Week highlights: new releases of Helio sequencer and ZLEqualizer, new features in GIMP and FreeCAD.

GIMP

CmykStudent started working on a total ink coverage display filter. For now, you can set a threshold and choose a color to visualize a…

Darkglass Electronics, a popular maker of bass-centric equipment (pedals, amps, cabinets), announced their first multi-effects box earlier this week. Anagram is a relatively compact pedal with a touch screen for setting up the signal chain, six endless…

Week highlights: cool new features for GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour in the works; new releases of Scribus and Bonsai BIM.

GIMP

The team is currently working on bugfixes for 3.0 and new features, and they are getting some useful contributions…

Week highlights: new releases of Pinta and Elektroid, FreeCAD Project Association announces new grants.

Pinta 3.0

The new version of the image editor comes with a GTK4/libadwaita port, UI revamp with functionality moved to the headerbar, n…

The Pinta team announced the v3.0 release yesterday. Let’s take a quick look at what’s changed and what still needs to change.
Before I continue, here is a disclaimer: I’m not going to mention every single thing that is new or improved. I only cover th…

Week highlights: GIMP team started planning v3.2 development, new releases of Inkscape, jc303, Qtractor, and KnobKraft-orm.

GIMP

When the team released v3.0, they said they’d try to make shorter release cycles. This week, Jehan started goi…

Week highlights: new releases of GIMP, PhotoGIMP, Shotcut, Flowblade, and Calf.

Spectral JPEG XL

Alban Fichet and Christoph Peters from Intel presented Spectral JPEG XL, an extension of JPEG XL that supports storing data at wavelengths inv…

Week highlights: new releases of GIMP, Blender, PDF4QT, libwacom, and LosslessCut.

GIMP 3.0

This release was nearly seven years in the making and delivers some long-overdue features:

Layer filters
Multiple layers selection
Layer locks
CMY…

After excruciating seven years in the making, GIMP 3.0 is finally here. Let’s focus on just the major changes and then have a grown-up conversation about project’s future plans, funding, and the name change.
Disclaimer: I was a team member …