Krita 4.28 has been released. Krita is an open source painting program and image editor.

Krita 4.2.8 Released

The Krita team is pleased to announce another bug fix release of Krita 4.2: Krita 4.2.8. Part of Krita’s core team is now working on rewriting the way Krita loads and saves resources like brushes or gradients. This is a big task that takes up a lot of time, so there are fewer bug fixes in this release than there were for 4.2.7. Still, there has been a lot of work done on vector shapes, the transform tool and, especially, saving on Windows.

Windows usually only writes out saved files to the actual disk when it feels like it. So if you’d cut the power to your computer before Windows did that, you might get corrupted files. With 1,500,000 distinct Windows 10 users of Krita in the past month, chances are good for that happening (just like there are people who work exclusively with unnamed autosave files — don’t do that!), so we now try to force Windows to write files to disk after saving. This does make saving slower on Windows, but the added security should be worth it.

The autoprecision setting in the brush preset editor has been rewritten as well, which should result in better performance and nicer lines, too.

Here’s the full list of fixes:

Fix the sliders in the performance settings page. BUG:414092
Fix the color space of the onion skin cache. BUG:407251
Fix transforming layers that have onion skins enabled. BUG:408152
Also save the preferences when closing the preferences dialog with the titlebar close button
Fix a bug in the polygon tool that adds an extra point. BUG:411059
Save the last used export settings. BUG:409044
Prevent a crash on macOS when closing a dialog that opened the system color dialog. BUG:413922
Fix an issue on macOS where the native file dialogs would not return a filename. BUG:413241
Make it possible to save the “All” tag as the current tag. BUG:409748
Show the correct blending mode in the brush preset editor. BUG:410136
Fix saving color profiles that are not sRGB to PNG files
Make the transform tool work correctly with the selection mask’s overlay
Fix a crash when editing the global selection mask. BUG:412747
Remove the “Show Decorations” option from the transform tool. BUG:413573
Remove the CSV export filter (it hasn’t worked for ages)
Fix slowdown in the Warp transform tool. BUG:413157
Fix possible data loss when pressing the escape key multiple times. BUG:412561
Fix a crash when opening an image with a clone layer when instant preview is active. BUG:412278
Fix a crash when editing vector shapes. BUG:413932
Fix visibility of Reference Layer and Global Selection Mask in Timeline. BUG:412905
Fix random crashes when converting image color space. BUG:410776
Rewrite the “auto precision” option in the brush preset editor. BUG:413085
Fix legacy convolution filters on images with non-transparent background. BUG:411159
Fix an assert when force-autosaving the image right during the stroke. BUG:412835
Fix crash when using Contionous Selection tool with Feather option. BUG:412622
Fix an issue where temporary files were created in the folder above the current folder.
Improve the rendering of the transform tool handles while actually making a transformation
Use the actual mimetype instead of the extension to identify files when creating thumbnails for the recent files display
Improve the logging to detect whether Krita has closed improperly
Fix exporting compositions from the compositions docker. BUG:412953, BUG:412470
Fix Color Adjustment Curves not processing. BUG:412491
Fix artifacts on layers with colorize mask *and* disabled layer styles
Make Separate Channels work. BUG:336694, BUG:412624
Make it possible to create vector shapes on images that are bigger than QImage’s limits. BUG:408936
Disable adjustmentlayer support on the raindrop filter. BUG:412522
Make it possible to use .kra files as file layers. BUG:412549
Fix Crop tool loosing aspect ratio on move. BUG:343586
Fix Rec2020 display format. BUG:410918
Improve error messages when loading and saving fails.
Fix jumping of vector shapes when resizing them
Add hi-res input events for pan, zoom and rotate. BUG:409460
Fix crash when using Pencil Tool with a tablet. BUG:412530
Always ask Windows to synchronize the file systems after saving a file from Krita.
Fix wrong aspect ratio on loading SVG files. BUG:407425



Krita 4.2.8