The GIMP project has published their latest development update to highlight the interesting work that's ongoing toward GIMP 3.4 and future releases.

Among the interesting development efforts going on for this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop is the development of a new project file format. GIMP has used its XCF as the primary project format since 1997 and now nearly 30 years later a new format is on the horizon.

GIMP's new project file format will rely on a zipped XML structure and will allow