Krita 4.2.8 Beta

Published 11/20/2019

We had to skip the October release because we were working on a bunch of issues that took longer to resolve than planned, but that means that this release has more fixes than ever. Please test this beta, and take the survey afterwards!

There has been a lot of work on vector shapes, the transform tool and, especially, saving on Windows. Windows usually only writes out saved files to the actual disk when it feels like it.

So if you’d cut the power to your computer before Windows did that, you might get corrupted files. With 1,500,000 distinct Windows 10 users of Krita in the past month, chances are good for that happening (just like there are people who work exclusively with unnamed autosave files — don’t do that!), so we now try to force Windows to write files to disk after saving.

Fix the sliders in the performance settings page. BUG:414092

Fix the color space of the onion skin cache. BUG:407251

Fix transforming layers that have onion skins enabled. BUG:408152

Also save the preferences when closing the preferences dialog with the titlebar close button

Fix a bug in the polygon tool that adds an extra point. BUG:411059

Save the last used export settings. BUG:409044

Prevent a crash on macOS when closing a dialog that opened the system color dialog. BUG:413922

Fix an issue on macOS where the native file dialogs would not return a filename. BUG:413241

Make it possible to save the “All” tag as the current tag. BUG:409748

Show the correct blending mode in the brush preset editor. BUG:410136

Fix saving color profiles that are not sRGB to PNG files

Make the transform tool work correctly with the selection mask’s overlay

Fix a crash when editing the global selection mask. BUG:412747

Remove the “Show Decorations” option from the transform tool. BUG:413573

Remove the CSV export filter (it hasn’t worked for ages)

Fix slowdown in the Warp transform tool. BUG:413157

Fix possible data loss when pressing the escape key multiple times. BUG:412561

Fix a crash when opening an image with a clone layer when instant preview is active. BUG:412278

Fix a crash when editing vector shapes. BUG:413932

Fix visibility of Reference Layer and Global Selection Mask in Timeline. BUG:412905

Fix random crashes when converting image color space. BUG:410776

Rewrite the “auto precision” option in the brush preset editor. BUG:413085

Fix legacy convolution filters on images with non-transparent background. BUG:411159

Fix an assert when force-autosaving the image right during the stroke. BUG:412835

Fix crash when using Contionous Selection tool with Feather option. BUG:412622

Fix an issue where temporary files were created in the folder above the current folder.

Improve the rendering of the transform tool handles while actually making a transformation

Use the actual mimetype instead of the extension to identify files when creating thumbnails for the recent files display

Improve the logging to detect whether Krita has closed improperly

Fix exporting compositions from the compositions docker. BUG:412953, BUG:412470

Fix Color Adjustment Curves not processing. BUG:412491

Fix artifacts on layers with colorize mask *and* disabled layer styles

Make Separate Channels work. BUG:336694, BUG:412624

Make it possible to create vector shapes on images that are bigger than QImage’s limits. BUG:408936

Disable adjustmentlayer support on the raindrop filter. BUG:412522

Make it possible to use .kra files as file layers. BUG:412549

Fix Crop tool loosing aspect ratio on move. BUG:343586

Fix Rec2020 display format. BUG:410918

Improve error messages when loading and saving fails.

Fix jumping of vector shapes when resizing them

Add hi-res input events for pan, zoom and rotate. BUG:409460

Fix crash when using Pencil Tool with a tablet. BUG:412530

Always ask Windows to synchronize the file systems after saving a file from Krita.

Fix wrong aspect ratio on loading SVG files. BUG:407425



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-4.2.8-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-4.2.8-beta1.dmg

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

Source code

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