Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt

After a seven-year nap, version 3.0 of FOSS image editor GIMP is arriving with a splash, while a long-dormant open video format wakes from its slumbers and lumbers into beta.

It's the first new release for the FOSS Photoshop alternative since GIMP 2.10 back in 2018, and it's five years since the first development release.

We looked at the beta version last November, and we don't want to repeat ourselves. There are now full release notes for the details of what's changed and what's new. GIMP 3 started out as an update to Gtk 3, but over the years it's grown into a major rewrite. Now that's done, the plan is that the next development version will be GIMP 3.1, followed by a new stable release, GIMP 3.2, which the team hope to release within a year.

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