Glaxnimate

Glaxnimate 0.6.0

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:20:00 +0000

Glaxnimate 0.6.0 is out! This is the first stable release with Glaxnimate as part of KDE.

The biggest benefit of joining KDE is that now Glaxnimate can use KDE's infrastructure to build and deploy packages, greatly improving cross-platform support. This allows us to have releases available on the Microsoft Store and macOS builds for both Intel and Arm chips.

But there is much more...

KDE-specific features

Glaxnimate now uses the KDE file recovery system making it more reliable.

Settings and styles also go through the KDE systems, which, among other things, lets you choose from more color themes for the interface.

Translations are also provided by KDE. This makes it easier to keep other languages up to date as Glaxnimate evolves. In fact, the number of available languages has increased from 8 to 26!

The script console has also been enhanced with basic autocompletion making scripting easier.

Timeline

The timeline dock now allows effortless scrolling and provides buttons that make moving to different keyframes, and adding and removing them easier too. This contributes to making the animation workflow much smoother.

Hiding and showing layers from the timeline now interacts with the undo/redo system.

You can also quickly toggle keyframe easing without having to navigate menus. Just hold down the Alt key and click on the timeline.

Format Support

SVG import and export has been re-worked, and precompositions are now properly exported and animations improved. You can even export an animation as a sequence of SVG frames.

Editing

We have improved the bezier editing tools, and included the ability to Alt-click on bezier points to cycle between tangent symmetry modes.

The Reverse path action is now implemented and works for all shapes. This is mostly useful when adding the Trim path modifier.

Bug Fixes

Version 0.5.4 included a significant refactoring of internal logic that introduced several bugs. These have now have been fixed.

Packager Section

The source code tarballs are available from the KDE servers:

URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/glaxnimate/0.6.0

Source: glaxnimate-0.6.0.tar.xz

Signed by: 97B71AA02D63EA6C5C44C23B962AC48EF0501F0B Julius Künzel julius.kuenzel@kde.org

Glaxnimate 0.6.0 Beta

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Glaxnimate 0.6.0 Beta has finally been released for testing!

It has been a while since the last release of Glaxnimate, but in the background we worked hard to make this first release under the KDE umbrella happen!

Please help us testing and report any issue you may encounter on https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=glaxnimate

Glaxnimate joins KDE

The Glaxnimate team is proud to announce Glaxnimate is now part of KDE. Glaxnimate benefits from the shared KDE build and distribution infrastructure, the collective knowledge of the community and libraries such as KDE Frameworks. This way the developers can spend more time on the code to fix bugs and develop new features for you!

Changes

Editing

The rotation handle now preserves rotation direction and multiple full rotations
Alt + click on keyframes cycles between built-in easing curves
Alt + click on bezier points cycles between tangent symmetry modes (Ctrl+click still works)
Changing a bezier point from corner to smooth will add tangents if they are missing
The import image dialog now allows importing multiple images at once

I/O

Added support for SVG text-anchor

User Interface

Middle mouse drag now pans the timeline
There is an icon on the timeline to quickly toggle keyframes
Buttons to jump to the next/previous keyframe in the timeline
Improved LottieFiles import dialog
Improved autosave recovery process
Script console now supports basic autocompletion

Scripting

Exposed method to add new compositions

Misc

Switched to an even/odd version numbering scheme
Integration with KDE Frameworks

Bug Fixes

Fixed keyframe context menu showing the wrong "after" transition
When drawing bezier points that don't have tangents are correctly marked as corner
The play button now resumes from the current frame rather than resetting to the start
Fixed saving custom templates
Toggling visibility / lock of a layer by clicking on its icon now adds an undo/redo action
Fixed LottieFiles import
Fixed dropping file as object
Fixed closing compositions from the tab bar
Fixed loading colors from older lotties
Shape modifiers marked as not visible are now correctly ignored
Fixed rendering of round corners modifier
Fixed "New Composition" action creating an invisible layer
Fixed repeater opacity not being applied correctly
Improved handling of repeater with stroke
Fixed SVG animation export
Fixed animated raster plugin I/O

How to get it

Note that this is a beta release. Most Linux distributions do not package unstable releases.

We recommend to test this release with one of the binaries we provide:

Linux AppImage: glaxnimate-0.5.80-x86_64.AppImage
Windows Installer: glaxnimate-0.5.80-x86_64.exe
macOS DMG
- ARM: glaxnimate-0.5.80-arm64.dmg
- Intel: glaxnimate-0.5.80-x86_64.dmg

Packager Section

The source code tarball are available from the KDE servers:

URL: https://download.kde.org/unstable/glaxnimate/0.5.80

Source: glaxnimate-0.5.80.tar.xz

Signed by: 97B71AA02D63EA6C5C44C23B962AC48EF0501F0B Julius Künzel julius.kuenzel@kde.org

Glaxnimate 0.5.4

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This release introduces a wide variety of new features and several fixes.

New Animation Features

One new feature is the overshoot keyframe preset, with this comes the ability to edit the keyframe transition to go beyond the previously imposed limits.

Added support for "auto orienting" groups and layer, automatically aligning their rotation with the motion path.

Composition Overhaul

This is a major change of how compositions are handled internally, all compositions now share the same attributes and features, without having a "main" composition that dictates how other compositions should behave.

This fixes several minor inconsistencies that were previously caused by this distinction.

Additionally, when saving formats that support a single composition, Glaxnimate will automatically export the active composition, simplifying the exporting process and enhancing overall project management.

File Formats

The main new feature is support for Adobe After Effects Project files (.aep). This allows you to open animations created in AE directly within Glaxnimate.

While not all AE features are supported, most animations should work fine.

There have been several improvements to other file formats as well.

SVG

Now importing a non-animated SVG uses the same duration as the current composition, making it easier to use SVG files as assets.

Support has been added for importing SVG with animated path shapes, as well as animateMotion.

Animations within <defs> now are imported correctly.

Some other import improvements include fixes to group opacity, clip paths, anchor point detection, and detection of the start and end frames (The latter fix also applies to AVD import).

Exporting to SVG has received numerous improvements such as better star shape conversion, miter limit being correctly exported, removing unnecessary stroke shapes, and fixing export of precompositions with stretched time or time offsets.

Lottie

Lottie import has received several improvements as well.

Now Glaxnimate supports loading lottie files with radial gradient highlights, split positions, and auto-oriented layers. Zig zag import has also been improved.

There have also been fixes to dotLottie import, now images and custom metadata are properly supported.

Open / Save Improvements

Along with format support, this release introduces several quality of life improvements to the open / save flow.

Saving a file sets the default export path to the folder the file is saved to, this is to avoid having to select the folder again if you want to export the file into multiple formats.

When possible, backup files are saved in the same directory as the file being edited. Previously backup files were stored exclusively in the glaxnimate data directory, which made them more difficult to access.

Directly opening a static image file sets the animation to 1 second rather than 0.

A new setting has been introduced in the preferences dialog that allows toggling between the system native file dialog and the Qt widgets one.

There have also been improvements in the script API to handle import / export plugins: the new window.choose_option() method shows a dialog to display a selection from a list, and exception from I/O plugins now show in the script console.

More Accurate Animations

Animation rendering has received several fixes. Some files might look slightly different but now the animation appears as intended.

Easing curves for keyframes now offer more accurate timing. Some issues with the rendering of the last frame for layers and hold keyframes have been resolved, also the UI no longer makes frames outside the composition range available for selection.

There have been visual fixes for masks, trim path and offset path modifiers.

Minor Features

Added support for loading image assets from the web rather than limiting to local files.

Added built-in palettes with RAL and web colors and the palette selector has been improved to accommodate these large palettes.

Holding Ctrl now allows you to snap the transform position handle to the x or y axis for precise adjustments.

Finally some buttons in the advanced page of the trace dialog have been fixed.

Experimental Android APK

There's now an arm64 APK download for Android, providing you with the opportunity to experience Glaxnimate on your mobile device.

This is experimental so not all features might be available and the user interface hasn't been polished yet.

Glaxnimate 0.5.3

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We're excited to announce the release of Glaxnimate 0.5.3! This update includes a number of new features, bug fixes, and improvements to the user experience.

Editing

Glaxnimate 0.5.3 introduces several new editing features:

There's a new keyframe preset called "Fast" that basically has the reverse effect of "Ease".

Additionally, this release adds support for conical gradients.

Users can now select the first Bezier node from the node's context menu.

Version 0.5.2 introduced the ability to animate along a path, 0.5.3 makes this easier as now there's a new context menu entry for position properties showing a dialog to select a shape to follow.

User experience

In addition to editing improvements, Glaxnimate 0.5.3 includes several UI enhancements. We've made color values in tree views more visually appealing, and removed extra items from the "Move To" dialog.

Changing fill, stroke, and gradient properties now applies to the whole selection rather than the last selected object.

We've also revamped the context menu for properties, making them consistent between the timeline and the canvas.

Editing tools are more forgiving now when you release modifier keys before finishing the shape.

Users can now choose whether the timeline scrolls vertically or horizontally without modifiers, and we've added new layout presets to better accommodate a variety of screen sizes.

File Formats

This release also includes updates to Glaxnimate's import and export functionality.

The main new feature here is the ability to import and export Android Vector Drawables, the animation format used when making animated icons for Android.

We've also fixed various issues with the SVG parser, improving support for animated paths.

Opening raster images now uses the file basename as layer name, and we've resolved a bug affecting plugin export.

Bug Fixes

Finally, Glaxnimate 0.5.3 includes a number of bug fixes. We've addressed an issue with layers created by drawing tools not having an end frame, and fixed several other small bugs affecting the user experience.

We encourage all users to upgrade to Glaxnimate 0.5.3 to take advantage of these new features and improvements. You can download the latest version of Glaxnimate from the download page.