GIMP 2.8.20 released with numerous bug fixes

Mr Wilber of GIMP project has announced release of GIMP 2.8.20, latest bug fix cum maintenance release of popular free/open source image editing tool which was initially started as a GNOME project.

Being a maintenance release in GIMP 2.8.x stable branch, this release does not bring any new features, but only ships several bug fixes to make it more stable. Among the bug fixes, most notable one is fix for weird user interface shown in macOS to set preferred language.

Other changes in GIMP 2.8.20 comparing to 2.8.18 can be summarized as follows:

Core:

Avoid D-Bus error message when built without D-Bus support

fix OS X min required conditional in gimpimagewindow.c

Saving to existing .xcf.bz and .xcf.gz files didn't truncate them and could lead to unnecessarily large files

Text layer created by gimp-text-fontname doesn't respect border when resized

avoid seeking when saving XCF files to prevent corruption with file network shares (fixed since 2014, but not mentioned in NEWS yet)

GUI:

Flow on Paint Dynamics editor dialog: the 'y' axis is indicating 'Rate' instead 'Flow'

Vertical ruler shows artifacts if the status bar isn't showing

Tablet stylus misbehaves when crossing the edge of a dock in multi-window-mode

Disable the new "automatic window tabbing" feature introduced on macOS

Sierra

Improve the visiblity of slider handles with dark themes

Make it harder to switch to renaming if selecting already selected items in resource lists

Tools:

make toggling to color picker mode of paint tools more robust

Libgimp:

call gimp_file_entry_set_filename() with filename encoding

Windows Installer:

Reduce the memory requirement when running the installer (has already been shipped in a 2.8.18 installer-only update)

Ship an updated libcairo to fix GTK+ UI rendering problems, like missing palette border/bevel and shadowa under tab labels

macOS DMG:

Ship the Tango icon theme with the DMG for a complete set of icons

fix the way mime data is copied into the bundle

no longer copy Pango modules into the bundle

prevent a crash caused by drag&drop on OSX by patching the included

GTK+

ship a patch for gettext to make sure the preferred UI language will be used

Plug-ins:

Prevent the Python console from closing by the Escape key

Help browser does not launch on OS X

Filter 'Edge Detect/Difference of Gaussians' returns empty image

only use -xobjective-c for compile commands

mkgen.pl: fix calls to write_file() routine to write to current directory

When printing, the images are composed onto a white background to prevent printing a black box instead of a transaprent image

Fix color visison deficiency display filters to apply gamma correction directly