Krita Monthly Update - Edition 19

Monday, 7 October 2024 | Krita News

Welcome to the @Krita-promo team's September 2024 development and community update.

Development Report

Krita 5.2.6 Released

Krita 5.2.5 was released September 25th. However, due to a serious bug where Group Layers in Pass Through mode caused Krita to get stuck endlessly updating, a 5.2.6 hotfix release was made shortly afterward on October 1st.

Check out the 5.2.5 release post for details on the three months' worth of bugfixes, but make sure to update to 5.2.6!

Community Report

September 2024 Monthly Art Challenge Results

For the Traditional Refreshments and Snacks theme, 12 members submitted 13 original artworks. And the winner is… Sweet Lemonade by @Dott!

Sweet Lemonade by @Dott

The October Art Challenge is Open Now

For the October Art Challenge, @Dott has chosen "Buried, Stuck, or otherwise Swallowed" as the theme, with the optional challenge of incorporating a spiral or two. See the full brief for more details, and don't hesitate to uncover some inspiration!

Best of Krita-Artists - August/September 2024

10 images were submitted to the Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread, which was open from August 15th to September 11th. When the poll closed on September 14th, these five wonderful works were voted into the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:

Study practice by @Gertsa_Ivan

Study practice by @Gertsa_Ivan

Kiki recruiting for the Monthly Challenge by @Corentin

Kiki recruiting for the Monthly Challenge by @Corentin

"Friend from Nowhere" by @Elixiah

Friend from Nowhere by @Elixiah

XullFA by @tonnybranzza

XullFA by @tonnybranzza

Portrait of a woman in profile by @Celes

Portrait of a woman in profile by @Celes

Best of Krita-Artists - September/October 2024

Nominations will be accepted until October 11th. Take a look through the current submissions. If you don’t see your favorite artwork there, why not make a nomination?

Ways to Help Krita

Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors.

Visit Krita's funding page to see how user donations keep development going, and explore a one-time or monthly contribution. Or check out more ways to Get Involved, from testing, coding, translating, and documentation writing, to just sharing your artwork made with Krita.

The Krita-promo team has put out a call for volunteers, come join us and help keep these monthly updates going.

Notable Changes

Notable changes in Krita's development builds from Sept. 6 - Oct. 7, 2024.

Stable branch (5.2.5):

  • Animation: Fix animations getting stuck when using clone layers with transform masks. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Animation: Fix onion skins' rendering on layers with transform masks. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Animation: Make Render Animation dialog remember previous video container format. (bug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
  • Animation: Allow video animation import process to be canceled. (bug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
  • Compositions Docker: Allow animated composition export to be canceled. (bug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
  • Layer Stack: Fix conversion of Group Layer to Animated Layer. (bug report) (Change 1 and change 2, by Emmet O'Neill)
  • Undo Stack: Fix quickly undoing and then redoing some actions like Remove Layer to work. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Layer Stack: Keep Clone Layers linked when flattening their source group. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Layer Stack: Fix updating Pass Through groups when using the Move or Transform Tool on them. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Pasting: Deselect selection when pasting from the clipboard, to avoid leaving anti-aliased selection edges out of Transform or other operations that might happen afterward. (bug report) (Change, Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Snapshot Docker: Fix wrong layer being selected when activating a snapshot. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Specific Color Selector Docker: Update Specific Color Selector labels in HSX mode, fix RGB sliders changing length, fix holding down spinbox arrows, and set float slider step to 0.01. (bug 475551, bug 453649, CC bug 453366) (Change, by Freya Lupen)
  • Assistant Tool: Fix undoing changes to Perspective Assistants causing Perspective Distance brush value to be incorrect. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
  • File Formats: JPEG-XL: Update JXL to 0.11 which includes fixes for speed and lossless encoding, and implement streaming encode which allows cancelling animated and layered export. (Change, by Rasyuqa A H)

Stable branch (5.2.6):

  • Layer Stack: Fix updating Pass Through groups getting stuck at 0% progress forever, a regression in 5.2.5. (bug 493774, bug 493830, bug 493837) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Python Plugins: Photobash Images Docker: Fix script error when adding images to canvas from the Photobash Images Docker. (Change, by Pedro Reis)

Stable branch (5.2.7-prealpha):

  • Layer Stack: Fix a crash when trying to merge down a layer created by the Text Tool or Select->Convert to Shape after a reference image addition. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Layer Stack: Fix issue with position of layers copy-pasted from another document. (bug report) (Change, by Ralek Kolemios and Dmitry Kazakov)
  • Tools: Let brush shortcuts such as to change size affect the Bezier Curve and Freehand Path tools. (bug report) (Change, by Doreene Kang)
  • General: Add A1 and A2 predefined image sizes. (Change, by Guillaume Marrec)

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):

Bug fixes:

  • macOS: Canvas Input: Show macOS modifier key symbols in Canvas Input Settings, as Keyboard Shortcuts already does, instead of the non-Mac names. (bug report) (Change, by Freya Lupen)

Features:

  • Animation Timeline Docker: Adjust the frame view's zoom level to fit the frame range when it changes. (wishbug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)

Nightly Builds

Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.7-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

Or test out the latest Experimental features in "Krita Next" (5.3.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

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