” GIMP 2.8 was supposed to come last December and that deadline
was clearly missed. At that point it looked like it was perhaps
just a few months away, but only now is GIMP 2.7.2 even being
released.“GIMP 2.8 is largely being held up by the new user-interface and
broken graphic tablets support, or at least that was the
explanation back in January. In mid-April we now finally have the
release of GIMP 2.7.2. 2.8 was supposed to come last December and
that deadline was clearly missed. At that point it looked like it
was perhaps just a few months away, but only now is GIMP 2.7.2 even
being released. “