Week highlights: Google Summer of Code 2023 project announced, new releases of
DreamWorks MoonRay, BlenderBIM, dav1d, new features in FreeCAD and Ardour.

GSoC 2023 projects

Google announced Summer of Code 2023 projects this week. Just to n…

Google Summer of Code 2023 projects have just been announced, so I thought I’d do a quick overview of what’s coming. This year, some things are totally expected, but there are also some very nice surprises. Let’s get on with this.

GIMP

Las…

Week highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, Ardour, Audacity, Brickworks,
Dragonfly Reverb, new features in GIMP, Krita, FreeCAD, Mayo.

GIMP

GIMP is still getting small improvements despite the shift of the focus
towards stabilizing for v3….

The release notes for Audacity 3.3.0 say it’s “focused on under-the-hood changes”. It’s true, but there are some very useful and long-anticipated new features too.
Number one feature, in my opinion, is the newly added musical ti…

Week highlights: new releases of BeeRef’s fork, Armory3D, and topologicpy, new
features in GIMP and FreeCAD, Inkscape is looking for an experienced GTK4
developer.

GIMP

We shouldn’t be expecting lots of new features at this sta…

Week highlights: new versions of Curtail, Pitivi, and Zrythm, new features in
GIMP, UX/UI updates in FreeCAD, updates of Krita and Blender add-ons.

GIMP

The Search Actions dialog now shows menu paths and is able to locate GEGL
operations t…

This is a shorter-than-usual recap. Week highlights: OpenShot 3.1.0 released,
GIMP and Krita get new features, Jabier Arraiza is leaving Inkscape.

GIMP

Several nice little patches are making their way to future GIMP 3.0.
Now when you try t…

Week highlights: new releases of Blender, QCAD, Qtractor, first pre-release of
Inkscape 1.3, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, Ardour.

GIMP

CmykStudent added initial support for the QOI file
format that is intended to be a replacement for PNG…

Week highlights: new releases of topologicpy and LSP plugins, new features and
improvements in GIMP, Inkscape, FreeCAD, Olive, automatic generation of
subtitles from audio is coming to Kdenlive.

GIMP

There’s some minor porting of var…