After excruciating seven years in the making, GIMP 3.0 is finally here. Let’s focus on just the major changes and then have a grown-up conversation about project’s future plans, funding, and the name change.
Disclaimer: I was a team member …

This is going to be a quick recap. Week highlights: new versions of digiKam, MuseScore Studio, and Audacity.

digiKam 8.6.0

This is not my jam, but it’s great to see this digital photography management program regularly updated. New in this…

Muse Group announced the release of MuseScore Studio 4.5 featuring easy dynamics insertion, a brand-new percussion palette, and new engraving features.
There’s a release video showing off most of the new features:

Let’s take a quick look at the …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …