{"id":4558,"date":"2012-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=549d612092fac46858143b3e053bc483"},"modified":"2012-05-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T22:00:00","slug":"gimp-2-8-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4558","title":{"rendered":"GIMP 2.8\u00a0Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce immediate availability of <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> 2.8\u2014a new stable version of <span class=\"caps\">GNU<\/span> Image Manipulation Program that culminates 3.5 years of exciting&nbsp;work.<\/p>\n<p>With this version we are introducing some long-anticipated features such as layer groups, on-canvas text editing, advanced brush dynamics and the much desired optional single-window mode. We also started applying other important changes to the user interface that bring us closer to matching the <a href=\"http:\/\/gui.gimp.org\/index.php\/GIMP_UI_Redesign#product_vision\">product vision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For detailed information about changes since 2.6 please read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/release-notes\/gimp-2.8.html\">release notes<\/a>. Source code is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/downloads\/\">available for downloading<\/a> from a plethora of mirrors, a build for Windows will soon be available, and we hope to see a build for Mac <span class=\"caps\">OS<\/span> X released as&nbsp;well.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to thank everyone who participated in development of <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> 2.8: programmers, translators, documentation writers (updated user manual is a work in progress), and testers. We also thank our user community for the dedication and support\u2014we needed it more than&nbsp;ever.<\/p>\n<p>Now that this version is finally released, we are grasping the future with both hands. Stay tuned: some really exciting news will&nbsp;follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce immediate availability of <span>GIMP<\/span> 2.8&mdash;a new stable version of <span>GNU<\/span> Image Manipulation Program that culminates 3.5 years of exciting&nbsp;work.<\/p>\n<p>With this version we are introducing some long-anticipated features such as layer groups, on-canvas text editing, advanced brush dynamics and the much desired optional single-window mode. We also started applying other important changes to the user interface that bring us closer to matching the <a href=\"http:\/\/gui.gimp.org\/index.php\/GIMP_UI_Redesign#product_vision\">product vision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For detailed information about changes since 2.6 please read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/release-notes\/gimp-2.8.html\">release notes<\/a>. Source code is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/downloads\/\">available for downloading<\/a> from a plethora of mirrors, a build for Windows will soon be available, and we hope to see a build for Mac <span>OS<\/span> X released as&nbsp;well.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;d like to thank everyone who participated in development of <span>GIMP<\/span> 2.8: programmers, translators, documentation writers (updated user manual is a work in progress), and testers. We also thank our user community for the dedication and support&mdash;we needed it more than&nbsp;ever.<\/p>\n<p>Now that this version is finally released, we are grasping the future with both hands. Stay tuned: some really exciting news will&nbsp;follow.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4558\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,6,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-floss","category-imaging","category-oss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-1bw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}