Blender 3D : The new long-term support release version 2.83 LTS.

The Blender 3D team comes with this new release version 2.83 LTS and with this short intro:

With over 1250 bugfixes, and further critical fixes due throughout the next two years as part of the Long Term Support program, Blender 2.83 LTS provides the performance and stability needed for major projects. New features include VR support, OpenVDB import, OptiX viewport denoising and a powerful new physics-enabled Cloth Brush.

These features are show on the official website:

• OpenVDB files can now be imported and rendered with the new Volume object;
• Files may be generated by Blender’s fluid simulation cache or even other software such as Houdini;
• Blender now ships with the first milestone in VR support powered by OpenXR;
• Use the OptiX VIEWPORT DENOISER from NVIDIA;
• Sculpt realistic wrinkles with the new Cloth Brush;
• Sharpen mode in Mesh Filter;
• The new Face Sets system lets you control the visibility of individual parts of a mesh, or automatically mask parts of its surface for sculpting;
• Significant changes on the Grease Pencil;

All of these features and the download installer can be found at the official webpage.

Krita 4.3.0: Another released from Krita team.

On International Children's Day, the Krita graphics team came up with a new release.

Here are the new enhancements and features that this release brings.

This is the second beta release for Krita 4.3.0. It’s later than expected because our system for making release builds was temporarily unavailable.
Since the first beta, the following issues have been addressed:

Fix Color picking in freehand path and bezier curve tool (BUG:373037).
Fix zooming after changing the image resolution (BUG:421797)
Switch the stabilizer to always use scalable distance (BUG:421314)
Make sure channel thumbnails are not inverted when working with CMYK images (BUG:421442)
Make it possible to use save incremental and incremental backup on files in folders that are named to look like incremental saves or backups (BUG:421792)
The Python API for handling Document and Node objects is now synchronous: you do not have to add extra waitForDone calls anymore. (BUG:401497)
On macOS, support for using modifier keys with canvas input actions has been improved ( BUG:372646, BUG:373299, BUG:391088)
Implement touch support for Wacom tablets. Patch by P. Varet — thanks! (BUG:421295)
Fix issues with files taking a long time to save (BUG:421584)
Make the placeholder text in the text shape shorter and translatable (BUG:421663)
Shift-click on a layer to see the layer in isolation doesn’t change the visibility state of all layers anymore
Animation frames outside the requested range are no longer rendered
Make the autosave recovery dialog clearer (BUG:420014)
Properly play animations and show onion skins when viewing layers in isolation (BUG:394199)
Fix the position of the text shape editor on Windows (BUG:419529)
Fix gamut mask rendering (BUG:421142)
Fix artefacts when rendering the marching ants outline for small or complex selections (BUG:407868, BUG:419240, BUG:413220)
The animation timeline now correctly highlights the current frame after loading a file (BUG:403854)
Correctly align the onion skin after cropping an image (BUG:419462)
Fix rendering animations with odd render dimensions (BUG:396128)
Set the default values for the split layer dialog to something sensible
Fix eraser mode to be reset when the same color is picked from the canvas (BUG:415476)
Fix the aspect ratio of layer and channel thumbnails
Show the unsqueezed text of a squeezed combobox as a tooltip (BUG:415117)
Add more translation context in several places
Fix selecting colors in the stroke selection dialog (BUG:411482)
Fix the memory management of documents created from Python (BUG:412740)