The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is Community-driven Free software for high-end image creation and manipulation. Last year GIMP celebrated its 30th birthday!
In March 2025 the GNU Image Manipulation Program team team was proud to release GIMP 3.0. This represented the culmination of 7 years of hard work done by members of the GIMP community. Many major and long-awaited features were introduced including non-destructive editing, multi-layer operations, infinite canvas, more advanced colour management and much more.
The GIMP team had made a decision that starting with the 3.0 release the length of development cycles would be reduced. This has been followed, and has lead to the next big release - the 3.2.
Today a core developer who joined the team within the past year presents the latest release of GIMP, takes a look at what's being worked on by the members of the GIMP community, and shares the experience of becoming a GIMP developer. You can look forward to hearing something about all the file formats GIMP aims to support, full CMYK mode, improved text support, hardware-accelerated image operations and more!