I have released Gimp 2.8.6 for Windows and Mac.

As, usual, plugins useful to photographers are include:
Ufraw from cvs (the very latest) fixes the issues on 64-bit Windows.
G'MIC 1.5.6.1
Akana's Save & Clean
Resynthesizer - version 1.0
Refocus-it
LAB Sharpen
David's Batch Processor
Alessandro Francesconi's BIMP
Exif-Browser
Wavelet-Denoise
Wavelet-Sharpen
Wavelet-Decompose
Fix Chromatic Aberration
Satequalizer - Saturation Equalizer
Advance unsharp mask
Separate+ - Color Management in Gimp
Advanced Tone Mapping - Faux HDR
Recover shadows and highlights
ShellOut
Liquid Scaling - Liquid Rescale

You can get it here www.partha.com

No problems so far in windows 8 here Partha! besides the no default G'MIC but thats easily fixed

Tested your portable version win32 bit in Windows Vista 32 bit.
I got some errors Partha.



Most have to do with the libstdc++-6.dll file.

Gimp-2.8.6 does start and run fine after i close that no-disc error twice.

The McGimp version works fine, so far no issues. Can't wait to play with the new G'MIC goodies.

Awesome....thanks sweetheart

Hey Willy! Good to see you again.

My upload must have gotten screwed up. Can you try again please?

Thanks!
Partha

I don't know what happened Rod. I have to investigate.

Sorry about that.

No biggy.
I await for the Gimp-2.8.6 build patiently.

All works now Partha, before I didn't have your dark theme and maybe I was missing other features aswell. Works great on 64 bit Win8

Thanks for your support Rod!

Somehow, my uploads totally screwed up. I am sorry about this. Would you be kind enough to download again and let me know if it works?

Thanks!
Partha

Sure will!

Thank you sir.

Still getting that dll error ..... libstdc++6.dll file and libidn11.dll

That's very cool Sylvie!!

Merci,
Partha

Hey Rod,

Thanks for testing again!

But, now we are in weird territory. I uploaded new versions and have received reports that it's all working fine.

Can you email me the exact errors? I assume this is the 32-bit portable version?

Thanks,
Partha

I had Partha 2.8.1 installed and uninstalled it through windows program files , installed new 2.8.6 (both were 64bit) .
Install worked fine and seemed to run good .
I was working on a old Xcf image and started working on it , all was good till I wanted to save . tried save, save as , export etc and got a error saying the path of image didn't have permission .

I rebooted and think that is ok but have another issue with file association , by accident I linked xcf to another program .
So i try the Open-with option . browse to gimp dir, pick gimp2.8.exe but it does not link it . It doesn't add gimp to list .
I don't see file association options in gimp .

Anyone know whats wrong , never had this problem before .

Edit: I think I fixed it .
I was trying to add the gimp-2.8.exe and I guess for some reason it doesn't like it but linking the gimp.exe worked and seems to run with it ok . not sure what the difference between them .

Yes i am using the 32bit portable build.
I will email the screenshots for you. Basically they are the same as above though. Just the 2 dll files now though.
3 errors and then it starts fine.
No G'MIC, or Davids Batch Processor.

Hi Ed,

There is no difference between gimp.exe and gimp-2.8.exe. gime.exe is there because on a Linux system (or Unix/Mac in general), you can softlink a file to another. Since there is no such thing as softlink on windows, gimp.exe is created as a copy of gimp-2.8.exe. So, you should not have any difficulty linking to gimp-2.8.exe or gimp.exe.

My guess is that in the past you associated gimp-2.8.exe (from 2.8.1) with your graphics/image files and those associations are still in your registry. So, remove all the old associations from the registry and you will be able to link to gimp-2.8.exe again.

Let me know if this does not work for you.

Thanks,
Partha

Hi Partha .
I think I found all issues and will post .

The first one with file permission to saved was fixed by setting the gimp-2.8.exe to administration under properties , that fixed that .

Now with file associations , I ran Ccleaner and found old enteries to app open command with 2.8.1 .
so I uninstalled 2.8.6 and cleared all gimp entries to be sure .

then reinstalled and that cleared up problem of adding the gimp-2.8.exe to file association .

So all fixed now I think .

Great! Good to hear. Let me know if you have any other issues.

Thanks,
Partha.

2-ton,

Hope you have not had any issues with McGimp. Please let me know if it's all working OK for you.

Thanks,
Partha

haven't put it through its paces (I use gimp now for photo work mainly masks, layers ,sharpening etc ).
will try few thing . I just tried to load few filters and GMIC and all seems to work .

One thing maybe you know . I use Rawtherapee as my Raw convertor as I like all options . I using version 4.0.11.8 .
They have option to open with gimp the image and seems like I get runtime error when I set path to gimp folder . I used to have this working with 2.6 but that was on XP and older Rawtherapee version . I think problem on there side but if you do use it does it work for you ?

Edit: since I see Ulraw in your gimp installer I guess you use that, so no biggy .