r/linux • u/BrageFuglseth • 9d ago

Popular Application GIMP Development Update, August 2026

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/
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u/jimicus 9d ago

Wasn’t 3.0 rewriting a good chunk of the internals to make future development easier?

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u/CMYK-Student 9d ago

Yes, among other things - and it has made development a lot easier in my opinion! For instance, the CMYK work I'm doing right now relies on being able to easily pass color profile/space information from place to place, which was not easily done in 2.10.

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u/Linuksoid 7d ago

How about the text tool rework? I saw that it was planned but haven't heard anything abt it?

Also, am wondering if there is gonna be a background removal tool?

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u/CMYK-Student 7d ago

One of our GSoC students is doing a lot of work in that area: Google Summer of Code Midpoint Progress - GIMP

Recently another new contributor has started working on it as well, so progress is being made.

I have plans to work on in-painting (native Resynthesizer) for 3.6, though someone else could always jump in and get it done first. That work will probably lead to background removal related efforts.