Libre Arts: VST3 becomes open-source, ASIO goes GPL-compatible Steinberg recently announced that they are changing the licensing of both VST3 and ASIO. VST3 is now MIT-licensed instead of GPLv3+/proprietary, and ASIO is GPLv3+/proprietary rather than just proprietary. Let’s pick the news apart bit by bit. … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 12 October 2025 Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and RapidRAW, new features in darktable and Ardour. GIMP 3.0.6 This is purely a bugfix release, don’t expect anything new. The release notes are here. darktable and AgX The team recently m… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 5 October 2025 Week highlights: new features in GIMP and Inkscape; new release of MuseScore Studio, first alpha release of Audacity 4. GIMP Here is some of the ongoing work: Jehan is reorganizing the Align/Distribute tool options. Probably not a final i… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 28 September 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Krita, RapidRAW, and Gradia; MIDI strumming in Ardour. Krita 5.2.13 The Krita team released a bugfix update. Some of the notable fixes are targeted at users of Android and devices with touch input: Backgro… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 21 September 2025 Week highlights: GIMP is getting an SVG exporter; Ton Roosendaal is stepping down as executive director of Blender Foundation; Kdenlive is planning exciting new features, FreeCAD is launching a bughunt for v1.1. GIMP CmykStudent started wo… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 14 September 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; new features in GIMP, Krita, and Inkscape; Blender gets another major sponsor. GIMP Jehan started working on new infrastructure to pass messages to running GIMP installatio… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 7 September 2025 Week highlights: new releases of ShineStacker, OurPaint, Mixxx, and LSP plugins; new features in Inkscape and FreeCAD. ShineStacker 1.3 It’s a relatively unknown free/libre program for focus-stacking by Luca Lista. The workflow is fairly s… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 31 August 2025 Back to recaps after a summer break. What’s new recently: Wacom upgrades its Blender Foundation support; new releases of GIMP, RapidRAW, Kdenlive, and Shotcut; new features in Inkcape and Ardour. GIMP 3.1.4 The very nearly π release comes … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 10 August 2025 Week highlights: new releases of RapidRaw, Gradia, Friction, and Handbrake; new features in GIMP. GIMP Recent changes are mainly various under-the-hood improvements and fixes. CmykStudent also restored support for HRZ Slow Scan Television … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 3 August 2025 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… Continue Reading →
