The GIMP is an image composition and editing program, which can be
used for creating logos and other graphics for Web pages. The GIMP
offers many tools and filters, and provides a large image
manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers,
effects, subpixel imaging and antialiasing, and conversions, together
with multilevel undo. The GIMP offers a scripting facility, but many
of the included scripts rely on fonts that we cannot distribute.
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Changelog
* Sun Jan 25 2026 Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@suse.de>
- Update to 3.0.8
- Font Loading Performance
- Improvements in start-up time for users with a large number
of fonts was backported from our 3.2 RC2 release. As a
result, we now wait to load images until fonts are
initialized - this prevents some occasional odd displays and
other issues when an XCF file tried to access a partially
loaded font.
- Assorted updates and fixes
- Daniel Plakhotich helped us identify an issue when exporting
a lossless WEBP image could be affected by lossy settings
(such as Quality being less than 100%). We’ve updated our
WEBP plug-in to prevent this from happening.
- Thanks to Jehan‘s efforts, the standard gimp-3.0 executable
can now be run with a --no-interface flag instead of
requiring users to call gimp-console-3.0 even on devices with
no display. The --show-debug-menu flag is now visible as
well.
- programmer_ceds improved our flatpak by adding safe guards to
show the correct configuration directory regardless of
whether XDG_CONFIG_HOME is defined on the user’s system. This
should make it much easier for flatpak users to install and
use third party plug-ins.
- We fixed a rare but possible crash when using the Equalize
filter on images with NaN values. Images that contain these
are usually created from scientific or mapping data, so
you’re unlikely to come across them in standard editing.
- Jeremy Bicha fixed an internal issue where the wrong version
number could be used when installing minor releases (such as
the 3.2 release candidates and upcoming 3.2 stable release).
- As noted in our 3.2RC2 news post, we have updated our SVG
import code to improve the rendered path.
- Further improvements have been made to our non-destructive
filter code to improve stability, especially when copying and
pasting layers and images with filters attached to them. Some
issues related to applying NDE filters on Quick Masks have
also been corrected.
- An unintended Search pop-up that appeared when typing while
the Channels dockable was selected has been turned off.
- When saving XCFs for GIMP 2.10 compatibility, we
unintentionally saved Grid color using the new color format.
This caused errors when reopening the XCF in 2.10. This
problem has now been fixed! If you encounter any other XCF
incompatibility, please let us know.
- Themes and UX
- The Navigation and Selection Editor dockables no longer show
a large bright texture when no image is actively selected.
This was especially noticeable on dark themes.
- When a layer has no active filters, the Fx column had the
same “checkbox” outline when hovered over as the lock column.
This led to confusion about clicking it to add filters. We
have removed the outline on hover as a small step to help
address this.
- Ondřej Míchal fixed alignment and cut-off issues with the
buttons on our Transform tool overlays. All buttons should
now be properly centered and visible.
- The options for filling layers with colors when resizing the
canvas will be turned off when not relevant (such as when you
set layers to not be resized).
- More GUI elements such as dialog header icons will now
respond to your icon size preferences.
- Ondřej Míchal has continued his work to update our UI with
the more usable Spin Scale widget. He has also updated the
widget itself to improve how it works for users and
developers alike.
- Security fixes
- Jacob Boerema and Gabriele Barbero continued to patch
potential security issues related to some of our file format
plug-ins. In addition to existing fixes mentioned in the
release candidate news posts, the following exploits are now
prevented: ZDI-CAN-28232 ZDI-CAN-28265 ZDI-CAN-28530
ZDI-CAN-28591 ZDI-CAN-28599
- Another potential issue related to ICO files with incorrect
metadata was reported by Dhiraj. It does not have a CVE
number yet, but it has been fixed for GIMP 3.0.8. Jacob
Boerema also fixed a potential issue with loading Creator
blocks in Paintshop Pro PSP images.
- API
- For plug-in and script developers, a few new public APIs were
backported to GIMP 3.0.8. gimp_cairo_surface_get_buffer ()
allows you to retrieve a GEGL buffer from a Cairo surface
(such as a text layer). Note that this deprecates
gimp_cairo_surface_create_buffer ().
- gimp_config_set_xcf_version () and
gimp_config_get_xcf_version () can be used to specify a
particular XCF version for a configuration. This will allow
you to have that data serialized/deserialized for certain
versions of GIMP if there were differences (such as the Grid
colors mentioned above).
- Fixes were made for retrieving image metadata via scripting.
GimpMetadata is now a visible child of GE