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These last few days, I've looked a lot at various issues for graphics tablets on Linux, which made me have very informative discussions with @npub1ypeh...4pcg. 💬 There is quite some data to digest, but that could lead to interesting enhancements in graphics tablet configuration after @npub1jxdd...txs3 3.2 is released… 🤔

While we are very actively working 🧑‍💻 on preparing the release for @npub1jxdd...txs3 3.2.0 RC2, I also took some time on the side to plan ahead the future of GIMP. This is how I came up with the 2 roadmaps for versions 3.4 and 3.6 which I shared 2 weeks ago. This post on our Patreon page gives some more details about our plans: https://www.patreon.com/posts/planning-future-144005216 Enjoy the read everyone! 🤗

As a side project, to relax from maintenance and preparation of @npub1jxdd...txs3 3.2, I have been looking into our experimental "Paint Select" tool. The tool is still hidden under a Playground settings, mostly for performance reason. I am in early review and experimentation on it, but it feels like we can really improve things, both algorithmically and UX/UI wise. Here is me making a quick selection of Mia, official mianager of the LILA non-profit film production:

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Improving speed and feedback of experimental Paint Select tool

This is work in progress of my (Jehan

🥳 Happy ㉊th birthday, @npub1jxdd...txs3 ! 🎂 In 1995, November 11, a young US student, Peter Mattis, announces a program on some Linux newsgroups, called "The GIMP: the General Image Manipulation Program". 2 years later, Spencer Kimball (other co-author) and Peter graduate and leave. Thanks to the #GPL license, the community take over development. 30 years later… The project is thriving, with contributors from all over the world, and maintainers from Germany, Norway, France, Korea, Netherlands… 🤗

I guess I can show a screenshot of current roadmaps for 3.4 and 3.6. This contains projects by Americo Gobbo, @npub13hgj...g240, Jacob Boerema, @npub1ehav...ze52, and us (Aryeom & Jehan @npub1wvm3...5rdg). We have not yet incorporated any project by Gabriele Barbero, Idriss Fekir and @npub1r6cn...egrw who will likely further improve text handling. And others… With our new policy of fast minor release, we ask everyone to focus on one big project only (they may add in small projects which would not block release).

With @npub1jxdd...txs3 3.2 on the final stretch, today I spent quite some time preparing #GIMP 3.4 and 3.6 initial roadmaps 🗓️ with input of what other contributors want to work on (with the usual assumption that roadmaps are "fluid" and can change anytime; it's a tool for us to self-organize, not a promise to others). Organizing future works is always a nice feeling as we can see where we are going! 🎯

While #FOSDEM has not uploaded our keynote recording yet unfortunately (technical issues as our movie is CC by-sa and their recordings are usually CC by), we decided to upload the full recording of the movie screening + live music (cine-concert) at least for our patrons. Musicians are from AMMD ([@ORL_AMMD](

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)). Recording and editing by FOSDEM video team. https://www.patreon.com/posts/zemarmot-cine-143285029

Today I finally merged one of my 2013 patches for @npub1jxdd...txs3! (with improvements of course) 😁 This is a new action to switch to last used tool (defaulting to Shift-X shortcut). As a side change, I also made so that once an effect has been validated (or canceled), the previously selected tool is activated again.

We are currently preparing a new stable release of @npub1jxdd...txs3 3.0. A lot of work is being done in backstage by our developers, packagers, translators, testers… stay tuned! Also we remind that anyone can join the team of testers, if you want to help us finding issues, posting feedback and so on:

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Release GIMP 3.0.6 (#14947) · Issues · GNOME / GIMP · GitLab

Note: CC list of people to notify when preparing a release. If you wish to help for further release, e.g. with testing, news writing or other contr...

This upcoming release was much needed and incorporates a ton of fixes for various bugs 🦋!

Anyone using one of the languages where @npub1jxdd...txs3 3 crashes lately (Norwegian, Turkish… AFAIK) on Windows, who could test an installer for us? See:

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Gimp Crashing when "Open With" or Export (triggered by date separators in some locales, like Bokmål or Turkish) [waiting for libc++ patch to be merged] (#12626) · Issues · GNOME / GIMP · GitLab

Update by Bruno (16/09/2025) We are aware and triaging this bug, which is likely a bug on Windows set_locale() function....

The bug is in Windows, but we may have a workaround (to be confirmed by testing) until Microsoft fixes their code.