After 3.5 years of development and major work on UI and guts:  https://plus.google.com/116634837115748851709/posts/X5W6x2v5avo  http://www.unixmen.com/gimp-2-8-is-out-ppa-ubuntu/

But beware: installing it from the ppa mentioned in the article above might break your system (see comments section)...

And ars technica has a review: http://arst.ch/tny Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/           Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174