GIMP specifications

Digital Photo Software: Digital Camera Firmware; Digital Photo Tools; Image Viewers; Media Management; Photo Editors; Photo Sharing & Publishing

Allow specifying the written language in the Text Tool. This helps with choosing an appropriate font, or appropriate glyphs for the selected language.
Moved 'Text along path' from tool options to the text context menu.
Add diagonal guides to the Crop Tool.
Support rotating brushes.
The Smooth Stroke feature from GIMP Painter was ported to GIMP.
Added 'Rule of fifths' crop guide overlay.
Added an icon for the Desaturate tool.
Support loading 16bit (RGB565) raw data.
Added palette exporter for CSS, PHP, Python, txt and Java, accessed through the palette context menu.
Support printing crop marks for images.
Made the Pointer dockable show information about selection position and size.
Replaced the brush scale control in tool options by a brush size one that works in pixels, and does the right thing when the brush changes.
Improved the Free Select Tool on-canvas feedback.
Made it possible to use GEGL for scaling images.