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.
The first public version of “The GIMP” was released in 1995.
Pulp fiction, with a character called “The Gimp” was released in 1994.
I’m pretty sure it’s not ableist, just a movie reference.