So you have a 3D design file and you only need to view it, you don’t like the
idea of launching an entire 3D CAD program like FreeCAD, and you are on Linux.
What do you do?
I’m giving you Mayo, an open-source viewer
by Hugues Delorme, based…

There have been many interesting updates in the last 3 weeks, I’ve picked the ones I can realistically handle. Highlights: OBS Studio 29, Pinta 2.1, HDRView 1.7.1, Synfig 1.4.4, Ossia Score 3.1.6, and more.

Creative Freedom Summit

Videos f…

When I started interviewing FOSS developers some 18 years ago, 7 out the 18
projects covered in this recap did not even exist, 1 was still distributed as
proprietary software only, and most of the other projects were so far from
their proprietary count…

The next weekly recap will be out in January. But for now, here are this week’s highlights: new releases of darktable, Hugin, LSP Plugins.

darktable 4.2

The new version of this digital photography workflow application delivers several majo…

The latest release of darktable has several really good changes, here is a quick video overview with its text/pictures version below.

Sigmoid module

The new module called “sigmoid” does a very sensible scene-to-display t…

New annual release of Hugin, free/libre panorama maker, has arrived with UX improvements.
It’s been a long time since Hugin has seen active development. However, the few people still working on this project do make regular releases with useful ch…

This has been a really busy week for everybody. Highlights: new releases of Krita, LibreCAD, Kdenlive, MuseScore, Ardour, Rosegarden, and more.

GIMP and JPEG-XL

The importing and exporting of 8/16-bit per channel CMYK/A JPEG-XL files has f…

Earlier this week, I did a quick poll to ask readers what time of week is the most convenient one for them to read these recaps. The majority said “whenever”, with “weekend” taking the second place. Weekend it is then.
Highlights of the week: new relea…