Week highlights: new digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour.

GIMP

CmykStudent created a patch adding support for MyPaint v2 brushes (1.5+ really) with the exception of spectral blending. There are three addition…

This post consolidates events of the last two weeks. Highlights: new releases of GIMP, darktable, Cardinal; new features in FreeCAD and Ardour.

GIMP 3.1.2

This is the first release in the series leading up to v3.2 expected, oh well, frankl…

Week highlights: new release of Audacity and Kdenlive, new features in GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour.

GIMP

Jehan created a tag for GIMP 3.1.2 in the desktop files, so the first unstable release in the 3.1 series is likely coming soon. This wi…

Week highlights: new release of RawTherapee, new features in GIMP, and new apps for screenshot annotation and film photography.

The X11Libre drama

It’s hard to avoid this topic. In a nutshell:

Enrico Weigelt started contributing to xserve…

Week highlights: new features in GIMP, new versions of PDF Arranger, Odin 2, and Tumult; new VAMP plugins.

GIMP

Two interesting patches merged to GIMP this week:

Importing legacy drop shadows in PSD (MR #2297).
Loading layered EXR files (…

Odin 2 is a free (GPLv3+) 24-voice polyphonic semi-modular synth with a modulation matrix and microtuning support (imports Scala files). The initial release happened almost 5 years ago. Everyone got pretty excited, and for a good reason: it was a good …

Week highlights: new releases of Sigil, PipeWire, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in GIMP.

GIMP

Three notable patches landed in GIMP recently:

CmykStudent added a new option for the Text tool that I wish was there in Inkscape: out…

Does it take a Millisecond to set up your Linux for real-time audio now? Not really, no. You still need to fiddle with system-level configuration. But this little program by Gahel shows you exactly where your system settings could be improved, gives ac…

Week highlights: new releases of GIMP, Inkscape and FreeCAD; KDE Plasma is getting an HDR calibration wizard.

HDR calibration in Plasma

KDE’s Plasma 6.4.0 is getting a simple HDR calibration wizard:

Some more information is available in …