Two months after the release of GIMP 3.0, we are delighted to announce the release of GIMP 3.0.4.

Gimp is the most powerful free-open source photo editor available on Linux, Apple MacOS and Microsoft.

The new release addresses bugs and UI improvements.

  • There was a bug with pasting selections from GIMP into other programs, where the pasted section was padded to the original image size. This is now fixed thanks to work from Anders Jonsson, Aruius, and Alx Sa.

  • There were several types of crash reported to us, related to changing or turning off the main monitor. Jacob Boerema and Jehan worked together to diagnose this issue and make several necessary fixes

  • Idriss Fekir and Liam Quin, our resident font experts, have been busy making improvements to our text systems. In addition to general bug fixes with text layers, they’ve also greatly improved font loading speed on start-up.

  • Non-destructive filters received a number of bugfixes and improvements as well. The name of the filter is once again displayed in the undo history when added to an image. In addition, individual filter edits are now tracked in the undo history, thanks to work by Jehan and Alx Sa

  • Akkana Peck noticed that the Window Hint option in Preferences no longer allowed floating windows to stay in front of the main image window in multi-window mode. She found and implemented a fix using the updated GTK3 API.

  • Rupert Weber fixed a bug on Linux where BMP format warnings didn’t display in some cases.

  • The MyPaint Brush tools options UI has been redesigned to match the layout of other painting tools.

  • The generic “Force” slider does not impact the Pencil Tool. This option is now hidden in that tool’s options rather than just marked inactive, to be less confusing.

  • The Device Status dock has been updated to show more clearly which input device is in use, and is closer to the GIMP 2.10 version.

  • The Path tool now automatically closes the path when you click on the starting point in Design mode, rather than requiring you to hold down the Ctrl first. This makes the Path tool more consistent with similar tools in GIMP, as well as in other software.

  • Jacob Boerema reviewed our brush size code, and found that different parts of GIMP set different limits for the maximum brush size. He defined a single maximum value and set it to be used throughout GIMP, to ensure there are no surprises when resizing your brush!

  • On macOS, we now have a developer version of the .DMG as first mentioned in the 3.0.2 news post. This means that creating plug-ins for macOS will be much easier and faster than before.

  • GEGL version 0.4.62 brings several bug fixes to prevent crashes, courtesy of Øyvind Kolås. UI ranges were added by Budhil Nigam to some operations, which means our Fractal Trace filter now has more sensible number ranges on the slider.

  • babl version 0.1.114 contains some fixes from Øyvind to ensure TRCs are stored correctly from color profiles.

www.gimp.org/news/2025/05/…/gimp-3-0-4-released/#…

Gimp now has a board to discuss user experience and user interface. You can make suggestion here:

Thank you so much.