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  • GIMP 3.0 will come with the next Debian release.
    When will that come out?
    When it’s ready.
    You can get a bit of an idea where in the release process we are by looking at this graph:

    Where the green and blue lines dip close to zero, there was a new release.
    Next release is probably planned for October 2025.

    Between releases, packages are only updated when it’s relevant for security or to fix bugs.
    Thunderbird and Firefox are a bit of an exception. Those programs are so complex that backporting security fixes to the current Debian version isn’t feasible. So Debian is forced to ship the new version when security issues in the current version become known.
    And they’re also not needed on servers, so the reduced stability doesn’t affect them.








  • That reminds me of the time I didn’t know that “select - middle click” and “ctrl+c - ctrl+v” are entirely separate clipboards in Linux.
    So I was implementing a password manager for the very first time.
    For every single account I had, I created a new password within the password manager, and copied it with ctrl+c
    Then I went to “change password” in the online account and pasted the “new password” in with middle-click.
    For. Every. Single. Account.
    The next day I couldn’t log into anything and of course had no idea what string I had replaced all my passwords with.

    Getting back into my main e-mail account was a bitch, cause I had set it up with my home phone number and address in the year 2004, never updated that info, and moved 11 times since then.