[Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.8.22 released

[eingram25 <forums gimpusers com>]

> Hi,
>
> we are releasing GIMP 2.8.22 with various bug fixes.
>
> All platforms will benefit from a change to the image window hierarchy
> in single window mode, which improves painting performance when
> certain
> GTK+ themes are used.
>
> This version fixes an ancient CVE bug, CVE-2007-3126. Due to this bug,
> the ICO file import plug-in could be crashed by specially crafted
> image
> files. Our attempts to reproduce the bug failed with 2.8 and thus the
> impact had likely been minimal for years, but now it is gone for good.
>
> Users on the Apple macOS platforms will benefit from fixes for crashes
> during drag&drop and copy&paste operations. On the Microsoft Windows
> platforms, crashes encountered when using the color picker with
> special
> multi-screen setups are gone, and picking the actual color instead of
> black from anywhere on the screen should finally be possible.
>
> For a complete list of changes since 2.8.20 please see the "Changes"
> section below. Also see the release notes of the 2.8 series at
> https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html
>
> Happy GIMPing,
> --Michael
>
>
> Download
> ========
>
> GIMP 2.8.22 is available from:
>
>  https://www.gimp.org/downloads
>
>  and the mirrors listed in
>  https://www.gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors
>
> Please use the torrents to distribute the download bandwidth across
> many mirrors. You can also help seeding the packages this way.
>
>
> Direct links to the download directories are available below, these
> are
> set up to use a random mirror:
>
>  https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.8/
>  https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.8/osx/
>  https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows/
>
>
> SHA1 checksums for the GIMP 2.8.22 downloads are as follows:
>
>  c894a0d9a864d418bdbd30a22d698c731583e5c4  gimp-2.8.22.tar.bz2
>  25c276d82da6b9bd07478f9d1d9bd4faccea9d4a  gimp-2.8.22-x86_64.dmg
>  cf6fa10746a056ac728a83bd0121b83d645423de  gimp-2.8.22-setup.exe
>
>
> Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.20 to GIMP 2.8.22
> ===================================================
>
> GUI:
>
> - improve drawing performance in single window mode, especially with
>   pixmap themes
>
>
> macOS DMG:
>
> - Make the launcher script also set BABL_PATH
> - Add patch for GTK+ Bug 743717 to the build which concerns crashes
>   during clipboard operations with a clipboard manager active
> - Add patch for GTK+ Bug 767091 to the build which concerns crashes
>   on some drag & drop operations
> - generate OSX package metadata during build
>
>
> Plug-ins:
>
> - Fix for CVE-2007-3126, a bug in the ICO plug-in which allowed
>   context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
>   via an ICO file with an InfoHeader containing a Height of zero.
>   We couldn't reproduce any crash in recent version, but fixed the
>   error messages for good measure
> - Avoid creating wrong layer group structure when importing PSD
>   files (already fixed in 2.8.20, didn't make it to the NEWS)
> - Prevent a crash in PDF plug-in if images or resolution are large
> - stop parsing invalid PCX files early and prevent a segmentation
> fault
>
>
> General:
>
> - if NOCONFIGURE is set, autogen.sh won't run configure
> - VPATH builds for win32 targets have been fixed
>
>
> Updated Translations:
>
> - Basque
> - Brazilian Portuguese
> - Catalan
> - Chinese (PRC)
> - Finnish
> - Greek
> - Hungarian
> - Italian
> - Kazakh
> - Norwegian
> - Polish
> - Slovenian
> - Spanish
> - Swedish
>
>
> Contributors
> ============
>
>  Ell, Jehan, Kristian Rietveld, Marco Ciampa, Massimo Valentini,
> Michael Natterer, Michael Schumacher, Tobias Stoeckmann, Éric
> Hoffman
>
>
> Translators
> ===========
>
>  Anders Jonsson, Balázs Meskó, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov,
>  Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος), Fran Dieguez,
>  Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio, Jeff Bai, Jiri Grönroos, Jordi Mas,
>  Kjartan Maraas, Marco Ciampa, Martin Srebotnjak, Piotr Drąg,
>  Rafael Fontenelle
Is it necessary to uninstall 2.8.20 in Windows 10 before installing 2.8.22?

-- 
eingram25 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)