{"id":233031,"date":"2026-04-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/linux-app-release-roundup-march-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:11:58","slug":"linux-app-release-roundup-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/linux-app-release-roundup-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux App Release Roundup (March 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/04\/linux-release-roundup-march-2026\">Linux App Release Roundup (March 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/04\/linux-release-roundup-march-2026\">https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/04\/linux-release-roundup-march-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-06 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.omgubuntu.co.uk\">www.omgubuntu.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 2026 meted out a sizeable set of Linux software releases, including updates to FOSS stalwarts GIMP, digiKam, Krita and Blender.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Major new releases were covered with dedicated articles, including Firefox 149 with free built-in VPN, the \u2018biggest ever release\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>A busy month, but those weren\u2019t the only app updates of note.<\/p>\n<p>Below, I run through other releases made in March. While these didn\u2019t get dedicated articles at the time, they offer new features, fixes or changes that are worth knowing about.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FreeCAD fleshed out its features<\/h2>\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FreeCAD 1.1 is released!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9biWv_M8p8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The FreeCAD 1.1 release brings a \u201csignificant amount of improvements and new features\u201d, according to the release notes, including a new\u00a0CAM\u00a0tool library system, transparent Part Design previews and a new 3 point lighting system.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever struggled to click the right face on a complex 3D model, the new Clarify Selection\u00a0tool will help. Activate it by pressing\u00a0G and G\u00a0again and FreeCAD temporarily makes a model transparent and shows a list of all nearby geometrical entities (object, face, edge, vertex).<\/p>\n<p>FreeCAD\u2019s\u00a0Assembly workbench\u00a0sees 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.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, a search bar got added to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/04\/linux-release-roundup-march-2026\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux App Release Roundup (March 2026) https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/04\/linux-release-roundup-march-2026 Publish Date: 2026-04-06 03:00:00 Source Domain: www.omgubuntu.co.uk March&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/linux-app-release-roundup-march.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-233031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233033,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233031\/revisions\/233033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}