Content-aware rescaling . Keeps the features of the image while rescaling along a single direction .Tested on Gimp 2.2. It installs under the Layer menu now.
GIMP 2.4.0-RC2 is finally there. The developers have fixed quite some bugs since RC1 but it’s not the final thing yet. Have a look at the NEWS file for the changes made in this release.
Changes in GIMP 2.4.0-rc2
more improvements and bug fixes in the rectangle tools
antialias the display for zoom levels between 100% and 200%
fix zoomed-out display problems
improve handling of JPEG settings
fix script-fu error reporting
on OS X, get rid of menubars in windows and use the global menubar
fix plug-ins using GimpZoomPreview
throw properly catchable exceptions from foreign script-fu function (like PDB wrappers)