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Fedora 42 GIMP Security Update Bugfix FEDORA-2026-bda4a20a3c

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
GIMP security update for Fedora 42 addresses bugfixes and enhances performance, ensuring safe image editing practices.
This is an upstream bugfix and security update

Summary

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and

editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other

graphics for web pages. GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect

to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well.

GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations

and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all

with multi-level undo.

Update Information:

This is an upstream bugfix and security update. Please refer to the upstream release notes for details about the changes in this version.

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Change Log

* Sun Jan 25 2026 Nils Philippsen - 2:3.0.8-3 - Enable bash completion * Sun Jan 25 2026 Nils Philippsen - 2:3.0.8-1 - Update to 3.0.8 * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2:3.0.6-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-bda4a20a3c 2026-02-03 03:27:00.111873+00:00 Name : gimp Product : Fedora 42 Version : 3.0.8 Release : 4.fc42 URL : https://www.gimp.org Summary : GNU Image Manipulation Program Description : GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other graphics for web pages. GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-bda4a20a3c' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: gimp
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 3.0.8
Release: 4.fc42
URL: https://www.gimp.org
Summary: GNU Image Manipulation Program

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