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Facts and numbers
Current version: 2.4.6
Dev. version: 2.5.1

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Spicing up black/white images: it looks great! thanks for sharing – robert

Making a pencil drawing from a photo: Cool effect. :) Would you be able to make a tutorial on blending two images together? – Beaniebaby2468

Spicing up black/white images: Amazing effect. Thanks for the tuts. – andotyjazz

Spicing up black/white images: Wow! Cool effect. Nice tutorial I will definately use this one. :) – Beaniebaby2468

Hot Wallpaper with Flames: never mind i figured it out ^____^ – Thrrb

GIMP versions

There is not much to say about the versioning of GIMP. Even numbers (2.0, 2.2, 2.4...) are stable versions, that are used for allday use. Odd versions (i.e. 2.3) are developement versions that are usually no available as package/binary executable. They have to be compiled by yourself. More informationen on this here: downloading The GIMP.

2.5

GIMP 2.5 is a development version. At the time the developers are preparing a list of features that are going to be implemented in this developement-branch.

2.5.1 is currently the most recent developement version.

Version history

DEV 2.5.0 (released in April 2008)
2.4 RELEASE (released October 24th 2007)
2.4 RELEASE CANDIDATE 3 (appeared end September 2007)
2.4 RELEASE CANDIDATE 2 (appeared September 2007)
2.4 RELEASE CANDIDATE 1 (appeared August 2007)
2.3.19 (appeared July 2007)
2.3.18 (appeared June 2007)
2.3.17 (appeared May 2007)
2.3.16 (appeared April 2007)
2.3.15 (appeared March 2007)
2.3.14 (appeared January 2007)
2.3.13 (appeared end of November 2006)
2.3.12 (appeared October 2006)
2.3.11 (appeared September 2006)
2.3.10 (appeared July 2006)
2.3.9 (appeared May 2006)

2.4

This is the current stable version of the GIMP.
» New features in GIMP 2.4

2.2

2.2 was released in January 2005 and hat lots of new features.

Major changes:

• Previews for transform tools
• Previews for many plugins that didn't have them, and improved previews for many that did. Preview now can resize and contain a navigation popup just like the main image window.
• Many user interface changes to improve layout of dialogs, and comply more closely with Human Interface Guidelines.
• Greatly improved drag-and-drop between GIMP and other applications.
• Improved ability to copy and paste between GIMP and other applications, including OpenOffice and Abiword.
• New file open/save dialogs. The open dialog does automatic thumbnailing, using embedded EXIF thumbnails if available.
• Much content covered by the help.
• A new script interpreter, Tiny-fu, which will eventually replace Script-fu. Shipped separately
• A new keyboard shortcut editor, allowing shortcuts to be defined for many more things than before, including many actions that don't have menu entries.
• Interface for controlling various parameters with a variety of devices. Allow keyboard, mouse wheel, MIDI controller, etc to be used as a GIMP controller.
• New plugins: neon, cartoon, photocopy, softglow, dog, retinex, glob.

All other (smaller) changes can be found in the Wiki.