The GIMP team recently wrapped up a week-long offline "GIMP Contributor Meeting" at the Blender Foundation headquarters.
▲ GIMP core developer
Although there are still many variables in the release plan of GIMP 3.0, the development team revealed that the first RC of GIMP 3.0 should be released this year-entering the version candidate stage.
They are currently developing GIMP 2.99.16 version, if all goes well, this version will be the first RC of GIMP 3.0 after release.
One of the most notable changes in GIMP 3.0 is the transition from GTK2 to the GTK3 toolkit, and the team announced at the beginning of the year that GIMP's GTK3 port has been officially completed .
GIMP, the acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program (GNU Image Processing Program), is a free and open source bitmap image editor for image photo retouching and editing, free drawing, resizing, cropping, photo montage, and image replacement formatting and other specialized tasks.
GIMP has almost all the functions required for image processing, known as Photoshop under Linux.
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