Earlier on Techspace we posted article on the release of 'The Gimp' 2.7.3. The 2.7.3 is a development version and not stable yet. The next stable version would be 2.8. But you can still try this development version, give feedback or report bugs to the developers of GIMP.
GIMP 2.7.3 is now available on PPA. You can install GIMP by executing the following instruction in your terminal -
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp
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