GIMP - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released
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Release news for version GIMP 3.0 RC1

2024-11-06 by GIMP Team

We are very excited to share the first release candidate for the long-awaited GIMP 3.0! We’ve been hard at work since our last development update to get this ready, and we’re looking forward to everyone finally being able to see the results.

So, what exactly is a “release candidate” (RC)? A release candidate is something that might be ready to be GIMP 3.0, but we want the larger community to test it first and report any problems they find. If user feedback reveals only small and easy to fix bugs, we will solve those problems and issue the result as GIMP 3.0. However, we hope and expect a much larger audience to try out 3.0 RC1 - including many people who have only been using 2.10 up until now. If larger bugs and regressions are uncovered that require more substantial code changes, we may need to publish a second release candidate for further testing.

      • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
        1·
        10 hours ago

        GNU IMP

        Really? That’s the best the fucking brain trust could come up with?

        Here are some suggestions that chatgpt came up with. All of them are FAR better than that and dont even take much imagination.

        Certainly! Here’s the list:

        1. PixelCrafter

        2. PhotoFlare

        3. ArtisanEdit

        4. Imagino

        5. EditSphere

        6. PixiePro

        7. Visionary

        8. ChromaCraft

        9. PixelPioneer

        10. ImageAlchemy

        I hope one of these sparks some inspiration!

        • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          3 hours ago

          These suggestion all sound quite bland and corporate though. GIMP isn’t a great name but better than all of those in my opinion.

          A better change should be more like Minetest becoming Luanti. Here is what ChatGPT came up with instead:

          • BlockCraft
          • Voxelverse
          • Craftopia
          • TerraForge
          • VoxelQuest

          These are horrible compared to Luanti.

          • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgOP
            3·
            3 hours ago

            Agreed, both lists sound like random words put together. There was actually a fork with a rename and rebrand to Glimpse. It’s by far the best alternative name I have seen so far. But GNU IMP does the job too, because people don’t like the word GIMP.