Software-update: GIMP 3.2.2

Versie 3.2.2 van het opensource beeldbewerkingsprogramma GIMP is uitgekomen. De naam GIMP is een afkorting voor 'GNU Image Manipulation Program'. De software is beschikbaar voor diverse besturingssystemen, waaronder Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS en Solaris. In deze eerste update voor versie 3.2.0 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:

General Highlights

As with any major release, there’s always a few issues that are revealed when a much larger audience starts using the new software. We appreciate your reports, and hope this latest release squashes the major new issues!

• When layers with certain filters (like Drop Shadow) were added to layer groups, the layers would stop rendering. While the data itself wasn’t lost, this was obviously inconvenient! Fortunately, Jehan diagnosed the problem and fixed the layer group display.
• Thanks to excellent testing and reports by teapot and Richard Gitschlag, we’ve fixed a number of issues and overlooked uses for vector layers. New contributor balooii provided several key patches towards this effort.
• When importing SVG paths in the Paths dock, the Scale imported paths to fit image option did not work correctly. This issue has been resolved and now properly scales the imported path based on user preference.
• A number of image import plug-ins have been made more robust, including FITS, TIM, PAA, ICNS, PVR, SFW, and JIF.
• The Paintshop Pro plug-in now correctly loads the active selection shape, instead of just the rectangle around the selection. Thanks to migf1 for providing sample images to help us test and fix this.
• The PSD plug-in now imports all of the channels in a Multichannel mode PSD image. New contributer Frank Teklote has been busy improving support for importing more PSD features stored in TIFFs and JPEGs (such as layers and paths).
• The legacy Tile filter now properly copies over the original image’s color profile to make sure the new tiled image is in the right color space.
• Bruno Lopes has enabled the Send by Email feature in the Files menu on AppImages.
• New contributor v4vansh has updated the manual page generation and updated it with new information from the 3.0 releases.
• As previously announced, 32-bit Windows builds are now dropped. This, combined to some cleanup on shipped data, resulted on a .exe installer more than 100MiB smaller and running faster.

UX/UI Updates

While not the focus of this release, we were able to implement a few small improvements based on user and designer feedback from our UX site. We encourage everyone to participate in the discussion there - no coding required!

• The Compute unique colors feature in the Histogram dock now recognizes if the image has an active selection, and if so, only counts the pixels in that area. This should further help pixel artists and others who need precise color counts.
• When opening an image with rotation metadata, you can now click the preview image that you want to load, in addition to the Rotate or Keep Original buttons. This should make the process of choosing the initial image orientation a little clearer.
• “Resource” selection buttons in plug-ins (such as fonts, brushes, gradients, and patterns) now support mnemonics! Hold the Alt key to see the underlined letter in their label, then press it to activate the button. This allows for faster keyboard navigation instead of requiring a mouse, for those users who prefer the option.
• In the non-destructive filter pop-over menu, the Toggle Visibility button now adapts to the state of the filter stack. For example, if all filters are turned off individually then the button will automatically switch states so that clicking it toggles them back on (and vice versa).
• New contributor Aditya Tiwari has restored the Tab shortcut label to the Hide Docks entry in the Windows menu. This had to be done in a specific way since the shortcut only applies when the canvas is active, instead of being a “global” shortcut.

Revamping macOS Build Process

Bruno Lopes have been working since December last year on modernizing our macOS infrastructure and overall macOS support. Right now, the macOS release process is a bit manual and slow. In the future, this should be done automatically from our GitLab CI. These new builds are part of a big investment approved by the GIMP Committee and would not be possible without your donations so far. We would be happy for you to test them at the Automatic Development Builds section of the Development Downloads page so we don’t introduce regressions when these new builds are made official.

GEGL

To supplement our release of GIMP, GEGL 0.4.70 was also released. This is mostly a bugfix release as well with core fixes to the GeglPath API, as well as fixes in the png-save and exr-save operations. Various build improvements were performed too and some compiler warnings cleaned up.

New Mirror

Yamagata University in Japan has graciously agreed to serve as a new mirror for GIMP downloads. This makes it our second download mirror in Japan. On this note, don’t forget that mirrors are important contributors to the project too. They help sharing the load for our dozens of thousands of daily downloads and ensure that everyone can have fast downloads. We clearly have more mirrors in some parts of the globe, and some regions would deserve to have more mirrors closeby.

Release Stats

Since GIMP 3.2.0, in the main GIMP repository:

• 30 reports were closed as FIXED.
• 19 merge requests were merged.
• 200 commits were pushed.
• 10 translations were updated: Chinese (China), Esperanto, Finnish, Georgian, Polish, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.

Versienummer	3.2.2
Releasestatus	Final
Besturingssystemen	Linux, BSD, macOS, Windows 10, Windows 11
Website	The GIMP
Download	https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Licentietype	GPL