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Our third release candidate for #GIMP 3.0.0 is now published: https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/02/10/gimp-3-0-RC3-released/
Enjoy everyone! 
@GIMP non-destructive editing is such a game changer, thanks for your efforts.
@GIMP One step closer
@GIMP I hope there will finally be a simple tool for creating shapes, but I don't see this on roadmap of the project 
@whiteforest @GIMP Hi! In fact, we have a merge request for vector layers (which would enable a shape tool). It's been worked on by several people, and we're hoping to finish it for the next release after 3.0.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/merge_requests/551
@whiteforest See also this comment on the same topic: https://floss.social/@GIMP/113981900706116023
It **is** on the roadmap and have been for some time now. See: https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/#non-destructive-layer-types
There is just an order to things. Vector layers first (which is already well in progress), then a shape tool. 
@GIMP and @CmykStudent , thank you for your answers, I didn't know about this, so I'm glad to hear that, I'll be waiting, very excited!
@gimp I see a lot of good things in this roadmap but no mention of AI, any interest in that topic?
@GIMP Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
A simple solution for creating shapes and text non-destructively is SVG, right? Inkscape uses that; why don't you guys work on something like that? I think the community would appreciate it and be as helpful as possible, including me.
Great job, GIMP developers; keep it up! We are always here for you.
@AnokLola It's been planned for some time. As you say, it's more of a vector feature, and GIMP is a raster software primarily. Having a tool to do raster shapes would be a very poor experience.
Nevertheless we have been working on vector layers, whose development is planned to be continued after 3.0 is released (see the video in this MR by @CmykStudent for instance: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/merge_requests/773).
Once we have this in, a tool to create basic shapes would obviously be a great addition.
@AnokLola Note though that GIMP still stays a raster software as primary target. Really if working with shapes or other kinds of drawing which are more of the vector types, @inkscape will always be better suited than GIMP.
Inkscape is a vector software, we are a raster one. Having more vector features for some vector usage within a raster artwork is definitely a cool thing. But both types of software stay useful.
We have various professional artists in the team and everyone use both software.
@GIMP @CmykStudent Wow that's really cooool!
Il n’y a pas que Photoshop, dans la vie.
3.0?!?!?
@GIMP wrt color space invasion, is there some plan for displaying non-sRGB content in the UI w/ GTK 3?
@bugaevc We already support *any*RGB space, not just sRGB. Now if you mean non-RGB spaces such as CMYK, LAB or others, we already have various support into importing and exporting from/to various formats, which would be converted to/from some RGB space.
Eventually, we are planning to have more backend supported so that we don't even have to do any conversion.
And yes, all of this is part of the color space invasion which has started more than a dozen years ago AFAIK.
@GIMP what I meant is *displaying* colors/images *in the UI*. Only very recent GTK 4 versions support anything but sRGB there, to my knowledge.
@bugaevc GIMP already supports color management, i.e. viewing images as anyRGB on your monitor.
This was already the case in 2.10.
Unless you mean things like high-bit depth monitors (10-bit, 12-bit displays,…) which is yet another topic. But viewing non-sRGB content has existed for quite some time.