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…

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 …

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 …

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…

Week highlights: new releases of Our Paint, vokoscreenNG, Ratatouille.lv2, Faircamp; improvements in KDE’s drawing tablets configuration app; new AI feature in Kdenlive.

KDE is getting improved graphic tablets support

Providing better supp…

Week highlights: the second release candidate of GIMP 3.0 is out, and so are the new stable releases of OpenShot, Mixxx, Overwitch.

GIMP 3.0rc2

The new release candidate is finally out, mainly with bugfixes:

v2.10 settings are now properl…

In a pre-holiday rush, developers made a lot of releases, so this is going to be a longer recap.
Week highlights: new release of darktable, HDRView, Tahoma2D, Flowblade, Kdenlive, Qtractor, FamiStudio, Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 announced.

LGM …

Week highlights: further progress with new PDF exporter in Inkscape, Scribus team is closing up on v1.7.0, new version of libwacom, new features in FreeCAD.

Inkscape

I already discussed this topic in a recent weekly recap, but now there’s …

Week highlights: new major releases of Hugin and OBS Studio, new beta of Friction 1.0, FreeCAD and Audacity dev news.

Hugin 2024.1

Thomas Modes released a new version of Hugin. I haven’t shot panoramas for a long time, so I’m not a great j…