Today marks the beginning of the string freeze for the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 open-source image editor release as one of the leading free software alternatives to Adobe Photoshop.

[1]GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project [2]announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

GIMP 3.0 saw its [3]last development release in February and had been [4]hoping for a release in May but like their earlier release hopes they ultimately came and passed.

Here's to hoping GIMP 3.0 stable will finally be out in the coming months.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/GIMP+3.0

[2] https://x.com/GIMP_Official/status/1825949792821981472?s=09

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-Coming-Soon

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-May-2024-Schedule