The Gimp 2.8.4 Date added: February, 8th 2013 - (Open Source)

What's new in this version:

Core:
- Move the OSX gimpdir to "~/Library/Application Support"

GUI:
- Better names for the default filters in save and export
- Make tool drawing (esp. the brush outline) much more responsive
- Remember the "maximized" state across sessions
- Simplify the splash image code a lot, makes it appear immediately again
- Allow the text tool to start on an image without layers
- Various fixes for text style attribute handling
- Set unconfigured input devices to eraser if GTK+ says they are erasers
- Make language selectable in Preferences on OSX

Libgimp:
- Make libgimp drawable combo boxes aware of layer groups
- Make sure plug-in windows appear on top on OSX
- Fix item width in GimpPageSelector (used e.g. in PDF import)

Plug-ins:
- Better default values in the Drop Shadow script
- Fix a whole bunch of bugs in the BMP plug-in
- On OSX, use the system's screenshot utility

Installer:
- Add Brazilian-Portuguese translation to the Windows installer

Source and build system:
- Many improvements to the OSX bundle build system
- Support automake 1.13

General:
- Lots of bug fixes
- Lots of translation updates