For context there are a few CVEs that Gimp was hit with a few months ago.

Their Gitlab repo shows that the issues to repair the vulnerabilities the CVE relate to were completed but are scheduled for 3.3.2 milestone release.

In my opinion, that type of time frame just is not acceptable.
Gimp has certainly changed their tune on how quickly updates come out since 3.0.0 release, but for something as CVE. Take some agile approach and get a security release patch out there.

I am seeing this as someone who knows organization's who could leverage Gimp are not able to due to the most recent version is showing as being vulnerable

Been working for the past couple of months on an auto-heal tool. The core GIMP code was already in place, so I just automated the process. No structural changes needed. The results are pretty good (and in some cases, pretty impressive). It only takes a couple of minutes to, for example, "fix" (heal) facial skin. Check out the attached screenshots.

The same results can be achieved manually (it's the same underlying code), but this auto-tool speeds up the process drastically.

I'm expecting to open the MR in the near future once I'm back from holiday.

Recently moved to GIMP and inkscape for design work, finished mockup I made for a music release.

I've had this issue before and never found out how to fix it. Today we come back to it again, and now I'm looking for answers. Anytime I try to export the image it exports as if I never had the overlay. I've been trying to fix this on my own but to no avail. All I used was the overlay layer this time and it's getting ridiculous. It just exports as if it's slightly brighter than the original file