GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release
phoronix.com
GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.
The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.
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okay I'll bite, what does "string freeze" mean here?
They've committed to not changing any displayed text ("strings"), so that translators have time to translate everything.
It means the maintainers have frozen their thongs.
I knew it