If you’re using the GIMP 3.0 stable series and loving the new features it added, you’ll be pleased to hear that a new in-series update is out with even more improvements.
GIMP 3.0.6 is the third maintenance update (or “micro release”, as GIMP’s development team refer to them). It sees the open source image editor bag a bunch of bug fixes found during work on the next major release, GIMP 3.2 — plus some small new features.
Among the many changes:
- Brush, font, and palette dockables can use theme colours
- Photoshop brush support improvements
- Transparency now auto-added to layers if needed
- Non-destructive filters improved (easier to tell if they can be applied)
- Palette Import dialog supports filtering view by supported formats
- Lab & CMYK ACB palette import issues resolved
- Flatpak and Snap package fixes for printing
- Lock content now shows an Undo step
- SVG export when exporting paths has been improved
- Transform boundaries for preview made multi-layer aware
- Security vulnerabilities in plugins patched
Also of note, the official GIMP AppImage was made “more reliable”. Now rebased on Debian 13, the AppImage fixes many format-specific bugs, gets the the PS/EPS plugin working again, and should no longer crashe when exporting JPEG 2000 images.
The GIMP Flatpak build now requires the latest GNOME 49 runtime. Fans of the bleeding edge can now install a GIMP nightly built on ARM64, and also on Intel/AMD devices from the Snap Store.
More details in the official release announcement.
The developers behind the app say they “highly recommend to update GIMP to this latest version for production work”, so if you want to get it – you’ve plenty of choices!
Download GIMP from the official website