GIMP 2.8.6

GIMP 2.8.6 has been released. As you may know, GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an open source photo editor 

GIMP 2.8.6 is a maintenance release, No new features were added

The following items were fixed:

Core:
– Fix saving to URIs, it was broken to only allow exporting, and fix
 save/export of compressed files
– Fix brush spacing for drawing in any direction
– Increase the maximum size of clip brushes and patterns to 1024×1024
–  Make sure data objects are saved when only their name was changed

GUI:
- Don’t allow singlewindow docks to shrink smaller than their requisition
- Make sure a single-window’s right docks keep their size across sessions
- Allow to change the spacing of non-generated brushes again
-  In single-window mode, make Escape move the focus to the canvas,
    and beep if the focus is already there
-  Be smarter about unavailable fonts, and don’t crash
- Make clicking the single-window’s close button quit GIMP
- Make view-close (Ctrl+W) only close image windows and tabs, not docks
  ETc….

More details on full list of bugfixes can be found,from GIMP announcement

Install GIMP 2.8.6 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp