Weekly Recaps

A mostly weekly look at what's new in the world of Libre Arts.

Weekly recap — 23 March 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of GIMP, Blender, PDF4QT, libwacom, and LosslessCut

GIMP / Piranesi / libwacom / PDF4QT / Blender / LosslessCut
Weekly recap — 16 March 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New versions of digiKam, MuseScore Studio, Audacity, and Ratatouille.lv2

digiKam / Inkscape / MuseScore / Audacity / Ratatouille
Weekly recap — 9 March 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

Blender-made Flow gets an Oscar, PipeWire gets MIDI 2.0 support, OTIO in Kdenlive news

Blender / Kdenlive / PipeWire / MIDI 2.0 / Sonic Visualiser
Weekly recap — 2 March 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

CMYK image mode is WIP in GIMP, great changes in Inkscape, Friction, and FreeCAD.

GIMP / Inkscape / Friction / FreeCAD / LSP Plugins
Weekly recap — 23 February 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of Tahoma2D, JupyterCAD, and KiCAD; CMYK PDF exporting in Inkscape

Inkscape / Tahoma2D / JupyterCAD / KiCad / FreeCAD / Dune3D
Weekly recap — 16 February 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of GIMP, LittleCMS, HDRView, and more; AstoCAD is a sexier soft fork of FreeCAD

GIMP / LittleCMS / HDRView / AstoCAD / FLAC / Faircamp
Weekly recap — 9 February 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New release of Bonsai and GCodeWorkShop, upcoming HDR support in GNOME

Inkscape / Bonsai / GCodeWorkShop / GNOME
Weekly recap — 2 February 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of Scribus and Krita, a beta release of Pinta. A preliminary look at astroterm.

Krita / Pinta / Scribus
Weekly recap — 26 January 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of Skyfill, Mayo, and Shotcut; the FreeCAD Project Association offers jobs

Resynthesizer / Skyfill / Mayo / Dune3D / FreeCAD / Shotcut
Weekly recap — 19 January 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

Mew releases of Scribus and Qtractor; great new features coming to Inkscape

GIMP / Inkscape / Graphite / Scribus / Blender / FreeCAD / Ardour / Qtractor
Weekly recap — 12 January 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of HDRView and LibreCAD; FreeCAD’s alternative Ribbon UI gets an update

GIMP / HDRView / FreeCAD / LibreCAD / Ardour / alphaOsc / Cabbage
Weekly recap — 5 January 2025
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of Our Paint, vokoscreenNG, Faircamp; new AI feature in Kdenlive

KDE / Our Paint / FreeCAD / Kdenlive / vokoscreenNG / Ratatouille.lv2 / Faircamp
Weekly recap — 29 December 2024
by Alexandre Prokoudine

The second release candidate of GIMP 3.0 is out, and so are the new releases of OpenShot, Mixxx, Overwitch

GIMP / OpenShot / Mixxx / Overwitch
Weekly recap — 22 December 2024
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Holidays rush: new release of darktable, HDRView, Tahoma2D, Flowblade, Kdenlive, Qtractor

darktable / Krita / HDRView / Tahoma2D / Kdenlive / Flowblade / Qtractor / FamiStudio / LGM
Weekly recap — 15 December 2024
by Alexandre Prokoudine

More progress on the new PDF exporter in Inkscape, libwacom supports new XP-Pen tablets

Inkscape / Scribus / FreeCAD / libwacom
Weekly recap — 8 December 2024
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New major releases of Hugin and OBS Studio, and a new beta of Friction 1.0

Hugin / Friction / FreeCAD / OBS Studio / Audacity / Ardour
Weekly recap — 1 December 2024
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New LibrePCB release, GIMP 3.0rc2 is being delayed, new great features are coming to FreeCAD

GIMP / FreeCAD / OpenSCAD / LibrePCB / Kdenlive
Weekly recap — 24 November 2024
by Aleksandr Prokudin

Major new releases of Blender, FreeCAD, and Zrythm; PrusaSlicer switches to flatpak

Inkscape / Blender / FreeCAD / PrusaSlicer / Zrythm
Weekly recap — 17 November 2024
by Aleksandr Prokudin

Exciting development in Inkscape, zero release blockers for FreeCAD 1.0, and a new Verge3D release

Inkscape / Blender / Verge3D
Weekly recap — 10 November 2024
by Alexandre Prokoudine

First release candidate of GIMP 3.0 is out; DIGImend’s developer resigns

GIMP / Annotator / DIGImend / Blender
Weekly recap — 3 November 2024
by Alexandre Prokoudine

FreeCAD is getting closer to v1.0 but Ondsel is shutting down

FreeCAD / Ondsel / Shotcut / Audacity / qpwgraph / fudge
Weekly recap — 29 October 2024
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Major update of Dune 3D, Scribus dev update, new-ish libre programs for astrophotography

astra_lite / Dune 3D / dawvert / Fontmatrix
Weekly recap — 22 October 2024
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of Inkscape, Friction, and Ardour, update on GIMP and FreeCAD

GIMP / Inkscape / Friction / FreeCAD / Ardour / Elektroid
Weekly recap — 7 November 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Audacity 3.4 comes with musical time and easy audio stretching

GIMP / BlenderBIM / Audacity / SpectMorph
Weekly recap — 30 October 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GIMP is getting pen pressure smoothing, FreeCAD's sketching is undergoing a revamp

GIMP / Krita / Scribus / Blender / FreeCAD / Ardour
Weekly-ish recap — 22 October 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of OSPRay and Ardour, the FPA is surveying FreeCAD educators

Inkscape / Krita / LightZone / OSPRay / FreeCAD / Ardour / Audacity
Weekly-ish recap — 16 October 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita 5.2 and Ardour 8.0 released, integrated assembly workbench in FreeCAD starts solving

GIMP / Krita / FreeCAD / Ardour / Focusrite
Weekly recap — 3 September 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Major BlenderBIM update, exciting changes in Inkscape, FreeCAD, and Ardour

Inkscape / libwacom / FreeCAD / BlenderBIM / Ardour
Weekly recap — 28 August 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Kdenlive and LSP plugins get major updates. Olive's future is increasingly uncertain

GIMP / Inkscape / FreeCAD / Kdenlive / Ardour / LSP plugins / Geonkick / Olive
Weekly recap — 21 August 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape + CMYK PDF = ❤️, FreeCAD has updated start screen, VCV Rack 2.4.0 is out

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / FreeCAD / Qucs-S / Bespoke Synth / VCV Rack / Ardour
Weekly recap — 7 August 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

FreeCAD 0.21 released, Inkscape to get CMYK PDF exporting in v1.4

GIMP / Inkscape / Krita / FreeCAD / Ardour / MuseScore / LSP plugins
Weekly recap — 10 July 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of GIMP, Godot and Armory3D, Ardour gets freehand automation drawing

GIMP / Inkscape / libjpeg-turbo / Penpot / Godot / Armory3D / Ardour
Weekly recap — 3 July 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Major releases of darktable and Blender, Ardour gets tempo mapping to performance

GIMP / Krita / darktable / Blender / BlenderBIM / FreeCAD / LibreCAD / Flowblade / Olive / Kdenlive / Ardour
Weekly recap — 28 May 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Major update of Intel's image denoiser, new open movie by Blender Studio coming

GIMP / Krita / Blender / Intel Open Image Denoise / FreeCAD / Kdenlive / Ardour
Weekly recap — 21 May 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender 3.6 beta is out, VGC Illustration gets new tools

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / VGC / Blender / FreeCAD / MLT / Kdenlive / PipeWire / DrumRox
Weekly recap — 14 May 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Further steps towards non-destructive editing in GIMP, new OpenToonz release

GIMP / Krita / OpenToonz / FreeCAD / Ardour / PlugData
Weekly recap — 7 May 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GSoC 2023 projects announced, MoonRay and BlenderBIM get updates

Blender / MoonRay / BlenderBIM / FreeCAD / dav1d / Ardour
Weekly recap — 30 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Kdenlive 23.04 gets nested sequences, Audacity 3.3.0 introduces musical time

GIMP / Krita / darktable / FreeCAD / Mayo / Kdenlive / Ardour / Audacity
Weekly recap — 23 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

BeeRef resurrected in a fork, Inkscape looking for a full-time GTK4 developer

GIMP / Inkscape / BeeRef / Armory3D / FreeCAD / IFC-Git / topologicpy
Weekly recap — 16 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Curtail gets SVG compression, Pitivi gets back clips alignment

GIMP / Krita / Curtail / Scribus / Blender / FreeCAD / Pitivi / Zrythm
Weekly recap — 9 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

OpenShot 3.1.0 released, new features in GIMP and Krita

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / OpenShot
Weekly recap — 2 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender 3.5 released with new hair system and GPU-side compositing

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / Blender / FreeCAD / QCAD / Ardour / Qtractor
Weekly recap — 26 March 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Kdenlive is getting automatic generation of subtitles from audio

GIMP / Inkscape / FreeCAD / Topologic / Kdenlive / Olive / LSP
Weekly recap — 19 March 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay, FreeCAD team starts merging toponaming fixes

GIMP / Krita / HDRView / Siril / Inkscape / MFEKglif / Moonray / FreeCAD / QGIS
Weekly recap — 12 March 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of VCV Rack and plugdata, GIMP is getting on-canvas equidistant distribution

GIMP / Inkscape / HDRView / Blender BIM / FreeCAD / Armory 3D / VCV Rack / plugdata
Weekly recap — 5 March 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of GIMP and Godot, new features in Krita and Inkscape

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / Scribus / Godot
Weekly recap — 26 February 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New experimental blending modes in Krita, Blender changes release schedule

GIMP / Krita / darktable / Blender / Ardour / Zrythm / AVL Drumkit
Weekly recap — 19 February 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of KiCad, CAD Sketcher, Glaxnimate, and Ardour

GIMP / Krita / Blender / KiCaD / CAD Sketcher / Glaxnimate / Ardour / Yoshimi
Weekly recap — 12 February 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape gets improved PDF importing with layers and ICC profiles

Krita / Inkscape / CadQuery / Kdenlive / Olive / Ardour
Weekly recap — 5 February 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour

GIMP / Our Paint / Inkscape / Penpot / Mayo / Ardour
Weekly recap — 29 January 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Massive open-source releases from Autodesk and DNEG

GIMP / Krita / Autodesk / Open RV / DNEG / xSTUDIO / FreeCAD / Ardour / LSP
Weekly recap — 22 January 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of OBS Studio, Pinta, and Synfig

GIMP / Pinta / HDRView / OBS Studio / Synfig / Ardour
Weekly recap — 25 December 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Photographic week: darktable and Hugin get updates

darktable / Hugin / LSP
Weekly recap — 18 December 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

MuseScore 4.0 is out, and so are... oh, so many more releases

GIMP / Krita / Blender / LibreCAD / Kdenlive / MuseScore / Ardour / Audacity / CLAP
Weekly-ish recap — 11 December 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender, Inkscape, and OpenShot all get updates

GIMP / Inkscape / Blender / Ansel / darktable / OpenShot / Ardour
Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

RawTherapee is back on track with a new massive release

Krita / Inkscape / Blender / MuseScore / Ardour / Zrythm / VCV Rack / Cardinal / CLAP
Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New GIMP dev release, massive open-source release party at Amazon and AMD

GIMP / Krakatoa / XMesh / Blender / BlenderBIM / Ardour
Weekly-ish recap — 9 November 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Major changes in GIMP, new Ardour release, fun with Olive

GIMP / Krita / Shotcut / Olive / Ardour
Weekly-ish recap — 26 October 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Massive Ardour update, MuseScore 4 beta released

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / Kdenlive / Olive / Ardour / MuseScore / Cardinal
Weekly-ish recap — 4 May 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Basic CMYK features are landing to GIMP, Kdenlive is getting 10-bit support

GIMP / Inkscape / OpenToonz / Zrythm / Ardour / LSP / Olive / Kdenlive
Weekly-ish recap — 28 February 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape team to hire project coordinator, FreeCAD 0.20 coming soon

GIMP / Inkscape / darktable / OBS Studio / Blender / FreeCAD / Zrythm / Cardinal / Ardour
Weekly-ish recap — 7 February 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape 1.2 goes alpha, Weston gets essential color management support

Inkscape / Weston / Blender / BlenderBIM / Shotcut / Olive / Ossia / Ardour / PipeWire
Weekly-ish recap — 26 January 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Surge XT and ZynAddSubFX softsynths get much anticipated updates

Scribus / Inkscape / digiKam / FreeCAD / Kdenlive / Olive / Surge / Audacity / Zrythm / Ardour
Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender 3.0 is out, Bespoke Synth, VCV Rack 2 and Cardinal are gaining momentum

Blender / O3DE / OTIO / Bespoke Synth / VCV Rack / Cardinal / MuseScore
Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

VCV Rack 2 modular synth is out after 2 years in passionate development

GIMP / Krita / darktable / Blender / BlenderBIM / Topologic / LibrePCB / VCV Rack / Audacity
Weekly-ish recap — 31 October 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Apple joins Blender Dev Fund, Ardour gets clip launching as part of future live looping features

GIMP / Krita / Blender / ArmorPaint / Ardour / PipeWire / Audacity / MuseScore
Weekly-ish recap — 6 October 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Synths, synths, synths! Oh, and a massive FrreeCAD news update for architects

Inkscape / Krita / Blender / FreeCAD / Bespoke Synth / VCV Rack / Audacity
Weekly recap — 19 September 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

A surprising CAD + music production domination in the news

GIMP / PenPot / Inkscape / FreeCAD / Glaxnimate / Horizon EDA / Bespoke Synth / Giada / MuseScore
Weekly recap — 12 September 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

FreeCAD Trails workbench for transportation engineering is getting momentum

BeeRef / G'MIC / Inkscape / FreeCAD / JUCE / VCV Rack / PipeWire
Weekly-ish recap — 7 September 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

BlenderBIM project is celebrating 2 years, Krita 5 development is wrapping up

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / Siril / Blender / BlenderBIM / Kdenlive / OpenShot
Weekly-ish recap — 17 August 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Both Synfig and Glaxnimate animation tools get new releases, Audacity ships the first corporate-backed release

Inkscape / Akira / Glaxnimate / Synfig / Blender / Ardour / Audacity / Kdenlive / VPaint
Weekly-ish recap — 9 June 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New Inkscape, Penpot, BlenderBIM and Ardour releases, development fund for Krita, Audacity shenanigans

Inkscape / Penpot / Krita / Ardour / Audacity / LGM
Week recap — 1 February 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of BlenderBIM, Shotcut, Surge and liquidsfz, new features in GIMP, darktable, Krita, Blender, ArmorPaint, Olive

ArmorPaint / Blender / BlenderBIM / Siril / darktable / GIMP / Krita / Surge / Zrythm
Week recap — 25 January 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of Zrythm and Guitarix, new features in Krita, darktable, Siril, Blender

Blender / Siril / darktable / GIMP / Krita / Ardour / Zrythm
Week recap — 9 December 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of Krita and Shotcut, new features in Siril, Blender, Olive

Blender / Shotcut / GIMP / Siril / darktable / Krita / Olive
Week recap — 1 December 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New major releases of Blender, Font Manager, DrumGizmo, amSynth

Blender / Font Manager / DrumGizmo / GIMP / amSynth / Cascade / Krita / Olive
Multi-week recap — 25 November 2020
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of GIMP, Scribus, FontForge, Synfig, Tahoma2D, LibreDWG, Giada, Ardour

Ardour / Blender / BlenderBIM / FontForge / FreeCAD / GIMP / Krita / Ladybug Tools / Olive / Scribus / Zrythm
Week recap — 3 November 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Highlights: Blender Conference was online this year, new releases of BlenderBIM, Pitivi, Shotcut, Qtractor, new free/libre VST3 plugins for Linux, new features in Inkscape, Krita, FreeCAD, Dust3D.

Blender / BlenderBIM / FreeCAD / GIMP / Kdenlive / Krita / Pitivi
Week recap — 23 October 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

So this is going to be an update that covers both recent and not so recent events.

Blender / BlenderBIM / FreeCAD / GIMP / MyPaint / Kdenlive / Krita / darktable / ART / Filmulator
Week recap — 18 August 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

LibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta

Inkscape / Krita / Siril / Kdenlive / Zrythm / Ardour / Olive / Blender / Kdenlive
Week recap — 21 July 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

LibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta

Blender / MusE / Zrythm / MuseScore / darktable / Siril / LibreCAD / BlenderBIM / FreeCAD / Krita
Week recap — 13 July 2020
by Aleksandr Prokudin

First virtual reality code lands to Blender

GIMP / Krita / Natron / Dust3D / Olive / / Ardour /
Week recap — 24 March 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

First virtual reality code lands to Blender

darktable / FontForge / LuxCoreRender / LilyPond / Natron / Dust3D / Olive / Pitivi / Ardour / VCV Rack
Week recap — 9 March 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Half the free non-linear video editors got updates

Krita / darktable / OpenShot / Kdenlive / Cinelerra-GG / Blender
Week recap — 2 March 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Major releases by Blender, MyPaint, GIMP, and MusE teams, coding sprint by Krita devs, first release candidate of Dust3D v1.0, new release of Shotcut, major changes in Olive and enve.

GIMP / Krita / Blender / MyPaint / MusE / Dust3D / Shotcut / Olive / enve
Week recap — 10 February 2020
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of RawTherapee, Cinelerra, and OpenShot; even more UX fixes in GIMP; the enve developer is unstoppable!

RawTherapee / Cinelerra / OpenShot / Krita / GIMP / Godot / enve
Week recap — 3 February 2020
by Aleksandr Prokudin

New releases of ART, Synfig, and OpenToonz, massive improvements in GIMP, Siril, Blender, enve, and Olive, new beta of Shotcut, a great deal of bugfixing in Krita for upcoming v4.3.0.

ART / Synfig / OpenToonz / GIMP / Siril / Blender / enve / Olive / Shotcut / Krita
Week recap — 29 December 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

darktable 3.0.0 release and beta release of MyPaint 2.0, major updates of Kdenlive and FlowBlade

MyPaint / darktable / enve / OpenToonz / Blender / QCAD / FreeCAD / BlenderBIM / Flowblade / Kdenlive / Ardour
Week recap — 10 December 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

OpenTimelineIO is getting a Kdenlive adapter

IfcOpenShell / Apertus / Blender / Godot / GridSound / Kdenlive / Ardour / VCV Rack
Week recap — 3 December 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New version of FluidSynth reads DLS samples and has new reverb engine

GIMP / Krita / Blender / FluidSynth / MuseScore / Audacity / Pitivi
Week recap — 27 November 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita gets magnetic lasso

GIMP / Krita / Blender / MyPaint / DJV
Week recap — 24 September 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape 1.0 beta is out with native macOS support

Blender / GIMP / Krita / darktable / Luminance HDR / Shotcut / OBS Studio
Week recap — 10 September 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GIMP gets out-of-canvas pixels display

Blender / GIMP / Krita / OpenShot / Olive / FreeCAD / LibreCAD
Week recap — 3 September 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita is getting support for PaintTool SAI files

Blender / GIMP / Krita / Natron / FreeCAD
Week recap — 28 August 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

CUPS switches to Apache 2.0 license with GPL exception

Blender / GIMP / Krita / FontForge / Kdenlive / CUPS
Week recap — 19 August 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of G'MIC, DJV, and Shotcut video editor

Blender / GIMP / Krita / FontForge / Kdenlive / CUPS
Week recap — 12 August 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Amazing sculpting tools are coming to Blender 2.81

Blender / GIMP / Krita / Kdenlive / CUPS
Week recap — 4 August 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Week highlights: major changes in GIMP, exciting new features in Krita, new releases of Luminance HDR, Exiv2, Scribus, and FontForge, gazillion of news in the Blender department, new ArmorPaint releases.

GIMP / Krita / Blender / Scribus / MyPaint / Olive
Week recap — 15 May 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releses of AzPainter and RawTherapee are out.

RawTherapee / GIMP / Krita / AzPainter / Inkscape
Weekly-ish recap — 10 April 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GIMP 2.10.10 released, Spring animated movie by Blender Studio hs been released

GIMP / Krita / MyPaint / Blender / ArmorPaint / FreeCAD / Kdenlive / Olive / Cinelerra GG
Weekly-ish recap — 25 March 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of FontForge, Scribus, darktable, Qtractor, and Radium

FontForge / Scribus / darktable / Blender / ArmorPaint / FreeCAD / Olive / Flowblade / Openshot / Qtractor / Radium
Weekly-ish recap — 19 March 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Technical preview of Krita 4.2.0 with HDR displays support on Windows 10 is out

LGM / GMIC / Krita / Blender / Godot / Olive / Flowblade / VSE
Weekly-ish recap — 11 March 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Technical preview of Krita 4.2.0 with HDR displays support on Windows 10 is out

GIMP / Krita / darktable / RawTherapee / Blender / QCad / FreeCAD
Week recap — 25 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape is getting a new visual live path effects selector

GIMP / GEGL / Krita / MyPaint / Inkscape / Blender / Olive / Appleseed / Apertus / Ardour / VCV Rack
Week recap — 18 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GEGL is getting its own node compositing tool

GIMP / GEGL / Krita / MyPaint / Synfig / Blender / Olive / Pitivi / Shotcut / Flowblade
Week recap — 4 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Intel publishes open source projects for AV1 encoding and image denoising

GIMP / Krita / darktable / LuminanceHDR / Blender / LibreDWG / Kdenlive
Week recap — 28 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

First MyPaint 2.0 alpha release is out

MyPaint / GIMP / Blender / FreeCAD
Week recap — 21 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape team releases new version of the vector graphics editor

MyPaint / Inkscape / GIMP / Blender / FreeCAD
Week recap — 14 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

MyPaint gets better smudging and initial filmic support.

MuseScore / GIMP / Krita / Blender / Scribus / Synfig
Winter break recap — 8 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

MuseScore 3.0 is out, Blender turns 25 years old.

MuseScore / GIMP / Krita / Blender / Scribus / Synfig
Week recap — 23 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Manuel Bastioni Lab add-on for Blender gets a community fork

GIMP / Krita / darktable / LuminanceHDR / Blender / LibreDWG / Kdenlive
Week recap — 16 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender's video sequencer gets a new maintainer

GIMP / Krita / darktable / LuminanceHDR / Blender / LibreDWG / Kdenlive
Week recap — 9 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

NVidia publishes PhysX SDK physics engine as an open source project

GIMP / GEGL / Krita / NVidia / Natron / Blender / LibrePCB / LibreDWG / MuseScore / Ardour
Week recap — 2 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

HISE 2.0.0 lands to let anyone create sample-based virtual instruments

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / darktable / Blender / FreeCAD / MLT / HISE
Week recap — 25 November 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Stalled development of Natron gets prime-time attention

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / darktable / RawTherapee / Blender / Kdenlive / FreeCAD / LibreCAD / VCV Rack / Ardour
Week recap — 18 November 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape starts exploring multithreaded canvas rendering

GIMP / Krita / sK1 / Blender / darktable / digiKam / FreeCAD / Pencil 2D / Synfig / Flowblade
Week recap — 11 November 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

ArmorPaint got unlimited undo support and better FBX importer

GIMP / Krita / sK1 / Blender / darktable / digiKam / FreeCAD / Pencil 2D / Synfig / Flowblade
Week recap — 4 November 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New version of QGIS released with 3D and animation features

GIMP / Krita / sK1 / Blender / darktable / digiKam / FreeCAD / Pencil 2D / Synfig / Flowblade
Week recap — 28 October 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

The first official beta of Blender 2.80 is now just a few weeks away

Blender / darktable / sK1 / VLC
Week recap — 21 October 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita fundraiser is now successfully completed

GIMP / Krita / Blender / Synfig
Week recap — 14 October 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Microsoft is granting access to 60,000+ patents including type design ones

Inkscape / Krita / Blender / GIMP / Synfig / Pencil2D / Godot / Shotcut / VCV Rack
Week recap — 7 October 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New major releases of Valentina and G’MIC are available

Valentina / G`MIC / Blender / Krita / Pencil2D / FreeCAD / Godot
Week recap — 30 September 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of Audacity, Krita and Pencil2D, new Blender add-ons, PipeWire project is getting serious about pro audio workflows.

GIMP / Krita / Blender / Synfig / PipeWire / Audacity
Week recap — 22 September 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita team launches a new fundraiser

GIMP / Krita / Blender / MyPaint / RawTherapee