GIMP 3.0 RC1 marks the initial release candidate for the highly anticipated GIMP 3.0, a project that has been in development for an extended period. The Improvements feature enables vector UI icons to scale more effectively according to user preferences, while the Color Space Invasion project has been finalized to guarantee compatibility with XCF project files generated in GIMP 2.10 and earlier.
The finalization of the public API has been accomplished, substituting custom GimpRGB color structures with enhanced color-managed GeglColor and refining the array format. Functions have been added, renamed, or removed from the public API, enabling script and plug-in developers to utilize the Emulate Paint Brush Dynamics setting during painting. GIMP has undergone enhancements and bug fixes to its non-destructive filter code, including the addition of an optional "Merge Filters" checkbox located at the bottom of NDE filters.
GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released
We are very excited to share the first release candidate for the long-awaited GIMP 3.0! We’ve been hard at work since our last development update to get this ready, and we’re looking forward to everyone finally being able to see the results.
So, what exactly is a “release candidate” (RC)? A release candidate is something that might be ready to be GIMP 3.0, but we want the larger community to test it first and report any problems they find. If user feedback reveals only small and easy to fix bugs, we will solve those problems and issue the result as GIMP 3.0. However, we hope and expect a much larger audience to try out 3.0 RC1 - including many people who have only been using 2.10 up until now. If larger bugs and regressions are uncovered that require more substantial code changes, we may need to publish a second release candidate for further testing.
