14 DAY TRIAL // GIMP, the open-source, free and multi-platform image editor software, was updated today to version 2.8.22, which appears to be a bugfix release in the stable 2.8 series of the project.
Even if it arrives more than three months after the release of the GIMP 2.8.20 update, GIMP 2.8.22 is a small maintenance update attempting to improve the drawing/painting performance in single window mode, especially when some themes based on the GTK+ Pixmap engine are used, affecting all platforms.
Additionally, it patches a nasty bug in the ICO plugin (see below for details), addresses a crash in the PDF plugin, which could occur when images or their resolutions were too large, no longer parses invalid PCX files to prevent a segmentation fault, and improves the build system.
"This version fixes an ancient CVE bug, CVE-2007-3126. Due to this bug, the ICO file import plug-in could be crashed by specially crafted image files. Our attempts to reproduce the bug failed with 2.8 and thus the impact had likely been minimal for years, but now it is gone for good," reads today's announcement.
macOS improvements, updated translations
Various improvements were also made to the DMG image for macOS users in GIMP 2.8.22, which now includes a couple of patches to prevent some crashes that could occur during clipboard or drag and drop operations. The full changelog is attached below for more technical details or if you're curious what exactly was changed.
Last but not least, GIMP 2.8.22 updates the Spanish, Catalan, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Greek, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Kazakh, Basque, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese (PRC) language translations. It's available for download for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now.