GIMP 3.0.0 tagged
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26951027
Draft Release Notes: https://testing.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html
Will soon be published to Flathub
Is it still a pile of hot garbage to use?
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Could anybody in short explain, what I have to understand from “it’s tagged”?
Git is the most popular version control system, which lets developers track changes to software source code. A "tag" applies a name (or version number) to a specific point in the history.
The commit shows that there was a longer with 3.0.0 tag before and now its just 3.0.0
The link goes to a commit which is tagged
GIMP_3_0_0, and shows the change made in this commit. This commit happens to change theversionline in a file calledmeson.build- this file configures Meson, which is used to build GIMP. The version is being changed from3.0.0-RC3+gitto3.0.0. The string "RC3" in the previous version number is short of "release candidate 3", and "git" here means that there were additional changes since "release candidate 3" was released.What does that tell us?
So far the news and downloads pages still haven't been updated, but the version being changed to
3.0.0and this commit being tagged tells us that GIMP 3.0.0 is about to be released: official binaries and an announcement about it can be expected to appear very soon.The tag means no more changes will be included in 3.0.0; if some show-stopping bug were discovered now, the version number would be incremented to 3.0.1 rather than to include a fix in 3.0.0. (Technically, a tag can be updated/replaced, but by convention it is not.)
So far the news and downloads pages still haven’t been updated
If I can’t download it, and the site says the latest version is 2.10.38, is it really released?
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So far the news and downloads pages still haven’t been updated
If I can’t download it, and the site says the latest version is 2.10.38, is it really released?
as i said, it "is about to be released".
or, one could also say that the the 3.0.0 source code has been released, but the official binaries haven't been yet
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Could anybody in short explain, what I have to understand from “it’s tagged”?
Git is the most popular version control system, which lets developers track changes to software source code. A "tag" applies a name (or version number) to a specific point in the history.
The commit shows that there was a longer with 3.0.0 tag before and now its just 3.0.0
The link goes to a commit which is tagged
GIMP_3_0_0, and shows the change made in this commit. This commit happens to change theversionline in a file calledmeson.build- this file configures Meson, which is used to build GIMP. The version is being changed from3.0.0-RC3+gitto3.0.0. The string "RC3" in the previous version number is short of "release candidate 3", and "git" here means that there were additional changes since "release candidate 3" was released.What does that tell us?
So far the news and downloads pages still haven't been updated, but the version being changed to
3.0.0and this commit being tagged tells us that GIMP 3.0.0 is about to be released: official binaries and an announcement about it can be expected to appear very soon.The tag means no more changes will be included in 3.0.0; if some show-stopping bug were discovered now, the version number would be incremented to 3.0.1 rather than to include a fix in 3.0.0. (Technically, a tag can be updated/replaced, but by convention it is not.)
Thanks for the write up!!
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Does it support CMYK now?
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Could anybody in short explain, what I have to understand from “it’s tagged”?
Git is the most popular version control system, which lets developers track changes to software source code. A "tag" applies a name (or version number) to a specific point in the history.
The commit shows that there was a longer with 3.0.0 tag before and now its just 3.0.0
The link goes to a commit which is tagged
GIMP_3_0_0, and shows the change made in this commit. This commit happens to change theversionline in a file calledmeson.build- this file configures Meson, which is used to build GIMP. The version is being changed from3.0.0-RC3+gitto3.0.0. The string "RC3" in the previous version number is short of "release candidate 3", and "git" here means that there were additional changes since "release candidate 3" was released.What does that tell us?
So far the news and downloads pages still haven't been updated, but the version being changed to
3.0.0and this commit being tagged tells us that GIMP 3.0.0 is about to be released: official binaries and an announcement about it can be expected to appear very soon.The tag means no more changes will be included in 3.0.0; if some show-stopping bug were discovered now, the version number would be incremented to 3.0.1 rather than to include a fix in 3.0.0. (Technically, a tag can be updated/replaced, but by convention it is not.)
In case anyone is curious, here's the steps missing to get an official release.
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Does it support CMYK now?
From the post: "This update also lays the groundwork for future CMYK and LAB image color modes."
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26951027
Draft Release Notes: https://testing.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html
Will soon be published to Flathub
I havent used it in 15 years and will prob keep that up, used to weirdly love photo editing
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I've used Gimp for as long as I can remember, it's one of those tools I always have installed in my workstation. It's quirky, but I love it anyway.
Glad to see 3.0 released. Valve, are you paying attention? Those is how it's done.
Valve.
Gimp 2.0 was released eight months before Half Life 2.
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Gimp 2.0 was released eight months before Half Life 2.
So you're telling me....
Half Life 3 confirmed!
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Gimp 2.0 was released eight months before Half Life 2.
So you're implying we can expect Half-Life 3 for Christmas?
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Does it support CMYK now?
Isn't the problem that it's blocked by a number of patents, or something like that?
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RUST IS INEVITABLE
Gimp devs will have to port it to Gtk 4 before rewriting it in Rust, because Rust Gtk 3 bindings are now obsolete lol.
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So you're telling me....
Half Life 3 confirmed!
8 more months until we got HL3!
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gimp 3 and proper hdr in the same year. never would have guessed it would be so contemporaneous
Wayland is done playing catchup, work should dramatically accelerate, the great transition is finally almost over.
All that's left to get wayland to feature parity with x at this point is an accessibility protocol (which should also allow xdotool stuff to work), gnome is working on one. Once that's done and released, a bunch of devs will be freed up to work on new stuff.
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2025 is finally the year of the Linux desktop!
Aside from the wayland transition finishing, which I posted about above, there's also anticheat being figured out.
Then there will be no compelling reasons for normal people not to use linux, unless you have extremely niche software that only works on windows.
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Does it support CMYK now?
You can import and export to CMYK but, internally, it is still sRGB.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26951027
Draft Release Notes: https://testing.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html
Will soon be published to Flathub
Let's see... Can we draw circles in a convenient manner yet?
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You can import and export to CMYK but, internally, it is still sRGB.
So I don't want to imagine what happens to black pixels this way
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Is it still a pile of hot garbage to use?
People downvote you but gimp's interface and UX is atrocious. I only use it because I've been using it for >20 years and I understand how it works, but still...
