JahShaka, the free/open source compositing program, released version 2.0 on Wednesday.

The release, which also came with news of version 0.1.0 of the JahPlayer, is advertised as “the most rock-solid version” of the program yet, and features critical bug fixes as well as some updates.

The exciting announcement (for me, more later) is that the version 3.0 of JahShaka will be based on an entirely new codebase, specifically the codebase of the JahPlayer. I’m a fan of JahShaka, I’m a fan of all Open Source (especially in film, we have so little) but honestly I could never get much done in JahShaka. Hopefully this code overhaul will make it easier!