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It's a mostly bug fix version of the prior release candidate. So there is not much new stuff to talk about. The only thing I want to mention is, that GIMP 3 makes me believe in Half-Life 3 again.
The non destructive filter/styling stuff seems like a massive improvement imo. For people making complex scenes with effects applied to each layer this makes it so you can easily modify individual aspects of a layer after the fact.
https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/12/27/gimp-3-0-RC2-released/#gegl-filter-api
The non destructive filter was already implemented and is not new in RC2. So I assume whats new is the GEGL filters new API.