Hi,

it took a little longer as expected but good things take time and we hope you will like the new development release available from:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.3/v1.3.12/

Here's the list of changes for this release:

Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.12 ==================================

- Improved and cleaned up undo system [Mitch] - Added hooks for plug-in debugging [Yosh] - Redesigned the tool options code [Mitch] - Converted the API reference to DocBook XML [Sven] - Lots of text tool changes [Sven]
- Factored common code out of a number of plug-ins [Maurits] - Cleaned up and improved the code that handles the plug-ins [Mitch] - Finished colorblindness display filter using the algorithm contributed by Alex Wade and Robert Dougherty. - Updated the gimprc man-page, or actually, wrote a tool that does it [Sven] - Improved the code that handles all the menus [Mitch] - Added new PSD save plug-in [Bolsh] - Added back SphereDesigner plug-in [Sven] - More plug-ins cleaned up [Maurits, Sven] - Reorganized startup code [Yosh]
- Portability fixes for 64bit platforms [Yosh, Sven] - Handle large swap files (>2GB) [Sven] - Updates to the Win32 build system [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer] - More work on the vectors tool [Simon, Mitch] - Lots of bug fixes

Other contributors: Garry R. Osgood, Jakub Steiner, Simon Budig, Henrik Brix Andersen, Akkana, Carol Spears, Seth Burgess, Nathan Summers, David Necas, Cameron Gregory, Larry Ewing

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Sven