New development version of Gimp was released last week. It is a significant upgrade over current stable 2.8.* version finally using much more of GEGL engine. As it might take a long time till stable 2.10 release, it would be useful to see this release in portage for the time being. Among highlights there are: 16/32bit per color channel processing On-canvas preview for many filters Experimental hardware-accelerated rendering and processing via OpenCL Higher-quality downscaling New and Improved Tools Reproducible: Always
I to would also love to try out the new GEGL transforms and canvus in 2.9.2... but at the same time, there's a stable bump from current in-tree version (2.8.14) to 2.8.16 that would be nice to have in portage. Release announcement here: https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/22/20-years-of-gimp-release-of-gimp-2816/
Both 2.8.16 and 2.9.2 are in Gentoo now. The related git commits are: bfa2ea1 media-gfx/gimp: 2.9.2 (bug #567366) b6e1da6 media-libs/gegl: 0.3.4 (bug #567366) 5de918a media-gfx/gimp: 2.8.16 (bug #567366) [..] 7bba438 media-libs/gegl: version bump to 0.3.2 4ebc9d3 media-libs/babl: version bump to 0.1.14 The latter two are by Gilles Dartiguelongue (eva@g.o). Thanks again, Gilles!
