Help Beta Test Krita 4.2.6!

Published 8/31/2019

This will be the first Krita release since the big sprint. We’re aiming to do monthly bugfix releases again from now on! But we also want to cut down on the regressions that come with rapid development so we’re making beta releases again. Please help the team out and check these beta releases for bugs and regressions. Right there in the welcome screen is a link to a survey where you can give your feedback:

The survey idea is new — we want to get your impressions of what we’re about to release. If it works, we’ll be refining the surveys.

What’s new in 4.2.6?

New features:

Add new layer from visible to layer right-click context menu.

When running Krita for the first time on Windows, Angle is now the default renderer. Note that if you have an NVidia GPU and Krita’s window is transparent, you need to select Angle manually in Krita’s settings; if you have another GPU and you have problems with the canvas not updating, you might need to manually select OpenGL in the same window.

We want to especially thank Karl Ove Hufthammer for his extensive work on polishing the translatable string.

Bugs fixed

Allow selection overlay to be reset to default. (BUG:410470)

Set date for bundle creation to use ISO-Date. (BUG:410490)

Fix freeze with 32bit float tiff by using our own tiff reader for the thumbnails. (BUG:408731)

Ensure filter mask button is disabled appropriately depending on whether the filter supports it. (BUG:410374)

Enable the small color selector if opengles is available as well (BUG:410602)

Fix mixed Zoom, Pan, Rotate on macOS (BUG:410698)

Ensure that checkboxes are shown in menus even when using the fusion theme

Isolate Layer Crash (BUG:408785)

Properly fix font resetting when all the text in the editor removed (BUG:409243)

Fix lags in Move Tool when using tablet device (BUG:410838)

Fix Shift and Alt modifiers in Outline Selection Tool (BUG:410532)

Ensure Convert group to Animated Layer shows text in the toolbar. (BUG:410500)

Allow ‘Add Clone Layer’ to Work on Multiple Layers (BUG:373338)

Fix saving animated transparency masks created through conversion (BUG:409895)

Fix curve change despite ‘Use same curve’ checked (BUG:383909)

Try harder to make sure that the swap location is writable

Properly handle timezones in bundles

Allow ‘Add Clone Layer’ to Work on Multiple Layers (BUG:373338)

Fix saving animated transparency masks created through conversion (BUG:409895)

Make sure all the settings dialogs pages are always shown in the same order

Make the settings dialog fit in low-res screens (BUG:410793)

Remove misleading ‘px’ suffix for ‘move amount’ shortcut setting

Make string for reasons for image export problems translatable (BUG:406973)

Fix crash when creating a bezier curve (BUG:410572)

Fix deadlocks in KoShapeManager (BUG:410909, BUG:410572)

Fix a deadlock when using broken Wacom drivers on Linux (BUG:410797)

Fix absolute brush rotation on rotated canvas (BUG:292726)

Fix deadlock when removing reference image (BUG:411212)

Fix a deadlock in handling of vector objects (BUG:411365)

Download

Windows

For the beta, only portable zip files are available. 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-4.2.6-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-4.2.6-beta1.dmg

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

Source code

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For all downloads:

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