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…

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Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and Annotator, DIGImend’s developer resigns, Blender Studio publishes the Project Gold showcase.

GIMP 3.0rc1

The GIMP team finally released the first release candidate of v3.0.

Main changes as compar…

Week highlights: Ondsel is shutting down; new releases of Audacity, Shotcut, fudge, qpwgraph, Qtractor; videos from KiCon Europe 2024; FreeCAD news.

fudge 0.2

Even though the newer official Fujifilm app is surprisingly usable (I can’t say …

Two and a half years ago, LWN posted my introduction to CLAP, a new MIT-licensed API for audio and MIDI plugin developers. The response to CLAP was mixed: some users and developers welcomed the new API, but some expressed skepticism. Let’s take a look …

Week highlights: Dune 3D release, newly discovered projects for musicians and astrophotographers, an update on Scribus development.

Astra Lite and Electra Stacking

Astrophotographers who choose Linux don’t have a terrible lot of options. M…