Recent News

The 3rd annual Libre Graphics Meeting will be held in Wrocław, Poland May 8 - 11. The conference brings together developers and users of free software graphics applications, such as GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita, the Open Clipart Library and more.

We are trying to raise USD$ 20,000 in the next 16 days before Friday, April 18th in order to support the conference and to help developers with travel and accommodation costs.

Here is your chance to join GIMP development: GIMP has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2008. Check the proposals, come up with your own ideas, talk to the developers on the mailing list or IRC, and sign up for work!

The source for GIMP 2.4.5 is now available from ftp.gimp.org. This is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. Please see the NEWS file for a list of changes. Binary packages should become available soon; please check the Downloads section.

GIMP 2.4.4 is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. Please see the NEWS file for a list of changes. The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages for the various supported platforms are expected to become available soon. Please check the Downloads section.

GAP, the GIMP Animation Package, is a collection of plug-ins to extend GIMP with capabilities to edit and create animations. Version 2.4.0 of the GIMP Animation Package is now available. This is a bug-fix release that makes GAP usable with GIMP 2.4.x releases.

The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Users who are not familiar with building software from source code are advised to wait for binary packages to become available.

GIMP 2.4.3 is another bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. Please see the NEWS file for a list of changes. The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages are expected to become available over the next days. Please check the Downloads section.

After four months of hard work we are proud to announce another release of the user manual. It features:

• documentation for GIMP 2.4
• new content, spelling and grammar fixes for English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish
• an alternate CSS stylesheet for HTML

The source files of gimp-help-2.4.0 can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Users should wait until this release has been packaged in a pre-compiled form that is easier to install. Find more information about our goals and how you can help at docs.gimp.org.

Three weeks later enough bug-fixes have piled up to warrant another bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.4 series. Please see the NEWS file for details.

The source code for GIMP 2.4.2 can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages are expected to become available over the next days. Please check the Downloads section.

GIMP 2.4.1 is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. It fixes problems that were discovered after the 2.4.0 release. Please see the NEWS file for details.

The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages are expected to become available over the next days. Please check the Downloads section.

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 too numerous to list here, please check the Release Notes to get an overview.

If you want to compile GIMP 2.4 yourself, you can grab the tarball from ftp.gimp.org or one of its mirrors. Binary packages for the various supported platforms are becoming available as we speak. Our Downloads section should help you to locate the package for your system.