FreeCAD
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
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 — 21 July 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineLibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta
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 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 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 — 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 — 7 October 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew major releases of Valentina and G’MIC are available
LibreDWG revived, starts getting regular releases
by Alexandre ProkoudineIn an unimaginable turn of events, LibreDWG, the free/libre library for opening proprietary CAD files in the DWG file format, is becoming a stellar example of a FOSS project.
2018 in perspective
by Alexandre ProkoudineLet's see what this year is bringing us
FreeCAD 0.15 released, team explores community funding
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew version of FreeCAD features a great variety of improvements in many workbenches, as well as fancy new things like Occulus Rift support.
FreeCAD 0.13 released with better drafting, arch, and part design tools
by Alexandre ProkoudineThe FreeCAD team continues getting rid of the myth that there can be no usable open source CAD software. The newly released v0.13 includes massive improvements in almost every workbench.
LibreDWG drama: the end or the new beginning?
by Alexandre ProkoudineThere's a can of worms we opened this year: the unfortunate situation with support for DWG files in free CAD software via LibreDWG. We feel, by now it ought to be closed. We have the final answer from FSF.
LibreDWG controversy: 2 months later
by Alexandre ProkoudineIn late January we posted an in-depth story that explained the lack of support for DWG files in free/open source CAD software. Now it's time for an update.
What’s up with DWG adoption in free software?
by Alexandre ProkoudineHaving been asked recently about reasons for lack of DWG support in free software, we started digging and very nearly fell into a pitch black abyss.