Google Summer of Code 2025 projects have just been announced. As is usual in the last 20 years or so, Google is paying a reward to students for improving free and open-source software.
I went ahead and harvested the list of all the relevant projects so…

Week highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, Mixxx, and Giada; new features in GIMP and FreeCAD.

GIMP

CmykStudent implemented a simple palette exporter to KPL, Krita’s palette file format.

The other file format support they added is Over t…

Week highlights: new releases of Helio sequencer and ZLEqualizer, new features in GIMP and FreeCAD.

GIMP

CmykStudent started working on a total ink coverage display filter. For now, you can set a threshold and choose a color to visualize a…

Darkglass Electronics, a popular maker of bass-centric equipment (pedals, amps, cabinets), announced their first multi-effects box earlier this week. Anagram is a relatively compact pedal with a touch screen for setting up the signal chain, six endless…

Week highlights: cool new features for GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour in the works; new releases of Scribus and Bonsai BIM.

GIMP

The team is currently working on bugfixes for 3.0 and new features, and they are getting some useful contributions…

Week highlights: new releases of Pinta and Elektroid, FreeCAD Project Association announces new grants.

Pinta 3.0

The new version of the image editor comes with a GTK4/libadwaita port, UI revamp with functionality moved to the headerbar, n…

The Pinta team announced the v3.0 release yesterday. Let’s take a quick look at what’s changed and what still needs to change.
Before I continue, here is a disclaimer: I’m not going to mention every single thing that is new or improved. I only cover th…

Week highlights: GIMP team started planning v3.2 development, new releases of Inkscape, jc303, Qtractor, and KnobKraft-orm.

GIMP

When the team released v3.0, they said they’d try to make shorter release cycles. This week, Jehan started goi…

Week highlights: new releases of GIMP, PhotoGIMP, Shotcut, Flowblade, and Calf.

Spectral JPEG XL

Alban Fichet and Christoph Peters from Intel presented Spectral JPEG XL, an extension of JPEG XL that supports storing data at wavelengths inv…