GIMP 2.8.4 released:)

GIMP 2.8.4 has been released yesterday, bringing some important bug fixes. This is the stable GIMP branch and no new features will be added in the 2.8.x releases, only bug fixes.

Here are the most important changes in GIMP 2.8.4:

   Better names for the default filters in save and export
   Make tool drawing (esp. the brush outline) much more responsive
   Remember the "maximized" state across sessions
   Simplify the splash image code a lot, makes it appear immediately again
   Allow the text tool to start on an image without layers
   Various fixes for text style attribute handling
   Set unconfigured input devices to eraser if GTK+ says they are erasers
   Make libgimp drawable combo boxes aware of layer groups
   Fix item width in GimpPageSelector (used e.g. in PDF import)
   Better default values in the Drop Shadow script
   Fixed bugs in the BMP plug-in
   Lots of bug fixes and translation updates

source webupd8: www.webupd8.org/2013/02/gimp-2…