Glaxnimate 0.6.0

Tuesday, 3 March 2026  |  Mattia Basaglia, Julius Künzel

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...

Screenshot of version 0.6.0

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

Glaxnimate timeline showing a property with keyframes

The timeline dock now allows affortless 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

Glaxnimate screenshot showcasing the eps tiger, a common example of complex SVG images

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