Releases like this are too rare to disregard and thus all the more to treasure.
In one swift motion the team is doing away with floating selections and bringing strokes/outlines for text. But this has been a bumpy road.

Floating selection buried…

Hopefully, not many people will object to shorter yet more regular weekly-ish
recaps!

GIMP updates

Version 2.99.14 is supposed to be released soon and whenever it comes, it will
arrive with two more major changes.
The most important one de…

It’s been a while since my last weekly recap. A lot has happened since then, more on that some other time. Let’s get to the point.

GIMP is getting text strokes

This has been a very long time in the making. The patch adding text…

master_me is a new free/libre
plugin and standalone application to automatically adjust the loudness of the
audio in your live streams.

It has been designed to be stupid easy when you need one button to do it
right. If you use something like …

This new development version of GIMP is a bit of a game-changer as it arrives
with some long-anticipated CMYK-related features. The way they are implemented
will make some users happy, but some users might feel annoyed. It’s got to do
with early …

Over the past few years, you might have seen a number of posts that attempted
to list audio editors for Linux. Pretty much every time whoever made those
lists, would start with Audacity, maybe pay a small tribute to non-free
Ocenaudio, then immediately…

Vladimir Sadovnikov released a new version of his free/libre LSP PLugins pack, this time featuring a multiband dynamics plugin in four variations: left/right, midside, mono, and stereo. Basically it’s an 8-band compressor (only 4 enabled by defau…

Raw Material Software Ltd. released a major update of the JUCE framework targeted at developers of audio/MIDI software and used in numerous free/libre and proprietary software projects.
The new version finally delivers support for both the LV2 plugin A…