Gimp developers after 1 year of development has finally pushed the first testing release [2.7.0]. The 2.7 series is a testing release and will eventually form the stable 2.8.0 series.
With the new upcoming 2.8 series, Gimp will see some radical change.
- On Canvas Text Editing
- Improved BALB and GEGL integration
- Merger of GSOC projects.
- Improved UI
- Lots of performance improvements and bug fixes
- Tagging brushes, patterns etc
- Grouping of layers.
- Ability to rotate brushes
Gimp 2.6 Interface
The first changelog for 2.7.0 [alpha 2.8] has brought some interesting facts but the headliner was the change in license, with 2.8 version Gimp will opt the highly acclaimed GPLv3 and will be the one of the most used software to opt the v3 license..
Digg it : http://digg.com/linux_unix/Gimp_2_8_will_be_licensed_under_GPLv3
Change log : gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program
Download Gimp 2.7.0 : GIMP - Downloads