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03 Aug '26 13:59 Push Hack, very unauthorized access to Push 3’s display, files, MIDI, and more If you don’t like unauthorized hacking, this isn’t for you. If you don’t like things built with AI-assisted coding agents, this isn’t for you. But if you’re up for a very unofficial hack that gives you full takeover access to Push 3’s display, drives, MIDI, and more, Federico Pepe has just unveiled Push Hack. Here’s […] The post Push Hack, very unauthorized access to Push 3’s display, files, MIDI, and more appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

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22 Jul '26 14:36 Digital Arabic Maqām Archive and open-source MIDI plug-in now available Khyam Allami presented his long-term research project in Beirut yesterday, and it's an exciting one. Hundreds of tuning systems, ajnās, and maqāmāt are now in a free, open archive, and there's a free MIDI plug-in that lets you apply tunings (and tweak them by ear) across all major software tuning formats. The post Digital Arabic Maqām Archive and open-source MIDI plug-in now available appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

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15 Jul '26 18:56 Ableton Live and Push can now run on Linux, unofficially Finally, proof that there's life for Live after Apple and Microsoft. It's unofficial and totally unsupported, but a set of patches for the free Wine compatibility environment lets you run Ableton Live 12, Max for Live, and Push 2 and Push 3 on Linux. And the result is just about indistinguishable from native support. The post Ableton Live and Push can now run on Linux, unofficially appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Ubuntu Studio

09 Jul '26 23:59 Ubuntu Studio 25.10 has reached End-Of-Life (EOL) As of July 9, 2026, all flavors of Ubuntu 25.10, including Ubuntu Studio 25.10, codenamed “Questing Quokka”, have reached end-of-life (EOL). There will be no more updates of any kind, including security updates, for this release of Ubuntu. If you have not already done so, please upgrade to Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS via the instructions provided here. If you do not do so as soon as possible, you will lose the ability without additional advanced configuration. No single release of any operating system can be supported indefinitely, and Ubuntu Studio has no exception to this rule. Interim Ubuntu...

Drobilla

08 Jul '26 17:38 Running buildah in forgejo-runner I've been trying to get buildah working in forgejo-runner for building container images on CI, and it's been a frustrating process. There are some posts around the web about this, but nothing that sums up a working solution that doesn't simply disable all security measures. I eventually pieced it together with a lot of trial and error, so here's a summary to hopefully save somebody else (or me in the future) several days of pain. The basic situation is that docker build requires a running docker daemon, either by sharing the host docker socket, which is a gaping security hole, or docker-in...

CDM: linux

06 Jul '26 13:14 Audio Damage ShinRonin, now free, is a throwback to 2003 plug-in design You wake up. It’s the year 2003. Some upstart software developer called Audio Damage wants to let you patch a combo filter-delay however you like, including ways that will break your ears. Ronin is reborn as ShinRonin, from a time when software developers let you run with scissors and do strange things. This is one […] The post Audio Damage ShinRonin, now free, is a throwback to 2003 plug-in design appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

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11 Jun '26 23:31 MDA.lv2 1.2.12 MDA.lv2 1.2.12 has been released. This is a port of the MDA VST plugins to LV2. Changes: Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Fix build with MSVC 2022 Fix strict aliasing violation Fix use of uninitialized values in TalkBox Improve const-correctness Remove development symbols from modules by default Use a deterministic and more uniform RNG

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11 Jun '26 23:18 Jalv 1.10.0 Jalv 1.10.0 has been released. Jalv (JAck LV2) is a simple host for LV2 plugins. It runs a plugin, and exposes the plugin ports to the system, essentially making the plugin an application. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/jalv. Changes: Add block length command-line parameter for PortAudio Fix PortAudio backend Fix crash with plugins that have non-event inputs Fix stale parameter descriptions in man pages Fully implement fixedBlockLength and powerOf2BlockLength Gracefully handle failure to open audio backend in Gtk interface Update meson fallback subproject wrap files

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11 Jun '26 22:52 Zix 0.8.2 Zix 0.8.2 has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures. Changes: Fix build with configure checks disabled Fix handling of invalid ring size parameters Fix potential out of bounds access on error

CDM: linux

09 Jun '26 11:54 Unfiltered Audio Battalion drum synth, FX in VCV Rack are a revelation At attention! Unfiltered Audio has taken their deep drum synth and favorite effects and remade them as VCV Rack modules. This is instabuy territory ($10-20 a la carte or an intro pricing of $30 for the set, compatible with the free Rack). The post Unfiltered Audio Battalion drum synth, FX in VCV Rack are a revelation appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Drobilla

09 Jun '26 03:50 Jalv 1.8.2 Jalv 1.8.2 has been released. Jalv (JAck LV2) is a simple host for LV2 plugins. It runs a plugin, and exposes the plugin ports to the system, essentially making the plugin an application. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/jalv. Changes: Add log window to Gtk interface Add separate menu item for saving current preset Clean up on exit from console interface Disable delete preset action for non-writable presets Fix control output refresh rate Fix port controls Fix state scratch directory location Fix updating message-based parameters when loading presets Improve command...

Drobilla

09 Jun '26 02:25 Lilv 0.28.0 Lilv 0.28.0 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes: Add early assertions for non-null parameters in public API Add lilv_state_get_bundle_path() Always create state files with O_CLOEXEC on glibc >= 2.7 Clarify relative symbolic link creation when saving state Fix build with dynmanifest support Fix crash when loading plugin classes on Windows Fix potential file loss when saving state with no link directory Fix potential iterator leaks and resulting log message flood Fix replacing links when saving over state Fix test...

Drobilla

09 Jun '26 01:08 Serd 0.32.10 Serd 0.32.10 has been released. Serd is a lightweight C library for working with RDF data. Changes: Address new warnings in clang-tidy 22 Fix writing quotes at the end of long literals

CDM: linux

01 Jun '26 14:04 Unreal Engine 5.8 is a major audio release, despite Epic staffing cuts Epic layoffs in March cut deep into the audio and music teams. But there's hope that their work will live on in Unreal Engine and MetaSounds, via what is arguably the most innovative sound work built into any game engine. Unreal Engine 5.8, now in preview, features a bunch of powerful tools for working with sound, one of the biggest sound releases yet. Here's a look at what's in that roadmap. The post Unreal Engine 5.8 is a major audio release, despite Epic staffing cuts appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Timj's Testbit

23 May '26 16:48 Are Local LLMs Ready for Production? In 2018 I recreated this blog with an SSG (Static Site Generator) in Python based on pandoc (asciidoctor for older pages), git timestamps and Jinja2 templates. Even though it cached pandoc invocations, building still took too long for my taste and lately I didn’t really feel at ease with modifying…

Libre Arts

20 May '26 00:00 ALSA Scarlett GUI 1.0beta9 Geoffrey D. Bennett has just released a major update of ALSA Scarlett GUI, a control program for Focusrite’s Scarlett, Clarett, and Vocaster audio interfaces. DSP control For Vocaster One and Two, Geoffrey added controls for the built-in DSP that includes a pre-compressor filter, a compressor, and a parametric EQ. The controls on the pre-compressor filter and parametric EQ graphs are interactive: you can pick handles and move them around (Q can only be edited numerically though, it seems). You can also choose between 12 filter types: Configuration This is another new window where you can...

Drobilla

15 May '26 21:56 lv2plug.in outage Some irresponsible and/or malicious crawlers brought down lv2plug.in this week. To avoid this happening again, I've removed lv2plug.in/git entirely, since it was the only dynamic thing at that domain. There used to be a cgit interface to the repositories there, but I doubt anyone will miss this anyway. Everything else should now be back up and working as before.

Ubuntu Studio

10 May '26 02:25 Ubuntu Studio’s New Home: What’s Changing and Why Ubuntu Studio’s web presence has been spread across several Canonical-hosted systems for a long time: the main website on an old Canonical web server, the Ubuntu Community Help Wiki at help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio, and the Ubuntu Developer Wiki at wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio. Those platforms served their purpose, but each had become a poor fit for how the project actually works today. What’s Moving The main Ubuntu Studio website has already moved away from Canonical hosting and onto its current home. That move was driven by necessity: Canonical shut down the old web server that had...

CDM: linux

06 May '26 11:23 QuadTrack is a new groovebox for the Amiga (really), plus PC and Mac It's the biggest Commodore Amiga news of the week: Pink Parrot Studio is launching a new "Dynamic Performance Sequencer" with powerful modulation and Trig Tools option, built for jamming right on the computer keyboard. And there's a music album to match. But don't worry: if you have one of those inferior PC or Macintosh machines, you can still get in on the fun with an emulator, no installation or setup required. The post QuadTrack is a new groovebox for the Amiga (really), plus PC and Mac appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

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03 May '26 15:16 Link Audio, now in Max, Pd, VCV Rack, TouchDesigner, oF, and plug-ins, free Ableton Live 12.4 is inbound, with Link Audio support coming to Live, Move, Note, and Push. But Live Audio can also be about routing audio over a network to other hosts, too. Julien Bayle (VOID) has an early, open-source implementation. If you're ready to start experimenting even while this API is still in alpha, you've got a wide variety of sound and visual tools to try, all for free. The post Link Audio, now in Max, Pd, VCV Rack, TouchDesigner, oF, and plug-ins, free appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

01 May '26 00:00 GSoC2026: what to expect Google has just published the list of students accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2026 program. Some of the teams usually participating are off this year: Krita and Inkscape are temporarily out of mentors. Let’s take a look at the rest of them. GIMP Akascape will completely revamp the keyboard shortcuts configuration dialog and add support for importing and exporting presets, as well as support for multiple shortcuts per action. blezecon will work on creating an automated infrastructure for validating, publishing, and distributing GIMP extensions. v4vansh will update GIMP’s text engine to...

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24 Apr '26 00:00 GIMP at LGM2026 Yesterday at LGM2026, GIMP’s maintainer Jehan Pagès gave a talk about GIMP as a community project and made several interesting announcements. This post is going to be quite a bit critical, so before I proceed, here is the obligatory disclaimer: I used to be a GIMP contributor, significantly decreased my participation in late 2021, and officially bowed out in late 2022. I’m omitting a lot of things I found less interesting to discuss. You can watch the whole thing here and make your own judgments. Past organization attempts During the talk, Jehan mentioned that the project first considered...

Ubuntu Studio

23 Apr '26 17:23 Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS Released The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS, code-named “Resolute Raccoon.” This marks Ubuntu Studio’s 38th release. This Long-Term Support (LTS) release is supported for 3 years, through April 2029. An Ubuntu Studio LTS arrives once every two years. This is more than a routine update: it is a long-horizon milestone for creators, educators, studios, and production systems that prioritize dependability. This release reflects months of development, packaging, design, testing, and community feedback, all focused on making Ubuntu Studio production-ready from first boot...

CDM: linux

21 Apr '26 11:47 Zebra 3 is here, a sprawling semi-modular plug-in that runs deep What if an integrated plug-in instrument could rival even full-blown modulars? That’s the question posed by u-he’s Zebra 3, out now at long last for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It’s unlikely any other soft synth takes on just this much synthesis territory, or with this much depth. From spline-based morphing oscillators to physical modeling and […] The post Zebra 3 is here, a sprawling semi-modular plug-in that runs deep appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

16 Apr '26 16:42 Devious Pocket: standalone, simple digital vinyl from any turntable Skip the laptops and loads of proprietary hardware with an ultra-simple, portable, affordable add-on that turns any turntable into a digital vinyl turntable. That's the pitch from NAP Works for crowdfunded, compact hardware built on open-source tech. It might do more than just impress digital vinyl DJs: this has the potential to win over even the CDJ crowd. The post Devious Pocket: standalone, simple digital vinyl from any turntable appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

13 Apr '26 18:56 Liquid and hypnotic, Sinevibes’ Duality is a different breed of vibrato By separating frequency spectrum emphasis from phase modulation, the “hybrid vibrato” Duality can create unique, clean, stereo-spinning pitch modulation. It’s one of Sinevibes’ most nuanced — but also most compelling — effects. I’ve been working with prerelease builds up to the final build — including watching the UI take shape! It’s really not so necessary […] The post Liquid and hypnotic, Sinevibes’ Duality is a different breed of vibrato appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

13 Apr '26 00:00 Meet Open Apollo, UAD Apollo drivers for Linux Rolando Trevino recently started working on Open Apollo, Linux drivers for Universal Audio’s Thunderbolt and USB audio interfaces. Initial support is now done and available for testing. Apollo x4 and Apollo Solo USB are currently marked as verified to work, but Morten Mosgaard tested his Apollo Twin X and Apollo 8P, and both of them work as well. That makes the “Thunderbolt 2 Devices (Not Supported)” status in README at least partially obsolete. Here is what you should expect to work at the moment: Capture and playback, also on PipeWire All sample rates supported Preamp and monitor control DSP...

CDM: linux

03 Apr '26 17:07 OpenShot 3.5: faster, more stable, more creative open-source video editor OpenShot, the free and open-source video editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux, got a major update in March with version 3.5. It runs faster, handles edits and audio better -- 18 years into this project, OpenShot is looking like something pretty much everyone ought to at least try. And that's especially true if you're experimenting with AI or cloud-based video instances. The post OpenShot 3.5: faster, more stable, more creative open-source video editor appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Ubuntu Studio

26 Mar '26 23:45 Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS Beta Released The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”. While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper installer bugs, you will find some bugs within. This image is, however, mostly representative of what you will find when Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS is released on April 17, 2026. As an LTS release, Ubuntu Studio 26.04 will be supported for 3 years until April 2029. We encourage everyone to try this image and report bugs to improve our final release. Special Notes The Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS disk image (ISO) exceeds 4 GB and...

Timj's Testbit

26 Mar '26 20:35 Imagewmark 0.6.0 Release What Is Imagewmark? How do you embed a secret message into an image that survives cropping, scaling, and compression without needing the original source to decode it? Imagewmark is a Free Software tool that does exactly this. It embeds encrypted invisible digital watermarks (128 bits) into images…

Timj's Testbit

25 Mar '26 01:39 JJ-FZF 0.38.0 Release What Is jj-fzf? The Jujutsu VCS has flexible expressions for specifying revision sets and allows non-linear editing of (ancestry) commits. jj-fzf is an interactive TUI that turns the jj log output into a fast keyboard driven control panel. Based on fzf, it allows live revset editing, instant diff…

Libre Arts

03 Mar '26 00:00 Meet oscmix, RME Fireface control app oscmix is a relatively new free/libre control program for RME Fireface audio interfaces. It’s both a desktop application (GTK3) and a web app with the same functionality. Most vendors of audio hardware either don’t bother with Linux support or, in some cases, provide gear and guidance to FOSS developers. I don’t really know which camp RME is in these days, but oscmix seems to be getting there as a free/libre replacement for RME TotalMix FX. The project was originally developed by Michael Forney. huddx01 picked up where Michael left off last year and started writing missing code and improving...

Libre Arts

23 Feb '26 00:00 Elektroid 3.3 released David García Goñi released a new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation devices. Device support Elektroid 3.3 adds support for several devices: KORG Volca Sample; Korg Volca Sample 2; KORG padKONTROL. It also brings support for Elektron Digitakt (OG) track filesystem with optional timestreching in the track-loop filesystem and Digitakt II sample-stereo filesystem. The Volca Sample support is possible thanks to general non-MIDI device support, which means more (especially old) devices can be supported in the future. Tags for...

Drobilla

11 Feb '26 00:50 Suil 0.10.26 Suil 0.10.26 has been released. Suil is a library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. It provides wrappers that allow Gtk and Qt hosts to load, and potentially embed, plugin GUIs that use the "native" windowing API (Coca, WIN32, or X11). Changes: Add clang nullability annotations Address new warnings in clang and clang-tidy 21 Fix documentation build without sphinx_lv2_theme

Drobilla

10 Feb '26 23:47 Lilv 0.26.4 Lilv 0.26.4 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes: Add clang nullability annotations Address new warnings in clang and clang-tidy 21 Fix default LV2 path on cross-compiled Windows builds Fix loading of duplicate bundles with equivalent versions Fix potential crash when UIs have multiple types or binaries Use consistent quoting and punctuation in log messages

Drobilla

10 Feb '26 23:45 Sratom 0.6.22 Sratom 0.6.22 has been released. Sratom is a small library for serializing LV2 atoms. Sratom reads/writes atoms from/to RDF, allowing them to be converted between binary and text or stored in a model. Changes: Add clang nullability annotations Address new warnings in clang and clang-tidy 21 Fix documentation build without sphinx_lv2_theme Gracefully handle reading vectors with missing childType properties Gracefully handle writing vectors with zero childSize properties Improve error handling

Drobilla

10 Feb '26 23:43 Sord 0.16.22 Sord 0.16.22 has been released. Sord is a lightweight C library for storing RDF statements in memory. Changes: Add clang nullability annotations Address new warnings in clang and clang-tidy 21 Make more API functions tolerate NULL

Drobilla

10 Feb '26 23:02 Serd 0.32.8 Serd 0.32.8 has been released. Serd is a lightweight C library for working with RDF data. Changes: Avoid use of snprintf() when writing Fix unbounded reader stack growth when reading NQuads Improve reader error handling Relax nullability of SerdNode buffer field Release reader stack memory on read error Strengthen handling of corrupt UTF-8 input Support writing all escapes in Turtle and TriG prefixed names

Ubuntu Studio

16 Jan '26 16:22 Ubuntu Studio 25.04 Has Reached End-Of-Life (EOL) As of January 15, 2025, all flavors of Ubuntu 25.04, including Ubuntu Studio 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin”, have reached end-of-life (EOL). There will be no more updates of any kind, including security updates, for this release of Ubuntu. If you have not already done so, please upgrade to Ubuntu Studio 25.10 via the instructions provided here. If you do not do so as soon as possible, you will lose the ability without additional advanced configuration. No single release of any operating system can be supported indefinitely, and Ubuntu Studio has no exception to this rule. Interim Ubuntu...

Autostatic

09 Jan '26 19:32 XFCE and Wayland After having installed Raspberry Pi OS Trixie on a Pi 500+ I wondered if XFCE would run with the default Wayland setup. I’m going to use the 500+ as a desktop solution so it would be nice if it would run my go-to desktop manager without having to switch to X11. Turns out Trixie comes with XFCE 4.20 that has partial Wayland support. So installed it and configured it to run as the default desktop environment. This blog post describes the steps I had to go through to get XFCE running with Wayland. LightDM The default login manager of the Raspberry Pi OS is LightDM so in order to be able to log...

Autostatic

30 Dec '25 20:40 Linux audio performance improvements This is a recap in blog form of the following Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.autostatic.net/@jeremy/115632831793380239 The biggest performance improvements when it comes to Linux audio you can do are in my experience: Setting the CPU scaling governor to performance. Disabling SMT (Simultaneous MultiThreading). Allow your DAW to set CPU DMA latency. For instance Ardour and Reaper can do this. The Ardour manual provides some great background information on these matters. CPU scaling governor and SMT are explained here: https://manual.ardour.org/setting-up-your-system/the-right-computer-system...

Ubuntu Studio

11 Dec '25 18:41 Coming to 26.04 LTS: Three Layouts Xfce Legacy A lot of people have asked us why Ubuntu Studio comes with a panel on top as the default. For that, it’s a simple answer: Legacy. When Ubuntu Studio 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) released over 13 years ago, it was released with a top panel by default as that was the default for our desktop envirionment: Xfce. Fast-forward eight years to 20.10 and Xfce was no longer our default desktop environment: we had switched to KDE’s Plasma Desktop. Plasma has a bottom panel by default, similar to Windows. However, to ease the transition for our long-time users, we kept the panel on top by...

Drobilla

27 Nov '25 02:36 A More Modern Gtk3 Jalv Frontend My simple single-plugin LV2 host, Jalv, isn't quite sure whether it's a developer utility or polished user program, but in any case, it had become stale in the past few years and needed an update. Most of those changes are internal and only interesting for those who use it as a basis for larger systems. The internals have been largely rewritten to support various things, but this post isn't about that. This post is about a more obviously stale thing: the Gtk2 interface. In keeping with the free desktop tradition of constant breakage with reduced functionality, that toolkit is now EOLed, and...

Drobilla

27 Nov '25 01:13 Jalv 1.8.0 Jalv 1.8.0 has been released. Jalv (JAck LV2) is a simple host for LV2 plugins. It runs a plugin, and exposes the plugin ports to the system, essentially making the plugin an application. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/jalv. Changes: Add "quit" console command Add AppStream metainfo file Add Qt6 version Add missing short versions of command line options Add option to install tool man pages Add support for advanced parameters in console frontend Add support for control inputs with time:beatsPerMinute designation Add support for control outputs with lv2:latency...

Drobilla

26 Nov '25 00:49 Lilv 0.26.2 Lilv 0.26.2 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes: Actually reload files if bundles are unloaded then reloaded Add support for loading xsd:float literals, "INF", and "NaN" Avoid warning about non-existent entries in LV2_PATH Fix crash when duplicate plugins are discovered Fix lilv_node_is_literal() with booleans Refine command line tool interfaces and documentation lv2bench: Add support for common features and options lv2bench: Use more realistic real-time scheduling

Drobilla

13 Nov '25 00:26 Sratom 0.6.20 Sratom 0.6.20 has been released. Sratom is a small library for serializing LV2 atoms. Sratom reads/writes atoms from/to RDF, allowing them to be converted between binary and text or stored in a model. Changes: Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Avoid use of scanf when reading MIDI events Fix lint checks Fix potential memory error when writing ambiguous relative paths Improve code quality

Drobilla

13 Nov '25 00:20 Suil 0.10.24 Suil 0.10.24 has been released. Suil is a library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. It provides wrappers that allow Gtk and Qt hosts to load, and potentially embed, plugin GUIs that use the "native" windowing API (Coca, WIN32, or X11). Changes: Add header warnings test Avoid over-use of yielding meson options

Drobilla

13 Nov '25 00:15 Lilv 0.26.0 Lilv 0.26.0 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes: Add header warnings test Add option to control indexing overhead for subject queries Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Cache LANG value and add option to override it Fix Python tests Fix build with dynmanifest support Fix loading plugins that haven't been loaded yet as state Fix loading plugins with invalid lv2:appliesTo properties as state Fix potential memory leak in lilv_world_load_plugin_classes() Fix potential memory leak in lilv_world_set_option()...

Drobilla

13 Nov '25 00:12 Sord 0.16.20 Sord 0.16.20 has been released. Sord is a lightweight C library for storing RDF statements in memory. Changes: Add header warnings test Add missing const qualifiers to API Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Update man pages

Drobilla

12 Nov '25 23:54 Serd 0.32.6 Serd 0.32.6 has been released. Serd is a lightweight C library for working with RDF data. Changes: Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Drop graphs when writing Turtle output Eliminate recursion in the writer Fix handling of bad predicates in anonymous blank nodes Fix handling of some invalid EOF cases in lax mode Fix indentation of named objects after anonymous objects Fix indentation when ending anonymous nodes with many objects Fix invalid characters in error messages Fix reading numbers with no space before the final dot Fix reading prefix names that start with "true." or "false."...

Drobilla

12 Nov '25 23:40 Zix 0.8.0 Zix 0.8.0 has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures. Changes: Add ZIX_REALTIME and ZIX_NONBLOCKING attributes Add warning suppression macros Annotate count and size parameters of allocator API Avoid "deprecated" POSIX functions on Windows Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Clean up attribute documentation Gracefully handle failed allocation in path and filesystem functions Reduce empty BTree memory requirements Strengthen zix_file_equals() Use getenv() instead of environ to avoid issues on FreeBSD

Drobilla

12 Nov '25 20:59 Sphinxygen 1.0.12 Sphinxygen 1.0.12 has been released. Sphinxygen is a Python module/script that generates Sphinx markup to describe a C API, from an XML description extracted by Doxygen. Changes: Fix documentation for C++ namespaces Fix documentation for C++ template functions Improve formatting of macro initializers

Drobilla

12 Nov '25 18:58 Lilv “Object Index” Option Revised My previous post, “Improving LV2 Discovery Performance”, described adding an option to lilv that controls whether an additional index is maintained for loaded LV2 data. While testing those changes for release, I discovered a few things (like lv2lint) that break without the index, which convinced me that disabling it by default wasn't the right decision. So, I'm instead enabling it by default, which avoids this “break by default” situation. The downside is that hosts will need to add code in order to enjoy the performance improvements. To make this change as simple as possible, I also made lilv...

Libre Arts

09 Nov '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 9 November 2025 Not much interesting was happening the past few weeks, so this is a multi-week recap. Highlights: release candidates planned for GIMP, Ardour, and FreeCAD; new releases of LSP plugins, new technical preview of Audacity 4.0. GIMP The team is getting ready for the first release candidate of v3.2. This means some interesting features in the works are being postponed till v3.4. One such example is vector masks. Some patches may still come through, though, such as merging paths. Some neat minor new features merged recently: Exporting patterns of fill and stroke in vector layers. Pasting unformatted...

Libre Arts

04 Nov '25 08:12 VST3 becomes open-source, ASIO goes GPL-compatible Steinberg recently announced that they are changing the licensing of both VST3 and ASIO. VST3 is now MIT-licensed instead of GPLv3+/proprietary, and ASIO is GPLv3+/proprietary rather than just proprietary. Let’s pick the news apart bit by bit. VST3 This iteration of the plugin SDK has always been available under the dual GPLv3+/proprietary license. Changing the license to MIT means two things: Companies don’t have to sign any agreements with Steinberg anymore. Steinberg, therefore, now cannot enforce any ridiculous policies on plugin developers the way they did it with VST2. Here is what’s not...

Autostatic

01 Nov '25 21:01 RME Digiface USB and PipeWire My work laptop provided by SURF, a Dell Pro 14 Premium, runs a custom Dell Ubuntu 24.04 ISO since otherwise half of the peripherals don’t work. Ubuntu 24.04 comes with PipeWire so I was curious if the Digiface would work with such a setup. Well, it does, albeit with some quirks. First of all PipeWire also doesn’t get the outputs right. With the help of WirePlumber I could map channels 33 and 34 of the phones output to Front Left and Front Right. But then the next issue popped up: weird garbled, phasing, ringing audio. When using ALSA directly with Ardour this happened too so it’s not a...

KXStudio

31 Oct '25 15:56 KXStudio Project Update (August-October 2025) Hello all, this is the monthly report for all software things related to KXStudio, DISTRHO & falkTX projects. Repository updates NEW! added hamburger 0.5 fabla updated to 1.4.0 helio-workstation updated to 3.16 infamous-plugins updated to 0.3.2 lsp-plugins updated to 1.2.24 moony.lv2 updated to 0.40.0 sorcer updated to 1.1.3 That is all for now, see you next month!

Ubuntu Studio

29 Oct '25 20:08 Upgrading from 25.04 to 25.10 PLEASE NOTE: THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN FIXED An issue has been identified The Ubuntu Release team has now enabled upgrades from 25.04 to 25.10! This is great news! In fact, you may have noticed this icon on your toolbar and a notification to upgrade. However, upon doing so, you may have noticed something a little more unfortunate: Yep, we know. This tells you nothing about what is wrong. What is wrong is slightly more technical. As it turns out, the backend application that actually performs the upgrade removed an argument from its command line unannounced during the Plucky Puffin release cycle...

Autostatic

21 Oct '25 21:11 Now what does rtcirqus actually do? To answer that question let’s assume the following: You want to do real-time audio, for instance you would like to do an overdub in a song project by using a MIDI keyboard and a soft synth. You’re using a USB audio interface. You’re experiencing xruns when using lower buffer sizes (64 or even lower) that result in crackling audio. Basically all components of a desktop computer or a laptop have an IRQ. Let’s say IRQs are some sort of communication lines between the brains of your computer (the CPU) and those components. All these communication lines are more or less the same as in, none of...

Autostatic

17 Oct '25 18:27 RME Digiface USB on Linux With the release of the 6.12 kernel the RME Digiface USB is supported under Linux. Since this is a very portable device with lots of IO (32 in and 34 out) it got on my radar as a possible candidate for making recordings at my rehearsal space. It took a while before I stumbled upon a second hand unit but in the end I managed to find one nearby. Hooked it up to my notebook with an up-to-date Liquorix kernel and it worked out of the box. A lot of thanks go out to Asahi Lina for adding support for the RME Digiface USB to the 6.12 kernel. She even added the possibility to control the output format...

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12 Oct '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 12 October 2025 Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and RapidRAW, new features in darktable and Ardour. GIMP 3.0.6 This is purely a bugfix release, don’t expect anything new. The release notes are here. darktable and AgX The team recently merged a patch by Kofa that adds AgX, a new tonemapper originally seen in Blender. This is not the first photography app to use AgX ( Saulala is likely the first one), but definitely the most prominent one so far. There have been several general tonemapper modules before AgX: base curve, followed by several variations of filmic (later renamed to filmic rgb), followed by...

Ubuntu Studio

09 Oct '25 17:11 Ubuntu Studio 25.10 Released The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu Studio 25.10 code-named “Questing Quokka”. This marks Ubuntu Studio’s 37th release. This release is a Regular release and as such, it is supported for 9 months, until July 2026. Since it’s just out, you may experience some issues, so you might want to wait a bit before upgrading. Please see the release notes for a more complete list of changes and known issues. Listed here are some of the major highlights. You can download Ubuntu Studio 25.10 from our download page. Special Notes The Ubuntu Studio 25.10 disk image (ISO)...

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05 Oct '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 5 October 2025 Week highlights: new features in GIMP and Inkscape; new release of MuseScore Studio, first alpha release of Audacity 4. GIMP Here is some of the ongoing work: Jehan is reorganizing the Align/Distribute tool options. Probably not a final implementation, as the discussion about UX keeps going. Jasper is adding new text orientation options: 90° clockwise and counterclockwise rotation. Additionally, Gabriele contributed a new Preferences option to disable the use of the TAB key to switch all dockable windows on and off. This is one of the maddening aspects of using GIMP for new users who press the...

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29 Sep '25 14:25 Improving LV2 Discovery Performance LV2 plugins (and other data, like presets) are discovered by parsing Turtle files installed in various bundle directories. If the host only needs to know which things are installed, then only manifest.ttl files need to be loaded. That takes only a fraction of a second (60 ms on this machine, which has 897 plugins installed), but if the host needs more information (like the plugin's label or what ports it has), then the data files need to be loaded as well, which can take several seconds. The parser (from serd) is very fast, so the overwhelming majority of this time is spent inserting data into...

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28 Sep '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 28 September 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Krita, RapidRAW, and Gradia; MIDI strumming in Ardour. Krita 5.2.13 The Krita team released a bugfix update. Some of the notable fixes are targeted at users of Android and devices with touch input: Background saving has been revamped Devices running Android v15 with a lot of memory are now supported. The Transform tool now works with touch input. See here for a more complete list of changes. RapidRAW 1.4.x New RapidRAW releases now take longer, but the pace is still impressive. This version features several notable enhancements. I’ll take a deeper dive in a...

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21 Sep '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 21 September 2025 Week highlights: GIMP is getting an SVG exporter; Ton Roosendaal is stepping down as executive director of Blender Foundation; Kdenlive is planning exciting new features, FreeCAD is launching a bughunt for v1.1. GIMP CmykStudent started working on an SVG exporter plugin. Most of the work has been done: the plugin can export both vector, text, and bitmap layers, as well as layer groups. The merge request currently lists exporting options in the user interface and code cleanup as the missing bits. However, the exporting dialog already allows you to choose how you want to deal with bitmap layers...

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20 Sep '25 17:27 Celebrations with the GPL This post is to celebrate a few things despite the events that are clouding our feelings. 😠Another thing to not celebrate is the slaughtering by Sourceforge of my developer web site, which they are calling "sunsetting", by October. I've already migrated it. On the other, brighter hand, I'm celebrating this week La Mercè, which is the local festivity of Barcelona. Castellers of Barcelona Another event to celebrate is the first 2 million downloads of VMPK for Linux, Windows and Mac. The Sourceforge statistics do not include the installs thru Flatpak, but you may realize that more than 75% of the...

Ubuntu Studio

18 Sep '25 21:49 Ubuntu Studio 25.10 Beta Released The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu Studio 25.10, codenamed “Questing Quokka”. While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper installer bugs, you will find some bugs within. This image is, however, mostly representative of what you will find when Ubuntu Studio 25.10 is released on October 9, 2025. We encourage everyone to try this image and report bugs to improve our final release. Pay specific attention to apps that might need to be forced to run inside Xwayland so we can patch their launchers. Special Notes The Ubuntu Studio 25.10 beta image (ISO)...

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14 Sep '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 14 September 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; new features in GIMP, Krita, and Inkscape; Blender gets another major sponsor. GIMP Jehan started working on new infrastructure to pass messages to running GIMP installations. The intention is to notify users on those rare occasions where critical updates are available. Meanwhile, Ohnishi Yasuo has been working on a 3rd-party plugin for creating parametric luminance masks. Krita Wolthera posted a Mastodon thread about her work getting rich text editing into Krita. If you want to test the builds and provide feedback, it’s...

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07 Sep '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 7 September 2025 Week highlights: new releases of ShineStacker, OurPaint, Mixxx, and LSP plugins; new features in Inkscape and FreeCAD. ShineStacker 1.3 It’s a relatively unknown free/libre program for focus-stacking by Luca Lista. The workflow is fairly straightforward: point it to a folder with source photos, let it analyze them and merge stacks, use a brush to tweak masks if you like, save to JPEG or TIFF. (The sample files on the screenshot are by Helicon Focus) The last couple of releases focus (ahem) on parallel processing, but also ship with the following changes: Automatic subsample option for...

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31 Aug '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 31 August 2025 Back to recaps after a summer break. What’s new recently: Wacom upgrades its Blender Foundation support; new releases of GIMP, RapidRAW, Kdenlive, and Shotcut; new features in Inkscape and Ardour. GIMP 3.1.4 The very nearly π release comes with major and minor new features: Vector layers, a 2006 GSoC project finally merged. Useful on its own accord, but also a prerequisite for shape tools. Link layers, a hack from a few years ago, now more or less finalized and merged. Ctrl+B/I/U shortcuts now available when formatting text on the canvas. The MyPaint Brush tool has been switched to use the v2...

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10 Aug '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 10 August 2025 Week highlights: new releases of RapidRaw, Gradia, Friction, and Handbrake; new features in GIMP. GIMP Recent changes are mainly various under-the-hood improvements and fixes. CmykStudent also restored support for HRZ Slow Scan Television Images and added support for JPEG-based file formats by Seattle FilmWorks (designed for digitized film). Another WIP patch by CmykStudent is bringing support for the LCMS2 Fast Float plug-in. This will speed up 8-bit and 16-bit conversions and floating point precision operations. RapidRAW It’s a bit scary (but also impressive) how many changes have...

Ubuntu Studio

08 Aug '25 04:15 Ubuntu Studio 24.04.3 LTS Released The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu Studio 24.04.3 LTS. This is a minor release which wraps-up the security and bug fixes into one .iso image, available for download now. The biggest change is the lowlatency kernel has been officially retired, replaced by the generic Ubuntu kernel. Those that have been using Ubuntu Studio 24.04 and upgraded may have already noticed this change. With that said, much like Ubuntu Studio 24.10 and higher, the generic kernel includes kernel parameters added upon boot that allow the kernel to act in a lowlatency mode, so you now can...

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03 Aug '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 3 August 2025 Week highlights: new major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, and Ardour. GIMP There were two user-visible changes this past week: The newly added GEGL API browser by Ondřej Míchal (GSoC2025 student) will help developers use GEGL operations in their own plugins. The initial support for importing PAA textures by CmykStudent will help game developers who need to open texture files in this format developed by the Bohemia Interactive game studio. PixiEditor 2.0 Krzysztof Krysiński announced the release of PixiEditor 2.0. This image editor was originally...

KXStudio

31 Jul '25 19:16 KXStudio Project Update (July 2025) Hello all, this is the monthly report for all software things related to KXStudio, DISTRHO & falkTX projects. New releases NEW! J2SC project first release which supersedes Cadence Carla updated to 2.5.10 WineASIO updated to 1.3.0 Repository updates NEW! added j2sc 0.0.1 carla updated to 2.5.10 wineasio updated to 1.3.0 Final notes Some applications in the KXStudio Website repositories' pages have been hidden and some plugins have been marked as "abandoned". Everything is still available to install through "apt-get" though. That is all for now, see you next month!

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27 Jul '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 27 July 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, the Blender team starts working on an iPad port. Flameshot 13 release candidates The Flameshot team started making release candidates for the upcoming v13 of this screen capture and annotation tool. The next big release will ship with Qt6-based builds, better Wayland support, and various other changes. You can help the team test the builds and discover bugs. Blender on iPad Dalai Felinto announced that Blender is coming to iPad users, with later versions arriving for users of other touch devices (the post mentions Microsoft Surface, Huawei...

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20 Jul '25 18:12 Weekly recap — 20 July 2025 Week highlights: new Blender, RapidRAW, Gradia, Sigil, and Hydrogen releases; new darktable UI prototypes. Gradia 1.7.0 I last looked at this new screenshot annotation app about a month ago. Alexander has introduced quite a few changes since then: New design for the gradient picker. An option to automatically balance the borders of certain images. Support for launching with image input from console. Uploading is now possible, and you can define your own providers. The font drop-down list now includes all available system fonts. Text and stamp annotation tools now have optional background...

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13 Jul '25 13:12 Weekly recap — 13 July 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Krita, Bonsai, OBS Studio, and Kdenlive; new features in GIMP, FontForge, and Ardour. GIMP Here are some of the latest changes in the development branch: CmykStudent’s patch that adds support for MyPaint v2 brush engine features (sans spectral blending) is now merged and will be part of GIMP 3.2. CmykStudent also added support for Sketchbook-specific TIFF files, which means setting layer selection, visibility of the background layer, layer blend mode and color tag, and reading group layers. Niels De Graef and Michael Natterer (it’s been a while!) have been...

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06 Jul '25 17:14 Weekly recap — 6 July 2025 Week highlights: new digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour. GIMP CmykStudent created a patch adding support for MyPaint v2 brushes (1.5+ really) with the exception of spectral blending. There are three additional changes coming with this patch: A new Posterize blending mode for the MyPaint Brush tool. Zoom factor and canvas rotation mode are now taken into consideration when painting. A new tool option named Gain, which is a multiplier for input pressure. digiKam 8.7.0 The new version comes with multiple improvements: Optional background face recognition. The...

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29 Jun '25 17:14 Weekly recap — 29 June 2025 This post consolidates events of the last two weeks. Highlights: new releases of GIMP, darktable, Cardinal; new features in FreeCAD and Ardour. GIMP 3.1.2 This is the first release in the series leading up to v3.2 expected, oh well, frankly I don’t know when! This year, hopefully? Here is what’s new: A switch on Brush, Font, and Palette docks to render the background in the theme’s background color (should be always on, IMO). New paint mode, Overwrite, to replace pixels without blending source and target transparency values. The position of the text outline can now be set to outer, inner, and...

KXStudio

29 Jun '25 16:06 KXStudio Project Update (June 2025) Hello all, it has been a while since the last project update/news. Life has been very chaotic and I was not able to pay too much attention to "optional" projects, other things needed priority. Now with work and housing situation sorted and also some holidays, it is the right time to give some general project update. That said, I always have trouble writing these kind of updates, taking me quite some time to go through each individual thing that happened, giving it an explanation/reason, plans for future, etc. So starting this month, KXStudio project updates will be more formal and generic so I...

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15 Jun '25 17:14 Weekly recap — 15 June 2025 Week highlights: new release of Audacity and Kdenlive, new features in GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour. GIMP Jehan created a tag for GIMP 3.1.2 in the desktop files, so the first unstable release in the 3.1 series is likely coming soon. This will lead up to a stable v3.2 release sometime in this decade. Meanwhile, here are some recent changes in git: Daniel Novomesly added AVCI loading and HEJ2 exporting, which requires a recent version of libheif. CmykStudent removed the restriction on applying NDE filters to channels in the GUI. Layer masks are still restricted, though, until UX/UI is figured out...

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08 Jun '25 17:14 Weekly recap — 8 June 2025 Week highlights: new release of RawTherapee, new features in GIMP, and new apps for screenshot annotation and film photography. The X11Libre drama It’s hard to avoid this topic. In a nutshell: Enrico Weigelt started contributing to xserver (X11/X.org) around January 2024. He has over 800 commits to his name to date. He didn’t test at least some of his patches, which broke things on multiple occasions. At least one maintainer (employed by Red Hat) complained that his patches added little value, yet the sheer number of them blocked the review of patches by other contributors. Some contributors...

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01 Jun '25 20:14 Weekly recap — 1 June 2025 Week highlights: new features in GIMP, new versions of PDF Arranger, Odin 2, and Tumult; new VAMP plugins. GIMP Two interesting patches merged to GIMP this week: Importing legacy drop shadows in PSD ( MR #2297). Loading layered EXR files ( MR #2301). Other interesting changes in review: JPEG 2000 exporting, with options for quality, CMYK exporting, and Digital Cinema Specification compliance profile ( MR #2291). Loading Photoshop patterns ( MR #2285). Because it’s LGM week, the team attended the conference, and this seems to have brought back Michael Natterer, who hasn’t been active in the...

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29 May '25 00:00 Odin 2 synth gets a UI revamp Odin 2 is a free (GPLv3+) 24-voice polyphonic semi-modular synth with a modulation matrix and microtuning support (imports Scala files). The initial release happened almost 5 years ago. Everyone got pretty excited, and for a good reason: it was a good synth. Not just that—it also came a few years after the initial release of Surge, which kinda solidified the feeling that things are really getting better for musicians who stick with Linux. TheWaveWarden kept releasing updates until three years ago when he started working on another synth (Spline), and it felt like this was the last update of...

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25 May '25 18:14 Weekly recap — 25 May 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Sigil, PipeWire, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in GIMP. GIMP Three notable patches landed in GIMP recently: CmykStudent added a new option for the Text tool that I wish was there in Inkscape: outline direction (growing outward, inward, or centered). The Curves and Levels tools can now load respective Photoshop presets, patch also by CmykStudent. Jehan added a new option for the Brushes and the Palettes docks: “Use theme colors for preview". It’s a toggle at the top right of the respective docks. TBH, I think it should be just always on, depending on...

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23 May '25 00:00 Millisecond helps set up Linux for real-time audio Does it take a Millisecond to set up your Linux for real-time audio now? Not really, no. You still need to fiddle with system-level configuration. But this little program by Gahel shows you exactly where your system settings could be improved, gives actionable advice, and links to relevant parts of the Linux Audio wiki. For diagnostics, it uses rtcqs, a Python script by Jeremy Jongepier. Once you follow the recommendations, you can click the Update button (top left) to run the diagnostic again and see if the change has taken effect (in some cases, you’d need to log out and back in anyway)...

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18 May '25 17:14 Weekly recap — 18 May 2025 Week highlights: new releases of GIMP, Inkscape and FreeCAD; KDE Plasma is getting an HDR calibration wizard. HDR calibration in Plasma KDE’s Plasma 6.4.0 is getting a simple HDR calibration wizard: Some more information is available in this recent post. The work was done by Xaver Hugl who is, apparently, one of the people behind HDR support in Wayland. You can read his earlier posts on HDR and color management in KDE on his blog. GIMP 3.0.4 The new version comes with bug fixes and minor improvements: The space bar now allows temporarily switching to moving layers (or paths) again. You can...

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11 May '25 17:14 Weekly recap — 11 May 2025 Week highlights: new version of Shotcut, CMYK PDF exporting has landed in Inkscape, GSoC2025 has announced students/projects, LGM2025 program is up. GIMP Ondřej Míchal started submitting his first patches that introduce a GEGL filter browser, which is his GSoC project this year. Very early work, a lot more to follow. Gabriele Barbe is adding a live preview of selected text color. Inkscape Martin Owens merged his megapatch that implements a new PDF exporter using CapyPDF. This is what’s bringing initial CMYK PDF exporting support to Inkscape. There’s not much user interface to look at, and it...

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08 May '25 20:34 Google Summer of Code 2025 projects announced Google Summer of Code 2025 projects have just been announced. As is usual in the last 20 years or so, Google is paying a reward to students for improving free and open-source software. I went ahead and harvested the list of all the relevant projects so you don’t have to. Let’s take a look at what’s likely coming later this year. I’m intentionally keeping this list concise and linking to project pages so you can explore details when you feel like it. Graphics and design Both GIMP, Inkscape, Krita (via KDE), and OpenPrinting (via The Linux Foundation) are long-time participants that gained a lot...

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04 May '25 11:34 Weekly recap — 4 May 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, Mixxx, and Giada; new features in GIMP and FreeCAD. GIMP CmykStudent implemented a simple palette exporter to KPL, Krita’s palette file format. The other file format support they added is Over the Air Bitmap. Not sure how to comment on that. I guess if we all die in a nuclear holocaust, cockroaches will be exchanging those with each other on Nokia 3310, and they’ll need a way to open and export those? Well, that’s one way to future-proof GIMP then! FreeCAD Dave Carter finished adding initial support for external materials databases. The plan is to...

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27 Apr '25 12:11 Weekly recap — 27 April 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Helio sequencer and ZLEqualizer, new features in GIMP and FreeCAD. GIMP CmykStudent started working on a total ink coverage display filter. For now, you can set a threshold and choose a color to visualize areas where the TIC is larger than that threshold. There is a quick demo in this post and quite a discussion in the comments. FreeCAD The integrated assembly workbench hasn’t seen much action since the demise of Ondsel. However, furgo16 recently started contributing to it and improved the bill of materials feature to enable BOM columns to be autopopulated with...

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24 Apr '25 00:00 Meet Anagram, a Linux-powered bass FX processor Darkglass Electronics, a popular maker of bass-centric equipment (pedals, amps, cabinets), announced their first multi-effects box earlier this week. Anagram is a relatively compact pedal with a touch screen for setting up the signal chain, six endless encoders, and three footswitches. Inside, it packs a curation of effects, as well as amp and cabinet simulations—through neural models and IRs. Oh, and it’s running embedded Linux. The UI seems to be well thought-out. FX controls are easy to access. You can even do things like splitting the signal chain, although the narrow display can only show...

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20 Apr '25 12:11 Weekly recap — 20 April 2025 Week highlights: cool new features for GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour in the works; new releases of Scribus and Bonsai BIM. GIMP The team is currently working on bugfixes for 3.0 and new features, and they are getting some useful contributions currently undergoing review: Overwrite mode for painting tools Vertical alignment for text layers Initial APNG loading support Extra options for the New Guide script Inkscape The team is preparing for the v1.4.2 release. Meanwhile, there are two notable patches under review: Animated GIF output On-canvas controls for offset and vertical orientation of the...

Autostatic

14 Apr '25 18:59 Hang loose! As of June 1st I will start a new adventure at SURF! I’m extremely grateful that I can be a part of this fantastic organization. It took me almost 20 years to get an appointment, I first applied there in June 2005 when it was still called SARA. Third time’s a charm I guess, I also applied for a position back in December but since that was for a storage specialist there wasn’t a full match. Looking forward to starting there. Back to the field of education and research, I worked in that field before at the University of Amsterdam for 8 years back in the 00s. It feels like the circle is complete...

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14 Apr '25 17:42 rtcqs v0.6.6 released This release contains a hotfix for the SMT check. The check did not yield the expected results, now it does. Grab the latest release here: https://codeberg.org/rtcqs/rtcqs/releases/tag/v0.6.6

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13 Apr '25 12:11 Weekly recap — 13 April 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Pinta and Elektroid, FreeCAD Project Association announces new grants. Pinta 3.0 The new version of the image editor comes with a GTK4/libadwaita port, UI revamp with functionality moved to the headerbar, new effects, add-ins support restored, and various quality-of-life improvements. Full review is already available here. FreeCAD The FreeCAD project Association members has voted for grants in the first quarter of 2025. Expect this work: Two new types of curves for Sketcher Further improvements in the FEM workbench Modernized rendering and selection systems +...

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13 Apr '25 00:00 Pinta 3.0 released The Pinta team announced the v3.0 release yesterday. Let’s take a quick look at what’s changed and what still needs to change. Before I continue, here is a disclaimer: I’m not going to mention every single thing that is new or improved. I only cover things that matter to me. Full release notes are available here. What’s great in Pinta 3.0 Add-ins support is back. Image editing programs absolutely need a plugin architecture so that people can go wild and do great (and sometimes ugly) things. At this point, it’s hard to say if this will be popular. Pinta didn’t have a terrible lot of plugins...

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06 Apr '25 13:31 rtcqs v0.6.5 released A new version of rtcqs is now available. A routine was added to check if a system is using Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT, also known as hyper-threading) as a system might benefit from disabling SMT. My own system does benefit from disabling it, I get less xruns in Ardour at lower latencies. Arnout also merged a PR that fixed some typos, thanks! rtcqs main window rtcqs about window

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06 Apr '25 13:11 Weekly recap — 6 April 2025 Week highlights: GIMP team started planning v3.2 development, new releases of jc303, Qtractor, and KnobKraft-orm. GIMP When the team released v3.0, they said they’d try to make shorter release cycles. This week, Jehan started going through bug reports and feature requests and changing milestones. Some tickets are now scheduled for v3.2, others are scheduled for v3.4, and others have milestones removed entirely. This is an ongoing process, the triage is not done yet, and there are no promises whatsoever on either specific features for v3.2 or the release timeline. Still, a good step in the...