GIMP 2.8.6 released and Installation instructions included

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GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

One of The GIMP's strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. Most GNU/Linux distributions include The GIMP as a standard application. The GIMP is also available for other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows™ or Apple's Mac OS X™ (Darwin). The GIMP is a Free Software application covered by the General Public License [GPL]. The GPL provides users with the freedom to access and alter the source code that makes up computer programs.

What is new in version 2.8.6

Core:

-- Fix saving to URIs, it was broken to only allow exporting, and fix
save/export of compressed files
-- Fix brush spacing for drawing in any direction
-- Increase the maximum size of clipboard brushes and patterns to 1024×1024
-- Make sure data objects are saved when only their name was changed

GUI:

-- Don't allow single-window docks to shrink smaller than their requisition
-- Make sure a single-window's right docks keep their size across sessions
-- Allow to change the spacing of non-generated brushes again
-- In single-window mode, make Escape move the focus to the canvas,
and beep if the focus is already there
-- Be smarter about unavailable fonts, and don't crash
-- Make clicking the single-window's close button quit GIMP
-- Make view-close (Ctrl+W) only close image windows and tabs, not docks

Libgimp:

-- Add SIGNED_ROUND() which also rounds negative values correctly

Plug-ins:

-- Make GIMP_PLUGIN_DEBUG work again after GLib changed logging
-- Fix zealous crop for transparent borders

Installer:

-- Add Hungarian translation

Data:

-- Add a default "Color from Gradient" dynamics and tool preset

General:

-- Lots of bug fixes
-- Lots of translation updates

Install GIMP 2.8.6 on ubuntu 13.04/12.10

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

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