GIMP for M1 and M2: Graphics program now also runs natively on Apple Silicon

The open-source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), commonly considered a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, now runs natively on the Arm64 processors M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max and M1 Ultra as well as M2 from Apple Silicon. Version 2.10.32 was released as an AArch64 build.

GIMP runs on Apple Silicon without an emulation layer

The macOS version was previously limited to Intel's x86 architecture and Core processors. As the developers have announced in the official release notes, future versions of the pixel-based image processing software will also be available for macOS on x86 with an Intel CPU and M-SoC from Apple Silicon in addition to Windows and Linux.

The performance of the graphics program also benefits from the fact that the use of an x86-64 binary translation using the Rosetta 2 emulation and compatibility layer can now be dispensed with.

• It is a bit of an early Chistmas 🎅 for people using Apple Silicon machines (Apple M1, M2…) as we release for the first time ever a stable version of GIMP for this architecture!
• It is a revision package for GIMP 2.10.32, already released a few months ago, re-built with our new MacPorts-based infrastructure on both x86_64 (“macOS on Intel” architecture) and AArch64 (“macOS on Apple Silicon”).
• Note that we provide 2 DMG packages now, one for each architecture, not a single universal package. The website will try and detect which architecture you are on, but if it fails to detect properly (detection is not as easy on some browsers), be careful to choose the version for the correct hardware (“for Intel” or “for Apple Silicon “).

GIMP 2.10.32 – Release Notes

In addition, the system dependencies have been updated in the revised software package, in particular babl and GEGL. This means that you also get the current fix for the race condition bug for macOS on Intel. Previously, GIMP could sometimes crash under macOS, which has been fixed by the revision and bug fix update.

Download on ComputerBase

As usual, GIMP can be downloaded below this message from the ComputerBase download area. GIMP 2.10.32 Revision 1 is now also available for download there as a native build for Apple Silicon.

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