Weekly Recaps

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

Weekly recap — 17 November 2024

Sun Nov 17, 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

Sun Nov 10, 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

Sun Nov 3, 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

Tue Oct 29, 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

Tue Oct 22, 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

Tue Nov 7, 2023 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Audacity 3.4 comes with musical time and easy audio stretching

GIMP / BlenderBIM / Audacity / SpectMorph

Weekly recap — 30 October 2023

Mon Oct 30, 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

Sun Oct 22, 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

Mon Oct 16, 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

Sun Sep 3, 2023 by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Inkscape / libwacom / FreeCAD / BlenderBIM / Ardour

Weekly recap — 28 August 2023

Mon Aug 28, 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

Mon Aug 21, 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

Mon Aug 7, 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

Mon Jul 10, 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

Mon Jul 3, 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

Sun May 28, 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

Sun May 21, 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

Sun May 14, 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

Sun May 7, 2023 by Alexandre Prokoudine

GSoC 2023 projects announced, MoonRay and BlenderBIM get updates

Blender / MoonRay / BlenderBIM / FreeCAD / dav1d / Ardour

Weekly recap — 30 April 2023

Sun Apr 30, 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

Sun Apr 23, 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

Sun Apr 16, 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

Sun Apr 9, 2023 by Alexandre Prokoudine

OpenShot 3.1.0 released, new features in GIMP and Krita

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / OpenShot

Weekly recap — 2 April 2023

Sun Apr 2, 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

Sun Mar 26, 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

Sun Mar 19, 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

Sun Mar 12, 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

Sun Mar 5, 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

Sun Feb 26, 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

Sun Feb 19, 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

Sun Feb 12, 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

Sun Feb 5, 2023 by Alexandre Prokoudine

New features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour

GIMP / Our Paint / Inkscape / Penpot / Mayo / Ardour

Weekly recap — 29 January 2023

Sun Jan 29, 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

Sun Jan 22, 2023 by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of OBS Studio, Pinta, and Synfig

GIMP / Pinta / HDRView / OBS Studio / Synfig / Ardour

Weekly recap — 25 December 2022

Sun Dec 25, 2022 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Photographic week: darktable and Hugin get updates

darktable / Hugin / LSP

Weekly recap — 18 December 2022

Sun Dec 18, 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

Sun Dec 11, 2022 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender, Inkscape, and OpenShot all get updates

GIMP / Inkscape / Blender / Ansel / darktable / OpenShot / Ardour

Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2022

Wed Dec 7, 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

Wed Nov 30, 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

Wed Nov 9, 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

Wed Oct 26, 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

Wed May 4, 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

Mon Feb 28, 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

Mon Feb 7, 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

Wed Jan 26, 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

Tue Dec 7, 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

Tue Nov 30, 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

Sun Oct 31, 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

Wed Oct 6, 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

Sun Sep 19, 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

Sun Sep 12, 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

Tue Sep 7, 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

Tue Aug 17, 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

Wed Jun 9, 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

Mon Feb 1, 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

Mon Jan 25, 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

Wed Dec 9, 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

Tue Dec 1, 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

Wed Nov 25, 2020 by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Tue Nov 3, 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

Fri Oct 23, 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

Tue Aug 18, 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

Tue Jul 21, 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

Mon Jul 13, 2020 by Alexandre Prokoudine

First virtual reality code lands to Blender

GIMP / Krita / Natron / Dust3D / Olive / / Ardour /

Week recap — 24 March 2020

Tue Mar 24, 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

Mon Mar 9, 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

Mon Mar 2, 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

Mon Feb 10, 2020 by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of RawTherapee, Cinelerra, and OpenShot available, the Krita team is fixing unit tests, there are even more UX fixes in GIMP, there have been major Godot news, the enve developer is unstoppable!

RawTherapee / Cinelerra / OpenShot / Krita / GIMP / Godot / enve

Week recap — 3 February 2020

Mon Feb 3, 2020 by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Sun Dec 29, 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

Tue Dec 10, 2019 by Alexandre Prokoudine

OpenTimelineIO is getting a Kdenlive adapter

IfcOpenShell / Apertus / Blender / Godot / GridSound / Kdenlive / Ardour / VCV Rack

Week recap — 3 December 2019

Tue Dec 3, 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

Wed Nov 27, 2019 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita gets magnetic lasso

GIMP / Krita / Blender / MyPaint / DJV

Week recap — 24 September 2019

Tue Sep 24, 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

Tue Sep 10, 2019 by Alexandre Prokoudine

GIMP gets out-of-canvas pixels display

Blender / GIMP / Krita / OpenShot / Olive / FreeCAD / LibreCAD

Week recap — 3 September 2019

Tue Sep 3, 2019 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita is getting support for PaintTool SAI files

Blender / GIMP / Krita / Natron / FreeCAD

Week recap — 28 August 2019

Wed Aug 28, 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

Mon Aug 19, 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

Mon Aug 12, 2019 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Amazing sculpting tools are coming to Blender 2.81

Blender / GIMP / Krita / Kdenlive / CUPS

Week recap — 4 August 2019

Sun Aug 4, 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

Wed May 15, 2019 by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releses of AzPainter and RawTherapee are out.

RawTherapee / GIMP / Krita / AzPainter / Inkscape

Weekly-ish recap — 10 April 2019

Wed Apr 10, 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

Mon Mar 25, 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

Tue Mar 19, 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

Mon Mar 11, 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

Mon Feb 25, 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

Mon Feb 18, 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

Mon Feb 4, 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

Mon Jan 28, 2019 by Alexandre Prokoudine

First MyPaint 2.0 alpha release is out

MyPaint / GIMP / Blender / FreeCAD

Week recap — 21 January 2019

Mon Jan 21, 2019 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape team releases new version of the vector graphics editor

MyPaint / Inkscape / GIMP / Blender / FreeCAD

Week recap — 14 January 2019

Mon Jan 14, 2019 by Alexandre Prokoudine

MyPaint gets better smudging and initial filmic support.

MuseScore / GIMP / Krita / Blender / Scribus / Synfig

Winter break recap — 8 January 2019

Mon Jan 7, 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

Sun Dec 23, 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

Sun Dec 16, 2018 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender's video sequencer gets a new maintainer

GIMP / Krita / darktable / LuminanceHDR / Blender / LibreDWG / Kdenlive

Week recap — 9 December 2018

Sun Dec 9, 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

Sun Dec 2, 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

Sun Nov 25, 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

Sun Nov 18, 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

Sun Nov 11, 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

Sun Nov 4, 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

Sun Oct 28, 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

Sun Oct 21, 2018 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita fundraiser is now successfully completed

GIMP / Krita / Blender / Synfig

Week recap — 14 October 2018

Sun Oct 14, 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

Sun Oct 7, 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

Sun Sep 30, 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

Sat Sep 22, 2018 by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita team launches a new fundraiser

GIMP / Krita / Blender / MyPaint / RawTherapee