• Noise filter (Filter > Stylize > Noise)

Improvements

• Free transform quality improved
• Image Size tool quality improved
• Hue and Saturation tool quality improved
• Memory management improved
• Snapping enabled for crop and type tools, as well as when dragging guides
• International keyboard support improved
• Gaussian Blur slider is now less sensitive
• Third-party core image units support improved
• Minor user experience improvements
• Help documentation

Corrected Bugs

• A bug that caused palettes to be in a hidden state after the Tab key was pressed before quitting the application
• An error that caused some values to be incorrect when copying HEX color using the Eyedropper tool
• A bug that sometimes caused an incorrect ruler alignment
• A bug that sometimes caused an incorrect cursor to appear when using the Spacebar + Command shortcut
• A bug that sometimes caused cursor flickering
• A bug that caused incorrect brush shape to appear when creating it from images with transparent areas
• A bug that caused the Clouds filter to work incorrectly when using it with more than one document at the same time
• Tool icon in the Tools palette would not change when temporarily switching to it
• A bug that sometimes caused the Brushes Editor sheet not to appear
• A bug that wouldn’t allow the user to quit the application when Brushes Editor was shown
• A bug that caused the Pencil tool not to work at all on PowerPC Macs
• A bug that caused incompatibility issues when opening PXM documents, which has layers with masks in it, on a PowerPC Mac
• A crash that occurred when opening GIMP (.xcf) documents
• A crash that sometimes occurred when preparing to print a document
• A crash that sometimes occurred when using click-and-drag tools