Week highlights: new major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, and Ardour.

GIMP

There were two user-visible changes this past week:

The newly added GEGL API browser by Ondřej Míchal (GSoC2025 stu…

Week highlights: new releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, Blender teams starts working on an iPad port.

Flameshot 13 release candidates

The Flameshot team started making release candidates for the upcoming v13 of this screen capture and annot…

Week highlights: new Blender, RapidRAW, Gradia, Sigil, and Hydrogen releases; new darktable UI prototypes.

Gradia 1.7.0

I last looked at this new screenshot annotation app about a month ago. Alexander has introduced quite a few changes sin…

Week highlights: new releases of Krita, Bonsai, OBS Studio, and Kdenlive; new features in GIMP, FontForge, and Ardour.

GIMP

Here are some of the latest changes in the development branch:

CmykStudent’s patch that adds support for MyPaint v…

Week highlights: new digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour.

GIMP

CmykStudent created a patch adding support for MyPaint v2 brushes (1.5+ really) with the exception of spectral blending. There are three addition…

This post consolidates events of the last two weeks. Highlights: new releases of GIMP, darktable, Cardinal; new features in FreeCAD and Ardour.

GIMP 3.1.2

This is the first release in the series leading up to v3.2 expected, oh well, frankl…

Week highlights: new release of Audacity and Kdenlive, new features in GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour.

GIMP

Jehan created a tag for GIMP 3.1.2 in the desktop files, so the first unstable release in the 3.1 series is likely coming soon. This wi…

Week highlights: new release of RawTherapee, new features in GIMP, and new apps for screenshot annotation and film photography.

The X11Libre drama

It’s hard to avoid this topic. In a nutshell:

Enrico Weigelt started contributing to xserve…

Week highlights: new features in GIMP, new versions of PDF Arranger, Odin 2, and Tumult; new VAMP plugins.

GIMP

Two interesting patches merged to GIMP this week:

Importing legacy drop shadows in PSD (MR #2297).
Loading layered EXR files (…