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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 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.