Weekly Recaps
A mostly weekly look at what's new in the world of Libre Arts.
Weekly recap — 7 November 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineAudacity 3.4 comes with musical time and easy audio stretching
Weekly recap — 30 October 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineGIMP is getting pen pressure smoothing, FreeCAD's sketching is undergoing a revamp
Weekly-ish recap — 22 October 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of OSPRay and Ardour, the FPA is surveying FreeCAD educators
Weekly-ish recap — 16 October 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita 5.2 and Ardour 8.0 released, integrated assembly workbench in FreeCAD starts solving
Weekly recap — 3 September 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor BlenderBIM update, exciting changes in Inkscape, FreeCAD, and Ardour
Weekly recap — 28 August 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineKdenlive and LSP plugins get major updates. Olive's future is increasingly uncertain
Weekly recap — 21 August 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape + CMYK PDF = ❤️, FreeCAD has updated start screen, VCV Rack 2.4.0 is out
Weekly recap — 7 August 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineFreeCAD 0.21 released, Inkscape to get CMYK PDF exporting in v1.4
Weekly recap — 10 July 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of GIMP, Godot and Armory3D, Ardour gets freehand automation drawing
Weekly recap — 3 July 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor releases of darktable and Blender, Ardour gets tempo mapping to performance
Weekly recap — 28 May 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor update of Intel's image denoiser, new open movie by Blender Studio coming
Weekly recap — 21 May 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlender 3.6 beta is out, VGC Illustration gets new tools
Weekly recap — 14 May 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineFurther steps towards non-destructive editing in GIMP, new OpenToonz release
Weekly recap — 7 May 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineGSoC 2023 projects announced, MoonRay and BlenderBIM get updates
Weekly recap — 30 April 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineKdenlive 23.04 gets nested sequences, Audacity 3.3.0 introduces musical time
Weekly recap — 23 April 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineBeeRef resurrected in a fork, Inkscape looking for a full-time GTK4 developer
Weekly recap — 16 April 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineCurtail gets SVG compression, Pitivi gets back clips alignment
Weekly recap — 9 April 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineOpenShot 3.1.0 released, new features in GIMP and Krita
Weekly recap — 2 April 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlender 3.5 released with new hair system and GPU-side compositing
Weekly recap — 26 March 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineKdenlive is getting automatic generation of subtitles from audio
Weekly recap — 19 March 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineDreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay, FreeCAD team starts merging toponaming fixes
Weekly recap — 12 March 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of VCV Rack and plugdata, GIMP is getting on-canvas equidistant distribution
Weekly recap — 5 March 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of GIMP and Godot, new features in Krita and Inkscape
Weekly recap — 26 February 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew experimental blending modes in Krita, Blender changes release schedule
Weekly recap — 19 February 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of KiCad, CAD Sketcher, Glaxnimate, and Ardour
Weekly recap — 12 February 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape gets improved PDF importing with layers and ICC profiles
Weekly recap — 5 February 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour
Weekly recap — 29 January 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMassive open-source releases from Autodesk and DNEG
Weekly recap — 22 January 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of OBS Studio, Pinta, and Synfig
Weekly recap — 25 December 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudinePhotographic week: darktable and Hugin get updates
Weekly recap — 18 December 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineMuseScore 4.0 is out, and so are... oh, so many more releases
Weekly-ish recap — 11 December 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlender, Inkscape, and OpenShot all get updates
Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineRawTherapee is back on track with a new massive release
Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew GIMP dev release, massive open-source release party at Amazon and AMD
Weekly-ish recap — 9 November 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor changes in GIMP, new Ardour release, fun with Olive
Weekly-ish recap — 26 October 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineMassive Ardour update, MuseScore 4 beta released
Weekly-ish recap — 4 May 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineBasic CMYK features are landing to GIMP, Kdenlive is getting 10-bit support
Weekly-ish recap — 28 February 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape team to hire project coordinator, FreeCAD 0.20 coming soon
Weekly-ish recap — 7 February 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape 1.2 goes alpha, Weston gets essential color management support
Weekly-ish recap — 26 January 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineSurge XT and ZynAddSubFX softsynths get much anticipated updates
Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlender 3.0 is out, Bespoke Synth, VCV Rack 2 and Cardinal are gaining momentum
Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineVCV Rack 2 modular synth is out after 2 years in passionate development
Weekly-ish recap — 31 October 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineApple joins Blender Dev Fund, Ardour gets clip launching as part of future live looping features
Weekly-ish recap — 6 October 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineSynths, synths, synths! Oh, and a massive FrreeCAD news update for architects
Weekly recap — 19 September 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineA surprising CAD + music production domination in the news
Weekly recap — 12 September 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineFreeCAD Trails workbench for transportation engineering is getting momentum
Weekly-ish recap — 7 September 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlenderBIM project is celebrating 2 years, Krita 5 development is wrapping up
Weekly-ish recap — 17 August 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineBoth Synfig and Glaxnimate animation tools get new releases, Audacity ships the first corporate-backed release
Weekly-ish recap — 9 June 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew Inkscape, Penpot, BlenderBIM and Ardour releases, development fund for Krita, Audacity shenanigans
Week recap — 1 February 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of BlenderBIM, Shotcut, Surge and liquidsfz, new features in GIMP, darktable, Krita, Blender, ArmorPaint, Olive
Week recap — 25 January 2021
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of Zrythm and Guitarix, new features in Krita, darktable, Siril, Blender
Week recap — 9 December 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of Krita and Shotcut, new features in Siril, Blender, Olive
Week recap — 1 December 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew major releases of Blender, Font Manager, DrumGizmo, amSynth
Multi-week recap — 25 November 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of GIMP, Scribus, FontForge, Synfig, Tahoma2D, LibreDWG, Giada, Ardour
Week recap — 3 November 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineHighlights: 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 ProkoudineSo this is going to be an update that covers both recent and not so recent events.
Week recap — 18 August 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineLibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta
Week recap — 21 July 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineLibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta
Week recap — 13 July 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineFirst virtual reality code lands to Blender
Week recap — 24 March 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineFirst virtual reality code lands to Blender
Week recap — 9 March 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineHalf the free non-linear video editors got updates
Week recap — 2 March 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor 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 ProkoudineNew 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 ProkoudineNew 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 Prokoudinedarktable 3.0.0 release and beta release of MyPaint 2.0, major updates of Kdenlive and FlowBlade
Week recap — 10 December 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineOpenTimelineIO is getting a Kdenlive adapter
Week recap — 3 December 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew version of FluidSynth reads DLS samples and has new reverb engine
Week recap — 27 November 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita gets magnetic lasso
Week recap — 24 September 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape 1.0 beta is out with native macOS support
Week recap — 10 September 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineGIMP gets out-of-canvas pixels display
Week recap — 3 September 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita is getting support for PaintTool SAI files
Week recap — 28 August 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineCUPS switches to Apache 2.0 license with GPL exception
Week recap — 19 August 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of G'MIC, DJV, and Shotcut video editor
Week recap — 12 August 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineAmazing sculpting tools are coming to Blender 2.81
Week recap — 4 August 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineWeek 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 ProkoudineNew releses of AzPainter and RawTherapee are out.
Weekly-ish recap — 10 April 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineGIMP 2.10.10 released, Spring animated movie by Blender Studio hs been released
Weekly-ish recap — 25 March 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew releases of FontForge, Scribus, darktable, Qtractor, and Radium
Weekly-ish recap — 19 March 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineTechnical preview of Krita 4.2.0 with HDR displays support on Windows 10 is out
Weekly-ish recap — 11 March 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineTechnical preview of Krita 4.2.0 with HDR displays support on Windows 10 is out
Week recap — 25 February 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape is getting a new visual live path effects selector
Week recap — 18 February 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineGEGL is getting its own node compositing tool
Week recap — 4 February 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineIntel publishes open source projects for AV1 encoding and image denoising
Week recap — 28 January 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineFirst MyPaint 2.0 alpha release is out
Week recap — 21 January 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape team releases new version of the vector graphics editor
Week recap — 14 January 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineMyPaint gets better smudging and initial filmic support.
Winter break recap — 8 January 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineMuseScore 3.0 is out, Blender turns 25 years old.
Week recap — 23 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineManuel Bastioni Lab add-on for Blender gets a community fork
Week recap — 16 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlender's video sequencer gets a new maintainer
Week recap — 9 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNVidia publishes PhysX SDK physics engine as an open source project
Week recap — 2 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineHISE 2.0.0 lands to let anyone create sample-based virtual instruments
Week recap — 25 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineStalled development of Natron gets prime-time attention
Week recap — 18 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape starts exploring multithreaded canvas rendering
Week recap — 11 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineArmorPaint got unlimited undo support and better FBX importer
Week recap — 4 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew version of QGIS released with 3D and animation features
Week recap — 28 October 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineThe first official beta of Blender 2.80 is now just a few weeks away
Week recap — 21 October 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineKrita fundraiser is now successfully completed
Week recap — 14 October 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineMicrosoft is granting access to 60,000+ patents including type design ones
Week recap — 7 October 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew major releases of Valentina and G’MIC are available
Week recap — 30 September 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew 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 ProkoudineKrita team launches a new fundraiser