LibreCAD
Weekly recap — 3 July 2023
by Alexandre ProkoudineMajor releases of darktable and Blender, Ardour gets tempo mapping to performance
Weekly recap — 18 December 2022
by Alexandre ProkoudineMuseScore 4.0 is out, and so are... oh, so many more releases
Week recap — 21 July 2020
by Alexandre ProkoudineLibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta
Week recap — 10 September 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineGIMP gets out-of-canvas pixels display
Week recap — 25 November 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineStalled development of Natron gets prime-time attention
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.
LibreCAD gets native DWG importer, needs community’s help
by Alexandre ProkoudineLibreCAD team started working on their own DWG importer.
LibreCAD vs. QCAD, the war of forks that never happened
by Alexandre ProkoudineAndrew Mustun of Ribbonsoft says he's likely to postpone the release of QCAD Community Edition. The reason? LibreCAD.
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.
LibreCAD 1.0.0 released, v2 in works
by Alexandre ProkoudineAfter over a year of work LibreCAD 1.0.0 is out with few user visible, yet a whole bunch of important internal changes.
CADuntu is renamed to LibreCAD, gets Ubuntu PPA
by Alexandre ProkoudineAfter few weeks of running a poll Ries van Twisk renamed CADuntu to LibreCAD.
CADuntu beta4 released
by Alexandre ProkoudineWe should have reported fourth beta of CADuntu about a week ago, especially since some of the fixes are rather important.
CADuntu beta3 released
by Alexandre ProkoudineAdmittedly we are a couple of days late with this news, but the third beta of CADuntu, a forced QCad fork by Ries van Twisk, is out with several improvements.
CADuntu project has been started
by Alexandre ProkoudineNo, it's isn't an Ubuntu flavour for computer-aided drafting. It's a fork of a well-known community edition of QCAD. And thus the month of CAD on Linux continues.
