{"id":120370,"date":"2020-11-06T20:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T20:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamefromscratch.com\/?p=23901"},"modified":"2020-11-06T20:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T20:13:51","slug":"gimp-2-99-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/06\/gimp-2-99-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP 2.99.2 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gimp-2-99-2-released.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation Program, just released version 2.99.2 beta, a giant step toward the upcoming 3.0 release. The heart of this update is the move to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gtk.org\/\">GTK 3<\/a> UI toolkit from the existing GTK2 version. This has many advantages, especially when it comes to increasingly common HiDPI devices.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/news\/2020\/11\/06\/gimp-2-99-2-released\/\">2.99.2 release<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>GTK3&nbsp;based user interface, with native support for Wayland and HiDPI&nbsp;displays.<\/li>\n<li>Major refactoring and&nbsp;cleanup<\/li>\n<li>New plug-in&nbsp;API<\/li>\n<li>Plugins now possible with Python 3, JavaScript, Lua, and&nbsp;Vala<\/li>\n<li>More (color) space&nbsp;invasion<\/li>\n<li>Render caching available for better&nbsp;performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Be sure to check the complete release notes for further details on this release. You can also learn more about the 2.99.2 release and see GIMP in action in the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IdNo-k9TtDo\">video <\/a>below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IdNo-k9TtDo?feature=oembed&#038;w=1500&#038;h=844]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5156240514307514\" data-ad-slot=\"1997524572\"><\/ins>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation Program, just released version 2.99.2 beta, a giant step toward the upcoming 3.0 release. The heart of this update is the move to the GTK 3 UI toolkit from the existing GTK2 version. This has many advantages, especially when it comes to increasingly common HiDPI devices. Highlights of the 2.99.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,20],"tags":[225,74,47,456,583],"class_list":["post-120370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-development","category-news","tag-application","tag-art","tag-news","tag-open-source","tag-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}