Weekly recap: new major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot, new features coming to @GIMP, @FreeCAD @OpenSCAD and @Ardour DAW
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Weekly recap — 3 August 2025
New major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot; new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, and Ardour
Belated weekly update: new releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, the Blender team starts working on an iPad port
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Weekly recap — 27 July 2025
New releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, the Blender team starts working on an iPad port
Week highlights: new @Blender 🔶, RapidRAW, Gradia, Sigil, and Hydrogen releases; new @darktable UI prototypes. TBH, there were four RapidRAW releases last week, all with new features. The developer says he uses AI for development. Do whatever you like with this information. I don't know anything anymore :) See here for the full post:
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Weekly recap — 20 July 2025
New Blender, RapidRAW, Gradia, Sigil, and Hydrogen releases; new darktable UI prototypes
On a separate note, picking artworks for the dedicated section of weeklies has become challenging. There isn't a ton of polished work to begin with (I look through hundreds every time), and then many artworks that look polished turn out to be AI-generated according to online tests. The worst part is that, at least for text, AI detection is unreliable. I recently tested one such service by feeding it content that was knowingly human-written, and got "75-92% AI-generated" in results.
(Double-) week highlights: new releases of @GIMP, @darktable, Cardinal by @npub1uzx2...06u5; new features in @FreeCAD and @FreeCAD
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Weekly recap — 29 June 2025
New releases of GIMP, darktable, and Cardinal; new features in FreeCAD and Ardour
Somewhat belatedly, week highlights: new release of RawTherapee, new features in @GIMP, new apps for screenshot annotation (Gradia) and film photography (Filmbook)
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Weekly recap — 8 June 2025
New release of RawTherapee, new GIMP features, and various new apps (Gradia, Filmbook)
Is any popcorn company traded publicly? I feel like I need to go all in. The ultimate journalist Landuke reads this response by freedesktop and comes to the conclusion that they have banned @npub13zyg...9t2d for asking the question about Enrico's closed MRs. Then he realizes he effed up and blames the freedesktop team for using "unclear wording"
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Switch to GTK3, they said. All HiDPI issues will be fixed, they said :) image
TheWaveWarden released a long-time-coming update of Odin 2, a free/libre virtual synth
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Odin 2 synth gets a UI revamp
The new version of the virtual synth ships with improved scaling and updated graphics
Week highlights: new releases of Sigil (EPUB editor), @npub178gs...eugr, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in @GIMP (text outline direction choice, option for theme-dependent brush previews) See here for details:
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Weekly recap — 25 May 2025
New releases of Sigil, PipeWire, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in GIMP.