By: 6 Jan 2016 at 12:26, Scott Gilbertson Review Despite its relatively obscure version number, GIMP 2.9.2, released recently, represents a major leap forward for the popular image editing suite. Like all odd-numbered GIMP releases, 2.9.2 is considered a technical preview, but the features here will form the base of the stable release GIMP 2.10. In the mean time, I've found 2.9.2 to be very stable, though you will need to compile it yourself in most cases. Why bother compiling? This release has a lot of under-the-hood changes in particular this largely completes the move to the Generic Graphics Library, better know as GEGL. GEGL is GIMP's "new" image processing engine and the project has been slowly incorporating GEGL code for quite a few releases. In fact, while the GEGL in GIMP still gets referred to as "new," the project itself began life in 2000 and GIMP has been slowly porting over to GEGL since 2007. Full Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/06/gimp_2_9_2_review/
