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Status of GIMP and GCC (GNU)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 26, 2022

Libre Arts - Weekly-ish recap — 26 October 2022

GIMP is getting text strokes

This has been a very long time in the making. The patch adding text stroke support was originally created by Massimo Valentini in 2011 to handle a feature request filed in 2003 (retribution is inevitable).

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I recently retired from GIMP. The sole reason I became active in the project years ago was because it wasn’t great at communication with users. The GIMP team are now active in the social media, they show what they do, and they write good release notes without my intervention. And while there are other things I could do, my job is pretty much done. I am confident that they will carry on doing great work on all fronts.

GCC 13.0.0 Status Report (2022-10-20), Stage 1 ends Nov 13th

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The GCC development branch which will become GCC 13 is open for

general development (Stage 1). Stage 1 will end at the end of

November 13th after which we will accept no new features that

have not yet been submitted. Starting with Novemer 14th we

are in a two month general bugfixing period (Stage 3).

I have gone over the set of unpriorized regression bugs that are in

confirmed state, please help updating regressions that are still

UNCONFIRMED and consider fixing bugs that are in your area of

interest. Please make sure to finish and submit features you

want to see included into GCC 13 timely and actively look for

reviewers.