GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May

GIMP 3.0 could be finally released in a few months if all goes very well...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-May-2024-Schedule

[darkbasic]

Interesting timeframe... GIMP 3.0 may release in May or may not

[Old Grouch]

I'm torn between:

- It'll be released when it's ready; and
- Move fast and break things, release early and release often.

Which sums up the difference between Debian 'Stable' and 'Testing'; or LibreOffice 'Stable' and 'Fresh'

Of course, some people like to live at the ragged-edge of the most-recent-commit of all software.

On balance, I like to have stable versions available. Life's random enough without deliberately adding to the entropy. If I want a new stable versions faster, then I have a responsibility to contribute to their development. If I can't contribute directly, then throwing money at people is rarely refused.

[uid313]

Is GTK 4 support planned?

[lucrus]

Is GTK 4 support planned?

I suspect they're going to skip that and go straight into GTK 5 or even GTK 6. Also, after Wayland deprecation, X12 might be their next reachable target.

[ClosedSource]

Interesting timeframe... GIMP 3.0 may release in May or may not

This is one project that needs more developers.

[Setif]

OMG!
GTK3!
this is like a Qt4 app announcing moving to Qt5.

[TheCycoONE]

OMG!
GTK3!
this is like a Qt4 app announcing moving to Qt5.

It's worse, GTK2 was QT3/KDE3 era. QT3 -> QT4 would be more apt.

[ehansin]

OMG!
GTK3!
this is like a Qt4 app announcing moving to Qt5.

I get your point, but I'd say at this point just get it out! Let me preface this by stating that I am not an expert in this area, but from things I have read, it sounds like to me that the transition from GTK3 to GTK4 (or above) should be easier that the GTK2 to GTK3 transition - sounds like it was a stated goal for this to be the case. There may have also been a lot of internal code refactoring and cleanup (in particular, and I cannot remember the four letter acronym or name (never mind, GEGL is what I am thinking of) seemed to be a big one.)

Anyway, my personal take is get GIMP 3.0 where they wanted, hopefully a lot of the "heavy lifting" has happened, and then move foward.

[darkonix]

That's great news! Now we only need to wait to learn for which year ;+)