GIMP 3.2 RC3 Released In Preparation For The Stable GIMP 3.2

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 2 March 2026 at 07:34 PM EST. 20 Comments

Ahead of the stable GIMP 3.2 release hopefully happening soon, GIMP 3.2 RC3 was released this evening for testing.

GIMP 3.2 has been aiming to release within one year of GIMP 3.0. With GIMP 3.0 having released in mid-March, the stable GIMP 3.2 will hopefully be out around this time if all goes well.

👁 GIMP 3.2-RC3 on Linux

Among the last minute changes to find with GIMP 3.2 RC3 include:

- Better handling of layers to avoid accidentally altering the layers destructively.

- Filters like levels, curves, equalize, and white balance now use linear precision as part of the work to improve GIMP's color correctness.

- The flip tool can now be controlled via arrow keys as can the shear tool now too.

- The crop tool now automatically adds transparency to a layer if you set it to fill with transparency and make a crop that's larger than the current layer.

- Initial support for using the Global Menu with the Flatpak build of GIMP.

- Improved support for importing Luminance / Chroma OpenEXR images.

- GIMP's AppImage has been fixed to work again on AArch64.

- Various bug fixes and other enhancements.

Downloads and more details on GIMP 3.2 RC3 via GIMP.org.