A new version of the open source painting program and image editor Krita has been released.

Krita 4.2.9 Released

Today we’re finally releasing Krita 4.2.9! It’s been one of the most complicated releases we’ve ever attempted. When we updated the version of Python that’s embedded in Krita, scripting broke on Windows. When Apple updated its notarization protocol, building broke on macOS. And then we updated to a newer version of some of the libraries we build Krita on, and that broke all kinds of things. And then we needed to figure out a new way of packaging Krita for the Windows Store, which unfortunately broke our nice icons…

As for the bugfixes… There are a lot of them, and this list isn’t even completely complete!

• Fix transparency checkers looked white on HDR display  bug 406698
• Several fixes to file dialogs for overwriting and jpg files  bug 412651
• Fix Grow Selection expanding in one direction  bug 414647
• Fix crash using onion skins on non-animated layers  bug 414668
• Increase the limit in Layer Offset to 100k  bug 414625
• Fix crash opening .kra with incorrect clone source (related to  bug 414699
• Prevent crash on addition of color to deleted palette with colorpicker  bug 413548
• Make Add subbrush off on changing multibrush tool’s type from Copy Translate  bug 415651
• Improve rendering of predefined default Rect dab
• Set the default location for restored files to QStandardPaths::PicturesLocation  bug 415810
• Don’t crash if remoteArguments is called when there isn’t a mainwindow  bug 415794
• On Android, default to TouchGesture for Kinetic Scrolling
• Delay initialization of brush paintop widget state  bug 415033
• Reenable breeze: with the latest release, the bug with comboboxes has been fixed
• Show the hand cursor if there is no colorize mask yet  bug 415935
• Fix logic for enabling/disabling options in stroke selection dialog  bug 415896
• ORA export, write entire layers instead of cropping them
• Fix endless recursion when assigning a profile  bug 414818
• Fix a crash when cancelling Transform Tool action  bug 414672
• Fix an obviously wrong assert in the gradients  bug 414550
• Fix 1px brush offset in line tool  bug 407405
• Fix Layer Filter Combobox with Breeze theme  bug 406595
• Fix comparison of double spin box
• Fix PaletteDocker not showing palettes  bug 414890
• Fix undo of replacing vector selection  bug 412808
• Separate krita log dialog from system information
• Resource bundle: turn assert into check  bug 399008
• Fix the python Canvas.setRotation method  bug 416126
• Store and restore the geometry of the svg editor window  bug 416097
• Fix number of asserts with continued transform  bug 415625
• Fix Touch Docker save button not working on new files  bug 407905
• Fix blur Filter inconsistencies  bug 416241
• Fix border artifacts in layer styles  bug 414582
• Use Qt::Popup for color selectors popup widgets  bug 410959
• Always show color popup below the cursor  bug 394139
• Remove the strength compatibility with older paintop presets  bug 416335
• Fixed unneeded error message in Render Animation.  bug 412599
• Fix canvas offset calculation  bug 416352
• Layers with alpha channel disabled correctly export as “svg:src-atop” for ORA
• Add icon to Close button of “About Krita” dialog box
• Fix memory leak in preset history docker
• Warn that Krita needs to be restarted after enabling/disabling plugins  bug 416575
• Workaround Qt 5.14’s colormanagement preventing png files from being saved  bug 416515
• Fixes with last used filter command.  bug 416706
• Fix Increase/Decrease Brush Size and Switch To Previous Preset buttons
• Fix Warp and Cage transform in master  bug 416505
• Fix crazy snapping when resizing shapes  bug 414336
• Fix hiccups when doing canvas actions  bug 414576,  415773
• Fix animation rendering problem on small images (< 100px in size)  bug 415367
• Fix display of vector shapes when transformed with transform tool  bug 417016
• Fix hangup when loading image with generator/file layers  bug 415891
• Fix slowdown associated with the quick hide function of Shift+click on layer visibility icons
• Fix canvas border color issue
• Fix issue when saving preferences
• Hide SubWindow decoration on macOS
• A number of fixes with L*A*B* and CMYK thanks to L.E Segovia’s Season of KDE work
• Android: Make it possible to select opengles
• Set setRedirectPolicy as per discussion on KDE mailing lists
• Fix crash when loading asl with tdta OSType
• Make “Save Incremental Version” update recently used files
• Correct logic for determining whether there are multiple backups requested  bug 417914
• Fix incorrect common curve in very old presets  bug 417748
• Fix layout issue in the history docker
• Fix strobbing of the brush outline because of subpixel precision  bug 374551
• Make local selection outline visible on layer converted to selection mask
• Fix freeze on vector layers  bug 412746
• Fix artifacts on filter masks applied to adjustment layers  bug 417673
• Fix ratio option on lower precision brushes
• Fix opening Appimages  bug 418230
• Set image as modified after a legacy action (fix Channels docker not updating in some cases)  bug 417992

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