Subject brought up at GIMPUsers, but nothing about the update to 2.8.2 can be found. All I do know is it's 900K larger then the recent 2.8.2 release. Anyway here have an idea what extra goodies were added?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-wi ... P%202.8.2/

More info, maybe?
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/

Thanks Odin; looks like they might have just made drop shadow look better.

Apologies if anyone has already noticed this but when you change the 'theme' in 2.8.2 it happens immediately .. you don't have to close Gimp then restart it again!

Since Drop Shadow is an .scm script you can open yours in an apropiate editor and modify the lines shown in the message.
In total 3 numbers.
Gerard.

I thought it was sort of weird to release a dash one update just for a Script-fu change too Gerard. I did go ahead and install 2.8.2-1 thought and all's still well. Again, haven't decided to install 2.6.12 yet but I actually may not.

I'm pretty sure it restores lib\gegl-0.2 which had been removed between 2.8.1 and 2.8.2 and "broke" cage transform tool.
see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676468 and comments 15 (mine) and 16 and 17 (Michael)

@Alec Burgess

Thank for the pointer,
not sure if you saw my 2 replies viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5113&start=10 :
I believe the folder went not lost for a incident , because the release note talking of "Removed gegl operations only duplicating functions and adding bugs" and the lost folder contain all the gegl operations ...can't be a coincidence
anyway seems evident that the removal was a error and place it back fix

Did you see the attachment in my reply ?
I did play a bit with the cage tool, still i don't handle too well but didn't crashed yet

If I download the new version 2.8.2 will all my plugins still be there or will I have to install them all over again?

You plugins should be fine; mine were still there.