Version 2.2.15 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (Gimp), a bug-fix in the stable 2.2 series, has been released, along with the 2.3.17 development branch.

Started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, the Gimp project is now supported and developed by a group of volunteers. Gimp has soon become one of the most popular free raster graphics editor application, that also provides vector graphics support. There are versions of GImp for GNU/Linux systems as well as Windows or Mac systems. Gimp has also became Softpedia's favorite images editor. If interested, you can check out the latest "Learning Gimp- Create Water Drops" article.

Bug-fixes in GImp 2.2.15:

- fixed parsing of GFig files with CRLF line endings
- guard against a possible stack overflow in the Sunras loader
- fixed definition of datarootdir in gimptool-2.0
- fixed Perspective tool crash on Mac OS X
- fixed area resizing in the Image Map plug-in
- added missing library in gimptool-2.0 --libs output
- added new localizations: Occitan and Persian

While the 2.2.15 release featured almost only bug-fixes, the development branch came also with major improvements, enhancements and additions.

Highlights in the 2.3.17 development release:

- improved import of multi-page TIFF files
- reduced rounding errors in Blur routines (core and plug-ins)
- further improved parameter checks in the PDB
- added support for loading .abr v2 Photoshop brushes
- improved border behavior of the Blur tool
- show the brush outline at the Clone tool's source position
- added libgimpbase API to retrieve the user's Pictures folder
- add a shortcut to the user's Pictures folder to the file-chooser dialog
- improved the quality of the Motion Blur filter
- save paths in TIFF files
- let the Screenshot plug-in name the new layer after the window
- use memory slices to reduce memory fragmentation
- some code cleanup
- many bug fixes