r/GIMP • u/barefootliam GIMP Team • 13d ago

GIMP 3.0.2 released

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/23/gimp-3-0-2-released/

A micro-release! mostly bug fixes that emerged with so many people trying out GIMP 3.0 - a big thank you to all those who contributed, including by reporting problems.

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u/barefootliam GIMP Team 12d ago

Naah, what we are seeing is many tens of thousands of users NOT reporting problems, and a very few with problems, understandably, that we are fixing.

For some time now we have been putting processes in place to improve the releases, and we had three release candidates, but you never get the problems ironed out until there's a thousand times more users. More than 180,000 downloads of 3.0 just for Windows, just in the first day or so.

You can expect to see more frequent “micro” releases in the future - they don’t necessarily indicate a failed release, though.

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u/antdude 10d ago

Is it possible to make patches to update instead of giving us the full huge installer files? Like v3.0.2 to revision 1.

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u/barefootliam GIMP Team 10d ago

Not currently, unfortunately. We do not have the resources to manage the logistics right now. But the pace of micro-releases (3.0.x) should slow down. The problem was in part that when we released GIMP 3, suddenly many many more people were trying the software, and hence finding problems... Its good to find the problems of course, and to fix them.

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u/brunvonlope 8d ago

Ufortunately, it's not easy to make a "delta/patch installer" as itsn't easy for distros to make a delta .deb package, delta .rpm etc. At least I don't know a bunch of open source software (not even paid software) that provides that on Windows. 

For the ones concerned with bandwidth usage, we have the Store version. The updates were very small according on my tests.