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.

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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…

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…

Week highlights: this was a pretty eventful week, with major new releases of Blender, FreeCAD, and Zrythm.

Inkscape

Rafał Siejakowski proposed an enhancement to Inkscape’s Node tool: being able to edit arcs in paths as arcs, with arc-speci…

After only 20+ years in the making, FreeCAD hit the 1.0 mark today. The latest development cycle wasn’t easy, a lot of things happened along the way. Let’s talk about major changes in this release and then discuss how the community has been…

Week highlights: new Verge3D release, major improvements coming to Inkscape, FreeCAD has zero v1.0 release blockers.

Inkscape

There are a lot of exciting things happening here.
The one that probably brings me the most joy is the newly prop…

Ondsel recently started shutting down its operation, so there will be no more releases of Ondsel Engineering Suite, a custom build of FreeCAD with various improvements. Many people loved the look of Ondsel ES and its defaults. So much so that some requ…