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Wednesday, 8 April 2026

Krita 5.3.1.1 Released (Android-only) 🔗

Krita 5.3.1.1 is an Android-only fix for 5.3.1. It is exactly the same as Krita 5.3.1, but with two fixes:

fixed a crash on Android 12 and older when trying to access any text controls
fix stylus workarounds for Xiaomi and OnePlus to work properly

Check out the release notes for a full overview of all the new features in Krita 5.3 and 6.0.

Note: this release is only relevant for Android, so only Android APK's and source archives are available. You only need the source archive when building for Android yourself.

⚠️ Warning
One again, we consider Krita 5.3.1 suitable for productive work; 6.0.1 is, because of the many changes from Qt5 to Qt6 more experimental.

5.3.1.1 Download

Android

Krita on Android is still beta; and is meant to run on chromebooks and tablets only.

Source code

ⓘ Note
Note for distributions: if you package both PyQt5 and PyQt6, you will want to patch our source code with this patch: Disallow importing conflicting version of PyQt

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.3.1/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Tuesday, 7 April 2026

SWHID in Practice: SBOM Verification, CRA Compliance, and Traceability Use Cases 🔗

Agustín Benito Bethencourt

toscalix 06:00 +00:00

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Explore how SWHID is applied in real-world scenarios to improve SBOMs, support Cyber Resilience Act compliance, and enable software traceability. Discover practical use cases across telecom and automotive industries, based on insights from recent industry talks.

Sunday, 5 April 2026

Halfway there to 6.7: Updates on Oxygen and Air 🔗

Filip Fila 07:00 +00:00

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The last post regarding work on fixing Oxygen was a month and a half ago. With all that's happened in between, it feels like so much more time has actually passed. With this post, I'd like to do a sort of mid-term update summing up all of the improvements done so far. These improvements are...... Continue Reading →

Project Wrap-Up: XMPP Bookmark Sync for Falkon 🔗

Shiva Shankar SoK

@shibe_13:matrix.org 00:00 +00:00

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Splashscreen contributions 🔗

digiKam 00:00 +00:00

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For the next digiKam releases, the digiKam team needs photographs for digiKam and Showfoto splash-screens. Proposing photo samples as splash-screens is a simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The pictures must be correctly exposed/composed, and the subject must be chosen from a real photographer’s inspiration. Note that we will add a horizontal frame to the bottom of the image as in the current splashes.

Saturday, 4 April 2026

Kdenlive 26.04 RC ready for testing 🔗

Kdenlive 09:00 +00:00

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The Kdenlive 26.04 Release Candidate is ready for testing. Many bug fixes and workflow adjustments should make your editing sessions nicer. It is also worth noting that we had quite a few new contributors helping our small team on this, so thanks to all those who helped us!

Please remember that this is an RC version, not yet final, to be used only for testing and reporting issues.

Features highlights:

Added animated previews for transitions
Added a feature to mirror the monitor to an external monitor, allowing you to see the image in the usual interface, while duplicating the output to a secondary monitor
Added an entry in the timeline context menu to directly import a clip to the project and add it at click position
Added an option to always zoom on the mouse position instead of the timeline playhead
Generate audio thumbnails for sequences
Dropping a transition to timeline will automatically adjust its duration to the above/below clips
Allow changing speed of multiple clips

Feedback Needed

Now is your chance to test it and let us know if you encounter any bugs or have suggestions to help us polish the final release. Share your feedback in the comments below

Available Binaries

The AppImage and Windows versions can be downloaded through the links below. Update: the MacOS binaries are now also available

Download the binaries from below and give it a spin!

Pre-release binaries can be downloaded here.

Friday, 3 April 2026

Falkon Connect: The Future 🔗

Sairam Bisoyi SoK

@yowhatsup:matrix.org 00:00 +00:00

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Falkon Connect: The Roadmap Ahead (WebXDC, XSLT, and Daily Puzzles) In my previous post, I broke down the architecture of building Falkon Connect from scratch—turning the KDE Falkon browser into a decentralized XMPP client.

Kubuntu 26.04 LTS — what went into the release, and how you can help 🔗

Scarlett Gately Moore

@sgmoore:kde.org 00:00 +00:00

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A look at what went into the Kubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon release — bug fixes, new contributors, KFocus teamwork, and a call for beta testers ahead of the April 16 RC.

Tuesday, 31 March 2026

SWHID and pURL 🔗

Agustín Benito Bethencourt

toscalix 08:58 +00:00

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pURL and SWHID are both software identifiers with similarities, but they are fundamentally different. pURL is assigned by a registry. SWHID is derived from the code itself. They are not competitors — they complement each other.

Krita 5.3.1 Released! 🔗

Krita News 00:00 +00:00

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Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.1 and 6.0.1.

This release mainly fixes an issue for Windows users: some applications, like Microsoft Windows Powertoys' Fancy Zones or the Google Drive plugin cause problems for Krita. These applications query all running applications for their accessibility abilities.

Until Qt6, Qt's QML module, which is used extensively in the new text tool, would then recursively query all active screen objects, like comboboxes or buttons, and up and down the entire class hierarchy for accessibility features. This slowed down Krita to the point where even menus would be slow to open.

It was extremely tricky to figure this out, since none of the Krita developers actually use these external applications... But it should be fixed now!

There are more fixes in this release:

The mutator shortcut is now Ctrl-alt-shift-m instead of Z in accordance with the plugin's manual.
On Android, the canvas will not pan up when you use the text tool
On Android, the OnePlus stylus middle click button works
Animation Key Frame copy pasting now works in Krita 6
On Wayland, drag and drop is fixed (Wayland clears the clipboard when a new window is opened, so now we have to cache the data.)
The canvas resize dialog now works correctly when changing units (bug: 517857)
The Incremental Backup/Version saving function now works in Krita 6.
On Android, text fields should no longer block stylus movements, pressing spacebar should work as a shortcut and the view should no longer turn blue when pressing a keyboard key. These issues only occurred on some devices.

Check out the release notes for a full overview of all the new features in Krita 5.3 and 6.0.

⚠️ Warning
One again, we consider Krita 5.3.1 suitable for productive work; 6.0.1 is, because of the many changes from Qt5 to Qt6 more experimental.

5.3.1 Download

Windows

If you're using the portable zip files, just open the zip file in Explorer and drag the folder somewhere convenient, then double-click on the Krita icon in the folder. This will not impact an installed version of Krita, though it will share your settings and custom resources with your regular installed version of Krita. For reporting crashes, also get the debug symbols folder.

ⓘ Note
We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.3.1-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.3.1.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

⚠️ Warning
Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-5.3.1-x86_64.AppImage