I would stick with Gimp 2.10.14 (or even 12) for now.
Some Gimp 2.10.18 comments, (particularly for Windows users).
The main gimp .org page 'Download' button is now pointing to
gimp-2.10.18-setup-1.exe This has been around since about 8 March, but only hooked up to the main page since that gimp.org outage a couple of days ago. Looks like that was a little more than an internet problem, if you go to the main download section
https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gi ... 0/windows/ all the files are timestamped 19 March (2020-03-19 for the US people) Probably a drive failure.
What does
gimp-2.10.18-setup-1.exe fix? For those old scripts and plugins the color / pattern ..etc pickers seem to work but for some still get the
invalid parameter name "dialog status error.
I like the end of this bug report
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/4641 question Is this issue treated correctly by the new installer (gimp-2.10.18-setup-1.exe modified at 7-Mar-2020) ? -
reply nope
Some sanity has prevailed, with a fix
quote let's just fix the name on the GIMP side .....to allow existing plug-ins to keep working.
unquote but when?
One thing that does look promising for the ever smaller numbers of 32bit Windows users. Tried out in a Win7 32bit VM and Gimp is working. I can only comment for this installation but Gimp has not worked here since version 2.10.6
Happy Gimping in isolation.