With [1]GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ondřej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2 developments.

Among the highlights of some of the features hoped for post-3.2 for GIMP include hardware-accelerated image operations using modern APIs. The GEGL library used by GIMP did support OpenCL albeit not in any meaningful manner and hidden in recent releases. Hopefully we'll see some good GPU-accelerated GIMP support soon, especially considering the GPU acceleration with the likes of Adobe Photoshop any other Windows apps for many years at this point.

Some of the other feature work eyed is full CMYK support with avoiding the conversion to RGB, improved text support, GIMP's XCF file format transitioning to a container format, and more.

Those wanting to watch the recording of this GIMP feature look post-3.2 can find Ondřej Míchal's presentation in full on [2]FOSDEM.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/GIMP+3.2

[2] https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BKTC3Z-wheres_gimp_going_after_3_2/