GIMP 2.7.1 Released With Plenty Of Changes

Posted by Michael Larabel on July 03, 2010

As the second development release leading up to the stable release of GIMP 2.8, the 2.7.1 snapshot has now been officially released.

GIMP 2.7.1 brings plenty of changes from user-interface tweaks to GEGL improvements to various internal core changes. The technical list of changes for GIMP 2.7.1 can be found within their tree's news file. For a more general overview of the GIMP 2.7 changes for end-users, see the release notes. Within GIMP 2.7 the user-interface is being significantly reworked, the projection code has been ported to GEGL, and there is a plug-in for JPEG2000 files, among other new features.

Downloads of the GIMP image editing/manipulation program can be found at GIMP.org.

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