Kdenlive 16.12.2 Open-Source Video Editor Released with GPU Improvements, More

Now that the second maintenance update to the KDE Applications 16.12 software suite for KDE Plasma desktops arrived, it's time for the Kdenlive developers to tell us all about the new features implemented in Kdenlive 16.12.2.

From the release notes, it looks like Kdenlive 16.12.2 is a small bugfix release adding a total of 20 changes, as the development team is currently concentrating all of their efforts on the refactoring of the timeline with its highly anticipated professional-grade feature and an extra layer of stability.

The most important fixes appear to be related to certain Nvidia GPUs as the application was reported to crash quite often during startup because of some bugs in the MOVIT GPU-side effect processing library. Moreover, the “Fix warning abou...