--- title: I stopped worrying about GIMP ruining my layers after... description: GIMP 3.2.4 is a maintenance release that quietly addresses some of the biggest pain points introduced with the major 3.2 update. Key improvements include fixes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-stopped-worrying-about-gimp-ruining-my-layers-after-this-one-update-fixed-everything-luoy8tszo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I stopped worrying about GIMP ruining my layers after this one update fixed everything | daily.dev og:description: GIMP 3.2.4 is a maintenance release that quietly addresses some of the biggest pain points introduced with the major 3.2 update. Key improvements include fixes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-stopped-worrying-about-gimp-ruining-my-layers-after-this-one-update-fixed-everything-luoy8tszo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/luOY8TSZO.png og:image:alt: I stopped worrying about GIMP ruining my layers after this one update fixed everything og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I stopped worrying about GIMP ruining my layers after this one update fixed everything **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GIMP 3.2.4 is a maintenance release that quietly addresses some of the biggest pain points introduced with the major 3.2 update. Key improvements include fixes preventing tools like Crop and 'Fill with' from accidentally rasterizing non-destructive link, text, and vector layers. Selection performance in Intersection Mode was significantly improved by limiting calculations to pixels within the existing selection rather than the full canvas. The UI image size cap was raised to 8192 pixels, and a 26-year-old bug in the native XCF file format code dating back to 1999 was finally squashed — with backward compatibility preserved for old project files. While not a flashy feature release, 3.2.4 makes the non-destructive workflow introduced in 3.2 actually reliable. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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