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  • ✇The Document Foundation Blog
  • Last LibreOffice 25.8 release candidates RC3 and RC4 available this week
    LibreOffice 25.8 will be released next week, on August 20, 2025 (check the Release Plan). LibreOffice 25.8 RC3 brings us closer to the final version, which will be preceded by a last minute LibreOffice 25.8 RC4 needed for a fix solving an easy to trigger crash. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 25.8 RC3 is already available, while LibreOffice 25.8 RC4 will be available from Thursday, August 14. Both can be downloaded for Linux,
     
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Last LibreOffice 25.8 release candidates RC3 and RC4 available this week

Par :Italo Vignoli
12 août 2025 à 12:23

LibreOffice 25.8 will be released next week, on August 20, 2025 (check the Release Plan). LibreOffice 25.8 RC3 brings us closer to the final version, which will be preceded by a last minute LibreOffice 25.8 RC4 needed for a fix solving an easy to trigger crash. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 25.8 RC3 is already available, while LibreOffice 25.8 RC4 will be available from Thursday, August 14. Both can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and will replace the standard installation.

In case you find any problem in these pre-releases, please report it in Bugzilla (you just need a legit email account in order to create a new account). For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Matrix.

LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test, we appreciate your contribution! Happy testing!!!

  • ✇The Linux Mint Blog
  • Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” – BETA Release
    This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”. Linux Mint 22.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements. For an overview of the new features please visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 22.2“. Important info: The release notes provide important information about known iss
     
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Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” – BETA Release

Par :Clem
12 août 2025 à 04:18

This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”.

Linux Mint 22.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features:

This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements.

For an overview of the new features please visit:

“What’s new in Linux Mint 22.2“.

Important info:

The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions.

To read the release notes, please visit:

“Release Notes for Linux Mint 22.2”

System requirements:

  • 2GB RAM (4GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
  • 20GB of disk space (100GB recommended).
  • 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

Upgrade instructions:

  • This BETA release might contain critical bugs, please only use it for testing purposes and to help the Linux Mint team fix issues prior to the stable release.
  • Upgrade instructions will be published after the stable release of Linux Mint 22.2.
  • It will be possible to upgrade from this BETA to the stable release.
  • It will also be possible to upgrade from Linux Mint 22.1.

Bug reports:

  • Bugs in this release should be reported on Github at https://github.com/linuxmint/mint22.2-beta.
  • Create one issue per bug.
  • As described in the Linux Mint Troubleshooting Guide, do not report or create issues for observations.
  • Be as accurate as possible and include any information that might help developers reproduce the issue or understand the cause of the issue:
    • Bugs we can reproduce, or which cause we understand are usually fixed very easily.
    • It is important to mention whether a bug happens “always”, or “sometimes”, and what triggers it.
    • If a bug happens but didn’t happen before, or doesn’t happen in another distribution, or doesn’t happen in a different environment, please mention it and try to pinpoint the differences at play.
    • If we can’t reproduce a particular bug and we don’t understand its cause, it’s unlikely we’ll be able to fix it.
  • The BETA phase is literally a bug squashing rush, where the team is extremely busy and developers try to fix as many bugs as fast as possible.
  • There usually are a huge number of reports and very little time to answer everyone or explain why a particular report is not considered a bug, or won’t get fixed. Don’t let this frustrate you, whether it’s acknowledged or not, we appreciate everyone’s help.

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Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Many thanks in advance for testing the BETA!

  • ✇The Document Foundation Blog
  • Best practices for creating and editing OpenDocument Format (ODF) files
    Adhering to these guidelines can enhance productivity and guarantee that documents remain consistent, robust and accessible over time, irrespective of the platform. Firstly, use an editor such as LibreOffice that natively supports the format without conversion. This preserves the nuances of the ODF XML structure, supports all its features and reduces the risk of formatting issues or data loss. It also ensures that documents are fully compatible with the ISO standard. Secondly, use an up-to-date
     
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Best practices for creating and editing OpenDocument Format (ODF) files

Par :Italo Vignoli
8 août 2025 à 06:43

Adhering to these guidelines can enhance productivity and guarantee that documents remain consistent, robust and accessible over time, irrespective of the platform.

Firstly, use an editor such as LibreOffice that natively supports the format without conversion. This preserves the nuances of the ODF XML structure, supports all its features and reduces the risk of formatting issues or data loss. It also ensures that documents are fully compatible with the ISO standard.

Secondly, use an up-to-date version of LibreOffice to benefit from continuous improvements in ODF feature management, avoid bugs that could cause file corruption (a rare event thanks to the robustness of the ODF format, but still possible) and enjoy the highest level of security in file management.

Thirdly, use LibreOffice document templates and styles for all elements, such as headings, fonts, paragraphs, and tables, to ensure consistent formatting throughout the document. This allows you to make global changes quickly by changing the style rather than each individual element, and improves accessibility, as screen readers and other assistive technologies rely on a consistent structure. This also results in smaller, more robust ODF files.

Creating and reusing LibreOffice templates is an excellent practice for companies that produce many similar documents (such as invoices or monthly reports). Once all the characteristics of the document have been defined, simply save it in ‘template’ format to obtain a blank copy with all repetitive elements already in place.

The fourth condition is to save and back up documents frequently and regularly. ODF files are compressed XML files, which makes them robust and reliable, but not immune to problems. In a business environment, it is advisable to use a cloud storage solution with a version history, such as Nextcloud, which allows you to revert to an earlier version of a file.

The fifth recommendation is to avoid overly complex formatting to ensure maximum compatibility when sharing ODF files with a diverse audience or converting them to other formats, such as Microsoft Office proprietary formats, because complicated layouts, embedded objects or macros may not work or appear differently.

It is recommended that you use basic styles and standard LibreOffice fonts (open source and available to all users), or fonts that can be installed by any user, independently of the operating system, even if backed by an End User Licence Agreement (such as Microsoft Aptos, which can only be downloaded from the Microsoft website). You should also avoid excessive use of tables or nested text boxes.

The sixth condition is to integrate multimedia content sensibly, optimising images or videos used in presentations to reduce their size without compromising quality.

The seventh and final condition is to always save the original file in ODF format, even when sharing with users who insist on using Microsoft Office’s proprietary format — thereby handing over ownership of their files to Microsoft. Once the document is finalised, save a copy in OOXML format and share this with Microsoft users.

Similarly, when receiving an OOXML document from a Microsoft user, immediately save a copy in ODF format for editing until the document is finalised and the OOXML copy can be shared again.

When sharing a document within a team, it is advisable to use comments to provide feedback instead of editing the body of the document, enabling change tracking so that changes can be reviewed before acceptance or rejection. Where possible, collaborate on a shared ODF platform based on LibreOffice technology and the cloud, such as Collabora Online.

Open standard formats such as ODF allow you to avoid dependence on a single supplier, maintain ownership and control of your documents, and future-proof your work — but only if used wisely. Following best practices will enable you to manage ODF documents more smoothly and conveniently without sacrificing any of the advantages of the ISO standard format.

✇The Document Foundation Blog

Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d)

Par :Ilmari Lauhakangas
7 août 2025 à 14:49

The Document Foundation's team

Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community.

To improve the user interface of LibreOffice, the office productivity suite for over 200 million users around the globe, we’re searching for a developer (m/f/d) to start work (from home) as soon as possible. This is what you’ll do:

  • Work on the LibreOffice codebase (mostly C++)
  • Focus on LibreOffice’s user interface, in the way it is rendered and laid out
  • Fix bugs, implement new features, and improve the quality of the UI code in LibreOffice while working together with the design team and other contributors
  • Document what you do, actively share knowledge in public with volunteers and contributors via blog posts, workshops and conference talks, so other developers and users have an easier time learning about your work

Examples of tasks:

  • Convert the remaining uses of macOS Carbon API to Cocoa and move from deprecated functions to supported ones
  • Rework the code responsible for the Tabbed UI and other alternative UIs to make it consistent with the rest of the UI

What we want from you:

  • Very good C++ development skills
  • Proven experience working on macOS
  • Proven experience working with UI toolkits
  • Good understanding of graphics programming
  • Good team-playing skills
  • Speaking and writing English

Previous development experience under Windows and Linux and contributions to FOSS projects (show us your repos!) are a plus. A previously established relationship within the developer community, as well as with other teams such as QA is a plus, but it is not mandatory at the start and can be achieved during the work itself.

As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to members of TDF. Not being a member does not exclude any applicants from consideration.

Join us!

All jobs at The Document Foundation are remote jobs, where you can work from your home office or a co-working space. The work time during the day is flexible, apart from a few fixed meetings. The role is offered as full-time (ideally 40 hours per week). While we prefer full-time for the role, part-time applications, or proposals to grow the hours over time, will be considered. Candidates that are resident in (or willing to relocate to) Germany will be employed directly by TDF. Otherwise, external payroll services will be used if available in the candidate’s country of residence.

Are you interested? Get in touch! We aim to schedule the first interview within two weeks of your application. You can also approach us any time for an informal chat, to learn about the role or in case of questions.

TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Don’t be afraid to be different, and stay true to yourself. We like you that way! 😊

We’re looking forward to receiving your application, including information about you (your resume), when you are available for the job, and of course your financial expectations. Pointing to public repositories with your code is very helpful. Please send us an e-mail to developers@documentfoundation.org no later than September 12, 2025. If you haven’t received feedback by October 13, 2025, your application could not be considered.

Also note: we only accept applications from the applicant, and not from any intermediary. We do not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee.

  • ✇The Document Foundation Blog
  • LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2025
    Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started July with some very positive news: a Danish Ministry is switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice. The goal is to “create more competition and innovation – and reduce Denmark’s dependence on the few”. Then we posted the LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #4 – Documentation in Free and Open Source Software. What exactly makes “good” documentati
     
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LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2025

Par :Mike Saunders
4 août 2025 à 08:53

Dione Maddern with quote saying the LibreOffice documentation team are such a great bunch of people to work with

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice

  • Then we posted the LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #4 – Documentation in Free and Open Source Software. What exactly makes “good” documentation? And why is it important today? Watch to learn more (also available on PeerTube).

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  • On July 17, we announced LibreOffice 25.2.5. This is the fifth minor update to the 25.2 branch, with bugfixes and compatibility improvements. All users are recommended to upgrade.

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  • And while that branch is being updated regularly, we’re also preparing for the next major release. LibreOffice 25.8 RC2 is available for testing – thanks in advance to everyone who helps to report issues, so we can make it a rock-solid final version!

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  • 2.12.2 released
    🐛 Bug Fixes & Minor Changes Increased allowed cache sizes (#862) by @spacecowboy in #862 🌐 Translations Updated Latvian translation using Weblate by @Coool in commit Updated Hungarian translation using Weblate in #811 Updated Thai translation using Weblate by @bowornsin in commit Updated Bulgarian translation using Weblate by @trunars in commit Updated Tamil translation using Weblate by @TamilNeram in #825 Updated Slovak translation using Weblate by @martinco78 in #850 Updated Indonesian
     
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2.12.2 released

Par :Jonas
3 août 2025 à 10:54

🐛 Bug Fixes & Minor Changes

  • Increased allowed cache sizes (#862) by @spacecowboy in #862

🌐 Translations

  • Updated Latvian translation using Weblate by @Coool in commit
  • Updated Hungarian translation using Weblate in #811
  • Updated Thai translation using Weblate by @bowornsin in commit
  • Updated Bulgarian translation using Weblate by @trunars in commit
  • Updated Tamil translation using Weblate by @TamilNeram in #825
  • Updated Slovak translation using Weblate by @martinco78 in #850
  • Updated Indonesian translation using Weblate by @zmni in commit
  • Updated Finnish translation using Weblate by @Ricky-Tigg in #861
  • Updated Portuguese (Portugal) translation using Weblate by @SantosSi in commit

❤️ New Contributors

  • @martinco78 made their first contribution in #850

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  • What’s new in ODF 1.3 and 1.4
    ODF ensures that documents remain accessible, portable, and free from restrictions. Now that version 1.3 has been widely adopted and version 1.4 is on the horizon, it’s time to have a look at the new features and upcoming releases. ODF 1.3: What’s New ODF 1.3 was finalised in January 2021 by OASIS. It introduced a number of long-awaited improvements, particularly in the areas of security, digital signatures, and document integrity. 1. Digital signatures and document security: One of the most sig
     
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What’s new in ODF 1.3 and 1.4

Par :Italo Vignoli
1 août 2025 à 07:00

ODF ensures that documents remain accessible, portable, and free from restrictions. Now that version 1.3 has been widely adopted and version 1.4 is on the horizon, it’s time to have a look at the new features and upcoming releases.

ODF 1.3: What’s New

ODF 1.3 was finalised in January 2021 by OASIS. It introduced a number of long-awaited improvements, particularly in the areas of security, digital signatures, and document integrity.

1. Digital signatures and document security:

One of the most significant enhancements in ODF 1.3 was the formal specification for digital signatures:

  • It now supports XAdES (XML Advanced Electronic Signatures).
  • You can sign entire documents, individual parts (e.g. only spreadsheets), or even multiple sections.
  • Improved metadata provides information about who signed, when and under what circumstances.

This is a significant development for public administrations and organisations that require reliable document verification.

2. OpenPGP support for encryption

  • ODF 1.3 now offers optional OpenPGP-based encryption in addition to the traditional Blowfish method.
  • Higher cryptographic standards and better integration with tools such as GnuPG are also included.
  • It encourages key-based encryption for personal and business documents.

3. Change management:

  • The format now offers greater granularity for change management.
  • Supports change tracking in tables, which was previously a weak point.
  • Improves compatibility with editing tools that handle collaborative workflows.

4. Metadata:

  • Improved management of custom metadata fields using RDF.
  • Greater richness of semantic descriptions of content (e.g. for archival or academic purposes).
  • Encourages integration with deep graphs and linked data systems.

5. Other changes:

  • New chart types and charting features.
  • Improved text formatting options.
  • Improved compliance with accessibility standards.

ODF 1.3 introduced two new compliance modes: Strict, for clean documents that comply with the specifications, and Extended, which allows specific enhancements by a company for broader feature support.

What’s new in ODF 1.4

ODF 1.4 is still under active development, with the first drafts already implemented in the latest versions of LibreOffice. Although the specifications are not final, the following is planned:

1. Change tracking:

  • Support for tracking style changes (e.g. switching from bold to italic).
  • Better differentiation between insertions, deletions and formatting changes.
  • Change IDs and support for real-time conflict resolution for collaborative editing.

2. Charts:

  • More flexibility in charts, including custom colours, gradient fills, multiple axes and formatted data labels.
  • Better alignment with modern expectations and improved interoperability with Excel.

3. Accessibility:

  • Clearer semantics for assistive technologies.
  • Improved navigation for screen readers.
  • Structural tags for headings, lists and tables make documents easier to analyse programmatically.

4. Form controls:

  • More robust form field types, such as date pickers, drop-down menus and sliders.
  • Better interaction support for forms within spreadsheets and presentations.
  • Cross-platform consistency.

5. Improved spreadsheet features:

  • Native support for named ranges in the sheet.
  • Improved formula representation for functions in edge cases.
  • More complex conditional formatting rules.

6. Compatibility:

  • Mapping of Microsoft Office formats (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX) to reduce conversion issues.
  • Improved handling of embedded media and OOXML-style layouts.

Final considerations

ODF 1.3 represented a significant advancement in terms of security and interoperability. ODF 1.4 adds usability improvements, more modern features, and better alignment with current office suite trends.

With an increasing number of governments and organisations adopting open standards, the evolution of ODF is crucial. The focus is not on competing with Microsoft; it’s about ensuring that your documents remain yours.

  • ✇The Document Foundation Blog
  • LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, Tokyo – Call for proposals is open
    Photo from the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 This is a translation of the Japanese post: The LibreOffice Asia Conference Committee is pleased to invite proposals for talks at the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on December 13 (Saturday) and 14 (Sunday), at IIJ Head Office (Iidabashi Grand Bloom). This conference brings together LibreOffice users and contributors across Asia — including developers, translators, QA testers, community organizers, and marke
     
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LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, Tokyo – Call for proposals is open

Par :Mike Saunders
1 août 2025 à 05:12

Photo from the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024

Photo from the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024

This is a translation of the Japanese post:

The LibreOffice Asia Conference Committee is pleased to invite proposals for talks at the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on December 13 (Saturday) and 14 (Sunday), at IIJ Head Office (Iidabashi Grand Bloom).

This conference brings together LibreOffice users and contributors across Asia — including developers, translators, QA testers, community organizers, and marketing professionals — to share knowledge, tools, experiences, and challenges. We will welcome international guests, including team members from The Document Foundation, and encourage cross-border exchange and collaboration.

The conference will be held as a single-track event over two days, with most sessions in English. However, talks in Japanese are also welcome. If you plan to give your talk in Japanese, please prepare your slides in English so that non-Japanese-speaking attendees can follow along. We may also organize separate workshops or additional sessions.

Please make sure to check the following for details such as the event schedule.
(The information will be updated as needed.)
wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2025/LibreOffice_Asia_Conference

Here are some examples of topics (but not limited to):

  • Case studies of LibreOffice adoption or ODF migration efforts
  • Technical insights into LibreOffice code development
  • Community activities such as translation, quality assurance, outreach, or marketing
  • Tips and techniques for using LibreOffice effectively

Talk duration: 25 minutes including Q&A

  • The presentation will be recorded and made publicly available.
  • Please apply the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license to your presentation slides.
  • Please submit your slides after the event.

Travel support:
We may provide travel support to accepted speakers traveling from outside Tokyo:

  • Airfare or bullet train tickets
  • Hotel accommodation (up to 2 nights; up to 4 nights for those traveling long distances, e.g., from overseas)

How to submit

Please submit your proposal via the following website:
events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-asia-conference-2025/
If you have difficulty submitting through the website, please send an email to ja-contact@libreoffice.org with the following information and with the email subject “Proposal Submission for LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025”:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your profile
  • Talk title
  • Abstract (around 130-250 words)
  • Travel cost approximate estimation (only if you want to request travel support)

Due to limited hotel availability in Tokyo, please make a cancelable hotel reservation at the time of your CFP submission.

Submission deadline: September 16, 2025, 23:59 (JST, UTC+9)

Notification of acceptance: by October 1, 2025

  • ✇The Document Foundation Blog
  • 🎉 The Getting Started Guide 25.2 is here! 🚀
    The LibreOffice Documentation Team is excited to announce the release of the brand new Getting Started Guide 25.2, updated with all the latest features of LibreOffice 25.2! Whether you’re brand new to LibreOffice or just want a fast track to mastering its tools, this guide is your perfect starting point. Inside, you’ll find easy-to-follow introductions to: Writer (word processing) Calc (spreadsheets) Impress (presentations) Draw (vector graphics) Math (formula editor) Base (database manag
     
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🎉 The Getting Started Guide 25.2 is here! 🚀

Par :Olivier Hallot
29 juillet 2025 à 19:29

The LibreOffice Documentation Team is excited to announce the release of the brand new Getting Started Guide 25.2, updated with all the latest features of LibreOffice 25.2!

Whether you’re brand new to LibreOffice or just want a fast track to mastering its tools, this guide is your perfect starting point. Inside, you’ll find easy-to-follow introductions to:

📝 Writer (word processing)
📊 Calc (spreadsheets)
📽 Impress (presentations)
🎨 Draw (vector graphics)
🧮 Math (formula editor)
📚 Base (database management)

This guide is part of our growing collection of documentation — lovingly written, edited, and reviewed by a global team of dedicated volunteers who are passionate about open-source software and digital freedom.

👏 The 25.2 update was coordinated by Dione Maddern, with valuable contributions from Peter Schofield, Jean Weber, Ed Olson, Karen Burke, B. Antonio F., and Olivier Hallot. A huge thanks to everyone involved!

📥 Ready to dive in? Download the guide for free from the Documentation website or check it out on the Bookshelf Project.

  • ✇The Document Foundation Blog
  • LibreOffice 25.8 RC2 is available for testing
    LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final on August, 20, 2025 (check the Release Plan). LibreOffice 25.8 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) brings us closer to the final version, which will be preceded by Release Candidate 3 (RC3). Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation. In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in
     
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LibreOffice 25.8 RC2 is available for testing

Par :Italo Vignoli
29 juillet 2025 à 07:56

LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final on August, 20, 2025 (check the Release Plan). LibreOffice 25.8 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) brings us closer to the final version, which will be preceded by Release Candidate 3 (RC3). Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation.

In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla (you just need a legit email account in order to create a new account).

For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Matrix.

LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test, we appreciate your contribution! Happy testing!!!

  • ✇The Document Foundation Blog
  • Understanding ODF File Types: .odt, .ods, .odp, and Beyond
    If you’ve ever wondered what those .odt, .ods, or .odp files are all about – or if you’ve stumbled across them and weren’t sure what to do – this post is for you. .odt: The Open Document Text File Think of .odt as the open counterpart to .docx. It’s the default file format for LibreOffice Writer. You can use it for everything from a quick grocery list to a dissertation. What’s great about .odt is that it’s built on open standards. That means anyone can build software to read or write it without
     
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Understanding ODF File Types: .odt, .ods, .odp, and Beyond

Par :Italo Vignoli
25 juillet 2025 à 08:02

If you’ve ever wondered what those .odt, .ods, or .odp files are all about – or if you’ve stumbled across them and weren’t sure what to do – this post is for you.

.odt: The Open Document Text File

Think of .odt as the open counterpart to .docx. It’s the default file format for LibreOffice Writer. You can use it for everything from a quick grocery list to a dissertation.

What’s great about .odt is that it’s built on open standards. That means anyone can build software to read or write it without jumping through legal hoops. It also means you’re not tied to one company’s ecosystem, which is increasingly important when you think about long-term access to your own data.

Yes, you can open .odt files in Word – and yes, the formatting usually holds up pretty well. Not perfect, but usable.

.ods: Spreadsheets Without Strings Attached

Spreadsheets aren’t just for accountants anymore. Whether you’re managing a budget, tracking tasks, or planning a trip, you’re probably using rows and columns for something. .ods is the ODF version of .xlsx, and it’s handled by tools like LibreOffice Calc.

If you’re used to Excel, Calc will feel familiar enough. Basic formulas, charts, conditional formatting – it’s all there. Advanced Excel users might bump into limits (especially with macros or highly specific plugins), but for everyday work, .ods gets the job done.

And again, it’s open. Your data isn’t buried in a proprietary format you need a subscription to access five years from now.

.odp: Presentations Without PowerPoint

Then there’s .odp, the ODF format for presentations. It works like PowerPoint’s .pptx. You’ve got slides. You’ve got transitions. You’ve got bullet points. Even if you’re trying to build the next TED Talk with embedded video and flashy animations, it’s more than enough.

LibreOffice Impress opens and edits .odp files easily, and you can usually open them in PowerPoint too, though some visual effects might not translate perfectly. For most professional or academic presentations, it’s a reliable option – especially when you don’t know what software will be available on the receiving end.

Other File Types in the ODF Family

ODF isn’t limited to just text, spreadsheets, and slides. There are a few lesser-known formats worth mentioning:

  • .odg – for vector graphics and diagrams. Think flowcharts, not Photoshop.
  • .odf – confusingly, this one’s for formulas (as in math), used by LibreOffice Math.
  • Templates like .ott (text), .ots (spreadsheets), and .otp (presentations) make it easy to standardize layouts and branding across documents.

These formats are all part of the same ecosystem. They’re modular, open, and designed to work well together.

Why It Matters

It’s easy to dismiss file formats as a technical detail, but they shape who controls access to your work. When you rely only on proprietary formats, you’re tied to that company’s tools, updates, subscriptions and limitations. You’re renting your own documents.

ODF flips that script. It’s not just a format – it’s a philosophy. One that says your work belongs to you, and you should be able to access it any time, on your terms.

If you’re already using open-source tools, chances are you’re already working in ODF whether you realized it or not. If not, it’s worth considering – especially if you want to keep your documents open, portable and future-proof.

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  • An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool
    A document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden from users when the document is displayed on screen. Unfortunately, while an XML schema can be simple, it can also be unnecessarily complex, bloated, convoluted and difficult to implement without specific knowledge of its features. This is true ev
     
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An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

Par :Italo Vignoli
18 juillet 2025 à 08:29

A document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden from users when the document is displayed on screen.

Unfortunately, while an XML schema can be simple, it can also be unnecessarily complex, bloated, convoluted and difficult to implement without specific knowledge of its features. This is true even if the on-screen documents are identical. In this case, complexity is an intentional tactic used to lock users into a vendor, as is the case with the Microsoft 365 document format.

An XML schema comprises the structure, data types and rules of an XML document and is described in an XML Schema Definition (XSD) file. This tells the PC what to expect and checks that the data follows the rules. In theory, XML and XSD together form the basis of the concept of interoperability. However, in practice, an XML schema can be made so complex that it becomes a barrier rather than a bridge.

An “artificially complex” XML schema goes beyond the level of complexity needed to display even the most intricate content on screen. In fact, it is completely disconnected from the actual complexity of the content, to the extent that even a simple sentence such as “To be, or not to be, that is the question” becomes an inextricable sequence of tags that users cannot access.

This artificial complexity is characterised by a deeply nested tag structure with excessive abstraction, dozens or even hundreds of optional or overloaded elements, non-intuitive naming conventions, the widespread use of extension points and wildcards, the multiple import of namespaces and type hierarchies, and sparse or cryptic documentation.

In the case of the Microsoft 365 document format, the only characteristic not present is sparse or cryptic documentation, given that we are talking about a set of documents totalling over 8,000 pages. All the other characteristics are present to a greater or lesser extent, making life almost impossible for a developer trying to implement the schema.

To illustrate how this translates into a lock-in strategy, consider a railway system where the tracks are accessible to all, but the main train manufacturer imposes its own incredibly complicated control system. In theory, anyone could build a train compatible with the tracks, but the control system specifications are so convoluted that only the main train manufacturer can ultimately offer rail services.

The worst thing is that passengers don’t realise they are being held hostage by technical constraints that they cannot understand until ticket prices rise or the number of cities served declines. At this point, the main manufacturer can dictate its terms, which passengers are forced to accept.

This is very similar to what is happening in the world of information technology, where Microsoft is effectively forcing its customers to switch from Windows 10 to Windows 11 against their will. This switch has no technical justification and locks customers into using Windows 11 and Microsoft 365. This is because customers have completely ignored the problems that arise from using proprietary technologies.

If, over the years, the millions of Microsoft users who uncritically accepted a narrative that was credible to non-technical users but divorced from technological reality had taken a critical stance towards this monopoly, which would have raised doubts in any other sector, we would be in a very different situation today.

Instead, these users – including governments and supranational organisations – have allowed lock-in strategies, in which Microsoft 365’s artificially and unnecessarily complex XML document schema plays a fundamental strategic role, to become increasingly sophisticated and pervasive.

Therefore, if you are developing or choosing an XML-based system, bear in mind that complexity imprisons people, whereas simplicity and clarity set them free.

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  • The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.5
    LibreOffice 24.8 has now reached the end of life, so all users have to update their free office suite to the latest release Berlin, 17 July 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.5, the fifth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux OSs, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. LibreOffice 24.8 has reached the end of life, which means that this release – whi
     
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.5

Par :Italo Vignoli
17 juillet 2025 à 07:30

LibreOffice 24.8 has now reached the end of life, so all users have to update their free office suite to the latest release

Berlin, 17 July 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.5, the fifth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux OSs, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1].

LibreOffice 24.8 has reached the end of life, which means that this release – which includes dozen of fixes and enhancements that further improve reliability, performance and interoperability – is suggested for production environments, and all users should update their installation as soon as possible.

LibreOffice 25.2.5 is based on the LibreOffice Technology, which enables the development of desktop, mobile and cloud versions – either from TDF or from the ecosystem – that fully support the two ISO standards for document formats: the open ODF or Open Document Format (ODT, ODS and ODP) and the closed and proprietary Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX).

Products based on the LibreOffice Technology are available for all major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF recommends a LibreOffice Enterprise-optimized version from one of the ecosystem companies, with dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLAs and security patch backports for three to five years.

English manuals for LibreOffice 25.2 Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Math are available for download at books.libreoffice.org/en/. End users can get first-level technical support from volunteers on the user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: ask.libreoffice.org.

Downloading LibreOffice

All available versions of LibreOffice for the desktop can be downloaded from the same website: www.libreoffice.org/download/.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project by making a donation: www.libreoffice.org/donate.

[1] Fixes in RC1: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.5/RC1. Fixes in RC2: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.5/RC2.

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  • Monthly News – July 2025
    Hello everyone, Many thanks to our sponsors and to all of you who support the project with your donations. Linux Mint 22.2 The team is working on a BETA release for Linux Mint 22.2. This new version introduces an HWE kernel, fingerprint authentication, theme updates, accent color support and improved libAdwaita compatibility. Work also continues in the Cinnamon edition, to make input methods and keyboard layouts compatible with Wayland. Packages and projects are being finalized. Pull requests ar
     
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Monthly News – July 2025

Par :Clem
14 juillet 2025 à 05:41

Hello everyone,

Many thanks to our sponsors and to all of you who support the project with your donations.

Linux Mint 22.2

The team is working on a BETA release for Linux Mint 22.2.

This new version introduces an HWE kernel, fingerprint authentication, theme updates, accent color support and improved libAdwaita compatibility. Work also continues in the Cinnamon edition, to make input methods and keyboard layouts compatible with Wayland.

Packages and projects are being finalized. Pull requests are being merged. There is no set date for the release but we’re hoping to get the BETA out by the end of July or the beginning of August.

LMDE 7

After Linux Mint 22.2 gets its stable release, the focus is likely to switch in September to LMDE 7, codenamed “Gigi”.

Gigi will come with all the improvements featured in Linux Mint 22.2 but on top of a Debian 13 package base instead of Ubuntu 24.04.

Another key improvement in LMDE 7 compared to LMDE 6 will be that it will support OEM installations.

Moderation

We unfortunately had to tighten moderation settings on this blog and it’s a real shame.

When we say everyone is welcome here, it means absolutely EVERYONE, no exceptions. This can only work if divisive topics are left behind and people refrain from labeling or excluding each other. Here, we’re all the same. Everybody’s welcome to participate. There’s no such thing as “freedom of speech”. We’re not here to fight for such or such ideas, we’re here to build something together and to protect our project and our community. We want comments to be on-topic and constructive, always.

We will not tolerate any kind of ideology.

We’re already bombarded by commercial spam. This is one of the last places in our community where you can interact without having to authenticate. I’m really hoping it can stay that way.

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  • Monthly News – June 2025
    Hello everyone, Many thanks to our sponsors and to all of you who support the project with your donations. Sponsorships: Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by: Gold Sponsors: Silver Sponsors: Bronze Sponsors: Donations in May: A total of $15,377 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 501 donors: $707 (6th donation), Daniel P. aka “Monkey” $531 (4th donation), Andreas B. $531 (2nd donation), Olli P. $318, Laurent J. aka “Mad Rabbit” $300 (6th donation), Keith M.
     
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Monthly News – June 2025

Par :Clem
14 juillet 2025 à 05:41

Hello everyone,

Many thanks to our sponsors and to all of you who support the project with your donations.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
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Silver Sponsors:
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ThinkPenguin: For Everything Freedom		 Bronze Sponsors:
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VANT

Donations in May:

A total of $15,377 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 501 donors:

$707 (6th donation), Daniel P. aka “Monkey”
$531 (4th donation), Andreas B.
$531 (2nd donation), Olli P.
$318, Laurent J. aka “Mad Rabbit”
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  • LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #4 – Documentation in Free and Open Source Software
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LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #4 – Documentation in Free and Open Source Software

Par :Mike Saunders
13 juillet 2025 à 03:57

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  • The Role of XML in Interoperability
    When different systems, applications or organisations need to communicate with each other and actually understand what is being said, interoperability is key. It enables a hospital’s software to communicate with an insurance company, for example, or one vendor’s inventory system to synchronise with another’s logistics platform. At the heart of many of these data exchanges is XML. XML (Extensible Markup Language) may not be new or flashy, but it remains one of the most powerful tools for achievin
     
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The Role of XML in Interoperability

Par :Italo Vignoli
11 juillet 2025 à 04:22

When different systems, applications or organisations need to communicate with each other and actually understand what is being said, interoperability is key. It enables a hospital’s software to communicate with an insurance company, for example, or one vendor’s inventory system to synchronise with another’s logistics platform.

At the heart of many of these data exchanges is XML.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) may not be new or flashy, but it remains one of the most powerful tools for achieving reliable, structured interoperability across diverse platforms.

Why is interoperability so hard?

Systems are built using different programming languages, data models and communication protocols. Without a shared format or structure, exchanging data can result in a complex web of custom APIs, ad hoc conversions, and manual adjustments.

To get systems working together seamlessly, you need:

  • A standardised structure for data.
  • A way to validate that structure.
  • A format that is language-agnostic and platform-neutral.

XML ticks all these boxes.

How XML enables interoperability

1. Self-describing structure

XML uses tags to clearly label data:

<customer>
   <name>Maria Ortega</name>
   <id>87234</id>
</customer>

This means that a receiving system doesn’t have to guess what each field means, as it is explicitly defined. This reduces the risk of misinterpretation and supports automated parsing.

2. Schema validation

Using XSD (XML Schema Definition) or DTD (Document Type Definition), you can define the rules that an XML document must adhere to, such as which elements are required, which data types are valid and what the structure must be.

This is critical for:

  • verifying incoming data
  • preventing malformed or incomplete exchanges
  • ensuring consistency across multiple systems

3. Namespaces for avoiding collisions

XML namespaces prevent tag name conflicts when data from different sources is combined.

<doc xmlns:h=”http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/” xmlns:f=”http://www.w3schools.com/furniture”>
   <h:table>…</h:table>
   <f:table>…</f:table>
</doc>

Without namespaces, systems could misinterpret elements with the same name but different meanings.

4. Cross-platform compatibility

XML is plain text. Any system that can read a file can read it, whether it’s written in Java, .NET, Python or COBOL. This makes it ideal for long-term data exchange and integration between legacy and modern systems.

XML in real-world interoperability

Healthcare: HL7 CDA/FHIR

Hospitals, clinics, insurance providers and pharmacies rely on XML-based formats to exchange clinical records, billing data and prescriptions. HL7’s CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) is a strict XML schema that is used worldwide.

In government, XML is used for e-government forms and tax data.

Tax filings, business registrations and compliance documents are often submitted in XML format. This ensures consistent structure across various jurisdictions and software vendors.

Publishing: DITA and JATS

XML standards are used for modular content creation and journal publishing to allow interoperability between authors, editors, publishers, and archive systems, even if they are using different tools.

Finance: XBRL

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) uses XML to standardise financial reports, enabling regulators, investors and analysts to automatically process and compare data from thousands of companies.

Summary

Interoperability isn’t just about convenience. It’s about accuracy, consistency and trust. XML’s rigidity helps to enforce that trust.

XML may not be trendy, but it remains the backbone of system-to-system interoperability. Its structured format, validation tools and long track record make it essential wherever precision and compatibility are non-negotiable.

If your systems need to communicate reliably and seamlessly across platforms, XML is one of the best languages they can use.

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  • Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice
    Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same. Caroline Stage Olsen, the country’s Digitalisation Minister, plans to move half of the employees to LibreOffice over the summer, and if all goes as expected, the entire Ministry will be free from Microsoft Office/365 later in the year. In a LinkedIn post, Olsen summarised the reasons for switching to LibreO
     
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Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice

Par :Mike Saunders
8 juillet 2025 à 04:50

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Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same.

Caroline Stage Olsen, the country’s Digitalisation Minister, plans to move half of the employees to LibreOffice over the summer, and if all goes as expected, the entire Ministry will be free from Microsoft Office/365 later in the year.

In a LinkedIn post, Olsen summarised the reasons for switching to LibreOffice:

We must never make ourselves so dependent on so few that we can no longer act freely. Because far too much public digital infrastructure is today tied up with very few foreign suppliers. This makes us vulnerable. Also financially.

That is why we are now testing in parallel at the Ministry of Digitization how it works in practice when we work with open source solutions. Several municipalities are doing the same.

Not because we think it’s easy – but because we know it’s necessary to lead the way if we want to create more competition and innovation – and reduce our dependence on the few.

We in the LibreOffice project welcome this move, and look forward to seeing more governments and organisations getting control of their digital sovereignty and using public money for public code.

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  • XML: a technology at the heart of our daily lives
    In my last article, I mentioned XML several times, perhaps assuming that all users had a basic understanding of it. Rereading it, I realised that an introduction to XML was needed for non-technical users, those who use XML every day without realising it, when they open a document, check the weather, place or receive an order online, or issue a digital invoice. XML works silently behind the scenes. But what exactly is XML and why should it matter to non-techies? I will try to explain it in simple
     
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XML: a technology at the heart of our daily lives

Par :Italo Vignoli
4 juillet 2025 à 04:20

In my last article, I mentioned XML several times, perhaps assuming that all users had a basic understanding of it. Rereading it, I realised that an introduction to XML was needed for non-technical users, those who use XML every day without realising it, when they open a document, check the weather, place or receive an order online, or issue a digital invoice. XML works silently behind the scenes.

But what exactly is XML and why should it matter to non-techies? I will try to explain it in simple terms.

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language, a way of organising information in a format that is easy for both people and computers to understand, helping different applications communicate and exchange data using a common language. Put simply, XML is a digital container that clearly labels information.

For example, this is a shopping list in XML format:


<groceryList>
  <item>
    <name>Bread</name>
    <quantity>1 loaf</quantity>
  </item>
  <item>
    <name>Milk</name>
    <quantity>2 litres</quantity>
  </item>
</groceryList>

Labelling helps computers and software understand exactly what each piece of information means.

In a hyperconnected world like ours, where apps and systems share data, XML allows that data to move between very different systems, such as credit card management apps and online shops. Without a common language like XML, communication between these systems would be much more complicated and slower, or even impossible.

So, XML is integrated into most everyday activities, even though it is completely hidden from users:

  • All documents created by all office suites use XML, in some cases to facilitate transparency and interoperability, and in other cases to create a hidden layer of complexity with the aim of preventing transparency and interoperability.
  • All apps that provide weather forecasts obtain updates by reading XML data issued by weather agencies.
  • Almost all e-commerce applications use XML to manage communication between the website, the payment system, the bank and the shipping service.
  • All blogs and news sites use XML to automatically transmit new content to readers.

XML is clear and easy to read because it organises data in an orderly manner with labels that are understandable to both humans and computers; it is flexible, as it is not limited to a single type of information and can be customised for different scenarios, from cooking recipes to flight schedules; and it is compatible with all platforms.

To appreciate the value of XML, you don’t need to have a deep understanding of the language, just know that it exists and that – when used properly, as in the case of the ODF format – it has the potential to help users achieve and protect their digital sovereignty.

Of course, it is equally important to know that XML can be used in exactly the opposite way, as is the case with Microsoft 365’s OOXML format (and previously Office), to limit users’ digital sovereignty and perpetuate lock-in through artificial file complexity.

In summary, XML is a silent enabler that ensures that users’ apps, services and data all speak the same language.

The next time you open a document, check your favourite news site or follow an online delivery, remember that XML is working silently behind the scenes to ensure that everything runs smoothly. And try to imagine a digital world without XML, where a single company controls the data and, through it, the users.

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  • LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2025
    Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started the month with Episode 3 of the LibreOffice Podcast – this time looking at Quality Assurance (QA) in Free and Open Source Software. Watch it below – or on PeerTube. Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If
     
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LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2025

Par :Mike Saunders
2 juillet 2025 à 10:12

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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

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    The LibreOffice community has great news: the Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Math User Guides are now available for version 25.2! Yes, you read that right! With every new LibreOffice release, our Documentation Team works hard to keep up — and this time, we’ve shortened the gap between the software launch and the guides’ publication even more. These user guides are the ultimate reference for anyone using LibreOffice — whether at home, at work, or at school. From spreadsheets to presentations
     
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📣 The New LibreOffice 25.2 User Guides Are Here!

Par :Olivier Hallot
1 juillet 2025 à 03:43

The LibreOffice community has great news: the Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Math User Guides are now available for version 25.2! 🎉

Yes, you read that right! With every new LibreOffice release, our Documentation Team works hard to keep up — and this time, we’ve shortened the gap between the software launch and the guides’ publication even more.

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  • A Technical Dive into ODF
    To write this article, I went beyond the limits of my technical knowledge, which is that of an advanced user who has studied standard formats and their characteristics in depth, to understand why standard formats – one of the pillars of digital sovereignty – and proprietary formats – their opposite, and one of the biggest obstacles to digital sovereignty – are not perceived as a problem by most PC users, who continue to use Microsoft’s proprietary formats and place the access and availability of
     
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A Technical Dive into ODF

Par :Italo Vignoli
28 juin 2025 à 12:16

To write this article, I went beyond the limits of my technical knowledge, which is that of an advanced user who has studied standard formats and their characteristics in depth, to understand why standard formats – one of the pillars of digital sovereignty – and proprietary formats – their opposite, and one of the biggest obstacles to digital sovereignty – are not perceived as a problem by most PC users, who continue to use Microsoft’s proprietary formats and place the access and availability of their content in the hands of the US company.

To try to remedy this problem, I will try to explain as simply as possible, using non-technical language (which may shock developers, but this article is not aimed at them), some technical features of the Open Document Format (ODF), which make it the cornerstone of an open and vendor-independent ecosystem for office documents, defending the digital freedoms of all users and the governance of their content.

I will begin by explaining how to unpack an ODF file, which is nothing more than a set of XML files and other files (for images and videos) contained within a ZIP folder, in order to examine its internal components and, in particular, the content.xml file, which is the one that contains the body of the document (i.e., the user’s intellectual property).

The aim is not so much to assess conformity (compliance with specifications) and interoperability (the ability to exchange files consistently between tools), as these aspects will always be dealt with by specialists, but rather to understand the advantages for the user of the open and standard format over the closed and proprietary format (which is falsely standard, since it was approved by ISO/IEC in defiance of “their” definitions of standards).

For this reason, I will make a brief concluding digression on the characteristics of the OOXML (Office Open XML) format used by Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365, again to clarify to users the risks they face and the harm they do to themselves and other users when they use DOCX, XLSX and PPTX formats, as well as the ‘gift’ they are giving to Microsoft, to whom they are effectively entrusting the management and future of their content.

Analysing an ODF file

Take any document you have created with LibreOffice. For convenience, I recommend starting with a text document created with LibreOffice Writer, with the ODT extension. Before doing anything else, duplicate the file, because an error in the procedure could make it unreadable, and move the original to another folder.

Rename the copy, replacing the ODT extension with the ZIP extension, without deleting the dot. The file icon will become that of a compressed file. If it becomes white or empty, you have done something wrong or deleted the dot. Check all the steps until the icon becomes that of a compressed file.

At this point, right-click on the icon and select “unzip” or “expand” to extract the contents of the compressed file into a folder with the same name as the file without the extension.

The folder will contain the following items:

  • the META-INF folder, which will contain the manifest.xml file
  • the Thumbnails folder, which may contain the thumbnail.png file
  • the content.xml file, which contains the body of the document
  • the styles.xml file, which contains the style definitions
  • the meta.xml file, which contains the file metadata (author, creation date, last modification date, etc.)
  • the settings.xml file, which contains the application settings

Each XML file within an ODF document must comply with the RelaxNG XML schema, or REgular LAnguage for XML Next Generation, created by OASIS in 2001 and 2002, which is simpler – and therefore more accessible to non-technical users – than other XML schemas. The packaging rules are defined by the OpenDocument Packaging specifications.

In addition to schema validation, it must meet a number of conditions.

  • Structural compliance: the elements of the ZIP and manifest.xml files
  • Functionality compliance: all standard and optional functionality (metadata, styles, tables, graphics, etc.)
  • Formula compliance: spreadsheet formulas must be compatible with OpenFormula semantics
  • Security compliance: ODF profiles, encryption, digital signature

The manifest.xml file contained in the META-INF folder must list all the files in the ZIP file, with their media type:

<manifest:manifest xmlns:manifest=”urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:manifest:1.0″>
     <manifest:file-entry manifest:full-path=”/” manifest:media-type=”application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text”/>
     <manifest:file-entry manifest:full-path=”content.xml” manifest:media-type=”text/xml”/>
     <manifest:file-entry manifest:full-path=”styles.xml” manifest:media-type=”text/xml”/>
     <!– thumbnails, settings, etc. –>
</manifest:manifest>

Simply omitting a file or making an error in the description of its media type is enough to make the ODF file structurally non-compliant.

ODF: the importance of the content.xml file

To understand the user benefits of an open standard format such as ODF over a proprietary format, even one that is theoretically open such as OOXML, a quick analysis of the content.xml file of ODF files and its equivalent in OOXML files, which differs depending on the file type (and this alone is a sign that the development of OOXML did not take user needs into account at all, but focused on artificially increasing complexity), is sufficient.

Let’s take a first example, based on one of the most famous phrases in the history of world literature, namely “to be, or not to be, that is the question” uttered by the protagonist of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

The content.xml file of a text document containing only this sentence is 32 lines long: the first 18 provide references to all the standards used (such as X-Forms and MathML), list the fonts used in the document styles, and define the styles (in this case only one, given the length of the text and the absence of formatting).

The next 13 lines are as follows:

<office:body>
     <office:text>
          <office:forms form:automatic-focus=”false” form:apply-design-mode=”false”/>
          <text:sequence-decls>
               <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=”0″ text:name=”Illustration”/>
               <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=”0″ text:name=”Table”/>
               <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=”0″ text:name=”Text”/>
               <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=”0″ text:name=”Drawing”/>
               <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=”0″ text:name=”Figure”/>
          </text:sequence-decls>
          <text:p text:style-name=”P1″>To be, or not to be, that is the question</text:p>
     </office:text>
</office:body>

The first lines define the body of the document and the fact that it is a text. The following lines are declarations that, in this case, do not add anything, but in other contexts would provide information about other elements of the document.

The key line is this: <text:p text:style-name=‘P1’>To be, or not to be, that is the question</text:p>, which defines a paragraph, declares its style (P1) and provides the content: To be, or not to be, that is the question. Clear and readable by any user, who now has the keys to access the document and manage its contents, i.e. the product of their brain.

Of course, more complex documents and contents would correspond to a more complex content.xml file, but always respecting the readability of the contents and the simplicity of the XML schema.

OOXML: what happens inside the file

Let’s see what happens in the case of the same document saved in DOCX format, closed and proprietary, and artificially complex. The file is called document.xml and not content.xml, and this – obviously – would not be significant if it were not a further sign of the complexity of the format, given that in the case of Excel the file is called workbook.xml and in the case of PowerPoint it is called slide1.xml, and so on.

The document.xml file of a text document containing only the phrase “To be, or not to be, that is the question” is 41 lines long: the first provides references to all the proprietary elements used (such as wordprocessingCanvas, VML and WordML), and all the subsequent lines relate to the content:

<w:body>
     <w:p xmlns:wp14=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml” wp14:paraId=”2DC08235″ wp14:textId=”776AF5CB”>
          <w:r w:rsidR=”6B254FF6″>
               <w:rPr/>
               <w:t xml:space=”preserve”>To be, or </w:t>
          </w:r>
          <w:r w:rsidR=”6B254FF6″>
               <w:rPr/>
               <w:t>not</w:t>
          </w:r>
          <w:r w:rsidR=”6B254FF6″>
               <w:rPr/>
               <w:t xml:space=”preserve”> to be, </w:t>
          </w:r>
          <w:r w:rsidR=”6B254FF6″>
               <w:rPr/>
               <w:t>that</w:t>
          </w:r>
          <w:r w:rsidR=”6B254FF6″>
               <w:rPr/>
               <w:t xml:space=”preserve”> </w:t>
          </w:r>
          <w:r w:rsidR=”6B254FF6″>
               <w:rPr/>
               <w:t>is</w:t>
          </w:r>
          <w:r w:rsidR=”6B254FF6″>
               <w:rPr/>
               <w:t xml:space=”preserve”> the question</w:t>
          </w:r>
     </w:p>
     <w:sectPr>
          <w:pgSz w:w=”11906″ w:h=”16838″ w:orient=”portrait”/>
          <w:pgMar w:top=”1440″ w:right=”1440″ w:bottom=”1440″ w:left=”1440″ w:header=”720″ w:footer=”720″ w:gutter=”0″/>
          <w:cols w:space=”720″/>
          <w:docGrid w:linePitch=”360″/>
     </w:sectPr>
</w:body>

Obscure and unreadable. I challenge any user to reconstruct a text of any complexity from an XML document like this, if the original file is damaged. In the case of ODF, we were able to reconstruct even documents of hundreds of pages, or presentations of dozens of slides, because the content was readable by any user, even non-technical ones.

Let’s try to imagine the size of the content.xml file and the document.xml file if, instead of Prince Hamlet’s sentence, there were all 5,566 lines of the entire tragedy, in the original version written by William Shakespeare. In this case, the difference speaks for itself: content.xml is 5,598 lines long (32 lines more than the text), document.xml is 93,289 lines long (87,723 lines more than the text).

File complexity as the new lock-in strategy

This file complexity is intentionally hidden from the user, who sees a normal-looking document on the screen and has no idea that they are writing a file on their hard drive or in the cloud that has characteristics very similar to those of the proprietary files used in the last century, which are unreadable without the software with which they were written.

A user who believes they have made significant progress in terms of digital sovereignty because they use a format they believe to be open and standard but which, on the contrary, is even worse than the binary formats of the 1900s – which were nothing more than the writing of what was in memory – because, being based on XML, it is the offspring of an algorithm that can be modified remotely with a routine update (as happens in reality, where the same document is written in DOCX format but with a completely different XML syntax each time, based on parameters known only to the vendor, i.e. Microsoft).

So, it is an even more closed and proprietary format than the binary formats it replaced in 2006. The latter, being the result of writing what was in memory to files, were predictable and could be emulated, while OOXML is unpredictable due to the algorithm, and therefore almost impossible to emulate without constant study of its many evolutions.

OOXML is a theoretically open and standard format, which in reality is closed and proprietary, and represents the latest evolution of the lock-in strategy that underpins all Microsoft products for individual productivity, defending an estimated turnover of over $25 billion per year, with an estimated net profit of over $20 billion per year (all figures are estimates, as analysts’ figures are no longer available and are probably lower than the actual figures).

Perhaps the time has come for supranational organisations, central and local governments, and probably also individual users, to open their eyes and take a simple step forward towards digital sovereignty, i.e. the governance of documents and their content independent of the commercial choices of a single company, by adopting ODF and abandoning OOXML.

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  • Interview with Sevenix (author of GIMP 3.0’s splash image)
    A few years ago, we had started a series of interviews (mitch and schumaml). More were planned, but things don’t always go as planned. Well let’s try again! Today we are interviewing Sevenix, the digital artist who contributed the very cool splash screen image (which appears when starting GIMP) for the GIMP 3.0 series. This interview was held asynchronously and remotely with questions from myself, Liam Quin and Alx Sa. GIMP 3.0 splash screen by Sevenix — CC by-sa 4.0 International Wilber
     
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Interview with Sevenix (author of GIMP 3.0’s splash image)

Par :Jehan
26 juin 2025 à 18:00

A few years ago, we had started a series of interviews (mitch and schumaml). More were planned, but things don’t always go as planned.

Well let’s try again! Today we are interviewing Sevenix, the digital artist who contributed the very cool splash screen image (which appears when starting GIMP) for the GIMP 3.0 series.

This interview was held asynchronously and remotely with questions from myself, Liam Quin and Alx Sa.

GIMP 3.0 splash screen, by Sevenix (CC by-sa 4.0)
GIMP 3.0 splash screen by Sevenix — CC by-sa 4.0 International

Wilber (GIMP team): Hello Sevenix! Could you introduce yourself?

Sevenix: Hello! My name is Fredrik Persson and I’m a programmer located in Sweden in my late thirties. I like music, movies and video games with the latter being one of my major points of artistic inspiration. Most of my drawings, even if not necessarily related to a specific game, take a lot of inspirations from the games I enjoy. One game in specific was actually the reason I got into digital artwork at all.

Fredrik Persson (a.k.a. Sevenix)
Fredrik Persson (a.k.a. Sevenix) — all rights reserved

W: You use GIMP for illustrations. Is this a hobby? Do you use GIMP for a living?

S: I use GIMP for a lot of things but my main use would probably be creating illustrations, or digital artwork, yes. Ever since I was little I enjoyed drawing vast landscapes and simply filling them to the brim with little details. I use GIMP as a hobby, and while I have taken commission works earlier, I tend to not these days. The way I work is rather slow and heavily dependent on my inspiration over several months. Taking on projects that are not based on my own inspiration as well as demanding deadlines, it was simply not an enjoyable experience for me.

W: Could you talk a bit about your workflow please?

S: Funny thing, most who read this would probably expect me to be good at drawing, but truth is, I’m really not. I would consider myself below mediocre when it comes to real life drawing. I’ve always had the will and compulsion to draw, but I was never really any good at it. As such, I belong to a rather small minority who produce my artwork, not with a drawing tablet and pen, but with keyboard and mouse.

W: You work with fairly large images - what sizes are typical, and do you need to do anything special in your workflow to handle them?

S: Since I work with digital art, my main focus has always been to create wallpapers for desktops. As such I started off making regular 16:9 images in 1920x1080 pixels (HD) which during the later years I have increased to 3840x2160 (UHD). That being said, this resolution and aspect ratio is only my final aim. Sometimes websites etc. will use some different aspect ratio which I would have to adhere to, and I found it easier to create my work with this in mind from the start, rather than try to add more to the image afterwards. Print on Demand sites like Displate for example create prints in a 1.4:1 ratio. So, the first parts of all my work is to create an image that would fit a Displate 1.4:1 print. My next step is to immediately make sure to add guides or framing to make sure I do most of my detail work inside the areas which will later become the 16:9 wallpaper. This way I get a resulting image that is a 16:9 wallpaper, but with the option to extend the image to a 1.4:1 without having to create anything new.

W: You told us that you only use a mouse (no graphics tablet). Why is that?

S: One of the major advantages with digital work compared to conventional is that you can undo steps. Whenever I need to draw a line or arc, I can literally have infinite amount of attempts to get it just right. I try once and see if I’m happy with the result, if not, I do a quick Undo and try again. I mentioned that I’m bad at actual drawing and ever since I came to accept that I’ve started considering the work I do less of “drawing”, and more of “Brute Forcing Pixels”.

I believe using a graphic tablet could be great if you like it and it’s a skill you already have, but I equally believe that achieving a similar skill and familiarity with a mouse isn’t much harder. I suppose an answer to this question in it’s simplest form would be: I do my work with keyboard and mouse, because it’s how I learned to do it and it’s what I feel comfortable with.

W: Your art uses a rather specific art style, could you tell us a bit about it?

S: I can try. The way I got into actual art was trying to replicate the art of the game Fallen London. They use rather simple shapes, fog and lights. Creating more of a Silhouette of their objects rather than actually drawing them. They also tend to use images with very few colors, which is also something I’ve taken with me. This way I was able to create expansive landscapes by placing layer after layer on top of each other. This results in an image that is hard to describe digitally but when people ask I tend to describe it as a Digital Paper Diorama, which I find very apt.

The way I tend to work consists of really just a few techniques, repeated for each of my “layers”

  1. I Create a new Layer Group and name it with a number. This layer group will contain everything I need for one segment of my image.
  2. I draw my silhouetted landscape on a layer in this group, this is my Base layer.
  3. I add a linear gradient ontop of the base layer and make it apply to only the layer below it by setting the clipping option of the layer to Clip to Background.
  4. I add another layer group inside the layer group. This one I name “Lights”. It consists of a base layer as well which are the shapes. but in order to easily be able to change the color of these lights I make another layer ontop of it and naming it Color, similarly setting it to only apply to the Lights layer below it. Once I feel satisfied with this layer I duplicate it and run a Gaussian Blur on it, making it create a glow bloom on the light sources.

I replicate this Group Layer structure for each of the “layers” I need in my images. I usually end up with around 10 to 20 of these groups in my images. And while the above list is the base of them, many become more advanced as I need things added.

Illustration by Sevenix demonstrating his layer organization
Illustration by Sevenix demonstrating his layer organization — all rights reserved

What’s important to me with this structure is the fact that it’s very easy to go back to it and edit it. At any point in my workflow I want to be able to determine that “This part here on layer 3 doesn’t really work with this great tree placement on layer 13”. At those points I don’t want there to be anything to stop me from going back to Layer 3 and change it to how I need it to be.

As I see it, the more non-destructive editing I do, the less I become tied down to decisions I made 10 hours back in my workflow.

This does create some rather large files, but as long as my computer can handle it I feel it’s a crucial part of my workflow.

Just for an example, the latest piece I did was a piece related to Remedy Entertainments Alan Wake games. The whole project took some 15h of work time and ended up with some 170 individual layers.

W: Is there any of your illustrations that hold a special place in your mind?

S: There are many, I could pick a lot out of my early work that were the point where I felt like I was actually happy with my results, and eager to show them off. But instead I will pick a piece I named Land of the Cherry Blossoms.

Land of the Cherry Blossoms, illustration by Sevenix (used during 3.0 release candidates)
“Land of the Cherry Blossoms”, illustration by Sevenix (used during 3.0 release candidates) — CC by-sa 4.0 International

This was probably the first real piece I did that was not simply based on other works. Up to this point I had made most my work by trying to replicate styles, testing out techniques and basing it on already existing lore. This piece was the first time I made something that felt like it was me putting something on the canvas that was all me.

There are a lot of inspirations in this piece of course. A classic Japanese setting in pink with Sakura trees are in no way mind-bending. But it was mine, straight out of my head, and piled on with all the thousands of small details I like adding to my work.

This was also one of my first pieces to become really popular on Print on Demand sites, providing me with visions of a potential future where I could actually do this for a job.

All of this. The positive feedback, the actual small amounts of money it brought in, not to mention the joy I felt with creating it, really put this piece as one of the most impactful of my digital artist career.

W: What do you think of the latest GIMP 3 series?

S: I really like it! There were some issues in the very earliest releases but they were fixed fast and I now moved over to using 3.0 for my regular, daily work. It looks much more modern to start, but what really wins me over are some long awaited features such as non-destructive editing.

W: Any specific feature in 3.0 that caught you by surprise?

S: Multi-layer selection. When I first heard about it being added to GIMP I had no idea how perfectly it would fit into my workflow. The ability to save selections allow me to easily select all of my “color” layers of the color I want to replace, then simply fill them all with my new color.

In the old workflow I had to change one layer first, then click every other layer one by one, repeating the same action on each of them. Even providing I was happy with the end result, this was still some 20 or 30 actions I had to do manually.

In 3.0 I can do all that in just 4 actions!

W: What are your favorite features or main reasons why you appreciate GIMP?

S: I enjoy the fact that it is open source and free. I say that as someone who would never have gotten into image editing or digital art unless I would have been able to simply download it and start trying.

W: What are the features you really wished GIMP had, or things you’d like to see improved or changed?

I’ve been using the 2.10 version since I started with digital art, and as such there was always the continuous rumors about a 3.0 version arriving sometime in the far future. It wasn’t till I actually got into the GIMP community that I realized that the 3.0 version really didn’t seem that far off at all. Ever since then I’ve followed the development and believe it or not, just about everything I wished for seems to be implemented in 3.0. Multi-layer select, Non-destructive editing. Just such a simple thing as the decision to change the default Paste functionality from the very beginner hostile Paste as Floating Layer was great.

There are of course things that still can improve, and definitely things I could see myself using if they were implemented. And if you forced me to mention one I think it would be something similar to Adobes Smart Objects. Being able to add another GIMP image into your current GIMP image.

W: Apart from contributing to the project with illustrations, you also help with moderation on Discord. Could you talk about it?

S: I was very happy when I found the Discord. GIMP is an advanced program and in that it can be very hard to navigate when you are new. Joining the community on Discord allowed me access to a quick way to throw out “stupid” questions whenever I got stuck. Issues that would usually provide me with enough frustration to simply stand up and walk away from my computer suddenly just took a quick question in a chat channel, a cool head, and some patience.

As for the moderation. I’m a person who enjoy finding things I like doing. And as I get better at them, I really enjoy helping others find that same joy.

In GIMP, most of the time when you get stuck it’s usually because of 2 or 3 common issues. Maybe you got a checkbox active that you shouldn’t. Maybe you accidentally set your layer to 0% opacity. Maybe you happened to set the Mode of your brush to Screen.

In either of those cases, you learn each time you figure it out. And with some help that goes much faster. As soon as I had gotten stuck enough times, I was able to help answer literally half the questions that were asked in the Discord channel. And people were always so appreciative. Most of the times those that get help there also end up posting the results of their work a bit later, and it’s awesome to know we were part of making that happen.

I say We because I’m in no way alone in this. While I was later promoted to a moderation role in the discord, the moderation itself has always been quite easy. What really impressed me is how popular the Discord server has become. These days it’s frequented by so many people that you hardly got a chance to answer questions unless you literally pounce at them the moment they appear.

My work as a moderator is a very easy one, all thanks to the absolute amazing community in there that crave to help others, improve their own work, or show off their latest creative works.

W: Any closing remarks for this interview?

S: Thanks for picking me for this. As I mentioned earlier, I love talking about and sharing my passions. Combining not only Digital Art but the general history and development of GIMP into the same interview could literally have me talking for ages.

A few links to know more about this artist:

Bonus: here is the alternative banner version of the GIMP 3.0 splash image, also contributed by Sevenix for irregular promotion of the software on the Microsoft Store (it is designed so that it can be cropped for various form factors and with space left on the left for the software’s name and some additional text):

Microsoft Store banner for GIMP 3.0.0 by Sevenix
Microsoft Store banner for GIMP 3.0.0 by Sevenix — CC by-sa 4.0 International
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  • New LibreOffice merchandise is here!
    Get cool LibreOffice merchandise – and support our projects and community! We’ve updated our Spreadshirt shop with new designs, and part of the sales go to The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind the suite. Click here to visit the shop
     
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New LibreOffice merchandise is here!

Par :Mike Saunders
24 juin 2025 à 09:52

T-shirts, hoodies, bags with LibreOffice icons

Get cool LibreOffice merchandise – and support our projects and community! We’ve updated our Spreadshirt shop with new designs, and part of the sales go to The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind the suite.

Click here to visit the shop

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  • GIMP 3.1.2: First Development Release towards GIMP 3.2
    In keeping with our new release schedule, we’re proud to announce GIMP 3.1.2, the first development version of what will become GIMP 3.2! This release contains a number of new features that we’ve been working on in-between bugfixes for GIMP 3.0. We’re looking forward to your testing and feedback as we continue adjusting and tweaking the code and design of them. New development splash screen by Ville Pätsi - GIMP 3.1.2 Our new development splash screen was created by Ville Pätsi and commemo
     
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GIMP 3.1.2: First Development Release towards GIMP 3.2

Par :GIMP Team
22 juin 2025 à 18:00

In keeping with our new release schedule, we’re proud to announce GIMP 3.1.2, the first development version of what will become GIMP 3.2! This release contains a number of new features that we’ve been working on in-between bugfixes for GIMP 3.0. We’re looking forward to your testing and feedback as we continue adjusting and tweaking the code and design of them.

GIMP 3.1.2: splash screen
New development splash screen by Ville Pätsi - GIMP 3.1.2

Our new development splash screen was created by Ville Pätsi and commemorates our recent visit to the 2025 Libre Graphics Meeting

Note that a development release is not ready for production use. It might crash. If it didn’t have problems it would be 3.2 already. So please do test, but understand this is a feature release for early adopters and for the more adventurous!

Theme colors for Brush, Font, and Palette

Brush previews in GIMP are printed on a white background. For grayscale brushes, we use black to represent the brush stroke. Since the Brush dockable displays many brush previews side by side, it can create a distractingly bright section if you’re using the Dark or Gray themes, especially in grid mode.

We now have a toggle to make brush previews rendered with the theme foreground and background colors instead. This means that in dark mode, the brush background will be a darker color while the brush itself will be lighter. The fonts dockable also has this toggle, and palette displays will automatically use the theme colors. Note that this is a cosmetic change only and does not affect how you create brushes.

Default Colors Theme Colors

Brush preview before and after theme color toggle - GIMP 3.1.2

Auto-match Windows and Linux OS theme

GIMP defaults to the Dark mode version of our Default theme on first load. Thanks to the hard work of several contributors (Hari Rana, Niels De Graef, Isopod, and Jehan), we know have an additional “System Colors” color scheme so that GIMP matches your current OS theme preferences on Windows and Linux (provided your OS supports the portal). GIMP’s theme will also automatically update if you change your system preference.

You can of course still explicitly set a color scheme in Preferences or the Welcome Dialog if you’d prefer to use a scheme that’s different from your OS.

Screenshot of Welcome Dialogue with System Colors theme set
Screenshot of Welcome Dialogue with System Colors theme - GIMP 3.1.2

If you’re a macOS developer and are interested in adding support for this feature on your platform, please reach out!

New Paint Mode: Overwrite

New contributor Woynert implemented a new paint blend mode called Overwrite. It allows you to directly replace the pixels over the area you paint, without blending the transparency values of the brush and the existing pixels in that area.

Example of how Overwrite blending mode works
Example of how Overwrite blending mode works - GIMP 3.1.2

This new mode is particularly useful for pixel art, when you want to overwrite your target opacity over the source opacity, and is mostly targetted at the Pencil tool. With the brush tool or other paint tools, some interpolation of opacity and color will still happen for softer transitions as this is what is usually expected with these tools.

For these non-pencil use cases, we are still tweaking the algorithm and we welcome feedback. For the pencil tool use cases though, the sharp overwrite of color and alpha is pretty much what is expected from this mode.

Note also that this new mode is only available as a paint mode (in particular, you won’t find it in the list of layer modes or effect modes).

New Text Outline Option

There’s a new setting in the text tool to control the direction of the text outline. You can have the text outline grow inward, outward, or in both directions!

Screenshot of new Outline Direction option in the text tool
Screenshot of new Outline Direction option in the text tool - GIMP 3.1.2

Non-destructive editing

Co-Maintainer Michael Natterer spent several days during the Libre Graphics Meeting, going over the non-destructive filter code in order to clean it up and refactor it. While this is mostly behind-the-scenes work, this should reduce bugs and make future development and maintenance much easier.

Building on this work, GIMP now supports adding non-destructive filters to channels! The Channels dockable now shows the same Fx column as the Layers dockable, so you can edit, rearrange, delete, and merge filters on channels just like you can with layers.

CMYK

The CMYK Color Selector now calculates and displays the Total Ink Coverage of the selected color. This is useful when printing, as depending on the printing system and the media used, there may be a limit on how much ink can be applied.

Screenshot of CMYK Color Selector showing Total Ink Coverage
Screenshot of CMYK Color Selector showing Total Ink Coverage - GIMP 3.1.2

File format support

We have added support for several new formats and improved some existing ones. Are there image formats you need? Let us know and we can investigate whether we can add them.

ART Raw Loader

We’re adding support for using ART (AnotherRawTherapee) as a Camera Raw loader in GIMP, in addition to our existing support for darktable and RawTherapee. If you have ART already installed, GIMP should automatically recognize it and use it to load Camera Raw format images for further editing. If that doesn’t work for you, please reach out and let us know!

Krita Palette

By request, we’ve added a new option to export to Krita‘s .kpl palette format from GIMP. You can do this by choosing Export as from the menu in the Palette dockable.

Photoshop Patterns

Jacob Boerema has added support for importing Photoshop patterns! You can put Adobe .pat files in the GIMP pattern folder and automatically load them in the same way as GIMP’s own .pat files. We have tested this feature with RGB and grayscale Photoshop patterns, but if you run into any issues with your patterns, please let us know (and include the pattern file)!

Photoshop Curves and Levels presets

You can now use presets from Photoshop’s Curves and Levels filters in GIMP’s Curves and Levels filters! When you use these filters, choose Import Current Settings from File... from the Preset menu and select your .acv or .alv preset respectively. If your preset doesn’t work with those filters, please let us know (and include the preset files)!

Screenshot of Curves filter with Photoshop .acv preset loaded
Screenshot of Curves filter with Photoshop .acv preset loaded (image by Daniel Squires, CC0) - GIMP 3.1.2

PSD/PSB

Alx Sa has implemented initial support for exporting PSBs, Photoshop Large format. It is very similar to PSDs - the main difference is that you can export images up to 300,000 pixels wide and tall instead of PSD’s 30,000 limit. Thanks to Ville Pätsi for their initial testing. If you work with very large images (or PSBs in general), we’d appreciate your testing and feedback!

Also, our PSD/PSB importer now recognizes legacy Drop Shadow and Inner Shadow non-destructive filters. These will be converted to GIMP’s non-destructive Dropshadow filter so you can edit and adjust them after opening the image.

APNG

GIMP can now import APNG animations. People building or packaging GIMP should note that we used the standard libpng for this, not a patched version, so no changes are needed.

OpenEXR

We’ve now added support for loading multi-layer OpenEXR images. For instance, if you export a multi-view image from other software such as Blender, all views should show up in GIMP as individual layers.

JPEG 2000

We have had import support for JPEG 2000 images for many years. Steve Williams of Advance Software implemented an export plug-in for their own use and shared a GIMP 3 compatible version with us. We have merged it into the existing JPEG 2000 loader, so now you can both import and export JPEG 2000 images!

Screenshot of JPEG 2000 export dialogue
Screenshot of JPEG 2000 export dialogue (image by Robb Hannawacker, CC0) - GIMP 3.1.2

Playstation TIM

Andrew Kieschnick originally developed a GIMP 2 plug-in to load and export Sony Playstation 1 TIM textures and images. We have updated the code to be compatible with GIMP 3 and incorporated it as a standard image plug-in.

OpenRaster

OpenRaster is a file format intended to help share layered images between graphics editors (such Krita, MyPaint, and Scribus). In addition to the standard format (which GIMP already supports), there are two official extensions to remember which layers were selected and which ones were content locked. GIMP now supports exporting and importing both.

Over The Air Bitmap

We’ve added import support for Nokia’s historical black and white Over-the-Air Bitmap format. (Hey, ImageMagick supports it too!)

Jeff’s Image Format

As promised in our April news post, we have added import support for the GIF variant known as Jeff’s Image Format (.jif).

AVCI and HEJ2

Daniel Novomeský has added support for importing Advanced Video Coding (AVCI) still images. They’ve also added support for exporting HEJ2 images, which is an HEIF file that contains a JPEG 2000 image.

UX/UI

Denis Rangelov, Reju, Michal Vašut, and other designers have been working on a number of UX/UI updates for GIMP 3.2 in the UX repository. While the larger changes are still being designed and reviewed, we have been implementing several of their quality of life fixes:

  • We found several instances where the Foreground Selection algorithm would run when switching to another tool, even if no selection had been made yet. This caused an unnecessary lag, so we adjusted the algorithm to avoid running in those cases.

  • A few more areas where the system theme could conflict with GIMP’s theme were found and fixed. In fact, a few of these glitches were found while taking screenshots for this news post!

  • The Palette dockable now automatically selects the next swatch when you delete a previous one, allowing you to quickly delete several swatches by just clicking the Delete button repeatedly.

  • The state of the “Merge Filter” checkbox for non-destructive filters should no longer be affected if you apply a filter that currently has to be destructive, like Lens Blur. In prior versions, applying a destructive filter would always enable the checkbox for other filters, even if you had turned it off before.

  • “Lock pixels” now generates an undo step in undo history, just like “Lock Position” and other locks.

Notable bug and regression fixes

Unique Color Count

The Color Cube Analysis plug-in was removed from GIMP 3, as most of its functionality already exists in the Histogram dockable. We say most, because one feature was missed - the display of how many unique colors the image has. Thankfully, Google Summer of Code student Gabriele Barbero has reimplemented this feature! You can enable it by checking “Compute unique colors” in the Histogram dockable. The count will update live as you edit the image.

Screenshot of Histogram Editor with unique colors count highlighted
Screenshot of Histogram Editor with unique colors count highlighted - GIMP 3.1.2

Additional Fixes

Some image formats do not allow images to have transparent sections. This can be confusing if you’re not familiar with all the details of the image you imported, especially when rotating or applying a filter with transparency such as Color to Alpha. We now detect if a filter or transformation would require transparency, and automatically add an alpha channel to the layer to prevent unexpected distortions.

Jacob Boerema implemented a fix for ZDI-CAN-25082, which potentially affected loading certain DDS images on a 32-bit machine.

In the 3.0.4 news post, we implemented a fix for transparency padding when pasting a selection to other programs. Cheesequake extended this fix to also cover copy and pasting full layers to other programs. Please let us know if you notice any other related regressions!

Estecka fixed a bug where editing filters on a hidden layer would automatically cause the layer to reappear.

The legacy Jigsaw filter has been updated to work on transparent layers. While it’s not a non-destructive filter, this fix should allow you to apply it to a separate transparent layer and then use it as an overlay for your image.

Plug-in/Script Developers

We’ve added a new API to create a GimpCoordinates widget in the auto-generated dialogue. gimp_procedure_dialog_get_coordinates () will connect two numeric parameters with a chain link and a unit type dropdown. You can see an example of how it’s used in our Tile plug-in, or in our GimpUi API documentation.

Due to an oversight, unsigned integer parameters did not generate widgets in GimpProcedureDialog despite being functionally this same. This has been corrected, so now gimp_procedure_add_uint_argument () will create input fields automatically just like gimp_procedure_add_int_argument () does.

Also, Jehan added a new default behavior to the GimpChoice parameter type. If you make one with only two options, the auto-generated dialog will display radio buttons instead of a dropdown menu. You can of course override this default with gimp_procedure_dialog_get_widget (), but we think this will help save people some clicks for simple options.

Build Process

Bruno Lopes continues their hard work to improve our build and packaging processes. A few of the highlights:

  • Our build system now automatically generates a list of image formats that GIMP can open on Windows. This means rather than manually maintaining (and often forgetting to update) a list, the installer and MSIX will associate all supported images as we implement them, like the ones mentioned in this news.

  • Our Linux builds now have a similar method of auto-generating image format associations via their mimetype too. We hope to implement this feature for macOS builds as well in a future update.

  • All previously non-portable build scripts of GIMP repository have been made POSIX-compliant. This means that it’s now easier to use these on platforms like BSD. Bruno has also implemented more checks in our CI pipelines to prevent non-portable code from being reintroduced in the future. Even though most of these utility scripts will not be used on daily basis by packagers (we ported the important .sh scripts used by Meson to .py scripts since GIMP 3.0.4 development cycle), this makes our builds truly cross-platform.

Release stats

Since GIMP 3.0.4, in the main GIMP repository:

  • 42 reports were closed as FIXED.
  • 55 merge requests were merged.
  • 302 commits were pushed.
  • 12 translations were updated: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Dutch, Galician, Georgian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

29 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 3.1.2 codebase (order is determined by number of commits; some people are in several groups):

  • 14 developers to core code: Jehan, Michael Natterer, Alx Sa, Jacob Boerema, Bruno Lopes, Christoph Reiter, Estecka, Gabriele Barbero, Hari Rana, Ondřej Míchal, Philip Zander, cheesequake, lloyd konneker, woynert.
  • 9 developers to plug-ins or modules: Alx Sa, Bruno Lopes, Jehan, lloyd konneker, Jacob Boerema, Advance Software, Anders Jonsson, Daniel Novomeský, Natanael Copa.
  • 12 translators: Luming Zh, Martin, Yuri Chornoivan, Ekaterine Papava, Alexander Shopov, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Nathan Follens, Anders Jonsson, Danial Behzadi, Emin Tufan Çetin, Jordi Mas, Yago Raña.
  • 1 theme designers: Alx Sa.
  • 2 contributors on other types of resources: Jehan, Bruno Lopes.
  • 11 build, packaging or CI contributors: Bruno Lopes, Alx Sa, lloyd konneker, Jehan, Advance Software, Christoph Reiter, Michael Natterer, Natanael Copa, Sam James, woynert, Ondřej Míchal

Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):

  • Our UX tracker had 3 reports closed as FIXED.
  • ctx had 186 commits since 3.0.4 release by 1 contributor: Øyvind Kolås.
  • gimp-data had 10 commits by 4 contributors: Jehan, Bruno Lopes, Ville Pätsi, Alx Sa.
  • The gimp-test-images (unit testing repository) repository had 2 commits by 1 contributor: Jacob Boerema.
  • The gimp-macos-build (macOS packaging scripts) release had 18 commits by 2 contributors: Lukas Oberhuber, Bruno Lopes.
  • The flatpak release had 7 commits by 2 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan.
  • Our main website (what you are reading right now) had 26 commits by 3 contributors: Alx Sa, Jehan, Bruno Lopes.
  • Our developer website had 20 commits by 3 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Lloyd Konneker, Jehan.
  • Our 3.0 documentation had 40 commits by 9 contributors: Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Alevtina Karashokova, Nathan Follens, Jacob Boerema, Alx Sa, Matthew Leach, Alevtina, Anders Jonsson, Yuri Chornoivan.

Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!

Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.

Team news

Our Google Summer of Code students are making great progress with their summer projects!

Gabriele Barbero is making some much-requested improvements to our on-canvas text editor. In their test branch, they’ve made the style editor moveable, and each text layer remembers its editor’s position when you switch between them. With a little more polish and bug-testing, this feature should show up in a future 3.1 development release!

Ondřej Míchal has created a GEGL Filter Browser prototype in their own test branch. This involved a lot of research, as there any a number of edge cases and formats to account for. When finished, this feature will be very useful for script and plug-in developers, especially with the new filter API that lets them create and apply any effect available in GIMP!

Shivam is working on a website to list and display third-party GIMP extensions (the rebirth of the GIMP registry that older creators may have known). A first version of the script to generate extensions’ web pages from their metadata has already been merged.

Around GIMP

We printed stickers of the new Wilber logos for the 2025 Libre Graphics Meeting.

Photo of Wilber stickers from Libre Graphics Meeting
Photo of Wilber stickers from Libre Graphics Meeting (taken by mL)

You can use this file if you’d like to print your own Wilber stickers. You can also request reimbursement if you’re planning to print enough to hand out at a local event or GIMP User Group meeting. Note that we are still working out the procedure for these requests, but we encourage you to reach out and discuss your idea.

Downloading GIMP 3.1.2

You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):

  • Linux AppImages for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Linux flatpaks for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Universal Windows installer for x86 (32 and 64-bit) and for ARM (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Store package for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • macOS DMG packages for Intel hardware
  • macOS DMG packages for Apple Silicon hardware

Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc.).

There is no development release for the manual, but you can continue to use the existing GIMP 3.0 documentation from GIMP 3.1.

What’s next

This first development release contains many new features we’ve been working on during 3.0 development. Our main focus for GIMP 3.2 on the roadmap is developing two new types of non-destructive layers - linked layers and vector layers. We hope to share more information about these in future news posts.

This faster pace release schedule also proves to be quite stimulating and relies on years of infrastructure and procedure preparations. So far, it looks like it works quite well!

While we remind that this is a development version and therefore we advise against using it for production, we also really welcome feedback and bug reports. At every first stable release in a new series, too many bugs are discovered. GIMP is a community, first and foremost. The software will improve because many people participate! Now that we are starting the development releases for a brand new stable series, we are really relying on everyone so that the upcoming GIMP 3.2 can be as stable and good as possible.

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger!

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  • Understanding ODF compliance and interoperability
    The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. However, to realise its potential, it is necessary to understand the concepts of compliance – the degree to which an implementation adheres to ODF specifications – and interoperability – the ability to exchange and view ODF files without loss of fidelity or functionality across different applications a
     
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Understanding ODF compliance and interoperability

Par :Italo Vignoli
20 juin 2025 à 02:48

The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.
However, to realise its potential, it is necessary to understand the concepts of compliance – the degree to which an implementation adheres to ODF specifications – and interoperability – the ability to exchange and view ODF files without loss of fidelity or functionality across different applications and platforms.

ODF is an XML-based file format that has been standardised by OASIS and ratified by ISO/IEC 26300. Milestones include:

  • ODF 1.0 (2006): the initial version defining the basic document types: text (.odt), spreadsheet (.ods) and presentation (.odp).
  • ODF 1.1 (2012): updates to formula specifications and accessibility improvements were made, but it was never submitted for standardisation.
  • ODF 1.2 (2015): introduces digital signatures, RDF metadata, and OpenFormula for standardising spreadsheet calculations.
  • ODF 1.3 (2020): an extension of security features, including improvements to encryption and import/export conventions, as well as a clarification of compliance clauses.

Each version has strengthened the role of ODF as a universal interchange format, ensuring that documents remain readable and editable in all programs, both now and in the future.

Definition of compliance

Compliance refers to the extent to which a given software implements the ODF standard. It comprises several levels:

  1. Structural compliance: ensures that file archives contain the expected XML files (e.g. content.xml, styles.xml and meta.xml), in accordance with the ODF Packaging specifications.
  2. Schema validation: verifies that the XML content matches the applicable ODF schemas (Relax NG or W3C XML Schema). This prevents a <draw:image> element, for example, from appearing where only text is permitted.
  3. FeatuSecurity profilesre compliance: supports the required features (styles, tables, charts and metadata) and the correct implementation of the optional features required by the application (digital signatures, encryption and change tracking).
  4. Formula compliance: for spreadsheets, adherence to OpenFormula specification ensures that formulas behave consistently across different applications.
  5. Compliance statements and profiles: applications often declare their compliance levels (e.g. ODF 1.2 Part 1: OpenDocument Schema). Some define profiles, which are subsets of the full standard tailored to specific industries or workflows.

Non-compliant files risk becoming unreadable or displaying incorrectly in other applications. Validating ODF schemas and integrating compliance tools enables developers and users to guarantee the longevity and accuracy of documents.

The interoperability landscape

Even when two applications claim ODF compliance, disparities can arise.

  • Rendering differences: variations in character substitution, line spacing or image placement can slightly alter the layout.
  • Functionality differences: for example, an editor may support digital signatures, but implement them in a way that causes signatures to be rejected when files are exchanged.
  • Use of extensions: some applications use proprietary extensions (e.g. custom XML blocks) that others do not recognise, which can result in data or content loss.
  • Metadata management: different handling of document properties, such as author, version history or custom metadata, can hinder workflows.

To achieve strong interoperability, systematic testing is required.

  1. Automated schema validation: tools such as ODF Validator can check thousands of files against ODF schemas in batches.
  2. Feature compliance suites: OASIS provides test suites that cover every aspect of the ODF specification, including basic document elements and encryption profiles.
  3. Round-trip testing: save a document in application A, open it in application B and save it again, then reopen it in application A to detect any differences.
  4. Visual regression testing: use headless rendering engines (e.g. LibreOffice in server mode) to generate PDFs or bitmaps for pixel-level comparison.
  5. Community reports: projects such as ODF Plugfest bring vendors together to exchange test files and submit interoperability reports.

Best practices for ensuring compliance and interoperability:

  1. Adherence to the core standard: avoid proprietary extensions unless they form part of an agreed ODF profile.
  2. Early and frequent validation: integrate schema and conformance testing into CI/CD pipelines for document-centric applications.
  3. Prioritise OpenFormula: when creating a spreadsheet, use standard functions and avoid vendor-specific formula syntax.
  4. Adopt the Flat ODF format: the Flat ODF format (.fodt, .fods and .fodp) stores the entire document in a single XML file, making it easier to compare, validate and process in scripts.
  5. Document compliance statements: indicate the ODF version supported by the application, as well as the schema, encryption and signature parts.
  6. Participate in plugfests and community testing: real-world feedback is valuable, so it is important to participate in interoperability events and contribute to public issue trackers.
  7. Make smart use of metadata: use ODF metadata elements (e.g. dc:meta, RDF blocks) to ensure the consistency of document properties when transferring between tools.

Looking ahead: ODF 1.4 and beyond

Although ODF 1.3 has addressed many functional issues, the ecosystem continues to evolve.

  • Accessibility improvements: better support for tagged PDFs, ARIA roles and semantic markup.
  • Native cloud editing: harmonisation of ODF with collaborative protocols (e.g. WOPI and CMIS) to enable real-time co-authoring.
  • Extended multimedia management: richer multimedia support is incorporated (e.g. video and embedded web components), while maintaining interoperability.
  • Security profiles: standardisation of profiles for high-security environments (e.g. government or healthcare), combining encryption, signatures and content redaction.

Conclusion

ODF compliance and interoperability are fundamental to document longevity, workflow resilience, and user trust. By adhering to ODF schemas, testing across multiple applications and adopting community best practices, organisations can safeguard their content against vendor lock-in and format degradation. As it continues to mature, ODF is set to remain the foundation of open, accessible and durable office documents.

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  • Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice…
    LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s. Learn more about the history here! And let’s hear from Stefan Soyka, who worked on StarOffice from 1990 – 1992… When did you join Star Division, and what did you work on? I came from Berlin to Hamburg to work for Marco Börries in his Star Lab in spring 1990, together with my friend and study mate Stefan. Both of us joined the project more or less at
     
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Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice…

Par :Mike Saunders
18 juin 2025 à 04:17

Stefan Soyka, StarOffice developer in the early '90s

LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s. Learn more about the history here! And let’s hear from Stefan Soyka, who worked on StarOffice from 1990 – 1992…

When did you join Star Division, and what did you work on?

I came from Berlin to Hamburg to work for Marco Börries in his Star Lab in spring 1990, together with my friend and study mate Stefan. Both of us joined the project more or less at the same time and shared the same first name, which caused some confusion at first.

The situation in Hamburg needs some explaining if you are new to it. The Writer application that is the foundation of what we use today is not the first Star Writer – but thesedays it is often referred to as Star Writer 6 or Star Writer Graphic. Marco’s company Star Division, based in rural Lüneburg not far from Hamburg, had developed and sold with considerable success a text processing application with the same name, that was an MS-DOS application based on a home-grown graphics framework. A team of freelance programmers was working on it under the lead of Sven-Ola Tücke.

This was also the tool we used to write the first drafts for specifications, by the way.

The old Star Writer had a solid fanbase and sold quite well even after Star Lab started in Hamburg. So it is fair to say that the money we burned in Hamburg was earned in Lüneburg.

Marco, however, had the right feeling that graphical user interfaces were already around and taking up speed. The future (that is the time we live in now) would belong to applications running on the main graphical user interface platforms at this time, being Microsoft Windows, the X Window System and macOS. Of course there were voices that argued that graphical user interfaces were only hampering productivity and real pros would always use the command line. That may sound a bit funny today, but I took it all in my heart.

When I arrived there, development had pretty much advanced in the compatibility layer named Star View, that allowed portable programming of both operating system functions and graphical user interfaces. There was, however, no application yet. Because I had worked on a C++/X Window System project on the ODA standard (ISO 8613, Open Document Architecture), I had some background on this and formed with some others the core of the Star Writer project team.

Star Division logo

Tell us about the office location and team back then!

The offices of Star Lab at that time were at Heidenkampsweg, near Berliner Tor, in Hamburg in a quite modern building. I remember the adjacent gas station; many of us were heavy cigarette-smokers at that time, and I sometimes went there at night to get the next pack.

Dirk Bartels supervised the daily operations. He had a software company back in Berlin and he expected benefits from the Star View portability layer for his own products. His personal secretary was Marita, if I remember the name correctly, a lovely young woman, I think the only one in the project at that time. When I joined the team, there were about twenty people working there including administrative staff.

Andreas, a good-natured guy with intense freckles, managed the Star View project. Almost all the coding however, at least for the Microsoft platform, was completed by Thomas – a very young man who was incredibly well-organized and productive, the type of coder who writes a screen full of statements that compile instantly error-free. He also virtually lived in the offices. The staffing for this platform was good; the other platforms had fewer developers. I remember Dirk, a shy young man who did the Macintosh port. One day, he showed us that all output appeared like upside down. It turned out that the Macintosh uses a y-origin different from the Microsoft platform (top left, I think). That gave him certainly some headaches.

Michael, a freelancer from Lüneburg, sometimes visited Star Lab in his tiny, first generation Mazda MX-5, that he could barely fit into. He was the only engineer who contributed to both the “classic” Star Writer with Sven-Ola Tücke, and Star Lab. He introduced the first Star Basic macro language. For the Windows platform, it had been worth thinking about a Star Writer application programmers interface or component object model (OLE at that time, but was just emerging in 1991 with Word and Excel), but with portability above all, this did not come to pass.

The team at this time was Euro-centric at least – effectively most staff members came from nearby. Another great developer in the Star View team, however, was Eddy McGreal, an Irish guy, whom I saw by incidence recently in a software product presentation he held. Can’t stop hacking.

Armin kept the business in order. He was also working on internationalisation. When he married, he invited all mates to comes and celebrate. It was in a small town in the moors, I don’t remember the name, but we had a great time. When we went back to Hamburg in the morning – hopefully at least the driver was more or less sober.

In the Star Writer team, Jürgen was the most productive programmer, about two meters tall with a sad face. Playing handball was his first priority, if he was not hacking. He did incredible work under the hood, like importing exotic files from other text processors, and never complained or missed a deadline. I think we never gave him enough credit for what he achieved.

Despite all the good work, the Star Writer project did not meet the expectations in the time when I was there. Later, I spent many thoughts on why we were not more successful in the beginning, because it felt like a wasted opportunity to me. It was not for the lack of ambition: there are folders full of splendid concepts and intricate specifications. But none of us had a good blueprint of the best way to start this enormous, complex task, I believe.

What was the toolset and development process like back then?

The object-oriented programming paradigm had evolved into the first C++ standard and implementations. Before I came to Hamburg, a pre-compiler was used, on Sun Workstations at least, to generate standard K&R C code, that was fed into the platform native C-compiler. The result was not always predictable or free of errors, but luckily, at Star Division, we had the one-step Microsoft C++ compiler, so we were a step ahead at this point.

Star View, however, was a huge library and the Microsoft linker had a hard time (and needed a long time) to do the static linking. When it came to a code freeze, that is the integration of the stable versions of all projects, Stefan used an egg timer so that he didn’t miss the time when the linker had finished, to see if there were problems with the linking or not. It took so long, you could easily forget it. If it failed, it needed fixes and another round. The whole process needed much time, until Stefan one day found out that someone had tackled the problem with the Microsoft linker and had released a better implementation that did the job in a fraction of the time.

Another paradigm that came up at the time was the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. It says, in short: what you see is only a volatile transformation of the model. The controller, like someone typing text into the application or a report generator producing table data output into a document, changes the model, which in turn from time to time updates the view.

Many in the project and even in the management were not comfortable with this procedure, because it appeared to make a simple thing unnecessarily complex. The argument was like: “This is meant to be a WYSIWYG text processor, and we need nothing beyond what the user sees on the screen, so let’s store this”. Nobody wanted to look at a document any different from before, when he or she opened it again – maybe on a different machine were fonts were missing or the display had a different resolution. There was a lot to explain and no proof that either concept was superior. What’s more, nobody could tell reliably and by their own experience, what adopting the MVC pattern for a text processing application meant in practice, and how the code would look like.

Then, the Unicode standard was evolving and a controversial debate started about what that meant for our plans. Speaking of 16-bit Unicode only, two aspects were unsettling: the same document would need twice the memory compared to 8-bit characters (we had no concept for memory management then and kept the whole document in RAM all the time, which obviously still needed some reworking). At that time, the model was using zero-terminated C strings for text paragraphs for the comfort of using the standard C string libraries.

Turning to Unicode, we would have to say goodbye to that and rewrite the functions we needed. It probably had not yet dawned everyone, that C strings would not suit the requirements of text attributes and formatting anyway.

UTF-8 strings, on the other hand had the downside that it was complicated to find out, how many character positions the output would use. Building substrings from UTF-8 strings is also a delicate matter, because the string can not be cut at any position without creating invalid UTF-8 character sequences.

Most of the developers working on StarOffice later will certainly be surprised, what basic considerations were moving us at the start, but man, this was all serious stuff.


StarOffice 3.1 and modern LibreOffice screenshot comparison
StarWriter 3.1 (screenshot courtesy of WinWorld) and modern LibreOffice

Do you still use LibreOffice today, and do you have any contact with old Star Division team members?

Sorry to say that I have no contact any more with my has-been workmates. I left Star Division somewhat frustrated because it took so long for the good concepts to materialize and also, because I felt, I was not the right man to promote that. But I also had a pregnant girlfriend (now my wife) in Berlin, which was even a better reason to say good-bye.

Frankly, I was relieved and amazed to see the first product. It was not free at that time. I don’t think it really paid for Marco before it went to Sun Microsystems – anyway there was no free download. With my Zyxel 14.400 baud modem, it had taken a long time anyway. I got versions on batches of CDs from time to time from my friend Stefan, though, who was still with the project.

I was not so happy with the application at first, because at that time it was a monolithic “desktop” with all applications in its belly (like Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw, I believe), which took ages on my machine to load. I would have loved to see more collaboration in it: at that time that would meant an e-mail client and calendar.

Sometimes I thought to myself, “If I had to decide …” but ended with a sigh :“There would be no Star Writer to this very day”. In fact, it would be another interesting story, which changes it took to finally make it happen.

I never had Microsoft Office for myself (I like Microsoft Publisher for the themes and the artwork that came bundled with it, but somehow Pokémon Druckstudio was an acceptable replacement). I had to buy a Microsoft licence for my children though, because teachers did not expect that someone would not have access to Microsoft Office, and I was hesitant to end my child’s learning career over this.

I use LibreOffice almost every day now. It has all I need, and probably much more.

I use LibreOffice for my everyday correspondence, and less often I use it to create PDF files for printing. I have a nice set of Star Basic macros, and a good document template I load all the formatting from, to create a good-looking A5 format book from a text file or a website, in no time at all. Creating PDF files is very easy in LibreOffice, yet it has some uncommon features that come in very handy at times, like the option to export also blank pages (that would usually be omitted). Believe me, you don’t want to go to print without the blank pages.

The E-books that I create from the same document (printing is a bit out of fashion) have no frills (they could have, of course) but they are nice to read. I confess that I find it very convenient to load them into my Kindle account, from which I can read them on any device that comes near to me.

Well, I’m not a young man anymore, I like to say that before anyone else does, and programming to empower users (with more luck in later projects) is still my passion to this day. The StarOffice project has been with me more or (sometimes) less all the way, a bit like a child I gave up for adoption at an early age.

TDF says: Thanks to Stefan for the insights into the early days of StarOffice – and we’re happy to hear that he’s still using LibreOffice today!

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  • LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone, Italy
    Marco Marega writes: Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group. It’s inside a local fair, part of which is dedicated to technology, makers, electronics and so on. For the event from April 25 – 27 we had a LibreOffice stand with a 32″ monitor, showing an Impress presentation about LibreOffice on a loop. At the stand I met differen
     
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LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone, Italy

Par :Mike Saunders
16 juin 2025 à 08:19

LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone

Marco Marega writes:

Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group. It’s inside a local fair, part of which is dedicated to technology, makers, electronics and so on.

For the event from April 25 – 27 we had a LibreOffice stand with a 32″ monitor, showing an Impress presentation about LibreOffice on a loop. At the stand I met different interested people – some of whom I already know since they visit the fair regularly, while others I saw for the first time.

There is always curiosity about LibreOffice, and this time I noticed an increasing demand about AI integration and related plugins. The LibreOffice coffee/beer mats were very much appreciated by visitors to the stand.

LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone

The Pordenone Linux User Group invited other associations to share the stand, so there were also:

  • Trieste Linux Users Group, with a nice game to learn bash commands while trying to deactivate a bomb
  • Odoo group, presenting the ERP/CRM/…
  • Bergamo Linux Users group presenting OpenWRT and some other projects (Emiliano Vavassori is one of them)
  • A Blender expert
  • Another member who uses openSUSE for multimedia production
  • A corner where volunteers helped visitors to install Linux on their PCs, or to solve little problems

The next edition of the event will be on 22 – 23 November.

LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone

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  • ODF: An Analysis of the Adoption of the Open Document Format
    Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent. However, this does not necessarily mean that the ODF standard is used in accordance with these decisions, which are often laws in their own right, as Microsoft’s substantial lobbying and misinformation campaigns aimed at protecting its revenue of around $25 billion generated by the proprietary OOXML format (DOCX, XLS
     
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ODF: An Analysis of the Adoption of the Open Document Format

Par :Italo Vignoli
14 juin 2025 à 04:48

Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent. However, this does not necessarily mean that the ODF standard is used in accordance with these decisions, which are often laws in their own right, as Microsoft’s substantial lobbying and misinformation campaigns aimed at protecting its revenue of around $25 billion generated by the proprietary OOXML format (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX) encourage the use of the latter. This is despite the fact that the disadvantages for national systems, communities of citizens and individuals are very easy to demonstrate: loss of control over content, interoperability problems and dependence on the commercial strategies of a single vendor.

The information in this post is based on my research into sources relating to the adoption or recommendations for the use of ODF. I began compiling this collection of documents around 2010 and continue to update it annually. Over the last twelve months, I have also used artificial intelligence in my research, which has helped me find some articles.

Unfortunately, formal adoption or recommendation of ODF does not guarantee its actual use in accordance with the law. For example, the latest version of Italy’s Digital Administration Code explicitly prohibits the use of OOXML because it is not a standard, yet this decision is largely ignored by public bodies.

SOVEREIGN BODIES

NATO requires all 28 member countries to use ODF as the standard format for document exchange.

UN and NGOs: UN organisations favour standard and open formats to ensure that all documents remain accessible and do not depend on expensive or restricted tools. This is why ODF is used for reports, policy drafts, and collaborative documentation between teams.

European Commission: has taken a strong stance in favour of open standards and promotes the use of formats such as ODF in documents through its open source software strategy. The European Parliament, the European Commission and the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) have integrated LibreOffice and ODF into their internal workflows to ensure greater transparency and language neutrality.

EUROPE

Belgium: Since September 2007, all Belgian federal government departments have been required to accept and read ODF documents, and a memorandum has established ODF as the standard for the exchange of office documents within the federal public administration.

Denmark: From 1 April 2011, the Danish Parliament has mandated the use of ODF by state authorities for the exchange and archiving of documents, whereas previously agencies were only required to accept ODF documents. In recent weeks, articles have claimed that the Danish government will formally migrate to open-source software and, therefore, to ODF. We are, of course, seeking confirmation of this project.

Finland: The Ministry of Justice and other ministries have adopted ODF as the main document format.

France: The Référentiel Général d’Interopérabilité (RGI) recommends ODF as the preferred format for office documents in public administrations. Agencies are therefore encouraged to use ODF for creating and archiving text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Germany: The German Council for Information Technology Planning, representing the federal and state governments, has committed to making ODF the standard for document management in public administration by 2027. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and several federal courts already use ODF exclusively. Several federal states and municipalities have also switched to ODF-compatible office suites, such as LibreOffice and Collabora Online. ODF is cited as a core element of Schleswig-Holstein’s digital sovereignty strategy.

Italy: The Digital Administration Code only allows ODF in its guidelines for public administration, as OOXML does not meet the open standard criteria contained in the document’s glossary.

Netherlands: The Dutch government mandates the use of open standards, including ODF, for all data exchanges in the public sector, and adoption is monitored by an active political community that supports implementation.

Slovakia: All public authorities must be able to read and use ODF for electronic communication and publication of documents, including those with electronic signatures.

Spain (Andalusia and Extremadura): These regions require government agencies to use ODF (or PDF/A for static documents) for communication with each other and with citizens.

Switzerland: Government agencies are recommended to use ODF for document exchange with citizens or other agencies.

United Kingdom: In 2014, the British government adopted ODF as the sole standard for sharing and collaborating on editable documents across the public sector. The Home Office has a formal ODF adoption plan and does not reject ODF documents from citizens or businesses.

AMERICA

Argentina (Province of Misiones): The use of ODF is mandatory within government administrative organisations.

Brazil: Since 2010, proprietary formats have been prohibited in the federal public administration and ODF has been the standard for all office documents. It is mandatory in federal IT policies and is widely used in ministries and state governments. SERPRO (the federal data management service) ensures that national document workflows comply with the ODF standard.

Uruguay: public documents must use ODF for editable files and PDF for fillable forms and non-editable documents.

Venezuela: all federal government organisations must use ODF 1.0 for editable documents.

ASIA

India: India’s policy on the adoption of open standards for e-governance includes ODF as the preferred format for all federal and state services, particularly where vendor neutrality is critical for affordability and scalability.

Taiwan: The Ministry of Education has introduced ODF-compliant tools in all schools, and local governments use LibreOffice for daily administration.

AFRICA

South Africa: South Africa’s MIOS (Minimum Interoperability Standards) policy aims to ensure a future-proof digital government and access for all. It promotes open standards and lists ODF as an accepted format.

CASE STUDY

Monaco: In 2013, the city of Monaco made headlines when it migrated 15,000 desktops to Linux and OpenOffice/LibreOffice, adopting ODF. Despite positive results and significant cost savings, the project faced strong political opposition backed by the Microsoft lobby. In 2017, part of the migration was cancelled. This case is emblematic because it highlights the complexity of vendor lock-in and demonstrates the pressure that public institutions face from proprietary vendors to maintain a monopoly that is detrimental to the institutions themselves and their citizens.

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  • Create a colour wheel in LibreOffice
    Regina Henschel writes: Susanne Mohn asked on the German-language user’s mailing list how to create a colour wheel with LibreOffice. It was not about the colours themselves, but about the geometry. How do you create a circle or ring with equally sized sectors? Very different solutions were proposed. Susanne Mohn, Harald Berger and I (Regina Henschel) have created a page in the LibreOffice Wiki so that these do not remain hidden in a thread. Due to the development process, some sample files are
     
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Create a colour wheel in LibreOffice

Par :Mike Saunders
12 juin 2025 à 03:06

Screenshot of colour wheel being created in LibreOffice Calc

Regina Henschel writes:

Susanne Mohn asked on the German-language user’s mailing list how to create a colour wheel with LibreOffice. It was not about the colours themselves, but about the geometry. How do you create a circle or ring with equally sized sectors?

Very different solutions were proposed. Susanne Mohn, Harald Berger and I (Regina Henschel) have created a page in the LibreOffice Wiki so that these do not remain hidden in a thread. Due to the development process, some sample files are in German, but the page itself is in English.

Colour wheels can be used to create “doughnut charts” of data. Have fun exploring!

Colour wheel

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  • Libre Graphics Meeting 2025
    https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/ Right after Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, from May 28th to the 31st, the team attended to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2025, also in Nuremberg. It was a great opportunity to learn and share, and a unique experience to see how Inkscape contributes to the Libre Graphics scenario globally. LGM 2025 featured a series of talks and workshops, covering aspects of creative software development, demoing real use cases for libre graphics, and pushing boundaries of t
     
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Libre Graphics Meeting 2025

8 juin 2025 à 18:53
Banner with graphic art and the sayings Libre Graphics Meeting 2025, Nuremberg, May 28 — 31, RE:Imagination
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/

Right after Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, from May 28th to the 31st, the team attended to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2025, also in Nuremberg. It was a great opportunity to learn and share, and a unique experience to see how Inkscape contributes to the Libre Graphics scenario globally.

LGM 2025 featured a series of talks and workshops, covering aspects of creative software development, demoing real use cases for libre graphics, and pushing boundaries of technology as a platform for creative experimentation. From graphic design to embroidery stitching, XML editing to retro video game UI emulation, Inkscape showed up as an important part on the arts, design, and maker communities.

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Ink/Stitch — Talk

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/program/ink-stitch/
Daniel K. Schneider gave an excellent overview around embroidery stitching as a durable and versatile artistic expression, with many areas of application. All existing embroidery machinery use proprietary file formats and require expensive software. Ink/Stitch is an Inkscape extension that offers a full-fledged, cross-platform embroidery digitizing platform. It is based entirely on free and open-source software. In the past year, Ink/Stitch had 225 thousand downloads. It's user base have an active community of 10k+ french speaking users in a Facebook group.

Daniel mentioned that one of Inkscape's advantage for building Ink/Stitch is that it is already familiar to the makers community, from other activities (like laser cutting). Inkscape's drawing conventions can be used to define stitch types (a thick stroke translates to satin stitches, for example), which is interpreted and converted by Ink/Stitch into real embroidery patterns. It is super cool to see Ink/Stitch converting SVGs and simulating the output.

A screen recording depicting Ink/Stitch UI and the vector drawing of an elephant being converted into embroidery patterns

How to Run a Film Festival on Libre Graphics — Talk

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/program/how_to_run_a_film_festival_on_libre_graphics/
Marc Rodrigues organized and ran the first LusOFest — Festival for Portuguese-Language Film in Offenbach am Main. Lusofest 2025 featured work from 6 countries and received 6 film makers. It's more than 350 visitors were able to attend to 3 feature films exhibitions and watch 40 out of 500+ submitted short films. As stated by Marc, "Organising a film festival is 90% communication". Marc covered the importance of advertising and rooting for people to come for your festival. All communication and promotional materials, were done entirely with FOSS. And as mentioned by Marc, Inkscape was the obvious choice for all the Graphic Design work, producing printed post cards, social media postings, and more.

A photo of a slide with the sayings 'The Oscars 2025', 'I'm Still Here' wins Best International Feature Film, 'Flow' wins Best Animated Feature Film, and a picture of directors Walter Salles and Gints Zilbalodis hugging and holding their awards. Lusofest.

Inkscape UI Vision Going Forward — Talk

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/program/inkscape_ui_vision_going_forward/
UX designer Henrique Perticarati walked through the design process for an Inkscape UI vision work, and how this proposal gained traction with the community. Henrique proposes that a friendlier UI would be more inviting to new users, and a larger user base would lead to more contributions. He also pointed out that tools like Blender, GIMP and Scribus had recently gone through UI redesigns, and that there's momentum in the community for a UX-led transformation. This vision work helped Henrique to build trust with Inkscape's community and start collaborating with other members (Yotam Guttman, Wen-Wei Kao, Adam Belis, Mike Kowalski) around the future of Inkscape UX. During the talk, Henrique covered some insights about UX related users' interests, based on analysis of Gitlab issues. These insights will help determine further research and UI explorations. Stay tuned for news around the UX initiative!

A graphic representation of a new User Interface for Inkscape

CapyPDF — Lightning talk

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/program/lightning_talks_thursday/
Jussi Pakkanen had a 10 min lightning talk about CapyPDF, a low level library for generating PDF files.
It exposes all PDF object specifications, nothing more, nothing less. CapyPDF is also the basis for the upcoming Inkscape CMYK-capable PDF exporter we've been all waiting for (our own Martin Owens is one of the project collaborators).

Other mentions to Inkscape

Picture of LGM attendees sitting around a restaurant table for dinner
After four days of exchanging knowledge and experiences with the community, we are excited about getting back to work!
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  • The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and LibreOffice
    The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. This will leave millions of users and organisations with a difficult choice: should they upgrade to Windows 11, or completely rethink their work environment? The good news? You don’t have to follow Microsoft’s upgrade path. There is a better option that puts control back in the hands of users, institutions
     
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The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

Par :Italo Vignoli
11 juin 2025 à 04:11

The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/

The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. This will leave millions of users and organisations with a difficult choice: should they upgrade to Windows 11, or completely rethink their work environment?

The good news? You don’t have to follow Microsoft’s upgrade path. There is a better option that puts control back in the hands of users, institutions, and public bodies: Linux and LibreOffice. Together, these two programmes offer a powerful, privacy-friendly and future-proof alternative to the Windows + Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

The real costs of switching to Windows 11

The move to Windows 11 isn’t just about security updates. It increases dependence on Microsoft through aggressive cloud integration, forcing users to adopt Microsoft accounts and services. It also leads to higher costs due to subscription and licensing models, and reduces control over how your computer works and how your data is managed. Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete.

This is a turning point. It is not just a milestone in a product’s life cycle. It is a crossroads.

The new path: Linux + LibreOffice

These two programmes form the backbone of a free and open computing environment based on open standards. For individual users, public administrations, schools and businesses, this combination offers more than enough: it is mature and secure, and is already in use worldwide for mission-critical workloads. Furthermore, using open standards protects users against any attempts by software developers to control them.

Here’s what this alternative offers:

  1. A modern, stable and unrestricted operating system, accessible to all users thanks to intuitive distributions that allow each user to choose the configuration that best suits their needs. It also offers regular updates, long-term support versions and communities where people can help each other and develop their digital knowledge together.
    Unlike Windows 11, Linux works with all personal computers that ran Windows 10, meaning there is no need to replace your old PC. Those with even older computers can also find a suitable version of Linux, extending their useful life and reducing electronic waste.
  2. LibreOffice is a complete office suite offering word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing and database tools. It respects freedom and data because it is based on an open, standard document format (ODF), and is compatible with Microsoft’s proprietary formats (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX). This gives users control, as Microsoft cannot decide to end support at any time, as it is doing with Windows 10.
    LibreOffice is supported by a global community of volunteers, consultants, and companies who provide free and paid professional support, ensuring the ongoing development of the software and the prompt resolution of security and operational issues. There are no licence fees, telemetry or vendor lock-in.
  3. Both Linux and LibreOffice are based on transparency. This means that all documents saved in the standard format will always be available because the format is open, and all documentation is available online. They also do not require a user licence subscription that protects the software vendor more than the user, and which contains incomprehensible legal clauses.
    Both the operating system and the software are managed by foundations, not companies. All activities, including development, quality assurance, problem-solving and the release of new versions, take place in public because users have the right to control the quality of the digital tools they use and entrust with their content.

What does migration look like?

Replacing Windows and Microsoft Office is not as difficult as it seems, either at an individual or corporate level. Many organisations around the world have already done so, and many others are planning to do so right now, precisely because they no longer want to be subject to the commercial strategies of Microsoft and its partners.

These are the key steps:

  1. Start by testing Linux and LibreOffice on a second partition of your PC (for individuals) or in less critical departments (for companies).
  2. Check the compatibility of your software configuration with Linux and LibreOffice; most office tasks can easily be transferred or adapted with minimal effort.
  3. Build documentation to learn how Linux and LibreOffice work and organise training if necessary.
  4. Find a consultant who can help with the migration process, such as someone certified by the Linux Professional Institute or The Document Foundation (for LibreOffice).

This is not a radical change, but rather a gradual, tailor-made transition depending on user needs.

It is important to start immediately

Microsoft is forcing users’ hands, but it is also opening a door. Now is the time to challenge your assumptions and take back control of how your personal computers work, how long they last, and most importantly, how your content is managed.

Linux and LibreOffice are not just alternatives; they are superior choices that most users have not considered until now because they trusted Microsoft — perhaps too much. This trust has been betrayed by the decision to abandon a functioning operating system such as Windows 10, purely to sell more products and lock users in further, which cannot be justified by any technological assessment.

Here’s how to get started:

The end of Windows 10 does not mark the end of choice, but the beginning of a new era. If you are tired of mandatory updates, invasive changes, and being bound by the commercial choices of a single supplier, it is time for a change. Linux and LibreOffice are ready — 2025 is the right year to choose digital freedom!

The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/

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  • LibreOffice for End User Privacy – TDF’s Annual Report 2024
    LibreOffice stands out as a privacy-respecting open source office suite. Unlike proprietary alternatives, the software is designed with privacy, user control and transparency in mind. (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) Introduction Concerns about end user privacy in the digital world have grown significantly over the past two decades, with and increasing awareness of data collection, user tracking and online surveillance.
     
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LibreOffice for End User Privacy – TDF’s Annual Report 2024

Par :Mike Saunders
10 juin 2025 à 03:40

TDF Annual Report 2024 banner

LibreOffice stands out as a privacy-respecting open source office suite. Unlike proprietary alternatives, the software is designed with privacy, user control and transparency in mind.

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

Introduction

Concerns about end user privacy in the digital world have grown significantly over the past two decades, with and increasing awareness of data collection, user tracking and online surveillance. Many proprietary applications, including office productivity tools, often collect vast amounts of user data, in most cases without clear user consent.

All this has been clearly documented by Shoshanna Zuboff in her book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, which is defined as a new economic strategy that uses the activities and experience of the individual as a free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, profiling and selling.

In this context, open source software differs substantially because respect for the user and for privacy are part of the ethical principles that guide the development of all applications. And LibreOffice stands out as the only office suite – open source or not – that respects privacy. Unlike proprietary alternatives, LibreOffice is designed with privacy, transparency, and user control of content in mind. The software does not collect telemetry data by default, does not include intrusive tracking functions, and allows users to work completely offline.

The following is a list of LibreOffice features and settings which help ensure end-user privacy, making the software a preferred choice for individuals, businesses and government institutions that prioritise data security.

No data collection or telemetry by default

Infographic showing that LibreOffice doesn't mine your data

One of the most significant privacy benefits of LibreOffice is its lack of telemetry by default. Unlike proprietary office suites that constantly send usage data back to their developers, LibreOffice does not collect or send any personal data without the user’s consent.

  1. There are no background processes that track document usage, keystrokes or user activity.
  2. LibreOffice does not create a unique user ID or track document interactions like some proprietary office suites do.
  3. There is no built-in cloud storage requirement, ensuring that files remain on the user’s device unless manually uploaded elsewhere.

Optional telemetry with user consent

LibreOffice offers an optional telemetry feature, but it is entirely opt-in and requires explicit user consent. The collected data will only be used to improve the functionality of the software and will never be shared with third parties.

Full offline functionality

Unlike cloud-based office suites such as Google Docs, Microsoft 365 or Apple iWork, LibreOffice is a fully offline suite.

  1. No forced cloud storage: documents remain on the local computer, reducing the risk of unauthorised access.
  2. No dependence on an Internet connection: users can work in completely isolated environments.
  3. No third-party server involvement: documents are never stored on a corporate server unless explicitly uploaded by the user.

For security-conscious organisations such as government agencies, law firms and healthcare providers, this offline capability ensures that sensitive documents never leave the internal network.

Open Document Format (ODF) for privacy and transparency

ODF logo

LibreOffice uses the Open Document Format (ODF) as its default file format. Unlike proprietary formats such as Microsoft’s DOCX, XLSX and PPTX, ODF is an open standard, which means:

  1. It does not contain hidden tracking elements or embedded metadata that can leak user information.
  2. It guarantees the integrity of the data in the long term because the format is fully documented, and the documentation is publicly available. Furthermore, the documentation corresponds to the format currently used by the software, unlike what happens with Microsoft 365 where the documentation is stuck at 2008.
  3. It does not contain proprietary encryption mechanisms that could be exploited for surveillance or unauthorised access.

Control over metadata

Metadata can contain sensitive information such as: author details, document history, and editing timestamps. LibreOffice allows users to remove all metadata before sharing a document to ensure that private information is not inadvertently shared with external parties.

Strong encryption and password protection

LibreOffice provides robust document encryption to prevent unauthorised access. Users can protect their documents with strong passwords and encryption settings. This prevents unauthorised users from opening or modifying the file.

In addition, LibreOffice supports GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) encryption for users who require public key cryptography to secure their documents.

No cloud lock-in: freedom to choose storage

Unlike Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, which force all users to store documents in their respective cloud ecosystems, LibreOffice allows full control over file storage. This flexibility ensures that no third party can access user data without explicit permission.

Users can:

  1. Store files locally on their hard drive or external storage.
  2. Use self-hosted cloud services such as Nextcloud or ownCloud for increased privacy.
  3. Store files on USB drives, encrypted partitions or private network servers.

Macro security and malware protection

Macros are often used in office documents for automation, but they can also be exploited to deliver malware. LibreOffice includes robust macro security settings to protect users.

  1. By default, LibreOffice blocks macros from untrusted sources.
  2. Users can only enable macros if they are signed with a trusted certificate.
  3. The security level can be configured to prevents malicious actors from using macros as an attack vector.

Transparency and open source code

One of the biggest privacy benefits of LibreOffice is its open source nature. Unlike proprietary office suites that operate as black boxes, LibreOffice’s source code is publicly available and regularly audited by the security community. This level of transparency and user control makes LibreOffice a trusted alternative to closed-source office suites.

  1. No hidden spyware: because anyone can inspect the code, LibreOffice cannot contain hidden trackers or surveillance tools.
  2. Independent security audits: governments, cybersecurity experts and researchers can verify LibreOffice’s privacy claims.
  3. No forced updates: users have complete control over when and how they update LibreOffice, avoiding unwanted feature changes or telemetry settings.

Conclusion

LibreOffice is the most privacy-conscious office suites available today. With no telemetry by default, full offline functionality, strong encryption, metadata control and open source transparency, it provides users with a secure and private environment for document creation and collaboration.

For individuals, businesses and governments concerned about privacy and digital sovereignty, LibreOffice is a reliable, free and ethical alternative to proprietary office suites.

As privacy concerns continue to grow in the digital age, LibreOffice remains committed to ensuring that users retain full control over their data: a core principle that sets it apart from many commercial alternatives.

Like what we do? Support the LibreOffice project and The Document Foundation – get involved and help our volunteers, or make a donation. Thank you!

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  • Monthly News – May 2025
    Hello everyone, Many thanks to our sponsors and to all of you who support the project with your donations. Mint 20.x EOL It’s been 5 years already! Linux Mint 20.x releases (i.e. 20, 20.1, 20.2 and 20.3) reached EOL (End of Life) and are no longer supported. They will continue to work but they will no longer receive security updates from the repositories. If you’re running Mint 20.x, you have two main options: – Fresh installation of Linux Mint 22.1 (recommended): This is supported until 2029 an
     
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Monthly News – May 2025

Par :Clem
8 juin 2025 à 05:02

Hello everyone,

Many thanks to our sponsors and to all of you who support the project with your donations.

Mint 20.x EOL

It’s been 5 years already!

Linux Mint 20.x releases (i.e. 20, 20.1, 20.2 and 20.3) reached EOL (End of Life) and are no longer supported. They will continue to work but they will no longer receive security updates from the repositories.

If you’re running Mint 20.x, you have two main options:

– Fresh installation of Linux Mint 22.1 (recommended): This is supported until 2029 and is the cleanest approach – backup your data and do a fresh install.

– Upgrade path through Mint 21: This gets you support until 2027 and involves multiple steps:

The minor upgrades towards 20.3 are quite simple, easy and fast. The upgrade from 20.3 to 21 on the other hand is a major upgrade. It is longer and more complicated. Take your time with this one and don’t hesitate to seek assistance within the community, in the chat room or on the forums.

For more information on upgrades visit https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade.html.

Fingerprint Authentication

Linux Mint 22.2 will feature a brand new app called “Fingwit“.

Fingwit is a fingerprint configuration tool.

It detects if your computer has a fingerprint reader and lets you record your fingerprints.

It then configures your system to use fingerprint authentication for:

  • The login screen
  • The screensaver
  • sudo commands
  • Admin apps (pkexec)

Under the hood, Fingwit uses fprintd but provides a smarter PAM module than pam_fprintd.so. Whereas fprintd just uses fingerprint authentication all the time, Fingwit is able to detect problematic cases and dynamically switch between fingerprint and password authentication. For instance if you’re trying to log in but your home directory is encrypted, fingerprint authentication would log you in but your session would crash since ecryptfs requires your password. Fingwit detects that kind of things so you get fingerprint authentication as much as possible, but avoid such issues.

Fingwit is an XApp so it works everywhere, in any desktop environment and on any Linux distribution.

XViewer color correction

While working on themes and colors, it came to our attention that the XViewer image viewer was applying an EDID-based color correction filter to pictures and wasn’t showing pictures exactly as they were.

This “feature” could sometimes lead to a scenario where you could take a screenshot of an app, open up the screenshot, color pick the app and the screenshot of the app and get different color codes.

Color management is already handled at hardware and desktop level, so we found this feature in Xviewer surprising and counter-intuitive. We decided to make it optional and to disable it by default.

libAdwaita apps and patches

Starting with Linux Mint 22.2, libAdwaita will be patched to work with themes. Support for libAdwaita was added to Mint-Y, Mint-X and Mint-L.

The following apps will be upgraded to their libAdwaita versions:

  • gnome-calendar
  • simple-scan
  • baobab

libAdapta fork

In the scope of XApp and for our own projects, libAdwaita was forked into libAdapta:

https://github.com/xapp-project/libadapta

LibAdapta is libAdwaita with theme support and a few extra.

It provides the same features and the same look as libAdwaita by default.

In desktop environments which provide theme selection, libAdapta apps follow the theme and use the proper window controls.

LibAdapta also provides a compatibility header which makes it easy for developers to switch between libAdwaita and libAdapta without requiring code changes.

Framework

Last but not least, I wanted to talk about Framework a little bit.

The company sent me some of their hardware so I was able to test the Laptop 13 and the gaming Desktop already.

Their products are really nice. I hope to be able to review them soon and add them to our store section.

This isn’t just a commercial partnership. By testing this hardware we boost compatibility for the brand and significantly improve Linux Mint.

It’s thanks to Framework we implemented power profiles in Linux Mint 22.1. It’s also thanks to them that we worked on fingerprint authentication or pushed towards an HWE kernel in Linux Mint 22.2.

Their hardware challenges us to do better, because it’s packed with features in need for support.

It’s a lot of fun to play with modern tech and it’s a real treat when it contributes to making Linux Mint better!

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    🚀 Features Removed Nostr support (#784) by @spacecowboy in #784 Removed Conscrypt library (#789) by @spacecowboy in #789 Android 10 (sdk29) is now the oldest supported version (#796) by @spacecowboy in #796 🐛 Bug Fixes & Minor Changes Ensured app is compatible with 16KB page sizes on modern Android devices (#781) by @spacecowboy in #781 Update feed URLs based on reported URL in feed (#785) by @spacecowboy in #785 🌐 Translations Updated Japanese translation using Weblate by @larouxn in #
     
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2.12.0 released

Par :Jonas
8 juin 2025 à 04:55

🚀 Features

  • Removed Nostr support (#784) by @spacecowboy in #784
  • Removed Conscrypt library (#789) by @spacecowboy in #789
  • Android 10 (sdk29) is now the oldest supported version (#796) by @spacecowboy in #796

🐛 Bug Fixes & Minor Changes

  • Ensured app is compatible with 16KB page sizes on modern Android devices (#781) by @spacecowboy in #781
  • Update feed URLs based on reported URL in feed (#785) by @spacecowboy in #785

🌐 Translations

  • Updated Japanese translation using Weblate by @larouxn in #765
  • Updated Turkish translation (#783) by @mikropsoft in #783
  • Updated Catalan translation using Weblate by @sf0nt in commit
  • Updated Latvian translation using Weblate by @Coool in #782
  • Changed “API Key” to “API key” (#802) by @GerbillLife in #802

❤️ New Contributors

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  • The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.4
    With LibreOffice 24.8 close to end of life, all users are invited to update their free office suite to the latest release Berlin, 6 June 2025 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.4, the fourth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux, available for download at https://www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. With LibreOffice 24.8 approaching the end of life, this release – w
     
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.4

Par :Italo Vignoli
6 juin 2025 à 07:04

With LibreOffice 24.8 close to end of life, all users are invited to update their free office suite to the latest release

Berlin, 6 June 2025 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.4, the fourth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux, available for download at https://www.libreoffice.org/download [1].

With LibreOffice 24.8 approaching the end of life, this release – which includes dozens of fixes and enhancements that further improve the suite’s performance, reliability and interoperability – is ready for production environments. We invite all users to update their installation as soon as possible.

LibreOffice 25.2.4 is based on the LibreOffice Technology, which enables the development of desktop, mobile and cloud versions – either from TDF or from the ecosystem – that fully support the two ISO standards for document formats: the open ODF or Open Document Format (ODT, ODS and ODP) and the closed and proprietary Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX).

Products based on the LibreOffice Technology are available for all major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF recommends a LibreOffice Enterprise optimized version from one of the ecosystem companies, with dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLAs and security patch backports for three to five years.

English manuals for LibreOffice 25.2 Write, Impress, Draw and Math are available for download at https://books.libreoffice.org/en/. End users can get first-level technical support from volunteers on the user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: https://ask.libreoffice.org.

Downloading LibreOffice

All available versions of LibreOffice for the desktop can be downloaded from the same website: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project by making a donation: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

[1] Fixes in RC1: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.4/RC1. Fixes in RC2: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.4/RC2. Fixes in RC3: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/25.2.4/RC3.

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  • Announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025 – Get your free sticker pack!
    At the beginning of May, we began a new Month of LibreOffice campaign, celebrating community contributions all across the project. We do these every six months – so how many people got sticker packs this time? Check it out… 385 This is a huge increase over the last campaign, in November, which had 301 winners. So that’s fantastic work, everyone! Hundreds of people, all across the globe, have helped out in our projects and communities. And those are just community contributions, not including th
     
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Announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025 – Get your free sticker pack!

Par :Mike Saunders
4 juin 2025 à 10:32

Month of LibreOffice stickers

At the beginning of May, we began a new Month of LibreOffice campaign, celebrating community contributions all across the project. We do these every six months – so how many people got sticker packs this time? Check it out…

This is a huge increase over the last campaign, in November, which had 301 winners. So that’s fantastic work, everyone! Hundreds of people, all across the globe, have helped out in our projects and communities. And those are just community contributions, not including the hundreds more from our ecosystem and certified developers!

We’re hugely thankful for the work – and, of course, everyone who’s listed on the wiki page can get a sticker pack, with the stickers shown above.

How to claim

If you see your name (or username) on this page, get in touch! Email mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org with:

  • your name (or username) from the wiki page
  • and your postal address

…and we’ll send you a bunch of stickers for your PC, laptop and other kit. (Note: your address will only be used to post the stickers, and will be deleted immediately afterwards.) If you contributed to the project in May but you’re not on the wiki page, please let us know what you did, so that we can add you!

There is one more thing…

And we have an extra bonus: ten contributors have also been selected at random to get an extra piece of merchandise – a LibreOffice hoodie, T-shirt, rucksack or snazzy glass mug. Here are the winners (names or usernames) – we’ll get in touch personally with the details:

  • Takenori Yasuda
  • koyotak
  • Andrew Kopf
  • HiTom
  • bantoniof
  • Dominick
  • Jeremy Norvell
  • skyandrews
  • Johan van der Knijff
  • Yashodhan Sawardekar

Congratulations to all the winners, and a big thanks once again to everyone who took part – your contributions keep the LibreOffice project strong. We plan to have another Month of LibreOffice in November, but everyone is welcome to see what they can do for LibreOffice at any time!

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  • LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #3 – Quality Assurance (QA) in Free and Open Source Software
    Xisco Fauli, Ilmari Lauhakangas and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss Quality Assurance (QA) in free and open source software . (This video is also available on PeerTube.) Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video. By accepting, you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh.
     
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LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #3 – Quality Assurance (QA) in Free and Open Source Software

Par :Mike Saunders
3 juin 2025 à 11:12

Xisco Fauli, Ilmari Lauhakangas and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss Quality Assurance (QA) in free and open source software . (This video is also available on PeerTube.)

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  • LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2025
    Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started May with a new Month of LibreOffice campaign! This is something we do every six months, to say thank you to contributors and encourage more people to join our project. We’ll post the final results here very soon… Throughout the month, we posted many sections from the 2024 Annual Report of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind Libr
     
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LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2025

Par :Mike Saunders
2 juin 2025 à 07:16

Brazilian LibreOffice Community at FLISOL Brasilia 2025

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • We started May with a new Month of LibreOffice campaign! This is something we do every six months, to say thank you to contributors and encourage more people to join our project. We’ll post the final results here very soon…

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Brazilian LibreOffice Community at FLISOL Brasilia 2025

  • This year’s LibreOffice Conference will take place in Budapest from 4 – 6 September, and the call for papers is now open. Submit a talk, and we hope to seeing you there!

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  • On May 8, we announced LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family. After this, all users are strongly recommended to upgrade to the LibreOffice 25.2 branch.

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  • Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg
    From May 24-28, 2025, we hosted an Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, Germany, just before this year's Libre Graphics Meeting. With 14 on-site participants, 2 remote participants and 3 external guests (Cedric, Elisa and Tiar), this was Inkscape's largest physical event yet, and a good sign the project is healthy and growing.  While we also got a fair amount of code done - 33 merge requests were opened over the course of the summit by its participants - the focus of this summit was on strategic plann
     
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Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg

1 juin 2025 à 15:34

From May 24-28, 2025, we hosted an Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, Germany, just before this year's Libre Graphics Meeting. With 14 on-site participants, 2 remote participants and 3 external guests (Cedric, Elisa and Tiar), this was Inkscape's largest physical event yet, and a good sign the project is healthy and growing. 

While we also got a fair amount of code done - 33 merge requests were opened over the course of the summit by its participants - the focus of this summit was on strategic planning and team discussions. 

On Sunday, the team visited the ZAM Erlangen makerspace to observe and try out what Inkscape is used for in the wild. We had fun stitching logos, lasercutting coasters, or drawing on eggs with an EggBot. 

Inkscape team members observe an egg being decorated by an Inkscape-operated EggBot at ZAM Erlangen
Inkscape team members observe an egg being decorated by an Inkscape-operated EggBot at ZAM Erlangen

This event was made possible with community funds, i.e. your donations. Thanks for your generous support! 

Below is an account of the meetings we had during the summit. Many of those pointed to strategic improvements in the project's direction. Help with these is greatly appreciated - if you want to contribute towards any of them, do get in touch!

Future of Live Path Effects

Marc proposed a redesign of the Live Path Effect system. In short, the proposal aims to enable procedural, non-destructive effects in Inkscape, with inspiration drawn from Blender's geometry nodes and Graphite. This would enable many workflows which now need either scripting (extensions) or are impossible to achieve, and make the entire path effect system much more robust. 

The custom additions to the SVG file format would be designed and specified, code sprawl of LPE-related code reduced and test coverage increased. 

We agreed on a set of changes for a prototype of this system.

UX Quality Initiative

Henrique presented his UX research; in dozens of hours of work, he had categorized all UX / UI related issues in our bugtrackers and localized areas most in need of attention. 

During the summit, a team consisting of ltlnx, Yoti, Adam and Henrique condensed it into a proposal to hire a UX designer and a developer as contractors; after a period of UX studies, the designer would come up with actionable changes and the developer would implement them. This proposal will be iterated upon and then be submitted for a vote to the Project Leadership Committee (PLC).

Roadmap / Project Priorities Working Group

Martin presented a proposal to form a Roadmap Working Group. This group would comprise of representatives from all of the project's subgroup, and its task would be to maintain a list of priority areas in the project (without explicitly promising them to users). 

This list would then inform decisions such as hiring and project selection for Google Summer of Code or Outreachy; it could also serve as guidance for contributors looking for inspiration. 

While the team maintained that we are in no position to attach dates to the roadmap, such a working group would be useful as a forum, and would tie in well with other initiatives, such as the Grants program. 

Martin plans to finish up the proposal and submit it for a vote soon.

Quality assurance

Despite a small number of automated tests that check against regressions in the Inkscape code, most of our test coverage is proved by manual user testing. 

Rafał presented his recent work towards improving the quality and stability of Inkscape by providing a good infrastructure for unit testing, in particular by providing a solid CMake infrastructure, mock objects and example unit tests. 

Good unit testing will become a focus in our code review process.

Steam Release

Our guest Tiar from the Krita team presented to us how Krita successfully released on Steam, and how they generate a significant amount of revenue from this channel. She showed us the most important rules for a successful Steam launch: from number of Wishlist items to Daily Deal, from discounts to the importance of good screenshots. 

The Inkscape PLC had recently decided to enable a Steam release; the necessary paperwork is currently under review by the SFC, our fiscal host. Vaibhav will coordinate the process of releasing on Steam.

Developer Documentation

Our developer documentation is currently spread around in many places: some is on the main website (with outdated translations), some is in the Wiki, some in the git repository. 

We formulated our requirements for the documentation and decided to migrate it in the main repository (except for short-lived or work-in-progress). Outdated Wiki information will be removed. Max already made progress towards this by moving our build instructions to git. 

Selected parts of the documentation may be auto-deployed to inkscape.org. Unfortunately we had to disable indexing of most of our website because AI crawlers quickly overwhelm it otherwise, so the last word on documentation remains to be spoken.

Node tool improvements

Rafał presented his plans to refactor the node tool with a number of architectural changes of the backend. These changes will not be visible to uses at first except for some outstanding bugfixes, but will enable better control of path-like objects in the long run - from his work on manipulating arc segments to control points for B-Splines, Spiro curves or κ-curves.

Extension packaging

Triggered by Mario's experience of maintaining a large set of extensions (MightyScape), we discussed how to make the process of packaging, submitting, reviewing and presenting an extension more efficient and transparent. Drawing inspirations from projects like OctoPrint and Typst, which have a healthy extension ecosystem around them, we came up with a process that now needs to be discussed with other extension stakeholders and finally implemented.

Finishing up the GTK4 migration & releasing Inkscape 1.5

In the last year, Inkscape has successfully migrated to GTK4, and the GTK4 version (master) has become the basis for all other development work. 

Nevertheless, there is a number of outstanding problems, especially on Windows and macOS. Many of those issues require fixes in the upstream GTK framework. 

During the summit, Jonathan, PBS and ltlnx came up with a proposal to hire contractors - both from within the Inkscape project and outside GTK experts - to finish up the work, targeting a 1.5 release early next year. 

A photo of the Inkscape Summit participants in front of the venue (Youth Hostel Nuremberg, Germany)
The 2025 Inkscape Summit Nuremberg particpants in front of the venue (Youth Hostel Nuremberg, Germany).

After the summit

Most of the team will stay for the Libre Graphics Meeting, held directly afterwards in Nuremberg, which even features two Inkscape-related presentations: Henrique will again present his UX initiative, and Daniel Schneider will give a talk about InkStitch. Looking forward to the next Inkscape meeting! 

Adam, Henrique, Ishaan, Jonathan, KrIr17, ltlnx, Marc, Mario, Martin, Max, Mike, PBS, Rafał, Tavmjong, Vaibhav and Yoti

 

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  • LibreOffice Design team work in 2024 – TDF’s Annual Report
    Design has been one of the major focus points of LibreOffice in recent years. The design/UX community has continued to support QA by evaluating user reports on Bugzilla, helping development with mockups, and mentoring volunteers and students in different projects. (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) Besides a large number of fixed issues on macOS thanks to Patrick Luby, and continuous work on the Navigator by Jim Raykowski,
     
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LibreOffice Design team work in 2024 – TDF’s Annual Report

Par :Mike Saunders
31 mai 2025 à 04:37

LibreOffice comment styles

Design has been one of the major focus points of LibreOffice in recent years. The design/UX community has continued to support QA by evaluating user reports on Bugzilla, helping development with mockups, and mentoring volunteers and students in different projects.

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

Besides a large number of fixed issues on macOS thanks to Patrick Luby, and continuous work on the Navigator by Jim Raykowski, we had many more improvements – here is just a small selection:

Improvements in LibreOffice 24.2

The column/row for active cells can be highlighted in Calc (implemented by Sahil Gautam)

Active cell highlighting in LibreOffice Calc

Tools ▸ Options was complemented by a search feature (Bayram Çiçek)

Comment styles were introduced for quick and consistent formatting of all comments (Maxim Monastirsky) (depicted in the screenshot at the top of this post)

Improvements in LibreOffice 24.8

Bundled templates were refactored with localized placeholders (Laurent Balland)

New “Quick Find” deck in the Sidebar, which lists the search results along with their context (Khushi Gautam)

Quick Find deck in LibreOffice Sidebar

Formatting characters are now treated independently from fields and do not toggle with non-printable characters (Heiko Tietze)

“Keep Ratio” settings in the Position and Size dialogs are more intuitive now with a lock symbol and reference lines (Heiko Tietze)

Hovering over a layer’s tab in Draw highlights the objects it contains (Jim Raykowski)

Among many other improvements to the Basic IDE, a dialog was added that allows users to pick one of six syntax highlighting colour schemes (Rafael Lima)

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  • ODF and proprietary formats: a comparison
    When we create or share a document – whether a simple text, complex spreadsheet or professional presentation – we make a choice that goes far beyond the file extension. This is because the format gives us, or takes away, control over the content. This post compares the Open Document Format (ODF) with proprietary formats such as DOCX, XLSX and PPTX. The comparison is not just about compatibility, but also about freedom, security, costs, transparency, and our long-term digital future. We have alre
     
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ODF and proprietary formats: a comparison

Par :Italo Vignoli
30 mai 2025 à 05:17

When we create or share a document – whether a simple text, complex spreadsheet or professional presentation – we make a choice that goes far beyond the file extension. This is because the format gives us, or takes away, control over the content.

This post compares the Open Document Format (ODF) with proprietary formats such as DOCX, XLSX and PPTX. The comparison is not just about compatibility, but also about freedom, security, costs, transparency, and our long-term digital future.

We have already discussed ODF, and we will continue to do so until its 10th anniversary as an ISO/IEC standard in May 2026, because it is the only open standard available to users. We hope that an increasing number of users will understand how important it is for them to use it to have complete and lasting control over the content they have created, i.e. for their digital freedom, rather than for those of us who support it.
ODF is the native format of LibreOffice and other programmes that use the LibreOffice Technology platform. These programmes offer the same functionality, flexibility, security, robustness and interoperability as applications that promote proprietary formats, but without the lock-in strategy.

Incidentally, even so-called open-source applications (read their AGPL licence to understand why we say “so-called”) handle documents in ODF format, yet continue to promote their own formats, preventing users from having full control over their content – because this would jeopardise their business strategy.

So, what are proprietary formats?

They are developed and controlled by a single company and are typically only fully supported within that company’s ecosystem. Common examples include .docx, .xlsx and .pptx (Microsoft), as well as .pages, .numbers and .key (Apple) and .gdoc, .gsheet and .gslides (Google). While the specifications for these formats may be public, this does not mean they are completely open, as support is always limited by what the provider allows or documents, and is dictated by their commercial strategies.

Comparison between ODF and proprietary formats

1. Control and vendor lock-in

ODF

  • Completely open and standardised
  • Anyone can implement or use it without legal restrictions
  • The user, not the software provider, controls the documents

Proprietary formats

  • Designed and controlled by a single provider
  • File characteristics and behaviour may change without notice
  • Users are often forced to update their software in order to access their documents

Example: If Microsoft changes how DOCX handles embedded fonts or custom styles, users of older versions of Microsoft software or compatible applications may have difficulty viewing or reading files.

2. Interoperability and compatibility

ODF

  • Designed with interoperability in mind
  • Promotes consistency in formatting and behaviour across different platforms and software
  • Facilitates the development of a multi-vendor ecosystem

Proprietary formats

  • Optimised for performance within the vendor’s software
  • Third-party implementations often encounter compatibility issues
  • File rendering may vary depending on the platform, particularly for advanced formatting

Example: A spreadsheet with complex macros in .xlsx format that works correctly with Excel may not work, or may lose functionality, when used with LibreOffice Calc or Google Sheets.

3. Transparency and trust

ODF

  • The format is documented, and matches the documentation
  • Data storage is also documented, and users control their files’ location
  • There are no secrets or hidden metadata, and the XML file is user readable

Proprietary formats

  • They may contain undocumented metadata or behaviour, and the XML file is not user readable
  • The complex and opaque structure of the files can create security issues, and files’ location is not controlled by the user
  • It is not always clear what information is embedded (e.g. edit history and comments)

Example: a DOCX file may contain residual metadata, such as the names of authors, the date and time of changes, and comments, even after they have been removed.

4. Digital preservation and long-term access

ODF

  • Designed for compatibility, interoperability, and long-term archiving
  • Recommended by governments (UK, Taiwan, the Netherlands and France) and supranational organisations (EU, NATO)
  • Open and future-proof, with regular updates from a known Technical Committee overseen by OASIS

Proprietary formats

  • Risk of format obsolescence (remember .doc, .wps and .wpd?)
  • Require specific software versions to access older files

Example: a government archive using ODF can be confident that it will still be able to access documents in 20 years’ time, while this is not guaranteed by proprietary formats, which are closely linked to the lifecycles of corporate products.

5. Public sector and legal obligations

Governments and institutions around the world should switch to open standards to ensure data sovereignty and reduce dependence on specific suppliers.

  • The UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Taiwan have all launched initiatives to promote ODF
  • The European Union’s open-source strategy recommends using ODF in all public administrations
  • Italy’s Digital Administration Code supports open formats for public documents to ensure long-term accessibility

Why? Because public data should be open and accessible, not locked behind corporate paywalls or licence terms.

6. Costs and licences

ODF

  • Free to use and implement
  • No licence fees, subscription costs or vendor lock-in

Proprietary formats

  • Almost always tied to paid software (e.g. Microsoft 365)
  • In some cases, access requires a cloud account and/or an active subscription
  • There are often restrictions on redistribution and format conversion

Example: If a school switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice and adopts the OpenDocument Format (ODF), it can save thousands of euros in licence costs without sacrificing functionality for students.

7. Innovation and community support

ODF

  • Developed transparently by a global community
  • Supported by several applications, both open source and proprietary
  • Open to improvements by anyone, under the Technical Committee overview

Proprietary formats

  • Innovation is centralised and constrained by the company roadmap, and development is closed and not transparent
  • Feature priorities are determined by revenue, and not by user needs

Example: Users can propose new features for ODF, contribute code, and fund development, all without having to wait for the company’s priorities to align with their own.

Conclusion: Why ODF matters

The choice of ODF is not linked to ideology or politics. It is a choice that offers users significant practical benefits: complete control over their data; independence from a single company’s tools, strategies and business model; the ability to access and share documents more reliably on any hardware platform or operating system; and support for an ecosystem where open standards drive progress rather than profit margins. ODF stands for transparency, freedom, and openness to the future. Try it, it’s easy and doesn’t cost anything. Download LibreOffice and you’re done.

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  • LibreOffice Native Language Projects – TDF’s Annual Report 2024
    By helping to translate and market LibreOffice around the world, native language projects bring enthusiasm and passion to the global community. Here’s what they did in 2024… (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) Armenian In 2024, the Armenian translation of LibreOffice reached 100% thanks to the efforts of Tigran Zargaryan. The suite was offered in Armenian for the first time. In addition, he ensured that the strings in the L
     
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LibreOffice Native Language Projects – TDF’s Annual Report 2024

Par :Mike Saunders
26 mai 2025 à 10:08

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By helping to translate and market LibreOffice around the world, native language projects bring enthusiasm and passion to the global community. Here’s what they did in 2024…

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

Armenian

In 2024, the Armenian translation of LibreOffice reached 100% thanks to the efforts of Tigran Zargaryan. The suite was offered in Armenian for the first time. In addition, he ensured that the strings in the LibreOffice UI-master, website, Android Viewer and Help also reached 100% translated.

In appreciation for Tigran’s work, TDF invited him to join the LibreOffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg using the foundation’s travel support programme.

LibreOffice user interface in Armenian

Czech

Throughout the year, Czech speakers worked on keeping the translation of LibreOffice’s UI complete, and the Help content around 95%. They presented the software at booths at two events: InstallFest in Prague in April, and LinuxDays in Prague in October.

They supported LibreOffice users on the Czech Ask site, and maintained social media accounts including X (Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. They also introduced a new Mastodon account.

Czech speakers produced many translated user guides in 2024, including the Getting Started Guide 24.8, Writer Guide 24.2 and Impress guide 7.5. And throughout the year they maintained the Czech LibreOffice website.

LibreOffice booth at LinuxDays 2024 in Prague

Danish

Speakers of Danish brought the user interface translation of LibreOffice up to 100%, while the Help content approached 100% (that goal was finally reached two months into 2025). They also translated the subtitles for LibreOffice videos covering features in new major releases.

Dutch

Dutch-speaking community members supported users by answering questions on the Ask LibreOffice website and mailing lists. They also translated the following guidebooks: the Calc Guide for LibreOffice 7.6 (translated and published in January); the Writer Guide for LibreOffice 24.2 (March); the Calc Guide for LibreOffice 24.2 (June); the Draw guide for LibreOffice 24.2 (July); the Impress Guide for LibreOffice 24.2 (July); the Getting Started Guide for LibreOffice 24.2 (August); the Impress Guide for LibreOffice 24.8 (October); the Draw Guide for LibreOffice 24.8 (December); the Writer Guide for LibreOffice 24.8 (December); and the Math Guide for LibreOffice 24.8 (December).

On Weblate, the community managed to keep up with the changes of the UI, maintaining it at 100% translated. Although the Help content kept growing they were able to maintain it at 100% translated.

Community members also set up a stand at the NLLGG in May 2024 – a conference of the Dutch Linux community. There, LibreOffice users could obtain information and ask questions about LibreOffice, whether or not in conjunction with a Linux operating system.

They also had a stand at the LocHal open source event in November 202 – another conference of the Dutch Linux community.

Finnish

There was ongoing translation of the LibreOffice user interface and (to a lesser extent) Help, along with ongoing recruitment of volunteers on the vapaaehtoistyo.fi online platform. In addition, there was translation of the upcoming LibreOffice website redesign.

LibreOffice on vapaaehtoistyo

French

Thanks to the French-speaking community, translations on Weblate were maintained at 100% for all versions of LibreOffice. There were also other translations: the new website (based on Hugo); Calc functions on the wiki; press releases and video subtitles for LibreOffice “New Features” videos; and release notes for all versions.

In terms of events, community members were present at Capitole du Libre (Toulouse) and Open Source Experience (Paris). There was also coordination with UBO University for LibreOffice guidebook translations by translator students.

German

In terms of translations and documentation, the German-speaking community continued their work on Weblate by translating LibreOffice’s user interface and Help content. They also translated the release notes for major updates of the software, blog posts from TDF’s English blog, and published videos in German showing and explaining various features in LibreOffice. In addition the German community updated the Base Guide for versions 24.2 and 24.8.

Development continued on the XRechnungs-Extension for the new German legal requirements (which became effective in January 2025).

Members of the German-speaking community attended various events throughout the year to promote LibreOffice and encourage more people to join the project, such as the Univention Summit 2024 in January, Chemnitz Linux Days 2024 in March, FrOSCon in August and 38c3 in December.

Finally, the community helped to raise awareness of the ongoing migration of 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

LibreOffice at FrOSCon

Japanese

The Japanese community had its local annual conference, LibreOffice Kaigi 2024 Online – which they reported about on their blog.

There were also Online Study Parties, held twice, where users shared knowledge and interacted with each other. And then there were 44 online hackfests throughout the year, where participants worked together in the community to make progress on tasks and transfer skills. They mainly checked the Japanese Ask LibreOffice website and tried to answer questions, but also did some UI translation, and occasionally bug triaging and bug reporting. All online events were held on Jitsi and streamed live on YouTube.

Meanwhile, there were in-person events every month in Awaji, Osaka City. They were held jointly with Open Awaji, an event themed around open data and the movement to open cities. Other activities at events included having booths and open source conferences (Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Tokyo, and Fukuoka). There was also the Kansai Open Forum 2024, an event for open source and IT communities in the Kansai region that has been held annually since 2002. Attendees talked about LibreOffice.

Japanese community members participated in the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 and COSCUP (Taiwan), along with the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 (Tokyo).

Six people from Japan participated in the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 in Taipei, two of whom gave joint presentations. Many members of the FLOSS community outside of the LibreOffice project who participated in COSCUP also attended the LibreOffice Community Party.

In terms of translations into Japanese, the user interface was 93% complete, and Help content 48% complete. There were also guidebook translations (Writer, Calc etc.) – Meguro-san translated using TexTra, a machine translation service provided by NICT, a Japanese government research institute.

On Japanese Ask LibreOffice, 101 questions or comments were added in 2024, while on the blog, community members posted 19 articles; these mainly consisted of translating the English TDF blog, especially the release announcements. And finally, on social media, the Japanese LibreOffice X (Twitter) account had: 2936 followers and 65 posts, while on Facebook there were: 624 followers and 23 posts. The Japanese community has created a Bluesky account but has not yet started using it fully.

LibreOffice Kaigi 2024 - Screenshot of online session

Norwegian – Nynorsk

The Nyorsk project is led by one translator (Kolbjørn Stuestøl) who has maintained the user interface and Help content translations for LibreOffice at 100%.

Portuguese (Brazil)

One of the community’s key achievements was the publication of the Guia do Writer 7.6, a fully revised Portuguese translation of the Writer Guide 7.6, initially generated through machine translation and then carefully edited for linguistic accuracy and style. To streamline future translation efforts, the community launched a GitHub project utilizing the OmegaT computer-assisted translation tool, which integrates machine translation to reduce rework and improve quality control.

The local team — Tim Brennan, Tulio Macedo, and Olivier Hallot — successfully completed the full translation of both the user interface and Help content into Brazilian Portuguese. Rafael Lima contributed significantly by enhancing the Operations Research tools, commonly known as “Solver,” making them fully functional.

Weekly community meetings were held every Wednesday at 21:00 local time, providing a space to discuss all aspects of the LibreOffice environment and stay updated on developments from TDF.

The community also revamped the announcements for LibreOffice versions 24.2 and 24.8 with multimedia content tailored for Brazilian social media platforms, greatly expanding their reach — an effort led by Eliane Domingos.

Support and engagement remained strong across multiple channels, including active participation in the Brazilian Portuguese section of the Ask LibreOffice forum, two dedicated Telegram groups, Facebook and Instagram communities, and the ongoing translation of wiki pages, with notable contributions from Diego.

LibreOffice social media image in Brazilian Portuguese

Spanish

Spanish speakers worked on updating their translation of the LibreOffice Base tutorial book (by Mariano Casanova), reaching 80% translation status. 31 articles were published on the Spanish blog, and community members worked on updating the LibreOffice UI translation (99%) and Help content (around 80%). They also published various guidebooks: Draw Guide 7.6 (in ODT, PDF and HTML formats); Calc Guide 7.5 (in ODT, PDF and HTML formats); and the Math Guide 7.3 (in HTML format).

Tagalog

The LibreOffice Tagalog localization project was relaunched in April 2024 after it was discovered that a previous effort had been abandoned years earlier. Motivated by the opportunity to complete the project for the benefit of both the global and local community, a new initiative was launched with the goal of finishing the translation within a year.

Working closely with the LibreOffice localisation support community, the project followed a consistent schedule of weekly and monthly progress updates. A key focus was integrating and automating translations using three different AI language tools, which included implementing verification processes, suggestions, and comments to ensure quality.

Technical workflows were developed to compile developer edition translations on a bi-weekly basis using Linux Mint, with results verified and shared through best practices posts on a US-based technology blog. The project also drew on the support of Filipino relatives to better understand and incorporate the nuances of various Filipino dialects, enhancing translation accuracy and cultural relevance.

The translation work was completed ahead of schedule in January 2025 – four months earlier than planned. Fine-tuning continued with the help of the l10n support team to correct inaccuracies, particularly in the LibreOffice menus. (The screenshot below shows TDF’s Weblate instance being used to translate LibreOffice into Tagalog.)

In a further step toward community impact, the project began outreach to local contacts in Manila to share tools and methods used in the localization process, aiming to support similar efforts in K–12 education and non-profit business software across the Philippines.

Weblate interface showing LibreOffice being translated into Tagalog

Thank you to everyone

These are just some of the native language projects in the LibreOffice community, who provided summaries for the Annual Report. But there are many more – so we at The Document Foundation would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who in the native language communities. Your work makes LibreOffice accessible to hundreds of millions of people around the world, and your passion is wonderful. Thank you so much!

Like what we do? Support the LibreOffice project and The Document Foundation – get involved and help our volunteers, or make a donation. Thank you!

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  • 2-in-1 release – Inkscape 1.4.2 is out!
    The first minor release since Inkscape 1.4 is here! No worries, you didn't miss 1.4.1! Due to a signficant bug that was only discovered shortly before its planned release, 1.4.1 has been merged with 1.4.2.  With lots of fixes, some smaller improvements and even a few new features around file format support, we believe it was well worth the wait. Here's a summary of what to expect from the new release: A new splash screen, providing a visual cue while Inkscape loads in the background Ini
     
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2-in-1 release – Inkscape 1.4.2 is out!

12 mai 2025 à 14:40

Draw your world by Kess Marks, CC-By-SA 4.0

The first minor release since Inkscape 1.4 is here!

No worries, you didn't miss 1.4.1! Due to a signficant bug that was only discovered shortly before its planned release, 1.4.1 has been merged with 1.4.2. 

With lots of fixes, some smaller improvements and even a few new features around file format support, we believe it was well worth the wait.

Here's a summary of what to expect from the new release:

  • A new splash screen, providing a visual cue while Inkscape loads in the background
  • Initial support for importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve files
  • A new extension to Clean up Paths
  • Substantially improved Affinity Designer files (.afdesign) import
  • 20 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import
  • more than 50 other bug fixes and small improvements, including improvements to Boolean operations, layer selection, minimal window width and restoration of Spray tool buttons' functionality
  • and 15 updated translations!

For more detailed information on the changes in version 1.4.2 available in the release notes.

Again, thanks to all Inkscape users and contributors for their support in identifying and flagging these critical issues for us through sending bug reports for our volunteer developers to examine and solve.

Should you experience an issue while using Inkscape, please let us know! We've put together a step-by-step video to help you post your first bug reports on Gitlab.

Built with the power of a team of mostly volunteers, this open source vector graphics editor represents the combined efforts, passion and work of many hearts and hands from around the world, ensuring that Inkscape remains available free for everyone to download and enjoy.

If you'd like to contribute to the project, you are more than welcome in our project's global community! You'll find the list of ways to connect with us here.

You can also help Inkscape to stay alive and evolve by making a donation.

Get Inkscape 1.4.2 for Linux, Windows or macOS!

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  • Inkscape Summit Frankfurt 2025
    For the past few days, 7 Inkscape Members met up in Frankfurt, Germany to collaborate on various projects and get to know each other. We were especially delighted to have two InkStitch maintainers, a major downstream project of Inkscape, join us. This way, we got to learn about the struggles and worries of projects using Inkscape better, and even built a new capability for extensions to interact with Inkscape during the event. Marc, our release manager, cleared out our merge request backlog, r
     
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Inkscape Summit Frankfurt 2025

5 février 2025 à 08:14

For the past few days, 7 Inkscape Members met up in Frankfurt, Germany to collaborate on various projects and get to know each other.

We were especially delighted to have two InkStitch maintainers, a major downstream project of Inkscape, join us. This way, we got to learn about the struggles and worries of projects using Inkscape better, and even built a new capability for extensions to interact with Inkscape during the event.

Marc, our release manager, cleared out our merge request backlog, reviewing and merging various contributions. He also set up a new web-based translation service, so that translators don't have to learn how to use git, and we hopefully see better Inkscape translations in many languages. He also collaborated with Vaibhav on getting the handles behave well when editing Text to Path.

Jonathan, extensions maintainer, enabled Inkscape to tell extensions in real-time about changes in the document (merge request), and even update the document in return. The new system works on all major platforms. This feature was requested by our InkStitch friends, who will use it to build a preview of the stitch pattern while the user is working on the document. Variations of this feature were often requested by extension authors, so we're excited what the community will use it for!

Tav was working on delivering color font support, and helped Martin and Vaibhav with a wide variety of text-related problems.

Martin wasn't able to attend in-person, but did join via Video Chat to work on PDF support and help answering questions with other people in Frankfurt. He got up at 3am his time to attend!

Ravi is one of our GSoC students from 2024, and we're happy that we got to know him better & to integrate him into our team! He is still working on the node-based filter editor, his GSoC project (merge request), and is hopefully finished soon.

Vaibhav also is a former GSoC student, but is contributing regularly since. He is currently working on improving Text on Path (merge request). Thanks to his work during the Summit, Text on Path now loops around on closed paths (an SVG2 feature)  and has correct and intuitive handle movement.

Kaalleen, InkStitch maintainer, helped us understand their packaging process and helped shape the direction of development on the extensions environment. Apart from that, she worked on various InkStitch issues, including support for long-arm quilting machines. Also, she gifted all of us beautiful bags with the 1.4 About screen stitched on (she also has a tutorial for this on the InkStitch website).

 

The beautiful embroidery Kaalleen gifted to the other participants (from the InkStitch Website).

After 3 days full of coding and enlightening conversations, we now take home with new ideas in our luggage, and look forward to the next meeting - May 2025 in Nuremberg, just before LGM.

The 7 participants of the Frankfurt Summit.

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  • Inkscape at 21 is growing up and getting organized
      November 6, 2024, marks the end of the 20th anniversary year for the Inkscape project, and the beginning of a new decade of adventure. There were a few milestones this past year, among them an informal global celebration, a bug-fix program, an About Screen Contest, an Inkscape Summit, a summer of code, and the launch of version 1.4. Here’s a brief look at some of those milestones: Bringing contributors from around the world together in real time online Looking back over the past year, ou
     
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Inkscape at 21 is growing up and getting organized

6 novembre 2024 à 12:07

Flourishing Inkscape by Sreya Saju, CC-By-SA 4.0

 

November 6, 2024, marks the end of the 20th anniversary year for the Inkscape project, and the beginning of a new decade of adventure. There were a few milestones this past year, among them an informal global celebration, a bug-fix program, an About Screen Contest, an Inkscape Summit, a summer of code, and the launch of version 1.4.

Here’s a brief look at some of those milestones:

Bringing contributors from around the world together in real time online

Looking back over the past year, our 20th anniversary got off to an active start with an online anniversary party in November 2023, where users and contributors gathered over the span of several time zones to welcome guests who shared their passion for Inkscape, their art, and discussed how and why they contribute to the project. The world showed up to hang out and filled us all with pride to be part of this open source community.

From there, things moved quickly with preparations for version 1.4 and all the elements that come together before the annual version release.

Inkscape’s 1.4 About Screen Contest

Preparations for the popular About Screen Contest began early in the year, setting up the voting space and rallying contributors to organize the promotion and review of contest entries. The winning entry was featured in the 1.4 release that launched in the Fall of 2024. If you’re curious about the contest, feel free to check out the rules and history of this tradition.

Inkscape’s Contributor Blog

Some of our developers, especially those who are paid by the project (i.e. from your donations), publish articles about their work in our Contributor Blog, which can be found on the web site under the News tab. Among the blog posts include ones the progress made on our Bug Accelerator program, the Adobe Illustrator File import project, and the GTK4 migration work. You can find the posts through to Spring 2024 online.

Inkscape Summit 2024 in Rennes, France!

We had a great Inkscape Summit in Rennes, France, in May 2024. Our three-day meeting was well attended and offered an opportunity for developers and a couple of other contributors to meet, work, and discuss the future of the project. A member of the SFC was in attendance and participants had a chance to exchange with a representative from the Open Document Project, too, on open source projects.

Learning to Code through Contributing to Inkscape

Inkscape developers continued the longstanding tradition of participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program, which enables people new to open source projects and students to learn about software development and gain experience within a project environment. Several Inkscape developers mentored three students in 2024, one of whom is still working hard. If you’re curious to know what these students accomplished, their code journeys can be found on the GSOC site.

When it comes to the software itself, Inkscape has been embarking on big changes that will span a couple of future versions, specifically the transition to GTK4. This year marked a big milestone as the master branch was successfully migrated to the new code base. Also in the works is the future of CMYK color inside of Inkscape, though there is no final date set yet for integrating a system.

Inkscape Monthly Art Challenges

This past year has seen regular monthly Inkscape Challenges in the forum, posted on social media channels, to encourage Inkscape artists to share their work and learn new skills. From easy to intermediate projects to challenge your Inkscape skills, there’s something for everyone who is curious to learn. These challenges, along with the many opportunities to learn and collaborate within the project, have helped to bring new contributors to the table, too. You’ll find plenty of art to enjoy in the project’s forums!

Looking at Possible Futures for the Project

In October, an informal discussion was held among contributors to look at the possibilities of taking the  project in a new direction in the future. As with some other open source projects in the past, Inkscape is seeking to grow and explore possible futures, including being an independent organization. While there are no immediate plans to move from SFC, the discussion led to contributors beginning to imagine what Inkscape might look like three years down the road. At 21, it’s time to consider the possible bright futures ahead.

For now, we would like to say a big thank you to all of you, Inkscape users, contributors, and supporters. It’s in working together that this software program continues to develop and grow.

Curious to know what contributing to Inkscape might bring to your world? Get in touch!

In the meantime, enjoy using Inkscape, a professional quality vector graphics software on your Linux, Mac OS X and / or Windows desktop computers.

Draw Freely.

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  • Inkscape’s 20th Anniversary
    On November 18, 2023, the Inkscape project celebrated its 20th anniversary. The anniversary celebration was an online get-together of Inkscape users and contributors. This was an initiative by the Vectors team and the intention was to bring Inkscape users and contributors together to celebrate 20 years of Inkscape. Inkscape is used by people around the world. To accommodate that, two sessions were organized in different time zones. The first session was scheduled at 12:00 UTC for folks from r
     
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Inkscape’s 20th Anniversary

5 novembre 2024 à 18:59

On November 18, 2023, the Inkscape project celebrated its 20th anniversary.

The anniversary celebration was an online get-together of Inkscape users and contributors.

This was an initiative by the Vectors team and the intention was to bring Inkscape users and contributors together to celebrate 20 years of Inkscape.

Inkscape is used by people around the world. To accommodate that, two sessions were organized in different time zones. The first session was scheduled at 12:00 UTC for folks from regions like Eastern North America, Europe, India, & Indonesia. The second session started at 18:00 UTC for other regions, including Oceania.

The attendees were invited to share their approximate location in the world so that we could “map” the Inkscape community that came together to celebrate the anniversary. The interactive map can be viewed online. It is a beautiful souvenir of Inkscape’s global reach.

 

Map of attendees of Anniversary Celebration in November 2023
Map of attendees of Anniversary Celebration in November 2023

The larger Inkscape community also sent birthday wishes which were read during the sessions. An interactive slideshow of the wishes is available on Gitlab.

These sessions featured interviews from people in the Inkscape community. The interviewers asked guests about their Inkscape journey, how they discovered Inkscape, what they liked most about using Inkscape, among other questions. Guests answered that they use Inkscape for various things, some of them being designing board games, a children’s book for their loved ones, doing professional design work. One guest said they loved the feeling of freedom when designing with Inkscape. Another guest wanted a free vector graphics application, they stumbled upon Inkscape and found a bug. After reporting it, they ended up eventually contributing translations for their language.

After the interview ended, the room was opened to the chat so that people could ask the guests questions. The sessions went well over time as those in attendance wanted to keep the great Inkscape party going.

You can get involved with the Inkscape project, too, and help make the next 20 years even greater!

  • ✇Inkscape
  • Inkscape launches version 1.4, with powerful new accessible and customizable features
    After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign. Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind the scenes on new features, improving current ones, bug fixes and setting the stage for the arrival of GTK 4. Let’s dig into some of the new and improved features that enable more customization and better
     
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Inkscape launches version 1.4, with powerful new accessible and customizable features

13 octobre 2024 à 14:44

After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign.

Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind the scenes on new features, improving current ones, bug fixes and setting the stage for the arrival of GTK 4.

Let’s dig into some of the new and improved features that enable more customization and better accessibility in Inkscape in a cool, geeky sort of way. Inkscape Power Users, this one’s for you!

Filter Gallery Dialog

The Inkscape 1.4 Filter Gallery dialog is your new entry point into the world of filters. Head to the Filters menu to find it and your favorites more easily, with previews by category or by typing key words in the search bar. This includes those custom filters you’ve added – look for them in the Personal category. Accessibility features here include the ability to change the size of the preview of thumbnails.

The Filter Gallery with previews and search
The Filter Gallery with previews and search

Modular Grids

For those of you seeking the ultimate in symmetry and accuracy, you’ll find the new grid selector buttons a quicker, more visual way of identifying your grid of choice. For the new modular grids, you can adjust plenty of grid parameters separately, from height and width to horizontal and vertical gaps – including adjustments at the grid module (rectangle) level. Enable this option by heading to document properties.

Example of a modular
Example of a modular grid

Swatches Dialog

Inkscape’s Swatches dialog has a fresh new face. It now includes a drop-down menu with previews of color palettes. You can display them with their colors’ names as a list or a grid. For Power Users, you can now increase the tile size, too. Search for your custom swatches, or those of your customers, too. Import palettes from the dialog, including those from Adobe Color Book that use CIELAB colours, while support for those with CMYK is still limited for now. Transitioning from CMYK to RGB has been improved.

Refactored 'Swatches' dialog with search field
Refactored 'Swatches' dialog with search field

SVG Font Editor

For those of you who have a thing for fonts, Inkscape 1.4 is your new go-to for customization. You’ll find an easier route to buttons for sorting glyphs and removing pairs. Powerful customization at it’s finest in Inkscape!

Unified Font Browser

Inkscape is testing out a unified font browser preview. Activate this feature in Preferences and restart. After that, you will access visual previews for fonts with settings such as adding your own sample text. Check for particular font characteristics by searching fonts by collection type. Click on the one you want and watch it be applied to your text.

Adjusting the dialog by its various options
Adjusting the dialog by its various options

Customizable Handles

With Inkscape 1.4, you’ll now see that the on-canvas handles are customizable by size, colour, stroke width, outline and opacity. This will be updated live in Inkscape when the CSS file has been saved.

The new default handles
The new default handles

Shape Builder

You can now tackle quick edits on raster (pixel) images within Inkscape using the Shape Builder tool. Load an image and select sections that you want to isolate. Choose them with Shape Builder to clip them. Note that to edit them, you’ll need to release the clip and then unlink the clone. This tool is useful for a quick fix, isolating part or parts of an image quickly.

Using the Shape Builder Tool to quickly split a raster graphic into multiple parts
Using the Shape Builder Tool to quickly split a raster graphic into multiple parts

Object Properties Dialog

As of Inkscape 1.4, the Objective Attributes and Object Properties dialogs have been rolled up into one. This one-stop-shop is where you can change the different properties of objects, including rotations and corners.

The refactored 'Object Properties' dialog
The refactored 'Object Properties' dialog

Import & Export Updates

If you use Inkscape to develop and publish documents, you’ll be happy to know that you can now add links from one page to another within a PDF document–think table of contents.

Additionally, Inkscape 1.4 can now open Affinity Designer files, adding more versatility to the program.

Icon Sets

Welcome, Dash, the latest icon set to be accessible within Inkscape. For those of you who like customizing, you’ll appreciate this additional set of 500 plus icons to explore. These include cursors, both scalable and symbolic versions, that work on light and dark themes.

That concludes our brief wander through some of the top features included in Inkscape 1.4. For more information, the Inkscape 1.4 Release Notes are up to date to with information on all the changes included in this edition.

New icon set in use in the Inkscape interface
New icon set in use in the Inkscape interface

Get Inkscape 1.4 for Linux, Windows or macOS!

If you have questions for us, head to our web site and find our online community, where you can also find ways to get involved in the project.

In the meantime,
  Draw Freely.

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  • Inkscape Summit 2024
    We had a great Inkscape Summit in Rennes, France. Our three-day meeting was hosted by long-time Inkscaper's Elisa and Cédric in their school of design Activ.design Five Inkscaper's travelled to the event (Marc, Mikekov, Adam Belis, S-Rafael, and Tav). Two more were present via video (Martin and René). Jonathon dropped in occasionally. And our hosts hung out with us when they weren't too busy preparing for LGM (Libre Graphics Meeting). In previous years we called these events "Hackfests", but ha
     
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Inkscape Summit 2024

16 mai 2024 à 13:35

We had a great Inkscape Summit in Rennes, France. Our three-day meeting was hosted by long-time Inkscaper's Elisa and Cédric in their school of design Activ.design

Five Inkscaper's travelled to the event (Marc, Mikekov, Adam Belis, S-Rafael, and Tav). Two more were present via video (Martin and René). Jonathon dropped in occasionally. And our hosts hung out with us when they weren't too busy preparing for LGM (Libre Graphics Meeting). In previous years we called these events "Hackfests", but have decided in order to be more inclusive to non-programmers and encourage greater partipation these events will be known as "Inkscape Summits".

These important events give the contributors of Inkscape a place where they can get some work done. Rafael [pictured left] is seen here working on some graphic user interface code at the event space. Mike, Adam, and Rafael spent a lot of time discussing and implementing UX designs. Marc did lots of merges, especially forward porting. We had great discussions on the future of Inkscape, including a plan for an improved Live Path Effects system (more of a Live Object system), better testing, etc..

During breaks and after the day, the contributors will go out for a meal and socialise. Rafael, Adam, Mikekov, Tav and Marc [pictured right] sit at a restaurant near the event space for lunch and get to know each other better.

All of these activities are funded by the Inkscape project, who provides travel and event expenses and run by one of the team. This is all funded by our kind donors who help the project cover the costs to run these important events. So a big thank you to all of you, you know who you are!

After the Inkscape Summit event, everyone was able to participate in the Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) which happened directly afterwards. We will often try and organise our own physical meetings along side another conference or event. Tav [pictured left] is seen talking to other LGM attendees who will be contributors to other Free Software projects such as Blender, Krita, Penpot, etc. While smaller than in the past, there were still lots of great talks including talks on color, type, animation, and chocolate.

Meeting with the wider community of Free Software contributors helps us stay up to date with what's happening in the wider industry as well as meeting with some pretty cool people who help run a lot of the software which our users also depend upon. Big thanks for the organisers of LGM for running the event this year, which is the first in person event since Covid.

See you all next time!

 

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  • Congratulations to Inkonic on winning Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest
    We have a winner! Congratulations to the winning entry by artist Inkonic for their artwork "Inkscape's Path–Artist's Blossom".  The theme this year was "Growth" and Inkonic's winning artwork depicted this wonderfully with branches and leaves growing directly out of the work of artists' hands using artists' tools ― literally drawing themselves and their worlds into existence and making them grow. Congratulations to Inkonic ― and thank you for helping Inkscape continue to grow! We would also
     
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Congratulations to Inkonic on winning Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest

6 mai 2024 à 10:20

We have a winner! Congratulations to the winning entry by artist Inkonic for their artwork "Inkscape's Path–Artist's Blossom". 

The theme this year was "Growth" and Inkonic's winning artwork depicted this wonderfully with branches and leaves growing directly out of the work of artists' hands using artists' tools ― literally drawing themselves and their worlds into existence and making them grow. Congratulations to Inkonic ― and thank you for helping Inkscape continue to grow!

We would also like to thank all of the artists who submitted artwork for the contest. Our deepest gratitude to you for showing myriad ways Inkscape can be used to create incredible artworks. These examples are invaluable to helping the project grow and thrive by inspiring and educating artists.

We encourage everyone to take a moment and download any of the artworks you find interesting and explore the objects, nodes, effects, layers, and groups that make up these complex artworks. And if you want to help out the Inkscape Project even more, you can review these artworks by testing the Inkscape 1.4 beta release that will feature this winning artwork here.

Finally, we'd like to extend a big thank you to all of the community members ― more than 250 of you! ― who cast votes in the initial round and selected the top finalists as well as the 23 Inkscape contributors served as the final round of judges for the 1.4 About Screen Contest.

If you’re interested in getting started with or better at using Inkscape check out this month’s challenge.

Thanks to all of you for helping Inkscape continue to grow. 

 Draw freely.

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  • 1.4 About Screen Contest
      Announcing the About Screen Contest for Inkscape 1.4! Calling all artists! Each new version of Inkscape, we run a fun contest inviting all seasoned Inkscape artists and newcomers to participate in the "About Screen" contest. The About Screen is the image that you see when you click on Help → About in Inkscape to find more information about the version of the program installed on your device. This release the topic is "GROWTH". This could be interpreted in many ways! Trees, hair, and grass
     
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1.4 About Screen Contest

2 mars 2024 à 19:24

Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest by Kyle R. Conway, CC-By-SA 4.0

 

Announcing the About Screen Contest for Inkscape 1.4! Calling all artists! Each new version of Inkscape, we run a fun contest inviting all seasoned Inkscape artists and newcomers to participate in the "About Screen" contest. The About Screen is the image that you see when you click on Help → About in Inkscape to find more information about the version of the program installed on your device.

This release the topic is "GROWTH". This could be interpreted in many ways! Trees, hair, and grass grow. Children grow. How have you grown as an artist this year? How has the Inkscape project grown? How have the benefits of free software "grown" in your mind?

We are so excited to see what great art is submitted this year and excited to have artists be a part of it!

Keep in mind that the About Screen Contest is about much more than the About Screen. Submitted contest artwork is not only shared with the entire inkscape community, but is often featured in other places to help the project!

Entering the contest as an artist and/or voting for your favorites is a great way to help the Inkscape project continue to thrive! Each and every submission also helps us test the newest version of Inkscape.

Learn more about the contest here

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  • It’s time to celebrate the success of GSOC 2023 and recruit for 2024 with Inkscape
    Inkscape’s involvement in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) program is one of the ways the project helps to advance both learning and new and improved features in the program. We’re excited to be taking part in GSoC once more in 2024! For more information on the timeline and details for applying to collaborate with Inkscape this year, head to our project page on Google's Summer of Code website. If you’re curious to know more about what some of Inkscape’s GSoC students accomplished in 2023, keep r
     
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It’s time to celebrate the success of GSOC 2023 and recruit for 2024 with Inkscape

23 février 2024 à 16:09

Inkscape’s involvement in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) program is one of the ways the project helps to advance both learning and new and improved features in the program. We’re excited to be taking part in GSoC once more in 2024!

For more information on the timeline and details for applying to collaborate with Inkscape this year, head to our project page on Google's Summer of Code website.

If you’re curious to know more about what some of Inkscape’s GSoC students accomplished in 2023, keep reading!

Customize the appearance of your Canvas Controls

GSoC 2023 Inkscape student Sanidhya Singh was a sophomore undergraduate student in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), India.

Sanidhya spent the summer working on developing a customizable appearance for canvas controls under the mentorship of Inkscape core developer Marc Jeanmougin.

What are these canvas controls, you ask? If you’ve drawn a shape using the Pen tool and tried to later edit it using the Node Tool, you might have noticed the circular (or square) handles Inkscape provides to manipulate and transform the shape. These are called "canvas controls" or more commonly "node handles". The style of these controls has been the same since at least Inkscape 0.48, and was in need of a refresh – one that would enable the user to have more flexibility in changing the style. Sanidhya stripped out the old handle styling part and replaced it with an easily editable CSS file, so that users can now change styles by just editing the file. This also enabled better default colors for the controls which will hopefully land in Inkscape 1.4.

You can read more about Sanidhya's work.

Preparing behind the scenes for GTK4 Migration

GSoC 2023 student Vaibhav Malik is from New Delhi, India. Once again, he joined Inkscape devs who have been putting a lot of work into the GTK4 migration. GTK is the user interface toolkit Inkscape uses to draw things like text boxes, buttons, etc. on the screen. Inkscape currently uses GTK3 which is version 3 of the toolkit. The migration to the latest version of the toolkit - GTK4, is what Vaibhav worked on under the mentorship of Inkscape core developer Tavmjong Bah (Tav).

Vaibhav's changes are mostly under-the-hood changes so that Inkscape works as expected with GTK4. One noticeable user-facing change is the addition of popovers for smaller screens. Below a particular window size, Inkscape will automatically adjust the items in the toolbar so that they're still usable on a smaller screen!

You can read more about Vaibhav’s work.

Collaborating with Inkscape developers is a learning experience and helps our free and open source program to advance for all Inkscape users.

Reach out, ask questions and get involved with our global team of volunteer contributors!

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  • Why is the Open Document Format (ODF) important?
    Consider the history of control over user files, whether for organisations or individuals Think about all the documents you have created in your lifetime: School assignments. Work presentations and reports. Household budgets. Letters. Perhaps even a personal diary or your CV. Now imagine this: a few years go by, and when you try to open one of those files, it doesn’t work. The software has disappeared. Or it has been updated and no longer supports that format. Or you have to pay to unlock it. It
     
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Why is the Open Document Format (ODF) important?

Par :Italo Vignoli
23 mai 2025 à 03:51

Consider the history of control over user files, whether for organisations or individuals

Think about all the documents you have created in your lifetime: School assignments. Work presentations and reports. Household budgets. Letters. Perhaps even a personal diary or your CV.

Now imagine this: a few years go by, and when you try to open one of those files, it doesn’t work. The software has disappeared. Or it has been updated and no longer supports that format. Or you have to pay to unlock it.

It’s not just frustrating. It’s a real problem. That’s why the Open Document Format (ODF) was created: it’s a file format that allows computers to save documents such as letters, spreadsheets and presentations. You can recognise these files by their extensions: .odt for text files, .ods for spreadsheets and .odp for presentations.

What makes ODF special is that it is an open, transparent format that doesn’t hide anything from users. This means that anyone can use it freely; no company owns or controls it; and it is designed to work with different software, even years later. In short, it gives you control over your documents.

Let’s look at some everyday situations in which ODF can be useful:

Long-term access: you write your memoirs or your family history. Ten years later, you want to read or share them. With ODF, you don’t have to worry about the software becoming unavailable or obsolete.

Barrier-free education: A teacher asks students to submit their assignments digitally. With ODF, there is no need to purchase expensive software, as you can use a free tool such as LibreOffice instead.

Job search and consulting: create your CV in an open format so that anyone, regardless of their operating system (Windows, macOS or Linux) or application, can open it without encountering any formatting errors. You don’t even have to buy the software.

Sharing files with other users: you can send a document to a colleague or family member and they can open it without any problems, regardless of the programme they use. This is the advantage of a format that does not “belong” to a single company.

Public services: official documents in an open format can be accessed by everyone forever without them having to purchase or update software.

Unfortunately, most people forego all this because they use formats such as .docx (Word) or .xlsx (Excel). These are proprietary formats exclusively owned by Microsoft and can change at any time depending on their business strategies. Microsoft may require a subscription fee for a specific version, as older files may not be compatible with newer ones.

Proprietary formats can also cause problems when documents are opened with a different version of the same application, as the text and images may move and the document may look different. Sometimes, files do not open because the format is not recognised. This is not only annoying, but also risky if the file is important.

This is known as ‘lock-in’, a strategy that prevents users from choosing the software they prefer because migrating to a different format could result in the loss of all their content.

ODF, on the other hand, means freedom of choice, no restrictions, reduced costs, privacy, openness to the future and trust in technology. You don’t need to be a technology expert to use it; you just need to understand why it was created and why it has continued to grow for 20 years. Using ODF is like saving your documents in your own safe: it won’t suddenly disappear or require you to pay a monthly fee.

ODF also means security and transparency. ODF files are ZIP containers that use simple XML syntax, which any user can understand. This makes security checks much easier, allowing for automation and integration with companies’ CMS/ERP systems.

The digital agenda has always emphasised open standards, interoperability, and data portability. ODF fits perfectly into this landscape, not only replacing .docx or .xlsx, but also rejecting software that treats user data as a product.

ODF gives users full control over their documents. This is not just a technical detail; it ensures that documents belong to their creators, not the software used to process them. ODF enables us to assert ownership of our documents.

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  • LibreOffice Marketing Activities – TDF’s Annual Report 2024
    In 2024, The Document Foundation and its global LibreOffice community undertook a variety of marketing initiatives aimed at increasing visibility, fostering community engagement, and driving adoption of LibreOffice (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 in Luxembourg A major highlight of TDF’s 2024 marketing activities was the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference, held from October
     
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LibreOffice Marketing Activities – TDF’s Annual Report 2024

Par :Mike Saunders
21 mai 2025 à 10:36

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In 2024, The Document Foundation and its global LibreOffice community undertook a variety of marketing initiatives aimed at increasing visibility, fostering community engagement, and driving adoption of LibreOffice

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 in Luxembourg

A major highlight of TDF’s 2024 marketing activities was the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference, held from October 10 to 12 in Luxembourg. The annual event brought together contributors from around the world, including developers, designers, documentation writers, translators, and marketers.

Marketing efforts for the conference included:

  • A targeted social media campaign promoting the event’s location, speakers, and agenda.
  • Outreach to local technology communities and universities in Luxembourg to boost participation.
  • The creation of promotional graphics and materials highlighting the conference themes and goals.
  • Live updates and content shared across LibreOffice’s social channels to engage a remote audience.

    • The conference acted as a vital showcase of LibreOffice’s progress, community strength, and future plans.

LibreOffice Conference 2024 group photo

“Month of LibreOffice” Campaigns

Throughout May and November 2024, TDF organized its recurring “Month of LibreOffice” initiative. This campaign aimed to recognize and reward community contributors across various roles, including development, documentation, QA and marketing.

Participants who contributed during the campaign period were acknowledged through:

  • Special edition badges awarded digitally.
  • Public recognition via blog posts and social media.
  • Incentives like stickers and merchandise shipped to selected contributors.

This initiative not only celebrated existing contributors but also attracted new participants interested in supporting open source software.

Month of LibreOffice stickers

Launch of the LibreOffice Podcast Series

In November 2024, TDF launched its LibreOffice Podcast, a new platform to discuss topics related to LibreOffice and the wider world of open source software. The podcast aimed to:

  • Share success stories from migrations to LibreOffice.
  • Offer insights into FOSS marketing strategies.
  • Feature interviews with developers and community leaders.
  • Provide behind-the-scenes looks at the ongoing work within TDF.

The first episode focused on marketing strategies for FOSS, with discussions on how to engage institutions and governments in adopting LibreOffice.

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Enhanced Social Media and Content Strategy

In 2024, TDF expanded and optimized its social media presence. Alongside its traditional platforms like Twitter (X) and Facebook, TDF increased its focus on:

  • Mastodon: engaging the open-source community on federated social platforms.
  • LinkedIn: Sharing professional success stories, including case studies on large-scale LibreOffice deployments.
  • Regular posting of blog content, including release announcements, tutorials, and community spotlights.
  • Short video clips and graphics to make content more accessible and visually engaging.

These efforts aimed to grow the project’s audience, particularly among decision-makers in public administration and enterprises.

Native Language Community Outreach

TDF placed a strong emphasis on supporting native language communities. The marketing team worked with volunteers worldwide to produce localized materials, including:

  • Press releases for new LibreOffice versions.
  • Social media templates and visual assets.
  • Brochures explaining the benefits of LibreOffice in local contexts.

Several regions ran independent marketing initiatives, including:

  • Nepal: workshops for students on using LibreOffice Writer to create professional resumes.
  • India: local events demonstrating LibreOffice’s potential for government offices and educational institutions.

Software Freedom Day participants in Nepal

Workshops, Training and Community Events

Throughout the year, TDF organized workshops and training sessions aimed at onboarding new users and contributors. These included:

  • Online training for translators and QA testers.
  • Regional events offering hands-on experience with LibreOffice migrations.
  • Webinars aimed at IT administrators exploring LibreOffice deployment in enterprise environments.

The Open Source Workshops helped public sector organizations understand the benefits of LibreOffice and how it can replace proprietary office suites.

Outreachy and Template Development

LibreOffice participated in the Outreachy program, with a focus on developing new templates for LibreOffice Writer. These templates included resumes, reports, and business documents aimed at improving the user experience and broadening appeal, particularly for users migrating from proprietary suites.

Marketing activities highlighted:

  • How templates increase productivity.
  • The contributions of new developers and designers participating in the Outreachy program.
  • The availability of these templates through LibreOffice’s website and community channels.

Media and Press Relations

TDF continued its media relations work, distributing regular press releases covering:

  • New LibreOffice releases and features.
  • Major migrations by organizations and governments.
  • Events such as LibreOffice Conference and Month of LibreOffice campaigns.

TDF’s press outreach focused on reinforcing LibreOffice’s position as a cost-effective, secure, and privacy-respecting alternative to proprietary office suites.

Download Statistics and User Adoption

The marketing efforts in 2024 yielded significant results:

  • Download Milestone: by the end of 2024, LibreOffice surpassed 400 million cumulative downloads since its inception in 2011, with an average of 28.6 million downloads per year.
  • Weekly Downloads: Weekly downloads approached 1 million, marking the highest figures since 2023.
  • Public Sector Adoption: The German state of Schleswig-Holstein announced plans to migrate 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice, aiming for completion by 2026.

Schleswig-Holstein moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Conclusion

In 2024, through conferences, campaigns, podcasts, and media outreach, TDF advanced its mission of promoting free and open source software while making LibreOffice more accessible and trusted around the world. These marketing efforts not only amplified LibreOffice’s visibility but also demonstrated the value of community-driven open source projects in delivering professional-grade software solutions.

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  • What is the Open Document Format (ODF)?
    An introduction to the Open Document Format The documents we create today, whether reports, spreadsheets or presentations, are essential for communicating, sharing and storing knowledge. However, the format in which these documents are saved often goes unnoticed. This is where the Open Document Format (ODF) comes in. ODF is a technical standard and a tool that ensures documents remain accessible, editable and usable over time without being tied to a specific vendor or product. Approved by OASIS
     
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What is the Open Document Format (ODF)?

Par :Italo Vignoli
16 mai 2025 à 06:55

An introduction to the Open Document Format

The documents we create today, whether reports, spreadsheets or presentations, are essential for communicating, sharing and storing knowledge. However, the format in which these documents are saved often goes unnoticed. This is where the Open Document Format (ODF) comes in. ODF is a technical standard and a tool that ensures documents remain accessible, editable and usable over time without being tied to a specific vendor or product.

Approved by OASIS as an open standard document format in May 2005 and by ISO/IEC in May 2006, ODF has been around for over 20 years. Despite 20 years having passed, most productivity software users are not familiar with the format and therefore do not use it, as it is not as widespread as its proprietary counterpart, Microsoft OOXML.

This means that a huge number of documents — equivalent to over 100 zettabytes of data in 2025 — are subject to the commercial strategies of a company and completely beyond the control of their authors. These authors may suddenly find themselves unable to manage their own content unless they use specific software.

This also means that the enormous wealth of information contained in these documents does not contribute to the growth of collective intelligence because they are limited in terms of interoperability due to being tied to a single, specific, proprietary software.

Furthermore, Microsoft’s touted backward compatibility feature prevents true innovation in document formats because the presence of proprietary elements from old binary formats, which are not included in the ODF standard, forces documents to remain with technologies that have long been obsolete and incompatible with future developments.

What is ODF?

ODF is an open standard for saving and exchanging office documents. It includes text files (.odt), spreadsheets (.ods), presentations (.odp), and other types of documents, such as drawings (.odg). Developed by OASIS, an organisation that promotes structured information standards, it was approved by ISO/IEC as the international standard ISO/IEC 26300 in 2006.

Put simply, ODF is a universal language for documents, ensuring they can be read and written by any compatible software without locking users into a single ecosystem.

To understand the importance of ODF, it is helpful to know how proprietary formats work. When a document is saved in a Microsoft format, such as .docx, or an Apple format, such as .pages, it is often designed to work best with that company’s software only. Over time, this can cause problems such as limited compatibility, vendor lock-in, and the risk of obsolescence if the proprietary format is abandoned or changed significantly, as older documents may become unreadable.

ODF avoids these problems. It is completely open and free, meaning that anyone can implement it in their software, and users can switch between tools without losing access to their files.

ODF is not limited to text documents, but includes a wide range of office document types, including .odt (OpenDocument Text) for text documents such as reports, letters and books; .ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) for data analysis, tables and financial models; .odp (OpenDocument Presentation) for presentations with visual content; .odg (OpenDocument Graphics) for diagrams and vector graphics, as well as documents containing text and images; and .odf (OpenFormula) for formulas used in ODS spreadsheets.

Each of these document types is structured in such a way as to allow maximum compatibility while maintaining formatting and advanced software features.

How does ODF compare with Microsoft document formats?

Feature ODF Microsoft (docx. xlsx, pptx)
Open Standard Yes No
Long Term Archiving Solid Support Risk of Format Changes
Risk of Online Dependency
Offline Support Fully Supported Supported
Editable without Vendor Software Yes Limited

Common misconceptions about ODF

It is not as feature-rich as .docx or .xlsx

False. ODF supports complex formatting, styles, images, tables, charts, macros and more. Its feature set is robust and evolving thanks to contributions from a global community of developers and users.

No one uses ODF

This is also false. In fact, millions of users worldwide use ODF-compatible software every day. LibreOffice alone has tens of millions of active users worldwide.

It doesn’t work with my existing documents

ODF-compatible software, such as LibreOffice, can open, edit and export many formats, including .docx and .xlsx. Switching to ODF is easy and you won’t lose access to your existing files.

The future of ODF

The growing importance of digital documents in every sector, including education, public administration and business, is bound to impact the adoption of the ODF format because users cannot continue to use a format that disadvantages them in every way. Furthermore, the number of countries adopting policies based on open standards and demanding transparency and control over their data is growing all the time, and this can only lead to increased adoption of ODF in the long term.

Documents should belong to their authors, not to a software vendor through the file format used. In the case of a country, documents should belong to its citizens. ODF is the only effective way to regain control and ensure that data remains open, accessible and future-proof. ODF embodies the principles of digital freedom, collaboration, and user empowerment.

Whether you are an individual seeking control over your digital life, a teacher aiming to share knowledge using open tools to ensure its long-term availability to the community, a public official seeking long-term transparency, or a politician representing citizens’ interests, ODF is the smart, sustainable choice.

DISCLAIMER: Artificial Intelligence has helped in putting together background data in a matter of seconds, thus dramatically reducing the time needed to draft the article. I have over 4GB of background documents on my online storage, and although I have read most of them, it is impossible for my humble brain to retain all information. Here, Artificial Intelligence helps a lot, especially a 70 years old guy.

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  • Month of LibreOffice, May 2025 – Half-way point!
    So we’re half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025. And already, 216 contributors have won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name (or username) on that page, it’s not too late to join… How to take part There are many ways you can help out – and you don’t need to be a developer. For instance, you can be a: Handy Helper, answering questions from users on Ask LibreOffice. We’re keeping an eye
     
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Month of LibreOffice, May 2025 – Half-way point!

Par :Mike Saunders
16 mai 2025 à 04:55

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So we’re half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025. And already, 216 contributors have won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name (or username) on that page, it’s not too late to join…

How to take part

There are many ways you can help out – and you don’t need to be a developer. For instance, you can be a:

  • Handy Helper, answering questions from users on Ask LibreOffice. We’re keeping an eye on that site so if you give someone useful advice, you can claim your shiny stickers.
  • First Responder, helping to confirm new bug reports: Go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 11 and LibreOffice 25.2.3”.
  • Drum Beater, spreading the word: Tell everyone about LibreOffice on Mastodon, Bluesky or X (Twitter)! Just say why you love it or what you’re using it for, add the #libreoffice hashtag, and at the end of the month you can claim your stickers.
  • Globetrotter, translating the user interface: LibreOffice is available in a wide range of languages, but its interface translations need to be kept up-to-date. Or maybe you want to translate the suite to a whole new language? Get involved here.
  • Docs Doctor, writing documentation: Whether you want to update the online help or add chapters to the handbooks, here’s where to start.

So, two more weeks to go! We’ll be posting more updates on this blog and our Mastodon, Bluesky and X (Twitter) accounts…

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  • Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2025
    The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2025. Adam Seskunas – Implement Report Builder in C++: replacing the current Java-based Report Builder with a new solution will improve maintainability and remove one of the last remaining dependencies on Java. Karthik Godha – New dialog to edit Table Styles: Writer and Calc have a feature called AutoFormat styles with the possibility to add custom styles. This project will make it possible to edit existing table styles. Dev
     
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Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2025

Par :Ilmari Lauhakangas
15 mai 2025 à 06:19

The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2025.

  • Adam Seskunas – Implement Report Builder in C++: replacing the current Java-based Report Builder with a new solution will improve maintainability and remove one of the last remaining dependencies on Java.
  • Karthik Godha – New dialog to edit Table Styles: Writer and Calc have a feature called AutoFormat styles with the possibility to add custom styles. This project will make it possible to edit existing table styles.
  • Devansh Varshney – BASIC IDE code auto-completion: rudimentary auto-completion for BASIC macro authors is already available, but this project will make the feature much more helpful.
  • Manish Bera – Python code auto-completion: currently there is no support at all for Python auto-completion when developing scripts for LibreOffice, so this will be quite a welcome addition.
  • Mohamed Ali Mohamed – Rust UNO language binding: last year LibreOffice received support for Lua and the latest .NET and now it’s time to make it possible to use the API with Rust.
  • Ujjawal Kumar – Import Markdown files into Writer: Markdown is a rather popular markup language for quickly formatting text in blog content, comments, chats and more. Requests to support it have increased recently, so it makes sense to tackle it.
  • Shardul Vikram Singh – Rework Impress slideshow to use DrawingLayer primitives: this is one of those projects that are incomprehensible to most users, but really important for the long term maintenance of the code.

Good luck to the contributors – we appreciate their work on these important features and improvements! And thanks to our mentors for assisting them: Thorsten Behrens, Stephan Bergmann and Sarper Akdemir (allotropia); Rafael Lima; Jonathan Clark, Heiko Tietze, Xisco Faulí, Michael Weghorn and Hossein Nourikhah (TDF).

Between August 25 and September 1, contributors will submit their code, project summaries, and final evaluations of their mentors. Find out more about the timeline here, and check out more details about the projects on this page.

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  • TDF and LibreOffice website, blogs and social media – Annual Report 2024
    Our two main websites are vital sources of information for The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice software. We also use our social media channels to raise awareness about our work, share information and encourage new contributors to join us (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) TDF website The Document Foundation website provides general information about the foundation (overview, statutes, code of conduct, financials an
     
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TDF and LibreOffice website, blogs and social media – Annual Report 2024

Par :Mike Saunders
14 mai 2025 à 09:40

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Our two main websites are vital sources of information for The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice software. We also use our social media channels to raise awareness about our work, share information and encourage new contributors to join us

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

TDF website

The Document Foundation website provides general information about the foundation (overview, statutes, code of conduct, financials and reports) and its governance (board of directors, membership committee, members, advisory board, and engineering steering committee), and about LibreOffice certification, including a list of certified developers, and professionals for migrations and trainings.

During 2024, the foundation’s website was visited 98,499 times, with 146,456 page views – a slight reduction in visits but also a slight growth in page views from 2023. Continent-wise, the largest chunk of visits were from Europe (52%), followed by North America (24%) and Asia (16%). And regarding software: the most visits were from PCs using the Windows (65%) operating system, followed by GNU/Linux (10%) and macOS (8%) and devices uses Android (6.2%), while for browsers: Chrome had 39%, followed by Firefox (16%) and Microsoft Edge (15%).

Matomo graph of visits to the website

LibreOffice website

The LibreOffice website provides information about the office suite and the document format, the various download options, how to get help, how to contribute to the project, events where users can get to know the LibreOffice community, and how to make a donation to support the project and the community.

In 2024, we continued to make improvements and tweaks to the website, updating the “Discover” and “New Features” sections of the site to reflect new versions of the software.

During 2024, the English-language LibreOffice website was visited 19,298,517 times (a 0.6% gain over 2023), with 46,065,236 page views (a 0.1% gain). Most visits were from Europe (52%), followed by Asia (20%), North America (15%) and South America (9%), from PCs using the Windows operating system (82%), followed by macOS (6%) and Linux (23%). Regarding web browsers, Chrome was the most popular (41%), followed by Microsoft Edge (29%) and Firefox (13%).

Matomo graph of visits to the website

Blogs

TDF’s blogs (like this one) are essential for communicating activities inside and around the project, including new releases of LibreOffice, community events and support for other free and open source initiatives. In 2024, we used them to post regular interviews with community members and provide updates from team members about documentation, marketing, QA, design and more.

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Blogs were also maintained by various native language communities including Japanese, Spanish, German and others. Thanks to the hard work of community members, we had press releases, tips and other articles translated into many languages, and picked up by local media organisations.

These native language blogs complement the information provided by the main blog in English, and by the two blogs managed by members of the design and the quality assurance projects, which provide updates about activities for the upcoming major releases.
In 2024, the blog had 100,180 visits and 131,174 page views – a drop in both cases of around 30% from the previous year. The press releases for LibreOffice 24.2 and 24.8 were the most popular posts, followed by the posts about the German state of Schleswig-Holstein moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice.

Social media

In January 2024, our X (formerly known as Twitter) account (@LibreOffice) had 63,060 followers; by the end of the year, we had grown this to 68,870. Our most popular posts were for major releases of LibreOffice, and news about migrations to the suite. We posted customised images for “Community Member Monday” interviews with short quotes, encouraging more users to get involved with LibreOffice projects.

In addition, we focused not only on our own posts, but also retweeting announcements from the LibreOffice community members. We liked and reposted messages of support from end users – many of whom were surprised and thankful that a large project would show them support. To keep the content flowing, we reposted popular older tweets, and responded to individual messages.

On other social media platforms, we focused on growing our account on Mastodon, a Twitter-like open source, federated and self-hosted microblogging service. In 2024 we worked more on expanding our activities on our account @libreoffice@fosstodon.org, and from January to December, we grew our follower base from 25,440 to 29,326. We also joined Bluesky in late 2023 thanks to invites from a community member, and by December 2024 our follower count had reached 2,900.

Screenshot of LibreOffice account on Bluesky

Our Facebook page growth was smaller, from 63,348 page followers to 64,239. We’ve noticed a gradual reduction in activity on Facebook over the last few years, which reflects its changing audience, and the move towards other social media platforms. Nonetheless, Facebook still provides a good opportunity to interact with end users of LibreOffice, and every day we checked in to answer questions, get feedback, and post announcements/tips about the software.

YouTube channel

Our YouTube channel grew from 20,638 subscribers and 3,243,107 video views in January 2024 to 22,586 subscribers and 3,534,370 video views by the end of the year. The most popular videos were the “New Features” videos for LibreOffice 24.2 and 24.8, and we also added videos of talks, presentations and workshops from the LibreOffice Conference 2024.

At the end of 2024, we posted the first video from the new LibreOffice Podcast series, where Italo Vignoli and Mike Saunders from TDF talked about the challenges and opportunities in marketing free and open source software like LibreOffice. More podcasts are planned for 2025.

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  • LibreOffice Quality Assurance (QA) in 2024 – TDF’s Annual Report
    Quality Assurance (QA) is a cornerstone of the LibreOffice project, thanks to the activity of a large number of volunteers and the feedback of many users who help in reporting bugs and regressions (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) QA team work In 2024, the QA team triaged thousands of bugs, bisected hundreds of regressions, and answered questions from countless bug reporters. As one of the most visible groups directly res
     
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LibreOffice Quality Assurance (QA) in 2024 – TDF’s Annual Report

Par :Mike Saunders
12 mai 2025 à 10:09

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Quality Assurance (QA) is a cornerstone of the LibreOffice project, thanks to the activity of a large number of volunteers and the feedback of many users who help in reporting bugs and regressions

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

QA team work

In 2024, the QA team triaged thousands of bugs, bisected hundreds of regressions, and answered questions from countless bug reporters. As one of the most visible groups directly responding to end users, the QA team must be nimble and able to adapt to changes. In addition, it must deal with specific requests for help from other teams.

The QA team meets regularly on IRC on the #libreoffice-qa channel, which is the best medium for discussing bugs and regressions. The IRC channel provides an excellent opportunity to remain in close contact with team members, and to tutor new members in the art and skill of LibreOffice QA. This is bridged to the Telegram group.

During 2024, 5351 bugs were reported by 2463 users, which means 103 new bugs were reported every week on average. The QA team prepared monthly reports about their activity and posted on the QA blog.

Top 10 bug reporters

  • Eyal Rozenberg (211)
  • Gabor Kelemen (193)
  • Mike Kaganski (137)
  • Telesto (86)
  • Regina Henschel (85)
  • Xisco Faulí (82)
  • Stéphane Guillou (78)
  • peter josvai (75)
  • Rafael Lima (72)
  • Heiko Tietze (54)

Triaging

During 2024, 5086 bugs were triaged by 328 people. The top 10 bug triagers were:

  • Stéphane Guillou (stragu) (762)
  • Buovjaga (684)
  • m_a_riosv (499)
  • Heiko Tietze (374)
  • V Stuart Foote (241)
  • Mike Kaganski (232)
  • Julien Nabet (186)
  • Xisco Faulí (175)
  • ady (144)
  • Dieter (144)

Bibisecting

Also, during 2024, the QA team performed 561 bibisects of regressions by 30 people. The top 10 bisecters were:

  • raal (121)
  • Buovjaga (111)
  • Stéphane Guillou (104)
  • Xisco Faulí (91)
  • Gabor Kelemen (24)
  • Aron Budea (23)
  • Timur (14)
  • zcrhonek (10)
  • Mike Kaganski (9)
  • Justin L (8)

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  • ODF 20th Anniversary Video
    On May 1st, 2005, the Open Document Format (ODF) become an OASIS standard. One year after, it became an ISO/IEC standard. After two decades, it is the only true open standard for document formats available on the market, and the only one protecting users from proprietary lock in and ensuring a full control over contents. The presentation provides an overview over ODF features and explains why ODF should be used versus Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX). PeerTube: https://peertube.opencloud.lu
     
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ODF 20th Anniversary Video

Par :Italo Vignoli
9 mai 2025 à 08:56

On May 1st, 2005, the Open Document Format (ODF) become an OASIS standard. One year after, it became an ISO/IEC standard. After two decades, it is the only true open standard for document formats available on the market, and the only one protecting users from proprietary lock in and ensuring a full control over contents. The presentation provides an overview over ODF features and explains why ODF should be used versus Microsoft OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX).

PeerTube: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/2b9JeZw1M884V5BK21RioW

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Open Document Format (ODF) has been designed as a document standard for the next 20-50 years, to liberate users from the lock-in strategy built into yesterday’s and today’s proprietary formats and foster interoperability. On the contrary, OOXML – approved by ISO/IEC in 2008 in a version never implemented by MS Office – has been designed as a document pseudo-standard format to propagate yesterday’s document issues and lock-in strategy for the next 20-50 years, to the detriment of users and interoperability.

The philosophy behind the ODF standard document format was to design a mechanism in a vendor neutral manner from the ground up, using existing standards wherever possible. Although this means that software vendors had to tweak their individual packages more than if they continued down their original routes, the benefits for interoperability were important enough to justify this objective. The OOXML pseudo-standard document format was designed by Microsoft for Microsoft products, and to interoperate with the Microsoft environment. Little thought appears to have been exercised for interoperability with non-Microsoft environments, or compliance with established vendor-neutral standards.

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  • LibreOffice 24.8.7 is available for download
    Berlin, 8 May 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at www.libreoffice.org/download. LibreOffice is the only office suite that respects the privacy of the user, ensuring that the user is able to decide if and with whom to share the content they create. It even allows deleting user related info from docu
     
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LibreOffice 24.8.7 is available for download

Par :Italo Vignoli
8 mai 2025 à 07:28

Berlin, 8 May 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at www.libreoffice.org/download. LibreOffice is the only office suite that respects the privacy of the user, ensuring that the user is able to decide if and with whom to share the content they create. It even allows deleting user related info from documents. In addition, it has a feature set comparable to the leading product on the market.

The biggest advantage over competing products is the LibreOffice Technology engine, the single software platform on which desktop, mobile and cloud versions of LibreOffice – including those from ecosystem companies – are based. Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud.
End users looking for manuals can download the LibreOffice 24.8 guides from the following link: books.libreoffice.org/.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with three or five year backporting of security patches, other dedicated value-added features and Service Level Agreements: www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

LibreOffice 24.8.7 availability

LibreOffice 24.8.7 is available from www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (no longer supported by Microsoft) and Apple MacOS 10.15. Products for Android and iOS are at www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/.

LibreOffice 24.8 will reach its EOL (End of Life) in mid-June 2025. Users are encouraged to migrate to LibreOffice 25.2, which is now fully tested for all types of use in production. The current version is LibreOffice 25.2.3.

End users can get first-level technical support from volunteers on mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: ask.libreoffice.org. They can support the project by donating at www.libreoffice.org/donate.

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  • LibreOffice Conference Budapest 2025 Call for Papers
    Join us in Budapest and tell us what you’re doing with LibreOffice! The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, presentations and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice conference in Budapest at ELTE’s Faculty of Informatics, co-organized by FSF.hu Foundation. The event will take place from 4 to 6 September, with an informal community meeting on 3 September. Whether you are an experienced presenter or have never spoken in public before, if you have something inte
     
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LibreOffice Conference Budapest 2025 Call for Papers

Par :Italo Vignoli
6 mai 2025 à 11:05

Join us in Budapest and tell us what you’re doing with LibreOffice!

The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, presentations and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice conference in Budapest at ELTE’s Faculty of Informatics, co-organized by FSF.hu Foundation. The event will take place from 4 to 6 September, with an informal community meeting on 3 September. Whether you are an experienced presenter or have never spoken in public before, if you have something interesting to say about LibreOffice, the Document Liberation Project, the Open Document Format or the ODF Toolkit, we want to hear from you!

Proposals should be submitted by 15 June 2025 to ensure they are considered for inclusion in the conference programme.

The conference programme will be based on the following tracks

a) Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technology
b) Quality Assurance
c) Localisation, Documentation and Native Language Projects
d) Appealing LibreOffice: Usability, Design and Accessibility
e) Open Document Format, Document Liberation and Interoperability
f) Advocacy, promotion and marketing of LibreOffice

Presentations, case studies, workshops and technical talks will cover a topic in depth and last 30 minutes (including Q&A). Lightning talks will cover a specific topic and last 5 minutes (including Q&A). Sessions will be streamed live and recorded for download.

Please submit your proposal – including a short description of contents and a short biography of yourself – to https://events.documentfoundation.org/. If you would like to give more than one talk, please submit a separate proposal for each one. Only software based on the LibreOffice Technology platform will be allowed on stage, while slide decks will be shared using the ISO standard ODP and PDF file formats.

If you need a VISA, please contact the organising team at conference@libreoffice.org as soon as possible to receive an invitation letter.

If you are unable to travel to Hungary and prefer to present remotely, please include a note in your proposal to allow the organisers to schedule your presentation (and organise a test session beforehand).

If you do not agree to make the data for the presentation available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Licence, please specify your terms. In order to make your presentation available on the TDF YouTube channel, please do not make use of copyrighted material (music, images, etc.) for your slide deck.

Of course, this is only the Call for Papers, but everyone is welcome to attend the talks and events! We’ll post again soon when registration is open…

Thank you for your participation!

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  • Monthly News – April 2025
    Hello everyone, Many thanks to our sponsors and to all of you who support the project with your donations. Codenames The codenames for the next releases of Linux Mint and LMDE were chosen: Linux Mint 22.2 will be called “Zara” LMDE 7 will be called “Gigi” PewDiePie We have a new user! How many of us now? We don’t count. Dozens at least, dozens! Welcome to Linux PewDiePie! A hint of Blue in Mint-Y We’re adding a little bit of blue in our theme. This is common practice in UI design. It’s done o
     
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Monthly News – April 2025

Par :Clem
8 mai 2025 à 08:37

Hello everyone,

Many thanks to our sponsors and to all of you who support the project with your donations.

Codenames

The codenames for the next releases of Linux Mint and LMDE were chosen:

  • Linux Mint 22.2 will be called “Zara”
  • LMDE 7 will be called “Gigi”

PewDiePie

We have a new user!

How many of us now? We don’t count. Dozens at least, dozens! 🙂

Welcome to Linux PewDiePie!

A hint of Blue in Mint-Y

We’re adding a little bit of blue in our theme.

This is common practice in UI design. It’s done on mobile, desktop and all over the web. Grey is rarely completely grey, it usually has a little bit more blue in it than red and green.

Take your color picker and check the grey on GitHub. It’s not #f8f8f8, it’s #f6f8fa. Firefox does that well, Google docs, Trello etc..

The reason this is done is to make grey slightly more metallic looking and appear more modern. Pure grey is neutral, it can be perceived as cold or warm based on its surroundings. By bumping the blue (or in the case of github both the green and the blue) we force it to look cold.

Here’s an interesting discussion on the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/UXDesign/comments/1cd40iz/why_apples_systemwebsite_grey_shades_always_lean/

Another reason this makes the UI look more modern is because this is done a lot nowadays but it wasn’t done so much 10 years ago. Like with all new trends, sticking to past standards can make things feel outdated.

Interestingly libAdwaita also just did this.

If you update your Flatpak libAdwaita applications you’ll see they now use #222226 for dark and #ebebed for light.

Because there are many libAdwaita apps already in Flathub and since our own theme is already quite close to it in terms of colors,  we’re adapting Mint-Y to use the same colors.

The difference in the light theme is subtle. It probably wouldn’t be noticed by someone who wasn’t told this had been done. The headers go from #e8e8e8 to #ebebed.

The difference is more visible in the dark theme, which also affects dark apps and the panel and cinnamon clutter elements in the default theme. This one is going from #2b2b2b to #222226 and #404040 to #2e2e33. It looks more modern but also much softer than before.

These changes bring the following improvements:

  • The themes look more modern
  • The dark theme and Cinnamon elements are softer and much nicer looking
  • Flatpak libAdwaita applications fit in a little bit better since they use the same colors

Accent Colors

We made a small change to the XDG Desktop Portal XApp to support accent colors.

The XApp desktop portal simply scans the GTK theme for a named color called “accent_color”. If this color is present it provides it via the XDG Settings API.

Put simply this changes the accent color in Flatpak libAdwaita applications based on your chosen GTK theme.

This works in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. All that is needed is for the theme to define its “accent_color”.

Note to theme artists: This is a one-liner in your GTK CSS.

@define-color accent_color #9ab87c;

libAdwaita

A year ago we complained about libAdwaita, not because it was bad, but because it didn’t support us. Applications made with this library only properly integrated with GNOME and broke functionality in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce.

With the release of Linux Mint 22, GNOME Apps which used libAdwaita were downgraded back to their GTK3 versions so that they could continue to function properly in the desktop environments we support. This was a temporary solution until these applications either got replaced, removed, forked, or until we found a way to continue to use them.

I know our audience isn’t ready to let theming die. It would be extremely unpopular right now if we were to remove theme selection. And since we provide it, it has to work. We cannot ship with a desktop that provides theme selection and a core set of applications which violate it.

As shown above, we’ve updated Mint-Y to use the same colors as libAdwaita. We also made the libAdwaita accent color follow the theme. This helps the integration but it’s only a small step towards properly integrating these applications. It doesn’t solve the issue with window controls and doesn’t help with other themes.

Whether we downgrade or fork applications, I know many of the GNOME developers are as sad as we are about this fragmentation and duplication of efforts. We were talking about extracting epub support in Xreader last week and making a new app. It would take between a week and a month to achieve the level of functionality we see in something like Foliate, but what’s the point long-term? Wouldn’t it be better for Foliate to work outside of GNOME and for us to use it?

Within our XApp discussions we talk about Qt, GTK3, application alternatives, forks and rewrites. What we looked at recently is slightly different. How do we make GNOME apps continue to work outside of GNOME?

Is there anything actually wrong with them once they follow the theme and provide proper window controls?

We gave it a try. We added libAdwaita stylesheets in Mint-X and Mint-Y and made a few changes in libAdwaita to not use its own stylesheet.

As you can see, the layout and style of libAdwaita widgets is different than in traditional GTK3 applications. It’s more touch friendly with sidepanes, split navigation headerbars rather than menubars and toolbars. It works really well for some of the apps though.

In the GIF above, gnome-calendar, gnome-characters and foliate are libAdwaita applications. They integrate really well.

If we apply these patches to libAdwaita we probably won’t need to continue to downgrade the GNOME applications.

Upstream and long-term, if we continue to use libAdwaita applications we probably need an XApp platform lib similar to libAdwaita, either in the form of a soft-forks (libs and/or apps which are often rebased on upstream) or in the form of an extension library (something that extends libAdwaita, similar to libGranite).

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$20, Terry D.
$20, Vernard E.
$20, Winston M.
$19, Stephen P.
$18 (4th donation), Piermarcello P.
$18, zoomonus
$17, Christoph aka “Stoffelchris”
$16 (85th donation), Andreas S.
$15 (105th donation), Johann J.
$15 (9th donation), Alexander H.
$15 (9th donation), Florian P.
$15, Andrej S.
$15, KENNETH W.
$15, Thaha J.
$15, Viktor S.
$12, Carsten B.
$12, Thejas L. U.
$11 (8th donation), Brian H.
$11 (4th donation), aka “mw-wonder”
$11 (4th donation), Alessandro S.
$10 (108th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (57th donation), Peter E.
$10 (52nd donation), Philip Woodward
$10 (35th donation), Tugaleres.com
$10 (17th donation), Thevirtua
$10 (16th donation), Christian B.
$10 (14th donation), Philip E.
$10 (13th donation), Karlheinz R.
$10 (12th donation), Axel R.
$10 (12th donation), Axel R. aka “Airwave”
$10 (12th donation), TONY aka “STRUZZIN ELECTRONICS”
$10 (11th donation), Michiel B. aka “Fairyland Ironwolves”
$10 (9th donation), Donatas Dainys
$10 (9th donation), JvdB
$10 (9th donation), Tom M.
$10 (8th donation), Jacques V.
$10 (8th donation), Roy S.
$10 (7th donation), Dino G.
$10 (7th donation), Marco B. aka “Erouc”
$10 (7th donation), Michael W.
$10 (6th donation), Kjerkreit Ytre, Anders Kiær
$10 (6th donation), Daniel H.
$10 (6th donation), Erik L.
$10 (6th donation), Gary R.
$10 (6th donation), Joseph G.
$10 (6th donation), Steven L.
$10 (6th donation), Tomasz K.
$10 (5th donation), Carlo R.
$10 (5th donation), Robert S.
$10 (5th donation), Tommy H.
$10 (4th donation), Axel P.
$10 (4th donation), Dafydd F.
$10 (4th donation), David G.
$10 (4th donation), Edward G.
$10 (4th donation), Fernando A. P.
$10 (4th donation), Gene E.
$10 (4th donation), Guillaume M.
$10 (4th donation), Mario M.
$10 (4th donation), Simon M.
$10 (4th donation), Tristan V.
$10 (3rd donation), Abe Z.
$10 (3rd donation), Artem Ignatyev aka “ZaZooBred”
$10 (3rd donation), Bruno L.
$10 (3rd donation), Craig D.
$10 (3rd donation), David J.
$10 (3rd donation), Francis S.
$10 (3rd donation), George P.
$10 (3rd donation), James G.
$10 (3rd donation), M.B.
$10 (3rd donation), Mike A.
$10 (3rd donation), Timothy L.
$10 (2nd donation), Christian G.
$10 (2nd donation), Christian O.
$10 (2nd donation), Devin S.
$10 (2nd donation), Diego Moya
$10 (2nd donation), Gerhard K.
$10 (2nd donation), Gunnar A.
$10 (2nd donation), Joseph M.
$10 (2nd donation), Mauro D.
$10 (2nd donation), Michael M.
$10 (2nd donation), Terry S.
$10 (2nd donation), Umberto B.
$10 (2nd donation), Vanderlei G. D. S.
$10, aka “Mint supporter”
$10,
$10, Adam J. V. R.
$10, Adithya
$10, Adriano C.
$10, Alain C.
$10, Aldo Acquistapace aka “Aldo.acqui”
$10, Alexis G. G.
$10, Alfio G.
$10, Alfonso F. aka “alf”
$10, ALTAMIR J.
$10, Anastasios A.
$10, andrej B.
$10, Anel S.
$10, ARIS J. J. N.
$10, Arne J.
$10, Askeldaja
$10, B.N. B.
$10, bartolameotti D.
$10, Bram B.
$10, bruno B.
$10, Capital Region Technology and Computer Support
$10, carlo Z.
$10, Carlos G.
$10, Chris S.
$10, CHRISTOS T.
$10, CLAUDE V.
$10, Constantin R.
$10, Daniel A. L. H.
$10, Daniel H.
$10, Dave J.
$10, Dener L. D. S.
$10, Dennis J.
$10, Didier F.
$10, Dirk N.
$10, Edward L.
$10, Eugen S.
$10, Felix P.
$10, Frank H.
$10, Geoffrey N.
$10, Giancarlo M.
$10, Hugo P.
$10, Ingo W.
$10, John G.
$10, Juan S. G.
$10, LORENZO A.
$10, M%E1rcio F.
$10, Manfred R.
$10, Marian P.
$10, Mario M.
$10, Mario R.
$10, Marlon R.
$10, Mateusz G.
$10, Matthias E.
$10, Michaela H.
$10, Michel W.
$10, MIGUEL A. A. G.
$10, Norberto C. N.
$10, Oliver S.
$10, Patrick G.
$10, Paul R.
$10, Peter K.
$10, Rainer B.
$10, Ramiro M.
$10, Randall R.
$10, Reinhart S.
$10, riccardo G.
$10, Richard M.
$10, Rodrigo C.
$10, ROMANAZZI G.
$10, Salvatore C.
$10, Salzgrotte Meissen
$10, Silvio E.
$10, Spencer D.
$10, Stefan L.
$10, Sydney C.
$10, Thomas S.
$10, Tony A.
$10, Udo S.
$10, valentino U.
$10, Vasco K. aka “Vascoder”
$10, Werner B.
$10, werner B.
$10, Yaroslav V.
$10, Yasir R.
$10, Yogerlan L. A.
$8, Matija K.
$196 from 51 smaller donations

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  • Monthly News – March 2025
    Hi everyone, Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank all the people who donate, sponsor and contribute in various ways to our project. Many thanks to all of you! Note: The features which are previewed in this post are planned for upcoming releases. They are not available right now. Searching for files in Nemo The Nemo file manager was improved. Its search functionality was enhanced. A new filter was added to find files using regular expressions matching their filenames. Cinnamon in Way
     
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Par :Clem
9 avril 2025 à 10:02

Hi everyone,

Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank all the people who donate, sponsor and contribute in various ways to our project. Many thanks to all of you!

Note: The features which are previewed in this post are planned for upcoming releases. They are not available right now.

Searching for files in Nemo

The Nemo file manager was improved.

Its search functionality was enhanced. A new filter was added to find files using regular expressions matching their filenames.

Cinnamon in Wayland

We’re working on adding support for keyboard layouts and input methods to Cinnamon in Wayland.

Will this be included in the next release? Hopefully.

It’s functional but it’s not fully ready yet. Although it’s great news for Wayland compatibility, it can impact toolkit compatibility and input methods for Asian languages. We need a little bit more time to finalize it and properly test it.

OEM Support in LMDE

LMDE 7, which will be based on the next version of Debian Stable, will come with full support for OEM installations.

Thanks to OEM installs, Linux Mint can be pre-installed on computers which are sold throughout the World. It’s a very important feature and it’s one of the very few remaining things which wasn’t supported by LMDE.

OEM stands for “Original Equipment Manufacturers”. It’s used to refer not only to manufacturers but to any company big or small which sells computers. This feature is also used by individuals who either donate or sell their computers.

When you prepare a computer to be sold, you don’t know its future user. You can’t select the username or the password. Big companies might not even know the user’s language, timezone or keyboard layout. So this feature allows the system to be pre-installed on the computer, without selecting user details.

These details are later asked to the user via a first-run wizard when the computer is turned on.

CJS

We’re changing how we handle version numbers for the JavaScript engine that powers the Cinnamon desktop.

Previously, our JavaScript interpreter (CJS) shared the same version number as the Cinnamon desktop environment and was only updated when Cinnamon itself was updated.

Moving forward, CJS will be versioned according to the Mozilla JavaScript engine it uses, and we’ll update it independently from Cinnamon. This means:

  • Updates can happen more frequently and efficiently
  • New JavaScript engine improvements can be added without waiting for a full Cinnamon release
  • The desktop environment can work with multiple versions of the JavaScript engine

This change will especially benefit Linux distributions like Debian and Ubuntu, making it easier for them to ship Cinnamon without having to maintain multiple versions of the Mozilla JavaScript engine.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
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Donations in February:

A total of $14,904 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 502 donors:

$1000 (7th donation), Mikhail Chabanov
$250 (2nd donation), Gary S.
$216, Anna V.
$216, Christian F.
$200 (3rd donation), Curt B.
$200, David Z.
$108 (10th donation), Christian G. aka “Chrissy”
$108 (5th donation), Thomas I.
$108 (2nd donation), Klaus J.
$108 (2nd donation), Werner F.
$108, Anneliese R.
$108, Dirk B.
$108, Michael A.
$106, ossian B.
$100 (11th donation), John M.
$100 (11th donation), Timothy P.
$100 (3rd donation), Christopher G.
$100 (3rd donation), Ronald W.
$100, Artem K.
$100, Catherine H.
$100, Christopher W.
$100, Donald P.
$100, Lawrence L.
$100, Michael R.
$100, Philipp M.
$100, Prateek S.
$100, Ryan G.
$100, Stephen L.
$81, Michael P.
$75 (6th donation), David B.
$75 (4th donation), Warren A.
$68 (6th donation),
$65, Ralf H.
$60 (13th donation), James L.
$54 (9th donation), Jyrki A.
$54 (9th donation), Stoyan
$54 (7th donation), Thomas M.
$54 (4th donation), Christof S.
$54 (4th donation), Hubert F.
$54 (4th donation), Joost S.
$54 (4th donation), Rolf H.
$54 (3rd donation), Alain M.
$54 (3rd donation), John F.
$54 (3rd donation), Michel B.
$54 (2nd donation), Bernhard M.
$54 (2nd donation), Kai G.
$54, aka “Hp1200”
$54, Albert van Alphen aka “Phoerax”
$54, Andrea L.
$54, Benedikt H.
$54, Christopher C.
$54, Gerret S.
$54, Javier P.
$54, Job S.
$54, Karsten H.
$54, Lotte L.
$54, Manuel B.
$54, Marc L.
$54, Marcel F.
$54, Markus R.
$54, Massimo R.
$54, Michael H.
$54, Michael M.
$54, Nadine B.
$54, Rico B.
$54, Simon Speich
$54, Stefan R.
$54, Wolfram K.
$53 (2nd donation), Yusuf D.
$53, ALAN M.
$53, G D. W.
$53, Mar I.
$50 (10th donation), Greg C.
$50 (10th donation), John B.
$50 (7th donation), Dean R.
$50 (7th donation), W G. M.
$50 (5th donation), Jason B.
$50 (5th donation), Mothy
$50 (4th donation), Alan L.
$50 (3rd donation), Andri A.
$50 (3rd donation), Guillermo A.
$50 (3rd donation), John D.
$50 (3rd donation), Neal C.
$50 (2nd donation), Brian Milot Sr
$50 (2nd donation), Anthony C. aka “Ciak”
$50 (2nd donation), Benjamin P.
$50 (2nd donation), Richard M.
$50, ANDREW H.
$50, Arthur S.
$50, Brian D.
$50, BRIAN N.
$50, David T.
$50, Eric K.
$50, Frank S.
$50, Geekazon.com
$50, James H.
$50, Kelley W.
$50, Kira S.
$50, Mathieu D.
$50, Max
$50, Michael K.
$50, Mitch N.
$50, Monica R.
$50, Nils T.
$50, Rob F. aka “CheekinRob”
$50, Suzanne S.
$50, Thomas W.
$50, Travis M.
$50, WILLIAM M.
$49 (7th donation), Fred W.
$45 (2nd donation), Hesham A.
$45, Nicholas A.
$44 (4th donation), Juri N. aka “Electronic music connoisseur”
$43 (14th donation), Roger aka “GNU/Linux werkgroep”
$43 (2nd donation), Claire P.
$43, Lele
$40 (3rd donation), Leah M.
$40 (2nd donation), Daniel P.
$38 (8th donation), Vittorio F.
$38, Michael W.
$37, Frank N.
$35 (4th donation), P W E.
$35, Timothy K.
$32 (16th donation), Anthony M.
$32 (10th donation), Alexander M.
$32 (4th donation), Jean-claude M.
$32 (4th donation), Paul R.
$32 (3rd donation), A. P. .
$32 (3rd donation), Martin B.
$32 (2nd donation), Daniel M.
$32 (2nd donation), Daniel T.
$32 (2nd donation), John B.
$32, Andreas K.
$32, David M.
$32, Wulf S L.
$31, Tony D.
$30 (3rd donation), Devon B.
$30, Calvin N.
$30, Eduardo N. aka “edunkt”
$30, Jeffrey B.
$30, Kevin P.
$29 (4th donation), Birger M.
$29, Richard K.
$27 (23rd donation), John K. aka “jbrucek”
$27 (8th donation), Jonathan. H
$27 (6th donation), Peter M.
$27 (2nd donation), Jürgen N.
$27, Lars B.
$27, Marcello M.
$27, Mr. R.
$25 (48th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
$25 (19th donation), Richard N.
$25 (13th donation), John W.
$25 (7th donation), Mihnea Rădulescu
$25 (5th donation), Miles S. P.
$25 (4th donation), John N.
$25 (4th donation), Richard T. aka “RichT54”
$25 (3rd donation), JeffK969
$25 (3rd donation), Mr C. aka “oldpeculier”
$25 (3rd donation), Pablo J.
$22 (23rd donation), Stefan W.
$22 (19th donation), Marek S.
$22 (10th donation), Francis N.
$22 (9th donation), Bobcam Computer Solutions aka “Rob”
$22 (8th donation), Maurice G. aka “guilmau”
$22 (7th donation), Francesc M. C.
$22 (7th donation), Holger B.
$22 (6th donation), Artur K.
$22 (4th donation), Michael M.
$22 (3rd donation), Willem G. D. L.
$22 (2nd donation), Andreas O.
$22 (2nd donation), Bernd Z.
$22 (2nd donation), Börje Å.
$22 (2nd donation), Gerard W.
$22 (2nd donation), Jean-B. N.
$22 (2nd donation), Michael R.
$22 (2nd donation), Oleksandr P.
$22 (2nd donation), Sylvain Brunerie
$22 (2nd donation), Thorsten S.
$22 (2nd donation), Vladimir S.
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$22, Attila L.
$22, Bernd B.
$22, Bernd M.
$22, Cesar B.
$22, Christoph K.
$22, Daniel K.
$22, Davy V.
$22, Dieter L.
$22, Emil H.
$22, Florian H.
$22, Gerard C.
$22, Giampaolo N.
$22, Hugo Z.
$22, Imrich P.
$22, Janis L.
$22, Jefferson F.
$22, Joerg A.
$22, Klaus K.
$22, Laurent R.
$22, Leonardo S.
$22, Luis P.
$22, Mads Damgaard M.
$22, Marco F.
$22, Martin F.
$22, Michael W.
$22, Olcay Ö.
$22, Patrick L.
$22, Peter H.
$22, Peter L.
$22, Raphaël A.
$22, René H.
$22, Rico D.
$22, Rob T.
$22, Robert E.
$22, Robert M.
$22, Robert P.
$22, Rodion S.
$22, Sebastian P.
$21 (6th donation), Mario N.
$21 (4th donation), Lawrence K.
$21 (4th donation), Rienk R.
$21 (3rd donation), Johnny B.
$21 (2nd donation), Andrea V.
$21, Basil aka “Cätch”
$21, M
$21, Manuel L.
$21, Marcel
$21, Marcus R.
$21, Mario O.
$21, MICHELE B.
$21, Oliver J.
$21, Stichting Elektoor
$20 (45th donation), John D.
$20 (24th donation), Pawel M.
$20 (10th donation), Mark R.
$20 (7th donation), Ray W.
$20 (6th donation), Andrew D.
$20 (6th donation), Bezantnet, L.
$20 (6th donation), Eric W.
$20 (5th donation), Richard W.
$20 (4th donation), Alonzo J.
$20 (4th donation), Daniel S.
$20 (4th donation), David P.
$20 (4th donation), Geoff A.
$20 (4th donation), Martin F.
$20 (4th donation), Simon H.
$20 (4th donation), Steven M.
$20 (3rd donation), All-Access Customer
$20 (3rd donation), Christopher O.
$20 (3rd donation), Christopher W.
$20 (3rd donation), Darwin H.
$20 (3rd donation), Eric H.
$20 (3rd donation), John R.
$20 (3rd donation), Leela A.
$20 (3rd donation), Perry B.
$20 (2nd donation), Adam F.
$20 (2nd donation), DH
$20 (2nd donation), Jacob L.
$20 (2nd donation), Luke M.
$20 (2nd donation), Oren K.
$20, 2MC Home Solutions
$20, Andrew R.
$20, Brett H.
$20, Clinton B.
$20, Cynthia T.
$20, Dale B.
$20, David P.
$20, Dylan C.
$20, Earl P.
$20, Ernesto G.
$20, Frederick B.
$20, George A. R.
$20, George Quentin H.
$20, Jack C.
$20, Julian L.
$20, Max R.
$20, Steven R.
$20, T J S.
$20, Timothy D.
$16 (84th donation), Andreas S.
$15 (104th donation), Johann J.
$15 (14th donation), Fred B.
$15 (9th donation), Bogdan P.
$15, Alexander F.
$15, K V
$15, Kenneth S.
$15, Onerahtokon M.
$13 (2nd donation), Bernd S.
$13, Stefan B.
$12 (13th donation), Bengt Falke aka “Falke”
$12 (3rd donation), Alessandro S.
$12, Martin B.
$11 (58th donation), Daniel S.
$11 (45th donation), Thomas R.
$11 (34th donation), Tugaleres.com
$11 (32nd donation), Denys G. aka “GD Next”
$11 (18th donation), Adis H.
$11 (17th donation), Francois B. aka “Makoto”
$11 (15th donation), Frank J.
$11 (15th donation), Robert W.
$11 (14th donation), Alan B.
$11 (14th donation), Ronald S.
$11 (9th donation), Alfred H.
$11 (9th donation), Antoni Aloy Torrens
$11 (8th donation), Jeanmichel T.
$11 (8th donation), Jerome M.
$11 (7th donation), Mark W.
$11 (6th donation), H.V. L.
$11 (5th donation), Frank H.
$11 (5th donation), Jorge F. M.
$11 (4th donation), Gines S.
$11 (4th donation), Marco Z.
$11 (4th donation), Michele D.
$11 (4th donation), Peter S.
$11 (3rd donation), Andreas H.
$11 (3rd donation), Arvidas S.
$11 (3rd donation), Hakan C.
$11 (3rd donation), Matthew D.
$11 (2nd donation), Artem Ignatyev aka “ZaZooBred”
$11 (2nd donation), Christoph V.
$11 (2nd donation), Denis Š.
$11 (2nd donation), Etienne G.
$11 (2nd donation), Holger K.
$11 (2nd donation), Jean Charles A.
$11 (2nd donation), Junaid N.
$11 (2nd donation), M.B.
$11 (2nd donation), Markus Z.
$11 (2nd donation), Richard L.
$11 (2nd donation), Sergei Petrov
$11 (2nd donation), Thaha J.
$11, A. Dent
$11, Adam J.
$11, Alain C.
$11, Andreas W.
$11, Antonio S.
$11, Basil M.
$11, Bokor A.
$11, Chris L.
$11, Christian E.
$11, Christian H.
$11, Christian K.
$11, Christian O.
$11, Cristian G.
$11, Cristian Virgil B.
$11, Daniel A.
$11, Enea L.
$11, Fortunato M.
$11, Franco D.
$11, Georg W.
$11, Gerald H.
$11, Gerhard Z.
$11, Giuliano L.
$11, Guerrino C.
$11, Hakan C.
$11, Harald F.
$11, Igor C.
$11, Ines G.
$11, Jason C.
$11, Jerome L.
$11, Jochen M.
$11, Johanna F.
$11, John D.
$11, Jørn D.
$11, Kamil G.
$11, Krzysztof S.
$11, Leonard H.
$11, Marco P.
$11, Marek C.
$11, Martin D.
$11, Michael M.
$11, Michael W.
$11, Miloš H.
$11, Norman S.
$11, Oliver A.
$11, Paolo B.
$11, Pawat A.
$11, Peter T.
$11, Robert S.
$11, Roberto M.
$11, Rolf B.
$11, Romano C.
$11, Salvatore C.
$11, Sandor A.
$11, Saro E.
$11, Sascha A.
$11, Scholtz T.
$11, Stephan K.
$11, Thomas S.
$11, Thomas W.
$11, Thomas W.
$11, Troels R.
$11, Ulrich H.
$11, Umberto B.
$11, zukasz K.
$10 (107th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (26th donation), Bruce M.
$10 (18th donation), Slobodan Vrkacevic
$10 (15th donation), platypus products
$10 (14th donation), Tomi P.
$10 (11th donation), TONY aka “STRUZZIN ELECTRONICS”
$10 (10th donation), Kleiner Funk-Electronic
$10 (9th donation), redman
$10 (7th donation), Geoffrey P.
$10 (5th donation), Joseph G.
$10 (5th donation), Stan aka “Dataful.Tech”
$10 (5th donation), Steven L.
$10 (4th donation), jacobsen.biz
$10 (4th donation), James N.
$10 (4th donation), Jefferson Fernando L.
$10 (3rd donation), Gene E.
$10 (3rd donation), Helena K.
$10 (3rd donation), Jorge Arturo V.
$10 (3rd donation), Narate T.
$10 (2nd donation), aka “Vel”
$10 (2nd donation), Abe Z.
$10 (2nd donation), Chris P.
$10 (2nd donation), Craig D.
$10 (2nd donation), Detlef D.
$10 (2nd donation), Gerold H.
$10 (2nd donation), Jonathan E D.
$10 (2nd donation), Jose Vicente M.
$10 (2nd donation), Sebit M.
$10 (2nd donation), Seby C.
$10, Alexander M.
$10, Alfred P.
$10, Andranik S.
$10, Carlos G.
$10, CHAN S. C.
$10, Chris P.
$10, CobyW50
$10, Dana W.
$10, Daniel G.
$10, ihar I.
$10, James G. C.
$10, John H.
$10, John M.
$10, Johnathan B.
$10, Lawrence C.
$10, leo M.
$10, Maarten van der Loo aka “Lodewijk”
$10, Murad M.
$10, Paul Ove M.
$10, Richard H.
$10, Roy F.
$10, Sergei S.
$10, SERGIO IVAN LIRA RODRIGUEZ
$10, Stephen M.
$10, Stephen W.
$10, Thomas D.
$10, Tizian D.
$10, William B.
$10, William L.
$184 from 46 smaller donations

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  • Monthly News – February 2025
    Hi everyone, Many thanks for your donations and support. Here are the news for this month. Important Firefox Update On March 14, 2025, a root certificate used by Firefox will expire. When this happen, Firefox version 128 (and lower) will suffer significant issues related to: configuration add-ons signed content DRM-protected media playback To avoid these problems, make sure you’re up to date in your Update Manager. Press Refresh and apply all updates. This is important for security reasons, an
     
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Par :Clem
1 mars 2025 à 06:49

Hi everyone,

Many thanks for your donations and support.

Here are the news for this month.

Important Firefox Update

On March 14, 2025, a root certificate used by Firefox will expire.

When this happen, Firefox version 128 (and lower) will suffer significant issues related to:

  • configuration
  • add-ons
  • signed content
  • DRM-protected media playback

To avoid these problems, make sure you’re up to date in your Update Manager. Press Refresh and apply all updates.

This is important for security reasons, and in this case it’s also important to avoid regressions.

Firefox 135.0.1 is available on all supported Linux Mint releases.

Firefox 135.0.1 was also sent as an emergency update to the following discontinued releases:

  • Linux Mint 19.3, 19.2, 19.1 and 19
  • LMDE 5
  • LMDE 4

If you are using a discontinued version of Linux Mint (20 or older) or LMDE (5 or older) please upgrade or reinstall Linux Mint.

For more information on upgrades read https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade.html.

Website Maintenance

The backend for the main Linux Mint website was completely rewritten and containerized. This allowed us to minimize the interactions between the site and the hosting server, making it easier to upgrade the server and maintain/develop the website on different computers.

Sometimes we make a tiny little change and everybody loves it. This time it’s the opposite. It took a lot of time to get this done, yet nobody will be able to tell the difference.

The URLs were kept unchanged to avoid 404 errors.

Stripe was integrated and is now fully supported. Donations made with Stripe are now automatically handled and included in our stats.

Cinnamon App Menu

Work started on a redesign of the Cinnamon application menu.

This project is led by Joseph in our development team.

Here’s a preview of what it currently looks like:

Desktop and Release Stats

Our Datadog stats show us the following breakdown for our different desktops:

Note that these stats reflect downloads over the last 7 days, not usage.

Cinnamon represents 60% of our downloads, followed by Xfce and MATE at roughly 20% each.

The following chart gives us a breakdown per release:

Linux Mint 22.1 represents 70%, followed by LMDE 6 at 14%, Mint 22 at 8% and Mint 21.3, still relevant also at around 8%.

As previously announced, Linux Mint 22.x will not have an EDGE release. Starting with Linux Mint 22.2, the HWE kernel will be used.

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Donations in January:

A total of $18,676 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 668 donors:

$300 (13th donation), Plamen Penev Atanasov
$250, Victor B.
$200 (3rd donation), Edmund B.
$200, Edgar Y.
$200, Robert F D.
$150, Adam S.
$140, RS
$120 (8th donation), Markus S.
$108 (9th donation), Christian G. aka “Chrissy”
$108 (5th donation), Kristoff S.
$108 (2nd donation), Peter V.
$108, Chris W.
$102, Data Eng team on behalf of Tymek!
$100 (37th donation), Wolfgang P.
$100 (22nd donation), Philip W.
$100 (18th donation), John Mc aka “Land Research Project”
$100 (9th donation), Jean P. R.
$100 (9th donation), Michael C.
$100 (7th donation), John B.
$100 (5th donation), Charles H.
$100 (5th donation), James F.
$100 (4th donation), Philip M.
$100 (3rd donation), David S.
$100 (3rd donation), Donald C.
$100 (3rd donation), Emily L.
$100 (3rd donation), Vincent P.
$100 (2nd donation), Charles W.
$100 (2nd donation), Steven W B.
$100, Curtis K.
$100, Daniel W.
$100, David T.
$100, Donkeydude
$100, Gary H.
$100, James P.
$100, Justin M.
$100, Kyle T.
$100, Pierre-emmanuel V.
$100, Robert H.
$100, Steven M.
$81 (3rd donation), Thomas B.
$80 (4th donation), Terry Ya!
$72 (2nd donation), Andy Frank S.
$54 (21st donation), Bernard H.
$54 (13th donation), Roland H.
$54 (10th donation), Mimi
$54 (9th donation), Jorge R. R.
$54 (9th donation), Peter W.
$54 (8th donation), Johanan M.
$54 (7th donation), Daniel K.
$54 (7th donation), Jean-luc W.
$54 (7th donation), Nurettin G.
$54 (7th donation), Rolf-Jürgen G.
$54 (6th donation), erwn16 aka “erwn”
$54 (6th donation), Gerald H.
$54 (6th donation), Marcin G.
$54 (6th donation), Thomas R.
$54 (5th donation), Bobby
$54 (5th donation), Guenter B.
$54 (5th donation), Winfried B.
$54 (4th donation), Athanasios M.
$54 (4th donation), Bernard R. aka “Beer4661”
$54 (4th donation), Gerard B.
$54 (4th donation), Karl-heinz P.
$54 (4th donation), Mark K.
$54 (4th donation), Stefan N.
$54 (3rd donation), Siegfried S.
$54 (2nd donation), Alfred G.
$54 (2nd donation), António Salsinha – Graphic Designer
$54 (2nd donation), Christian S.
$54 (2nd donation), Domagoj Ž.
$54 (2nd donation), Enrico V.
$54 (2nd donation), James C.
$54 (2nd donation), Klaas M.
$54 (2nd donation), Mori aka “Romio”
$54 (2nd donation), Peter S.
$54, Andreas K.
$54, Andrew R N.
$54, Craig E.
$54, Dieter H.
$54, Dirk M.
$54, Dominique S.
$54, Francesco G.
$54, Hannu H.
$54, Jens M.
$54, Jonathan H.
$54, Jostein T.
$54, Marc G.
$54, Michael J.
$54, Olivier C.
$54, Pablo V.
$54, Rainer Werner B.
$54, René B.
$54, Roberto G.
$54, Viv H.
$54, Walter V.
$54, Walter W.
$54, WebTradeSolutions
$50 (91st donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (16th donation), An L.
$50 (10th donation), Ian H White.
$50 (10th donation), Kyle S.
$50 (7th donation), David V.
$50 (6th donation), Herman B.
$50 (6th donation), James G.
$50 (6th donation), William C. aka “N4ES”
$50 (5th donation), Jaime F. Zarama
$50 (5th donation), Salomon G.
$50 (4th donation), Mike H.
$50 (4th donation), Mothy
$50 (3rd donation), Arestor B.
$50 (3rd donation), Derek B.
$50 (3rd donation), Don Jr.
$50 (3rd donation), Jay V.
$50 (3rd donation), Karl J.
$50 (3rd donation), M J W.
$50 (3rd donation), Patrick N.
$50 (3rd donation), Patrick T.
$50 (3rd donation), Shane B.
$50 (2nd donation), Andri A.
$50 (2nd donation), Jason G.
$50 (2nd donation), John M.
$50 (2nd donation), Joseph B.
$50 (2nd donation), Martin M.
$50 (2nd donation), Michael F.
$50 (2nd donation), Stephen L.
$50, 4 FUN LLC
$50, Alan G.
$50, Alfred C.
$50, Allen S.
$50, Carl F.
$50, Christopher M.
$50, Craig H.
$50, Douglas C.
$50, Glenn S.
$50, Hector G.
$50, Jaime A.
$50, John B.
$50, Jonathan S.
$50, Kenneth B.
$50, Kenneth S.
$50, Liam H.
$50, Matthew J Hunt
$50, Miles C.
$50, Peter N.
$50, Peter N.
$50, Robert P.
$50, Russell T.
$50, Tom M.
$50, Vincent E.
$45 (6th donation), William L.
$44 (2nd donation), Joachim F.
$43 (2nd donation), Martin .
$43, John N.
$43, Toni
$40 (32nd donation), Hemant Patel
$40 (8th donation), Darin W.
$40 (5th donation), Douglas R. aka “darco”
$40 (2nd donation), Christopher W.
$36, Jens V.
$36, Joachim K.
$35, Stefan K.
$35, Tom M.
$33 (2nd donation), Christopher B.
$32 (13th donation), H ScottB
$32 (7th donation), Wolfgang S.
$32 (6th donation), Gerardo A. M.
$32 (6th donation), Jürgen H.
$32 (3rd donation), Lukas P.
$32 (2nd donation), Gerard O.
$32, Claude V.
$32, Jan L.
$32, Thomas Schmall
$30 (24th donation), Kevin S. aka “K R Shook Consulting”
$30 (11th donation), Thomas C.
$30 (6th donation), Anonymous
$30 (5th donation), aka “GM46”
$30 (3rd donation), macglen
$30 (2nd donation), Petur K.
$30, Axel W.
$27 (12th donation), Alexander M.
$27 (5th donation), Opik Oort
$27 (4th donation), Rob B.
$27 (3rd donation), Florian H.
$27 (3rd donation), Heiko K.
$27 (2nd donation), Matthias W.
$27, Andreas M.
$27, Bernhard K.
$27, Fabian B.
$27, Nico M.
$27, Pascal V.
$27, Philippe GM
$25 (83rd donation), Andreas S.
$25 (47th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
$25 (14th donation), Andrew Currie
$25 (9th donation), John T.
$25 (6th donation), Mihnea Rădulescu
$25 (4th donation), John A.
$25 (4th donation), Myron J.
$25 (3rd donation), James H.
$25 (3rd donation), John N.
$25 (3rd donation), Robert O.
$25 (2nd donation), Larry G.
$25 (2nd donation), Pablo J.
$25, D L R.
$25, Frank Z.
$25, Hector R.
$25, John B.
$25, Matt W.
$23, Rooter
$22 (56th donation), Peter E.
$22 (24th donation), Ke C.
$22 (22nd donation), Stefan W.
$22 (18th donation), Benjamin W. aka “UncleBens”
$22 (18th donation), Marek S.
$22 (11th donation), Dirk M.
$22 (10th donation), Daniel Gruhn
$22 (8th donation), Peter C.
$22 (8th donation), Robert D. aka “Wilbobob”
$22 (7th donation), Alberto A.
$22 (7th donation), Erik W.
$22 (7th donation), John V.
$22 (7th donation), Pavel P.
$22 (7th donation), Waldemar P. aka “valldek”
$22 (6th donation), Jan S.
$22 (6th donation), Jean, Jacques G.
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$22 (6th donation), Thomas M.
$22 (5th donation), Benoit R.
$22 (5th donation), Raik D.
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$22 (4th donation), Daniel K.
$22 (4th donation), Dragomir Deltchev aka “Drago”
$22 (3rd donation), Andrea C.
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$22 (3rd donation), Giorgio B.
$22 (3rd donation), Henning P.
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$22 (3rd donation), Odie P.
$22 (3rd donation), Raffael V. aka “raffael”
$22 (3rd donation), Robert L.
$22 (3rd donation), Samy S.
$22 (3rd donation), Sławomir P.
$22 (2nd donation), Andrea C.
$22 (2nd donation), Antero K.
$22 (2nd donation), Benito R.
$22 (2nd donation), Bernd B.
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$22 (2nd donation), Christian M.
$22 (2nd donation), François D.
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$22 (2nd donation), Jean-yves D.
$22 (2nd donation), Jens R.
$22 (2nd donation), Loic D.
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$22 (2nd donation), Mario D.
$22 (2nd donation), Michael A.
$22 (2nd donation), Michael J.
$22 (2nd donation), Mirko Z.
$22 (2nd donation), Philippe W.
$22 (2nd donation), Reinhard R.
$22 (2nd donation), Szymon N.
$22 (2nd donation), Tiberiu N.
$22 (2nd donation), Wolfgang P.
$22, Achim S.
$22, André G.
$22, Andreas F.
$22, Andrew S.
$22, Arwind S.
$22, Christoph W.
$22, David P.
$22, Denick M.
$22, Dieter B.
$22, Dirk S.
$22, Edgars S.
$22, Endre M.
$22, Felix G.
$22, Francisco J G.
$22, Frank K.
$22, Georges H.
$22, Georges M.
$22, Gideon K.
$22, Giovanni F.
$22, Harald Und Beate P.
$22, Harry P.
$22, Hendrikus T.
$22, Joseph D.
$22, Karl K.
$22, Marc H.
$22, Marco T.
$22, Marcus H.
$22, Matthias E.
$22, Matthias K.
$22, Michael K.
$22, Michel S.
$22, Mike G.
$22, Nicolas S.
$22, Noelle A.
$22, Oleksandr V.
$22, Pablo M.
$22, Rolandas B.
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$22, Salvatore C.
$22, Simon W.
$22, Sven B. aka “OldFox”
$22, Sven L.
$22, Thomas G.
$22, Thomas J.
$22, Thomas S.
$22, Viktor W.
$22, Volker B.
$22, Werner M.
$22, Wolfgang R.
$20 (65th donation), Bryan F.
$20 (21st donation), Dave S.
$20 (16th donation), Vladimir Litvinenko
$20 (15th donation), Joao Kodama
$20 (14th donation), Terry B.
$20 (12th donation), John W.
$20 (10th donation), Andrei Sinkevich
$20 (8th donation), David K.
$20 (7th donation), Doug S.
$20 (7th donation), Kendall G.
$20 (7th donation), Lal C.
$20 (7th donation), Stacey B.
$20 (7th donation), Thomas N.
$20 (6th donation), Gareth L.
$20 (6th donation), Robert A.
$20 (6th donation), Robert S.
$20 (5th donation), Eric W.
$20 (5th donation), John P.
$20 (5th donation), Nicholas B.
$20 (4th donation), Nathan B. aka “Diginate ”
$20 (3rd donation), Ben M.
$20 (3rd donation), Michael R.
$20 (3rd donation), Robert W.
$20 (3rd donation), Steven W.
$20 (3rd donation), Tony W
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$20 (2nd donation), Adam D.
$20 (2nd donation), Alex M.
$20 (2nd donation), Andrew R.
$20 (2nd donation), Goran M.
$20 (2nd donation), Hans-dieter W.
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$20 (2nd donation), Paul C.
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$20 (2nd donation), Phillip B.
$20 (2nd donation), Ron G.
$20, Chester J.
$20, Claudio Leonel S.
$20, Clifford J.
$20, Daniel C.
$20, David G.
$20, David H.
$20, David M.
$20, Dirk A.
$20, Edward G.
$20, Eric K.
$20, Fred P.
$20, Frederick J.
$20, Gilbert T.
$20, Gregg D.
$20, Halt Productions
$20, Jack B.
$20, Jean-cédric F.
$20, Jimmy H.
$20, John B.
$20, John H.
$20, John McKissick
$20, John S.
$20, Jonathan M.
$20, Justin S.
$20, Lucas R.
$20, Luis E.
$20, Michael H.
$20, Michael H.
$20, Norman C.
$20, Parsifal H.
$20, Paul J.
$20, Pradeep Gowda aka “btbytes”
$20, Quebec
$20, Raymond R.
$20, S & CV Marshall
$20, SAVE4ENERGY
$20, Scott S.
$20, Tomasz K.
$20, Werner F.
$20, William W.
$19 (2nd donation), CercLL d’Entraide et Réseau Coopératif Autour des Logiciels Libres (LUG of Marseille, FR)
$16 (2nd donation), Günter S.
$16, Alain E.
$16, Michael A.
$16, Michael R.
$15 (16th donation), Michel C.
$14 (103rd donation), Johann J.
$13 (9th donation), Theofanis-Emmanouil T.
$13 (4th donation), Kiss J. aka “lowstar”
$13 (2nd donation), Xabier A.
$13, Gordon L.
$13, Jean Francois B.
$12 (9th donation), Adian K.
$12 (5th donation), John W.
$12 (2nd donation), Alessandro S.
$11 (57th donation), Daniel S.
$11 (33rd donation), Tugaleres.com
$11 (31st donation), Denys G.
$11 (19th donation), Abdulkadir H. aka “Askari”
$11 (18th donation), Marc V. K.
$11 (17th donation), Michael P. aka “www.perron.de”
$11 (15th donation), Christian B.
$11 (13th donation), Aimless Games
$11 (13th donation), Dominique M.
$11 (13th donation), JCSenar – linuxirun.com
$11 (13th donation), Ronald S.
$11 (12th donation), Rupert B.
$11 (11th donation), Axel R.
$11 (11th donation), Darius O.
$11 (11th donation), Juergen M. B.
$11 (10th donation), Laurent M
$11 (10th donation), Roland Smit
$11 (7th donation), Joerg B.
$11 (6th donation), Hamid N.
$11 (6th donation), Mario I.
$11 (6th donation), Thomas L. aka “hensys”
$11 (5th donation), Günther H.
$11 (5th donation), HM Magnusson
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$11 (3rd donation), Arnis D.
$11 (3rd donation), Daniele V.
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$11 (3rd donation), Martin G.
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$11 (2nd donation), Christian F.
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$11 (2nd donation), Kenzo Manuel
$11 (2nd donation), Paul dB
$11 (2nd donation), Ronny K.
$11 (2nd donation), Walter W.
$11, Aitor S.
$11, Alberto Z.
$11, Andrii Y.
$11, Anna E.
$11, Anonymous
$11, Antonio M.
$11, Artem Ignatyev aka “ZaZooBred”
$11, Bastian H.
$11, Bernard H.
$11, Chris P.
$11, Chris W.
$11, Christian M.
$11, Christopher K.
$11, Dieter T.
$11, Dirk R.
$11, Fardis M.
$11, Florian S.
$11, Frank W.
$11, Frédéric L.
$11, Gaetano C.
$11, Georgios T.
$11, Ger P.
$11, Gerd S.
$11, Giampaolo V.
$11, Gianluigi D.
$11, Giovanni S.
$11, Giusseppe Domínguez aka “gsp”
$11, Gojko M.
$11, Harald M.
$11, Jacques P.
$11, James K.
$11, John D.
$11, Jonathan E D.
$11, Jose V M.
$11, Julian K.
$11, Klaus B.
$11, Klaus-dieter K.
$11, Lars W.
$11, linux-helt-enkelt v/Ketil Ervik
$11, Lydia S.
$11, Malcolm J.
$11, Marc L.
$11, Markus K.
$11, Mathias S.
$11, Mattia T.
$11, Michal G.
$11, Michelle B.
$11, Mik Prims
$11, Mirko S.
$11, Moreno M.
$11, Rolf S.
$11, Seweryn M.
$11, Simo P.
$11, Soutarson P.
$11, Stefan L.
$11, Stefan W.
$11, Stephane S.
$11, Taylan G.
$11, Thomas M.
$11, Tzvetan Hristov H.
$11, Vlad I.
$11, Walter R.
$11, Yvonne H.
$10 (106th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (51st donation), Philip Woodward
$10 (16th donation), Thevirtua
$10 (15th donation), Benjamin S. aka “fantasybenji”
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$10 (6th donation), Jody M.
$10 (5th donation), Daniel Greg aka “006.5”
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$10, Craig D.
$10, Dale H.
$10, David W.
$10, Davis J.
$10, Dzmitry B.
$10, Edward H.
$10, Ground Glass Productions
$10, Jim M.
$10, Jonathan T.
$10, Juan G.
$10, Justin F.
$10, Luther F.
$10, Melvin R.
$10, MyIndex
$10, Nicholas P.
$10, Optimizare SEO
$10, Oriel C.
$10, Richard L.
$10, Trevor D.
$10, Tyler S.
$10, Wallace A.
$9, Daniel P.
$9, Michael Philipp M.
$8 (30th donation), Blazej P. aka “bleyzer”
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$7, Thomas C.
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$6, Arnau H.
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    Hi everyone, We received donations from 852 people in December, for an all-time monthly record of $31,720! Every time this number goes up I think of it the same way. I imagine that many people in one big room, all there just for us. Imagine it for a moment. It’s huge, not only in terms of support but in terms of validation and motivation for the entire team. December celebrates the holidays, the end of the year and a new Linux Mint release. We get more donations in December than in any other mon
     
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Monthly News – January 2025

Par :Clem
8 février 2025 à 05:29

Hi everyone,

We received donations from 852 people in December, for an all-time monthly record of $31,720!

Every time this number goes up I think of it the same way. I imagine that many people in one big room, all there just for us. Imagine it for a moment. It’s huge, not only in terms of support but in terms of validation and motivation for the entire team.

December celebrates the holidays, the end of the year and a new Linux Mint release. We get more donations in December than in any other month. It’s never been that high before though.

We see a compliment here and a sign that you really enjoyed our work. I’d like to thank you for this gift and for this message. Many many thanks for doing this for us!

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Donations in December:

A total of $31,720 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 852 donors:

$1294 (2nd donation), Jan S.
$1000 (7th donation), Gerald L.
$1000 (5th donation), B
$539 (2nd donation), Joshua G. aka “Heptaveegesimal”
$431 (7th donation), Tanev, T.
$377 (5th donation), Soldev sàrl
$377, Markus B.
$335 (2nd donation), Andrey P.
$323, Matthew M.
$265 (17th donation), John Mc aka “Land Research Project”
$250 (3rd donation), Lauren A.
$216 (7th donation), Marcus H.
$216 (5th donation), Franky W.
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$10 (3rd donation), Byron D.
$10 (3rd donation), Elvio Lampugnani aka “elviolmp”
$10 (3rd donation), Hugh R.
$10 (3rd donation), Jeffery S.
$10 (3rd donation), Michael H.
$10 (3rd donation), Michael W.
$10 (3rd donation), Stan aka “Dataful.Tech”
$10 (2nd donation), Brian O.
$10 (2nd donation), Carlos V M.
$10 (2nd donation), Gehova L.
$10 (2nd donation), Gregory B.
$10 (2nd donation), H. Balázs aka “JegesMAC”
$10 (2nd donation), Jeff S.
$10 (2nd donation), Petr V.
$10 (2nd donation), Richard H B.
$10 (2nd donation), Robert P.
$10 (2nd donation), Stanton P.
$10 (2nd donation), The Original Nutshell SmokeCage Corporation
$10 (2nd donation), Vesa A.
$10 (2nd donation), Zebh
$10, Adhyan P.
$10, Alessandro B.
$10, Axel Z.
$10, Ben K.
$10, Brandon W.
$10, Chet Bourg
$10, Cory T.
$10, D L.
$10, Edward I.
$10, Ernest A.
$10, Evgenii K.
$10, Gene E.
$10, James P.
$10, Javier T.
$10, Jens U.
$10, Jim J.
$10, Jose H.
$10, Karl Kristen S.
$10, Lucien L.
$10, Mark M.
$10, Matt D.
$10, Michael W.
$10, Nicholas A.
$10, Pablo L.
$10, Pierre F.
$10, Ralph B.
$10, Ricardo B.
$10, Rusty Rooster Antiques
$10, Rylee W.
$10, Sergei V.
$10, Thomas M.
$10, Todd I.
$10, Wade H.
$10, Will Perez Ronderos aka “munecito”
$10, William G.
$9, Szymon S.
$226 from 52 smaller donations

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  • How to upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1
    It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 22 to version 22.1. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience. 1. Create a system snapshot You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade. If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your operating system to its previous state. Launch Timeshift from the application menu, follow the instructions on the screen to configure it and create a system snapshot. 2. Prepare for the upgrade I
     
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How to upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1

Par :Clem
18 janvier 2025 à 03:41

It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 22 to version 22.1.

If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience.

1. Create a system snapshot

You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade.

If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your operating system to its previous state.

Launch Timeshift from the application menu, follow the instructions on the screen to configure it and create a system snapshot.

2. Prepare for the upgrade

If you installed Cinnamon spices (applets, desklets, extensions, themes), upgrade them from the System Settings.

3. Upgrade the operating system

Upgrading to Linux Mint 22.1 is fast and easy.

In the Update Manager, click on the Refresh button to check for any new version of mintupdate or mint-upgrade-info. If there are updates for these packages, apply them.

Launch the System Upgrade by clicking on “Edit->Upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1 Xia”.

Follow the instructions on the screen.

If asked whether to keep or replace configuration files, choose to replace them.

4. Reboot the computer

Once the upgrade is finished, reboot your computer.

Commonly asked questions

  • If the upgrade is not available to you, check that you have the latest version of mint-upgrade-info (1.2.7 or higher) and restart the Update Manager by launching it again from the applications menu.
  • If the latest version of mint-upgrade-info is not yet available in your mirror, switch to the default repositories.
  • This happens rarely, but if you ever got locked and were unable to log back in, switch to console with CTRL+ALT+F2, log in, and type “killall cinnamon-screensaver” (or “killall mate-screensaver” in MATE). Use CTRL+ALT+F7 to get back to your session.
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  • Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released!
    The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia”. Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements. For an overview of the new features please visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 22.1“. Important info: The release notes provide important information
     
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Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released!

Par :Clem
16 janvier 2025 à 06:56

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia”.

Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features:

This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements.

For an overview of the new features please visit:

“What’s new in Linux Mint 22.1“.

Important info:

The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions.

To read the release notes, please visit:

“Release Notes for Linux Mint 22.1”

System requirements:

  • 2GB RAM (4GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
  • 20GB of disk space (100GB recommended).
  • 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

Upgrade instructions:

  • If you are running the BETA you don’t need to upgrade, use the Update Manager to apply available updates.
  • Upgrade instructions for Linux Mint 22 will be provided in a few days.

Download links:

Cinnamon Edition:

Xfce Edition:

MATE Edition:

Integrity and authenticity checks:

Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity.

Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones.

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun with this new release!

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  • Monthly News – December 2024
    Hi everyone, The BETA phase for Linux Mint 22.1 is now over. 115 reports were received and many bugs were fixed. Many thanks for your help during this beta-test! After a few days of QA testing we’ll be ready to publish the stable release. The new features will then make their way towards LMDE and we’ll open up the upgrade path for Linux Mint 22. As always, I’d also like to thank our sponsors and donors. Thank you for your support. Sponsorships: Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by: Gold Sponsor
     
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Monthly News – December 2024

Par :Clem
11 janvier 2025 à 07:24

Hi everyone,

The BETA phase for Linux Mint 22.1 is now over. 115 reports were received and many bugs were fixed. Many thanks for your help during this beta-test!

After a few days of QA testing we’ll be ready to publish the stable release. The new features will then make their way towards LMDE and we’ll open up the upgrade path for Linux Mint 22.

As always, I’d also like to thank our sponsors and donors. Thank you for your support.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
Linux VPS Hosting
IPv6.rs
Silver Sponsors:
Datadog
Sucuri
ThinkPenguin: For Everything Freedom		 Bronze Sponsors:
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hSo
Agile.Coach
BGASoft Inc
C0MPLÉX1 SEO
DeepTide, LLC
HamoniKR
Tinken Inc
VANT

Donations in November:

A total of $11,423 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 406 donors:

$250 (6th donation), Neil V.
$222 (5th donation), Michael M.
$216 (3rd donation), aka “omg_me”
$216 (3rd donation), Thomas K.
$200 (3rd donation), James F.
$162 (2nd donation), Christian B.
$162, Michael K.
$110 (5th donation), Jacek O.
$110 (2nd donation), James L.
$108 (4th donation), Gianni O.
$108 (4th donation), Peter G.
$108 (2nd donation), Gerhard Schaufelberger aka “Schaufelzwerg”
$108, Alexandra S.
$108, Andreas H.
$108, Bernhard L.
$108, Rolf B.
$108, Wolfgang B.
$103 (15th donation), John Mc aka “Land Research Project”
$100 (14th donation), Mihail S.
$100 (4th donation), Lee R.
$100 (3rd donation), John L.
$100 (2nd donation), Andreas K.
$100, Bruce K.
$100, Nicholas B.
$71, Ronald K.
$70 (4th donation), Jan A.
$70 (2nd donation), P W E.
$65 (2nd donation), Katharina G.
$64 (3rd donation), Harry F.
$60 (12th donation), James L.
$55 (3rd donation), Tom K.
$54 (12th donation), Volker P.
$54 (7th donation), Matthias Rainer
$54 (6th donation), Daniel K.
$54 (4th donation), Danilo Cesari aka “Dany”
$54 (3rd donation), Andreas M.
$54 (3rd donation), David W.
$54 (3rd donation), Udo J.
$54 (2nd donation), Bernard S.
$54 (2nd donation), Christopher B.
$54 (2nd donation), Frank J.
$54 (2nd donation), Steffen J.
$54, Christophe A.
$54, Dominik H.
$54, Emile B.
$54, Eoin O.
$54, Gérard R.
$54, Heinz Martin D.
$54, Jürgen F.
$54, Karsten B.
$54, Mikael W.
$54, Peter W.
$54, Polo M.
$54, Richard B.
$54, Thomas K.
$54, Torsten J.
$54, Wolfgang M.
$50 (89th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (9th donation), Paul R.
$50 (8th donation), Adam W.
$50 (7th donation), Richard H.
$50 (5th donation), Keith H.
$50 (3rd donation), Erwin D.
$50 (3rd donation), Larry D.
$50 (3rd donation), Larry T.
$50 (2nd donation), Christopher G.
$50 (2nd donation), Dominic M.
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$50 (2nd donation), Timothy B.
$50, Alex S.
$50, Dezchek J.
$50, Eduardo F.
$50, Edward M.
$50, Jon L.
$50, Klaus J.
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$50, Nikolai P.
$50, Reinhold F.
$50, RicK Yost aka “Rick”
$50, Robert L W.
$50, Ryan E.
$50, Sabrina C.
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$50, YVSSYSTEM
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$43, René P.
$40 (2nd donation), Cecil H.
$38 (6th donation), Rüdiger A.
$36 (2nd donation), Leslie J.
$35 (2nd donation), Ken B.
$32 (7th donation), Mark E.
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$32 (3rd donation), Söhnke H.
$32 (2nd donation), Thomas O.
$32, Clemens S.
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$30 (4th donation), Horacio M.
$30 (3rd donation), Thomas S.
$27 (68th donation), Michael R.
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$27 (6th donation), Johanan M.
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$27, Dirk D.
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$27, Matthias W.
$25 (45th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
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$25, Curtis A.
$25, John N.
$22 (54th donation), Peter E.
$22 (16th donation), Benjamin W.
$22 (16th donation), Marek S. [LMDE SUPPORTER]
$22 (11th donation), Anne-christine U.
$22 (8th donation), Dean P @ DT
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$22 (5th donation), Jaume T.
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$22, Alexander K. aka “SaschaLP”
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$22, Lenze V.
$22, Louis F.
$22, Marc R.
$22, Martino S.
$22, Matthias P.
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$22, Siegmar H.
$22, Stefan B.
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$22, Wolfgang W.
$20 (50th donation), Stefan M. H.
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$20, Anthony M.
$20, Bjørn Thorvald B.
$20, Brian L.
$20, David B.
$20, Derek N.
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$20, Larry P.
$20, Lukas S.
$20, Lynn H.
$20, Matthew L.
$20, Paul W.
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$20, Reiner L.
$20, Ricky H.
$20, Thomas S.
$20, Wilbur V.
$20, William H.
$20, William M.
$16 (3rd donation), André F.
$16 (2nd donation), Dominik W.
$16, Arthur B.
$15 (16th donation), Felipe P.
$15 (3rd donation), Blake P.
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$14 (101th donation), Johann J.
$13 (5th donation), Pavlo Pyshkin aka “Gurzhi effect”
$13 (2nd donation), Thomas G.
$11 (55th donation), Daniel S.
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$11 (19th donation), Stefan W.
$11 (16th donation), Francois B. aka “Makoto”
$11 (14th donation), Robert W.
$11 (12th donation), Ronald S.
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$11 (5th donation), BGEN
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$11 (3rd donation), Andreas K.
$11 (3rd donation), Andrew V.
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$11 (3rd donation), Derek S.
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$11 (3rd donation), Neodream
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$11 (2nd donation), Daniel L.
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$11 (2nd donation), Kai S.
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$11 (2nd donation), Tim L.
$11, Alejandro G.
$11, Alexandre Neves aka “ASeven”
$11, Alexandros D.
$11, Amidou C.
$11, Andrea F.
$11, Andrew S.
$11, Bruno S.
$11, Calogero F.
$11, Cha C.
$11, Christoph F.
$11, Christoph V.
$11, Dieter W.
$11, Elhora R.
$11, Felix B.
$11, Ferenc P.
$11, Florent M.
$11, Francesco Antonio T.
$11, Francisco S.
$11, Georg A.
$11, Gernot K.
$11, Gregor M.
$11, Gregor M.
$11, Hans A.
$11, Hans-joachim L.
$11, Ian B.
$11, José G.
$11, Josef K.
$11, Julio Cesar S.
$11, Ken M.
$11, Kristof P.
$11, Mahmoud C.
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$11, Markus K.
$11, Massimo D.
$11, Oliver A.
$11, Piya C.
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$11, Rikard M.
$11, Roberto R. aka “impiastro”
$11, Rudolf E.
$11, Sebastian E.
$11, Sebastian Wi.
$11, Stefano D.
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$11, Thierry C.
$11, Timothy H.
$11, Victor Sasha Christ D.
$11, Wolfgang V.
$10 (104th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (49th donation), Philip Woodward
$10 (26th donation), aka “AsciiWolf”
$10 (19th donation), Dave S.
$10 (15th donation), Thevirtua
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$10 (8th donation), TONY aka “STRUZZIN ELECTRONICS”
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$10 (6th donation), Geoffrey P.
$10 (6th donation), Lynn Z.
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$10 (4th donation), Simon B.
$10 (3rd donation), Kiss J. aka “lowstar”
$10 (2nd donation), Baltazar D.
$10 (2nd donation), Martin H.
$10 (2nd donation), Ronald M.
$10 (2nd donation), Stan aka “Dataful.Tech”
$10, aka “Jon Donym”
$10, Aquiles F.
$10, Ayden J.
$10, Bradford B.
$10, Centsible Systems
$10, Chayton W.
$10, Dominic K.
$10, Donald H.
$10, Donald W.
$10, Francisco L.
$10, Ilker E.
$10, István D.
$10, Jehú G.
$10, Juan T.
$10, Long Island Escape Room
$10, Omar Manuel M.
$10, Owen L.
$10, Peter V.
$10, Pieter W.
$10, Randolph H.
$10, Ron S.
$10, Ryan S.
$10, The Original Nutshell SmokeCage Corporation
$10, Thomas O.
$8 (9th donation), Krste C.
$8 (2nd donation), Wendy L.
$8, Anette I.
$6 (92th donation), Eugene T.
$159 from 38 smaller donations

If you want to help Linux Mint with a donation, please visit https://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

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  • Monthly News – November 2024
    Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying the BETA so far! This release introduces new features, tools, and artwork, so we anticipate a good number of bug reports. Every single fix helps us refine and improve the final release. Your feedback during the BETA phase is extremely important to us. Linux Mint 22.1 is our second release based on the 24.04 package base. Some of the updates address long-standing usability issues we had  in some of the components we replaced. We’re confident these changes will
     
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Monthly News – November 2024

Par :Clem
16 décembre 2024 à 06:30

Hi everyone,

I hope you are enjoying the BETA so far!

This release introduces new features, tools, and artwork, so we anticipate a good number of bug reports. Every single fix helps us refine and improve the final release. Your feedback during the BETA phase is extremely important to us.

Linux Mint 22.1 is our second release based on the 24.04 package base. Some of the updates address long-standing usability issues we had  in some of the components we replaced. We’re confident these changes will lead to a very stable release.

So far, we’ve received 43 reports. Thank you very much to all the BETA testers for helping out and providing feedback. And many thanks to all of you for your support and your donations.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
Linux VPS Hosting
IPv6.rs
Silver Sponsors:
Datadog
Sucuri
ThinkPenguin: For Everything Freedom		 Bronze Sponsors:
Vault Networks *
AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting
hSo
Agile.Coach
BGASoft Inc
C0MPLÉX1 SEO
DeepTide, LLC
HamoniKR
Tinken Inc
VANT

Donations in October:

A total of $11,849 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 401 donors:

$350,
$323, Andre V.
$265, Alain B.
$250 (5th donation), Neil K.
$250, Netas AG
$200, A
$200, Philip C.
$162, Ingo K.
$119, Thomas S.
$108 (2nd donation), Elmar V.
$108 (2nd donation), Ulrich S.
$108, Daniel O.
$108, Helge V.
$103, Niklas T.
$100 (12th donation), Mountain Computers, Inc aka “MTNCOMP aka GGPCTU”
$100 (11th donation), Plamen Atanasov
$100 (6th donation), Prashanth V.
$100 (4th donation), Peter B.
$100 (2nd donation), Michaz W.
$100, Alexander S.
$100, Krzysztof W.
$100, Rogelio G.
$100, William P.
$75, K S.
$65 (5th donation), Olivia C.
$65, Hazel S.
$61 (14th donation), schema markup generator aka “schemawriter”
$54 (20th donation), Bernard H.
$54 (9th donation), Uwe P.
$54 (7th donation), Jyrki A.
$54 (5th donation), Csongor
$54 (5th donation), Günter J.
$54 (4th donation), Winfried B.
$54 (3rd donation), Alexandre H.
$54 (3rd donation), Bernard P.
$54 (3rd donation), Dragan M.
$54 (3rd donation), Launay D.
$54 (2nd donation), Eric U.
$54 (2nd donation), Thorsten W.
$54, Ciaran S.
$54, Corouge C.
$54, Daan V.
$54, Eckehard H.
$54, Felix Antonio C.
$54, Ingo F.
$54, Ivaylo A.
$54, Jacek K.
$54, Kris H.
$54, Michael H.
$54, Paolo Z.
$54, Philippe E.
$54, Richard D.
$54, Sabin M.
$54, Saul A.
$54, Torsten S.
$53 (14th donation), John Mc
$50 (88th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (9th donation), Marty L.
$50 (7th donation), Derek S. aka “Corky357”
$50 (4th donation), Daniel S.
$50 (4th donation), Eugene Z.
$50 (3rd donation), Brandon M.
$50 (3rd donation), Larry M.
$50 (3rd donation), Mark L.
$50 (3rd donation), William B.
$50 (2nd donation), Mack
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$50, BlackBagData.io
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$50, Joseph H.
$50, Lance B.
$50, Marcin M.
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$50, Michael S.
$50, Peter B.
$50, Reust A.
$50, Rickey S.
$50, Robert C.
$49, Patrick F.
$44 (2nd donation), Manuel O.
$43 (5th donation), Wielant B.
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$43, Henri D.
$40, James M.
$38 (2nd donation), Andreas K.
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$32 (4th donation), Stephan D.
$32 (3rd donation), Michel J.
$32, Etienne C.
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$32, Marta A.
$30 (7th donation), Kevin H.
$30, Carl D.
$30, William T.
$27 (67th donation), Michael R.
$27 (5th donation), Johanan M.
$27, Joachim F.
$27, Kent T.
$27, Ralph G.
$27, Stephan L.
$25 (44th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
$25 (10th donation), John W.
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  • Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” – BETA Release
    This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia”. Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements. For an overview of the new features please visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 22.1“. Important info: The release notes provide important information about known issu
     
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Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” – BETA Release

Par :Clem
12 décembre 2024 à 04:25

This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia”.

Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features:

This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements.

For an overview of the new features please visit:

“What’s new in Linux Mint 22.1“.

Important info:

The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions.

To read the release notes, please visit:

“Release Notes for Linux Mint 22.1”

System requirements:

  • 2GB RAM (4GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
  • 20GB of disk space (100GB recommended).
  • 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

Upgrade instructions:

  • This BETA release might contain critical bugs, please only use it for testing purposes and to help the Linux Mint team fix issues prior to the stable release.
  • Upgrade instructions will be published after the stable release of Linux Mint 22.1.
  • It will be possible to upgrade from this BETA to the stable release.
  • It will also be possible to upgrade from Linux Mint 22.

Bug reports:

  • Bugs in this release should be reported on Github at https://github.com/linuxmint/mint22.1-beta.
  • Create one issue per bug.
  • As described in the Linux Mint Troubleshooting Guide, do not report or create issues for observations.
  • Be as accurate as possible and include any information that might help developers reproduce the issue or understand the cause of the issue:
    • Bugs we can reproduce, or which cause we understand are usually fixed very easily.
    • It is important to mention whether a bug happens “always”, or “sometimes”, and what triggers it.
    • If a bug happens but didn’t happen before, or doesn’t happen in another distribution, or doesn’t happen in a different environment, please mention it and try to pinpoint the differences at play.
    • If we can’t reproduce a particular bug and we don’t understand its cause, it’s unlikely we’ll be able to fix it.
  • The BETA phase is literally a bug squashing rush, where the team is extremely busy and developers try to fix as many bugs as fast as possible.
  • There usually are a huge number of reports and very little time to answer everyone or explain why a particular report is not considered a bug, or won’t get fixed. Don’t let this frustrate you, whether it’s acknowledged or not, we appreciate everyone’s help.

Download links:

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Xfce Edition:

MATE Edition:

Integrity and authenticity checks:

Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity.

Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones.

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Many thanks in advance for testing the BETA!

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    Many thanks for your donations and for your support. Night Light in Cinnamon The team is working on adding Night Light support in Cinnamon. Night Light consists in reducing the amount of blue light emitted by the screen. It makes the color of your monitor warmer as you get closer to bed time to help reduce eyestrain and improve sleep quality. In the past Linux Mint shipped with Redshift to provide this functionality. Redshift wasn’t integrated in the settings though, it only worked in Xorg and
     
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Monthly News – October 2024

Par :Clem
3 novembre 2024 à 08:15

Many thanks for your donations and for your support.

Night Light in Cinnamon

The team is working on adding Night Light support in Cinnamon.

Night Light consists in reducing the amount of blue light emitted by the screen. It makes the color of your monitor warmer as you get closer to bed time to help reduce eyestrain and improve sleep quality.

In the past Linux Mint shipped with Redshift to provide this functionality. Redshift wasn’t integrated in the settings though, it only worked in Xorg and it was auto-configured by something called geoclue which is no longer functional.

The team is hoping to have this feature fully integrated into the Cinnamon desktop and working out of the box, both in Wayland and Xorg.

Clutter Dialogs

Work continues on migrating key Cinnamon dialogs to Clutter.

Here is the dialog which pops up when a keyring needs to be unlocked:

And here is the one to confirm display changes:

Donations via Stripe

Stripe was added as an alternative to PayPal on the donors page.

This was done to make it easier for people who couldn’t or didn’t want to donate via PayPal. More countries and more bank cards are supported by Stripe and no account registration is necessary.

Framework Laptops

We started working with Framework. We’re hoping this will lead towards a great partnership.

Framework promotes a concept which is quite admirable. They make high-performance laptops which are easy to upgrade, repair and customize.

They want to achieve full compatibility with Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop. That’s also very important to us because it means we can recommend this brand within our community without having to worry about compatibility issues.

Their laptops are packed with components we don’t have or technologies which we hadn’t really focused on yet. This will boost new areas of development for us.

The Laptop 13 they sent me just arrived today so I won’t be able to review it until the next blog post. Spoiler alert: I like it 🙂

When it comes to hardware I love it when a product feels special and/or of high quality. I’ve had many different computers in the past. The ones I enjoyed the most weren’t the most modern or the most powerful, they were the ones I grew attached to, either because they were very well built or because I loved something unique about them. I still work mostly on a Mintbox 3 and an old Macbook Pro Retina. I’ll be comparing this Laptop 13 to these two next month.

Hellotux Garments

Some of our branded clothes will soon be discontinued.

Hellotux can’t source the green Mint shirts anymore.

Some sizes are missing, some are reduced. We’ll also probably remove the old Mint logos eventually.

If you like the green shirts or the old logos don’t wait until they’re gone.

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  • 2-in-1 release – Inkscape 1.4.2 is out!
    The first minor release since Inkscape 1.4 is here! No worries, you didn't miss 1.4.1! Due to a signficant bug that was only discovered shortly before its planned release, 1.4.1 has been merged with 1.4.2.  With lots of fixes, some smaller improvements and even a few new features around file format support, we believe it was well worth the wait. Here's a summary of what to expect from the new release: A new splash screen, providing a visual cue while Inkscape loads in the background Ini
     
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2-in-1 release – Inkscape 1.4.2 is out!

12 mai 2025 à 14:40

Draw your world by Kess Marks, CC-By-SA 4.0

The first minor release since Inkscape 1.4 is here!

No worries, you didn't miss 1.4.1! Due to a signficant bug that was only discovered shortly before its planned release, 1.4.1 has been merged with 1.4.2. 

With lots of fixes, some smaller improvements and even a few new features around file format support, we believe it was well worth the wait.

Here's a summary of what to expect from the new release:

  • A new splash screen, providing a visual cue while Inkscape loads in the background
  • Initial support for importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve files
  • A new extension to Clean up Paths
  • Substantially improved Affinity Designer files (.afdesign) import
  • 20 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import
  • more than 50 other bug fixes and small improvements, including improvements to Boolean operations, layer selection, minimal window width and restoration of Spray tool buttons' functionality
  • and 15 updated translations!

For more detailed information on the changes in version 1.4.2 available in the release notes.

Again, thanks to all Inkscape users and contributors for their support in identifying and flagging these critical issues for us through sending bug reports for our volunteer developers to examine and solve.

Should you experience an issue while using Inkscape, please let us know! We've put together a step-by-step video to help you post your first bug reports on Gitlab.

Built with the power of a team of mostly volunteers, this open source vector graphics editor represents the combined efforts, passion and work of many hearts and hands from around the world, ensuring that Inkscape remains available free for everyone to download and enjoy.

If you'd like to contribute to the project, you are more than welcome in our project's global community! You'll find the list of ways to connect with us here.

You can also help Inkscape to stay alive and evolve by making a donation.

Get Inkscape 1.4.2 for Linux, Windows or macOS!

Draw Freely.

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  • Inkscape Summit Frankfurt 2025
    For the past few days, 7 Inkscape Members met up in Frankfurt, Germany to collaborate on various projects and get to know each other. We were especially delighted to have two InkStitch maintainers, a major downstream project of Inkscape, join us. This way, we got to learn about the struggles and worries of projects using Inkscape better, and even built a new capability for extensions to interact with Inkscape during the event. Marc, our release manager, cleared out our merge request backlog, r
     
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Inkscape Summit Frankfurt 2025

5 février 2025 à 08:14

For the past few days, 7 Inkscape Members met up in Frankfurt, Germany to collaborate on various projects and get to know each other.

We were especially delighted to have two InkStitch maintainers, a major downstream project of Inkscape, join us. This way, we got to learn about the struggles and worries of projects using Inkscape better, and even built a new capability for extensions to interact with Inkscape during the event.

Marc, our release manager, cleared out our merge request backlog, reviewing and merging various contributions. He also set up a new web-based translation service, so that translators don't have to learn how to use git, and we hopefully see better Inkscape translations in many languages. He also collaborated with Vaibhav on getting the handles behave well when editing Text to Path.

Jonathan, extensions maintainer, enabled Inkscape to tell extensions in real-time about changes in the document (merge request), and even update the document in return. The new system works on all major platforms. This feature was requested by our InkStitch friends, who will use it to build a preview of the stitch pattern while the user is working on the document. Variations of this feature were often requested by extension authors, so we're excited what the community will use it for!

Tav was working on delivering color font support, and helped Martin and Vaibhav with a wide variety of text-related problems.

Martin wasn't able to attend in-person, but did join via Video Chat to work on PDF support and help answering questions with other people in Frankfurt. He got up at 3am his time to attend!

Ravi is one of our GSoC students from 2024, and we're happy that we got to know him better & to integrate him into our team! He is still working on the node-based filter editor, his GSoC project (merge request), and is hopefully finished soon.

Vaibhav also is a former GSoC student, but is contributing regularly since. He is currently working on improving Text on Path (merge request). Thanks to his work during the Summit, Text on Path now loops around on closed paths (an SVG2 feature)  and has correct and intuitive handle movement.

Kaalleen, InkStitch maintainer, helped us understand their packaging process and helped shape the direction of development on the extensions environment. Apart from that, she worked on various InkStitch issues, including support for long-arm quilting machines. Also, she gifted all of us beautiful bags with the 1.4 About screen stitched on (she also has a tutorial for this on the InkStitch website).

 

The beautiful embroidery Kaalleen gifted to the other participants (from the InkStitch Website).

After 3 days full of coding and enlightening conversations, we now take home with new ideas in our luggage, and look forward to the next meeting - May 2025 in Nuremberg, just before LGM.

The 7 participants of the Frankfurt Summit.

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  • Inkscape at 21 is growing up and getting organized
      November 6, 2024, marks the end of the 20th anniversary year for the Inkscape project, and the beginning of a new decade of adventure. There were a few milestones this past year, among them an informal global celebration, a bug-fix program, an About Screen Contest, an Inkscape Summit, a summer of code, and the launch of version 1.4. Here’s a brief look at some of those milestones: Bringing contributors from around the world together in real time online Looking back over the past year, ou
     
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Inkscape at 21 is growing up and getting organized

6 novembre 2024 à 12:07

Flourishing Inkscape by Sreya Saju, CC-By-SA 4.0

 

November 6, 2024, marks the end of the 20th anniversary year for the Inkscape project, and the beginning of a new decade of adventure. There were a few milestones this past year, among them an informal global celebration, a bug-fix program, an About Screen Contest, an Inkscape Summit, a summer of code, and the launch of version 1.4.

Here’s a brief look at some of those milestones:

Bringing contributors from around the world together in real time online

Looking back over the past year, our 20th anniversary got off to an active start with an online anniversary party in November 2023, where users and contributors gathered over the span of several time zones to welcome guests who shared their passion for Inkscape, their art, and discussed how and why they contribute to the project. The world showed up to hang out and filled us all with pride to be part of this open source community.

From there, things moved quickly with preparations for version 1.4 and all the elements that come together before the annual version release.

Inkscape’s 1.4 About Screen Contest

Preparations for the popular About Screen Contest began early in the year, setting up the voting space and rallying contributors to organize the promotion and review of contest entries. The winning entry was featured in the 1.4 release that launched in the Fall of 2024. If you’re curious about the contest, feel free to check out the rules and history of this tradition.

Inkscape’s Contributor Blog

Some of our developers, especially those who are paid by the project (i.e. from your donations), publish articles about their work in our Contributor Blog, which can be found on the web site under the News tab. Among the blog posts include ones the progress made on our Bug Accelerator program, the Adobe Illustrator File import project, and the GTK4 migration work. You can find the posts through to Spring 2024 online.

Inkscape Summit 2024 in Rennes, France!

We had a great Inkscape Summit in Rennes, France, in May 2024. Our three-day meeting was well attended and offered an opportunity for developers and a couple of other contributors to meet, work, and discuss the future of the project. A member of the SFC was in attendance and participants had a chance to exchange with a representative from the Open Document Project, too, on open source projects.

Learning to Code through Contributing to Inkscape

Inkscape developers continued the longstanding tradition of participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program, which enables people new to open source projects and students to learn about software development and gain experience within a project environment. Several Inkscape developers mentored three students in 2024, one of whom is still working hard. If you’re curious to know what these students accomplished, their code journeys can be found on the GSOC site.

When it comes to the software itself, Inkscape has been embarking on big changes that will span a couple of future versions, specifically the transition to GTK4. This year marked a big milestone as the master branch was successfully migrated to the new code base. Also in the works is the future of CMYK color inside of Inkscape, though there is no final date set yet for integrating a system.

Inkscape Monthly Art Challenges

This past year has seen regular monthly Inkscape Challenges in the forum, posted on social media channels, to encourage Inkscape artists to share their work and learn new skills. From easy to intermediate projects to challenge your Inkscape skills, there’s something for everyone who is curious to learn. These challenges, along with the many opportunities to learn and collaborate within the project, have helped to bring new contributors to the table, too. You’ll find plenty of art to enjoy in the project’s forums!

Looking at Possible Futures for the Project

In October, an informal discussion was held among contributors to look at the possibilities of taking the  project in a new direction in the future. As with some other open source projects in the past, Inkscape is seeking to grow and explore possible futures, including being an independent organization. While there are no immediate plans to move from SFC, the discussion led to contributors beginning to imagine what Inkscape might look like three years down the road. At 21, it’s time to consider the possible bright futures ahead.

For now, we would like to say a big thank you to all of you, Inkscape users, contributors, and supporters. It’s in working together that this software program continues to develop and grow.

Curious to know what contributing to Inkscape might bring to your world? Get in touch!

In the meantime, enjoy using Inkscape, a professional quality vector graphics software on your Linux, Mac OS X and / or Windows desktop computers.

Draw Freely.

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  • Inkscape’s 20th Anniversary
    On November 18, 2023, the Inkscape project celebrated its 20th anniversary. The anniversary celebration was an online get-together of Inkscape users and contributors. This was an initiative by the Vectors team and the intention was to bring Inkscape users and contributors together to celebrate 20 years of Inkscape. Inkscape is used by people around the world. To accommodate that, two sessions were organized in different time zones. The first session was scheduled at 12:00 UTC for folks from r
     
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Inkscape’s 20th Anniversary

5 novembre 2024 à 18:59

On November 18, 2023, the Inkscape project celebrated its 20th anniversary.

The anniversary celebration was an online get-together of Inkscape users and contributors.

This was an initiative by the Vectors team and the intention was to bring Inkscape users and contributors together to celebrate 20 years of Inkscape.

Inkscape is used by people around the world. To accommodate that, two sessions were organized in different time zones. The first session was scheduled at 12:00 UTC for folks from regions like Eastern North America, Europe, India, & Indonesia. The second session started at 18:00 UTC for other regions, including Oceania.

The attendees were invited to share their approximate location in the world so that we could “map” the Inkscape community that came together to celebrate the anniversary. The interactive map can be viewed online. It is a beautiful souvenir of Inkscape’s global reach.

 

Map of attendees of Anniversary Celebration in November 2023
Map of attendees of Anniversary Celebration in November 2023

The larger Inkscape community also sent birthday wishes which were read during the sessions. An interactive slideshow of the wishes is available on Gitlab.

These sessions featured interviews from people in the Inkscape community. The interviewers asked guests about their Inkscape journey, how they discovered Inkscape, what they liked most about using Inkscape, among other questions. Guests answered that they use Inkscape for various things, some of them being designing board games, a children’s book for their loved ones, doing professional design work. One guest said they loved the feeling of freedom when designing with Inkscape. Another guest wanted a free vector graphics application, they stumbled upon Inkscape and found a bug. After reporting it, they ended up eventually contributing translations for their language.

After the interview ended, the room was opened to the chat so that people could ask the guests questions. The sessions went well over time as those in attendance wanted to keep the great Inkscape party going.

You can get involved with the Inkscape project, too, and help make the next 20 years even greater!

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  • Inkscape lanza la versión 1.4, con potentes características accesibles y personalizables
    Después de meses de espera, finalmente estamos listos para abrir la última versión de Inkscape... conozcan la 1.4, la edición Geek, donde reinan la accesibilidad y la personalización. Los desarrolladores del proyecto Inkscape, la mayoría de ellos colaboradores voluntarios de países de todo el mundo, han estado trabajando entre bastidores en nuevas funciones, mejorando las actuales, corrigiendo errores y preparando el terreno para la llegada de GTK 4. Analicemos algunas de las características
     
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Inkscape lanza la versión 1.4, con potentes características accesibles y personalizables

13 octobre 2024 à 14:44

Después de meses de espera, finalmente estamos listos para abrir la última versión de Inkscape... conozcan la 1.4, la edición Geek, donde reinan la accesibilidad y la personalización.

Los desarrolladores del proyecto Inkscape, la mayoría de ellos colaboradores voluntarios de países de todo el mundo, han estado trabajando entre bastidores en nuevas funciones, mejorando las actuales, corrigiendo errores y preparando el terreno para la llegada de GTK 4.

Analicemos algunas de las características nuevas y mejoradas que permiten una mayor personalización y una mejor accesibilidad en Inkscape de una manera interesante y técnica. Usuarios avanzados de Inkscape, ¡esta es para ustedes!

Diálogo de galería de filtros 

El cuadro de diálogo Galería de filtros de Inkscape 1.4 es el nuevo punto de entrada al mundo de los filtros. Diríjase al menú Filtros para encontrar sus favoritos más fácilmente, con vistas previas por categoría o escribiendo palabras clave en la barra de búsqueda. Esto incluye los filtros personalizados que haya añadido; búsquelos en la categoría Personal. Las funciones de accesibilidad incluyen la capacidad de cambiar el tamaño de la vista previa de las miniaturas.

The Filter Gallery with previews and search
The Filter Gallery with previews and search

Rejillas modulares

Para quienes buscan lo último en simetría y precisión, los nuevos botones de selección de cuadrículas les resultarán una forma más rápida y visual de identificar la cuadrícula de su elección. En el caso de las nuevas cuadrículas modulares, puede ajustar muchos parámetros de cuadrícula por separado, desde la altura y el ancho hasta los espacios horizontales y verticales, incluidos los ajustes en el nivel del módulo de cuadrícula (rectángulo). Habilite esta opción en las propiedades del documento.

Example of a modular
Example of a modular grid

Diálogo de muestras

El cuadro de diálogo Muestras de Inkscape tiene un nuevo diseño. Ahora incluye un menú desplegable con vista previa de las paletas de colores. Puede visualizarlas con los nombres de los colores en una lista o en cuadrículas. Los usuarios avanzados también pueden aumentar el tamaño de los mosaicos. Busque sus muestras personalizadas o las de sus clientes. Importe paletas desde el cuadro de diálogo, incluidas las de Adobe Color Book que utilizan colores CIELAB, aunque la compatibilidad con las que utilizan CMYK sigue siendo limitada por ahora. Se ha mejorado la transición de CMYK a RGB.

Refactored 'Swatches' dialog with search field
Refactored 'Swatches' dialog with search field

Editor de tipografías SVG

Para aquellos a los que les gustan las fuentes, Inkscape 1.4 es su nueva herramienta de personalización. Encontrarán una ruta más sencilla a los botones para ordenar glifos y eliminar pares. ¡La personalización más potente en su máxima expresión en Inkscape!

Navegador de tipografías unificado

Inkscape está probando una vista previa unificada del navegador de fuentes. Active esta función en Preferencias y reinicie la aplicación. Podrá acceder a vistas previas visuales de fuentes con ajustes como, por ejemplo, agregar su propio texto de muestra. Verifique las características particulares de las fuentes buscando fuentes por tipo de colección. Haga clic en la que desee y observe cómo se aplica a su texto.

Adjusting the dialog by its various options
Adjusting the dialog by its various options

Tiradores personalizables

Verá que, en Inkscape 1.4, los controladores del lienzo se pueden personalizar en cuanto a tamaño, color, ancho del trazo, contorno y opacidad. Esto se actualizará en tiempo real en Inkscape cuando se haya guardado el archivo CSS.

The new default handles
The new default handles

Constructor de formas

Ahora puede realizar ediciones rápidas en imágenes rasterizadas (píxeles) dentro de Inkscape con la herramienta Constructor de formas. Cargue una imagen y seleccione las secciones que desea aislar. Elíjalas con el constructor de formas para recortarlas. Tenga en cuenta que para editarlas, deberá liberar el recorte y luego desvincular el clon. Esta herramienta es útil para una solución rápida, aislando una o varias partes de una imagen rápidamente.

Using the Shape Builder Tool to quickly split a raster graphic into multiple parts
Using the Shape Builder Tool to quickly split a raster graphic into multiple parts

Diálogo de propiedades de objeto

A partir de Inkscape 1.4, los cuadros de diálogo Atributos de objeto y Propiedades de objeto se han agrupado en uno solo. En este único lugar, puede cambiar las distintas propiedades de los objetos, incluidas las rotaciones y las esquinas.

The refactored 'Object Properties' dialog
The refactored 'Object Properties' dialog

Actualizaciones de importación y exportación

Si utiliza Inkscape para crear y publicar documentos, le alegrará saber que ahora puede agregar vínculos de una página a otra dentro de un documento PDF (piense en una tabla de contenidos).

Además, Inkscape 1.4 ahora puede abrir archivos de Affinity Designer, lo que agrega más versatilidad al programa.

Conjuntos de iconos

Demos la bienvenida a Dash, el último conjunto de iconos accesible en Inkscape. Para aquellos a quienes les gusta personalizar, apreciarán este conjunto adicional de más de 500 iconos para explorar. Estos incluyen cursores, versiones escalables y simbólicas, que funcionan en temas claros y oscuros.

Esto concluye nuestro breve recorrido por algunas de las principales características incluidas en Inkscape 1.4. Para obtener más información, las Notas de la versión de Inkscape 1.4 están actualizadas con información sobre todos los cambios incluidos en esta edición.

New icon set in use in the Inkscape interface
New icon set in use in the Inkscape interface

¡Descargue Inkscape 1.4 para Linux, Windows o macOS!

Si tiene preguntas para nosotros, diríjase a nuestro sitio web y busque nuestra comunidad online, donde también podrá encontrar maneras de involucrarse con el projecto.

Mientras tanto,
  Dibuje en libertad.

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  • Inkscape Summit 2024
    We had a great Inkscape Summit in Rennes, France. Our three-day meeting was hosted by long-time Inkscaper's Elisa and Cédric in their school of design Activ.design Five Inkscaper's travelled to the event (Marc, Mikekov, Adam Belis, S-Rafael, and Tav). Two more were present via video (Martin and René). Jonathon dropped in occasionally. And our hosts hung out with us when they weren't too busy preparing for LGM (Libre Graphics Meeting). In previous years we called these events "Hackfests", but ha
     
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Inkscape Summit 2024

16 mai 2024 à 13:35

We had a great Inkscape Summit in Rennes, France. Our three-day meeting was hosted by long-time Inkscaper's Elisa and Cédric in their school of design Activ.design

Five Inkscaper's travelled to the event (Marc, Mikekov, Adam Belis, S-Rafael, and Tav). Two more were present via video (Martin and René). Jonathon dropped in occasionally. And our hosts hung out with us when they weren't too busy preparing for LGM (Libre Graphics Meeting). In previous years we called these events "Hackfests", but have decided in order to be more inclusive to non-programmers and encourage greater partipation these events will be known as "Inkscape Summits".

These important events give the contributors of Inkscape a place where they can get some work done. Rafael [pictured left] is seen here working on some graphic user interface code at the event space. Mike, Adam, and Rafael spent a lot of time discussing and implementing UX designs. Marc did lots of merges, especially forward porting. We had great discussions on the future of Inkscape, including a plan for an improved Live Path Effects system (more of a Live Object system), better testing, etc..

During breaks and after the day, the contributors will go out for a meal and socialise. Rafael, Adam, Mikekov, Tav and Marc [pictured right] sit at a restaurant near the event space for lunch and get to know each other better.

All of these activities are funded by the Inkscape project, who provides travel and event expenses and run by one of the team. This is all funded by our kind donors who help the project cover the costs to run these important events. So a big thank you to all of you, you know who you are!

After the Inkscape Summit event, everyone was able to participate in the Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) which happened directly afterwards. We will often try and organise our own physical meetings along side another conference or event. Tav [pictured left] is seen talking to other LGM attendees who will be contributors to other Free Software projects such as Blender, Krita, Penpot, etc. While smaller than in the past, there were still lots of great talks including talks on color, type, animation, and chocolate.

Meeting with the wider community of Free Software contributors helps us stay up to date with what's happening in the wider industry as well as meeting with some pretty cool people who help run a lot of the software which our users also depend upon. Big thanks for the organisers of LGM for running the event this year, which is the first in person event since Covid.

See you all next time!

 

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  • Congratulations to Inkonic on winning Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest
    We have a winner! Congratulations to the winning entry by artist Inkonic for their artwork "Inkscape's Path–Artist's Blossom".  The theme this year was "Growth" and Inkonic's winning artwork depicted this wonderfully with branches and leaves growing directly out of the work of artists' hands using artists' tools ― literally drawing themselves and their worlds into existence and making them grow. Congratulations to Inkonic ― and thank you for helping Inkscape continue to grow! We would also
     
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Congratulations to Inkonic on winning Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest

6 mai 2024 à 10:20

We have a winner! Congratulations to the winning entry by artist Inkonic for their artwork "Inkscape's Path–Artist's Blossom". 

The theme this year was "Growth" and Inkonic's winning artwork depicted this wonderfully with branches and leaves growing directly out of the work of artists' hands using artists' tools ― literally drawing themselves and their worlds into existence and making them grow. Congratulations to Inkonic ― and thank you for helping Inkscape continue to grow!

We would also like to thank all of the artists who submitted artwork for the contest. Our deepest gratitude to you for showing myriad ways Inkscape can be used to create incredible artworks. These examples are invaluable to helping the project grow and thrive by inspiring and educating artists.

We encourage everyone to take a moment and download any of the artworks you find interesting and explore the objects, nodes, effects, layers, and groups that make up these complex artworks. And if you want to help out the Inkscape Project even more, you can review these artworks by testing the Inkscape 1.4 beta release that will feature this winning artwork here.

Finally, we'd like to extend a big thank you to all of the community members ― more than 250 of you! ― who cast votes in the initial round and selected the top finalists as well as the 23 Inkscape contributors served as the final round of judges for the 1.4 About Screen Contest.

If you’re interested in getting started with or better at using Inkscape check out this month’s challenge.

Thanks to all of you for helping Inkscape continue to grow. 

 Draw freely.

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  • 1.4 About Screen Contest
      Announcing the About Screen Contest for Inkscape 1.4! Calling all artists! Each new version of Inkscape, we run a fun contest inviting all seasoned Inkscape artists and newcomers to participate in the "About Screen" contest. The About Screen is the image that you see when you click on Help → About in Inkscape to find more information about the version of the program installed on your device. This release the topic is "GROWTH". This could be interpreted in many ways! Trees, hair, and grass
     
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1.4 About Screen Contest

2 mars 2024 à 19:24

Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest by Kyle R. Conway, CC-By-SA 4.0

 

Announcing the About Screen Contest for Inkscape 1.4! Calling all artists! Each new version of Inkscape, we run a fun contest inviting all seasoned Inkscape artists and newcomers to participate in the "About Screen" contest. The About Screen is the image that you see when you click on Help → About in Inkscape to find more information about the version of the program installed on your device.

This release the topic is "GROWTH". This could be interpreted in many ways! Trees, hair, and grass grow. Children grow. How have you grown as an artist this year? How has the Inkscape project grown? How have the benefits of free software "grown" in your mind?

We are so excited to see what great art is submitted this year and excited to have artists be a part of it!

Keep in mind that the About Screen Contest is about much more than the About Screen. Submitted contest artwork is not only shared with the entire inkscape community, but is often featured in other places to help the project!

Entering the contest as an artist and/or voting for your favorites is a great way to help the Inkscape project continue to thrive! Each and every submission also helps us test the newest version of Inkscape.

Learn more about the contest here

Draw Freely.

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  • It’s time to celebrate the success of GSOC 2023 and recruit for 2024 with Inkscape
    Inkscape’s involvement in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) program is one of the ways the project helps to advance both learning and new and improved features in the program. We’re excited to be taking part in GSoC once more in 2024! For more information on the timeline and details for applying to collaborate with Inkscape this year, head to our project page on Google's Summer of Code website. If you’re curious to know more about what some of Inkscape’s GSoC students accomplished in 2023, keep r
     
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It’s time to celebrate the success of GSOC 2023 and recruit for 2024 with Inkscape

23 février 2024 à 16:09

Inkscape’s involvement in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) program is one of the ways the project helps to advance both learning and new and improved features in the program. We’re excited to be taking part in GSoC once more in 2024!

For more information on the timeline and details for applying to collaborate with Inkscape this year, head to our project page on Google's Summer of Code website.

If you’re curious to know more about what some of Inkscape’s GSoC students accomplished in 2023, keep reading!

Customize the appearance of your Canvas Controls

GSoC 2023 Inkscape student Sanidhya Singh was a sophomore undergraduate student in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), India.

Sanidhya spent the summer working on developing a customizable appearance for canvas controls under the mentorship of Inkscape core developer Marc Jeanmougin.

What are these canvas controls, you ask? If you’ve drawn a shape using the Pen tool and tried to later edit it using the Node Tool, you might have noticed the circular (or square) handles Inkscape provides to manipulate and transform the shape. These are called "canvas controls" or more commonly "node handles". The style of these controls has been the same since at least Inkscape 0.48, and was in need of a refresh – one that would enable the user to have more flexibility in changing the style. Sanidhya stripped out the old handle styling part and replaced it with an easily editable CSS file, so that users can now change styles by just editing the file. This also enabled better default colors for the controls which will hopefully land in Inkscape 1.4.

You can read more about Sanidhya's work.

Preparing behind the scenes for GTK4 Migration

GSoC 2023 student Vaibhav Malik is from New Delhi, India. Once again, he joined Inkscape devs who have been putting a lot of work into the GTK4 migration. GTK is the user interface toolkit Inkscape uses to draw things like text boxes, buttons, etc. on the screen. Inkscape currently uses GTK3 which is version 3 of the toolkit. The migration to the latest version of the toolkit - GTK4, is what Vaibhav worked on under the mentorship of Inkscape core developer Tavmjong Bah (Tav).

Vaibhav's changes are mostly under-the-hood changes so that Inkscape works as expected with GTK4. One noticeable user-facing change is the addition of popovers for smaller screens. Below a particular window size, Inkscape will automatically adjust the items in the toolbar so that they're still usable on a smaller screen!

You can read more about Vaibhav’s work.

Collaborating with Inkscape developers is a learning experience and helps our free and open source program to advance for all Inkscape users.

Reach out, ask questions and get involved with our global team of volunteer contributors!

Draw Freely.

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Creators: Don't Fall for Inkscape Impersonator

14 février 2024 à 10:41

The project has received multiple requests for confirmation from creators, asking us whether we have been reaching out to them about collaborations / partnerships. They have been approached by someone who used the name “Inkscape PhotoEditor,” which does not exist. This is not us. Any official invitations to collaborate from the project will be listed prominently on our website (i.e. here).

 

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  • GIMP 3.0.4 Released
    Two months after releasing GIMP 3.0, we are delighted to announce the second micro-release, GIMP 3.0.4. This addresses bugs and also incorporates some of the fabulous and helpful feedback we have received. Release Highlights General Bugfixes Regressions UI/UX Build AppImage Smaller and smarter Windows installer GEGL and babl Release Stats Around GIMP Team News GSoC Download Mirrors Downloading GIMP 3.0.4 What’s Next Release Highlights¶ Micro releases like 3.0.4 are focused on fixing bu
     
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GIMP 3.0.4 Released

Par :GIMP Team
17 mai 2025 à 18:00

Two months after releasing GIMP 3.0, we are delighted to announce the second micro-release, GIMP 3.0.4. This addresses bugs and also incorporates some of the fabulous and helpful feedback we have received.

Release Highlights

Micro releases like 3.0.4 are focused on fixing bugs and regressions, so there are no major new features to announce (though we continue to work on those! Just on separate feature branches for GIMP 3.2). However, we want to tell you about some major fixes that may have impacted your workflow.

General Bugfixes

There was a bug with pasting selections from GIMP into other programs, where the pasted section was padded to the original image size. This is now fixed thanks to work from Anders Jonsson, Aruius, and Alx Sa. If you notice any regressions or other issues after this fix, please let us know!

There were several types of crash reported to us, related to changing or turning off the main monitor. Jacob Boerema and Jehan worked together to diagnose this issue and make several necessary fixes. However, if you continue to have problems related to this, let us know so we can continue to work on it.

Idriss Fekir and Liam Quin, our resident font experts, have been busy making improvements to our text systems. In addition to general bug fixes with text layers, they’ve also greatly improved font loading speed on start-up. If you have a large number of fonts on your computer, GIMP should start much faster now!

Non-destructive filters received a number of bugfixes and improvements as well. The name of the filter is once again displayed in the undo history when added to an image. In addition, individual filter edits are now tracked in the undo history, thanks to work by Jehan and Alx Sa. We also resolved a few crashes, and we fixed some visual glitches when rotating layers with active non-destructive filters.

A few other small fixes of note:

  • New contributor Gabriele Barbero fixed a bug where the Help button on the About Dialog didn’t load the help page correctly.

  • New contributor Integral fixed a bug on KDE Wayland where the default Wayland icon was shown instead of our Wilber icon.

  • The ZDI-CAN-26752 bug for .ICO imports is now fixed.

Screenshot of GIMP splash screen with correct Wilber icon on KDE Wayland, by Integral
Screenshot of GIMP splash screen with correct Wilber icon on KDE Wayland, by Integral - GIMP 3.0.4

Regressions

Akkana Peck noticed that the Window Hint option in Preferences no longer allowed floating windows to stay in front of the main image window in multi-window mode. She found and implemented a fix using the updated GTK3 API.

Screenshot of Preferences Dialog with 'Hint for docks and toolbox' option highlighted
Screenshot of Preferences Dialog with ‘Hint for docks and toolbox’ option highlighted - GIMP 3.0.4

The space bar once again respects the action setting in Canvas Interactions. This means instead of always panning, you can set it to switch to the Move Tool instead - or even set it to do nothing at all!

The Difference Cloud filter once again has a GUI to let you adjust its settings. This actually fixes a regression from the port to GEGL in GIMP 2.8, so it’s a long-standing update!

Difference Cloud filter GUI
Difference Cloud filter GUI - GIMP 3.0.4

A few other small fixes of note:

  • The Plug-in Browser should now show all plug-ins again.

  • New contributor Aruius resolved a bug where the Sample Points display didn’t update when the image’s precision changed.

  • The Screenshot plug-in once again uses radio buttons rather than a drop-down menu for its options, reducing the number of clicks needed to change settings.

  • Rupert Weber fixed a bug on Linux where BMP format warnings didn’t display in some cases.

Create Screenshot plug-in GUI
Create Screenshot plug-in GUI - GIMP 3.0.4

UI/UX

Since this is a “bugfix” release, we didn’t want to make too many disruptive UI changes. However, Reju has identified and designed a few smaller updates to help make GIMP’s UI more consistent.

  • The MyPaint Brush tools options UI has been redesigned to match the layout of other painting tools.

  • The generic “Force” slider does not impact the Pencil Tool. This option is now hidden in that tool’s options rather than just marked inactive, to be less confusing.

  • The Device Status dock has been updated to show more clearly which input device is in use, and is closer to the GIMP 2.10 version.

The Path tool now automatically closes the path when you click on the starting point in Design mode, rather than requiring you to hold down the Ctrl first. This makes the Path tool more consistent with similar tools in GIMP, as well as in other software. If you need to move the starting point, you can deselect the current end point by holding Shift when you click on it, and then select the starting point to move it.

Jacob Boerema reviewed our brush size code, and found that different parts of GIMP set different limits for the maximum brush size. He defined a single maximum value and set it to be used throughout GIMP, to ensure there are no surprises when resizing your brush!

A few other small fixes of note:

  • On Windows, floating docks in Multi-Window Mode now also have their titlebars match the theme dark mode setting.

  • You can now press Enter to connect the start and end points in Scissor Select. Pressing Enter a second time will create a selection as normal.

Build

We received reports that GCC 15 could not build GIMP by default, due to some older areas of our codebase using now reserved keywords for variable names. Nils Philippsen located the problem areas and updated the relevant code to match current standards.

On macOS, we now have a developer version of the .DMG as first mentioned in the 3.0.2 news post. This means that creating plug-ins for macOS will be much easier and faster than before. Thanks again to Lukas Oberhuber, Peter Kaczorowski, Dominik Reichardt, and other contributors for their hard work!

Our resident packaging and build expert Bruno Lopes has been busy with more improvements to our processes. A few of these updates are listed below:

AppImage

The AppImage no longer contains Debug Symbols for dependencies (with the exception of babl and GEGL). This should significantly cut down on the file size, going back to the small size it had in RC3. Instead, if you need to debug the AppImage, follow our new debugging instructions.

Smaller and smarter Windows installer

To guarantee the best stability for future GIMP installations on Microsoft Windows, the installer’s Customize mode is now restricted to “clean” installations (a.k.a. when you first install GIMP). That’s because we need to adjust or even remove features from the .exe installer when they get too hard to maintain or become potentially broken (e.g. our custom file associations page was removed starting with GIMP 2.10.12 installer). In the Customize mode case, it was suppose to let you choose what GIMP components should installed, but unfortunately, it was not working like that at all.

Back then, to allow the Customize mode between GIMP installations (e.g. when reinstalling, updating), our Windows developers needed to 1) hardcode the components files almost twice and 2) code our own utility to do recursive uninstall of some complex components. All of that extra work to barely emulate how it (automatically) works on NSIS and WIX installers. Because of this, that feature became unmaintained without us noticing for many years and was silently breaking some GIMP installations. That said, you will still be able to use that feature with the command line - but keep in mind it is not properly working.

To be clear: that feature works perfectly on clean installs and, from 3.0.4 onward, also if the installer detects a broken install (e.g. when you installed GIMP in a external SSD but lost it). We call this much requested feature: Repair mode.

Also in the Customize mode, in addition to letting you choose what language packs are present, you can now also choose to install plug-in development files which work with our new plug-in tutorials.

As a bonus, even if you select literally all components available in the Customize mode, GIMP 3 is still more than 300MB smaller than GIMP 2.10 😉, that’s it.

GEGL and babl

GEGL version 0.4.62 brings several bug fixes to prevent crashes, courtesy of Øyvind Kolås. UI ranges were added by Budhil Nigam to some operations, which means our Fractal Trace filter now has more sensible number ranges on the slider.

babl version 0.1.114 contains some fixes from Øyvind to ensure TRCs are stored correctly from color profiles.

Internally, Bruno Lopes converted many scripts in both projects to use Python, making them easier to build on other platforms.

Release Stats

Since GIMP 3.0.2, in the main GIMP repository:

  • 90 reports were closed as FIXED.
  • 59 merge requests were merged.
  • 280 commits were pushed.
  • 15 translations were updated: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Danish, French, Georgian, German, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

32 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 3.0.4 codebase (order is determined by number of commits; some people are in several groups):

  • 14 developers to core code: Alx Sa, Jehan, Bruno Lopes, Idriss Fekir, Jacob Boerema, Gabriele Barbero, Akkana Peck, Integral, Lukas Oberhuber, Nils Philippsen, aruius, Lloyd Konneker, mkmo, Øyvind Kolås.
  • 9 developers to plug-ins or modules: Alx Sa, Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Jacob Boerema, Anders Jonsson, Nils Philippsen, Rupert, Sabri Ünal, Lloyd Konneker.
  • 16 translators: Emin Tufan Çetin, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Alexander Shopov, Anders Jonsson, Luming Zh, Martin, Yuri Chornoivan, Alan Mortensen, Andi Chandler, Dirk Stöcker, Ekaterine Papava, André Dazereix, Danial Behzadi, Hugo Carvalho, Jordi Mas i Hernandez, Philipp Kiemle.
  • 2 theme designers: Alx Sa, Bruno Lopes.
  • 7 build, packaging or CI contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Idriss Fekir, Integral, Lukas Oberhuber, lloyd konneker, Ondřej Míchal.

Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):

  • GEGL 0.4.62 is made of 22 commits by 7 contributors: Øyvind Kolås, Bruno Lopes, Davide Ferracin, Jehan, Liam Quin, Muhammet Kara, budhil.
  • babl 0.1.114 is made of 24 commits by 5 contributors: Øyvind Kolås, Bruno Lopes, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, lillolollo, sewn.
  • ctx had 88 commits since 3.0.2 release by 1 contributor: Øyvind Kolås.
  • gimp-data had 8 commits by 3 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Lukas Oberhuber.
  • The gimp-test-images (unit testing repository) repository had 1 commit by 1 contributor: Jacob Boerema.
  • The gimp-macos-build (macOS packaging scripts) release had 4 commits by 1 contributor: Lukas Oberhuber.
  • The flatpak release had 15 commits by 3 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Ondřej Míchal, Jehan.
  • Our main website (what you are reading right now) had 44 commits by 4 contributors: Jehan, Alx Sa, Wiliam Souza, Bruno Lopes.
  • Our developer website had 63 commits by 5 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Chas Belov, Lukas Oberhuber, Denis Rangelov.
  • Our 3.0 documentation had 75 commits by 13 contributors: Andre Klapper, Alevtina Karashokova, Jacob Boerema, Alan Mortensen, Alx Sa, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Alexandre Franke, Chas Belov, Jordi Mas i Hernandez, Peter Mráz, ShellWen Chen, Takayuki KUSANO, Yuri Chornoivan.

Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!

Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.

Around GIMP

Team News

Reju, an active contributor to the UX design repository, has been recently granted “reporter” status. We appreciate their hard work developing designs and discussing UX improvements with developers and the community!

GSoC

We are once again participating in the Google Summer of Code internship program. We have three great project proposals from our summer students:

  • Ondřej Míchal is working on a redesign of our developer reference system in GIMP. They already have some early work done on a GEGL Filter Browser, which will be very helpful for plug-in creators looking to use the new Filter API.

  • Gabriele Barbero will be developing further improvements to the text tool, building on past work by former GSoC students and current contributor Idriss Fekir.

  • Shivam Shekhar Soy will be working on our online extensions repository. This is another step on our roadmap to allow you to easily download and install new extensions to GIMP, replacing the beloved GIMP Plug-in Registry.

Download Mirrors

Since the 3.0.2 news post, two new mirrors have been contributed:

Mirrors are important as they help the project by sharing the load for dozens of thousands of daily downloads. Moreover by having mirrors spread across the globe, we ensure that everyone can have fast download access to GIMP.

Downloading GIMP 3.0.4

You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):

  • Linux AppImages for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Linux Flatpaks for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Universal Windows installer for x86 (32 and 64-bit) and for ARM (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Store for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • macOS DMG packages for Intel hardware
  • macOS DMG packages for Apple Silicon hardware

Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc).

Note: The Microsoft Store release may be delayed as we wait for the certification process to finish.

What’s Next

Since GIMP 3.0.0 release, we focused on bug fixing. As could be expected after a 7-year development marathon, various issues have slipped through our testing and we had to deal with these. Though perfection doesn’t exist and we’ll continue to work on bug fixes, we believe we are in a saner state now, and therefore we are now going to enter a “Merge Window” period where we will allow new features and breaking changes in the code again. In other words, we are starting to move onto active GIMP 3.2 preparation! 😱

We won’t spoil 🤫 too much our feature list, also because it is possible that some of the features we are planning don’t make it (though development has already started in feature branches). But we can already tell you that we feel that GIMP 3.2 will be pretty awesome too, despite being much smaller than GIMP 3.0 was!

To be continued…

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  • New Priorities for GIMP
    Edit: this news was obviously a fun 🐠 April fool! 🐟 Nevertheless some people may have noted that the merge request for this image format is real. While supporting all kind of outdated and not-too-frequent file formats is certainly not our top priority, supporting as many image formats, past and present, is within our goals. Everyone who has old image archives they want to still be able to load would understand how important this is. Not only this, our half-joke was a good reminder that our proj
     
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New Priorities for GIMP

Par :CmykStudent
31 mars 2025 à 18:00

Edit: this news was obviously a fun 🐠 April fool! 🐟

Nevertheless some people may have noted that the merge request for this image format is real. While supporting all kind of outdated and not-too-frequent file formats is certainly not our top priority, supporting as many image formats, past and present, is within our goals. Everyone who has old image archives they want to still be able to load would understand how important this is.

Not only this, our half-joke was a good reminder that our project is fully community-led, which means features happen because contributors want to work on them.

🐡 End of Edit 🦈

Hi! I’m one of the contributor for GIMP’s development. You might be familiar with my work on moving “About GIMP” to the bottom of the help menu and other vitally important improvements to GIMP.

GIMP 3.0 was a big release, and we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from users since then. While Jehan is busy with bug fixes, code review, and administrative work, he’s asked me to take over certain duties to ease the burden on him.

Therefore, I am proud to announce a new priority for GIMP 3.2: File Format support!

It’s true that GIMP already supports a wide range of images such as the very useful Esm Software PIX format. However, there are so many more types of images in the world that I believe GIMP should support. Supporting all image formats - no matter how supposedly “obscure” - is crucial to maintaining access to our shared digital culture. The first format in this new campaign is Jeff’s Image Format!

Image of icebergs, converted from .jif format with GIMP
Example JIF image from Jeff’s website, converted with GIMP - authorship and copyright unsure

Jeff’s Image Format is a variation of the GIF standard, created in the late 1990s. It was intended to get around potential legal issues with the patented LZW compression used in GIFs, by using a LZ77-derived compression instead. The format is otherwise nearly identical to GIF (save for the JIFF99a magic number), making it an easy target for import support in GIMP. Furthermore, it helps you to be right no matter how you pronounce GIF!

While you’ll have to wait until GIMP 3.2 to experience importing JIF images, you can check out the merge request for Jeff’s Image Format support in GIMP to tide yourself over until that glorious day! If you have any sample images you’d like to contribute, please share on the issue tracker.

I am so proud to lead this new initiative for GIMP, and I believe it will take us (and open source image editing in general) in an exciting new direction. I look forward to this journey with you all!

(At least until Jehan gets back and sees that I’ve posted this)

Example of Jeff's Image Format animation, converted from .jif format with GIMP
Example Animated JIF image from Jeff’s website, converted with GIMP - authorship and copyright unsure
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  • GIMP 3.0.2 Released
    We are happy to announce the first micro release for GIMP 3.0! Bugfix Release macOS Plug-in Development Windows Installer updates GEGL Release Stats Download Mirrors Downloading GIMP 3.0.2 What’s Next Bugfix Release¶ As we noted in the 3.0 release notes, we are returning to our pre-2.10 development process of only adding new features on minor releases. This allows us to respond more quickly to problems and bugs found by users. Furthermore it’s a good opportunity to show off our streamlined r
     
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GIMP 3.0.2 Released

Par :GIMP Team
22 mars 2025 à 19:00

We are happy to announce the first micro release for GIMP 3.0!

Bugfix Release

As we noted in the 3.0 release notes, we are returning to our pre-2.10 development process of only adding new features on minor releases. This allows us to respond more quickly to problems and bugs found by users.

Furthermore it’s a good opportunity to show off our streamlined release procedure, allowing us to make much faster releases in the v3 series than we used to be able to do with GIMP 2.10.

The initial release of GIMP 3.0 was great, and we deeply appreciate all the positive comments as well as the constructive feedback from new and existing users! You helped us uncover a number of bugs and regressions, and GIMP 3.0.2 provides fixes for several of them.

Here is a summary of the fixes:

  • macOS and flatpak users reported a crash when selecting a brush with the view set to Icon Grid. This was tricky to solve as it did not crash on every OS, but Jehan and Øyvind Kolås worked together to implement a fix.

  • Some packaging changes resulted in a few missed features, such as Python plug-ins and the auto-update check not running on Windows and some display filters and color selectors not appearing on macOS. Bruno Lopes and Lukas Oberhuber diagnosed and fixed these in revisions to 3.0, and these updates are included in the 3.0.2 release.

  • Different system themes had styles which our Default theme did not override, causing some UI glitches or odd coloring. Denis Rangelov worked to develop CSS rules to prevent these problems regardless of what system you’re on. Lukas Oberhuber fixed some additional macOS-specific issues with flyout menus on tool groups.

  • A patch to improve tablet support has been temporarily reverted. While it fixed an issue with detecting the eraser tip of some stylus, it seemed to cause a different issue with pressure sensivity on other tablets. We will review this patch and update it in a future release to fix the eraser bug without causing the other side effects.

  • Additional fixes were implemented throughout GIMP by Jehan, Jacob Boerema, Alx Sa, Idriss Fekir, Wyatt Radkiewicz, and Anders Jonsson.

We are continuing to review reports of bugs, UI glitches, and regressions, and are working on solutions for those. However, we believe GIMP 3.0.2 fixes some immediate problems for users, and we hope it makes using GIMP 3.0 a little smoother. Please continue to report any issues or feature request you have to our issue tracker so we’re aware of them!

macOS Plug-in Development

Lukas Oberhuber, Peter Kaczorowski, Dominik Reichardt, and others have been hard at work creating a new plug-in development package for macOS. Traditionally it has been difficult to develop GIMP plug-ins on macOS, so this is a great improvement! We’ll be updating our developer website soon with more information. For now, you can read the discussion on the tracking issue.

Windows Installer updates

Bruno Lopes has implemented more improvements to our Windows installer. It now sets up a Restore Point for system-wide installs. Also, if you uninstall GIMP via the installer, it will now prompt about removing your configurations. This allows you to make a truly clean uninstall and reinstall of GIMP if you installed as a normal user (not as an admin).

GEGL

GEGL received a small bugfix update as well. 0.4.58 includes a fix for Dither being applied to negative pixel coordinates, as well as additional translation updates.

Release Stats

Since GIMP 3.0.0, in the main GIMP repository:

  • 13 reports were closed as FIXED.
  • 15 merge requests were merged.
  • 54 commits were pushed.
  • 10 translations were updated: Bulgarian, Chinese (China), Dutch, Georgian, Icelandic, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

20 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 3.0.2 codebase (order is determined by number of commits; some people are in several groups):

  • 7 developers to core code: Alx Sa, Jehan, Anders Jonsson, Denis Rangelov, Idriss Fekir, Jacob Boerema, Øyvind Kolås.
  • 6 developers to plug-ins or modules: Alx Sa, Jacob Boerema, Jehan, Jethro Beekman, Lukas Oberhuber, Wyatt Radkiewicz.
  • 10 translators: Luming Zh, Martin, Rodrigo Lledó, Yuri Chornoivan, Alexander Shopov, Anders Jonsson, Ekaterine Papava, Muhammet Kara, Nathan Follens, Sveinn í Felli.
  • 1 Theme designer: Alx Sa.
  • 1 Icon designer: Denis Rangelov.
  • 3 build, packaging or CI contributors: Bruno, Lukas Oberhuber, Jehan.

Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):

  • GEGL 0.4.58 is made of 6 commits by 2 contributors: Øyvind Kolås, Kolbjørn Stuestøl.
  • ctx had 2 commits since 3.0.0 release by 1 contributor: Øyvind Kolås.
  • gimp-data had 2 commits by 2 contributors: Denis Rangelov, Jehan.
  • The gimp-macos-build (macOS packaging scripts) release had 13 commits by 2 contributors: Lukas Oberhuber, Bruno Lopes.
  • The flatpak release had 2 commits by 1 contributor: Bruno Lopes.
  • Our main website (what you are reading right now) had 50 commits by 5 contributors: Jehan, Bruno Lopes, Alx Sa, Michael Schumacher, lillolollo.
  • Our developer website had 18 commits by 3 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Lukas Oberhuber.
  • Our 3.0 documentation had 22 commits by 8 contributors: Alan Mortensen, Andre Klapper, Jacob Boerema, Jordi Mas, Nathan Follens, Marco Ciampa, Tim Sabsch, Xavier Brochard.

Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!

Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.

Download Mirrors

Since the 3.0 news post, two new mirrors have been contributed by Shrirang Kahale:

  • Delhi, India
  • Mumbai, India

Mirrors are important as they help the project by sharing the load for dozens of thousands of daily downloads. Moreover by having mirrors spread across the globe, we ensure that everyone can have fast download access to GIMP.

Downloading GIMP 3.0.2

You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):

  • Linux AppImages for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Linux Flatpaks for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Universal Windows installer for x86 (32 and 64-bit) and for ARM (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Store for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • macOS DMG packages for Intel hardware
  • macOS DMG packages for Apple Silicon hardware

Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc).

What’s Next

Our immediate focus is fixing initial bug reports from users for GIMP 3.0. However, we are also starting to work on new features for the next minor release, GIMP 3.2. We look forward to talking more about that soon, but for now, you can check the roadmap to see where we’re headed!

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger!

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  • GIMP 3.0 Released
    At long last, the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members (for reference, GIMP 2.10 was first published in 2018 and the initial development version of GIMP 3.0 was released in 2020). With GIMP 3.0 you can do more than ever before, more easily, more quickly! GIMP 3.0 splash screen, by Sevenix (CC by-sa 4.0) While we can’t cover every single change in GIMP from 2.10, we want to hi
     
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GIMP 3.0 Released

Par :GIMP Team
15 mars 2025 à 19:00

At long last, the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members (for reference, GIMP 2.10 was first published in 2018 and the initial development version of GIMP 3.0 was released in 2020). With GIMP 3.0 you can do more than ever before, more easily, more quickly!

GIMP 3.0: splash screen by Sevenix
GIMP 3.0 splash screen, by Sevenix (CC by-sa 4.0)

While we can’t cover every single change in GIMP from 2.10, we want to highlight some of the biggest ones as you start exploring this new release.

Highlights

  • Need to tweak a filter you applied hours ago? New in GIMP 3.0 is non-destructive editing for most commonly-used filters. See the changes in real time with on-canvas preview.

  • Exchange files with more applications, including BC7 DDS files as well as better PSD export and many new formats.

  • Don’t know how big to make your drawing? Simply set your paint tool to expand layers automatically as needed.

  • Making pro-quality text got easier, too. Style your text, apply outlines, shadows, bevels, and more, and you can still edit your text, change font and size, and even tweak the style settings.

  • Organizing your layers has become much easier with the ability to select multiple items at once, move them or transform them all together!

  • Color Management was again improved, as our long-term project to make GIMP an advanced image editor for all usages.

  • Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage.

  • New Wilber logo!

GIMP 3.0: Wilber logo by Aryeom
New GIMP logo, Wilber, by Aryeom (CC by-sa 4.0)

Learn More

We’ve prepared release notes to go over all the changes, improvements, new features, and more. And if you’d like even more details, you can peruse the NEWS.pre-3.0 changelog for all 2.99 and 3.0 RC releases.

But to see it for yourself, you can get GIMP 3.0 directly from our Downloads page and try it out!

» READ COMPLETE RELEASE NOTES «

Other Releases in GIMPVerse

To accompany our release of GIMP 3.0.0, packagers should also be aware that we released:

We also advise all packagers to use the latest GTK version: GTK 3.24.49. It contains bug fixes for major issues (ranging from crashes to input devices’ grab issues, UI glitches with interfaces in RTL languages, and more…).

Enjoy GIMP 3.0!

GIMP 3.0 is a new milestone. The application is in active development and if you think this is awesome, wait until you see our plans for the future!

Download GIMP 3.0.0

Support GIMP development

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger!

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  • GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released
    We’re excited to share the third release candidate of GIMP 3.0 for what (we hope) is the final round of community testing before the stable version! This release follows the recent GIMP 3 and Beyond talk by Jehan at FOSDEM 2025. Important Bug Fixes and Changes New GTK3 Version Image Graph Improvements Thread-safe Projection Changes Private Procedures Enhancements Script-fu Filter API New named-arguments syntax File Formats PSD DDS AppImage is now Official Miscellaneous GEGL Release Sta
     
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GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released

Par :GIMP Team
9 février 2025 à 18:00

We’re excited to share the third release candidate of GIMP 3.0 for what (we hope) is the final round of community testing before the stable version! This release follows the recent GIMP 3 and Beyond talk by Jehan at FOSDEM 2025.

Important Bug Fixes and Changes

While resolving the last few major bugs for 3.0, we’ve made some changes that we feel need more community review. While trying out this release candidate, please keep an eye out for the following:

New GTK3 Version

Just in time for GIMP 3.0, a new version of GTK3 has been released! Among other changes, GTK 3.24.48 includes fixes for several bugs affecting GIMP with patches initially contributed by Jehan, such as a crash in Wayland when dragging layers and text glitches in certain widgets with Right-To-Left languages. We want to thank Carlos Garnacho and Matthias Clasen for their help on these respective patches.

GTK 3.24.48 also adds support to the version 2 of xdg_foreign for Wayland (v1 stays supported as fallback). Specifically the absence of this support was causing GIMP to freeze with certain actions on KDE/Wayland, which is now fixed.

As a consequence of these issues — some of them really making GIMP unstable on Wayland — we recommend packagers to update to the latest version of GTK3 when packaging our RC3. However, please let us know if you notice any regressions or other issues as a result of the new GTK3 version.

Image Graph Improvements

With non-destructive editing in GIMP, users can now stack multiple filters on top of each other. These filters usually work in high bit-depth format so image information is not lost. However, each filter’s output was converted to and from the original image’s bit-depth when stacked – so if the image was only 8-bit, a great deal of information was lost in these constant conversions. Jehan fixed this problem by only converting to the image’s format when the filter is meant to be merged in, rather than in non-destructive stacks. Since this is a big change in how filters work, we want to have more users test this change for any possible regressions.

Thread-safe Projection Changes

When changes are made to an image (such as painting), the image projection needs to be “flushed” to display new changes to the screen. Some aspects of this process were not “thread-safe”, which means that when your computer used multiple threads to speed up the work, they might conflict with each other and cause a crash. This was observed in our auto-expanding layer feature. Jehan fixed the function to be entirely thread-safe. However, changes to multi-threading can leave some well-hidden bugs, so more community testing would be helpful.

Private Procedures

The GIMP Procedural DataBase browser shows plug-in and script developers all the functions they can access. Until now, it also showed “private” functions that are only used internally. Jehan added a flag to hide these functions. We initially cast too wide of a net and hid some important public functions. While we fixed these instances, we’d like more review from the community to make sure we didn’t miss any mislabeled public functions.

Enhancements

While we are still in major feature-freeze until the stable release of GIMP 3.0, some small and self-contained enhancements have been made to plug-ins.

Script-fu

Filter API

The new (gimp-drawable-merge-filter) PDB call allows Script-fu writers to use labels to specify filter properties. This will give Script-fu users the same flexibility with calling and updating filters that C and Python plug-in developers have in the GIMP 3.0 API. As an example, here is a call to the Emboss filter:

(gimp-drawable-merge-new-filter mask-emboss "gegl:emboss" 0 LAYER-MODE-REPLACE 1.0 "azimuth" 315.0 "elevation" 45.0 "depth" 7 "type" "emboss")

You can see more examples in our Script repository.

New named-arguments syntax

In Script-Fu, all the functions generated from plug-ins’ PDB procedure must now be called with a brand new named-argument syntax, inspired by the Racket Scheme variant.

For instance, say your plug-in wants to call the Foggify plug-in, instead of calling:

(python-fu-foggify RUN-NONINTERACTIVE 1 (car (gimp-image-get-layers 1)) "Clouds" '(50 4 4) 1.0 50.0)

You should now call:

(python-fu-foggify #:image 1 #:drawables (car (gimp-image-get-layers 1)) #:opacity 50.0 #:color '(50 4 4))

This has a few advantages:

  • Much more self-documented calls, especially as some plug-ins have a lot of arguments (so we could end up having functions with a dozen of integers or floats and that was very confusing).
  • The order of arguments doesn’t matter anymore.
  • You can ignore arguments when you call them with default values.
  • It allows to improve plug-in procedures in the future by adding new arguments without breaking existing scripts.

This last point in particular is important, and orders of arguments did not matter anymore when calling PDB procedures from the C API, as well as all introspected bindings. Script-Fu was the only remaining interface we had which still cared about argument orders and numbers. This is not true anymore and is therefore a huge step towards a much more robust API for GIMP 3!

File Formats

All changes to image loading plug-ins are checked with the automated testing framework built by Jacob Boerema to prevent regressions.

PSD

In addition to bug fixes such as saving CMYK merged images properly, Jacob Boerema has added support for loading 16-bits-per-channel LAB PSDs. He also updated the PSD export dialog to use GIMP’s built-in metadata export features.

DDS

Much-requested support for loading DDS images with BC7 support has been implemented by CMYK Student. Jacob Boerema worked to fix compatibility with DDS files exported from older versions of GIMP.

AppImage is now Official

After nine months of incubation (the number is a mere coincidence 🙂), we present a “new” distribution format for Linux users: .AppImage. Initially we used it as an internal format for testing, as already covered in previous posts. Bruno Lopes‘ efforts have allowed us to improve the build process. We now feel confident with the generated AppImage and so we aim to make it official.

As an official upstream package, no fancy third party plug-ins or other arbitrary binaries that are not GIMP dependencies are added to “bloat” it. It is what some people call “vanilla” GIMP, a clean but complete GIMP for production (aka for general use).

Like any packaging format, it has its own characteristics and limitations. In the case of GIMP’s AppImage, included tools such as gimp-console* and gimp-debug-tool* require prior extraction of the .AppImage file with --appimage-extract command. Also, partly due to AppImage’s design, commands that points to $PWD will not work. These two are the only known feature limitations so far. So, if you find any others or even bugs, please report them on our tracker.

Miscellaneous

  • It is now easier to load images from Google Drive and other remote or cloud platforms without having to manually select a file format to try opening it with.

  • Our build process now generates additional icons with the -rtl extension, which are automatically used with Right-to-Left languages. An example of this is the left and right arrow icons; they now face the correct direction in both language types.

  • Plug-in developers no longer have to make custom file chooser buttons - GimpProcedureDialog now automatically creates them when a File type parameter is used. You can also specify whether the button is for opening or saving files and folders.

  • Rupert Weber continued his effects in cleaning up our BMP plug-in. Additionally, he has in-progress work to add support for importing color profiles in BMPs, which will hopefully be ready in a future release.

  • CMYK Student updated the ICNS plug-in with new support for ic05 icon types and ARGB icon formats. They also fixed a bug when loading older ICNS formats with no transparency mask. Lukas Oberhuber assisted with diagnosing and resolving a known bug in the ICNS format that caused our macOS icon to show garbled pixels at small sizes.

GEGL

The GEGL 0.4.54 release also contains some new enhancements and bugfixes. Thomas Manni updated the Noise Spread filter to prevent bugs when applied to empty layer groups. Jonny Robbie added new option and paper types to the Negative Darkroom filter, and optimized some floating point operations in GEGL as a whole.

Release Stats

Since GIMP 3.0 RC2, in the main GIMP repository:

  • 85 reports were closed as FIXED.
  • 56 merge requests were merged.
  • 335 commits were pushed.
  • 19 translations were updated: Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Georgian, Italian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

33 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 3.0.0 RC3 codebase (order is determined by number of commits; some people are in several groups):

  • 13 developers to core code: Jehan, Alx Sa, Jacob Boerema, lloyd konneker, Anders Jonsson, Thomas Manni, Bruno, Daniele Forsi, Lloyd Konneker, Lukas Oberhuber, Rupert, cheesequake, Øyvind Kolås.
  • 10 developers to plug-ins or modules: Alx Sa, Jacob Boerema, Jehan, Rupert, lloyd konneker, Anders Jonsson, Bruno, Daniel Novomeský, Daniele Forsi, lillolollo.
  • 19 translators: Alan Mortensen, Alexander Shopov, Nathan Follens, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Hugo Carvalho, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Ngọc Quân Trần, Jordi Mas, Marco Ciampa, Sabri Ünal, Anders Jonsson, Danial Behzadi, Ekaterine Papava, Jiri Grönroos, Jose Riha, Luming Zh, Martin, Rodrigo Lledó, Yuri Chornoivan.
  • 1 Theme designer: Alx Sa.
  • 6 build, packaging or CI contributors: Bruno, Jehan, lloyd konneker, Alx Sa, Rupert, Jacob Boerema.

Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):

  • GEGL 0.4.54 is made of 11 commits by 16 contributors: Øyvind Kolås, Alexander Shopov, Hugo Carvalho, JonnyRobbie, Alan Mortensen, Anders Jonsson, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Bartłomiej Piotrowski, Jehan, Martin, Nathan Follens, Nils Philippsen, Rodrigo Lledó, Sam L, Thomas Manni, Yuri Chornoivan.
  • ctx had 233 commits since RC2 release by 1 contributor: Øyvind Kolås.
  • gimp-data had 6 commits by 4 contributors: Bruno, Jehan, Alx Sa, Andre Klapper.
  • gimp-test-images (new repository for image support testing) had 5 commits by 2 contributors: Jacob Boerema, Alx Sa.
  • The gimp-macos-build (macOS packaging scripts) release had 6 commits by 2 contributors: Lukas Oberhuber, Bruno.
  • The flatpak release had 12 commits by 3 contributors after RC2 release: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Hubert Figuière.
  • Our main website (what you are reading right now) had 42 commits by 6 contributors: Jehan, Alx Sa, Bruno, Jacob Boerema, Andre Klapper, Petr Vorel.
  • Our developer website had 18 commits by 5 contributors: Jehan, Bruno, Lukas Oberhuber, Alx Sa, Anders Jonsson.
  • Our 3.0 documentation had 373 commits by 13 contributors: Andre Klapper, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Nathan Follens, Jacob Boerema, Alan Mortensen, Yuri Chornoivan, Dick Groskamp, Jordi Mas, Alevtina Karashokova, Alx Sa, Anders Jonsson, Daniele Forsi, Hugo Carvalho.

Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!

Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.

Around GIMP

Download Mirrors

Since the 3.0RC2 news post, two new mirrors have been contributed:

  • Saswata Sarkar, Gurugram, India
  • Hoobly Classifieds, USA

Mirrors are important as they help the project by sharing the load for dozens of thousands of daily downloads. Moreover by having mirrors spread across the globe, we ensure that everyone can have fast download access to GIMP.

How to Cite GIMP in Research

GIMP is often used in research, and therefore it is cited in various science publications. A researcher using GIMP for astronomical image processing approached us to know how to cite GIMP properly, even more as they say it is used to perform an important step in their algorithm.

Since it seems like an interesting question, we updated our “Citing GIMP and Linking to Us” page with a new “Citing GIMP in research” subsection containing the conclusion of this discussion.

In particular, a BibTex entry, for researchers using LaTeX to manage their bibliography, is available on this link to simplify your work. For instance, say you use this RC3 for your research, you may cite GIMP with this entry:

@software{GIMP,
    author = {{The GIMP Development Team}},
    title = {GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), Version 3.0.0-RC3. Community, Free Software (license GPLv3)},
    year = {2025},
    url = {https://gimp.org/},
    note = {Version 3.0.0-RC3, Free Software}
}

Thank you to Cameron Leahy for this piece of BibTex code!

Downloading GIMP 3.0 RC3

You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):

  • Linux AppImages for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Linux Flatpaks for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Universal Windows installer for x86 (32 and 64-bit) and for ARM (64-bit)
  • MSIX package (GIMP Preview) for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • macOS DMG packages for Intel hardware
  • macOS DMG packages for Apple Silicon hardware

Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc).

What’s Next

We really appreciate all the community testing and feedback we’ve received during the last two release candidates! This will hopefully be the final release candidate before the stable 3.0 version. Our focus now is to finish resolving the few remaining bugs in our 3.0 milestone list, while keeping an eye out for any new reports resulting from the changes in RC3.

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger!

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  • GIMP team at FOSDEM 2025 (talk and keynote)
    Several members of the GIMP team will be present next weekend (1st and 2nd of February 2025) at FOSDEM, a conference in Brussels, Belgium. This event describes itself this way: FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don’t need to register. Just turn up and join in! Needless to say, with over 8000 people expected, it
     
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GIMP team at FOSDEM 2025 (talk and keynote)

Par :GIMP Team
26 janvier 2025 à 18:00

Several members of the GIMP team will be present next weekend (1st and 2nd of February 2025) at FOSDEM, a conference in Brussels, Belgium. This event describes itself this way:

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don’t need to register. Just turn up and join in!

GIMP team and ZeMarmot will be at FOSDEM'25 on Sunday, 2nd of February, for a talk and a keynote!

Needless to say, with over 8000 people expected, it is one of the biggest event in the Free Software ecosystem.

On Sunday morning, from 10 to 11:50 AM, we have 2 talks lined up, in the main track and biggest room (Janson in building J, with over 1400 people of capacity!), and one of these talks is in fact a keynote:

The keynote in particular will be a work-in-progress screening of ZeMarmot short animation film, which is worked on by 2 major contributors of GIMP (Jehan, maintainer, and Aryeom, designer for GIMP, and film director of ZeMarmot) within the non-profit production LILA which produces Libre Art movies.

Not only this, you may notice the presence of musicians, since the music will be played live by 3 musicians from the AMMD non-profit, producing Libre Art music, concerts and recording. The film is a short (about 10 minutes), then it will be followed by a talk presenting our work.

As for the GIMP talk, we will showcase the soon-to-be-released GIMP 3!

In the end of both talks, you will be able to ask questions.

We hope to see many people there. See you soon! 🤗

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  • GIMP 3.0 RC2 Released 🎁
    After the first round of community feedback, we’re happy to share the second release candidate for GIMP 3.0! People gave us really helpful feedback from the first release candidate and we were able to fix a lot of bugs. It is our little under-the-tree 🎄 present for you all! New release candidate splash screen, by Sevenix (CC by-sa 4.0) - GIMP 3.0 RC2 Important Bug Fixes 2.10 Settings Migration Windows Console Missing GUI Font issues on macOS darktable Integration Enhancements GEGL Filt
     
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GIMP 3.0 RC2 Released 🎁

Par :GIMP Team
26 décembre 2024 à 18:00

After the first round of community feedback, we’re happy to share the second release candidate for GIMP 3.0! People gave us really helpful feedback from the first release candidate and we were able to fix a lot of bugs.

It is our little under-the-tree 🎄 present for you all!

GIMP 3.0 RC2: splash screen
New release candidate splash screen, by Sevenix (CC by-sa 4.0) - GIMP 3.0 RC2

Important Bug Fixes

There have been a number of fixes since RC1. We want to highlight the most impactful bugs so that users are aware and can provide additional testing. For details on other bug fixes, please check our NEWS page in GitLab.

2.10 Settings Migration

During community testing, we discovered that user’s 2.10 settings were not being migrated to GIMP 3.0 due to some incorrect assumptions in the import code. Since most of the developers have been using GIMP 3.0 exclusively for some time, we did not notice this issue. The bug should now be fixed, so we ask for bug reports if any 2.10 preferences are not being imported correctly in RC2. Note that if you already used 3.0 RC1, you’ll need to delete those configurations first, as otherwise RC2 won’t try to import the 2.10 preferences (make sure you back up your settings of course!)

Windows Console

In the 2.99 development releases, the Windows versions automatically launched a console display in addition to GIMP itself. This is very useful for Windows developers to see debug messages, but the console was not intended to be shown during stable releases. Since we changed our build process to use Meson instead of Autotools, we learned we needed to make additional changes to stop the console from being displayed. This should be fixed now thanks to Jehan - if you still see the console on Windows, please file a new bug report!

Missing GUI Font issues on macOS

There has been a long-standing issue where some macOS users only saw “missing Unicode” symbols instead of menu text in GIMP (both in 2.10 and in 3.0). This was due to a bug in Pango, the library we use for text layouts. This was fixed with the recent Pango 1.55.0 release, so we encourage all third-party macOS packagers to update to this version as they build GIMP for distribution.

GIMP 3.0.0 RC2: official macOS package now has Pango with no broken fonts
If you had this issue of broken fonts on macOS (left), it is now fixed (right) - screenshots by reporters - GIMP 3.0.0 RC2

darktable Integration

After the 3.0 RC1 release, we received reports from some users that they still could not import and export images between GIMP and darktable. We worked with the darktable developers to iron out the remaining bugs, so integration between darktable 5.0.0 and GIMP 3.0 RC2 should be working for everyone now. However, please file a new bug report if you continue to have trouble connecting the two!

Enhancements

While the main focus of 3.0 RC2’s development was bugfixes and polish, some new features were also implemented.

GEGL Filter API

Many of the older API wrappers for GEGL operations were removed in RC1. While this reduced technical debt, it also caused issues for many third-party plug-in and script developers who wanted to port their plug-ins to 3.0. While our initial plan was to implement the new public filter API after the 3.0 release, the feedback from the community convinced us to add it in for 3.0 RC2.

Applying filters through libgimp 3.0.0 API (Script-fu et al.) - GIMP 3.0.0 RC2

Jehan‘s work allows developers to apply filter effects either immediately or as a non-destructive effect. You can see examples of how to do this in C, Python, and Script-Fu in the merge request, or by looking up gimp-drawable-filter in the Procedure Browser inside GIMP. We’ve also begun using the filter API in our Python scripts to automatically create blurred background effects for the Windows installer, and with this same API in C, Alx Sa added support for importing Photoshop’s legacy Color Overlay layer style.

We ask for feedback and bug reports from plug-in and script authors who utilize the new filter API in their work! We have more updates planned for it in GIMP 3.0 as well.

Layer blend spaces and compositing in XCFs

Discussions between color science experts Elle Stone and Øyvind Kolås revealed another area that needed improvement as part of our Color Space Invasion project. Specifically, images with color profiles that have non-perceptual TRCs might not be rendered correctly when set to certain layer modes.

Øyvind has implemented a correction for this problem by adding proper perceptual space as default to specific layer modes. While we believe this enhancement should not impact older XCF files, we of course want to hear from you if there are any backwards compatibility issues with 3.0 RC2!

Packages

AppImage

Thanks to the continued efforts of Bruno Lopes and with assistance from Samueru and the AppImage community, our experimental AppImage now works on most Linux distros. We want to encourage more testing of it, in hopes that we can offer it as another Linux release in addition to our Flatpak. You can see instructions to install experimental AppImage packages from our development download page.

Flatpak

Our nightly flatpak has now a dedicated App-ID org.gimp.GIMP.Nightly. This mostly means that it can be installed side by side with the stable flatpak while both are visible in your menus (no need to select which version is to be shown with flatpak make-current anymore).

Yet it also means that anyone who had the nightly flatpak until now won’t see any update coming anytime soon. In order to continue using the nightly flatpak, uninstall the existing one and install the new one with these commands:

flatpak uninstall org.gimp.GIMP//master
flatpak install https://nightly.gnome.org/repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.Nightly.flatpakref

⚠️ Reminder: the nightly flatpak is current development code as it happens in source repository. At times, it may even be very broken or render your project files invalid. We do not recommend it for production! Use this version to help us debugging by reporting issues or if you really like risks to test latest features.

BMP Plug-in Improvements

New contributor Rupert Weber has been busy since the last update with more updates to our BMP plug-in. A few highlights of their work:

  • BMPs are now imported losslessly in their original precision, rather than being converted to 8 bit integer precision.
  • The plug-in now supports loading BMPs with RLE24 and Huffman compression.
  • We now load BMPs in chunks rather than trying to load the entire image at once. Related work also allows us to load much larger BMPs.
  • Rupert has also done a lot of code clean-up and maintenance, to make the plug-in easier to work on in the future.

Assorted Updates

  • Jehan made some quality of life improvements to the Python console. You can now use Ctrl+R and Ctrl+S shortcuts to search through your command history, and Page Up and Page Down now let you scroll history in addition to the Up and Down arrow keys.
History search in Python Console with Ctrl-R - GIMP 3.0 RC2

  • Alx Sa implemented loading CMYK PAM files in the PNM plug-in.

  • On Windows, we’ve also added the ability to open images through Windows Shortcuts (.lnk files) directly from the file chooser dialog. This is also work by Alx Sa.

  • More tweaks and improvements have been made to the theme. In particular, the slider styling has been substantially improved after feedback and work from Denis Rangelov. Denis also made new icons for the Navigation Dockable Dialogue, replacing duplicates with distinct symbols. Anders Jonsson has also been reviewing the theme and removing some workarounds which were required in GIMP 2.10, but no longer needed with our new 3.0 themes.

  • Idriss Fekir has made improvements to our XCF font loading code, to improve compatibility when importing older XCF files.

Overview of Changes since 2.10

For those who haven’t followed GIMP’s development as closely, these news posts only cover incremental changes since the last release. They do not list every change or improvements made for GIMP 3.0 - that would be a very long article indeed!

While we’ll have full release notes for the final 3.0, we thought it’d be helpful to summarize a few of the major changes made during the 2.99 development process:

  • The initial work to port GIMP to GTK3 occurred in 2.99.2. This release also introduced multi-layer selections, along with initial API changes and color space management improvements.
  • More API updates were made in 2.99.4, including the ability to auto-generate plug-in UIs based on user input. Various usability improvements were also made, along with the introduction of the experimental Paint Select tool.
  • 2.99.6 brought more API updates and internal work. More user-facing features included the ability to place guides outside the canvas, better touchpad support, and more support for different PNG color metadata.
  • The development pipeline was improved significantly in 2.99.8, allowing for faster build times and automation. Support for new file formats like PSB and JPEGXL were added in this release, along with Windows Ink tablet support.
  • 2.99.10 introduced “layer sets”, replacing the older concept of linked layers. Painting dynamics were streamlined in this release, along with the first version of the Welcome dialog.
  • Early-binding CMYK support was implemented in 2.99.12. The CSS GUI themes also received a major overhaul in this release, along with more file format supports and major improvements to Script-Fu.
  • 2.99.14 saw the introduction of non-destructive outlines for the text tool. The alignment tool was also revised, theme and icon scaling were improved, and floating selections were largely replaced in the workflow.
  • The GTK3 port was finally completed in 2.99.16. The / search pop-up was updated to show the menu path for all entries, as well as making individual filters searchable.
  • Non-destructive filters were first introduced in 2.99.18. Major color management improvements were also made, and new auto-expanding layer boundary and snapping options were also implemented.

GEGL

Similar to GIMP, there’s a number of bugfixes for the GEGL 0.4.52 release. Øyvind Kolås has fixed some generic “Aux input” labels to be more meaningful - this will be visible in GIMP’s filters as well. He also improved the accuracy of some filter’s color processing. Longtime contributor Thomas Manni also fixed crashes when some filters were run on very small layers.

Release Stats

Since GIMP 3.0 RC1, in the main GIMP repository:

  • 73 reports were closed as FIXED.
  • 71 merge requests were merged.
  • 277 commits were pushed.
  • 18 translations were updated: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Danish, Finnish, Georgian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian.

35 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 3.0.0 RC2 codebase (order is determined by number of commits; some people are in several groups):

  • 12 developers to core code: Jehan, Alx Sa, Michael Schumacher, Anders Jonsson, Lloyd Konneker, Øyvind Kolås, Idriss Fekir, Andre Klapper, Jacob Boerema, Michael Natterer, Rupert Weber, Thomas Manni.
  • 11 developers to plug-ins or modules: Jehan, Lloyd Konneker, Alx Sa, Rupert Weber, Daniel Novomeský, Jacob Boerema, Aki, Bruno, Ryan Sims, Simon Munton.
  • 19 translators: Alan Mortensen, Cheng-Chia Tseng, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Jiri Grönroos, Sveinn í Felli, Alexander Shopov, Aurimas Černius, Marco Ciampa, Danial Behzadi, Hugo Carvalho, Jordi Mas, Anders Jonsson, Ekaterine Papava, Julia Dronova, Luming Zh, Martin, Michael Schumacher, Yuri Chornoivan.
  • 2 Theme designers: Alx Sa, Anders Jonnson.
  • 2 documentation contributors: Jehan, Bruno.
  • 5 build, packaging or CI contributors: Bruno, Jehan, lloyd konneker, Alx Sa, Jacob Boerema, Rupert Weber.

Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):

  • GEGL 0.4.52 is made of 31 commits by 16 contributors: Øyvind Kolås, Sam L, Thomas Manni, lillolollo, Alan Mortensen, Anders Jonsson, Ekaterine Papava, Hugo Carvalho, Jordi Mas, Juliano de Souza Camargo, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Lukas Oberhuber, Luming Zh, Marco Ciampa, Martin, Yuri Chornoivan.
  • ctx had 48 commits since RC1 release by 1 contributor: Øyvind Kolås.
  • gimp-data had 6 commits by 5 contributors: Anders Jonsson, Jehan, Sevenix, Alx Sa and Denis Rangelov.
  • gimp-test-images (new repository for image support testing) had 2 commits by 1 contributor: Rupert.
  • The gimp-macos-build (macOS packaging scripts) release had 5 commits by 1 contributor: Lukas Oberhuber.
  • The flatpak release had 4 commits by 2 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan.
  • Our main website (what you are reading right now) had 29 commits by 3 contributors: Jehan, Alx Sa, Andrea Veri.
  • Our developer website had 16 commits by 2 contributors: Jehan, Bruno Lopes.
  • Our 3.0 documentation had 157 commits by 10 contributors: Andre Klapper, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Jacob Boerema, Alan Mortensen, Anders Jonsson, Marco Ciampa, Jordi Mas, Yuri Chornoivan, Alx Sa, Jiri Grönroos.

Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!

Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.

Around GIMP

Download Mirrors

GNOME has moved away from using mirrors during their latest infrastructure update. As our download mirrors are hosted by them, we were asked if we wanted to move as well. As a community project, we value everyone who contributes a mirror to make GIMP more accessible in their area. Therefore, we have decided to stay with using mirrors to distribute GIMP.

If you are interested in contributing a mirror for your region, here is the new procedure:

How to be an official mirror (procedure update)

  1. Create a mirror request on the gimp-web tracker
  2. Tell us about why you want to mirror GIMP, which other Free Software you already mirror, what is your setup, the server’s location…
  3. Tell us about you: are you an organization or an individual? Give us the specific name and URL to be shown in the mirror sponsor list.
  4. Once we are done verifying your organization, rsync credentials will be exchanged securely, allowing you to sync your mirror with the source server
  5. There is nothing to do in particular to appear on the Sponsors page which will be updated regularly through scripts. Yet it may take a few days or even weeks at times. So don’t worry if your organization name does not appear immediately!

🛈 We programmatically check at random intervals that mirrors are updated quickly enough and that the data match for obvious security reasons.

Mirror changes

Also, since the 3.0RC1 news post, a new mirror has been contributed:

  • Sahil Dhiman, Mumbai, India

Mirrors are important as they help the project by sharing the load for dozens of thousands of daily downloads. Moreover by having mirrors spread across the globe, we ensure that everyone can have fast download access to GIMP.

Sponsoring GitLab Runner

GIMP’s code repository is also hosted on GNOME’s GitLab platform. Andrea Veri asked if we would be able to sponsor a runner on the platform, which allows any project on the platform to test building their software before, during, and after code changes are made. After a vote by GIMP’s committee, we agreed and are now the sponsors of an x86 CI/CD runner!

Downloading GIMP 3.0 RC2

You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):

  • Linux flatpaks for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Universal Windows installer for x86 (32 and 64-bit) and for ARM (64-bit)
  • MSIX package (GIMP Preview) for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • macOS DMG packages for Intel hardware
  • macOS DMG packages for Apple Silicon hardware

Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc).

🛈 Notes:

  • The 2 macOS DMG packages will likely be late as we are waiting for Apple update’s validation by the GNOME Foundation before being able to sign our packages.
  • The MSIX package takes usually a few business days of validation by Microsoft.

What’s Next

Thanks to the huge amount of reports we got for our first release candidate, we are able to present you this second version which is all the more robust. As you saw, a few additional surprises 🎁 came together with bugfixes, in particular the new filter API, which triggered support of PSD legacy Color Overlay import, improved blend modes and compositing, and more. We thought that it was worth breaking the feature freeze for these changes and that this will make all the difference!

With this second release candidate, we are closer than ever to actual GIMP 3.0.0. As usual, we are looking forward to any new community issue reports allowing us to finalize the 3.0.0 release! 🤗

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger! 💪🥳

🎅🎄🎉 Oh and of course, the whole team wishes you all a happy holiday season! 🥳🥂🎆

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  • GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released
    We are very excited to share the first release candidate for the long-awaited GIMP 3.0! We’ve been hard at work since our last development update to get this ready, and we’re looking forward to everyone finally being able to see the results. New release candidate splash screen, by Sevenix (CC by-sa 4.0) - GIMP 3.0 RC1 So, what exactly is a “release candidate” (RC)? A release candidate is something that might be ready to be GIMP 3.0, but we want the larger community to test it first and rep
     
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GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released

Par :GIMP Team
5 novembre 2024 à 18:00

We are very excited to share the first release candidate for the long-awaited GIMP 3.0! We’ve been hard at work since our last development update to get this ready, and we’re looking forward to everyone finally being able to see the results.

GIMP 3.0 RC1: splash screen
New release candidate splash screen, by Sevenix (CC by-sa 4.0) - GIMP 3.0 RC1

So, what exactly is a “release candidate” (RC)? A release candidate is something that might be ready to be GIMP 3.0, but we want the larger community to test it first and report any problems they find. If user feedback reveals only small and easy to fix bugs, we will solve those problems and issue the result as GIMP 3.0. However, we hope and expect a much larger audience to try out 3.0 RC1 - including many people who have only been using 2.10 up until now. If larger bugs and regressions are uncovered that require more substantial code changes, we may need to publish a second release candidate for further testing.

New Graphics

Wilber Icons

The current Wilber logo was created by Jakub Steiner for GIMP 2.6 in 2008! While it is still a fantastic logo, design trends have changed a bit in the last sixteen years and Wilber’s more detailed appearance sticks out on modern desktops.

Therefore in collaboration with other contributors, Aryeom developed our new logo for GIMP 3.0!

New Wilber Icon
New Wilber Icon, by Aryeom (CC by-sa 4.0)

If you’re interested in learning more about the design choices, usage, and design variants, please check out our logo guide. We also documented the history of the Wilber logo.

Splash Screen

Our wonderful new splash screen (shown at the top of this news post) was created by longtime contributor and artist Sevenix! You can see more of their work on their personal art page.

Going forward, we plan to change splash screens much more frequently to show off all the many kinds of art made with GIMP (photography, illustration, design…). Related to this, we have created an updated splash screen archive to highlight the work of current and previous splash screen artists.

Legacy Icon Theme Improvements

One of the major improvements from the GTK3 port is that the vector UI icons now scale more cleanly based on your preference settings. Our Legacy icon theme was mainly raster PNGs however, so it could not take advantage of the GTK3 scaling system. Contributor Denis Rangelov took on the extensive challenge of recreating the Legacy tool icons as SVGs. Now both of GIMP’s icon themes look great on HiDPI screens!

Vectorized Legacy Icon theme
Scaled Legacy Icon Theme Tool Icons by Denis Rangelov (CC by-sa 4.0)

The work is not finished, as many icons are still non-scalable and some icons are still missing. Denis has expressed interest in continuing to improve the Legacy icon theme, so we hope to rename it as Classic when this project is achieved, to show it is now well-maintained.

Color Space Invasion

One of the key changes in 2.99.18 was massive improvements to color management in GIMP. As this work was not fully finished in 2.99.18, it was a major blocker of the 3.0 RC1 release.

Since that release, we have found and fixed a number of bugs and missed areas that needed to be color space aware. We have also reviewed reports by color expert Elle Stone to make sure that the color values shown by GIMP are as accurate as possible. At the same time, it’s very important to ensure that XCF project files created in GIMP 2.10 and before will render the same when opened in 3.0. For instance, one of the first Google logos was created in GIMP - and if you open the original XCF project file in GIMP 3.0 RC1, it still appears the same as it did when it was created in 1998! Therefore, we have thoroughly reviewed the various layer modes to ensure that commitment to compatibility is retained for this release.

Color space invasion is a long-running project, which will continue after GIMP 3.0 is released.

Public API Finalization

Another task that had to be finished before the 3.0 release was finalizing the public API. Since our last news post, we finished the remaining major changes - replacing all instances of our custom GimpRGB color structures with the better color-managed GeglColor, and improving our array format so the number of elements does not have to be specified separately. This work was a long process by Jehan and Lloyd Konneker, with a great deal of bugtesting and feedback from Anders Jonsson.

In addition, a number of functions have been added, renamed, or removed from the public API compared to 2.10. For instance, an older patch by Massimo Valentini adds gimp-context-get-emulate-brush-dynamics and gimp-context-set-emulate-brush-dynamics, which allows script and plug-in developers to use the Emulate Paint Brush Dynamics setting when painting. On the other hand, the various gauss functions were all consolidated into a single function, plug-in-gauss. While this change will require some updates in existing scripts, developers now have more direct control over the Gaussian Blur effect rather than relying on hidden preset values.

Since the API is now stable, plug-in and script developers can begin porting their 2.10 scripts based on this release. You can find initial API documentation on our developer site. We intend to add more tutorials and porting guides here during the release candidate phase. We also encourage you to check out the Script-fu and Python plug-ins in our repository to see working examples of the new API.

Non-Destructive Editing Updates

Since our last update, we have continued to make improvements and bug fixes to our non-destructive filter code. Many of these issues were reported by Sam Lester during the developing and testing of his third-party GEGL filters.

While non-destructive filters have been a very popular addition to GIMP 3.0, some early adopters have requested that we provide a way to return to the original destructive workflow. Therefore, we have added an optional “Merge Filters” checkbox at the bottom of NDE filters. If enabled, the filter will be immediately merged down after it is committed. Note that filters can not be applied destructively on layer groups – in those cases, the option to merge filters is not available.

Example of Merge Filter checkbox
Example of Filter with “Merge Filter” checkbox - GIMP 3.0 RC1

On a related note, Jehan also implemented storing version of filters in GIMP’s XCF project files. This will allow us to update filters in the future without impacting how older project files look when they’re opened. Additional work will be needed in GEGL to fully implement this feature, but that can be done after 3.0 without impacting existing project files.

User Interface

GIMP 3.0 RC1 contains several updates to the user interface. For example, more aspects of the GUI are now able to take advantage of the multi-select features implemented by Jehan in earlier versions of 2.99.

We also restored the ability to use the mouse scrollwheel to flip through the different dockable dialogue tabs. This feature was built into GTK2 but removed in GTK3. Per user request, we reimplemented this feature in GIMP itself based on a similar implementation in geany.

During development, we received a report that the scrolling credits in our About Dialog could cause discomfort due to its motion. As a result we’ve added code to check your operating system’s “Reduced Animation” setting and turn off those animations in GIMP per your preference settings.

Plug-ins

As we have been in a feature freeze since the last release of 2.99, most of the changes to plug-ins have been API updates and bug fixes (some of them for issues that were quite old). However, a few smaller enhancements have been implemented.

BMP

The BMP format now supports 64 bits per pixel images. New contributor Rupert Weber assisted us with adding support for importing this BMP format correctly. They have also submitted patches with more fixes to our BMP plug-in and testing pipeline.

TIFF

Since GIMP 2.99.16, we’ve been able to import TIFFs with Photoshop format layers. However, the Alias/Autodesk Sketchbook program created their own standard to save layers which was not compatible. Since this was marked as a bug in our issue tracker, we added support for loading layers from TIFFs saved in Sketchbook format as well.

GEGL and babl

Both GEGL and babl have seen a number of updates since their last releases in February.

GEGL 0.4.50 introduces a number of new filters created by Sam Lester.

  • Inner Glow

  • Bevel

  • GEGL Styles

*GEGL Styles* effect - GIMP 3.0 RC1

These can all be accessed via the GEGL Operations tool, or by searching for them with the / search action shortcut.

Øyvind Kolås made a number of bug fixes and improvements to the stability of GEGL. Several changes were also made related to the color space invasion in GIMP, such as adding convenience methods for getting and setting GeglColors in HSV(A) and HSL(A) color models, implemented by Alx Sa. Jacob Boerema and his GSoC student Varun Samaga B L merged a number of improvements to the OpenCL version of filters. While GIMP still does not enable OpenCL by default, their work brings us much closer to being able to so. We will discuss these improvements in a future news post.

babl 0.1.110 also received some contributions during this cycle. Jehan implemented new conversion processes between RGB and HSL color models, which improves the performance of a number of filters compared to GIMP 2.99.18. He also fixed certain parts of the code that behaved differently depending on whether your processor supported SSE2. Øyvind Kolås improved the accuracy of several sections of code when converting from floating point to integer values. Additionally, Lukas Oberhuber found and fixed a memory leak and Jacob Boerema fixed an issue where images with NaN could cause a crash.

Release Stats

Since GIMP 2.99.18, in the main GIMP repository:

  • 384 reports were closed as FIXED.
  • 442 merge requests were merged.
  • 1892 commits were pushed.
  • 31 translations were updated: Basque, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Danish, Dutch, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Serbian (Latin), Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

72 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 3.0.0 RC1 codebase (order is determined by number of commits; some people are in several groups):

  • 27 developers to core code: Jehan, Alx Sa, Jacob Boerema, bootchk, Anders Jonsson, Øyvind Kolås, Cheesequake, cheesequake, Niels De Graef, Idriss Fekir, Simon Budig, lillolollo, lloyd konneker, Andre Klapper, Andrzej Hunt, Bruno, Joachim Priesner, Nils Philippsen, Alfred Wingate, Bruno Lopes, Elle Stone, Kamil Burda, Luca Bacci, Mark Sweeney, Massimo Valentini, Oleg Kapitonov, Stanislav Grinkov, megakite.
  • 15 developers to plug-ins or modules: Alx Sa, Jehan, lloyd konneker, bootchk, Jacob Boerema, Anders Jonsson, Nils Philippsen, Andrzej Hunt, Andre Klapper, Rupert, Bruno Lopes, Daniel Novomeský, Mark Sweeney, Stanislav Grinkov, lillolollo.
  • 42 translators: Martin, Yuri Chornoivan, Luming Zh, Rodrigo Lledó, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Ekaterine Papava, Cheng-Chia Tseng, Sabri Ünal, Marco Ciampa, Tim Sabsch, Jordi Mas, Alexander Shopov, Anders Jonsson, Alan Mortensen, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Sveinn í Felli, Andi Chandler, Balázs Úr, dimspingos, Juliano de Souza Camargo, Ngọc Quân Trần, Vasil Pupkin, Alexandre Prokoudine, Bruce Cowan, Jürgen Benvenuti, Nathan Follens, Милош Поповић, Balázs Meskó, Christian Kirbach, Daniel, Emin Tufan Çetin, Fran Dieguez, Guntupalli Karunakar, Hugo Carvalho, Jehan, Philipp Kiemle, Piotr Drąg, Robin Mehdee, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Seong-ho Cho, Víttor Paulo Vieira da Costa, ayesha akhtar.
  • 7 resource creators (icons, themes, cursors, splash screen, metadata… though a good part of there were moved to gimp-data repository): Alx Sa, Jehan, Bruno Lopes, Anders Jonsson, Jacob Boerema, bootchk, nb1.
  • 10 documentation contributors: Jehan, Bruno, Lloyd Konneker, Alx Sa, Bruno Lopes, Anders Jonsson, bootchk, Lukas Oberhuber, Andre Klapper, Jacob Boerema.
  • 11 build, packaging or CI contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, bootchk, Alx Sa, lloyd konneker, Jacob Boerema, Niels De Graef, Alfred Wingate, Lukas Oberhuber, Michael Schumacher, Anders Jonsson.

Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):

  • babl 0.1.110 is made of 22 commits by 7 contributors: Øyvind Kolås, Jehan, Bruno Lopes, Anders Jonsson, Biswapriyo Nath, Jacob Boerema, Lukas Oberhuber.
  • GEGL 0.4.50 is made of 204 commits by 33 contributors: Øyvind Kolås, Sam Lester, Martin, Varun Samaga B L, Yuri Chornoivan, Luming Zh, Rodrigo Lledó, Jehan, Jordi Mas, Anders Jonsson, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Marco Ciampa, Sabri Ünal, Bruno Lopes, Alan Mortensen, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Ekaterine Papava, Bruce Cowan, Lukas Oberhuber, Tim Sabsch, psykose, Alexandre Prokoudine, Alx Sa, Andi Chandler, Andre Klapper, ArtSin, Daniel Șerbănescu, Jacob Boerema, Joe Locash, Morgane Glidic, Niels De Graef, dimspingos, lillolollo.
  • ctx had 616 commits since 2.99.18 release by 2 contributor: Øyvind Kolås, Ian Geiser.
  • gimp-data (new repository holding images, splashes, icons and other binary data for the software) had 76 commits by 7 contributors: Jehan, Aryeom, Bruno, Alx Sa, Denis Rangelov, Anders Jonsson, Bruno Lopes.
  • The gimp-macos-build (macOS packaging scripts) release had 41 commits by 3 contributors: Lukas Oberhuber, Bruno Lopes, Jehan.
  • The flatpak release had 38 commits by 4 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Hubert Figuière, Will Thompson.
  • Our main website (what you are reading right now) had 60 commits since 2.10.38 release by 5 contributors: Jehan, Alx Sa, Andre Klapper, Bruno Lopes and Denis Rangelov.
  • Our developer website had 33 commits since 2.10.38 release by 5 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Lloyd Konneker, Alx Sa, Lukas Oberhuber.
  • Our 3.0 documentation had 928 commits since 2.99.18 release by 14 contributors: Andre Klapper, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Jacob Boerema, Alan Mortensen, Yuri Chornoivan, Jordi Mas, Marco Ciampa, Anders Jonsson, Sabri Ünal, dimspingos, Alx Sa, Andi Chandler, Daniel, Nathan Follens.

Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!

Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.

Future changes to release process

We are well aware that the path to GIMP 3.0 has been a long one, and GIMP 2.10 users have not had access to all of the great new features we’ve been working on over the years. Going forward, we are restructuring our development process to decrease time between releases. As briefly mentioned in our post 3.0 roadmap, we want to focus on smaller, feature-focused releases. This means that we are aiming for GIMP 3.2 to come out within a year after the final release of 3.0, rather than in 2050 as is often joked! Micro releases with bug fixes may happen in-between.

Smaller releases with few “big” features will also allow us to more thoroughly test each change, further improving the stability of each release. During the 3.0 development process, developers like Jacob Boerema, Lloyd Konneker, Bruno Lopes, and Jehan have been creating and improving our automated testing processes to further catch and identify bugs early. We will talk more about these improvements in future news posts.

Around GIMP

Download Mirrors

Since our last news, 8 new mirrors have been contributed to GIMP by:

  • Sahil Dhiman, India
  • FCIX, in the Dominican Republic, Australia and 2 in the USA.
  • Taiwan Digital Streaming Co., Taiwan
  • OSSPlanet, Taiwan
  • Shrirang Kahale, India

This brings us to a total of 56 mirrors from all over the world!

World Map of GIMP Mirror locations
Map of GIMP Mirrors worldwide, generated from MirrorBits

Mirrors are important as they help the project by sharing the load for dozens of thousands of daily downloads. Moreover by having mirrors spread across the globe, we ensure that everyone can have fast download access to GIMP.

Platform Changes

Bruno Lopes has truly taken the lead to improve our build and packaging process on multiple platforms.

Over the summer, he created an experimental AppImage build (as detailed in a prior news post). If you are interested in improving it further and hopefully making it available as a standard download, please get in touch! Bruno has also created flatpak build scripts to make the process of creating your own GIMP flatpak much easier.

A lot of work was done to improve our presence on the Microsoft Store for 3.0. Our GIMP 2.10 app was not fully integrated into the store platform due to certain limitations - it is really just a wrapper for our existing GIMP installer. Therefore it did not automatically update for users and it was not possible to automate installations with tools like Microsoft Intune. Thanks to a lot of effort on Bruno’s part, we will have a new GIMP app in the Microsoft Store which resolves these issues (and many others) for the final GIMP 3.0 release. From now, we also have a separate GIMP (Preview) which allows you to install development versions in a similar manner to the Beta flatpak on Linux. You can try it out at this Microsoft Store link.

(For technical and maintenance reasons described here, 32-bit binaries will not be available in the new MSIX packages of GIMP, which unfortunately removes support for the legacy TWAIN plug-in in x64 and arm64 packages used for quick scanning. If you depend on these, the .exe installer still supports 32-bit processors. However, the support for this architecture is planned to be dropped in the future)

Additionally, the standard Windows installer has been updated to a more modern design. It also lets you install individual language packages and lets you start up GIMP immediately after the installer is finished. For the more technically inclined, the Windows build scripts have also been ported to use PowerShell, and the cross build scripts can now run locally.

Due to changes and updates in our software building infrastructure, we’ve had to raise the minimum OS requirement for MacOS to Big Sur (MacOS 11).

GNOME Foundation fiscal host agreement

Earlier this year, the GNOME Foundation announced a fiscal sponsorship agreement with GIMP. This is all thanks to a lot of hard work by Jehan over many, many months. Our goals with this agreement are to support stable funding for developers interested in working on GIMP for a longer term through grants, and to provide easier ways for people to contribute to GIMP’s development. This is still a work-in-progress, so we will make a more detailed announcement once everything has stabilized.

Translations

Thanks to volunteer translators, we now have a Bengali language translation of GIMP! If you are interested in translating GIMP into your own language or assisting with an existing translation, you can find out how here.

Downloading GIMP 3.0 RC1

You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):

  • Linux flatpaks for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Universal Windows installer for x86 (32 and 64-bit) and for ARM (64-bit)
  • MSIX package (GIMP Preview) for x86 (64-bit only) and ARM (64-bit)
  • macOS DMG packages for Intel hardware
  • macOS DMG packages for Apple Silicon hardware

Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc.).

What’s Next

We are now entering the last stage of this major release: candidates for the final version! Though one can always hope to get a RC right the first time, experience tells us that this RC1 — which is the result of more than 6 years of work — will likely have problems, bugs, probably nasty crashes. This is where we need you all! We rely on everyone to find and report issues so that the actual 3.0.0 release can really be considered stable. 🤗

Some small bugs may be considered secondary (though we still welcome reports for all bugs, even smaller ones!), because perfection barely exists in software. There are other things in particular we really want to catch, such as:

  • any inconsistency or problem in the API (it will stay stable for the whole v3 series, so if there are problems to find, it’s now; we want a robust plug-in framework);
  • bugs when reading or rendering existing XCF made by former stable versions of GIMP;
  • crashes;
  • regressions;
  • proper migration of configuration from previous versions.

We are not giving out a date estimate for the actual 3.0.0 release, firstly because we can’t know for sure, secondly because each time we do, news outlets seem to just skim every warning out of our text and transform our words into unbreakable promises. Just know that we also want it to happen as soon as possible, i.e. when we can consider our software to feel stable enough.

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger! 💪🥳

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  • Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate
    This is a short development update on our progress towards the first release candidate for GIMP 3.0. We recently reached the string freeze milestone. What this means is that there will be no more changes in user-facing text (like GUI labels and messages) so that translators can work on the final translations for the 3.0 release. Progress on completing the blocking issues for 3.0 slowed over the summer due to the maintainer and some of the main developers falling ill after the Libre Graphics Mee
     
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Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate

Par :GIMP Team
4 octobre 2024 à 18:00

This is a short development update on our progress towards the first release candidate for GIMP 3.0. We recently reached the string freeze milestone. What this means is that there will be no more changes in user-facing text (like GUI labels and messages) so that translators can work on the final translations for the 3.0 release.

Progress on completing the blocking issues for 3.0 slowed over the summer due to the maintainer and some of the main developers falling ill after the Libre Graphics Meeting conference. This is why we are “late” compared to our original estimated timelines. Thankfully everyone’s feeling much better now, and work has resumed in earnest! As of this writing, we’re currently at 96% completion for the 3.0 RC1 milestone, with 11 issues remaining.

We’ll have a lot more to share in the news post for GIMP 3.0 RC1. However, here are a few highlights to show what we’ve been working on the last few months:

API

Finalizing the API is a crucial task for GIMP 3.0. As we’ve added new features and improved existing ones during development, we’ve needed to make “breaking” changes to the public API. This means that if a third-party developer ported their 2.10 plug-in or script to use GIMP 2.99.16’s API, it might not work with the 2.99.18 API due to further changes. Once 3.0 is released however, any function that’s in the public API must continue to work for all future releases of GIMP 3. So we have to get it right before the first 3.0 release!

Most of the API changes are invisible to non-developers, so we won’t detail all of them here. However, we’d like to share a few to illustrate the on-going work:

Plug-in GUI Creation

Over several past releases, our internal plug-ins have been ported to the new GimpProcedure and GimpProcedureDialog API. This update automatically saves the last settings used, letting users reset to it or to the “factory default” values whenever they like. The GimpProcedureDialog API also allows developers to automatically create a GUI based on the settings they defined.

Until recently though, this GUI creation feature was only fully available to C plug-ins – other plug-in languages like Python couldn’t generate certain widgets such as dropdown boxes and radio buttons. Since the 2.99.18 release however, we’ve been able to make the full API available to all supported plug-in languages. Python plug-in developers can see more examples of how to use this new API in the Python plug-in section of our repository. Once the API is fully stabilized, we’ll update our developer website with more tutorials on how to use this and other APIs in your plug-ins.

Example of generated dialog (Palette Sort Python plug-in)
Example of generated dialog (Palette Sort Python plug-in)

Script-Fu Updates

Lloyd Konneker has been organizing and implementing many improvements to our Script-fu code library. For script developers, script-fu-register has been deprecated and replaced with two new functions: script-fu-register-procedure for general scripts and script-fu-register-filter for image-processing scripts. These two new script functions also use the GimpProcedureDialog API, so script developers will have access to the same automated GUI creation mentioned in the last section. You can look at our in-progress guide to see how you can use these new features when porting your 2.10 plug-in scripts.

Export Options

A long standing feature request has been exporting images with different settings, while leaving the original image unchanged. For instance, letting users export an image in several different sizes.

The new GimpExportOptions class sets the groundwork for us to implement this in future 3.x releases. We’ve simplified how images are exported using the plug-in API, and moved much of the export settings code to the GimpExportOptions parameter. This change will allow us to add new types of export settings and features after 3.0 without plug-in developers having to make changes to their own code. As a nice side-effect, this work also fixed some existing inconsistencies between exporting an image from GIMP’s GUI and exporting from a script.

Color Space Invasion

The second remaining area of work for 3.0 is finishing the color space invasion project. Our goal is for the color space and color profile information to be associated with the pixels in all aspects of GIMP, from the canvas to the GUI and everywhere in-between. This is important for artists to keep colors consistent on all devices and monitors they use. The first half of this work was completed by Jehan in the 2.99.18 release. Since then we have been fixing the inevitable bugs from such a large change while making the rest of GIMP color-space aware. This work overlaps with the API changes, as several of our code functions still assumed the colors were in the sRGB color space.

In addition, we’ve been reviewing the existing color algorithm to make sure they are correct and performing efficiently. Øyvind Kolås and Elle Stone have provided great insight and assistance with this process. We want to ensure that your GIMP 2.10 XCF project files look the same when opened in GIMP 3.0, but we also want to set up infrastructure to improve the accuracy of layer modes and other aspects of GIMP going forward.

Non-Destructive Editing Updates

Since introducing non-destructive filters in GIMP 2.99.18, we’ve received a lot of great feedback and bug reports from early adopters. Based on these reports we’ve fixed many bugs related to copying, pasting, and updating filters, along with improving the general stability of the effects code. The temporary filter icon has also been replaced by a more intuitive Fx design from new contributor Denis Rangelov (created with the vector art program Inkscape, another FLOSS project that we highly recommend).

In addition to on-going bug fixes, we’ve also implemented non-destructive filters on layer groups. Now you can add an adjustment filter like Brightness-Contrast (or any other layer effect) to a group and have it change the display of each layer inside it.

Example of Brightness-Contrast non-destructive editing filter being applied to a layer group
Example of Color Temperature non-destructive editing filter being applied to a layer group. Photos by Andrea Luck, Attribution (CC BY 2.0)

GIMP Family Libraries: ctx, babl and GEGL

Øyvind has also worked hard on ctx these last few months, including improving portability for various platforms (on all types of architectures, libc and OSes), improving performance and massively profiling and fuzz-testing the project. For reminder, ctx is one of the latest ambitious project in the GIMP family, for 2D vector rendering and serialization. Though it is not necessarily used a lot in GIMP itself yet, it may pave the way for future work on more vector abilities in our software.

Of course, all this happens while still maintaining babl and GEGL, our color conversion engine and graph-based pixel processing framework. These 2 libraries do not receive significant changes lately, despite all the work done with the Color Space Invasion and the non-destructive editing projects, which is quite a good sign of a stable software in good shape!

Build Process Improvements

Bruno Lopes has been working hard to improve our build processes on all platforms. His on-going work has helped reduce redundancies and inefficiencies in our development pipeline, Windows installers, and Flakpak distributions. He is also preparing a new version of our Microsoft Store installer that will be better integrated into the platform, and as noted in a prior news post, he’s experimenting with an AppImage version of GIMP. You can also thank Bruno for his work in updating the build documentation on our developer website.

darktable Integration

While GIMP does not natively process RAW images, we have plug-ins that allow sending and retrieving images with great FLOSS raw photo processing software like darktable and RawTherapee. Earlier this year, darktable updated their public API which GIMP uses to set up this connection - causing the plug-in to stop working. Fortunately Hanno Schwalm and other darktable developers worked with us to create a GIMP-specific API that should be more stable going forward. We really appreciate collaborating with darktable developers to restore this connection!

(Note that this updated API is not yet available in GIMP 2.10.38 or GIMP 2.99.18. For now, you can use darktable 4.6 and below with GIMP as a workaround)

Documentation

With all the new changes and improvements in GIMP 3.0, the help manual needs a lot of updates from 2.10. Jacob Boerema has taken the lead on this project to update screenshots and text as well as adding new sections. This is an area where anyone can help without needing to write a line of code! You can review the upcoming documentation on our help manual test site. If you notice something’s missing or outdated, you can post about it on our issue tracker. If you want to help further, you can also fix the problem yourself and submit a merge request.

Preview of GIMP 3.0 Help Manual
Preview of GIMP 3.0 Help Manual; illustration by Aryeom (CC by-sa 4.0)

Bug Fixes

Since the feature freeze milestone, we’ve been focused on fixing as many bugs as we can before the first release. These include everything from older bugs that existed in GIMP 2.10, to recent ones created as we implemented all the new features for GIMP 3.0. Special thanks to Anders Jonsson, Andre Klapper, Lloyd Konneker, and Sam Lester for their extensive work finding and fixing these bugs! Early adopters and testers have also provided valuable bug reports, so if you’ve come across a bug in the development releases, please report them on our issue tracker.

GSoC 2024

We once again participated in GSoC this summer. We were fortunate to work with three student contributors this time around. Due to the circumstances mentioned above, their projects were scaled back a bit compared to our initial plans. Still, all three students did great work!

  • Idriss Fekir continued his work on improving the text tool from GSoC 2023. His work also overlapped with the color space improvements, such as fixing issues with text color as we made it color-space aware.

  • Cheesequake did initial research and design for eventually porting our GtkTreeView GUI to GTK4. He also assisted with many bug fixes for our non-destructive editing code.

  • Varun Samaga B L worked on improving OpenCL code in GEGL. OpenCL speeds up the performance of filters and other aspects of GIMP by taking better advantage of your graphics card’s multi-processing capabilities. You can see a more detailed write-up from Varun on his GSoC report.

We really appreciate all the hard work from our GSoC students!

Design Team

One area we want to focus on after 3.0 is improving our UI/UX design process. We have set up a separate UX repository to report and discuss issues related to design. We are looking to build a team of designers to discuss and create design improvements to GIMP that also respect existing user’s workflows. Denis Rangelov has taken a strong interest in this area and has already done great work in identifying, categorizing, and moving design issues from the code repository to the dedicated design section. Some design improvements have already been implemented for 3.0, and we look forward to working with community designers to give people a better experience!

GIMP Usability

What’s Next

There’s a lot more work going on behind the scenes, and we look forward to sharing it with you soon in the 3.0 RC1 release news post! If you haven’t already, you can test out the 2.99.18 release from the development downloads page. It does not include any of the improvements we’ve made since its release, but it still gives a good preview of what 3.0 will look like.

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger!

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  • Experiments with AppImage
    Earlier in April and May, we were working behind the scenes on improving our CI and build-related code. In this context, one thing that came up was: how easy it is to test a merge request on Linux? For example, on Windows, we have .zip files for each commit; on macOS, we have .app (inside .dmg). For Linux… well we had none (we have weekly flatpak builds but they are time consuming for testing purposes). So, after a brief consideration we decided to go with AppImages. AppImage is a application pa
     
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Experiments with AppImage

Par :Bruno
27 mai 2024 à 18:00

Earlier in April and May, we were working behind the scenes on improving our CI and build-related code. In this context, one thing that came up was: how easy it is to test a merge request on Linux? For example, on Windows, we have .zip files for each commit; on macOS, we have .app (inside .dmg). For Linux… well we had none (we have weekly flatpak builds but they are time consuming for testing purposes). So, after a brief consideration we decided to go with AppImages.

AppImage is a application package format, basically a bundle, that’s great for the development and testing workflow described above. To be clear, ⚠️ we’re not distributing AppImage as official packages yet ⚠️ (more about this later in this post). About the experiments…

Picking the “right” tool

AppImage doesn’t have a mandatory SDK. The creation process can be done using freely available tools, such as linuxdeployqt, appimage-builder and AppImageKit. But we decided to go with go-appimage, which is multi purpose and ours is to do a quick test build.

In our case, the tool is responsible for bundling almost every dependency and for squashing everything with proper ELF data to be executable in one click. But the tool, naturally, can’t guess the particularities of the different software (e.g. use of script interpreters), so we need to copy and set some things manually. By the way, we opened issues in the go-appimage repo in the hope of improving some things, one little example of FOSS collaboration.

Learning from past appimages

Of course, we didn’t start from scratch! We learned from other unofficial GIMP AppImage builds (a list of which can be found here). Maybe there are others, but we could only find these four.

We also contacted the developers of these unofficial builds for testing and feedback about a potential official appimage. Huge thanks to them! Also, other people contributed too (this info can be found in the merge request). Thanks to all people involved! 😄

Patching Wilber’s wisdom into appimage

We couldn’t simply take these unofficial appimages code and put it in our repo because this isn’t how software works. Our code, even the packaging code, preexists the new packaging (in this case, bundling) so the former needs to be considered in order to the proper adaptations be made into the later.

Considering our past packaging code and experiences, we defined some principles to be checked before approving a new package format. In short, the format needs to:

  1. Have its scripts inside GIMP repo and using GIMP/GNOME runners for better transparency (macOS is the exception right now for historical reasons, which should ideally be fixed in the future);
  2. Have its scripts building/packaging over official GIMP git source/binaries for better security;
  3. Have its scripts simplified and human-readable as much as possible for better maintenance.

The last point assumes that some person is maintaining the package, and this is the main reason our appimage (bundle) is not ready for distribution yet. No person volunteered to tackle this responsibility by following these principles. So, the best that we could do, staying compliant with the principles, was a testing bundle.

Actual use and future

Our appimage can be used, and it’s indeed being used right now to triage issues and test merge requests on the Debian version supported by the respective branch (on master branch it is Debian 12 currently), and that has been very handy. Let us explain:

Suppose that you don’t have a very powerful machine, which is very common. Normally, you will only build GIMP natively and contribute to this specific platform, since building inside a VM is quite clumbersome. But thanks to our testing AppImage:

  • a Windows user can just log into the VM, download the Debian artifact from the MR and test it. We have contributors that use Windows VM (and they can download the cross .zip artifact), now the inverse is possible;
  • And this is useful for issues too: triaging them recommends the latest master so constant local rebuilding. Fortunately, this isn’t needed since our CI auto generates an .appimage for every new commit.

Of course, this is a limited use case and makes our appimage unsuitable even for being linked in the dev version download page. Not every contributor uses Debian (12) nor does every Windows or Mac contributor have a Debian (12) VM. To be fair, if the appimage displays problems that we can’t fix, it can even be dropped at any time.

So, we welcome contributions to improve compatibility with other distros (at least the oldest supported Ubuntu and newest Fedora) in order to raise it to a package level. If you are interested, talk to us.

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  • GIMP at LGM 2024 (Rennes, France)
    The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is the biggest international gathering of Free Software for graphics creation. Born in 2006 as an evolution of our GIMPCon, the event went on every year since then, thanks to the support of various major projects, such as Blender, Inkscape, Scribus… until 2019, because of a pandemic which everybody knows about! After 2 years where the event went online, then 2 years without LGM at all, it is finally back, this time in France, Rennes, from Thursday, May 9 (French
     
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GIMP at LGM 2024 (Rennes, France)

Par :GIMP Team
5 mai 2024 à 18:00

The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is the biggest international gathering of Free Software for graphics creation. Born in 2006 as an evolution of our GIMPCon, the event went on every year since then, thanks to the support of various major projects, such as Blender, Inkscape, Scribus… until 2019, because of a pandemic which everybody knows about!

After 2 years where the event went online, then 2 years without LGM at all, it is finally back, this time in France, Rennes, from Thursday, May 9 (French holiday) to Saturday, May 11, 2024!

Libre Graphics Meeting 2024 logo
Logo of Libre Graphics Meeting 2024

As every year, the GIMP team will be present. Three talks are presented by members of the team, one of them being prolonged through a standards-making workshop:

  • Friday, May 10 at 2:30PM: OpenType and the desktop by Liam Quin, one of our long term contributors:

    Proposing a cross-desktop font service (DBUS-based?) to support user interfaces for people to instantiate variable fonts, to edit colour font palettes, choose alternate glyphs, install/uninstall fonts, and that can return paths, or glyph lists, or font names, or rendered text, to any application.

  • Friday, May 10 from 4PM: workshop part of OpenType and the desktop talk by Liam Quin: hoping that the presentation will move on to a discussion so that Free Software projects can work together to propose a standard for font listing, selection, usage and more.

  • Saturday, May 11 at 2PM: GIMP 3.0 and beyond by the whole team:

    GIMP team will present the long-awaited new major version, GIMP 3.
    On the menu : non-destructive editing, multi-layer selection, color management improvements, brand new plug-in API, port to GTK3 (HiPPI, Wayland support, CSS themes, better tablet support, etc.) and more.
    We will also expose our plans for the future.

  • Saturday, May 11, at 3PM: Early screening with live music (cinema-concert): « ZeMarmot »

    Jehan (GIMP maintainer) and Aryeom (artist in residence, illustrator, designer…) will present their short animation film, ZeMarmot, produced by the non-profit film production LILA (Libre comme l’Art / Free as Art).
    The movie in its current state (color and background unfinished) will be screened with live music by 3 musicians (ORL, Pelin, Adrien) from our friend music collective, AMMD, which work with us on this movie and only produces Libre Music.

    The showing will take about 10 minutes, followed by a talk and questions with Aryeom (film director), ORL (film score composer, and musician) and Jehan (technical, development, organization, backend…).

We will await you!

Summed-Up Information

  • Event page
  • Location:

    Activdesign
    4A rue du Bignon
    35000 Rennes
    FRANCE

  • Libre Graphics Meeting: from May 9 to 11, 2024, doors opening at 9AM, then all day long!
  • Main GIMP talk: Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 2PM to 3PM (by the GIMP team)
  • OpenType talk: Friday, May 10, 2024 from 2:30PM to 3:30PM (by Liam Quin)
  • OpenType workshop: Friday, May 10, 2024 from 4PM to 6PM (by Liam Quin)
  • ZeMarmot musical showing and talk: Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 3PM to 4PM (by Aryeom, film director, ORL, composer, Jehan, developer, and Pelin and Adrien, musicians)
  • Full program
  • Online map
  • More info on how to reach the location
  • Event is recorded: yes

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger! 💪🥳

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  • GIMP 2.10.38 Released
    This (possibly last) GIMP 2 stable release brings much-requested backports from GTK3, including improved support for tablets on Windows. A number of bug fixes and minor improvements are also included in this release. New features and improvements Improved support for tablets on Windows Backports of other GTK3 features Bugfixes Recent crashes Other fixes Release stats Team news and release process Around GIMP Mirror News Infrastructure and Hardware Sponsors Downloading GIMP 2.10.38 What’s
     
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GIMP 2.10.38 Released

Par :GIMP Team
4 mai 2024 à 18:00

This (possibly last) GIMP 2 stable release brings much-requested backports from GTK3, including improved support for tablets on Windows. A number of bug fixes and minor improvements are also included in this release.

This news lists the most notable and visible changes. In particular, we do not list every single bug fix or smaller improvement. To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the NEWS file or look at the commit history.

New features and improvements

Improved support for tablets on Windows

Before this release, GIMP only supported connecting tablets on Windows through WinTab drivers rather than the newer Windows Ink drivers. Because of this, we received a number of reports about tablets having issues with unresponsive buttons, incorrect pressure sensitivity, lagging brush movement, and mid-stroke position changes.

These problems were due to a limitation of GTK2, as support for Windows Ink was implemented in GTK3 by long-time contributor Luca Bacci. For this release, Luca was gracious enough to backport this support to GTK2. You can now switch between WinTab and Windows Ink drivers (if supported by your computer) in the Preferences dialog under the Input Device settings.

Windows Pointer Input API option in GIMP 2.10.38
Windows Pointer Input API can now be changed - GIMP 2.10.38

Backports of other GTK3 features

Luca also contributed a number of other features from GTK3 to GTK2. Some of the backported improvements include updating the size of the Print Dialog so buttons are not cut off, fixing issues with pop-up dialogs appearing behind the previous ones, and several fixes to keyboard input.

These improvements are primarily for Windows and are already included in the 2.99 development release. However, we are very happy that these quality of life improvements are now available in this stable release of GIMP 2.10!

Bugfixes

Recent crashes

Two commonly reported crashes have now been corrected. A change in GLib 2.80 exposed a bug in our closing process and caused a crash on exit. Luca Bacci once again devised a fix for both 2.10.38 and the upcoming 3.0 release candidate. Another crash that some users encountered when making very small selections was also fixed.

Other fixes

A number of other small bugs were fixed in this release. Among them:

  • Indexed PNGs with transparency are now exported with the correct colors
  • Anders Jonsson fixed the input ranges for several filters such as Waves and Distort
  • The titlebar customization field now supports UTF-8 characters
  • Existing image comments no longer “leak” into newly created images

Release stats

Since GIMP 2.10.36:

  • 16 reports were closed as FIXED in 2.10.38
  • 9 merge requests were merged
  • 81 commits were pushed
  • 1 new translation was added: Kabyle
  • 16 translations were updated: Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Danish, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Spanish

25 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 2.10.36 codebase (order is determined by number of commits):

  • 7 developers: Alx Sa, Jehan, Luca Bacci, Jacob Boerema, Lukas Oberhuber, lillolollo, Øyvind Kolås
  • 19 translators: Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Sabri Ünal, Bruce Cowan, Yuri Chornoivan, Vasil Pupkin, Anders Jonsson, Rodrigo Lledó, Jürgen Benvenuti, Sveinn í Felli, Andi Chandler, Juliano de Souza Camargo, Ekaterine Papava, Balázs Úr, Martin, Philipp Kiemle, Alan Mortensen, Dimitris Spingos, Marco Ciampa, Yacine Bouklif

Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):

  • The gimp-2-10 branch of gimp-macos-build (macOS build scripts) had 30 commits since the 2.10.36 release by 2 contributors: Lukas Oberhuber, Bruno Lopes.
  • The flatpak release is made of 11 commits by 3 contributors: Jehan, Hubert Figuière and Bruno Lopes.
  • Our main website (what you are reading right now) had 42 commits since 2.99.18 release by 4 contributors: Jehan, Alx Sa, Andre Klapper and Lukas Oberhuber.
  • Our developer website had 34 commits since 2.99.18 release by 6 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Alx Sa, bootchk, Alpesh Jamgade and Robin Swift.
  • Our 2.10 documentation had 35 commits since 2.10.36 release by 8 contributors: Alan Mortensen, Anders Jonsson, Rodrigo Lledó, Jacob Boerema, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Marco Ciampa, Andi Chandler and Víttor Paulo Vieira da Costa.

Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!

Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.

Team news and release process

Idriss, 2023 GSoC contributor, has been recently granted “developer” access on the main source repository, for the awesome continued job since then.

Ville Pätsi, very long term contributor (more than 20 years!), on various topics (design, theming and more) got the “reporter” access to Gitlab to help with triaging and organizing directly in the tracker.

Around GIMP

Mirror News

Since our last news, 3 new mirrors have been contributed to GIMP by:

  • Clarkson Open Source Institute, USA
  • FCIX, Switzerland
  • Tomás Leite de Castro, Portugal

This brings us to a total of 49 mirrors all over the world.

Mirrors are important as they help the project by sharing the load for dozens of thousands of daily downloads. Moreover by having mirrors spread across the globe, we ensure that everyone can have fast download access to GIMP.

Infrastructure and Hardware Sponsors

We enhanced the sponsor page with 2 sections:

  • “Infrastructure Sponsors” lists the sponsors who help GIMP with infrastructure:

    • CircleCI and MacStadium make our macOS continuous integration platform possible.
    • Arm Ltd. sponsors and administers several Aarch64 runners on Windows for our ARM 64-bit build for Windows; and Microsoft had given away the one-time fee for their Microsoft Store.

  • “Hardware Sponsors” lists sponsors which donated some hardware to contributors to help with development:

    • Arm Ltd. recently donated a Windows Dev Kit 2023 to support our recent Aarch64/Windows support.
    • Purism donated a Librem Mini in 2021.

Downloading GIMP 2.10.38

You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):

  • Linux flatpaks for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Universal Windows installer for x86 (32 and 64-bit) and for ARM (64-bit)
  • macOS DMG packages for Intel hardware
  • macOS DMG packages for Apple Silicon hardware

Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc.).

What’s next

Clearly one of the smallest releases ever in the 2.10 series, and it might be our last. We’ll see, though we also know some people get stuck longer than others on older series (especially when using LTS distributions of Free Software operating systems), so we might do (if we feel like it’s needed) a 2.10.40 release with bug fixes only just before or just after GIMP 3.0.0 release, as a wrap up.

In any case, we are now stopping backporting features in the 2.10 series. These graphics tablet support improvements for Windows are huge enough that they had to get in; yet from now on, we want to focus solely on releasing GIMP 3.0.0.

Now you might wonder when that is? Very soon! We are on the last sprint towards the release candidate. This includes a lot of bug fixes, but also still some API changes going on. We will keep you updated!

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger! 💪🥳

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  • GIMP 2.99.18 Released: The Last Development Preview Before 3.0!
    At long last, we bring you the final development version before GIMP 3! While the release of 2.99.18 is a bit behind our intended schedule, there are a number of new features and improvements that we’re very excited to share with you. ⚠️ ☢️ We remind that a development version means that this is a release to show work-in-progress but also give an opportunity to the community to detect issues early and report issues. In other word, this is an unstable version and we do not recommend to use it in
     
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GIMP 2.99.18 Released: The Last Development Preview Before 3.0!

Par :Wilber
20 février 2024 à 18:00

At long last, we bring you the final development version before GIMP 3! While the release of 2.99.18 is a bit behind our intended schedule, there are a number of new features and improvements that we’re very excited to share with you.

⚠️ ☢️
We remind that a development version means that this is a release to show work-in-progress but also give an opportunity to the community to detect issues early and report issues. In other word, this is an unstable version and we do not recommend to use it in production. Use it because you want to help GIMP improve by reporting bugs.

This version 2.99.18 in particular might be one of the most unstable releases in the 2.99 series because of the space invasion. It is expected and normal.
⚠️ ☢️

This news post lists the most notable and visible changes. We do not list minor bug fixes or smaller improvements here. To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the NEWS file or look at the commit history.

(Color) Space Invasion

We have been working very hard on the Space Invasion project, which is — as you might recall — our codename for the project of making GIMP more correct regarding colors.

Lately we have been porting older internal color structures (GimpRGB, GimpCMYK, GimpHSV…) which we used to carry color information to GeglColor. This generic object can contain any color data regardless of color model, precision or space supported by babl, our pixel encoding engine.

What it means for color correctness in particular is that we will now do color conversion only when needed (last-second conversion) and therefore won’t lose information when it could have been avoided. For instance, say you color-pick color from an image: if we were to convert to an intermediate format, before using it on a second image (which may or may not be in another color format), we’d do 2 conversions. Which means more possibility of precision loss. The issue is even more flagrant if the input and output formats are the same (i.e. no conversion should happen at all). And this will be even more a problem when we will have core CMYK backend (we really want to avoid doing a round-trip to an intermediate format with CMYK, which doesn’t have bijective conversion with most other color models, even when working unbounded and ignoring precision issues).

We are also slowly moving stored data to this generic color object. In particular it means that color palettes will be able to contain CMYK colors, CIELAB colors or in any other supported model (and not only these colors after a conversion to unbounded sRGB).

A consequence for code maintainance is that it makes it a lot easier to handle color conversions within our codebase, now that the structure embeds both the data and its “meaning”. It makes color handling a lot less bug-prone compared to when we had to keep track of both information as separate data.

Lastly we are working toward showing color space information in various parts of the interface, when relevant, such as when displaying or choosing RGB, CMYK, HSL or HSV data. Values in these color models without the associated color space are near-meaningless. Interface displaying values in RGB without further information are a remnant of the past when it mostly meant sRGB. This is clearly not true anymore in modern graphic work and the interface should make this clear.

The below video shows some of this interface work where RGB, HSV or CMYK models for instance are always displaying the color space the values are in (which very often means the name of the ICC profile). This is being done in the color picker tool, color samples, FG/BG Color dockable, “Change Foreground/Background Color” dialog and in more places.

Not only this, but when people select a soft-proofing profile and activate soft-proofing (e.g. through the nice new simulation toggle which was added in GIMP 2.99.12), we will also show out-of-gamut area not only within the image’s color space, but also the soft-proof space.

(Color) Space Invasion in the interface - GIMP 2.99.18

Very important warning: this is once again a huge port in our codebase, which impacted litterally thousands of lines of code. This work is unfinished though it will have to be finished before the first release candidate. Therefore unstabilities or bugs are to be expected in this update so if you encounter any issue, we recommend to report them.

Improved Color Algorithms

Øyvind Kolås improved a few internal algorithms:

  • Achromatic pixels in the Hue-Saturation tool are now special-cased so that grayscale pixels (saturation of 0) are only changed by the master adjustment, not by the red adjustment.
  • Grayscale gradients are now kept achromatic even with “Dithering” checked in the Gradient tool.

As the space invasion project goes on, getting things consistent is getting easier in various color-related algorithms, hence enabling us to discover issues quickly and fix them.

Initial Non-Destructive Layer Effects

One area we’re “ahead of schedule” on are the much-requested non-destructive layer effects! The foundation for these features has been laid by many developers over many years, since the introduction of GEGL into GIMP. Originally planned for the 3.2 roadmap, an initial implementation was made as a continuation of a Google Summer of Code project.

If you are not familiar with the term, “non-destructive editing” implies the ability of changing the output pixels while keeping the source pixels intact. For filter effects, such as Blur, it means that layer effects are kept separate from the layer’s pixels. This means that if later on you want to change a setting, rearrange, or even remove the filter, you can easily do so without affecting the rest of the image. Until now, GIMP has followed a destructive editing workflow where effects were immediately merged down onto the layer, so this is a major change!

Any GEGL operation that has a GUI is now applied to layers non-destructively (Non-destructive effects for layer masks and channels are planned for future updates.). This includes third-party GEGL plug-ins and custom operations created with our GEGL Graph tool. These effects can be saved and loaded in .xcf project files, although not all GEGL properties are supported in the current build.

Once a filter has been applied, you can interact with it further by clicking the filter icon in the layers dockable. This will open a pop-up that shows all filters currently applied to the layer. From here, you can toggle the filter’s visibility, edit the filter settings, re-order the filters, and delete individual effects. You can also merge down all filters to recreate a destructive workflow.

Non-destructive layer effects - GIMP 2.99.18

Note that this is only an early implementation, and much work remains to be done for a full-featured version of non-destructive editing. We will continue to refine the existing features for the 3.0 release based on user testing and feedback, and extend them further afterwards. The interface itself is not how we envision this feature ideally and a first specification draft was layed out for a much more integrated workflow.

The below screenshot is a mockup from this first specification which would show layer effects within the main layer list, sharing the same “eye” and “lock” buttons, but also with their own easily editable mask:

Non-destructive layer effect Specification mockup image
Specification mockup image: vision of layer effects directly in the layer list with their own mask

Nevertheless creating this new interface will be its own challenge so we decided to delay it to after GIMP 3 release and to propose this early implementation at first.

Please share your thoughts on the discussion forums and issue tracker!

Font Handling Improvements

Idriss Fekir, another GSoC 2023 student, has been working with long-time developer Liam Quinn to improve how GIMP handles fonts. A lot of this work was internal to improve GIMP’s ability to handle future font and text updates. Some of the more visible changes include:

  • GIMP no longer relies on font names being unique to distinguish between them. This means it won’t append “#1”, “#2” and so on but instead keep the original names in the font selection list. Despite the apparent name clash, both identically named font will now work properly.

  • GIMP can now load fonts using custom styles (bypassing Pango which is unable to load them).

  • We can now load more types of fonts than before. In cases where we don’t support a font yet (or the font is non-existent), we can better detect this and fall back to a default font. This also improves support when loading an .xcf file created on another computer to different fonts available.

  • On Windows, we force the Pango backend to always use anti-aliasing. This improves the readability of menu text on that operating system, especially with a dark theme.

  • The XCF-saving code now stores font information much more accurately which helps to avoid loading the wrong font when reopening some XCF.

  • Alignment of text in text layers for RTL languages is now more consistent with how it works in other software (such as LibreOffice or Scribus).

These changes are a lot less flashy relatively to some of the other features and therefore may feel less important, yet they are actually the foundation work on making text handling a lot more reliable in GIMP. We are envisionning a future where text editing will be simpler while much more powerful and featureful (in particular OpenType features are some of the big improvements we hope to get eventually).

Auto-Expanding Layers

The third GSoC project last summer by student Shubham Daule brought a long requested feature – auto-expanding layers! Brush tools now have an additional “Expand Layers” option. When checked, painting past the layer boundaries will cause them to automatically expand so you don’t have to manage the layer size yourself. If you want to expand the layer beyond the current size of the canvas, you’ll need to also check the “Show All” option in the View menu.

Auto-expanding layers - GIMP 2.99.18

The Expand Layers option also has additional settings when selected. You can decide how much you want the layer boundaries to expand by whenever the brush reaches them. There are also options to specify how the new areas of the layer and layer mask should be filled in when expanded.

New Snapping Options

New contributor mr. fantastic developed two new options for aligning layers on the canvas. With “Snap to Bounding Boxes” enabled, dynamic guides will now show when the layer you are moving is aligned with the center or sides of others. The active layer will also snap to those boundaries to assist you with arranging them properly. The second option, “Snap to Equidistance”, allows you to snap between three layers that are equidistant from each other.

New snapping options - GIMP 2.99.18

Themes

We continued to improve the user interface and style for this release. One of the biggest improvements was dealing with “system theme leaks”. There are styles that were not specifically defined in our themes, thus allowing different systems to supply their own (often conflicting) styles. With the help and feedback of several contributors and users, we’ve made a lot of progress in defining those styles so that everyone has a consistent experience!

Recently Jehan worked on re-organizing and simplifying our theme system. In past development versions we had five different themes: Default, Gray, System, Darker, and Compact (Each with light and dark options). These have been simplified into the System theme and a single Default theme with three possible states – light, dark, and gray. Similarly, our four separate icon themes were condensed into the Legacy set and a Default with Color and Symbolic options. We think these changes will reduce user confusion and make it easier for them to find their preferred interface appearance.

In addition, on Windows the main titlebar (and most dialog title bars) now adjust to light or dark mode depending on the selected theme.

Welcome Dialog

The Welcome Dialog has been expanded to provide quick access to a number of useful features and options. There are now four new sections:

  • Personalize: There are several customization options that require you to dig through the Preference Dialog to change. Now from this page you can easily change the color and icon themes, the user interface language and font size, and OS-specific settings.

  • Create: This page shows your eight most recently opened images and allows you to quickly reopen them. There are also buttons to create a new image or load an existing one. As with other programs, you can set this screen to automatically appear when GIMP starts for immediate access to these features.

  • Contribute: We consolidated some of the many ways you can be involved in GIMP’s development on this page. There are direct links to report bugs, write code, assist with translation or donate financially.

  • Release Notes: Originally these were shown on the lower half of the Welcome page. Now we have a full tab dedicated to them for easier reading.

File Formats

As in other releases, we have made improvements to existing file formats and added import and export support for some new ones.

DDS

A new contributor Stayd has been working with developer Jacob Boerema to make many improvements to the DDS plug-in. As a start, the import functions have been written to be simpler and easier to extend in the future. Some of the other additional updates include:

  • Loading 16 and 32 bits per channel RGBA DDS images is now possible.

  • The Catmull-Rom cubic filter has been added for mipmap generation, and all mipmap generation calculations are performed at 32-bit precision.

  • DDS images in the R8G8, R16, and R16G16 formats can now be loaded as well.

  • An option to flip DDS images vertical on import was added to mirror the existing export option, as some game images store their data this way.

GIF

In the past, overwriting a GIF rather than exporting would always convert it into a single frame image. Now we check to see if the GIF is an animation on load, so it will stay that way when overwritten.

HEIF and JPEG-XL

Both plug-ins now use their respective libraries (libheif and libjxl) to load metadata. As a result, we have removed our custom code to interpret the image orientation and rely on the information supplied from the library instead.

OpenEXR

OpenEXR allows for channels to have custom names besides the color type. In these cases we now treat any single channel image with an unconventional name as grayscale. On import, we also display a notification so that users are aware of the conversion.

PDF

The “Layers as Pages” export option now works even if there is only a single layer group. Previously this option was not available, as the plug-in only checked if there was more than one “layer” without considering if it was a layer group with multiple sub-layers.

PNG

Safe-to-copy PNG chunks are now preserved on import and included in the exported image. Additionally, an often-reported issue with exporting transparent indexed PNGs has been fixed. Now the exported indexed colors should be displayed correctly.

PSD

Jacob Boerema continued his work to improve the PSD plug-in. In addition to bug fixes such as correcting the layer order on import, he also clarified the export warning on layer mode compatibility between GIMP and Photoshop.

PSP

The Paintshop Pro plug-in now supports importing more features from the project file, such as the ICC color profile, guides, grids, and the active selection from when the file was saved. The ZDI-CAN-22096 and ZDI-CAN-22097 security vulnerabilities were also patched in this release.

New image format supports: Farbfeld, Esm Software PIX, HEJ2

We recently added import and export support for Farbfeld, an sRGB image format intended to be easy to parse, pipe, and compress externally.

We also added import only support for the following new file formats:

  • Esm Software PIX: A modified JPEG format used exclusively by the Esm Software company to store their customized images. This was implemented in response to a bug report that confused this format with our existing Alias PIX image support.

  • HEJ2: An addition to our existing HEIF plug-in by contributor Daniel Novomeský which allows importing JPEG 2000 compressed images.

New palette format support: Swatchbooker

Swatchbooker is a free/libre open source software that creates and converts color palettes in a variety of formats. While the software itself has not been updated in many years, its custom palette format .sbz is the most comprehensive of all the ones we currently support. Among its many features are allowing multiple color model definitions per palette entry, localizable names and descriptions, and support for per-entry ICC color profiles.

While working on our import support, we were able to contribute information that led to a bug fix in Krita’s support for Swatchbooker. It’s always great when projects can work together and help each other!

Wayland Tablet Pad Interactions

Long-time GNOME contributor Carlos Garnacho added support for interacting with GIMP via tablet pads. When a tablet is plugged in, you can now assign different actions to the tablet controls via the “Input Device” dialog under the Edit menu. In particular you don’t have to map keyboard shortcuts to the tablet’s buttons, system-side, then map the same shortcut to actions, GIMP-side. You can directly map the tablet’s buttons to actions without the intermediary of keyboard shortcuts.

Assigning actions to tablet pad buttons - GIMP 2.99.18
Assigning actions to tablet pad buttons - GIMP 2.99.18

This work also involved porting features to GTK 3, the GUI framework that GIMP is built on. Note that this feature is currently only supported on Wayland.

API Updates

The Application Programming Interface, for plug-in makers, is steadily being reworked as part of the GIMP 3 overhaul. Part of it is that when colors are involved, we are moving the API to use GeglColor as part of the more general Space Invasion project. Yet it’s only a small part of the whole API improvements.

We are also moving towards more classes to represent the various resources managed by GIMP (brushes, fonts, patterns, etc.) instead of only representing these by names (which was a historical limitation whereas it is absolutely possible for 2 resource makers to choose the same name and the fact is that we see such cases in the wild — for instance 2 fonts independently created may have the same name).

Another big move is replacing the GimpValueArray representing the ordered arguments of a plug-in procedure by a GimpProcedureConfig which contains arguments by name instead of by order. This allows much more semantic usage of plug-in procedures (especially when they have long list of arguments) but also will make it easier to enhance plug-ins in the future, with new or reordered arguments without creating new procedures because the order and number arguments matter a lot less. It means that adding new arguments in the future won’t break existing scripts depending on past versions of these plug-ins anymore (plug-in writers will still have to choose appropriate defaults for the new arguments in order for this to be true, of course).

In parallel, we continue to improve the ability of automatic GUI creation given to plug-ins, making creating dialogs more easy than ever. This includes (among many other enhancements) a new type of procedure argument named GimpChoice which is a string list of choices which can be displayed to creators as drop-down list widgets in your plug-in dialog.

We are planning to write and release tutorial for plug-in writers in the Resource Development section of our developer website in the same time as GIMP 3 release, or not long after.

GEGL and babl

This release of GIMP is accompanied by new releases of GEGL and babl, both of which assist with the color space invasion project.

babl 0.1.108 brings a new babl_space_is_rgb function to help us directly confirm a color space is RGB (rather than doing multiple tests to see if it’s not CMYK or grayscale). There were also several improvements to the build process and to the babl command-line interface tool.

GEGL 0.4.48 provides several updates to the GeglColor object which now supports much of GIMP’s color operation. Specific improvements include being able to directly get and set CMYK color values, as well as assigning the color space when setting RGB(A) colors.

A crash in the existing gegl:voroni filter was fixed, and a long-standing bug with the gegl:dropshadow filter which prevented the effect from shrinking was corrected too.

Last but not least, a new gegl:shuffle-search filter was added to the workshop. It shuffles neighboring pixels to create a more optimized dithering effect.

Release stats

Apart from the first version in the series (2.99.2), GIMP 2.99.18 is clearly the biggest update in most numbers. Since 2.99.16:

  • 238 reports were closed as FIXED.
  • 201 merge requests were merged.
  • 1358 commits were pushed.
  • 26 translations were updated: Basque, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Danish, Esperanto, Finnish, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

60 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 2.99.18 codebase (order is determined by number of commits; some people are in several groups):

  • 23 developers to core code: Jehan, Alx Sa, Shubham, Jacob Boerema, Idriss Fekir, bootchk, Anders Jonsson, Carlos Garnacho, mr.fantastic, Stanislav Grinkov, lillolollo, Øyvind Kolås, Sabri Ünal, programmer_ceds, Lukas Oberhuber, programmer-ceds, James Golden, Luca Bacci, Massimo Valentini, Niels De Graef, Zander Brown, psykose, sonia.
  • 17 developers to plug-ins or modules: Jehan, Alx Sa, Jacob Boerema, bootchk, Anders Jonsson, Stayd, Zander Brown, Bruno Lopes, Daniel Novomeský, Sabri Ünal, programmer_ceds, Kamil Burda, Mark, Michael Schumacher, Stanislav Grinkov, programmer-ceds, sonia.
  • 31 translators: Yuri Chornoivan, Martin, Ekaterine Papava, Luming Zh, Sabri Ünal, Anders Jonsson, Rodrigo Lledó, Jordi Mas, Alan Mortensen, Vasil Pupkin, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Boyuan Yang, Víttor Paulo Vieira da Costa, dimspingos, Alexander Shopov, Alexandre Prokoudine, Aurimas Černius, Balázs Úr, Marco Ciampa, Sveinn í Felli, Danial Behzadi, Ngọc Quân Trần, Jürgen Benvenuti, Piotr Drąg, Timo Jyrinki, Andre Klapper, Kristjan SCHMIDT, MohammadSaleh Kamyab, Rafael Fontenelle, Tim Sabsch.
  • 9 resource creators (icons, themes, cursors, splash screen, metadata…): Alx Sa, Jehan, Ferry Jérémie, Stanislav Grinkov, Anders Jonsson, Bruno Lopes, Jacob Boerema, Sabri Ünal, mr.fantastic.
  • 5 documentation contributors: Jehan, Bruno Lopes, Jacob Boerema, Alx Sa, Anders Jonsson.
  • 14 build, packaging or CI contributors: Jehan, Bruno Lopes, bootchk, Alx Sa, Zander Brown, Jacob Boerema, Jacob Boerema, Stayd, Carlos Garnacho, Heiko Becker, mr.fantastic, Daniel Novomeský, U-YGGDRASIL\ender, lillolollo.

Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):

  • babl 0.1.108 is made of 17 commits by 6 contributors: Jehan, Øyvind Kolås, John Marshall, Andre Klapper, John, sid.
  • GEGL 0.4.48 is made of 77 commits by 20 contributors: Øyvind Kolås, Jehan, Anders Jonsson, Jacob Boerema, Yuri Chornoivan, Alan Mortensen, Sabri Ünal, Andre Klapper, Ekaterine Papava, Jan Tojnar, Jordi Mas, Luming Zh, Martin, Piotr Drąg, Víttor Paulo Vieira da Costa, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Marco Ciampa, Rodrigo Lledó, dimspingos, woob.
  • ctx had 308 commits since 2.99.14 release by 1 contributor: Øyvind Kolås.
  • The gimp-macos-build (macOS packaging scripts) release is made of 32 commits by 1 contributor: Lukas Oberhuber.
  • The flatpak release is made of 15 commits by 3 contributors: Jehan, Daniel Novomeský and Hubert Figuière.
  • Our main website (what you are reading right now) had 31 commits since 2.10.36 release by 6 contributors: Jehan, Alx Sa, Sabri Ünal, Anders Jonsson, Bruno Lopes, Jonathan Demeyer.
  • Our developer website had 30 commits since 2.10.36 release by 5 contributors: Bruno Lopes, Jehan, Alx Sa, bootchk, Robin Swift.
  • Our 3.0 documentation had 247 commits since 2.99.16 release by 17 contributors: Andre Klapper, Jacob Boerema, Yuri Chornoivan, Alx Sa, Jordi Mas, Alan Mortensen, dimspingos, Anders Jonsson, Boyuan Yang, Sabri Ünal, Víttor Paulo Vieira da Costa, Juliano de Souza Camargo, Rodrigo Lledó, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Marco Ciampa, Danial Behzadi, Emin Tufan Çetin.

Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!

Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.

Team news and release process

Access rights to the git repository were recently given to Bruno Lopes (who has been very active improving our build process and Windows packaging).

Several long term or recent developers or packagers who started to contribute to the new developer website were also given access to the associated git repository.

More contributors are now actively participating to testing releases and packaging, and this is the first news for years which Jehan has not written nearly entirely! Thanks a lot to Alx Sa (a.k.a. Nikc or CmykStudent) for taking up on collaborative news writing!

Clearly we are consolidating day after day a solid core team of contributors and this shows in our release process having more and more feedback at each release.

We are also particularly happy and proud that the 4 GSoC projects we had, since we started again subscribing to this mentoring program, were all successful and ended up being merged to the main code branch within half a year at most after the internship end.

Around GIMP

Mirror News

Since our last news, a new mirror has been contributed to GIMP by:

  • Sahil Dhiman, in Nürnberg, Germany, as a personal project.

This brings us to a total of 46 mirrors all over the world.

Mirrors are important as they help the project by sharing the load for dozens of thousands of daily downloads. Moreover by having mirrors spread across the globe, we ensure that everyone can have fast download access to GIMP.

GIMP on Windows/ARM

Since our news for an experimental build on Windows for ARM 64-bit architecture, we received help from Hernan Martinez, well known contributor in the MSYS2 project, who hosted our first ever CI runner for Windows on Aarch64 architecture. Though this was only a temporary setup (literally a build machine in someone’s living room) until we get a more stable situation, we are extremely thankful to Hernan who helped us make our second step on this platform (the first step was done by Jernej, who made our first experimental installer), make sure our automatic build process worked there and more.

Since then, we got the stabler situation: Arm Ltd. themselves stepped up and contributed officially 3 runners for our Continuous Integration process in Gitlab! Arm Ltd. also sponsored a Windows devkit to one of our developers.

While we still do consider this build experimental, because of lack of testing and because only 2 contributors have a machine able to run it right now, the biggest blocker got removed and we are happy to announce that our universal Windows installer for GIMP 2.99.18 contains GIMP for all 3 platforms (x86 32 and 64-bit, and now ARM 64-bit)!

Downloading GIMP 2.99.18

You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):

  • Linux flatpaks for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Universal Windows installer for x86 (32 and 64-bit) and for ARM (64-bit)
  • macOS DMG packages for Intel hardware
  • macOS DMG packages for Apple Silicon hardware

Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc.).

What’s next

As we have now entered a feature freeze, our focus has shifted to bug-fixing, clean-up, and preparing for the first 3.0 release candidate.

We indeed think that this should be the last development release since no new feature will be introduced from now on, at least GUI features (the API is still evolving until the first release candidate). So what you see now is basically what you should get in GIMP 3.0.0, feature-wise.

This is why we released this version even though we know it is quite unstable. Now is the time for last minute comments! Also it’s the moment to report and fix bugs like there is no tomorrow. We hope to be able to deliver a RC1 soon and it should be as bugless as possible.

Our current expectation is to be able to release GIMP for the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting in May 9-12. To be fair, this is not an easy goal and therefore we are not sure if we can make it. What is sure is that even if we did not manage this on time, it should not happen too long after. In particular we won’t release just because we set a deadline. We want to provide the best experience, which means that if we discover last minute blocker bugs, we will delay the release until they are fixed.

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger! 💪🥳

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  • GIMP 2.10.36 Released
    This stable release of GIMP comes with a few security fixes, so we advise you to update even if you feel like your current version works fine for you. Apart from the many bug fixes and security updates, it also provides new support for palette formats and a new generated gradient. New features and improvements ASE and ACB palettes support New Gradient: FG to Transparent (Hardedge) GIF: non-square ratio support More enhancements Security and bug fixes Fixed Vulnerabilities Broken Graphics Tab
     
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GIMP 2.10.36 Released

Par :Jehan
6 novembre 2023 à 18:00

This stable release of GIMP comes with a few security fixes, so we advise you to update even if you feel like your current version works fine for you. Apart from the many bug fixes and security updates, it also provides new support for palette formats and a new generated gradient.

This news lists the most notable and visible changes. In particular, we do not list here bug fixes or smaller improvements. To get a more complete list of changes, you should refer to the NEWS file or look at the commit history.

New features and improvements

ASE and ACB palettes support

In addition to already supported palette formats, GIMP can now load palettes in the following formats:

  • Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE)
  • Adobe Color Book (ACB)

This will make it easier to exchange palettes coming from other software.

New Gradient: FG to Transparent (Hardedge)

Everywhere a gradient option is available, the gradient list will now feature the additional “FG to Transparent (Hardedge)” option. It generates a gradient from the foreground color to transparency, with hard-edge transitions between the 2 colors.

In the Gradient Tool in particular, you can generate patterns very quickly with the “Repeat” option, alternating repetitive colored shapes with full transparency over a given background.

New FG to Transparent (Hardedge) gradient - GIMP 2.10.36

GIF: non-square ratio support

GIMP now loads GIF images containing the PixelAspectRatio header metadata by setting different resolutions per dimension, hence rendering the image correctly (instead of looking squashed on the screen).

Of course the option “Dot for Dot” in the View menu must be unchecked to see the image at its expected ratio.

More enhancements

A few more improvements were sprinkled across this update, such as:

  • Text tool: improved formatting behavior when selecting and changing text on canvas.
  • Theme: better feedback when hovering lock buttons (with a white frame) as well as when activating a lock (a small padlock shows up in the corner).
  • Help: The Help > User Manual submenu now features a “[Table of Contents]” link.

Security and bug fixes

Fixed Vulnerabilities

Four vulnerabilities were reported by the Zero Day Initiative in code for the following formats and fixed immediately:

  • DDS: ZDI-CAN-22093
  • PSD: ZDI-CAN-22094
  • PSP: ZDI-CAN-22096 and ZDI-CAN-22097

Additionally dependencies have been updated in our binary packages, and with them, some vulnerabilities recently reported in these libraries were fixed.

In any case, we recommend to update GIMP with the latest packages.

Broken Graphics Tablets with recent linuxwacom driver

We don’t usually mention bug fixes prominently but an ugly one happened recently after a change in the xf86-input-wacom (linuxwacom) driver, which provoked crashes of GIMP when using a graphic tablet on Linux.

Various distributions already downgraded the driver, or backported the fix, since a patch to the driver has been quickly pushed as well. Nevertheless if you are in the unlucky situation of using the non-patched driver, this version of GIMP also contains a workaround to the bug.

Release stats

Since GIMP 2.10.34:

  • 26 reports were closed as FIXED in 2.10.36.
  • 10 merge requests were merged.
  • 155 commits were pushed.
  • 20 translations were updated: Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Danish, Dutch, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

29 people contributed changes or fixes to GIMP 2.10.36 codebase (order is determined by number of commits):

  • 7 developers: Alx Sa, Jehan, Stanislav Grinkov, Jacob Boerema, Daniel Novomeský, Andras Timar and Gabriel Scherer.
  • 22 translators: Marco Ciampa, Sabri Ünal, Luming Zh, Anders Jonsson, Yuri Chornoivan, Martin, Rodrigo Lledó, Balázs Úr, Hugo Carvalho, Jürgen Benvenuti, Nathan Follens, Piotr Drąg, Alan Mortensen, Cristian Secară, Ekaterine Papava, Jordi Mas, Vasil Pupkin, Aurimas Černius, Danial Behzadi, Petr Kovář, Sveinn í Felli and dimspingos.
  • 3 resource creators (icons, themes, cursors, splash screen, metadata…): Stanislav Grinkov, Jehan, Daniel Novomeský.
  • One documentation contributor: Jehan.
  • 3 build or CI contributors: Jernej Simončič, Jehan and Stanislav Grinkov.

Contributions on other repositories in the GIMPverse (order is determined by number of commits):

  • babl, GEGL and ctx are actively developed, but no releases have accompanied this version of GIMP for once. So we will provide relevant statistics at next release.
  • The gimp-2-10 branch of gimp-macos-build (macOS build scripts) had 45 commits since 2.10.34 release by 1 contributor: Lukas Oberhuber.
  • The stable flatpak branch had 28 commits since 2.10.34, by 3 contributors (and a bot): Jehan, Daniel Novomeský and Hubert Figuière.
  • Our main website (what you are reading right now) had 165 commits since 2.99.16 release by 6 contributors: Sabri Ünal, Jehan, Bruno Lopes, lillolollo, Alx Sa and Robin Swift.
  • Our developer website had 17 commits since 2.99.16 release by 5 contributors: Jehan, Bruno Lopes, Aryeom, Jacob Boerema and Robin Swift.
  • Our 2.10 documentation had 138 commits since 2.10.34 release by 16 contributors: Andre Klapper, Jacob Boerema, Marco Ciampa, Anders Jonsson, Boyuan Yang, dimspingos, Yuri Chornoivan, Jordi Mas, Rodrigo Lledó, Martin, Alexander Shopov, Alx Sa, Balázs Úr, Piotr Drąg, Sabri Ünal and Tim Sabsch.

Let’s not forget to thank all the people who help us triaging in Gitlab, report bugs and discuss possible improvements with us. Our community is deeply thankful as well to the internet warriors who manage our various discussion channels or social network accounts such as Ville Pätsi, Liam Quin, Michael Schumacher and Sevenix!

Note: considering the number of parts in GIMP and around, and how we get statistics through git scripting, errors may slip inside these stats. Feel free to tell us if we missed or mis-categorized some contributors or contributions.

Team news and release process

Access rights to the git repository were recently given to Lukas Oberhuber (our maintainer for the macOS packages).

During the duration of GSoC, “reporter” rights on our Gitlab project were given to Idriss and Shubham, 2 of the GSoC contributors (the third one already had git access).

Robin Swift, who already helped with GIMP’s developer website has started working on a port of the main website (which you are reading right now) from Pelican to Hugo, a project which was long planned yet had stalled so far.

Finally we remind that we are actively looking for people helping us test packages before releases (especially for GIMP 3.0 and forward). This will help make GIMP releases much more robust. Since the last release, Anders Jonsson and Mark Sweeney were added as Flatpak testers. We also have several testers of the Windows packages, yet we still have no testers for macOS. Whatever your OS and the architecture you test on, we welcome your feedback to detect issues early! Together, the community is stronger! 💪

Around GIMP

Mirror news

Since our latest news, 4 new mirrors were contributed to GIMP by:

  • Silicon Hill, student club of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic;
  • Lancaster-Lebanon IU13, an organization comprised of more than 20 public school districts and several non-public, parochial, and charter schools in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA;
  • the Moroccan Academic and Research Wide Area Network (MARWAN) in Rabat, Morocco;
  • Jing Luo, in Tokyo, Japan.

This brings us to a total of 45 mirrors so far, from all over the world.

Mirrors are important as they help the project by sharing the load for dozens of thousands of daily downloads. Moreover by having mirrors spread across the globe, we ensure that everyone can have fast download access to GIMP.

Book news

Sabri Ünal continued their 📚 bibliographic research, adding so many published books that we decided to completely reorganize the books as a structured file database, allowing us to easily process the information or change the page styling separately from the data.

This also triggered us to split the books page into 2:

As book descriptions don’t always clearly state the version of GIMP they pertain to, we used the release date of GIMP 2.10.0 (April 27, 2018) as the split date.

Last but not least, this new structure allows us to easily generate statistics, which we now show at the bottom of the books pages. At least 44 books were published after GIMP 2.10.0 release, and 305 were published before it. Therefore we are currently listing a grand total of 349 books about GIMP in 17 languages!

We remind everyone that we welcome book additions. If you know (or even are the author) of a not-listed-yet book about GIMP, please report the same information as other books in the list. Thanks!

Downloading GIMP 2.10.36

You will find all our official builds on GIMP official website (gimp.org):

  • Linux flatpaks for x86 and ARM (64-bit)
  • Universal Windows installer for x86 (32 and 64-bit) and for ARM (64-bit)
  • macOS DMG packages for Intel hardware
  • macOS DMG packages for Apple Silicon hardware

Note: macOS packages are a bit late but will come shortly.

Other packages made by third-parties are obviously expected to follow (Linux or *BSD distributions’ packages, etc.).

What’s next

I believe it might be the next to last release in the 2.10 branch, though of course, this is still to be confirmed. What may happen in real life does not always align with plans.

In the meantime, we are working harder than ever to release GIMP 3.0. You will hear shortly about this in our next development release.

Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger! 💪🥳

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    As architecture platform usage widens, Windows on ARM (64-bit) is now a thing. So we decided to support experimentally GIMP for Windows on ARM! With the newly published revision 2, our universal installer of GIMP 2.10.34 for Windows (as found on our downloads page) will auto-detect the running platform and install the ARM build when relevant. Thanks in particular to our Windows packager, Jernej Simončič, for his continuous work! Future work¶ The “experimental” qualificative for this new support
     
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GIMP now on Windows for ARM (experimental)

Par :Jehan
12 août 2023 à 18:00

As architecture platform usage widens, Windows on ARM (64-bit) is now a thing. So we decided to support experimentally GIMP for Windows on ARM!

With the newly published revision 2, our universal installer of GIMP 2.10.34 for Windows (as found on our downloads page) will auto-detect the running platform and install the ARM build when relevant.

Thanks in particular to our Windows packager, Jernej Simončič, for his continuous work!

Future work

The “experimental” qualificative for this new support is for the following reasons:

  1. It is not as widely tested. We are aware of some issues already and hope that releasing this experimental build will help us get more feedback.
  2. Only Jernej has a machine with Windows on ARM so far. In particular none of the developers have such hardware, as far as we know. So we don’t expect to be able to fix issues for Windows/ARM as fast as for other supported platforms.
  3. Last, but not least, this additional build is not set up yet in our continuous integration platform, which means we cannot discover appearing issues as thoroughly and quickly as for other architectures, nor can we automatize builds as transparently as we wish.

How you can help

Aside from reports and patches, we really need to set up a Windows/ARM machine in our continuous integration platform. Indeed this is considered a blocker and may be cause for abandoning the experimentation when we release GIMP 3 since we don’t want to backtrack and get back to manual builds done by a single contributor on their personal machine for the 3.0 series.

This means that we are looking for anyone willing to help us set up a machine with Windows on ARM and configure it as a runner on our Gitlab project.

Because of obvious security requirements, such a volunteer would need to have sysadmin experience, willing to commit themselves in the long run (let’s not leave a Windows machine with holes on the internet) and have had some experience in FLOSS contributions.

It might also be interesting to coordinate with other cross-platform Free Software projects to share the administration burden of a CI runner which we can use together to build for Windows/ARM.

If you are interested, please get in touch on IRC or in the dedicated report.

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