Audacity 4 moves the whole interface onto Qt, replaces the tool modes with context aware clip editing, adds grouped clips and three workspaces, and stores projects in a new aup4 format. The 4.0.1 patch brought back export multiple and a portable Windows build.

After six quiet years LMMS shipped 1.3.0-alpha.2 in September 2026: 932 commits, 65 contributors and 8 new plugins, plus microtonal tuning, detachable windows and ARM64 builds. The stable release is still the one from July 2020.

GitHub Desktop 3.6.7 brings worktree support to the window, so one repository can check out several branches into separate folders with a shared object store, and merge conflicts can be handed to Copilot. Free and open source on Windows and macOS.

Astro 7.4.1 moves the component compiler and the Markdown pipeline into Rust and pairs with Vite 8, for builds 15 to 61 percent faster. The build command also takes a timings flag that shows where the time went, stage by stage and plugin by plugin.

KDiff3 1.12.5 is out with three way merging, character level highlighting and a built-in conflict editor, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later and running on Windows, macOS and Linux.

XSplit Broadcaster puts scenes, sources, preview, audio and output in one workspace. The free tier allows 720p with no watermark, and a subscription opens resolution, frame rate, AI features and commercial use.

k6 runs on a Go engine and its scripts are written in JavaScript or TypeScript. A threshold that is missed fails the run, results can land in Grafana, and the current release is 2.3.0.

Birdfont is an open source font editor that exports TTF and single colour SVG. The website splits distribution into four editions, two of them free, with colour fonts and variable fonts reserved for Plus. Paid editions start at 9.99 dollars.

Ardour 9.8 brings keys and scales into this open source digital audio workstation: notes outside the scale are marked in the piano roll and may be corrected per track. A crash during recording now recovers what was captured, losing at most five seconds.

ripgrep is a recursive search tool written in Rust. Version 15.2 honours three layers of ignore rules by default, steps around hidden files and irrelevant directories, and still offers type filters, a PCRE2 engine and search inside compressed files.

Code::Blocks is a free open source IDE for C, C++ and Fortran built around a plugin framework of its own, with a self made build system and GDB debugging inside. Release 25.03 tightens high DPI handling and adds C++23 and C++26.

An open source, multi language integrated development environment and platform. Official packages cover Java, C and C++ and PHP, the plug-in catalogue is large, the installer bundles a JRE, and Windows, macOS and Linux are all supported. The current release is 2026-09.

An established open optical character recognition engine that converts text in images and scans into editable characters. Language data installs separately per language, recognition runs locally without a network, and the engine is called either from a shell or from another program. Version 5.5.3, Apache-2.0.

A terminal text editor that keeps the Vim editing model while moving configuration to Lua, with a language server client and Tree-sitter parsing built into the core. The current release is 0.12.6, published under the Apache licence.

An open tool that moves the everyday handling of MySQL and MariaDB into a browser: creating databases, importing and exporting, setting up permissions and running statements all happen on a web page, with version 5.2.3 published under GPL-2.0.