New GIMP version: 2.6.10 is out

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:41:43 +0200

A rather bad bug has crept into the 2.6.9 release of GIMP. Clicking on any scrollbar arrows crashed the application. This is now fixed in this new version 2.6.10.
Unfortunately, there were two other bugs in the 2.6.9 build. Python didn‘t work properly and if you use a graphic tablet, you might have noticed, that some dialogs would only work once, and will loose focus when they are opend for the second time. Both issues could be fixed, although I had to downgrade GTK+ to the old version, which was used in the previous releases of GIMP.
So I recommend you to download the new 2.6.10 release.
BTW, the donwgrade to an old GTK+ version might lead to some trouble if the 2.8 series of GIMP will be released. The upcoming GIMP depends on a newer GTK+ library (2.18 or higher). So, if the GTK+ guys get this focus issus fixed, tablets will work properly in future versions, otherwise you have to set the focus every time to the dialog by clicking first on any other GIMP window and then on the dialog window...
-skl

GIMP 2.6.9 for Snow Leopard released

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:12:55 +0200

It‘s been quite a long time since the last update. But now GIMP 2.6.9 has been released and I‘ve built a package for Snow Leopard systems. The Leopard and Tiger versions will follow soon.
Besides the update to GIMP 2.6.9 most of the libraries which are used by GIMP are updated too. So you‘ll get GTK+ 2.20, GLIB 2.24, Cairo 1.8.10, Pango 1.28 and many other more.
And finally, the UFRaw plugin is now version 0.17, which will give you support for lens distortion corrections using the lensfun library. For a long time the lensfun feature of UFRaw was marked as experimental and this was the reason why I didn‘t include it in the previous GIMP releases. Now the lensfun integration into UFRaw has reached a stable state. And therefor it‘s now included by default.
Enjoy your new GIMP.
-skl

GIMP on Tiger is back

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:44:43 +0200

Three weeks ago, I annouced that GIMP for Tiger systems will be updated to version 2.6.8 until the end of March.
Now here it is.
GIMP for Tiger is back in sync with the Leopard and Snow Leopard builds. So now you can use all plugins which were added in the meantime to the 2.6.7 and 2.6.8 builds. And, of course, the User manual packages will work too. Just go to the download page and get your updated version.
Enjoy your new GIMP...
-skl

Updated GIMP packages

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:33:44 +0100

You all have been waiting a long time for some bug fixes and updates of the GIMP packages. Finally, here they are.
First I‘d like to thank everybody for all your lovely mails, your suggestions about plugins and your bug reports which help me in improving GIMP for Mac OS X. It‘s good to know that you like my work. Thanks.
Now, what‘s new?
The sort order bug in the filechooser, which only occureed on Snow Leopard has been fixed. I‘ve re-enabled the TWAIN plugin to give you back support for various scanners. It was erronously dropped, since I never got it up and running with my Canon scanner. Shortly after I had removed the plugin I‘ve found out, that the problem with Canon scanners is a 64 bit vs. 32 bit issue and that is related only to the Canon TWAIN drivers. The plugin itself works well. Sorry. Additionally I‘ve added a modified plugin which gives you acces to scanners and digital cameras by calling Image Capture. This will enable support for those Canon scanners too.
There are two new plugins.
dds: this let‘s you load and save dds files
wavelet-denoise: a very powerful and fast noise reduction plugin. IMO even better than GREYCstoration.
So, thanks for being so patient and enjoy your new GIMP.
-skl

Links

New GIMP version: 2.6.10 is out

GIMP 2.6.9 for Snow Leopard released

GIMP on Tiger is back

Updated GIMP packages