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During the Ubuntu Developer Summit, it was announced that the Ubuntu distribution version 10.04 would not contain the default graphics program GIMP.

The decision was taken due to the fact that GIMP is directed to a different group of users than Ubuntu itself. The program is designed for more advanced users while the distribution is created for less advanced users.

Creators of the free graphics editor GIMP, announced that the new version 2.8 would bring significant changes in the user interface.

The new version of a free graphics program GIMP 2.6.2 has been released. The new version fixes bugs discovered in the stable 2.6 tree.

The most important changes, in comparison to version 2.6.1, include: significant improvements in speed, scale and fixed inappropriate layers display without alpha channel. In addition, preview tool has been fixed. Previously, it did not update when the image was magnified in more than 100%. Also, a bug that caused crashes of the application when opening a file is removed. Some translations are also updated.