GIMP 3.0.6 Is Now Available for Download with Improved Photoshop Brush Support

posted by Marius Nestor on Oct 06, 2025,
updated Oct 20, 2025

Coming four and a half months after GIMP 3.0.4, the GIMP 3.0.6 release introduces a new toggle in the Brushes and Fonts dialogs to allow brush and font previews to optionally follow the color theme, an alpha channel for certain transforms and on filter merge, and improves Photoshop brush support.

GIMP 3.0.6 also updates the Palette import feature with support for setting alpha values for image palette imports, better importing of Lab & CMYK ACB palettes, as well as support for palette format filters to the import dialog to make it more evident what palette formats are supported while hiding irrelevant files.

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GIMP:

• GIMP 3.0.6 Released - GIMP

  We are happy to announce the third micro-release GIMP 3.0.6. During our development of GIMP 3.2 we’ve found and fixed a number of bugs and regressions. We have backported many of those bugfixes to this stable release, so you don’t have to wait for the upcoming 3.2 release candidate to receive them!

UbuntuHandbook:

• GIMP 3.0.6 Fixed Printing Support for Flatpak & Snap [PPA updated] | UbuntuHandbook

  GIMP 3.0.6, the third maintenance update for 3.0 release series, is out today!

  The new GIMP release fixed various bugs and regressions, improved flatpak support, added security updates, and back-ported some changes from the 3.1.2 and 3.1.4 DEV releases.

OMG Ubuntu:

• GIMP 3.0.6 Update is a Bug-Fix Backport Bonanza - OMG! Ubuntu

  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.

Linuxiac:

• GIMP 3.0.6 Officially Released with Bug Fixes and UI Improvements

  Nearly five months after releasing 3.0.4, while work continues toward the upcoming v3.2, GIMP has introduced its third micro-update, GIMP 3.0.6, which addresses a range of bugs and regressions to improve stability.

  Among the most visible improvements are better slider usability, fixes for crashes related to text outlines, improved transparency handling, and new theme color support for brush, font, and palette dockables.

  The update also brings smoother performance for non-destructive filters, improved palette import functionality, and fixes to long-standing printing issues in Flatpak builds.

Later one:

• GIMP 3.0.6 Update Patches Key UI, Security, and Platform-Specific Bugs

  The GIMP team has shipped GIMP 3.0.6, the latest stable micro-release, delivering a significant number of bug fixes and performance improvements. The update focuses on enhancing stability across all major platforms by backporting numerous patches from the upcoming 3.2 release candidate, allowing users to benefit from the fixes immediately.

FOSS Force:

• GIMP 3.0.6: What's New, What's Not - With Screenshots - FOSS Force

  Last week, the flagship image editor project for Linux — the GNU Image Manipulation Program — released Gimp 3.0.6.

  I’ve been using Gimp for nearly all of my image creation and editing needs for decades. I’ve used it for simple things like screenshots and more complex creations, such as book covers. Gimp rarely, if ever, lets me down.

  Although this latest version is a minor point release, coming seven months and five minor releases after Gimp 3 — which was a whopping seven years in the making — there are some important changes in this latest iteration. This means that whether you grab Gimp from your distribution’s repositories or as a Flatpak, you’ll find some newly-added features.

Now as blob:

• GIMP New Official Snap package

  Announcement of the Official Snap package for Linux

More here:

• GIMP devs take official control of Snap package from Snapcrafters

  The GIMP Snap package is now maintained by the official GIMP team instead of a third party, aligning it with the other universal GNU/Linux packages like AppImage and Flatpak.

Linuxiac:

• GIMP Officially Launches Its New Snap Package for Linux Users

  The GIMP team has officially announced that the popular open-source image editor is now available as a Snap package, expanding its presence across Linux distributions that bet on this package format, especially the Ubuntu family and those based on it.

Another One From OMG Ubuntu:

• GIMP Announce Official Snap Package for Ubuntu - OMG! Ubuntu

  —Oh, you thought it already was?

  GIMP (as many well-known apps on the Snap Store still are) was packaged by ‘snapcrafters’, a community-based team affiliated with Canonical, who maintain unofficial packages (denoted by a yellow star in store listing).

  Now the snap is officially maintained by GIMP (denoted by a grey tick in store listing), the format is integrated in its CI (Continuous Integration) infrastructure. This means future updates to the app will be automatically generated and published on the Snap Store, on the day of release.