GIMP 2.8.22 Released

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The GIMP team has released 2.8.22, a bugfix release in its stable series. Head over to the official release notes for all the details.

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Our latest stable release, 2.8.22, is now available!

A list of updates and bugfixes in this version:

GUI:

  • improve drawing performance in single window mode, especially with
    pixmap themes
    macOS DMG:
  • Make the launcher script also set BABL_PATH
  • Add patch for GTK+ Bug 743717 to the build which concerns crashes
    during clipboard operations with a clipboard manager active
  • Add patch for GTK+ Bug 767091 to the build which concerns crashes
    on some drag & drop operations
  • generate OSX package metadata during build

Plug-ins:

  • Fix for CVE-2007-3126, a bug in the ICO plug-in which allowed
    context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
    via an ICO file with an InfoHeader containing a Height of zero.
    We couldn’t reproduce any crash in recent version, but fixed the
    error messages for good measure
  • Avoid creating wrong layer group structure when importing PSD
    files (already fixed in 2.8.20, didn’t make it to the NEWS)
  • Prevent a crash in PDF plug-in if images or resolution are large
  • stop parsing invalid PCX files early and prevent a segmentation fault

General:

  • if NOCONFIGURE is set, autogen.sh won’t run configure
  • VPATH builds for win32 targets have been fixed

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