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GIMP Looks Towards GEGL, High Bit Depths, GTK3

phoronix.com: Back in May was the long-awaited release of GIMP 2.8, and while this release was great and packed in many new features, there's still more to look forward to in the future of this open-source imaging program...

Did Hell Freeze Over? GIMP 2.8 Released

phoronix.com: With word this morning of Electronic Arts making plans with Ubuntu and now the release of GIMP 2.8, some may think that hell has frozen over...

GIMP 2.10 To Be Fully Ported To GEGL Core

phoronix.com: GEGL in GIMP is finally going to be going full-speed. For GIMP 2.10 the open-source imaging program's core will be 100% ported to GEGL, the Generic Graphics Library...

GIMP 2.8.0 Is Finally Near With RC1 Release

phoronix.com: GIMP 2.8 has had one hell of a long development cycle with work on it having commenced three years ago, but it looks like this release is nearly ready with the arrival of GIMP 2.8.0 RC1...

Fedora 17 Has More Features: GIMP 2.8, GCC 4.7, oVirt, Etc

phoronix.com: Fedora 17 (a.k.a. the Beefy Miracle) already has an impressive list of new features coming, but several more features have been added to their planned list...

GIMP 2.7.4 Has UI Fixes, Readies For 2.8 Release

phoronix.com: There's a new GIMP 2.7 development release available that brings user-interface improvements and may be the last release before the GIMP 2.8 release candidates...

GIMP 2.8 Moves Close To An Early 2012 Release

phoronix.com: GIMP 2.8 is finally inching closer to seeing the light of day...

New GIMP Release Has Working Single-Window Mode

phoronix.com: For those that have long sought after a single-window mode for the GIMP graphics application, the wait is over. The GIMP 2.7.3 development snapshot and it finally has a working single-window mode...

OpenCL Is Coming To The GIMP Via GEGL

phoronix.com: Outside of the direct X.Org / Mesa / Linux work being done this year as part of Google's Summer of Code, one of the more interesting projects is work by a student developer with GIMP who is bringing OpenCL support to the graphics program's GEGL image library...

GIMP 2.8 May Not Come Until Late November

phoronix.com: GIMP 2.7.2 was released last week as a development stop in the road to GIMP 2.8, which itself was supposed to be released last December. But with the single-window user-interface lagging behind along with other work, GIMP 2.8 development dragged along with its limited number of core developers.

GIMP 2.7.2 Arrives, But Still Far From Belated GIMP 2.8

phoronix.com: Blender isn't the only free software graphics application moving along (they just released their first stable 2.5 build), but work towards GIMP 2.8 is also moving along. Though in GIMP's case, the work has been moving along rather slowly. GIMP 2.8 was supposed to come last December and that deadline was clearly missed.

GIMP 2.8 Is Struggling To Make It Out The Door

phoronix.com: GIMP 2.8 has been talked about for more than a year and back in January there was a GIMP 2.8 release schedule by Martin Nordholts that had set the final release for the 27th of December. That date has now passed and, sadly, this major update to this leading open-source graphics program is still not close to being released...