New User Manual Out

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.

More Bug Fixes

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.

2.4.1 Bug Fixes

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.

GIMP 2.4!

It’s here, it’s here! For those of you who waited for the stable release, it’s now available. Head on over to gimp.org and download away. They changed their website design too, so when you get there and it doesn’t look familiar, don’t panic.

We are so very close

GIMP 2.4 RC3 is out, and the very helpful folks at gimpusers.com have once again provided a .deb for us. Download it here. This release signals the end of the development process of v2.4, so we should be seeing an official announcement of the final release soon.

GIMP User Manual 0.13 Released

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.

Gimp Update 2.2.14

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!

New Gimp Manual

The Gimp developers announced the release of a new users manual today. From the announcement:

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

• New content (incl. spelling and grammar fixes) for German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Korean
• The PDF version of the manual is now generated using dblatex
• Lots of bug fixes

They recommend you wait until it’s been prepackaged for your distribution before installing it on your system, but you can always check it out online at http://docs.gimp.org.