GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

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Isn’t the latest version of gtk gtk4?

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They’ve been working on porting it since back in 2012, and didn’t want to redo a bunch of the porting work before they even released it.

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I get the sentiment, but now they’re doing a whole lot of extra work only to be a version behind

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That sounds very frustrating!

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