It is a bug fix release. It was added to Portage in 2008-09-14. It is included in Debian stable[1]. A search for bugs in Gentoo bugzilla only shows one bug [2] - a compilation failure, from 2008-09-19, involving gcc 4.3.1 (and a ~x86 system). The Changelog[3] lists this issues as fixed: - fixed issue in GIF load plug-in (bug #535888) - fixed event handling in MIDI controller (bug #537960) - fixed handling of the 'Highlight' tool option in Crop and Rectangle Select tools (bug #536582) - various fixes to the Python bindings: - fixed crash with Python 2.5 on 64 bit systems (bug #540629) - added missing validity checks (bug #536403) - allow to pass None for PDB_DISPLAY - plugged a memory leak in gimp-text-get-extents-fontname PDB call - fixed potential timeout issues in org.gimp.GIMP.UI D-Bus service - fixed endianness issue in the ICO save plug-in (bug #529629) - translation fixes and updates (be, it, lt, nn, vi) [1]: http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/gimp [2]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=media-gfx%2Fgimp-2.4.7 [3]: http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.4 Reproducible: Always
Thanks for the report, assigning to maintainer.
Why hasn't gimp 2.4.7 been marked stable yet? Is there anyway I can help? Do you want me to test anything?
As we're now stabilizing gimp 2.6 (and 2.6.4 is already stable on major archs amd64/x86), I think we don't need to care about 2.4 any more.
