Gimparoo!

From gimp.org:

After four months of hard work we are proud to announce another release of the user manual. It features:

• documentation for GIMP 2.4
• new content, spelling and grammar fixes for English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish
• an alternate CSS stylesheet for HTML

The source files of gimp-help-2.4.0 can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Users should wait until this release has been packaged in a pre-compiled form that is easier to install. Find more information about our goals and how you can help at http://docs.gimp.org.

From gimp.org:

Three weeks later enough bug-fixes have piled up to warrant another bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.4 series. Please see the NEWS file for details.

The source code for GIMP 2.4.2 can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages are expected to become available over the next days. Please check the Downloads section.

GIMP 2.4.1. has been released to fix a few bugs. Here’s the release from gimp.org:

GIMP 2.4.1 is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. It fixes problems that were discovered after the 2.4.0 release. Please see the NEWS file for details.

The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages are expected to become available over the next days. Please check the Downloads section.

That was fast.

 You can find the Ubuntu 7.04 packages for the new GIMP 2.4 RC2 on our download page (for i386 and AMD64):

Download GIMP 2.4 RC2 for Ubuntu 7.04

We didn’t test these packages on other systems as our own, so if you find any errors, please post here.

These are only inofficial packages of a preview version. Don’t bother the GIMP developers when something doesn’t work.

Thanks guys!

News from gimpusers.com

After playing around with miscellanous package creation tools we can offer you our GIMP 2.4 RC1 debs for Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04). These packages are for testing purposes and not supported officially.

Link

From the announcement:

After four months of hard work we are proud to announce a new release of the user manual for GIMP 2.2.

• new content, spelling and grammar fixes for German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Korean and Dutch
• support for creating ODF files (you need to have docbook2odf installed.)
• lots of bug fixes
• new tutorials from gimp.org
• Quickreference sheet export to SVG
• and more technically: a new build system.

The source files of gimp-help-2-0.13 can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Users should wait until this release has been packaged in a pre-compiled form that is easier to install. Find more information about our goals and how you can help at http://docs.gimp.org.

www.gimp.org From the release:

Version 2.2.14 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.2 series. Please see the NEWS file for a detailed list of changes. The source code is available from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon.

I’ll be waiting for it to hit the Ubuntu repo’s, but if you don’t mind building from source, have at it!

AMD has posted an update to their proprietary Linux driver for ATI graphics cards. Here is the announcement. From the notes:

Resolved Issues

The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the AMD Catalyst™ Linux Graphics Driver software suite. These include:

• The screen no longer turns black if the X-Server is terminated from the text console. This condition was known to occur only on certain laptop confgiurations. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26829.

This is very good news for those of us with these particular laptop configurations. Note: I have not yet installed this driver, as I just now saw the announcement, so I’d love to hear from anyone who’s already installed it.

If you are a Debian or Ubuntu user, Ubuntu Forums user soc has created a .deb file for the latest version of the GIMP. Check it out here: www.ubuntuforums.org. If you’re unfamiliar, a .deb file is an automatic installer for Debian based systems which makes installing applications a very simple process. No dependency hell. If you’re brave, you can download and build the package from source. I’m going to continue using v2.2 here just because it is the stable version. As soon as 2.4 is announced, I’ll make the switch for tutorials.

Thanks soc!

p.s. Here’s the changelog for 2.3