The Inkscape project has joined the group of supporting organizations for the German petition to recognize open source work as volunteering for the common good ("Ehrenamt"). Despite the petition being local to Germany, we believe that strengthening the position of open source contributors there will be beneficial to the open source community as a whole.

While chugging away on the big 1.5 release, the Inkscape team has also worked on improvements for the current stable Inkscape 1.4.x line. Learn more about the improvements you can expect in this minor release!

Read on to meet and learn from Jorge, artist and Inkscape user from Chile, who used only Free and Open Source software to create a short film for an international children's film festival, and who won the young jury's hearts.