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

I guess the recent Steinberg news needed some coverage after all, so here you are ;) librearts.org/2025/11/stei...

Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and RapidRAW; a quick first look at the AgX tonemapper in darktable; new features in Ardour librearts.org/2025/10/week...

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 librearts.org/2025/09/week...

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 librearts.org/2025/09/week...

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 librearts.org/2025/09/week...

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 librearts.org/2025/09/week...

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

Week highlights: new releases of RapidRaw, Gradia, @friction.graphics, and Handbrake; new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social librearts.org/2025/08/week...

Weekly recap: new major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot, new features coming to @gimpofficial.bsky.social, @freecad.org, @openscad.bsky.social, and Ardour librearts.org/2025/08/week...

Belated weekly update: new releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, the Blender team starts working on an iPad port librearts.org/2025/07/week...

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...

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 librearts.org/2025/07/week...

Week highlights: new digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour librearts.org/2025/07/week...

(Double-) week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, darktable, Cardinal; new features in @freecad.org and Ardour librearts.org/2025/06/week...

Week highlights: new releases of Audacity and Kdenlive, new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social, Inkscape, and Ardour librearts.org/2025/06/week...

Somewhat belatedly, week highlights: new release of RawTherapee, new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social, new apps for screenshot annotation (Gradia) and film photography (Filmbook) librearts.org/2025/06/week...

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...

TheWaveWarden released a long-time-coming update of Odin 2, a free/libre virtual synth librearts.org/2025/05/odin...

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...

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...

Week highlights: new version of Shotcut, CMYK PDF exporting has landed in Inkscape, Google Summer of Code 2025 has announced students/projects librearts.org/2025/05/week...

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 :) librearts.org/2025/05/gsoc...

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...

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...

Darkglass Electronics announced Anagram, a multi-FX processor for the bass. It runs embedded Linux, uses open-source neural modeling tech, and relies on an LV2 plugins host and some FOSS plugins librearts.org/2025/04/meet...

Week highlights: great new features coming to @gimpofficial.bsky.social, Inkscape, and Ardour in the works; new releases of @scribus.bsky.social and Bonsai BIM Check out the full post: librearts.org/2025/04/week... Featured #b3d artwork by Rene Gorecki

Inkscape is getting on-canvas controls for the text-on-path offset. Not even in a development branch yet, coming likely in v1.5/1.6

Week highlights: new releases of Pinta and Elektroid, @freecad.bsky.social Project Association announces new grants See here for details: librearts.org/2025/04/week... Featured #b3d art by Yota Tasaki

The Pinta team announced the v3.0 release yesterday. Here's a quick look at what’s changed and what still needs to change librearts.org/2025/04/pint...

Week highlights: @gimpofficial.bsky.social team started planning v3.2 development, new releases of Inkscape, jc303, Qtractor, and KnobKraft-orm See here for details: librearts.org/2025/04/week... Featured #b3d artwork by Shiro 2049

Multibody dynamics + FEM, former Ondsel project, lives on www.youtube.com/watch?v=kggy...

Week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, PhotoGIMP, Shotcut, Flowblade, and Calf LV2 plugins See here for more: librearts.org/2025/03/week... Featured #krita artwork by Philipp Urlich

Week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, @blender3d.bsky.social, PDF4QT, libwacom, and LosslessCut See here for details: librearts.org/2025/03/week... Featured #krita artwork by Sachin Chauhan

GIMP 3.0 is out, and while you are probably already aware of all the changes in the release, there's much more to discuss: what's coming next, what's up with its funding, and whether the name will ever change librearts.org/2025/03/gimp...

Week highlights: new versions of digiKam, @musescorestudio.bsky.social, and Audacity See here for details: librearts.org/2025/03/week... Featured #b3d art by Oleksandra Havrylina

Muse Group announced the release of @musescorestudio.bsky.social 4.5 featuring easy dynamics insertion, a brand-new percussion palette, and new engraving features. Here's a quick look at the new features librearts.org/2025/03/muse...

Week highlights: @blender3d.bsky.social made Flow gets an Oscar, @pipewire.org gets MIDI 2.0 support, @kdenlive.bsky.social is getting better OTIO support Read here for details: librearts.org/2025/03/week... Featured #b3d artwork by Nekozarou

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New version of ALSA Scarlett Control Panel aka "alsa-scarlett-gui" brings support for eight more 1st gen and 4th gen audio interfaces by Focusrite. librearts.org/2025/03/alsa...

Week highlights: CMYK image mode is WIP in @gimpofficial.bsky.social, new release of LSP plugins, great changes in Inkscape, @friction.graphics, and @freecad.bsky.social. More information: librearts.org/2025/03/week... Featured #b3d artwork by Lionel Schramm

Week recap: new releases of @tahoma2d.bsky.social, JupyterCAD, @kicad.org; first builds of Inkscape with CMYK-capable exporting are available; @freecad.bsky.social Project Association announces 2025 grant program. More info: librearts.org/2025/02/week... Featured #b3d artwork by Myan

Week highlights: new releases of GIMP, LittleCMS, HDRView, FLAC, and Faircamp; AstoCAD replaces Ondsel ES as a sexier soft fork of FreeCAD. See here for more info: librearts.org/2025/02/week... Featured #krita art by Rodrigo Alvarez

Week highlights: new release of Bonsai (ex-BlenderBIM) and GCodeWorkShop, PDF import/export improvements in Inkscape, GNOME is getting HDR support. See here for more: librearts.org/2025/02/week... Featured #krita artwork by Lidia Goryachewa

Week highlights: new releases of Scribus and @krita.org, a beta release of Pinta See here for more info: librearts.org/2025/02/week... Featured #krita artwork by Viktoria Holmqvist

Week highlights: new releases of Skyfill by @drsybren.bsky.social, Mayo, and Shotcut; great new features in Dune3D; the @freecad.bsky.social Project Association has part-time job openings. See here for more: librearts.org/2025/01/week... Featured #b3d artwork by RAINMAN PAGE

Some new features in Dune3D: constraint menu (press 'z'), live update of a constraint as you adjust the value. Not in a release yet #cad

Week highlights: new releases of Scribus and Qtractor; @gimpofficial.bsky.social 3.0rc3 is on the way; great new features coming to Inkscape; @graphiteeditor.bsky.social is kicking some serious ass See here for details: librearts.org/2025/01/week... Featured #b3d artwork by Josh Norman

Week highlights: new releases of HDRView, LibreCAD, and cabbage; new features in GIMP and Ardour; FreeCAD’s alternative Ribbon UI gets an update. See here for more: librearts.org/2025/01/week... Featured #b3d artwork by Ludvík Koutný