GIMP 2.99.14 (UPDATED)
Releases like this are too rare to disregard and thus all the more to treasure. In one swift motion the team is doing away with floating selections and bringing strokes/outlines for text. But this has been a bumpy road.
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Doing away with floating selections has been on the team’s roadmap at least for as long as that roadmap exists. Some of the bug reports on FS behavior date back as far as 2008. It was a quirky concept, hard to grasp for newcomers and somewhat annoying even for experienced users.
It was possible to remap the Ctrl+V shortcut to pasting as a new layer, but then you’d have to wave goodbye to pasting Bezier paths etc. Not a real solution.
Now, if you’ve been watching GIMP development closely, you probably noticed this nickname, Cmyk.Student, popping up every now and then lately. This Google Summer of Code student working with the GIMP team is in charge of cleaning up this mess.
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GIMP 2.99.14 Released
The GIMP team is happy to release GIMP 2.99.14 with a lot of nice milestones on the route to GIMP 3.0.
We are getting into deep changes, so we hope you will all test thoroughly and we remind you that it is an unstable version meant for testing and reporting issues.
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Review: GIMP 2.99.14 (Libre Arts) [LWN.net]
Libre Arts looks at the GIMP as the 3.0 release approaches.
Another one today:
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GIMP 2.99.14 Adds Apple Silicon Support, New 'Gray' Theme, Text Outline option | UbuntuHandbook
GIMP image editor got a new update for its 2.99 development release this Friday. Here’s the new features as well as how to install guide for Ubuntu users.
GIMP 2.99.14 is the 7th development release for the next major 3.0 release. It reworked the Align and Distribute tool to make it easy to use. Target items to align or distribute are now the selected layers and/or paths. For layers in particular, a new option “Use extents of layer contents” is available to align or distribute target layers based on their pixel contents.