The first beta version of Krita 5.0 has been released. Krita is a professional free and open source painting program.

First Beta for Krita 5.0 released

Today, the Krita team releases the first beta for Krita 5.0. Krita 5.0 is a major release, with a lot of new features and a lot of changes. 


First some warnings:

• Krita 5 has a completely new resource system. Krita no longer loads all brushes, patterns, gradients and so on start-up, but caches the information during the first run. Krita 5 will be slower starting on the first run, quicker on subsequent runs.
• The way Krita 5 keeps a version history for resources that are edited by the user is not compatible with Krita 4. After using Krita 5, going back to Krita 4 might cause Krita 4 to show duplicate resources.
• Krita 5 can no longer load vector layers created in Krita 3 and older.
• Krita files (.kra) and krita brush preset files (.kpp) created with Krita 5.0 are not guaranteed to be compatible with Krita 4!
• Krita 5.0 fixed  an issue with text size in documents. However, opening files created with earlier versions of Krita may require  changing a setting to get the originally expected text size.
• Known issue with this beta: If you run a G’Mic filter, Krita’s settings are temporary reset to default: the settings will be the customized ones again after restarting Krita.

Now, what’s in it?  The answer is a lot! Check out the full  release notes for all the detail, but here’s short list of highlights:

• The new resource system that we have worked on for five years
• Gradient dithering and wide-gamut gradients
• Performance improvements, thanks to the LittleCMS fastfloat plugin
• The all-new MyPaint brush engine
• A completely rewritten color smudge brush engine
• A redesigned animation timeline docker
• Clone frames for animation
• Updated animation curves docker
• Transform mask animation
• The new storyboarding feature
• Refreshed icons and UI polish
• Support for HEIF, AVIF, WebP file formats
• Improved TIFF support
• A new painting recorder
• A new 2-point perspective assistant and a limit area feature for assistants
• In-stack transform tool preview
• Paste into a layer instead of pasting the clip as a new layer
• G’Mic for macOS

And a host of smaller improvements, smaller features and lots of performance improvements!

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