Software: Ardour, Opus, GIMP, Pacman, LibreOffice, Launchpad
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Ardour Development Update
It's been a long time since the last release of Ardour, and there's still no schedule or even vague sense of when the next release might appear. I (Paul) felt that our users, and particularly our subscribers, deserved some information about what is and has been going on with development over the last 8 months. I had promised to do this back in December, and it is now long overdue.
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Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Is Going Through An Architectural Overhaul
For those wondering what's been going on with the Ardour digital audio workstation cross-platform, open-source software, their developers have posted a status update about their ongoing progress to the project.
Ardour, for those that don't know, is one of the leading (if not the leading) open-source digital audio workstation software for audio recording, editing, and mixing. It's a mighty impressive piece of software currently, but the developers are working on making it even better.
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libopus 1.3-rc
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Opus 1.3 RC1 Released For Open-Source Audio Codec
Nearly one year after the release of Opus 1.2, the Opus 1.3 release is happening quite soon with Friday marking the availability of the release candidate for this open-source and versatile audio codec implementation.
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GIMP has moved to Gitlab
Along with the GEGL and babl libraries, GIMP has moved to a new collaborative programming infrastructure based on Gitlab and hosted by GNOME.
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GIMP Jumps Aboard The GitLab Bandwagon
The 2018 trend of migrating open-source project infrastructure to GitLab continues.
Following the GNOME project as well as FreeDesktop.org and other notable open-source projects migrating to GitLab for their project infrastructure with code hosting, bug management, etc, The GIMP has completed its migration too over to the popular alternative to GitHub.
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Arch monthly May
Finally! A new pacman release, this version adds some critical bits for reproducible builds and the pacman repository has been shed of misc tools which are now in pacman-contrib.
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Best diagramming software: Top Microsoft Visio alternatives
LibreOffice Draw is a vector graphics and flowcharts design tool that's part of the free and open source LibreOffice software suite.
Draw uses smart connectors that make it diagramming simple. Users can define where these connectors adhere to and automatically calculate and display the linear dimensions of their designs to build a variety of different charts and diagrams regardless of skill level.
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Launchpad news, May 2018
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