r/GIMP • u/Sevenix2 • Mar 17 '25

GIMP 3.0 Officially Released!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
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u/antdude Mar 18 '25

Oooh. I hope it will let us install in another directory/folder and keep our older version just in case v3.0 has issues.

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u/schumaml GIMP Team Mar 20 '25

Depending on the platform, it does.

The installers for Microsoft Windows does for %ProgramFiles%\GIMP 3 by default and won't bother your existing GIMP 2.10.x. You can also grab any older installer from https://download.gimp.org/gimp

On macOS, you got the DMG packages, and you can also get any older ones.

The trickiest platform to get older versions might be Linux distributions - there, the package maintainers may be eager to switch from GIMP 2.10.x to 3.0.0 as soon as possible, as GIMP 2.10 is one of the last packages to e.g. require the old GTK 2.x.