The Gimp 2.2.12

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

• Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
• Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
• Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
• Full Alpha channel support
• Layers and channels
• A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
• Advanced scripting capabilities
• Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
• File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
• Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
• Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

- fixed display problem in the Animation Playback plug-in (bug #338378)
- fixed misbehaviour of the user installation dialog (bug #324254)
- make sure that session-managed windows are mapped completely inside a
monitor (bug #339099, bug #324254)
- don't use long deprecated libpng API (bug #339402)
- fixed possible segfault when closing image while saving it (bug #322978)
- halt tools when the image mode changes (bug #330083)
- fixed problem in Scale and Resize widgets (bug #336259)
- fixed wrong offset in transform PDB functions (bug #342548)
- fixed bugs in the Dicom load plug-in (bug #163256)
- make sure text widgets get all key events first (bug #301006)
- fixed problems with default values in the PNG save plug-in (bug #343284)
- fixed Save As dialog not displaying the filename (bug #343284)
- fixed compilation problem with gcc 4.1 (bug #345473)
- plugged a possible buffer overrun in the XCF parser (bug #346742)
- don't save image parasites twice in XCF files (bug #346754)