GIMP Development Update
GIMP developers are preparing for the 3.3.2 release, focusing on a new project file format that replaces the legacy XCF format with a zipped XML structure. This change aims to improve performance and enable future features like auto-saving while maintaining backward compatibility.
Why it matters
Modernizing core file formats is essential for the long-term viability and feature expansion of open-source creative software.
For the past few months, we’ve been developing all kinds of features for the future GIMP 3.4 release. We noticed recently that our changelog was getting quite long - a good problem to have!
While there’s been a lot going on internally, it’s been a while since we made a public progress report. So we want to share details on some of the new features and UX improvements that’ll be available in the first development release, GIMP 3.3.2 . This won’t be an exhaustive list (we have to save at least some news for the release itself!) but hopefully it will give you some insight into the current direction and progress of GIMP ’s development.
The big focus for maintainer Jehan recently has been developing a new project file format for GIMP .
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