☣️ GIMP 2.99 releases are development snapshots. There are known bugs, sometimes crashes and definitely unfinished features; that’s why it’s not yet a final release. Use at your own risk! ☣️
GIMP 2.99.6 contains quite a few visible and interesting improvements, yet the biggest changes are hidden from the public eye into the quite steadily evolving API (Application Programming Interface for plug-in developers).
⚠️ Many of the third-party plug-ins already ported for GIMP 2.99.2 or 2.99.4 will end up broken, and there is a high chance they will break again in further development releases until we stabilize the API. We apologize for this, though this is the price of making plug-ins for a program in-development. We figured it’s better to do this now rather than ending up stuck with a bad interface for the years to come (as stability will be ensured once GIMP 3 will be out).
Release highlights:
- Off-canvas guides
- Template selector in Canvas Size dialog
- Pinch gesture on canvas for zooming
- Improved Paint Select (experimental) tool
- Better handling of gAMA and/or cHRM chunks of PNG
- API evolution
更多 https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/