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GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't the latest version of gtk gtk4?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

They've been working on porting it since back in 2012, and didn't want to redo a bunch of the porting work before they even released it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

I get the sentiment, but now they're doing a whole lot of extra work only to be a version behind

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

That sounds very frustrating!