Hi,

We just released GIMP 2.10.2, the first bugfix release in the stable 2.10 series.

As announced before, stable GIMP 2.10.x is open for new features that are not too invasive or change the API, and we indeed included new stuff!

For a complete list of changes since 2.10.0 please see the "Changes" section below.

There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org:

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/05/20/gimp-2-10-2-released/

Happy GIMPing, --Mitch

Download
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GIMP 2.10.2 is available from:

https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.10/

and from the mirrors listed at:

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors

The sha256 and sha512 checksums of the tarball are:

1cb0baaecdefe44d371a15f2739a1bcbce4682336b4ccf8eb7b587ce52c333eb gimp- 2.10.2.tar.bz2

6e351294e018a9f879993700355bdf5f10bccc6862604ae1950c4d235d32cdfcd6a0195 b37377819adeef53ab3d24f32ed1de60cba6bafe58608ed0906a6fbcf gimp- 2.10.2.tar.bz2

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.10.0 to GIMP 2.10.2 ===================================================

Core:

- Discard fonts which fail to load and popup an info dialog to allow people debug their fonts.
- New API to suppress updates in UI until plug-ins are done introducing changes.
- New API to calculate histograms in separate threads, with possible further extension to handle similar cases elsewhere in GIMP. - Tool options are now properly saved and reloaded per-device at startup.

Plug-ins:

- New plug-in for importing and exporting HEIF images. - Enable visibility of rasterized vector layer from PSD. - Single-window screenshots in Windows fixed to correctly snap a window even when it is partly off-screen or covered by another window or when display scaling is not set to 100%.

Filters:

- New Spherize filter to wrap an image around a spherical cap - New Recursive Transform filter to create Droste effect.

Usability:

- Warn users, when alpha-only painting has no effect. E.g. when target drawable doesn't have an alpha channel, or the alpha channel is locked.
- Make the splash texts dynamic, so they are larger on larger splashes.
- Mention pressing Enter to complete Foreground selection in the status bar.
- Make sure that clicking outside any selection prevents Rectangle Select
and Ellipse Select tools from creating empty selections. - Improve mouse wheel zooming behavior to keep the same point centered under the pointer even if the image is completely visible in the canvas.
- Add "View -> Center Image in Window" (Shift+J) as a quick way to center the image at any zoom level.

Translations:

- Updated translations: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
- New translation of Windows installer: Chinese (Taiwan)

Build:

- Add a --with-bug-report-url configure option allowing packagers to set the address of their own bug tracker. This address will be the one opened by the debug dialog for reporting bugs. - Add a flatpak manifest for the gtk3-port branch. - Remove the possibility to disable script-fu. - Add a --with-icc-directory configure option to customize the color profile directory. By default, it is set to the common path /usr/share/color/icc.

Documentation:

- Updating the description of the XCF format "devel-docs/xcf.txt", for third-party readers wishing to support GIMP 2.10 XCF files. - Add documentation skeletons for all enums in libgimpbase/, there is much room for improvement.

Contributors ============

Alexandre Prokoudine, Ell, Gil Eliyahu, Jan Tojnar, Jehan, Jernej Simončič, Michael Natterer, Simon Budig, Thomas Manni, Ting-Wei Lan, luz.paz, Øyvind Kolås,

Translators ===========

Alan Mortensen, Alexandre Prokoudine, Anders Jonsson, Balázs Meskó, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Claude Paroz, Daniel Korostil, Daniel Mustieles, Danylo Korostil, Dimitris Spingos (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος), Ell, Hannie Dumoleyn, Jordi Mas, Marco Ciampa, Mario Blättermann, Michael Natterer, Nathan Follens, Piotr Drąg, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Sveinn í Felli.