GIMP 2.3.17 Released

Posted by Michael Larabel on May 29, 2007

With GIMP 2.4.0 slowly approaching, the seventeenth development release in the GIMP 2.3 series is now available. GIMP 2.3.17 supports improved importing of multi-page TIFF files, reduced rounding errors in Blur routines, further improved parameter checks in the PDB, added support for loading .abr v2 Adobe Photoshop brushes, improved border behavior of the Blur tool, shows the brush outline at the Clone tool's source position, added libgimpbase API to retrieve the user's Pictures folder, added a shortcut to the user's Pictures folder, improved the quality of the Motion Blur filter, save paths in TIFF files, let the screenshot plug-in name the new layer after the window, use memory slices to reduce memory fragmentation, some code cleanup, and the usual assortment of bug fixes.

GIMP 2.3 changes are available in the NEWS file while downloads are available from the GIMP mirrors. A bug resulting in a segmentation fault after copying a selection has appeared in GIMP 2.3.17 and as a result GIMP 2.3.18 with a few changes will be out shortly.

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