GIMP 2.8.0 Is Finally Near With RC1 Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GIMP 2.8.0 Is Finally Near With RC1 Release

GIMP 2.8 has had one hell of a long development cycle with work on it having commenced three years ago, but it looks like this release is nearly ready with the arrival of GIMP 2.8.0 RC1...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA4MjU

[madjr]

awesome.

forget about final am downloading this right now

and man, they should switch to shorter, easier and quicker dev cycles instead like chromium/firefox.

rc1 should had been released a year ago with mono window and then for 3.0+ they could had dev the GEGL thing...

[prokoudine]

and man, they should switch to shorter, easier and quicker dev cycles

That's the plan.

and then for 3.0+ they could had dev the GEGL thing...

This is work in progress.

[uid313]

Source?

Michael, where you get this information?
Journalistic source of information?

[Ibidem]

Michael, where you get this information?
Journalistic source of information?

It reads like either release notes or someone who's already grabbed the tarball...

Now, could someone check whether the new Radeon OpenCL support on Evergreen is enough for this?