We now have a new version of the most popular free alternative to Photoshop. What's been available for just a few hours is GIMP 3.0.6, which they call a "micro-update" because it's just a single iteration with bug fixes. GNU Image Manipulation Program uses the first number as an update with major changes (3), the second indicates the development phase (0, even, which is stable; or odd, which are preliminary), and the third (6) indicates the jumps with minor improvements.
GIMP 3.0.6 has arrived just over 4 months after the v3.0.4, which, among other things and although not mentioned in the changelog, fixed the icon in the program window when running on Wayland. This release introduces a toggle for the brush and font dialogs to allow their previewers to optionally follow the scheme color, an alpha channel for certain transformations and image blending, and improved support for Photoshop brushes.
Other improvements of GIMP 3.0.6
Among the rest of the changes, GIMP 3.0.6 has updated the palette import function With support for adjusting alpha values, improved import of Lab and CMTK ACB palettes and other palette types.
Other highlights include:
- Improved sensitivity of filter actions.
- Implemented automatic selection of the next entry after deleting a palette.
- Support for applying filters to channels non-destructively.
- Improved support when exporting SVG when exporting paths.
- The search popup no longer appears if there is no image.
- Now displays an undo step for blocked content.
- Fixed alpha selection on individual layers without transparency.
- Improved support for JPEG 2000, TIFF, DDS, SVG, PSP, ICNS, DICOM, WBMP, Farbfeld, XWD, and ILBM formats.
For more news, we recommend visiting the official release note.
GIMP 3.0.6 is now available for download from the project serverIn the next few hours, they'll also add the new version to their main page, and later, the packages will be updated in the official repositories of the various Linux distributions.