and find some interesting notes here : http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp....html#msg53773

Still 8 bit color for 2.8 it sounds... as more of the GEGL stuff needs to be meshed into the base...

but here's something interesting...

Quote Originally Posted by David Gowers
I believe we are planning to move to a new native image format for 3.0,
which will address such problems as: metadata support being bolted on rather
than a standard part of the file format, more sophisticated ICC support,
support of higher bitdepths, support of different color models (LAB, YCbCr
etc)...
Sounds like 3 will have a better built native file, making for a more powerful system and hopefully a less resource intensive on really big stuff...

They also seem to be in a hurry to push 2.8 out the door, but I find much about the differences between 2.8 and 2.6.x