Weekly Recaps

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

Weekly recap — 7 November 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Audacity 3.4 comes with musical time and easy audio stretching

Weekly recap — 30 October 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly-ish recap — 22 October 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly-ish recap — 16 October 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 3 September 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 28 August 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 21 August 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 7 August 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 10 July 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 3 July 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 28 May 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 21 May 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender 3.6 beta is out, VGC Illustration gets new tools

Weekly recap — 14 May 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 7 May 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GSoC 2023 projects announced, MoonRay and BlenderBIM get updates

Weekly recap — 30 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Kdenlive 23.04 gets nested sequences, Audacity 3.3.0 introduces musical time

Weekly recap — 23 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 16 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Curtail gets SVG compression, Pitivi gets back clips alignment

Weekly recap — 9 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

OpenShot 3.1.0 released, new features in GIMP and Krita

Weekly recap — 2 April 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 26 March 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Kdenlive is getting automatic generation of subtitles from audio

Weekly recap — 19 March 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay, FreeCAD team starts merging toponaming fixes

Weekly recap — 12 March 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 5 March 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 26 February 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New experimental blending modes in Krita, Blender changes release schedule

Weekly recap — 19 February 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 12 February 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape gets improved PDF importing with layers and ICC profiles

Weekly recap — 5 February 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour

Weekly recap — 29 January 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Massive open-source releases from Autodesk and DNEG

Weekly recap — 22 January 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releases of OBS Studio, Pinta, and Synfig

Weekly recap — 25 December 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Photographic week: darktable and Hugin get updates

Weekly recap — 18 December 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly-ish recap — 11 December 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender, Inkscape, and OpenShot all get updates

Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

RawTherapee is back on track with a new massive release

Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly-ish recap — 9 November 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly-ish recap — 26 October 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Massive Ardour update, MuseScore 4 beta released

Weekly-ish recap — 4 May 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly-ish recap — 28 February 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape team to hire project coordinator, FreeCAD 0.20 coming soon

Weekly-ish recap — 7 February 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape 1.2 goes alpha, Weston gets essential color management support

Weekly-ish recap — 26 January 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Surge XT and ZynAddSubFX softsynths get much anticipated updates

Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

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

Weekly-ish recap — 6 October 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly recap — 19 September 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

A surprising CAD + music production domination in the news

Weekly recap — 12 September 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

FreeCAD Trails workbench for transportation engineering is getting momentum

Weekly-ish recap — 7 September 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

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

Weekly-ish recap — 9 June 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

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

Week recap — 25 January 2021
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Week recap — 9 December 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Week recap — 1 December 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Multi-week recap — 25 November 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

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.

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.

Week recap — 18 August 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

LibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta

Week recap — 21 July 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

LibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta

Week recap — 13 July 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

First virtual reality code lands to Blender

Week recap — 24 March 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

First virtual reality code lands to Blender

Week recap — 9 March 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Half the free non-linear video editors got updates

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.

Week recap — 10 February 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!

Week recap — 3 February 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.

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

Week recap — 10 December 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

OpenTimelineIO is getting a Kdenlive adapter

Week recap — 3 December 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Week recap — 27 November 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita gets magnetic lasso

Week recap — 24 September 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape 1.0 beta is out with native macOS support

Week recap — 10 September 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GIMP gets out-of-canvas pixels display

Week recap — 3 September 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita is getting support for PaintTool SAI files

Week recap — 28 August 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

CUPS switches to Apache 2.0 license with GPL exception

Week recap — 19 August 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Week recap — 12 August 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Amazing sculpting tools are coming to Blender 2.81

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.

Week recap — 15 May 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New releses of AzPainter and RawTherapee are out.

Weekly-ish recap — 10 April 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Weekly-ish recap — 25 March 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

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

Week recap — 25 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape is getting a new visual live path effects selector

Week recap — 18 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GEGL is getting its own node compositing tool

Week recap — 4 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Intel publishes open source projects for AV1 encoding and image denoising

Week recap — 28 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

First MyPaint 2.0 alpha release is out

Week recap — 21 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape team releases new version of the vector graphics editor

Week recap — 14 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

MyPaint gets better smudging and initial filmic support.

Winter break recap — 8 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

MuseScore 3.0 is out, Blender turns 25 years old.

Week recap — 23 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Week recap — 16 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Blender's video sequencer gets a new maintainer

Week recap — 9 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

NVidia publishes PhysX SDK physics engine as an open source project

Week recap — 2 December 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Week recap — 25 November 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Stalled development of Natron gets prime-time attention

Week recap — 18 November 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape starts exploring multithreaded canvas rendering

Week recap — 11 November 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

ArmorPaint got unlimited undo support and better FBX importer

Week recap — 4 November 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New version of QGIS released with 3D and animation features

Week recap — 28 October 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Week recap — 21 October 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita fundraiser is now successfully completed

Week recap — 14 October 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Week recap — 7 October 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

New major releases of Valentina and G’MIC are available

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.

Week recap — 22 September 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita team launches a new fundraiser