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 announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.
They’ve been working on porting it since back in 2012, and didn’t want to redo a bunch of the porting work before they even released it.
I get the sentiment, but now they’re doing a whole lot of extra work only to be a version behind
That sounds very frustrating!