Enkele dagen geleden alweer is versie 2.3.13 van 'the GNU Image Manipulation Program', in de volksmond ook wel gewoon the GIMP genoemd, uitgebracht. Dit fotobewerkingsprogramma en wordt door velen beschouwd als de opensourcetegenhanger van Adobe Photoshop en Paint Shop Pro. De 2.3-serie is de zogenaamde ontwikkeltak van the GIMP, die uiteindelijk naar een stabiele 2.4-versie moet leiden. Het changelog van deze release laat de volgende veranderingen zien:
Changes in GIMP 2.3.13[break]
- show information about embedded color profiles in Image Properties dialog
- allow to apply color profiles on load (still work in progress)
- new vectors PDB API to replace the old path API
- added "Auntie Alias" plug-in for antialiasing on lineart
- added Edit->Fade operation
- added Rounded Corners option to Rectangle Select tool
- improved WinIcon plug-in (now loads and saves 24 bit and Vista icons)
- merged gimp-tiny-fu; replaces Script-Fu Scheme interpreter with TinyScheme
- remember unit and interpolation type in scale and resize dialogs
- changed default interpolation type to Cubic
- show comment in Image Properties dialog
- when loading in image as layers, don't merge the layers
- added experimental palette color selector module
- don't save thumbnails that don't match the image
- increased tool handle sizes for better usability
- implemented brush scaling from the tool options (only downscaling yet)
- import paths embedded into TIFF files
- support vectors in the Script-Fu and Python-Fu user interfaces
- added PDB functions to retrieve position of layers/channels/vectors
- added side pane with table of contents to the Help Browser
- bug fixes and code cleanup