The world of FOSS has quite a few significant applications, but certainly one of the main ones is GIMP, the image retouching tool that gave rise to GTK libraries and with it to GNOME and to a very broad software core and fundamental base of free software as we know it today. Well, a few hours ago the release of GIMP 2.9.4, the first update of the year 2016 for this tool, it comes with a good amount of significant enhancements.
After about 8 months of hard work (remember that version 2.9.2 had been released back in November of last year) adds Major Advances in Image Color Management, in addition to improving the management of color profiles and bringing a new color picker tool. Other improvements include a DND widget, the ability to copy and paste layers between different images, higher rendering speed, a new option for 'Optimize' available both from the general menu and from the contextual menu of each image.
At the core of the application several options have been added in the menus, in addition to some related to image improvements (blending, image magic matching), and in the interface (GUI) we have worked on the status bar and in the dialogs (both in their design and in their general options ), although we can say the same of the windows (the change of full screen mode has been improved) and in GIMP preferences, where we now have many more possibilities (among them a very good one of using a customizable keyboard shortcut together with the mouse wheel to modify the size of the pencil or brush in real time).
Finally, to say that there are several aesthetic tweaks, in the use of themes or in the choice of application icons, and many changes and minor improvements that we can well find taking a look to the changelog (on GitHub). So now we can download GIMP 2.9.4 from there.