GIMPMar 14

Today we released GIMP 3.2 with major new features, including vector layers, link layers (smart objects), DDS BC7 export, better PSD import including PSB for large images, MyPaint 2.0 brushes, and much more!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/

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GIMP - GIMP 3.2 Released

Release notes for GIMP 3.2

Show threadRick KenobiMar 15
@GIMP Although I still have misgivings about the name of this project, I do very much appreciate the power and capability provided by it.
Show threadlynnMar 15
@VA3DSO Yep， it's a shame how many contexts I've been unable to use GIMP in. I love it for my hobby work, but it's been incompatible with professional and educational contexts just because the authors wanted to name it after a form-fitting full-body sex-torture fuck garment.
Show threadRick KenobiMar 15
@lynndotpy Where I'm from, it is slang for a disabled person.
Show threadlynnMar 15

@VA3DSO Yep, same here.

In the early 2010s I was aware of the sex slang but not the ableist meaning when I asked my drafting instructor, who was paralyzed and used a wheelchair, if I could download and use GIMP for something.

Having had never heard of this obscure piece of software, he very understandably was not happy with that!

Show threadJerry 🇸🇪Mar 17

@lynndotpy @VA3DSO

Where is that? English is a second language but I've been speaking it for over 40 years now and I've never heard it with any reference to sexuality or disability

Show threadRick KenobiMar 18

@jerry1970 @lynndotpy I'm from Canada and gimp (to my generation - X) is slang for a person with disabilities. But I've also heard of it in reference to a sex slave.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gimp

Urban Dictionary: gimp

(1) a derrogatory term for someone that is disabled or has a medicial problem that results in physical impairment. (2) An insult implying that someone is incompetent, stupid, etc. Can also be used to imply that the person is uncool or can't/won't do...

Urban Dictionary
Show threadJerry 🇸🇪
@lynndotpy @VA3DSO Gen-X-er here too. Like I said, never heard of it being used like that here in Europe, and there are quite a lot of British Gen-X-ers I talked to and still talk to. I'll ask some British locals here. Not trying to prove anything, just interested, from a linguistic point of view.
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