We are happy to announce a new dot release with some improvements and various fixes. We also celebrate some code contribution from Harald Albrecht (TheDive0) hoping to see more devs joining our team.

Improved Workflow

Persistent Directories

Now Kdenlive remembers where you last opened and/or saved a project.



Responsive cursor

When inserting clips in the timeline the cursor in the timeline will go to the end of the inserted clip making the workflow more fluid and shortcut friendly.



Configurable transition duration

The default duration of new transitions can now be adjusted









Interface

Rounded corners

New option to make clip corners rounded or square.



New profiles

Added 50fps and 60fps trancoding profiles

Bug Fixes

Fix frame and titles not saved if extension not explicitly set in some config

Revert stupid error in thumb ratio

Unbreak resize one item in group with ctrl+click

Fix aspect ratio of thumbnails when project dar != 1.0

Fix Kdenlive / project settings displaying wrong profile info when using 1440×1080 profiles

Fix possible crash on exit

Fix small memleak

Fix memory corruption in thumb creation

Fix memleak

Fix compilation with gcc6, the code was comparing a char* and a QChar

Fix proxy clips adding copy to project bin (recent regression)

Fix several issues with track effects corruption

Fix crash on redo group move

More libasan mem fixes

More libasan mem fixes

Fix small memory issues/corruption (detected by libsan)

Attempt to fix opening project crash

Fix crash on audiospectrum display

Try to fix possible crash caused by string copy

Fix crash and display of audio spectrum

Fix size of effect buttons

Integrate master effect update and state change in undo system

Fix split audio track

Add action to remove all preview zones

Fix path problem when trying to stabilize several clips

Fix icon not fully displayed in render jobs list

More fixes for transcoded clips showing up in wrong folder

Fix transcoded clips showing up in wrong folder

Fix “use timeline zone for insert” shortcut

Select all should ignore clips in locked tracks

Fix Ctrl+Shift selection, rolling edit is now on Ctrl click

Show MLT version in about dialog

Make clip corners square

Fix typo causing failed timeline preview on some fps

Fix changing preview parameters broken

Fix timeline preview invalidate when hiding a track

Fix track effect not initialized

Fix locales download script

fix vp8 encoding

As usual sources can be downloaded KDE’s servers at: http://download.kde.org/stable /applications/16.08.1/src/

Until we provide binary packages please as you distro’s maintainers to update the packages.

Happy editing.