GIMP's latest development release is now available for testing.

GIMP 2.99.16 Released: Wilber Week 2023 edition!

Closer than ever to a release candidate for GIMP 3.0, we introduce the latest development version: GIMP 2.99.16!
This news covers some of the more noteworthy or interesting parts of this update and we are very happy to be able to showcase these.

Note: the fun story behind this splash screen is  Aryeom molding a  pizza dough Wilber on the first evening at Wilber Week. The oven-cooked dough  stayed with us during the whole stay. This release was dubbed the “Wilber Week 2023 edition” as a homage to our very  successful contributor meetup.

• GTK+3 port officially done
  • GimpAction infrastructure
  • Multiple shortcuts per action
  • Action Search improvements
• Improved GEGL operations’ GUI integration
• Tools
  • Text tool
  • Align and Distribute tool
  • Unified Transform tool
• Space Invasion
• Graphical User Interface
  • New option “Merge menu and title bar”
  • Themes
• Fill and Stroke selection/path improvements
• “Middle Gray (CIELAB)” layer fill option
• File Formats
  • FITS
  • PSD (and a bit of TIFF and JPEG)
  • JPEG
  • JPEG-XL
  • DDS
  • New image format supports: PAM, QOI, Amiga IFF/ILBM, DCX
• Plug-in API
  • Resources data get their own class
  • Plug-in localization improved
  • More specialized plug-in argument types
  • And more…
• GEGL, babl
• Release stats
• Team news and release process
• Around GIMP
  • Mirror news
  • Book news
• Downloading GIMP 2.99.16
• What’s next

This news lists the most notable and visible changes. In particular, we do not list here bug fixes or smaller improvements. To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the  NEWS file or look at the  commit history.

GIMP 2.99.16 Released: Wilber Week 2023 edition! - GIMP