Starting from the early hints leading to the release of GIMP 0.54 by Spencer & Peter, passing through the ancient history of the release of GIMP 1.0, here is listing of release dates, until GIMP 2.8.4. This manual listing has been discontinued, especially now that we release many micro versions a year, including new features.
The stable releases are the orange bars in the graph above:
- 1995-11-21 GIMP announced
- 1996-02-15 GIMP 0.54
- 1998-06-03 GIMP 1.0.0
- 1998-09-28 GIMP 1.0.1
- 1998-10-15 GIMP 1.0.2
- 1999-03-29 GIMP 1.0.2
- 1999-04-04 GIMP 1.0.3
- 2000-12-25 GIMP 1.2.0
- 2001-01-22 GIMP 1.2.1
- 2001-07-26 GIMP 1.2.2
- 2002-02-12 GIMP 1.2.3
- 2003-05-19 GIMP 1.2.4
- 2003-06-14 GIMP 1.2.5
- 2004-03-23 GIMP 2.0.0
- 2004-04-14 GIMP 2.0.1
- 2004-06-15 GIMP 2.0.2
- 2004-07-17 GIMP 2.0.3
- 2004-08-05 GIMP 2.0.4
- 2004-09-25 GIMP 2.0.5
- 2004-11-02 GIMP 2.0.6
- 2004-12-19 GIMP 2.2.0
- 2004-12-28 GIMP 2.2.1
- 2005-01-09 GIMP 2.2.2
- 2005-01-22 GIMP 2.2.3
- 2005-02-22 GIMP 2.2.4
- 2005-04-09 GIMP 2.2.5
- 2005-04-10 GIMP 2.2.6
- 2005-05-08 GIMP 2.2.7
- 2005-06-27 GIMP 2.2.8
- 2005-10-27 GIMP 2.2.9
- 2005-12-27 GIMP 2.2.10
- 2006-04-13 GIMP 2.2.11
- 2006-07-06 GIMP 2.2.12
- 2006-08-24 GIMP 2.2.13
- 2007-04-18 GIMP 2.2.14
- 2007-05-26 GIMP 2.2.15
- 2007-07-06 GIMP 2.2.16
- 2007-07-13 GIMP 2.2.17
- 2007-10-24 GIMP 2.4.0
- 2007-10-31 GIMP 2.4.1
- 2007-11-20 GIMP 2.4.2
- 2007-12-16 GIMP 2.4.3
- 2008-01-30 GIMP 2.4.4
- 2008-02-29 GIMP 2.4.5
- 2008-05-29 GIMP 2.4.6
- 2008-08-21 GIMP 2.4.7
- 2008-09-30 GIMP 2.6.0
- 2008-10-08 GIMP 2.6.1
- 2008-10-30 GIMP 2.6.2
- 2008-11-21 GIMP 2.6.3
- 2009-01-01 GIMP 2.6.4
- 2009-02-15 GIMP 2.6.5
- 2009-03-16 GIMP 2.6.6
- 2009-08-13 GIMP 2.6.7
- 2009-12-10 GIMP 2.6.8
- 2010-06-22 GIMP 2.6.9
- 2010-07-07 GIMP 2.6.10
- 2010-10-03 GIMP 2.6.11
- 2012-05-02 GIMP 2.8.0
- 2012-08-23 GIMP 2.8.2
- 2013-02-05 GIMP 2.8.4