In addition to the version here, I tried Gimp 2.8.22. However the eraser, healing, paintbrush, etc. Some tools have an effect on an image: adding text, making a selection and filling it using the bucket tool. YES! The greatest anticipation and interest from me as well. Importing PDFs with a transparent background I noted, with dismay, that GIMP 2.1.18p1 removed the Laguage setting from its preferences! This bug does not appear in GIMP 2.10.4, however. I was bitten by this bug when I upgraded from macOS 10.11 to 10.13 (GIMP used the secondary instead of my primary language set in macOS Preferences). Only GIMP switches to the secondary language. Every other program on my Mac uses English. I do have multiple languages enabled in the Language & Region panel, but English (U.S.) is my primary language.
And when I launch GIMP using the 'open' command in the Terminal, then it’s in English.
Gimp-2.8 installing process crashes - herewith the error message