Plug-ins and scripts written for GIMP 2.0 will continue to work and don’t need to be changed nor recompiled to be used with GIMP 2.2. GIMP 2.2 is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0. Unless you are experienced with building software from source, you should wait until binary packages become available.

We expect that binary packages for the different supported platforms and distributions will show up soon. GIMP can be downloaded as source code from or from one of the mirrors listed in the Downloads section. More information about GIMP is available at Download ¶ As free software, its capabilities are ultimately limited only by the collective imagination of the community of free software contributors. This makes it well suited to be included on cover disks of magazines dedicated to digital photography or image editing, or to be included with digital cameras, scanners, printers etc. GIMP is free software, which means it can be freely distributed and modified. It is a very powerful application, with features including: channels, layers and masks colour operations such as levels, curves and threshhold advanced selection operations using intelligent scissors and selection channels and much more. The GNU Image Manipulation Program is ideal for amateur photographers, web designers, and many other people who want to create and edit digital images. About nine months after version 2.0 hit the road, we have completed another development cycle and can bring a new stable GIMP to our users’ desktops.

The GIMP developers are proud to release version 2.2 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

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