The GIMP project released GIMP 3.0.8 today as the latest stable update in the GIMP 3.0 series of this widely used open-source, cross-platform, and free image manipulation program.

Coming almost four months after GIMP 3.0.6, the GIMP 3.0.8 release is here with better support for Wayland systems when listing input devices, and several font handling improvements by making font loading on startup a lot faster, waiting for fonts to be fully loaded before loading any file, and special-casing the Skia font family.

GIMP 3.0.8 also improves the Symmetry tool by fixing the initial stroke symmetry when using pixmap brushes, improves the Move tool by fixing weird position jumps in some cases, improves Quick Mask handling, and improves export even if no drawables are selected.

The gimp-3.0 command-line executable has been updated in this release to run with the --no-interface argument even when no display is available, such as when running in a virtual terminal with no window manager or compositor, containers, etc.

Also improved in GIMP 3.0.8 is the path import and export from and to SVG files, pass-through group layers, configuration migration from GIMP 2 to GIMP 3, the Navigation and Selection editor to properly match the theme, headerbar’s button colors to match GIMP’s theme, and buttons in overlay dialogs.

Several plugins received various fixes in this release, including OpenRaster export, TIFF import, Map Object, PDF export, Gradient Flare, ANI export, Script-Fu, DDS export, Fractal Explorer, PSP import, ICO import, XWD import, PSD import, WebP export, ICNS import, Gimpressionist, JPEG 2000 import, and Busy Dialog.

Among other noteworthy changes, GIMP 3.0.8 replaces scale entries with spin scale widgets in several plugins, improves Script-Fu to no longer initialize UI code unnecessarily, defaults to the “quartz” Input Method on macOS for emoji keyboard support, and fixes several security vulnerabilities and bugs.

Last but not least, this release adds full MIDI support to the AppImage bundle on Linux, adds the gimp-console binary to the Flatpak version, adds a bash completion file for gimp and gimp-console binaries, adds a dark mode to the Windows installer, and adds third-party binary plugin support to the Snap version.

Check out the release notes for more details about the changes included in the GIMP 3.0.8 release, which you can download right now from the official website as a universal AppImage bundle that you can run on virtually any GNU/Linux distribution, as a Flatpak app, or as a source tarball if you fancy compiling GIMP from sources.