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GIMP version history was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 11 September 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into GIMP. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Would someone be willing to add a section on the history of the GIMP mascot?[edit]

Each release (or version) of GIMP has included a cute little mascot with two eyes and a nose.

However, the art style has changed over the years.

Is someone willing to pull the .jpeg file from each archaic (deprecated) version of GIMP and arrange the pictures in a row or column, so that a user of Wikipedia might enjoy viewing a string of the historical progression of the official artwork used for the GIMP mascot or logo. 2603:300B:19:2400:C970:9E1E:BE8F:7ED0 (talk) 21:48, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy on release version dates[edit]

I noticed that release version dates on this article correspond to when a GIMP website post was made announcing the release, and not when the version was created and tagged in the repository. For version 2.10.36, the post came on November 7, 2022[1], but the release was tagged on November 5.[2] Should we convert the release dates to the ones from the code repository?

The current download page also has the date November 5: "The current stable release of GIMP is 2.10.36 (2023-11-05)." Saucysalsa30 (talk) 06:14, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Glimpse links here, but no appropriate information is present[edit]

There is a fork of GIMP names Glimpse. The (disambiguation) page Glimpse links here, but there is no mention of that name. Okterakt (talk) 23:35, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]