GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

Only a week after the 2.4.0 release, the GIMP developers have put out a first bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.4 series. Here's a list of changes since 2.4.0:

• fixed a minor display rendering problem
• improved the workaround for broken graphics card drivers (bug #421466)
• fixed a crash with broken scripts and plug-ins (bug #490055)
• fixed potential syntax error in configure script (bug #490068)
• fixed parsing of floating point numbers in Script-Fu (bug #490198)
• fixed potential crash when converting an indexed image to RGB (bug #490048)
• update the histogram while doing color corrections (bug #490182)
• fixed another crash with broken plug-ins (bug #490617)
• fixed problems on Win32 when GIMP is installed into a non-ASCII path
• fixed handling of truncated ASCII PNM files (bug #490827)
• make sure that there's always a cursor, even for small brushes (bug #491272)
• fixed line-drawing with a tablet and the Shift key (bug #164240)
• added code to use the system monitor profile on OS X (bug #488170)
• show changes to the rounded corners in the Rectangle Select tool (bug #418284)
• reduced rounding errors in the display render routines (bug #490785)
• translation updates (ca, de, et, lt, mk, pa, sv)

Program Information Category: Multimedia Type: Free Version: 2.4.1 Size: Works on: Windows, Linux Product page: here