Some of us are waiting for version 3.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, but we will have to continue to be patient. For what we will not have to wait much more is to be able to use GIMP 2.10.30as the team of developers behind the most popular free Photoshop alternative announced its launch a few moments ago. It has come with news, such as improved support for the PSD format, the native of Photoshop.
GIMP 2.10.30 has arrived about four months after the earlier version, a maintenance update among whose novelties we had improvements for OpenBSD, macOS and, of course, Microsoft's Windows. In 2.10.30 it stands out, above all, the greater compatibility with Photoshop and also with the image format AVIF.
GIMP 2.10.30 now available
In addition to PSD support having received several types of enhancements allowing more PSD subcases to be loaded and AVIF export now favoring the AOM encoder, GIMP also improves:
- Reimplementation of selection outline drawing from GIMP 2.99.8 for macOS Big Sur and above (patch already discussed, exceptionally downgraded to DMG 2.10.28 package for macOS users to enjoy before visible selections).
- On Windows, they have moved from GetICMProfile () to the WcsGetDefaultColorProfile () API because the former is broken on Windows 11. Therefore, the profiles could not be obtained from the monitors.
- On Linux and other operating systems that could use Freedesktop portals, Colors dockable has been implemented with the Freedesktop API when available, keeping old implementations as fallbacks. The screenshot plugin now also uses the Freedesktop API as a priority instead of the KDE or GNOME specific API (which are being restricted for security reasons since KDE Plasma 5.20 and GNOME Shell 41).
GIMP 2.10.30 is now available to download from the official website of the project. For Linux users who want to use it, the Flatpak version. In the next few days it will appear as an update in the official repositories of some Linux distributions.