GIMP 2.5.2 Development Release

Posted by Michael Larabel on July 17, 2008

The GIMP crew has been hard at work on their GIMP 2.4 replacement, which will be called GIMP 2.6. There's a number of new features already present within the GIMP 2.6 development tree and just yesterday was the GIMP 2.5.2 testing release. GIMP 2.5.2 refines the combined Freehand/Polygon Select tool, added a dock-able dialog for managing Color tool settings, compatibility changes for the forthcoming GTK+ release, improved pop-up scale button, allow to map dynamics to hardness for the Eraser tool, added new PDB data type for transferring color arrays, and added text search to the Help Browser plug-in. These are just a few of the changes along with bug fixes and code clean-ups, but the complete GIMP 2.5/2.6 change-log can be viewed here. The development snapshots and other versions of GIMP can be acquired from their download page.

Discuss this article in our forums, IRC channel, or email the author. You can also follow our content via RSS and on social networks like Facebook, Identi.ca, and Twitter (@Phoronix and @MichaelLarabel). Subscribe to Phoronix Premium to view our content without advertisements, view entire articles on a single page, and experience other benefits.
Latest Hardware Reviews
  1. Sumo Lounge Emperor
  2. Gallium3D Continues Improving OpenGL For Older Radeon GPUs
  3. 15-Way Open vs. Closed Source NVIDIA/AMD Linux GPU Comparison
  4. Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings
Latest Software Articles
  1. Intel Linux OpenGL Driver Leading Over Apple OS X
  2. The Cost Of Ubuntu Disk Encryption
  3. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
  4. AMD Radeon R600 GPU LLVM 3.3 Back-End Testing
Latest Linux News
  1. Wayland's Weston Gets Output Scaling Support
  2. Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer
  3. Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Release Brings New Packages
  4. Intel Ultrabook Performance Is Faster With Mesa 9.2
  5. Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs
  6. Phoronix Test Suite 4.6.0 "Utsira" Released
  7. New Intel X.Org Driver Supports All Of Haswell
  8. SQLite Now Faster With Memory Mapped I/O
  9. Microsoft Releases Skype For Linux 4.2, Has Bug-Fixes
  10. Qt For Tizen Launches, Based On Qt 5.1
  11. KTAP Released For Linux Kernel Dynamic Tracing
Latest Forum Talk
  1. Linux's "Ondemand" Governor Is No...
  2. Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs
  3. Fedora 18 Comes To ARMv6, Raspberry Pi
  4. Wayland's Weston Gets Output Scaling Support
  5. gnome 3.8 in RHEL7?
  6. Handbrake 0.9.9 Supports OpenCL Offloading
  1. Computers
  2. Display Drivers
  3. Graphics Cards
  4. Motherboards
  5. Peripherals
  6. Processors
  7. Software
  8. Operating Systems
  9. All Articles
  1. Linux Benchmarking
  2. OpenBenchmarking.org
  3. Phoronix Test Suite