From the Gimp News website:
Yosh has announced the availability of the new developer’s
version of GIMP. Here are some of the notable features (taken
verbatim from his announcement):
- Support for .xvpics style thumbnails, with a preview in the
open file dialog, and autosaving of them - New plugindetails dialog, lets you browse plug-in info. Handy
for finding where that new plugin you just install is hiding in the
menu. - Parellized pixel region functions, configure –with-mp
- Elliptical, square, and diamond shaped brushes for the ink
tool - Fixed a nasty tile corruption bug and unhosed bucket fill
- Updated i18n catalogs
- other stuff I forgot but it’s in ChangeLog