Over the past years the team behind GIMP has constantly worked on almost every bit and byte that makes GIMP such a great product in the open source sector.

Now they could happily announce that GIMP 2.10 is on the home strech! There are still some bugs but it is already in a very good condition and personally we found it could be used in production already.

Lots of things have been improved since the 2.9.8 dev version:

The layer masks on layer groups are now fully working

are now fully working A new filter to adjust Shadows and Highlights separately is available

separately is available GIMP can now import JPEG 2000 images that have high bit depth such as 32bit

can now images that have such as 32bit new icons have been added

have been added GUI improvements

improvements new cool GEGL operations ( recursive transform is an effect where images can repetitively appear inside itself; enlarge ; inpaint ; domain transform can smooth images while preserving the edged;)

operations ( is an effect where images can repetitively appear inside itself; ; ; can smooth images while preserving the edged;) and lots of other small changes

You can find a more informative list of changes on the official GIMP website

The source code can be found here:

https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.10/gimp-2.10.0-RC1.tar.bz2 (MD5)

The Windows version of 2.10-rc1 is now available and can be found in our downloads section.