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GIMP 3.0.6 Released (www.gimp.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Thanks, but I don't think that patch level updates are news worthy

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Posts in linux@lemmy.ml are on average about 4 or 5 hours apart. I think we can squeeze these kinds of posts in amidst the hustle and bustle in here.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lemmy.world users seem to always be weirdly hostile about the dumbest shit I swear.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    More useful than that comment for sure.

    There was lots of useful stuff in this release. It is not like it just fixed a couple of bugs. More than enough new functionality to be newsworthy and enough for me to go get the new release for Mac (which does not auto-update).

    It is also great to track the incremental progress towards things like full CMYK support.

    You may also misunderstand how GIMP releases work. Things will probably move faster now that version 3 is out but there will be LOTS of progress in the 3.0 releases before they release 3.2. If you wait for 3.2, you will be waiting a while and miss many useful features. The 3.1.x series is a dev branch for more invasive changes. A lot of the nee functionality will appear in 3.0.x.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If there's new functionality, it should have been a minor version bump smh

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    GIMP follows the old Linux kernel versioning scheme.

    The second number is even for stable releases and odd for development releases. Given the frequency, you should think of the second number as major releases in the way you are thinking.

    GIMP was on version 2.10 for 7 years before the release of 3.0 and on version 2.8 for 6 years before that.

    A bump in the third number for GIMP really is a minor release with the second number (when even) signalling a major release. GIMP 3.2 will be the next “major” release.

    The first number changes very infrequently. It was 21 years between GIMP 2 and GIMP 3. I do not think we have any idea what the criteria will be to move to GIMP 4.

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