Gimp 2.37 released

Gimp 2.37 is starting to appear on the Gimp FTP trees. The release notes are reading like they’re almost ready for 2.4.

Changes in GIMP 2.3.7

  • depend on GTK+ 2.8, use some of the new features
  • removed workarounds for problems in GTK+ 2.6
  • moved Align Visible Layers to the Image menu
  • started to add a new vectors PDB API
  • make it more obvious that docks can be rearranged by drag and drop
  • modified the behaviour of the Tab key
  • added --license command-line option
  • improved dither matrix for RGB->Indexed conversion
  • added PDB API to stroke with any paint method
  • gave some plug-ins more sensible names
  • keep settings of brush/pattern/font/… button popups across sessions
  • reduced number of memory allocations by declaring some strings as static
  • some improvements to the plug-in preview widgets
  • added links to important topics in the user manual
  • let the configure script display a summary of options
  • bug fixes and code cleanup