Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 22 December 2024 In a pre-holiday rush, developers made a lot of releases, so this is going to be a longer recap. Week highlights: new release of darktable, HDRView, Tahoma2D, Flowblade, Kdenlive, Qtractor, FamiStudio, Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 announced. LGM … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 15 December 2024 Week highlights: further progress with new PDF exporter in Inkscape, Scribus team is closing up on v1.7.0, new version of libwacom, new features in FreeCAD. Inkscape I already discussed this topic in a recent weekly recap, but now there’s … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 8 December 2024 Week highlights: new major releases of Hugin and OBS Studio, new beta of Friction 1.0, FreeCAD and Audacity dev news. Hugin 2024.1 Thomas Modes released a new version of Hugin. I haven’t shot panoramas for a long time, so I’m not a great j… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 8 December 2024 Week highlights: new major releases of Hugin and OBS Studio, new beta of Friction 1.0, FreeCAD and Audacity dev news. Hugin 2024.1 Thomas Modes released a new version of Hugin. I haven’t shot panoramas for a long time, so I’m not a great j… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 24 November 2024 Week highlights: this was a pretty eventful week, with major new releases of Blender, FreeCAD, and Zrythm. Inkscape Rafał Siejakowski proposed an enhancement to Inkscape’s Node tool: being able to edit arcs in paths as arcs, with arc-speci… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: FreeCAD 1.0: new features and the larger picture After only 20+ years in the making, FreeCAD hit the 1.0 mark today. The latest development cycle wasn’t easy, a lot of things happened along the way. Let’s talk about major changes in this release and then discuss how the community has been… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 17 November 2024 Week highlights: new Verge3D release, major improvements coming to Inkscape, FreeCAD has zero v1.0 release blockers. Inkscape There are a lot of exciting things happening here. The one that probably brings me the most joy is the newly prop… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: How to make FreeCAD look and work like Ondsel ES Ondsel recently started shutting down its operation, so there will be no more releases of Ondsel Engineering Suite, a custom build of FreeCAD with various improvements. Many people loved the look of Ondsel ES and its defaults. So much so that some requ… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Services I’m available for freelance work: content strategy and marketing, technical writing. I’ve worked with system integration companies, cloud service providers, fintech and infosec companies, SaaS companies, desktop software vendors. Some of my… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 10 November 2024 Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and Annotator, DIGImend’s developer resigns, Blender Studio publishes the Project Gold showcase. GIMP 3.0rc1 The GIMP team finally released the first release candidate of v3.0. Main changes as compar… Continue Reading →
