GIMP and GEGL in 2015

The GIMP project has released its annual year-end retrospective, looking back on development on the GIMP editor itself, project infrastructure, and closely related software projects like the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL). Highlights from the past twelve months include the conversion of more tools to using GEGL operations, support for a new perceptual color space, and improvements to image-blending modes. Several new features were added to support painting (including on-screen-canvas flipping and rotation), and work was put into the UI themes.

For its part, GEGL gained experimental support for multithreading and mipmaps. The GIMP site was also redesigned, with the launch timed to correspond to GIMP's 20th birthday. "Most of the work we did this year is available in v2.9.2, the first development release in 2.9.x series made in late November. Improved MyPaint Brush tool and visual changes (icon themes, dark theme) will be available in upcoming v2.9.4 release. We expect to continue finalizing the GEGL port and the existing feature set in 2016."