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 …

This is going to be a quick recap. Week highlights: new versions of digiKam, MuseScore Studio, and Audacity.

digiKam 8.6.0

This is not my jam, but it’s great to see this digital photography management program regularly updated. New in this…

Muse Group announced the release of MuseScore Studio 4.5 featuring easy dynamics insertion, a brand-new percussion palette, and new engraving features.
There’s a release video showing off most of the new features:

Let’s take a quick look at the …

Week highlights: Blender-made Flow gets an Oscar, PipeWire gets MIDI 2.0 support, Kdenlive is getting better OTIO support.

Flow

Feature film animation Flow got Academy Award. It’s the first Blender-made film to do so. It’s also the first L…

Geoffrey D. Bennett released a new version of ALSA Scarlett Control Panel aka “alsa-scarlett-gui”.
This software exposes extra controls over Focusrite’s audio interfaces for Linux users, and it does so in a sensible way: you get the m…