Finally GIMP 2.8 stable version is released

What are the different & new features available in the newer version of GIMP (2.8) 

GIMP 2.8 stable released

• Single window mode: Single main window instead of overlapping floating windows (also optional for the users those are acquainted with the previous versions. 
• On-Canvas Text editing : Editing text is not performed in a separate window anymore.
• Multi-Coloumn Dock windows which makes the GIMP UI a lot more customizable.
• Improved screen real estate for dock able dialogs using "save" now saves the file in the GIMP XCF format and it can't be used for saving PNG and other files. for non-xcf file types, we have to use the 'export' menu entry.
•   It's easy to create layer groups which can be organised in tree-like structures brush system and tool preset improvements. 
• Now easy to tag brushes and patterns, new slider widgets. 
• A new set of default brushes and tool presets from RAMON MIRANDA
• New open window navigation which displays a small preview fro each tab 
• Tools rendering on canvas have been ported to cairo to provide smooth antialiased graphics
• A new 'lock pixels' feature 
• Support for JPEG2000 and loading 16bit RAW data
• Export color values to CSS, PHP, JAVA, PYTHON, or PLAIN TEXT.
• Core integration of the graph -based GEGL library
• Export to PDF
• New Tool : Cage transform which maes it possible to easily warp parts of objects using an adjustable user-defined polygonal frame && more n more