GIMP, you already have a new stable version released. Is about GIMP 2.8.20, and that you can download from the link that opens this post. For those who do not know it, it is an advanced program for editing digital images in the form of a bitmap and drawing. In other words, it is the free and free alternative to the famous Adobe PhotoShop program, and it has nothing to envy to it. Its acronym comes from GNU Image Manipulation Program.
It belongs to the GNU project and is published under the GPL license, available for both Unix-like operating systems and Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS, as well as for Microsoft Windows. Therefore you can use it on multiple platforms. The interface is simple, it has many tools (which can be expanded by downloading some modules, brushes, etc. available) to manipulate the images and it is available in many languages, such as Spanish, Swedish, English, German, French, Norwegian, etc.
Now, with the most advanced and stable version that we present, GIMP 2.8.20, some new arrivals. It comes after months of development after the last version released (2.8.18), with some bugs corrected with respect to this and some other extra features. Perhaps the most notable novelty is the one referring to the .xcf.gz and .xcf.bz files for large formats, as well as a better visibility of its interface using darker themes.
They have also improved some tools, and even the installations of the versions for MacOS and Windows. Now it's time to wait, as the development community behind this project is already working hard for future improvements. The version GIMP 3.0 It is under development and its developers promise new features and more extreme changes than those seen for this version 2.8.20. By the way, at the beginning I have not commented on it, but of course you can also download other versions from the official site, as well as the source code or directly the binaries ...
Gimp 2.9 is really brutal