back-ported from 3.1.2) allowing to optionally follow the color theme. Meaning, when the app is in dark mode, the brush previews can be set to well fit by using a darker background.<\/p>\n
The new GIMP 3.0.6 improved palette import. It fixed Lab & CMYK ACB palette import, and added new select source from Palette file option. Meaning that you can easily find out what palette formats that currently supported through the file chooser dialog, and hide irrelevant files by choosing a specific file format.<\/p>\n
<\/a>import palette from file<\/p><\/div>\n
For Flatpak and Snap packages that run the image editor in sandbox environment, the release also fixed the issue that the Print dialog previously did not show the “Image Settings” tab.<\/p>\n
Other changes include:<\/p>\n
gimp_prop_toggle_new()<\/code> API function.<\/li>\n- New
GimpTRCType<\/code> enum type.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThere are as well many other fixes and changes, see the official release note<\/a> for details.<\/p>\nInstall GIMP 3.0.6<\/h3>\n
GIMP website provides official packages for Linux, Windows, macOS, which are available to download via the link below:<\/p>\n
\nDownload GIMP<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor Linux, either download Flatpak<\/b> package, then install by running command below after enabled Flatpak support<\/a>.<\/p>\nflatpak install drag-and-drop-flatpakref-file-here<\/pre>\nIf you’ve already installed the GIMP flatpak package, then simply run the command below to update it:<\/p>\n
flatpak update org.gimp.GIMP<\/pre>\nOr, select download the AppImage<\/b> package, add executable permission from file properties, and run to launch the image editor.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nFor Ubuntu users, it’s also can be easily installed from App Center (or Ubuntu Software) via Snap package, though it’s community maintained.<\/p>\n