# GIMP changelog > GIMP release notes. - Vendor: The GIMP Team - Category: Design Tools - Official site: https://www.gimp.org/ - Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gimp) - Harvested from: Flathub - Entries below: 4 (newest first) What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. ## Releases ### 3.2.4 - Date: 2026-04-17 - Version: 3.2.4 - Original notes: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gimp/releases/3.2.4 The second bugfix release of the GIMP 3.2 series brings it to quite a stable state again as bugs reports are slowing down. - Bug fixed where GIMP would fail to open some XCF - When moving a floating layer or selection with a selection tool, marching ants are now disabled - Improved Text tool, especially regarding prioritizing global actions - Better temporary folder handling - Fill actions now behave accordingly to the target item type - Various file formats support improved - A new function and a deprecation in the libgimp API for plug-ins ### 3.2.2 - Date: 2026-03-28 - Version: 3.2.2 - Original notes: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gimp/releases/3.2.2 Here we go! The first bugfix release for the GIMP 3.2 series is here. - A bug when group layers became invisible in some conditions when children had effects got fixed - More fixes, especially for the new vector and link layer types, as well as non-destructive effects - Various file formats support improved - Themes fixes and improvements - Support for x86 (32-bit) architecture on Windows was dropped ### 3.2.0 - Date: 2026-03-14 - Version: 3.2.0 - Original notes: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gimp/releases/3.2.0 GIMP 3.2.0 brings fancy new layer types, hence carrying on its non-destructive abilities, all the while strengthening the groundwork from the 3.0 series. Some of the highlights of this release: - New type of layers: vector layers. - New type of layers: link layers. - Text, link or vector layer must now be explicitly rasterized for direct pixel edits - New paint mode "Overwrite" - The Flip tool can now be controlled with arrow keys - The Shear tool can now be adjusted with arrow keys - MyPaint brushes version 2 are now supported, with new "Gain" setting - The MyPaint Brushes tool now supports stylus barrel rotation on relevant brushes - Text tool: new "Outline Direction" option - New "Paste unformatted text" action in text tool - Dragging a file to the image tab bar opens the file as a new image - New "System" color scheme - New "Edit mask immediately" checkbox in "Add Layer Mask" dialog - The Delete button in Layers dialog will delete the layer mask if selected - The DDS plug-in now supports exporting in BC7 format - PDF format export will export vector layer as paths - The OpenEXR plug-in can now import Luminance/Chroma OpenEXR images - TIFF support improved to handle various unofficial features set by third-party software - PSD's legacy Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow and Outer Glow layer styles now imported - Image format import newly supported: APNG, AVCI, JIF, PlayStation TIM, OTA bitmap, PAA textures, Seattle Filmworks photos and HRZ Slow Scan Television Images, hgt.zip - Image format export newly supported: JPEG 2000, HEJ2, PlayStation TIM, PSB, SVG - ART is now supported as a RAW loader - Photoshop's curves files (.acv) and levels files (.alv) can be loaded from the Curves and Levels tools respectively - Photoshop's RGB and grayscale pattern files now supported - Palettes can now be exported as Krita's palettes (.kpl) - Palette swatches from the Procreate art program can now be imported - Support for many more image file formats improved - The Welcome dialog will now recognize your standard shortcuts to create or open files - New checkbox "Compute unique colors" on Histogram dockable - Total Ink Coverage now displayed in the CMYK color selector - A new GEGL Filter Browser was added - Many new API for text, vector and link layers for plug-in developers - Various fixes and usability updates ### 3.2.0~rc3 - Date: 2026-03-02 - Version: 3.2.0~rc3 - Original notes: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gimp/releases/3.2.0-rc3 - Labels: Pre-release Here is a third release candidate for upcoming GIMP 3.2. We are still hoping it may be the last as we approach reasonable stability. Improvements include: - Font loading on start massively sped up - XCF files won't start loading anymore before all fonts are loaded - Dropping a color or pattern on a vector layer updates its fill property - Curves and Levels now default to working in linear working space - The Flip tool can now be controlled with arrow keys - The Shear tool can now be adjusted with arrow keys - The Delete button in Layers dialog will delete the layer mask if selected - The DDS plug-in now supports exporting in BC7 format - The OpenEXR plug-in can now import Luminance/Chroma OpenEXR images - Palette swatches from the Procreate art program can now be imported - Swatchbooker palette support was improved with better color management - Several libgimp functions deprecated in favor of using the filter API directly - Various fixes and usability updates