The GIMP: The GNU Image Manipulation Program
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Here you find a release candidate for GIMP 2.0 as well as some
earlier pre-releases. The 2.0rc1 tarball installs itself as gimp-2.0
and unless there are major problems with this release, it should be
followed by a gimp-2.0.0 release very soon.

You are encouraged to try this software. Your feedback can help to
make the 2.0 release a success. If you encounter any problems, please
report them to our bug-tracker at bugzilla.gnome.org. There are a
number of known problems, so please check first if your problem has
already been reported.

GIMP-2.0 installs side-by-side with GIMP-1.2 so there's no need to
uninstall GIMP-1.2 (but sooner or later you will not be using it any
longer...).

Some features that were present in GIMP 1.2 are not included in this
release. The perl bindings as well as all the perl scripts are not any
longer included in this source tree. They have been moved into its own
module called gimp-perl. Sooner or later there will be a gimp-perl
release for GIMP-2.0. GAP, a set of plug-ins that used to live in the
Video submenu has also become a separate package. There's a pre-release
of gimp-gap for GIMP-2.0 available now.

For detailed installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.