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.

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      120·
      3 months ago

      They’ve committed to not changing any displayed text (“strings”), so that translators have time to translate everything.

    • imecth@fedia.io
      5·
      3 months ago

      String freeze is when text can’t be altered anymore. It’s used to facilitate work for translaters and documentation writers before a release.