GIMP 3.2 Release Candidate Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

posted by Marius Nestor on Nov 18, 2025,
updated Nov 19, 2025

It’s been two and a half months since the previous development release, and the GIMP 3.2 Release Candidate brings even more goodies, including support for importing PowerVR (PVR) texture files and support for exporting SVG images as actual vectors with the ability to embed raster layers as either PNG or JPEG.

GIMP 3.2 RC1 also introduces support for a few new image formats, the ability to simulate adjustment layers with layer groups, improvements to the new link and vector layers, allowing for easy changes between different states of “Rasterize” and “Revert Rasterize” operations, and the ability to move the on-canvas editor across the screen.

Read on

Linuxiac:

• GIMP 3.2 RC1 Introduces SVG Export, New Rasterize Workflow

  GIMP 3.2 RC1 is now available in the development branch, introducing a broad set of improvements across the core, tools, plug-ins, user interface, and developer APIs, giving a clear picture of what we can expect in the final stable 3.2 version.

  The release introduces native SVG export for vector, text, and link layers, extending GIMP’s capabilities for producing scalable graphics. ZIP decompression and PVR texture import are now also supported, expanding the range of image formats that can be opened.

  The update refines core behavior around pass-through groups, which now apply filters based on the full bounding box rather than only child layers, allowing empty groups to act more like adjustment layers. Layer-mask handling gains an option to edit masks immediately, and non-destructive filters applied to the quick mask are correctly merged when leaving the mode.

GIMP:

• GIMP 3.2 RC1: First Release Candidate for GIMP 3.2 - GIMP

  We’re thrilled to share our first release candidate for GIMP 3.2! It represents a major step in our roadmap, and months of hard work by contributors. We look forward to your feedback as we move towards the stable release of GIMP 3.2! Note that this is still a development snapshot, not yet a final release: please do report any problems or crashes you find.

UbuntuHandbook:

• GIMP 3.2 RC1 Released with SVG Export and New Keyboard Shortcuts | UbuntuHandbook

  GIMP, the popular image editing software, announced the first release candidate for the next major 3.2 version yesterday.

  This is the third development release for GIMP 3.2. It introduced some new keyboard shortcuts, new and improved image formats support, API changes and UI/UX improvements.

OMG Ubuntu:

• GIMP 3.2 Hits Release Candidate with Improved Text Editing + More - OMG! Ubuntu

  GIMP 3.2 will be next major release of the free, open-source raster image editor, arriving a mere 8 months after the huge 3.0 milestone as a result of a new accelerated release schedule.

  Though not stable, GIMP development builds provide avid users and developers with the opportunity to test new features and provide feedback on how things are progressive.

  Below, I run-through what’s new in this GIMP 3.2 release candidate specifically. The GIMP 3.1.2 & 3.1.4 development builds also added plenty of new features. If you haven’t been tracking development, it’s worth checking out their change sets too.