Week highlights: new version of Shotcut, CMYK PDF exporting has landed in Inkscape, GSoC2025 has announced students/projects, LGM2025 program is up.

GIMP

Ondřej Míchal started submitting his first patches that introduce a GEGL filter brows…

Google Summer of Code 2025 projects have just been announced. As is usual in the last 20 years or so, Google is paying a reward to students for improving free and open-source software.
I went ahead and harvested the list of all the relevant projects so…

Week highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, Mixxx, and Giada; new features in GIMP and FreeCAD.

GIMP

CmykStudent implemented a simple palette exporter to KPL, Krita’s palette file format.

The other file format support they added is Over t…

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…