Yesterday at noon, the KDE Community released KDE Applications 19.08.2. This is the second maintenance release in the series and based on past releases it should be coming to Discover in the next few hours / days. Regardless of what the rest of the KDE applications do, what always comes to Flathub and in AppImage is the latest version of their video editor, and Kdenlive 19.08.2 it is already available from its website.
As of this writing, the Flatpak package has not been updated yet, so the only way to use it on Linux is by downloading its AppImage. In fact, it is the only possibility if we want to use Kdenlive 19.08.2 at the moment, since the version for Windows has not been updated yet, there is no Snap version and the version of the official repositories is still stuck at v19.04.3 of July last.
What's new in Kdenlive 19.08.2
In total, the new version of the KDE video editor has introduced 28 improvements:
- Fixed a crash when resizing composition.
- Updated MSYS2 build script.
- Fixed grabbing the audio screen in Windows.
- You can remove the local reference to the current project.
- Ability to disable multitrack view when rendering.
- Fixed incorrect reset of duration in profile change.
- Build warning has been fixed.
- Possibility to make the affine filter bg color configurable.
- Fixed speed of work in some languages.
- Fixed some remaining effects stack layout issues.
- Fixed keyframes not being removed when the start clip was resized or cut.
- Fixed track effects not working when adding a clip to the end of the track or if the clip was resized.
- A clickable field has been added to copy keyframes from the auto mask.
- Ability to display the track's FX stack by clicking its name.
- Fixed a crash when trying to access clip properties when available.
- Fixed FX stack layout spacing issue introduced in recent role.
- Fixed missing proxy clips when opening project file with relative path.
- AppData version updated.
- Cleaning effect stack design.
- Fixed sorting of mixed audio tracks.
- Another fix for the speed effect.
- Speed effect: fix negative speed by incorrectly moving in / out and incorrect thumbnails.
- Fixed incorrect stabilization description.
- Cleaning stabilizes presets and job cancellation.
- Deprecated videostab and videostab2, only keep vidstab filter.
- Fix canceling jobs that don't work.
- Fix some bad i18n calls.
- It does not encode the effect settings of vidstab.
Now available on AppImage, soon on Flathub and in the Backports PPA
As we have mentioned, Kdenlive 19.08.2 is now available in the form of AppImage. In the next few hours it will appear in Flathub and in the KDE Backports repository, or so it is expected; otherwise "piss off." The version of the official repositories should also be updated soon, but later than that of the Backports repository. Have you already tried it? What do you think of the new version?
Sincerely, kdenlive has taken a huge leap back. Things that used to make you fond of this application and thus made your work easier, in the purest professional style, have now disappeared. If before one of the black points of kdenlive was to be dealing with many bugs, in this they have excelled, now there are many more. As I read on the kdenlive books page «It is as if the kdenlive team had set out to scare away users, increasing the number of bugs and eliminating tools and options that were not problematic and were very useful.
And why mess up the list of effects?
bye, bye kdenlive »
Kdenlive is proving to be in the wrong hands… it is not moving forward, it is stuck in a swamp.