This is the year of the release of GIMP 3.0. In fact, it is likely that this will be the month in which we will be able to use the stable version of a GNU Image Manipulation Program with new functions and already using GTK3. But, while we wait - longer than anyone would like -, we already have here a new version, a GIMP 2.10.38 which is said to be one of the most timid releases in recent times.
It does not include many new features, but they have backported several of them from GIMP 3. Among what is worth mentioning, support for using the program with tablets under Windows has been improved. Perhaps it would have been better to leave this support as it is in v2 of the most popular free image editing software, but they have taken advantage of this corrective release to give joy to users who work with GIMP with a tablet on Windows. Fortunately, there are developers who do treat everyone equally.
GIMP 2.10.38 should give way to GIMP 3
Among other features that have been backported from GIMP 3, the size of the print dialog has been updated so that the buttons are not clipped, problems with pop-up dialogs that appeared below previous ones have been corrected, and Various fixes to keyboard input. These problems were being experienced on Windows, so they are directed at this platform.
In the bug fixes section, a couple of crashes have been fixed, PNGs indexed with transparency are now exported with the correct colors, the input ranges of several filters such as Waves and Distortion have been fixed, the customization field The title bar now supports UTF-8 characters and comments on existing images are no longer "leaked" on newly created images.
GIMP 2.10.38 can now be downloaded since official website. Linux users will have to wait a little longer, unless we install its flatpack version. Anyone who wants to try the beta is also in the flathub beta repository and the most recent, and last before the stable version, is 2.99.18.