There is unfortunately still some delay in the release of the beta version of CinePaint "Glasgow", due to the fact that project leader, Robin Rowe is not able to work on "Glasgow" fulltime. Alas, I have no information when the release (initially scheduled for December 31, 2005; the latest deadline being April 21, 2006) will come out, but I think it won't take much longer now.

BTW, there are three different CinePaint mailing lists available which you can join if you would like to get involved with CinePaint in one way or another or just get filled in on the latest news.

For those who don't know it, yet: CinePaint is a post-production tool basically used for frame-by-frame retouching of feature film. The current CinePaint version (which evolved out of the open-source bitmap editor, Gimp a few years ago) supports a color depth of up to 32-bit floating point/channel; the new "Glasgow" version is supposed to finally support 64-bit/channel.