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Here's the original announcement so you can avoid phoronix:

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/05/20/gimp-2-10-2-released/

Maybe I'm out of the loop: what's wrong with Phoronix?

I don't know about phoronix especially, but the HN guidelines states "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." Maybe that is what he/she was referring to

Not much really. He churns out a lot of articles, some of them can be a bit clickbaity, and lacking in much information. He does sometimes post articles that are purely based on rumours. But I think he fills a good niche for technical but easy to read Linux/open source news.

In this case he hasn't really done much more than summarise the official release notes, so OP may as well have linked to those.

> In this case

In pretty much every case. It's rare that Michael actually contributes meaningfully to an article he posts. It's almost always just some copy/paste of the original source.

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