Libre Arts

New version of the @friction.graphics animation editor is out with transform gizmos, snapping, and grids (among major new features)

Release notes: friction.graphics/releases/fri...

Here is a quick demo of gizmos

VST3 becomes open-source, ASIO goes GPL-compatible Let's talk about what VST3 and ASIO relicensing by Steinberg really mean

I guess the recent Steinberg news needed some coverage after all, so here you are ;)

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Weekly recap — 12 October 2025 New releases of GIMP and RapidRAW, new features in darktable and Ardour

Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and RapidRAW; a quick first look at the AgX tonemapper in darktable; new features in Ardour

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Weekly recap — 28 September 2025 New releases of Krita, RapidRAW, and Gradia; MIDI strumming in Ardour

The week recap is really brief this time: @krita.org got a bugfix release, RapidRAW and Gradia got releases with new features; Ardour got very basic MIDI note strumming

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Weekly recap — 21 September 2025 Ton Roosendaal is stepping down as executive director of Blender Foundation

Week highlights: @gimpofficial.bsky.social is getting an SVG exporter; Ton Roosendaal is stepping down as executive director of @blender3d.bsky.social Foundation; @kdenlive.bsky.social is planning exciting new features; @freecad.org is launching a bug hunt for v1.1

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Weekly recap — 14 September 2025 Mew releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; Blender gets new major sponsor

Weekly recap: new releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; @gimpofficial.bsky.social is getting SVG exporting and in-app notifications, @krita.org is getting color management support on Wayland, @blender3d.bsky.social just got another major corporate sponsor

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Weekly recap — 7 September 2025 New releases of OurPaint and LSP plugins; new features in Inkscape and FreeCAD

Week highlights: new releases of ShineStacker, Mixxx, and LSP plugins; new version of OurPaint has pigment canvas and spectral blending, @inkscape.org is getting artwork recoloring, and @freecad.org just got on-view gizmos for PartDesign commands such as Pad and Fillet

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Weekly recap — 31 August 2025 Wacom brings €240K/year to Blender Foundation, GIMP gets vector and link layers

Back to recaps after a summer break. What’s new recently: Wacom upgrades its @blender3d.bsky.social support; new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, RapidRAW, @kdenlive.bsky.social, and Shotcut; new features in @inkscape.org and Ardour

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/08/week...

Quick test of newly added AI sky masks in RapidRAW: works, but not amazing. Doesn't handle well mountain ridges, as well as bits of sky between tree branches and leaves

Weekly recap — 10 August 2025 New releases of RapidRaw, Gradia, Friction, and Handbrake; new features in GIMP

Week highlights: new releases of RapidRaw, Gradia, @friction.graphics, and Handbrake; new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social

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Weekly recap — 3 August 2025 New major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot; new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, and Ardour

Weekly recap: new major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot, new features coming to @gimpofficial.bsky.social, @freecad.org, @openscad.bsky.social, and Ardour

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Weekly recap — 27 July 2025 New releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, Blender team starts working on an iPad port

Belated weekly update: new releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, the Blender team starts working on an iPad port

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Weekly recap — 20 July 2025 New Blender, RapidRAW, Gradia, Sigil, and Hydrogen releases; new darktable UI prototypes

Week highlights: new Blender, RapidRAW, Gradia, Sigil, and Hydrogen releases; new darktable UI prototypes. There were, in fact, four releases of RapidRAW, all with new features, this past week

See here for the full post: librearts.org/2025/07/week...

Weekly recap — 13 July 2025 New releases of Krita, Bonsai, OBS Studio, and Kdenlive; new features in GIMP and Ardour

Week highlights: new releases of @krita.org, Bonsai, OBS Studio, and @kdenlive.bsky.social; @gimpofficial.bsky.social is getting support for Sketchbook's TIFF extensions, FontForge is being ported to HarfBuzz, and Ardour is getting further automation improvements

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I don't have the icon for it :)

Weekly recap — 6 July 2025 New digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour

Week highlights: new digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour

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Weekly recap — 29 June 2025 New releases of GIMP, darktable, and Cardinal; new features in FreeCAD and Ardour

(Double-) week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, darktable, Cardinal; new features in @freecad.org and Ardour

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Weekly recap — 15 June 2025 New release of Audacity and Kdenlive, new features in GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour.

Week highlights: new releases of Audacity and Kdenlive, new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social, Inkscape, and Ardour

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Weekly recap — 8 June 2025 New release of RawTherapee, new GIMP features, and various new apps (Gradia, Filmbook)

Somewhat belatedly, week highlights: new release of RawTherapee, new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social, new apps for screenshot annotation (Gradia) and film photography (Filmbook)

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Weekly recap — 1 June 2025 New features in GIMP, new versions of PDF Arranger, Odin 2, and Tumult; new VAMP plugins.

Week highlights: new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social, new versions of PDF Arranger, Odin 2, and Tumult; new VAMP plugins by @chriscannam.bsky.social

Read here for more information: librearts.org/2025/06/week...

Odin 2 synth gets a UI revamp The new version of the virtual synth ships with improved scaling and updated graphics

TheWaveWarden released a long-time-coming update of Odin 2, a free/libre virtual synth

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Yay, that's great to know!

Weekly recap — 25 May 2025 New releases of Sigil, PipeWire, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in GIMP.

Week highlights: new releases of Sigil (EPUB editor), @pipewire.org, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social (text outline direction choice, options for theme-dependent brush previews)

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/05/week...

It's unfortunate that there are .deb packages available only for now

Weekly recap — 18 May 2025 New releases of GIMP, Inkscape and FreeCAD; Plasma is getting an HDR calibration wizard

Week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, @inkscape, and @freecad.bsky.social; 3rd-party GIMP2 plugins are getting ported to GIMP3; @kde.org Plasma is getting an HDR calibration wizard

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/05/week...

Let's call it... the Quit Sibelius option

Weekly recap — 11 May 2025 New version of Shotcut; CMYK PDF in Inkscape; GSoC2025 announces students/projects

Week highlights: new version of Shotcut, CMYK PDF exporting has landed in Inkscape, Google Summer of Code 2025 has announced students/projects

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Google Summer of Code 2025 projects announced Here is what students around the world will be contributing to GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, and other projects

Wondering what interesting projects @gimpofficial.bsky.social, Inkscape, @blender3d.bsky.social, @freecad.bsky.social, and others got this year for Google Summer of Code? I went ahead and made a complete list so you don't have to :)

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Weekly recap — 4 May 2025 New releases of Kdenlive, Mixxx, and Giada; new features in GIMP and FreeCAD.

Week recap: new releases of Kdenlive, Mixxx, and Giada; new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social and @freecad.bsky.social

See here for more: librearts.org/2025/05/week...

Weekly recap — 27 April 2025 New releases of Helio sequencer and ZLEqualizer, new features in GIMP and FreeCAD

Week highlights: new releases of Helio sequencer and ZLEqualizer, new features coming to @gimpofficial.bsky.social and @freecad.bsky.social, Darkglass Electronics releases a Linux-powered multi-effects processor for the bass

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/04/week...