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**March 2026 meted out a sizeable set of Linux software releases, including updates to FOSS stalwarts _GIMP_ , _digiKam_ _, Krita_ and _Blender_.** Major new releases were covered with dedicated articles, including Firefox 149 with free built-in VPN, the ‘biggest ever release’ of OpenShot video editor, the new GIMP 3.2.0 release, a bump to terminal tool Ghostty 1.3 and the Opera GX for Linux launch. A busy month, but those weren’t the only app updates of note. Below, I run through other releases made in March. While these didn’t get dedicated articles at the time, they offer new features, fixes or changes that are worth knowing about. ## FreeCAD fleshed out its features FreeCAD, the free and open-source 3D modeller, saw its first major update arrive in late March, roughly a year and a half after version 1.0. The FreeCAD 1.1 release brings a “significant amount of improvements and new features”, according to the release notes, including a new CAM tool library system, transparent Part Design previews and a new 3 point lighting system. Interactive draggers were added to Part Design features, letting you adjust values by directly dragging in the 3D view. Three-point lighting improves how models look in the viewport, with main light, back light and fill light used. If you’ve ever struggled to click the right face on a complex 3D model, the new Clarify Selection tool will help. Activate it by pressing `G` and `G` again and FreeCAD temporarily makes a model transparent and shows a list of all nearby geometrical entities (object, face, edge, vertex). FreeCAD’s Assembly workbench sees two additions: a new _Create Simulation_ tool can add motion to joints and produce animations of assemblies; an improved _Transform_ tool supports precise numeric inputs and the ability to align its dragger to any element in the document. Elsewhere, a search bar got added to the _Preferences_ Editor (always handy), a new Theme Editor introduced to let you customise the interface’s stylesheet (if you want to), and Wayland improvements to resolve blank or missing 3D viewports, particularly on Nvidia GPUs. The full release notes, and the official YouTube embed above, render (heh) those and other changes in more detail. _Install the officialFreeCAD Snap, grab the Flatpak on Flathub or download from the project site._ ## Blender saw a speed boost A new version of free and open-source 3D creation suite Blender arrive in March. Blender 5.1 is more of a refinement and polish release to the major 5.0 update last November. Much of the stability work in this update stems from the _Winter of Quality_ initiative, a coordinated push between December and January to resolve a variety of reported issues. Animation playback is faster in Blender 5.1, most noticeably in complex scenes with lots of keyframed bones or high-poly meshes; while shading picks up a new Raycast node to allow casting rays against scene geometry (available for both Cycles and EEVEE). Elsewhere, Grease Pencils fills have been revamped; the Graph Editor adds a non-destructive _Gaussian_ smoothing modifier for F-curves; and the Compositor gains a _Sequencer Strip Info_ node for node-based transition effects. Full details on the changes can be found in the official Blender 5.1 release notes. _Blender is free, open-source software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Ubuntu users can install theBlender Snap or download an installer on the official website. _ ## Rnote improved its PDF handling Use standard keyboard shortcuts to format text in Rnote 0.14 _Rnote_ is a terrific handwritten notes app for Linux, ideal if you own a Linux tablet or a 2-in-1 device with stylus input and regularly like to jot down ideas, doodle diagrams or markup documents. The Rnote 0.14.0 update released in March adds Xournal++ text importing, atomic file saving, and a small increase in available command-line options, and (long requested) text formatting keyboard shortcuts, albeit only to bold, italicise and underline selected text at present. You’re also able to ‘apply’ changes to workspace dialogs (e.g., giving a workspace a name) by pressing the `enter` key rather than having to manually click ‘apply’. The app has also switched its PDF import rendering library from the C++ poppler to the Rust-only hayro. _You can install the latest stable release of Rnote on Ubuntuon Flathub._ ## DeaDBeeF (finally) defaulted to GTK3 Lightweight music player DeaDBeeF slipped out its first update since last year’s 1.10 release. That shipped with an optional GTK3 UI plugin and here, in DeaDBeeF 1.10.1, it’s now the default. The GTK2 UI remains available for those who want it. A new lyrics plugin is included, there’s FLAC network streaming support and a new ‘Stop After Queue’ mode if you’d rather playback to cease when your queue is out of tracks. The player can now show album artwork embedded in Opus files. _Download the new DeaDBeeF 1.10.1on the project website, where official DEB installers are available for Ubuntu users alongside the latest source code and builds for other platforms. _ ## digiKam added a survey tool digiKam, the open-source photo management application, released v9.0 in March, the first big version in nearly 3 years. It includes a new Survey tool for quickly reviewing and rating images. This opens in a separate window, which is useful on a second monitor, and acts as a synchronised preview of the main icon view with various tools and access to rating, labels and tags. digiKam 9.0 uses Qt 6.10.1, improving its Wayland stability, and has revamped assorted elements of its UI including a native Qt _Welcome_ page and rewritten _File Copy_ and _File Transfer_ dialogs. The album view now supports orientation, GPS location and file format sorting. RAW camera support has been expanded, looping in some of the latest models from Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Sony, Panasonic, Hasselblad and Leica. _Get the latest release on theproject website, where official AppImage bundles are available, alongside the Flathub and Snap Store versions for Ubuntu users._ ## Euphonica got an async rewrite Smooth fade in of album art during refresh The epically flashy MPD front-end _Euphonica_ saw a “major architectural overhaul and rewrite of the codebase into async Rust”, per the release notes for its latest beta (the app is yet to hit a 1.0 stable release). Developer Huỳnh Thiện Khiêm also says the codebase has been “vastly simplified” and made easier to contribute to. Album art now use fade transitions when loading, which should result in a smoother and less abrupt impression during initial library loading from remote MPD servers. Main screens also make use of ‘overall loading spinners as they populate’. Metadata fetch errors are now communicated via in-app toasts rather than silently failing, and the app will automatically retry to fetch data again; and a “pending tasks” popover shows in the top-left of the window if 3 or more background operations are running. _You can install Euphonica on Linuxon Flathub, or grab the source code on GitHub._ ## Krita saw a dual release Krita, the free and open-source digital painting application, announced the release of 5.3.0 (stable) and 6.0.0 (experimental Qt 6 port) in March, The headline addition is sure to be the ground-up rewrite of the text tool. You can now edit text on-canvas, place text along paths or inside shapes, and enjoy full support for OpenType features, with support for alternates, ligatures and stylistic variants accessible through a new _Glyph Palette_. A new dedicated _Text Properties_ docker offers type settings and supports text style presets to save specific settings too, to quickly apply again. Krita is also equipped to import and export text objects from PSD files, should you have need to. Image: Krita For comic artists, a new _Comic Panel Editing_ tool lets you split and merge vector objects quickly, so you can create custom comic panel layouts; while the fill tool can close gaps so that if the lines of your ink work don’t quite meet, it won’t flood everything with colour. Other changes include a faster _Transform > Liquify_ tool; the Recorder Docker can now work in real time; and a pair of new filters, er, filter in: _Propagate Colours_ (expands colour into nearby transparent areas) and _Reset Transparent_ (strips colour values from fully transparent pixels). Krita 6.0.0 is (mostly) functionally identical, but is the first release built on Qt 6. It’s still considered experimental, so for day-to-day work, use 5.3.0. But if you need Wayland colour management or want to benefit from HDR, perhaps give it a go. See the Krita 5.3 release notes for more details, screenshots and Waifu art. _You can download Krita as an AppImage for Linux, or get iton Flathub. Windows and macOS versions are available on the official website, as well as on their respective app stores._ ## Vivaldi intro’d follower tabs Vanishing UI in action Vivaldi 7.9 arrived mid-March, adding a couple of new features to the customisable Chromium-based browser that’s already crammed with them. First is _UI Auto-hide_ , which you can enable by pressing `ctrl` + `f11`. This hides the tab bar, address bar, panel and status bar out of view, leaving the website you’re reading or content you’re watching to span the entire window viewport. Move your cursor to any edge of the screen when this mode is active and the hidden UI elements slide back in view. Move away again and they retreat. If you’ve tried the Zen browser, or tested the public beta of Kagi’s Orion web browser, this ‘focus mode’ feature should be familiar to you – but because this is a Vivaldi, you get granular control over which elements hide. Go to _Settings > Appearance > UI Auto-hide_ to play around. The second new feature is _Follower Tab_ , a feature nodding to Vivaldi’s roots with the original Opera development team: Never lose your starting point using follower tabs in Vivaldi To use it, right-click any link and choose _Open Link as Tiled Follower Tab_. The new page opens in a side-by-side tiled view. Unlike a standard split-view, the original tab stays put; further links you click automatically load in the follower tab. Your original tab stays anchored. This feature will be particularly useful if you’re doing research or “rabbit hole” browsing, as it means you to explore a series of links from one page, next to it, without ever losing sight of the origin source. Besides those, Vivaldi 7.9 brings various improvements to its built-in _Mail_ app: the composer can now open in a separate window, switching between rich text and plain text is done via a toggle and memory usage has been reduced. _Vivaldi is free, but not open source, software.Download on the official website or install the Vivaldi snap the Snap store (`sudo snap install vivaldi`)._ ## GIMP squashed some bugs Wilber’s on a roll of late GIMP 3.2.2 sneaked out at the end of March, serving as the first bug-fix release in the new stable 3.2.x series, and arriving a mere two weeks after 3.2.0 – to think we used to go months between updates! The reason for the quick turnaround was an annoying layer group rendering bug which made layers with some filters applied, like Drop Shadow, to stop rendering once added to a layer group. While the data was never affected, it was annoying – and promptly fixed. A number of issues with vector layers were also resolved, SVG path importing made to scale correctly, and the PSD plug-in has improved how it handles channel and layers, making it easier to work with Adobe Photoshop files. GIMP 3.2.2 is available to from the official download page for all major OSes, with an AppImage and Flatpak build provided for Linux. _You can also install GIMP on Ubuntu from the Snap Store (`sudo snap install gimp`). The GIMP Snap is an official package maintained by the project directly._ ### A bumper month of updates (again) Other musical updates of note: command-line _Spotify Player_ can now show a neat audio visualiser in your terminal; MPD client _Plattenalbum’s_ latest update reworks the seek bar and improves the server info dialog; while _Tidal-HiFi_ adapted to the streaming service’s new look. _**That’s a wrap on March’s lot, but, as ever, if you know of a software update you think others should know about, get in touch via the contact form – article tips, typo flubs and content suggestions always welcome.**_

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**Got time for a final blast through smaller Linux app updates to round out 2025?** There will be plenty of big new releases to look forward to in 2026, no doubt. Before we race head first in to a new year, I felt it right to give one last glance back at updates that landed during December which I didn’t dedicated a full article to… But which I didn’t want to leave out, either. ### Darktable 5.4.0 Capture sharpen controls in darktable 5.4.0 A new version of open source RAW photo editor _darktable_ (sic) is out, with a couple of big new features in tow that should please photography professionals and enthusiasts alike. There’s a **new tone mapper** based on Blender’s AgX bolsters editing with explicit white and black point controls, adjustable pivot for the tone curve and independent sliders for shadow and highlight contrast. **Workspace support** makes its long-awaited appearance. This lets you create and switch between separate databases and configurations. Useful if you’re juggling professional work alongside touching up personal pics, or if you just want to experiment. Capture sharpening is now built into the _demosaic_ module to help recover detail lost to in-camera blurring; app performance is improved across the board (but especially for those working off NAS’ or spinning HDDs; and ICC colour profiles are now handled under Wayland. The darktable 5.4 update also adds support for a slew of new(er) cameras, including the Canon EOS R1 and R5 Mark II, Fujifilm X-E5, Nikon Z fc, Sony ZV-1M2, and the Leica Q3 Monochrome. Plus, updated colour matrices and new noise profiles for some models too. As darktable is open source software for Linux, Windows and macOS, you can download the latest release from the official website for all major OSes. An AppImage is available for Linux, but if you prefer Flatpak then darktable is on Flathub, but it is not yet verified. The usual reminder applies: back up before upgrading, as there’s no going back to 5.2 once you’ve converted your library! ### Clapper 0.10.0 Clapper media player hit 0.10.0 this month, continuing to expand its “enhancer plugin system”. MPRIS, Server, and Discoverer features are now enhancer plugins. A reminder that Clapper is both an end-user app, and a library which _other apps_ can use to provide media experiences. Configuration of enhancer plugins can be done via the preferences window; you can write new plugins in Lua (if that’s your thing); and a new audio-only widget is available for those building audio players (and a few Python examples available in the project repo). User-facing additions include frame stepping with the `E` key, the ability to preview GStreamer pipelines from the info dialog; new speed icons; support for drag-and-drop between lists in different windows; and the ability to ‘load and parse’ playlists. Crash fixes are included, such as one that readies issues with auto-resize for some video resolutions. Clapper is free, open-source software for Linux and Windows. Linux users can install the latest version of the desktop app can be installed from Flathub (also carried in some distro repos); Windows users can download a package from the GitHub releases page. ### QEMU 10.2.0 FOSS Virtualisation and emulation tool QEMU hit version 10.2, composed of over 2,300 commits from 188 contributors. Among the “big” changes ferried within the commits is **live update support** through a new migration mode to let you update running VMs with reduced resource usage, and **potentially better performance** due to switching to `io_uring `for QEMU’s main loop. ARM emulation has gained support for a stack of new CPU features, whilst HPPA users can emulate an HP 715/64 workstation. PowerPC gets PowerNV11 and PPE42 CPU support, and FreeBSD hosts can finally use 9pfs shared filesystems. If you work with QEMU regularly, beside to read over the full list of changes, and pay particular attention to what’s been deprecated (in case someone you rely on no longer boots). QEMU is free, open-source software available for Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD systems. You can download the latest release from… A variety of sources, in a variety of formats, but the best place to start is by visiting the official QEMU website. ### Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.3 Fetch ISO/IMGs in-app from other sources The Raspberry Pi team issued two updates to their recently revamped image writing tool. Changes focus on boosting performance, and resolving a few underlying bugs. A couple of new features were added, like support for adding custom repos to pull ISO/IMGs from. Writing images is faster due to various I/O tweaks; there’s bottleneck detection and real-time progress update have been implemented, and a “detailed write timing breakdown” added for those who want to analyse performance during writes. For the latter, press `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `P` during a write session to save details to a JSON. Usability buffs include password field component with show/hide toggle button, the reintroduction of multiple SSH key support, better accessibility coverage for screen readers, and a new icon for macOS 26 Tahoe and .SVG icon asset for Linux. Raspberry Pi Imager is free, open-source software available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Download it from the official website or grab it from the GitHub repo. ### MPV **0.41.0** A new version of command-line video player MPV landed, and it uses libplacebo’s `gpu-next` renderer by default. This should deliver improved performance and better HDR support. Vulkan hardware decoding is also now preferred over other APIs (where available). Linux users on Wayland get better colour support thanks to` color-management-v1` and `wp-color-representation-v1` protocols, tablet input support, and clipboard writing (a clipboard backend is included for those using MPV on X11). A buffering indicator in the on-screen controller, frame-stepping support, and an assortment of new command line options also feature. MPV is free, open-source software available for pretty much every operating system out there. More details on the MPV Github. ### ONLYOFFICE 9.2.1 ONLYOFFICE 9.2.1 refines the 9.2.x series feature set Early December delivered the ONLYOFFICE 9.2 release with its AI agents, macro recording and PDF redaction features. This was quickly followed by a point update to resolve a number of issues users were experiencing. ONLYOFFICE 9.2.1 patches a word break breakage when using Korean text in the _Document Editor_. In the _Spreadsheet Editor_ , transferring sheets between documents using cope/paste longer causes a data overlap. _PDF Editor_ picks up a plethora of patches, including errors caused when opening (!) or scrolling (!) a PDF file; errors when copying, pasting and undoing actions using the ‘Find’ panel in editing mode, or trying to delete a page. Security is bolstered with hot fixes for exploits involving XSS injection of JS code in the font field, vulnerability in the text area of the comment editing form, and memory manipulation during XLS to XLSKX conversion that could lead to info leaking. Of note, **ONLYOFFICE 9.2.1 supports Linux ARM64 devices** – something many users had been asking for for a long while! ONLYOFFICE’s desktop apps are free, open-source software available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux. AI integrations will require API keys from third-party services, or access to a large-language model running locally, fyi. Downloads are available on the official website or direct from the GitHub releases page (under ‘assets’ – expand to show all available builds), with official Snap package and Flatpak build also available. ### Scribus 1.6.5 (Stable) & 7.1 (Dev) Scribus’ unstable branch is where cool stuff is happening Scribus, the free and open source desktop publishing app, released v1.6.5 in December as a minor refinement to its existing stable branch. It resolves issues with light and dark mode handling, the colour eyedropper, and PDF export font rendering. There’s also a security fix that removes the ability to load remote SVG image data. Scribus 1.7.1 is the latest development release, building on what 1.7.0 brought (Qt Advanced Docking System, SVG icons, revamped palettes, white-space review mode, optical margins, etc) with search in preferences windows, document log interface, and security fixes. Scribus is free, open source software available for Linux, Windows and macOS. You can download the latest versions (stable or development) by following the relevant links on the Scribus install page. #### Finally… I also want to say thank you — yes, as in _you_ , you. Thank you for reading this site, commenting, and connecting with me; for the news tips and suggestions you send in, the coffee you (generously) buy me, and for each article of mine you take the time to read and share. With so many websites, streaming services, and social media grifters unrelentingly demanding attention, that you choose to visit _this_ site and support what _I_ do leaves me humbled, happy, and beyond grateful. **_So truly: I wish you all a happy, healthy, secure and fulfilling 2026 — with a lot more Linux in it, too!_**

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Linux App Release Roundup (December 2025) I roundup a crop of December's smaller Linux app releases, including the Clapper media player, QEMU virtualisation tool, Scribus DTP and ONLYOFFICE. Yo...

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**December’s here (_“December’s here, December’s here…“_ as the festive ear worm from New Found Glory goes) which means November is no longer here — ergo, it’s time for a Linux App Release Roundup!** November was host to a number of big software updates, a few of which I did plan to cover _properly_ but, for one reason or another, got away from me. I did cover Firefox 145 and Thunderbird 145 (out like clockwork), the Raspberry Pi Imager 2 released (redesigned), Mission Center 1.1 (better filtering), Fish 4.2 (multi-line suggests) and the GIMP 3.2 Release Candidate (improved text tool). If you see an app update appear, feel free to tell me about it using the contact form. Your tips, prods and suggestions help me stay on top of things – thanks! Read on for a recap of what else last month delivered… ### Bazaar 0.5.10 Bazaar continues being a brilliant Slick desktop Flathub frontend _Bazaar_ saw two updates last month, one medium and one “smol” (to quote its developer). Search was overhauled with a ‘rich card’ format that shows important info about apps, saving the need to page through to the full listing to see if it’s the one you want. Nifty. Elsewhere, a new ‘hide-eol’ preference was added. When enabled this stops Bazaar from returning any end-of-life applications or applications that rely on on end-of-life runtimes. Notices on app tiles and in listing signpost apps that use end-of-life runtimes. Beyond that, lots of smaller tweaks, bug fixes, visual finesse and the addition of a few smaller niceties (a ‘what’s new’ page in the _About_ dialog and new ‘On the Go’ category among them) to round things out. Ubuntu users can install Bazaar from Flathub. ### Euphonica 0.98.0 Dynamic playlists? Time to get creative… _Euphonica_ , the unapologetically bliny MPD client, issued a new beta build in November adding a major new feature: Dynamic Playlists. Rather create a static playlist containing a specific set of tracks you can create playlists that generate contents based on filter/ordering rules you define. Rules can be dynamic too, e.g., ‘limit to songs played in the last 30 days’, which is neat. As such, if you’d love to have ‘personalised’ playlists similar to those offered on music streaming services, but with local files, you can e.g., “Monthly Most Played”, “Songs I Always Skip”, etc. _And_ dynamic playlists in Euphonica can be made to refresh at a set schedule (e.g., “1st of the month”, “every time I open the app”); you can set custom artwork for them, and import & export dynamic playlists in JSON for backup (or sharing). All of that sounds _hella_ _cool_ to me — if I was talking like someone hip in 1999. Euphonica is an MPD _client_ (GUI front-end) and not a standalone music player you will need to connect to an MPD server to get to play anything (you can run one locally, which is what I do). Also keep in mind it’s “beta” software – bugs, quirks, etc. Ubuntu users can install _Euphonica_ from Flathub. ### Blender 5.0 Official release video Blender 5.0 was released in November and, like every release, the amount of improvements across the software’s many tools, views and functionality is vast – much of it hard to appreciate if you’re not an existing user. For creative pros, the biggest change in Blender 5.0 support for ACES (Academy Colour Encoding System) and HDR colour pipelines, which means content has predictable production-grade wide-gamut colour, exposure and HDR data from creation through render and final export. The version improves the way ‘large-scale geometry’ is handled, so working with `.blend` files which contain millions of vertices is stable. Cycles, Blender’s renderer, adds adds a new default volume rendering algorithm (‘null scattering’). There’s a new storyboarding template which, with Grease Pencil (which a new “Pen” tool in Edit mode), make it easy to create looped animations, while general workflow has been tightened with drag-and-drop buffs, a more predictable Outliner, and unified widget styles. And that’s but scratching the service. More details on everything new, improved and retired (Intel macOS support) can be found in the official Blender 5.0 release notes. Blender is free, open-source software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Ubuntu users can install Blender from the Snap Store, Flathub or download an installer from the official website. Older versions of Blender are available in the Ubuntu repos. ### Vivaldi 7.7 Streamlined start page in Vivaldi 7.7 Vivaldi 7.7 slipped out last month, the latest stable release of the Chromium-based browser that serves power users as much as those who can’t tell their address bar from their elbow. It ships a clutch of updates, mainly focused on streamlining workflows. There’s now cross-desktop tab sync, making it easy to find and open tabs from _other_ devices via the Windows Panel or Tab Button within the browser. The browser now features a Unified Start Page putting both dashboard widgets and the traditional Speed Dials one the same page. Cognitively, this is tidier (and like most changes in Vivaldi, those who prefer other approaches can dial around in settings to achieve it). Finally, Vivaldi 7.7 cleans up its Privacy Dashboard to provide clearer insight into blocked content, adds new performance controls (e.g., configure tabs to be excluded from resource management), and tweaks a few bits of its UI here and there. Vivaldi is free, but not open-source software available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Ubuntu users can install Vivaldi as a Snap, fetch it from Flathub or download a DEB package from the browser’s website (which is also available ARM64 devices). ### Shotcut 25.10 Using webkit animations to create titles A new version of the Qt-based and cross-platform open-source video editor _Shotcut_ was released with a clutch of interesting changes. Shotcut 25.10 lets you generate ‘Image/Video from HTML’, so you can use CSS, JavaScript, etc to create text-based content on a transparent background. The feature is limited to 15fps, requires Google Chrome or Chromium, and won’t work in Flatpak builds. Other updates include new Screen Snapshot and Screen Recording options (which do what you think they do); _Text to Speech_ support extends to Notes and Subtitles; a new Typewriter text generator, and some small UI changes. Shotcut 25.10 includes FFmpeg 8.0 and the minimum glibc requirement is bumped to v2.35 meaning that it’ll only run on Ubuntu 22.04 or later. Ubuntu users can install Shotcut from the Snap Store, Flathub, or download an AppImage from the official website (where macOS and Windows installers can also be found). ### VLC Components VLC 3.0.22 hit release candidate in September but it’s yet to be _officially_ released, although source code tarballs are up on the official server. VideoLan, makers of VLC, released new versions of libdvdread, libdvdnav and libdvdcss – 3 critical components that allow VLC to play DVD and Blu-ray Discs. _“The biggest features of those releases (libdvdread/nav 7 and libdvdcss 1.5) are related to DVD-Audio support, including DRM decryption,”_ the team say. If you use VLC to play optical media and you aren’t having any issues playing content you don’t need to go out of you way to download and compile these libraries, but if you are experiencing quirks with newer discs, you may wish to. ### Kdenlive 25.12 RC The Kdenlive 25.12 Release Candidate is out for testing ahead of it’s (presumable, given the version number) stable release in December. The team say the update brings UI changes “to improve your workflow”, including a new widget docking system, and an “enhanced audio display” in the clip monitor with a waveform, and menus have been reordered to be more “logical” – all good stuff. If you make vertical videos for social media you’ll find the upcoming version caters for you as the welcome screen revamp now lets you pick a vertical orientation for new project from the get-go, and devs have added editing layout and safe areas for vertical formats. #### Until next month! That’s a wrap on November’s highlights. While those updates did not get their own headline (from me), they’re solid updates and, on the off chance you hadn’t heard about them, now you have. _**Got a tip about an app update I should cover? The contact form is always open!**_

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