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OpenShot version history

Open source video editor for simple timeline editing and exporting.

Current verified version3.5.1

Verified 2026-08-23 from OpenShot GitHub releases.

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15 stable release records

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  1. 3.5.1OpenShot 3.5.1

    **Optimize Video** adds built-in proxy editing for smoother playback and previews

    removalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  2. 3.5.0OpenShot 3.5.0

    **New default timeline**: The new QWidget timeline is now the default, with much smoother zooming, scrolling, dragging, trimming, snapping, and multi-clip editing, especially on…

    removalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  3. 3.4.0OpenShot 3.4.0

    New **Crop** workflow with interactive crop handles + crop context menu (keeps crop/transform behavior in sync)

    removalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  4. 3.3.0OpenShot 3.3.0

    **New Default Theme**: "Cosmic Dusk" brings a modern and stylish look to OpenShot.

    removalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  5. 3.2.1Enhanced Stability, Numerous Fixes, and Smoother Launches!

    **Prevent freezes on Windows**: switch video preview widget background color to use **stylesheet and palette**.

    removalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  6. 3.2.0OpenShot 3.2.0

    Large **Theme & User Experience** refactor (Added new Retro & Cosmic Dusk theme)

    removalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  7. 3.1.1v3.1.1

    Bumping version to 3.1.1, min libopenshot dependency to 0.3.2

    removalknown issuefix
    Official release ↗
  8. 3.1.0v3.1.0

    Bumping version to **3.1.0** (min libopenshot version to **0.3.1**)

    removalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  9. 3.0.0v3.0.0

    Bumping version to `3.0.0` (_minimum libopenshot dependency to `0.3.0`_)

    removalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  10. 2.6.1OpenShot 2.6.1

    Auto migration of Crop keyframes from 2.5.1 projects (adds a crop effect and sets the equivellent keyframes). 100% backwards compatibility.

    removalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  11. 2.6.0OpenShot 2.6.0

    Format_RGBA8888_Premultiplied

    securityremovalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  12. 2.5.1OpenShot 2.5.1

    UTF-8 Project Encoding Bug Fix (for non-ASCII characters)

    removalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  13. 2.5.0OpenShot 2.5.0

    Hardware encoding and decoding support (still a bit experimental)

    deprecationremovalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  14. 2.4.4OpenShot 2.4.4

    Bump version to 2.4.4 (minimum libopenshot to 0.2.3)

    removalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
  15. 2.4.3OpenShot 2.4.3

    Bumping version to 2.4.3 (libopenshot dependency to 0.2.2)

    removalfeaturefix
    Official release ↗

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