'The development team behind the popular GIMP open-source image editing software announced today the general availability of the Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the highly anticipated GIMP 3.0 release. Featuring a much-refined interface, GIMP 3.0 introduces massive improvements to color management, a stable public API to allow porting of plug-ins and scripts from the GIMP 2.10 series, support for loading layers from TIFF files saved in the Autodesk Sketchbook format, and support for 64 bits per pixel images for the BMP format. GIMP 3.0 also promises improvements to non-destructive editing by introducing an optional “Merge Filters” checkbox at the bottom of NDE filters that merges down the filter immediately after it’s committed, along with non-destructive filters on layer groups and the implementation of storing version of filters in GIMP’s XCF project files. “This will allow us to update filters in the future without impacting how older project files look when they’re opened. Additional work will be needed in GEGL to fully implement this feature, but that can be done after 3.0 without impacting existing project files,” said the devs. Among other noteworthy changes, the updated UI of GIMP 3.0 allows the use of the mouse scroll wheel to flip through different dockable dialogue tabs, GEGL and babl components have been updated with new features and many improvements, such as Inner Glow, Bevel, and GEGL Styles filters, and some plugins saw small enhancements. On top of all that, GIMP 3.0 also comes with a new logo, a new splash screen, improvements to the legacy icon theme to look great on HiDPI screens, and the ability to export images with different settings while leaving the original image unchanged.' -- source: https://9to5linux.com/gimp-3-0-release-candidate-is-now-available-for-public... Cheers, Peter