Version 2.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is finally out.

Developers, artists and user interface designers from all over the world worked together to make GIMP more powerful and easier to use than ever. The changes from version 2.2 are described in the release notes on

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html

For a more detailed list of changes, please have a look at the NEWS file at http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.4

If you want to compile GIMP 2.4 yourself, you can grab the tarball from ftp.gimp.org or one of its mirrors:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.4/

Binary packages for the various supported platforms are expected to become available over the next couple of days. The new gimp.org website will help you to locate the packages for your system:

http://gimp.org/downloads/

Thanks a lot to everyone who helped to improve GIMP.

The roadmap for GIMP 2.6 will be discussed over the next weeks on the gimp-developer mailing-list. We can only tell you so much now: It is going to rock and it shouldn't take as long to get it done as it took to finish GIMP 2.4. If you want to join the effort, your help is much appreciated.

Happy GIMPing,
Sven

Only a week after the 2.4.0 release, the GIMP developers have put out a first bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.4 series. Here's a list of changes since 2.4.0:

- fixed a minor display rendering problem - improved the workaround for broken graphics card drivers (bug #421466) - fixed a crash with broken scripts and plug-ins (bug #490055) - fixed potential syntax error in configure script (bug #490068) - fixed parsing of floating point numbers in Script-Fu (bug #490198) - fixed potential crash when converting an indexed image to RGB (bug #490048) - update the histogram while doing color corrections (bug #490182) - fixed another crash with broken plug-ins (bug #490617) - fixed problems on Win32 when GIMP is installed into a non-ASCII path - fixed handling of truncated ASCII PNM files (bug #490827) - make sure that there's always a cursor, even for small brushes (bug #491272) - fixed line-drawing with a tablet and the Shift key (bug #164240) - added code to use the system monitor profile on OS X (bug #488170) - show changes to the rounded corners in the Rectangle Select tool (bug #418284) - reduced rounding errors in the display render routines (bug #490785) - translation updates (ca, de, et, lt, mk, pa, sv)

To learn more about what's new in GIMP 2.4, please have a look at the release notes:

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html

If you want to compile GIMP 2.4 yourself, you can grab the tarball from ftp.gimp.org or one of its mirrors:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.4/

Binary packages for the various supported platforms are expected to become available over the next couple of days. The new gimp.org website will help you to locate the packages for your system:

http://gimp.org/downloads/

Happy GIMPing, Sven