Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 9 March 2025 Week highlights: Blender-made Flow gets an Oscar, PipeWire gets MIDI 2.0 support, Kdenlive is getting better OTIO support. Flow Feature film animation Flow got Academy Award. It’s the first Blender-made film to do so. It’s also the first L… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: ALSA Scarlett Control Panel 0.5 Geoffrey D. Bennett released a new version of ALSA Scarlett Control Panel aka “alsa-scarlett-gui”. This software exposes extra controls over Focusrite’s audio interfaces for Linux users, and it does so in a sensible way: you get the m… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 2 March 2025 Week highlights: CMYK image mode is WIP in GIMP, new release of LSP plugins, great changes in Inkscape, Friction, and FreeCAD. GIMP Over on Mastodon, CmykStudent demoed the CMYK image mode they developed prior to working on the space invas… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 23 February 2025 This has been a very CAD-flavored week. Highlights: new releases of Tahoma2D, JupyterCAD, KiCAD; first builds of Inkscape with CMYK-capable exporting are available; FreeCAD Project Association announces 2025 grant program. Inkscape Martin … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 16 February 2025 Week highlights: new releases of GIMP, LittleCMS, HDRView, FLAC, and Faircamp; AstoCAD replaces Ondsel ES as a sexier soft-fork of FreeCAD. GIMP 3.0rc3 This is hopefully the last release candidate before the final release of GIMP 3.0. The … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 9 February 2025 Week highlights: new release of Bonsai and GCodeWorkShop, PDF import/export improvements in Inkscape, GNOME is getting HDR support. Inkscape Tavmjong Bah improved PDF importing. Inkscape now supports character and word spacing values in PD… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 2 February 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Scribus and Krita, a beta release of Pinta. Krita 5.2.9 This is a bugfix release. Notable fixes: Fixes for saving EXR files with extremely low alpha values and files with moved layers Preservation of color… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 26 January 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Skyfill, Mayo, and Shotcut; great new features in Dune3D; FreeCAD Project Association has part-time job openings. Resynthesizer Lloyd Konneker now has a preliminary port of the Resynthesizer plugin for the … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 19 January 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Scribus and Qtractor; GIMP 3.0rc3 is on the way; great new features coming to Inkscape; Graphite is kicking some serious ass. GIMP The team started planning a third release candidate for v3.0. Jehan listed … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 12 January 2025 Week highlights: new releases of HDRView, LibreCAD, and cabbage; new features in GIMP and Ardour; FreeCAD’s alternative Ribbon UI gets an update. GIMP The DDS plugin now support loading files with BC7 compression. CmykStudent read the docs… Continue Reading →
