Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 19 January 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Scribus and Qtractor; GIMP 3.0rc3 is on the way; great new features coming to Inkscape; Graphite is kicking some serious ass. GIMP The team started planning a third release candidate for v3.0. Jehan listed … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 12 January 2025 Week highlights: new releases of HDRView, LibreCAD, and cabbage; new features in GIMP and Ardour; FreeCAD’s alternative Ribbon UI gets an update. GIMP The DDS plugin now support loading files with BC7 compression. CmykStudent read the docs… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 5 January 2024 Week highlights: new releases of Our Paint, vokoscreenNG, Ratatouille.lv2, Faircamp; improvements in KDE’s drawing tablets configuration app; new AI feature in Kdenlive. KDE is getting improved graphic tablets support Providing better supp… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 29 December 2024 Week highlights: the second release candidate of GIMP 3.0 is out, and so are the new stable releases of OpenShot, Mixxx, Overwitch. GIMP 3.0rc2 The new release candidate is finally out, mainly with bugfixes: v2.10 settings are now properl… Continue Reading →
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 →
