The first beta of Krita 5.1.0 has been released for testing. Krita is a professional free and open source painting program.
First Beta for Krita 5.1.0 Released
We’re releasing the first beta for Krita 5.1.0 today. Krita 5.1.0 is packed with new features! For the full list, check out the work-in-progress full release notes!
Highlights
- Even more operations can handle multiple selected layers
- We’ve improved support for the WebP, Photoshop layered TIFF and Photoshop files, and there’s new support for the JPEG-XL file format. (See the warning below, though!)
- We’re now using XSIMD instead of VC, improving painting performance, especially on Android where vectorization now is used for the first time.
- The fill tools have been extended with continuous fill and a new Enclose and fill tool.
- For Windows, we’re using a newer version of Angle to improve compatibility with video drivers and improve performance.
- You can now configure touch controls in canvas input settings, like “Tap to Undo”.
And of course, there are hundreds of bug fixes, performance improvements, user interface refinements, improvements to the animation system (though the revamped audio system sadly didn’t make it, that’s for 5.2).
Known Issues
- Touch gestures can be customized now, however if you were previously using touch gestures, you will now have to add them to the canvas input settings before they work again.
- Though this release add support for the new JPEG-XL format, which supports animation, exporting and importing animations in this format gives incorrect results. A fix is pending.
