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After more than a year and a half, a new Pinta version was released yesterday, getting add-in support along with other new features and a huge list of bug fixes.

• Re-editable text;
• Mouse cursors now resize based on the active brush size;
• The Move Selection and Move Selected tools can now rotate the selection using the right mouse button;
• Added an Invert Selection command;
• New or redesigned mouse cursors for every tool;
• Improved JPEG Compression Dialog (remembers previous settings and has the OK button as the default control);
• The Open File dialog now shows image previews for ORA files, as well as any file formats provided by add-ins;
• Users can use the Add-in Manager (under the Add-ins menu) to browse and install add-ins;
• More than 90 bugs were fixed in this release, including:
• Fixed a crash when the Pixel Grid was turned on for very small images;
• Fixed a bug in the text tool that caused font variants (e.g. Segoe Black and Segoe Condensed) to not work correctly;
• Fixed a bug that caused the Rectangle Select markers to still be visible after undoing a selection;
• Fixed a bug that caused the Rectangle Select markers to still be visible after undoing a selection;
• Fixed a bug that caused part of the image to be lost when pasting a large image onto a smaller canvas;
• Fixed a bug where using the Backspace key in the text tool while inside a selection would fill the selection instead of deleting a character;
• Fixed a bug where some icons would not display correctly with GTK# 2.12.20;
• Fixed several bugs when running Pinta with newer versions of Mono.Cairo (such as on Ubuntu 14.04).

Install the latest Pinta in Ubuntu / Linux Mint

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pinta

• Core:
• OSX: Fix migration code for old GIMP directories;
• Fix brush sizes when used from plug-ins;
• Windows: Allow to Explorer-open files with UTF-8 characters in the filename;
• Make XCF loading more robust against broken files;
• GUI:
• Make sure the widget direction matches the GUI language;
• Remove the option to disable the warning when closing a modified image;
• Fix canvas overlay widgets (like the text options) for tablets;
• Make DND work between images in one dockable;
• Libgimp:
• Make gimp_image_get_name() return the string used for the image title;
• Plug-ins:
• Make script-fu-server more secure by listening to 127.0.0.1 by default and add a warning about changing that IP. This breaks the procedure's API, but for security reasons;
• Bring back proper script-fu translations;
• General:
• Massively clean up and fix the OSX build and bundle;
• Add Jenkins tutorial;
• Documentation updates;
• Bug fixes;
• Translation updates.

Install GIMP 2.8.14 in Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

Install GIMP 2.9 (development build) in Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp-edge
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry gimp-gmic

Revert the changes

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp-edge

• images processed by the command line version of G'MIC: http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gallery.shtml
• images processed using the G'MIC GIMP plugin: http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml

• [gimp] New filter 'Film emulation / Various' that adds about 20 new color presets to the old 'Other effect' filter (which has been removed);
• [gimp] New filter 'Details / Mighty details', to push out details in images;
• [gimp] Filter 'Layers / Blend [standard]' has an additional option to manage how multiple blends are performed, in case more than 2 layers are given as input;
• [gimp] Improved "Preview error" image when an error is encountered;
• [core] New native command '-pass' that allows to insert images from parent contexts in custom commands and local environments. This allows to design custom commands that can take images as arguments;
• [core] New command '-outputx' (eq. to '-ox') that saves images with same base filenames but with different extension(s);
• [core] New command '-names' (eq. to '-nms') that can set different names to multiple selected images, with a single command;
• [core] New command '-mul_channels' that multiply each channel of an image with different provided values;
• [cli] New command '-update' that allows to retrieve command updates from the G'MIC project server. This way, the CLI interface of G'MIC can benefit from Internet updates easily, exactly as the GIMP plug-in;
• [core] Many aspects of the libgmic API have been improved;
• [cli] Invoking 'gmic -h' now display colored output on the terminal (if using bash);
• [doc] Documentation pages have been improved. Links to tutorial pages have been inserted;
• bug fixes and much more.

Install G'MIC in Ubuntu / Linux Mint

sudo apt-get install gmic gimp-gmic

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gmic gimp-gmic

Download G'MIC

• redesigned shape tools:
• the Line tool now supports drawing curves and arrows (screenshot above);
• shapes remain editable after being drawn;
• all shape tools now support drawing dashed lines (screenshot above);
• all selection tools now support the Union, Exclude, Xor, and Intersection modes;
• redesigned New Image dialog, which includes presets, orientation and background options, and a thumbnail preview of the image;
• the toolbox and color palette now have a flexible layout and can expand horizontally, making them significantly more usable on small screens;
• the text tool now supports the standard shortcuts for toggling bold (Ctrl+B), italic (Ctrl+I), and underline (Ctrl+U), and all of the text can be selected with Ctrl+A;
• when launching Pinta from the command line, the standard --version and --help options are now supported;
• improved the readability of the text cursor against dark backgrounds;
• fixed a number of issues with the text tool’s support for Unicode text;
• fixed a number of issues with undoing selections;
• many other bug fixes.

Install Pinta 1.6 in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pinta