GIMP

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

What is new in this release:

• Improve drawing performance in single window mode, especially with pixmap themes.
• Fix for CVE-2007-3126, a bug in the ICO plug-in which allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an ICO file with an InfoHeader containing a Height of zero.
• Avoid creating wrong layer group structure when importing PSD files (already fixed in 2.8.20, didn't make it to the NEWS).
• Prevent a crash in PDF plug-in if images or resolution are large.
• Stop parsing invalid PCX files early and prevent a segmentation fault.
• If NOCONFIGURE is set, autogen.sh won't run configure.
• VPATH builds for win32 targets have been fixed.
• Updated Translations

What is new in version 2.8.20:

An annoying oscillating switching between different input devices has been fixed, this should make using a tablet more reliable.

What is new in version 2.8.18:

Fixed a vulnerability in the XCF loading code.

What is new in version 2.8.16:

• Support for layer groups in OpenRaster files.
• Fixes for layer groups support in PSD.
• Various user inrterface improvements.
• OSX build system fixes.
• Translation updates.
• More unspecified changes.

What is new in version 2.8.14:

• Fix libtool versioning (forgot to bump gimp_interface_age)
• Fix brush sizes when used from plug-ins
• Windows: Allow to Explorer-open files with UTF-8 characters in the filename
• Make XCF loading more robust against broken files
• Make sure the widget direction matches the GUI language
• Remove the option to disable the warning when closing a modified image
• Fix canvas overlay widgets (like the text options) for tablets
• Make DND work between images in one dockable