The Gimp, een acroniem dat voor ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’ staat, is een fotobewerkingsprogramma en wordt door velen beschouwd als de opensource tegenhanger van Adobe Photoshop en Corel Paint Shop Pro. Het programma is beschikbaar voor verschillende besturingssystemen zoals Linux, Mac OS X en Windows. De ontwikkelaars hebben een nieuwe ontwikkelversie in de 2.5-reeks uitgebracht met 2.5.3 als het versienummer en daarnaast is er een bugfixrelease in de 2.4-reeks verschenen met 2.4.7 als het versienummer. De bijbehorende lijsten met veranderingen van beide versies zien er als volgt uit:

Changes in GIMP 2.4.7:

• fixed issue in GIF load plug-in (bug #535888)
• fixed event handling in MIDI controller (bug #537960)
• fixed handling of the ‘Highlight’ tool option in Crop and Rectangle Select tools (bug #536582)
• various fixes to the Python bindings:
  • fixed crash with Python 2.5 on 64 bit systems (bug #540629)
  • added missing validity checks (bug #536403)
  • allow to pass None for PDB_DISPLAY

  plugged a memory leak in gimp-text-get-extents-fontname PDB call

• fixed potential timeout issues in org.gimp.GIMP.UI D-Bus service
• fixed endianness issue in the ICO save plug-in (bug #529629)
• translation fixes and updates (be, it, lt, nn, vi)

Changes in GIMP 2.5.3:

• some fixes for the 64-bit Windows platform
• optionally emulate brush dynamics when stroking a path or selection
• further work on the scroll-beyond-image-borders feature, improving the behavior of the image display when zooming or when the image size changes
• added links to the user manual to the Tips dialog
• largely rewritten scaling code improves scaling quality, in particular when scaling down
• allow to copy-on-write from the image projection
• added “Paste as new layer” to Edit menu
• added “New from visible” to the Layer menu allowing to create a new layer from the image projection
• added new procedure ‘gimp-layer-new-from-visible’.
• renamed all file plug-in executables to a have a file prefix
• changed the HSV color selector to use the GtkHSV widget
• changed the default for the ’trust-dirty-flag’ gimprc property
• dropped the “Starburst” logo script
• improved the behavior of the zoom button in the upper right corner of the image window
• allow PDB procedures to pass an error message with their return values
• changed all file plug-ins to pass their error messages with the return values instead of raising an error dialog
• adapt the display of the pointer position in the statusbar to the pointer precision of the active tool
• bug fixes and code cleanup