Olive

Weekly recap — 28 August 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

GIMP / Inkscape / FreeCAD / Kdenlive / Ardour / LSP plugins / Geonkick / Olive
Weekly recap — 3 July 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

GIMP / Krita / darktable / Blender / BlenderBIM / FreeCAD / LibreCAD / Flowblade / Olive / Kdenlive / Ardour
Weekly recap — 26 March 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Kdenlive is getting automatic generation of subtitles from audio

GIMP / Inkscape / FreeCAD / Topologic / Kdenlive / Olive / LSP
Weekly recap — 12 February 2023
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape gets improved PDF importing with layers and ICC profiles

Krita / Inkscape / CadQuery / Kdenlive / Olive / Ardour
2023 in preview
by Alexandre Prokoudine

What's coming this year across the entire stack of free software for creatives

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / darktable / Blender / Glaxnimate / Olive / Kdenlive / Audacity / Ardour / MuseScore
Weekly-ish recap — 9 November 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

GIMP / Krita / Shotcut / Olive / Ardour
Weekly-ish recap — 26 October 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Massive Ardour update, MuseScore 4 beta released

GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / Kdenlive / Olive / Ardour / MuseScore / Cardinal
Weekly-ish recap — 4 May 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

GIMP / Inkscape / OpenToonz / Zrythm / Ardour / LSP / Olive / Kdenlive
Weekly-ish recap — 7 February 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape 1.2 goes alpha, Weston gets essential color management support

Inkscape / Weston / Blender / BlenderBIM / Shotcut / Olive / Ossia / Ardour / PipeWire
Weekly-ish recap — 26 January 2022
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Surge XT and ZynAddSubFX softsynths get much anticipated updates

Scribus / Inkscape / digiKam / FreeCAD / Kdenlive / Olive / Surge / Audacity / Zrythm / Ardour
Week recap — 9 December 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Blender / Shotcut / GIMP / Siril / darktable / Krita / Olive
Week recap — 1 December 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Blender / Font Manager / DrumGizmo / GIMP / amSynth / Cascade / Krita / Olive
Multi-week recap — 25 November 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

Ardour / Blender / BlenderBIM / FontForge / FreeCAD / GIMP / Krita / Ladybug Tools / Olive / Scribus / Zrythm
Week recap — 18 August 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

LibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta

Inkscape / Krita / Siril / Kdenlive / Zrythm / Ardour / Olive / Blender / Kdenlive
Week recap — 13 July 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

First virtual reality code lands to Blender

GIMP / Krita / Natron / Dust3D / Olive / / Ardour /
Week recap — 24 March 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

First virtual reality code lands to Blender

darktable / FontForge / LuxCoreRender / LilyPond / Natron / Dust3D / Olive / Pitivi / Ardour / VCV Rack
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.

GIMP / Krita / Blender / MyPaint / MusE / Dust3D / Shotcut / Olive / enve
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.

ART / Synfig / OpenToonz / GIMP / Siril / Blender / enve / Olive / Shotcut / Krita
Week recap — 10 September 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GIMP gets out-of-canvas pixels display

Blender / GIMP / Krita / OpenShot / Olive / FreeCAD / LibreCAD
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.

GIMP / Krita / Blender / Scribus / MyPaint / Olive
Weekly-ish recap — 10 April 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

GIMP / Krita / MyPaint / Blender / ArmorPaint / FreeCAD / Kdenlive / Olive / Cinelerra GG
Weekly-ish recap — 25 March 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

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

FontForge / Scribus / darktable / Blender / ArmorPaint / FreeCAD / Olive / Flowblade / Openshot / Qtractor / 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

LGM / GMIC / Krita / Blender / Godot / Olive / Flowblade / VSE
Week recap — 25 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape is getting a new visual live path effects selector

GIMP / GEGL / Krita / MyPaint / Inkscape / Blender / Olive / Appleseed / Apertus / Ardour / VCV Rack
Week recap — 18 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GEGL is getting its own node compositing tool

GIMP / GEGL / Krita / MyPaint / Synfig / Blender / Olive / Pitivi / Shotcut / Flowblade
Introducing Olive, new non-linear video editor
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Why this new free/libre video editor is a big deal

Olive / video editors