help information/ which version

Hello

I am very new to gimp and a complete beginner, i just wanted to know , when you press "help" to go to the help pages, are they for the latest version 2.6.0

as an example, i was trying to follow the help pages to crop an image, and after you have clicked and dragged the part of the image you want, it says a crop and resize information dialog box pops up, but this did not happen, and i was left bewildered as to what i should do next.

as i said complete beginner, it all looks over-powering at the moment

windows xp--------gimp 2.6.0