FreeCAD
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 — 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
GSoC 2023 projects have been announced
by Alexandre ProkoudineWhat's coming for GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, MuseScore
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 — 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 — 29 January 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMassive open-source releases from Autodesk and DNEG
Weekly-ish recap — 28 February 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineInkscape team to hire project coordinator, FreeCAD 0.20 coming soon
Weekly-ish recap — 26 January 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineSurge XT and ZynAddSubFX softsynths get much anticipated updates
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
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 — 11 March 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineTechnical preview of Krita 4.2.0 with HDR displays support on Windows 10 is out
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.