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OpenShot 3.4 open-source video editing software is now available for download with new features, improved performance, and other exchiting updates. Here’s what’s new!
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Scribus 1.6.5 free and open-source desktop publishing software is now available for download with various updates and bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed!
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OpenShot, the free open-source and easy-to-use video editor, released new 3.4 version yesterday.
It’s been almost a year since the last! The new release improved the overall performance with 32% speed up, and introduced many new effects.
According to the official announcement, the new version has 14.9% to 63% speed up for the performance of frame mapper, mask, crop, ffmpeg reading/writing, and other effects.
It also features 23% faster export by integrating the caching thread into the Export dialog, faster waveforms for long audio plus time-curved clips, and faster FFmpeg decoding.
Besides the significant performance improvements, the release also introduced interactive cropping support in preview.
Simply, right-click on your video clip and choose a crop method, then you may drag resizing and moving the rectangular selection in preview to crop the video clip from current position in timeline. While, you may also input the corresponding values in left to crop using properties.
The release also added new experimental timeline which can be enabled in Preferences dialog. The new timeline added buttons to do move up/down, lock, delete actions in track header. It as well features smoother scrolling/zooming on large timelines, new Keyframe panel and in-timeline keyframe editing.
OpenShot 3.4 also added following new filter effects:
Other changes include:
The video editor provides official packages for Linux, Windows, ChromeOS and macOS. Along with the source code, they are available to download via the link below:
For Linux, it’s an AppImage for AMD and Intel platforms. It can be run directly to launch the video editor after adding executable permission.
For Ubuntu, there’s also an official PPA, though it’s not updated for the new release at the moment of writing.
It’s also available to install as Flatpak package, which runs in sandbox environment and support both amd64 and arm64 CPU processors.
The second RC development release for the GIMP image editor 3.2 is out!
The new release introduced less features compare to the last RC1, but focused on improvements to performance and existing features and vulnerability fixes.
First, for user with a stylus pen, the MyPaint Brushes tool now support barrel rotation when relevant to the specific brush selected. The feature however is not tested because the developers don’t have a stylus to try it out.
Unfortunately I can’t test as we don’t have any stylus with such barrel rotation feature (and unfortunately this hardware feature is discontinued and getting a stylus with this is extra-hard now), but that should work. And at the very least, it does match with MyPaint’s implementation.
This RC also improved the Paint Select support. It’s an experimental feature introduced since version 3.0. User may try the feature by starting GIMP with --show-playground option, then go to preferences -> playground to enable it. Though, the gegl library needs to be compiled with workshop enabled.
In the release, it added progression feedback and improved local region computation to this experimental feature. And, it now processes more events, reset the scribbles at every stroke.
GIMP 3.2 RC2 also removed the restriction that prevented saving and exporting when no drawables are selected, raised the clipboard brush and pattern max size limit to 8192 for 64-bit processors, while it stays 1024 on 32-bit architecture, and it greatly improved the speed for initial font loading.
It now has a much more robust path importing from SVG by latest C-based librsvg code, and uses opaque path IDs for the ‘id’ attribute for SVG exporting, but not the GUI-visible path name anymore, to match the SVG specs.
To prevent infinite loops with cycling links, it also added a few safety checks when creating new link layers and when loading XCF files with link layers.
Other changes include:
The new RC2 is not announced at the moment of writing, though you may keep an eye on its news page for announcement.
For the source tarball, as well as the official packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS, they are available to download via the link below:
For Linux, select download the AppImage for either x86_64 (AMD/Intel) or aarch64 (for e.g., RasPi or SnapDragon X processors), then run to launch the image editor after adding executable permission.
Though, Ubuntu since 22.04 needs to install libfuse2 package for being able to run AppImage:
sudo apt install libfuse2
For those who prefer the Flatpak package, it’s also available to install via:
flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/beta-repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref
And, users who already installed the package can update it via command:
flatpak update org.gimp.GIMP//beta
Scribus, the free open-source desktop publishing software, released new 1.6.5 version few hours ago.
It’s been 8 months since the last point release, and the new 1.6.5 is also a maintenance release that contains only bug-fixes and improvements.
First, the new version added negative values support for the rotation in the properties palette. For example, you may input “-30” to automatically get “330” when hitting enter or leaving the properties.
For scripters, it added the document for scribus.ImageExport: transparentBckgnd, which corresponds to the ‘No Background’ checkmark in the ‘Save as Image’ dialogue, and, the function getBoundingBox() which was missing from HTML docs. And, it fixed that unknown/misspelled named parameter in API call crashed Scribus instead of giving an error message.
It also updated the print dialog, which fixed the inconsistency between output filename extension and printing language, and crop marks not present in output if it’s the only option selected in the “Marks”.
For fonts, the Additional Font Path Setting was cleared if any other setting is modified and saved while one document is open in Scribus. And, font rendering with non-integer font sizes (e.g., 9.90pt) went different after PDF export. Now, both the issues are fixed in the new 1.6.5 release.
The users who prefer dark color scheme, the new release fixed the poor menu appearance, though 3rd level menus are still in-visible in my case in Ubuntu with kvantum-dark theme.
menus were not looking good in dark color scheme
Other fixes in the release include:
For more, see the Changelog file in source tarball (see the link below).
The source tarball as well as installers for Linux, Windows, and macOS are available to download in sourceforge via the link below:
For Linux on AMD/Intel platform, it’s an AppImage that can be run directly to launch the software, after adding executable permission.
For Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS users who prefer the classic .deb package format, I’ve uploaded the new release package into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 25.04 and 25.10.
Simply open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the 3 commands below one by one to add PPA, refresh cache, and install the package:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/scribus sudo apt update sudo apt install scribus
Also, there’s a community maintained Flatpak package for most Linux, though it’s still at v1.6.4 at the moment of writing.
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Mixxx 2.5.4 open-source virtual DJ software for performing live mixes is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel series for public testing. Here’s what to expect!
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