All about Valentina project community activities.
Valentina 1.0.1 is a maintenance release that polishes the stability and reliability of the 1.0.0 milestone. It brings no new features — only targeted bug fixes and improvements that address issues reported by the community since the initial 1.0.0 launch.
We’re thrilled to announce Valentina 1.0, a major milestone for our patternmaking software. This release brings a host of stability improvements, precision upgrades, UI enhancements, and expanded global support.
With this version, we’re also introducing commercial support via subscription — giving you access to the latest updates, priority support, and helping us keep Valentina growing sustainably.
The Valentina project exists thanks to the community. But in order to develop further, we need more. An increase in the number of users does not always mean an increase in support. To ensure stable development, updates, user support, and the creation of additional materials, we are changing our funding model. Instead of scattered purchases and donations, we are moving to a transparent, fair, and effective subscription model that will allow each user to contribute to the future of the project.
As you may know, we have launched a new website. You are right on it. We can now not only provide you with the latest Valentina version to download, but also support our project by purchasing our products. But we don’t want to stop there, so we want to offer you something else.
Sooner or later, every product starts being compared with the competitors. And it seems that we, too, are slowly approaching this point. I would like to share my thoughts on this. I’d like to say right away that this is not a comparison of solutions from other manufacturers with Valentina. Rather a short commentary.
Modern versions of Windows have a built-in security system which checks that executable files are digitally signed. These signatures help identify the program’s origin and also help protect the program files from tampering. Previously, Valentina was also distributed with a developer’s signature, and now we have lost that capability. In this article, we’ll talk about why this has happened and the implications for Valentina users.
In the distant past, when the mouse had not yet been invented, interaction with the computer took place solely through the keyboard. Much time has passed since then. And systems such as Windows and Mac OS have popularised the use of the mouse to interact with the graphical interface. In today’s world, we can’t imagine using a PC without a mouse. So many programs rely on it. Valentina is no exception in this case.
However, old ideas don’t disappear, just new ones are added on top of them. So keyboard skills are just as relevant today. What separates the professional from the amateur is the ability to work with keyboard shortcuts.
This post is a logical continuation of our previous talk about why Valentinа is free. In it, we tried to calculate the real price of owning the program. And today we’ll talk about how you can lower that price.
We use the Transifex service to translate Valentina’s interface. In this article you will learn how to join the translation team and help translate.
From time to time, questions arise about how to make requests for new functions. In the previous article, we already touched upon the subject of new function requests. In this one, we will take a closer look at the algorithm.