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24/01/2024

Ondsel ES 2024.1 is out. It's a fork of FreeCAD with extras, all available under the same license (LGPLv2+): tech preview of integrated assembly workbench, massive Sketcher improvements, various smaller UX/UI improvements, and collaboration tools.

We are happy to announce the release of Ondsel Engineering Suite 2024.1, our integrated solution for collaboration on 3D CAD designs.

27/11/2023

The GIMP team recently announced that they are targeting early May 2024 for the v3.0 release. While there's still ~5 months to go, this is going to be really tough for multiple reasons. This video deals with that topic.

08/11/2023

In 2019, a project named Glimpse NX tried to reimagine GIMP's user interface with newer GTK3 technology like headerbars. Forward 4 years, Dune 3D, a new, barely functional 3D CAD application, is providing the missing part that made that redesign unrealistic.

Extended transcript of the post is available here: https://librearts.org/2023/11/radical-redesign-of-gimp/

07/11/2023

New weekly recap is out in video and text. Highlights: new versions of BlenderBIM, Audacity, SpectMorph, improvements in support for DDS and DICOM images in GIMP

22/10/2023

Weekly recap: new releases of OSPRay, LightZone, and Ardour,
Inkscape and Audacity updates are coming, more progress with the new materials system in FreeCAD.

New releases of OSPRay and Ardour, the FPA is surveying FreeCAD educators

03/09/2023

Week recap: cool new features coming to Inkscape, FreeCAD, and Ardour, new releases of libwacom and BlenderBIM.

Major BlenderBIM update, exciting changes in Inkscape, FreeCAD, and Ardour

28/08/2023

Weekly recap: new releases of Kdenlive, LSP plugins, Geonkick, Sigil, great new features in GIMP and Ardour, a new materials system is coming to FreeCAD, there's some rather depressing news about Olive (not exactly news though).

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

21/08/2023

Here's what's up with FOSS lately: new releases of Qucs-S, Bespoke Synth (missed that one in July!), and VCV Rack, progress with autoexpanding layers in GIMP and with CMYK PDF exporting in Inkscape, various exciting changes in Ardour, UI improvements in FreeCAD.

Inkscape + CMYK PDF = ❤️, FreeCAD has updated start screen, VCV Rack 2.4.0 is out

10/07/2023

Last week recap: new releases of GIMP, Godot Engine, Armory3D, and libjpeg-turbo, fancy new features in Ardour, an update on Inkscape v1.3 release status

New releases of GIMP, Godot and Armory3D, Ardour gets freehand automation drawing

03/07/2023

New recap is out after a sabbatical. Highlights: new releases of
Darktable, Blender, BlenderBIM, Flowblade, Ardourd, new features coming to Krita, and FreeCAD, surprise activity in LibreCAD.

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

28/05/2023

Weekly recap: Blender Studio announces their next open movie project, Intel Open Image Denoise 2.0 is out with major improvements, Krita and Ardour are getting new features

Major update of Intel's image denoiser, new open movie by Blender Studio coming

21/05/2023

Week highlights: Blender3D 3.6 beta is out, Krita gets MLT-based animation player, MLT Multimedia Framework gets more 10-bit video support, VGC Software Illustration gets UI update and new tools, DrMr sampler gets a new life in a fork

Blender 3.6 beta is out, VGC Illustration gets new tools

14/05/2023

Week recap: further steps towards non-destructive editing in GIMP new features coming to Krita Foundation, new releases of OpenToonz and PlugData.

Further steps towards non-destructive editing in GIMP, new OpenToonz release

07/05/2023

Week highlights: Google Summer of Code 2023 projects announced, new releases of DreamWorks Animation MoonRay, BlenderBIM, dav1d, new features in Ardour, FreeCAD wrapping up for the 0.21 release

GSoC 2023 projects announced, MoonRay and BlenderBIM get updates

06/05/2023

Google Summer of Code 2023 projects have been announced, let's see what this year's internship program is bringing to GIMP, Krita Foundation, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, IfcOpenShell and BlenderBIM, Openscad, Pitivi, and MuseScore!

What's coming for GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, MuseScore

30/04/2023

Weekly recap is out! Highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, Ardour, Audacity, Brickworks, Dragonfly Reverb, new features in GIMP, Krita Foundation, FreeCAD, Mayo

Kdenlive 23.04 gets nested sequences, Audacity 3.3.0 introduces musical time

25/04/2023

Audacity 3.3.0 released with musical time ruler, global BPM setting, and snapping to musical time (all beta features). Also: new vertical "Linear (dB)" ruler, more realtime-capable built-in effects, new Shelf filter, FFmpeg 6 support, and more changes

Musical time ruler makes the entrance

24/04/2023

Kdenlive 23.04 is out! Highlights: nested sequences, optional Whisper engine for automatic subtitles generation, new timer effect, new transitions, and more

Kdenlive 23.04.0 released by Farid Abdelnour | Apr 24, 2023 | News, Releases, Uncategorized | 0 comments We are excited to announce the availability of the latest Kdenlive 23.04.0 version. This is a very special milestone for us as this marks the first release since the start of our successful fundr...

23/04/2023

Week highlights: new releases of BeeRef’s fork, Armory3D, and topologicpy, new features in GIMP and FreeCAD, Inkscape is looking for an experienced GTK4 developer

BeeRef resurrected in a fork, Inkscape looking for a full-time GTK4 developer

16/04/2023

Week highlights: new versions of Curtail, Pitivi, and Zrythm, new features in GIMP, UX/UI updates in FreeCAD, updates of some Krita and Blender add-ons.

Curtail gets SVG compression, Pitivi gets back clips alignment

09/04/2023

It's a short weekly recap this time: OpenShot Video Editor 3.1.0 release, new features in GIMP and Krita Foundation, registration now open for Sonoj Convention in October in Cologne (Germany)

OpenShot 3.1.0 released, new features in GIMP and Krita

02/04/2023

Week highlights: new releases of Blender, QCAD, Qtractor, first pre-release of Inkscape 1.3, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, Ardour.

Blender 3.5 released with new hair system and GPU-side compositing

26/03/2023

Week highlights: new releases of topologicpy and LSP plugins, improvements in GIMP, Inkscape, FreeCAD, Olive, automatic generation of subtitles from audio is coming to Kdenlive

Kdenlive is getting automatic generation of subtitles from audio

19/03/2023

New week recap is out: MoonRay source code release by DreamWorks Animation, new beta and final releases of Siril, HDRView, MFEKglif typeface editor, QGIS, toponaming fix starts landing to FreeCAD

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay, FreeCAD team starts merging toponaming fixes

12/03/2023

New weekly recap is out. Highlights: new features in GIMP and HDRview, new releases of Armory 3D, VCV, and plugdata

New releases of VCV Rack and plugdata, GIMP is getting on-canvas equidistant distribution

05/03/2023

Weekly recap is out! Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and Godot Engine, new features in Krita Foundation and Inkscape, recent resurrection of IndigoUI for Scribus

New releases of GIMP and Godot, new features in Krita and Inkscape

26/02/2023

Weekly recap is out, with less software news and more artworks :) Even so: new experimental blend modes for Krita Foundation, new Blender3D release schedule, new release of Zrythm, new AVL drumkit

New experimental blending modes in Krita, Blender changes release schedule

19/02/2023

Highlights of the week: text layout revamp landed to Krita Foundation, new releases of Ardour, Yoshimi, KiCad, Glaxnimate, CAD Sketcher for Blender.

New releases of KiCad, CAD Sketcher, Glaxnimate, and Ardour

12/02/2023

Weekly recap is out! Highlights: new version of CadQuery, new features coming to Krita Foundation, Inkscape, Kdenlive, and Olive. As usual, all sorts of tutorials and new artwork made with free/libre tools.

Inkscape gets improved PDF importing with layers and ICC profiles

05/02/2023

Weekly recap is out! Highlights: new features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, Ardour, new painting application Our Paint (with nodes for brushes!)

New features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour