Krita 4.2.9 beta released!

Published 3/9/2020

Much later than we wanted to, we’ve finally gotten the beta ready for Krita 4.2.9! One of the reasons it took so long is that an update to Python 3.8 broke scripting on Windows. When we finally had figured out that the reason wasn’t just that Python no longer looks for libraries in all the usual places, but also that the bindings to Qt, PyQt cannot be built in parallel, it was already February. And then, of course, Apple changed the way applications are notarized… And then we updated to a newer version of some of the libraries we build Krita on, and that broke all kinds of things. In short, we have had months of trying to get our builds working again!

On the other hand, we have also worked like crazy to make this the most stable release of Krita ever, with countless bugs fixed — and there are even some fun new features:

Dmitry improved the brush outline: it no longer flickers when you hover over the canvas:

https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-02-11_comparing-outline.mp4

He also added “Airbrush” and “Airbrush Rate” to the Color Smudge brush, and a new Ratio setting, also for the Color Smudge brush, which allows making the shape of the brush flatter using the different sensors. Ramón Miranda has even made a video demonstrating these features:

New contributor Saurabh Kumar added a “Split Layer into Selection Mask” feature:

As for the bugfixes…

Now it’s up to you all to beta-test this release and help us make sure we’ve caught all regressions (that is, new bugs for things that used to work) and all release blockers. We are currently investigating how we can make testing more robust, so this beta has no survey, please report all bugs you find to bugs.kde.org under the product Krita. Note that the Krita Lime PPA currently only has the beta and not the current stable.

Download

Windows

For the beta, you should only only use 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.

Linux

64 bits Linux: krita-4.2.9-beta1-x86_64.appimage

64 bits Linux G’Mic-Qt plugin appimage

(If, for some reason, Firefox thinks it needs to load this as text: to download, right-click on the link.)

OSX

OSX disk image: krita-4.2.9-beta1.dmg

Note: the gmic-qt is not available on OSX.

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads:

Key

The Linux appimage and the source .tar.gz and .tar.xz tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key over https here: 0x58b9596c722ea3bd.asc. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

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