UPDATE 24/2

the WINDOWS build has some evident problems as example will crash at each tentative to use the text tool or Logos script.
Then Gimp will abort and the unsaved work will get lost
So i suggest Windows users to wait for a newer release...( or if you are really impatient, get linux and compile it )

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Is available a Windows installer of Gimp 2.7 mind that is not the stable version and may have bugs ..try at your risk :!:

Most relevant changes

tagging of resources (brushes ,etc.),
on-canvas text editing,
brush rotation and tilt support

Windows installer http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-w ... -setup.exe

Source Code http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-w ... 3.tar.lzma

PS Never heard of ".tar.lzma" before
oh well if you know how build from source you should be able also to figure out how to decompress that file

7.0 exe before 6.5 xD

The guy that compiles Gimp for Windows always compiles a SVN checkout before the "real" development version is released.

The tar.lzma is an archive just like .rar an .zip.. Its basically popular in Linux and has source file for compilation

Brush rotation!? Brush tilt!? Can not wait for the stable version!

Finally got around to compile the svn version. Brush angle rotation is very nice, and I think people are going to love the new resource tagging system.

The text tool is improving steadily, hopefully there will be support for modifying letters individually (in order to e.g. make a word italic) in the future.
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Griatch

I've been using it, and it's stable on my comp. The brush rotation isn't working correctly on mine, I've only tested out smudging though.

hum...about Windows on my PC all logo script or any attempt to use the text tool crash gimp immediately

i edited the first message
i suggest to wait for a new build

...as alternative forget to use the text tool and logos script , save constantly .... and cross the fingers

and also for me on win brush rotation does not work

Seems like a Windows issue? So far I have seen no instabilities with the text tool (not using the logo script much).
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Griatch

yes is a windows only issue i just installed on ubuntu and there everything seems fine.
I suppose will be fixed soon by a new windows installer (maybe is already replaced? i didn't check yet )

PS i edited again the first message to evidence that is a Windows only issue

Confirmed, Windows, using text tool causes crash.

The SVN checkout *is* the real development version. 2.6.x are all stable versions (as indicated by 6 being an even number) -- new releases in stable release series basically only fix bugs. If you like stability, you should definitely be using the latest in the 2.6.x release series and be upgrading as new 2.6.x releases are made.

As for '2.7 before 2.6.5', this actually makes sense, because 2.7 is the current development series, when bugs are fixed, they are then backported to the 2.6 series. After enough fixes accumulate, a new 2.6.x release is made In this way, there is not any direct development on stable series, only fixes trickling down from the development series.

Also, tar.lzma is possible in Linux, but not popular AFAIK. It is tar.gz and tar.bz2 that are popular. Maybe it's being used because it compresses much better than the alternative.


You people who are experiencing crashes: Does it help if you run GIMP from a dos box? (depending on your system, running the command 'command' should bring one up) I know currently I must run GIMP on Linux from a terminal window, otherwise it crashes easily.

@Oion9

With "real" development version I believe FSX was referring to the SVN snapshots where the version number actually increase, the dev release is announced on the web page and a package made available without the need for SVN. The 2.5.x dev series released versions up to 2.5.4 for example.
Thanks about the info about lzma, hadn't heard about that before either.
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Griatch

Oh hell yeah! I'll wait for the stable version first. Can't have it crashing and lose work.

dev version or not remember always to save often....also stable versions crashes sometimes...even a hypothetic super stable version may be crashed by a bug in some extra plugin.

just hit save every 5 minutes usually solve

I do do that... not every five minutes but pretty often.

Totally agree. I'm a Windows user with 2.4.6, and I want to upgrade, so when a stabler version releases, shall get that.

True, but it will very likely be more stable than this beta.

Is there some reason for not using the latest stable version (2.6.5 at this time)?
You should be aware that 2.4 is the previous stable series, and is unsupported since 2.6.
(plus it's got really a lot of interesting improvements (painting is much more flexible now even if you have only a mouse) and considerable UI polishing VS 2.4). It's really worth the time to upgrade.


That's a good bet -- I always use the latest SVN development version, and often I can get as frequent as one crash per fortnight (although the amount of data loss from this is virtually zero)

Saviourking120:
Brush transformation was broken for smudge tool, you basically chose the one tool that would not perform as expected.
This is fixed in recent SVN versions and of course this fix will be in the next 2.7 build.

sure all development version may be unstable, but often are not too unstable if are problem are more confined to the new tools or features added (that is more then logic, since the purpose is mainly to allow to test them as any possible problem connected to their addition )

In this case, and here i refer ONLY to the windows binary, seems too much unstable , maybe more for compilation issues then for problems to be fixed in the source code, since they do not appear in other OS... and are not related, at least apparently, to new added features or tools

Yes, that's definitely true. Part of the reasons I get crashes as often as I do is I always try the new things.. and I tend to use software in unusually creative ways (which also means I'm quite talented at crashing software)

..then, we should have something in commune....also for this i was disappointed !
where the joy to find the limits of new features till a crash , if just touch the text tool do the trick?
...with older Gimp development versions was needed to experiment mysterious , cryptically labeled Gegl options with different random setting to obtain a good crash , with this is far too easy, no satisfaction

I haven't been playing with esoteric GEGL options, but at least using normal features, the SVN version is very stable for me. But sure, one should not be surprised if some features are not yet completely stable.
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Griatch

Hi, i've been playing around with GIMP 2.7 with my vista. it's still in WIP and the rotation brush is AWESOME!. can't wait for stable release.


the text feature makes the GIMP to crash though. The brush is heavy for large image like A4 paper format, and the smudge tool (my favorite tool) is acting weird. Also, when will saving to the 16 bit format implemented to GIMP ?

My salutation for all the developers ^_^ Cheers !

God I can't wait for this to become a stable release!!